That omgitscoming countdown? We now know what it is! Bandai Entertainment has licensed the anime season Kannagi. It is also streaming on Anime News Network. Kannagi is a 13 episode series which aired between October through December 2008. Update Not only is Kannagi streaming on ANN, it appears like will be able to order it from RightStuf and it is [...]
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A friend in an IRC channel (thanks topz) posted a link to this awesome video of Nagi-sama singing the Kannagi opening song, Motto Hade ni ne!, and I just had to share it ^^. Apparently, the video was made by a new software application called Dance Mixer that allows you to create a character, customize her [...] Related posts:Nagi-sama NendoroidKannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens
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WAVE is going to release the Treasure Figure Collection Beach Queens Kannagi Itsuki ( 神凪いつきペ ) 1/10 PVC figure from the anime “Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo” ( 宇宙をかける少女 ). Will be released in November 2009. Around 165mm tall, 3,800 yen. I know a lot of people don’t like small scale figure like this. But I really [...] Related posts:Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo Beach Queens Shishido Akiha 1/10 PVC figure by WAVE WAVE is gDoujin Work Kitano Sora 1/10 PVC figure by WAVE WAVE is gKannagi (Crazy Shrine Maidens) Nagi 1/7 PVC figure by WAVE WAVE is g
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かんなぎ Episode 14 (DVD extra episode)Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens 14SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Takako and Shino find a bundle of money on the street and turning it in nets Kanako a ¥100,000 reward. As such, she wants the art club to do a movie. Zange-chan invites herself into the picture and is declared a heroine. However, Takako wants story ideas from the other members and everyone has their
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So this week, they put up a Promotional video up on the Official Kannagi fansite. Could this possibly mean that the series will be licensed soon? Hopefully someone good will pick it up; it’s a shame Geneon no longer exists in the US market, but I’m fine with Bandai and Funimation picking it up since [...]
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Actually after a short reflection, it isn’t so strange that I didn’t enjoy the Kannagi OVA as much as hoped. The OVA suffered from the same issues as the TV series – too much immiscible fat. Note that I enjoyed the ‘fatty’ bits of Kannagi. Theose fun eps were entertaining, even titillating. But with a [...]
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I don't know how many of you remember that during Lucky Star's original TV run in Japan, the director of the series was swapped out after episode four, from Yutaka Yamamoto to Yasuhiro Takemoto, reportedly because Yamamoto wasn't ready for directorship yet. (By contrast Takemoto had already successfully directed Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid and Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, though he too had been pulled earlier in his career-- after directing Nurse Witch Komugi's OVA for two of its five episoes.)YamamotoYamamoto has just been announced as Otakon's latest Guest of Honor, and before I hear any jokes or complaints about why we're getting the “rejected” director, consider this: Yamamoto also episode-directed episodes 1 and 12 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya; episode 12 being the Live Alive episode that was kind of a major hit. He also directed the ending sequence, which you may have heard of here and there: Hare Hare Yukai?In the meantime, since Haruhi, he's also directed another little show a few of you may have heard of from A-1 Pictures called Kannagi. Ahem.So welcome the man! I plan to ask him a few questions about how they came up with Hare Hare Yukai (did anyone in the office dance it? Did they ever expect it to be the massive meme it became?). What would you like to know?
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I wants me some Kannagi licensing from FUNimation! I also want a second series to the anime. So far, no luck on either front but we'll see what happens.In the meantime, here's some images from the most excellent "Nagi-sama." ^_^
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Nendoroid Kannagi
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Kannagi has a special place in my heart as the show that compelled me to start blogging. Back in those days, I was nothing more than a new-born baby, with no clue what I was doing. Now I'm jaded, awash in a mountain of cigarettes and working on my 4th marriage. Man it's been a rough 6 months. :-P Kannagi had a great bunch of characters, and was unfailingly hilarious. I think back over the past year, and I still feel like it's the best slice of life/comedy in recent memory. So when it returned with episode 14 (or OVA 1 or the DVD special, whatever you want to call it), I was eager to dole out the Kannagi love. So it's rather disappointing to report that my memories of the show are better than the actual episode, which was pretty boring except for a couple parts towards the end.
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This week the Kannagi Official fansite added, 2 videos. One is a video of a Nagi cosplay dancing; apparently in the coming weeks, a dance contest will be announced. The other video features the drawing process of sketching Nagi. So a Kannagi dance contest eh? I can see girls doing it, and I can see guys [...]
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Kannagi Episode 5 is just amazing… No one knew that Nagi is a good cook from the look of the food although the food doesn’t taste right for some apparent reason. Also, Nagi also have a fanclub with alot of popularity… which is very funny for some reason… and that incident makes her a student. Although [...]
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Jin discovers Nagi's younger sister, Zange.
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The unaired episode of Kannagi recently came out along with volume seven of the DVD releases.  The episode itself is true to the series in terms of its fillerish, slapstick comedy.  But in terms of animation, it was its downfall.  Characters sometimes looked warped and several scenes, especially during the storm, where it was blatantly [...]
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W00t w00t!  This one has been a while in the making, but chapter 32 is finally released from my group.  4 more chapters until the hiatus…  I hope I get there before the author comes back. Sorry for the lack of posts recently, a lot of my time has gone into watching the French Open aka [...]
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… Enough said? Brief Summary For this year’s culture festival, the school’s having a rather… unique theme. Courtesy of Takako of course. “I think this is dumb.” <- Best line ever! Despite Takako’s and the Nagi Fan Club’s influence, there’s an equally strong opposition, the Zange Fan Club. Nagi accepts this challenge, knowing that this will prove who is more [...]
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For those of you who haven’t been checking up on the Kannagi English site; there’s been a few updates! First up, there’s a main page now; Second, there’ll be weekly Thursday updates! As every Thursday passes, the site will be a step closer to completion and hopefully that’ll mean that us English-speaking fans can get [...]
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Instead of doing something like a point-by-point analysis of why this episode is awesome, I’m falling back on a more standard episodic post format of pictures –> thoughts (no summary, of course). So this is basically the thoughts section right here. The thing about this episode that impressed me the most is its ability to blatantly parody [...]
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The Girl of the Month for June is Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo’s super sexy (and socially awkward) space detective, Itsuki Kannagi. I usually don’t go for the well endowed girls anymore, but the fact that she kicks ass and can also pull off being cute and sexy at the same time is what makes her [...]
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[ Episode 14: If There Were This Kind of "Kannagi"...]   The Kannagi crew returns! This time, the all-star cast goes on a wild film-making adventure around school when things don't turn out as planned...
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