Sakura & Jyunichi's Promise, or Sakura to Junichi no Yakusoku, a song from the anime, Da Capo. You might not be familiar with this song, but this song has been one of my favorite since I first listened to it. This song is actually the song that inspired me to pick up the piano in the first place, and it's the first song I tried to learn after a picked up the piano last year. Of course, I wasn't able to play the song at that time, but now, after a year, I finally did it ^_^
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Da Capo. Here we go again.
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[Spoiler: Kotori dies.]
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Inspired by the numerous comparisons of D.C.if’s end scene to a similar one in DCIISS, I revisited Oto-nee goodness in DCIISS 12. It was TERRIFIC. I remember again why I had betrayed my imouto-roots to band behind Otome. I remember why I’ll be getting the DCIISS DVDs. But I also remembered that DCIISS, though excellent [...]
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…though it was Miharu for me ’cause she looks like a certain Akane! I’m glad there’s more “IF” OVAs being produced and I’m glad the Da Capo series got the treatment too…but for some reason I didn’t really like this OVA. I’m all for Kotori getting her happiness and ending up with Junichi…as much as [...]
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Screens: Oh man~! Almost missed this one! For all you Kotori fans out there, this is the must-have series of Da Capo!! We finally get her story, I don’t think Jun’ichi deserves her, but he makes her happy dammit T_T. I’m really stoked on this, I’ll put up the write-up in a bit! All right I finished [...]
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Whoa, this OVA was so not what I expected. I thought it’d be a lighthearted romp through the Da Capo world again, but it turns out to be something like D.C.II.S.S. instead. For starters, yes, this is a Kotori End OVA, but guess how they’re making it happen? … …… ©2009 Kurogane's Anime Blog. All Rights Reserved..
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Having witness the massive ranks of Kotori supporters back in the days of Da Capo (2003), I thought the Kotori-centric Da Capo IF OVA (released on xmas 2008 with the Da Capo boxset in Japan) would make a big splash in the anime community. It’s been more than a week since and there’s been barely [...]
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And then thousands of Shirakawa fanboys cried tears of happiness. I originally thought this OVA would be about Nanaka and DCII so I was quite surprised when I suddenly saw Kotori and her sister in the beginning of the episode. Isn’t the first Da Capo anime from like 5 years ago? Man, it really took [...]
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I'm probably one of a few handful of people who still cares about Da Crapo, although I'm admitting that this bishoujo thing is slowly starting to wear out on me. And yet the series may still matter, after all, it was a remarkable anime that put bishoujo games into the anime map. One thing that [...]
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She's not my favorite character in this game, but I like Maya because she actually reminds me of one of my ____ in real life. Unnecessary tidbit aside though, let me just say that Maya is almost the same as many other iinchos (class representatives) in the anime or bishoujo world. She is a tsundere [...]
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So, I’m a little more than a little late to the party, but it’s better late than never, right? Organized by CCY of Mega Megane Moe (and apparently related to the ABC?), I’ll be doing my part to contribute to this little event known as the Twelve Moments in Anime. Starting at nine (surely because [...]
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Paving my way back into otakuism, it’s a long and slow process since I still have to factor in work in my daily routine. However I think a big leap was taken after the acquisition of an item that has been long sought after for the past 4 years. Being a Da Capo fan has [...]
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She’s first and foremost a tsundere and I dislike her voice, which is why I played her first (I like to start out with my least favorite character and work my way up). The story’s interesting and is moving at a pretty good pace, with some really funny moments and some moments that were just [...]
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On December 25, the Japanese media distributor King Records will be shipping a DVD Box that will include the entire first D.C. ~Da Capo~ anime series (2003) and a new, tentatively titled D.C.I.F. Da Capo If Part I OVA episode. The new OVA will feature the popular character Kotori Shirakawa (Yui Horie) as the main [...]
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If what? If Kotori was the best character to over come out of Da Capo? If Kotori was awesome beyond belief? If Kotori deserved her own happiness? Those were not hypothetical my friends. Those were cold, hard fact. D.C.I.F. Da Capo If Part I OVA Announced Tentatively titled video anime episode to feature Kotori Shirakawa (Yui Horie) On [...]
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The second day of Osaka was certainly one of my more expensive days to date and for many reasons. For me one of the places I wanted to visit in Osaka was the main Volks store. The reason for me wanting to visit the main Volks store was that I wanted to see what dollfies [...]
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It's... a... TRAP! Kudou-kun, Da Capo's resident crossdresser. I have a weird enough penchant for characters of this type (no I'm not going Brokeback on myself), mostly because you can really only do this in fiction. In real life, I have not seen any convincing crossdresser that would fool me into thinking that he/she is actually [...]
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Yeah, I know. It’s already nearly a month since it finished. I kinda left the last episode on the backburner, mostly due to the fact I already knew what the ending was gonna be like. So in the end, as I am proven correct, deus ex machina occurs and thanks to everyone’s memories of Yoshiyuki, [...]
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Now I would say I’m a man who is pretty passionate about his anime fandom. But I would also say I’m a man who likes to just spend money on a lot of random things (though I would say most of it is from the influence of Roobar). Normally these two join forces and produce [...]
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