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Day 303/366 Kanon supreme anime of the derp faces. What is this? A plastic bag? I think the dude in the picture agrees that these girl uniforms are ugly. Not to mention his own of course. Those GIANT floppy ties that the girls wear... wtf is up with those... Overall: No way in hell.Related posts: [...] Related posts: 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 138/366 Akikan 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 154/366 Lovely Complex 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 272/366 Sket Dance
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Is it time for another show featuring sad girls with gigantic eyes? Why, yes, it is! It must be time to discuss another Key/Visual Art’s work! This time, we look at Kyoto Animation’s 2006-2007 anime adaptation of the original 1999 Key work, Kanon. Kanon is often referred to as the ‘sad girls in the snow’ [...]
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Nope, I’m not quite dead yet. At the end of May I posted a poll asking readers to choose which series (out of a shortlist of six) I should watch next. When the poll ended with two shows tied for first place, and a third series close behind, I decided I’d watch all three. Well, [...]
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We’ve all heard of Key’s big anime titles: AIR, Kanon 2006, and Clannad/After Story, but there is one neglected title that I think deserves some recognition, Kanon (2002). Unlike its successors, which were animated by Kyoto animation, Kanon was done by Toei Animation and has what could be argued as the largest eyes in anime. Indeed, 10 years [...]
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This post is a part of the Remembering Love series of posts by trzr23, where we bloggers rewatch our favorite anime series and write about them for the heck of it. I encourage other bloggers to come and participate as … Continue reading →
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Can the future exist without a past? Yuichi hasn’t seen his cousin Nayuki in years. Now that he’s back, all …Continue reading »
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These photos must be familiar to anyone who has seen Kanon. It's the bench where Yuuichi waited for Nayuki when he came to the town and where some other spoilerish things happened later. I looked quite odd there, taking photos of a bench from various angles XD I was fortunate that nobody had been sitting there when I came, so I could take the photos. I would have had to wait if someone had been sitting there.The location is in Osaka, outside Moriguchishi Station. It's right outside the station so you can't miss it. I don't remember if there is one or two exits, but if there are two, the correct one will be the east exit or the south exit. It's southeast actually, so it can be either.
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Here’s our short but sweet interview with Kanon Wakeshima at this year’s AM2 Press Junket! She’s best known as the singer of the ED to “Vampire Knight.” We ask her about women in cello, goth lolita style, and her love of classical music. Transcript follows the break. Translation provided by Tony from the Nihon Review [...]
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Filing into the concert hall with my crew made it very apparent that I wasn’t the only fan that was eagerly anticipating the arrival of the young starlet Kanon Wakeshima. By the time we made our arrival the room was filled completely with the cellist’s devotees. While Drunken Shadow, Kibs, and I (Kana) settled many [...]
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Kanon Wakeshima meets An Cafe’s Kanon in this collaborative panel happening only at AM². For the scoop on what’s happening as it is make sure to be here at 1:30 PM PST! AM² KanonXKanon Panel If you’re a Fanatic then make sure to keep your eyes peeled for footage of this event!
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Tempest here and I got to interview the very handsome Takamasa Sakurai and Kanon. Both were wearing the most incredibly frilly clothes — they looked like they stepped out of a twisted Steampunk convention that could only be held in Japan. ———————————————- For those of you at home who don’t know, Kanon is the bassist [...]
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Griffon Enterprises is going to release the Figutto! FG-010 Seena Kanon ( シーナ・カノン ) action figure form the “Shining” game series “Shining Wind” published by SEGA. Will be released in August 2011. Around 170mm tall, 3,800 yen. **Figutto! Kureha will be released in Summer 2011** Finally Griffon is bringing the Shing Wind series into Figutto!!!! [...]
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Kanon Nakagawa’s Album “Birth” (voiced by Toyama Nao) came out a few weeks ago and I finally got my Limited Edition copy. What comes in the Limited Edition that the Regular doesn’t have is: 3 photos of Kanon and a Kanon Fan Club (aptly named Kanon Note) card with your own (I assume) unique member [...]
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AI MAI MI AIDORU, WATASHI AIDORU This show has been neglected quite a bit, hasn’t it? I have been keeping up with it and it has been a great show, so why hasn’t it been updated on Metanorn? Because I was lazy at the time. But here I am, back a refreshed ready to update [...]
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I watched Kanon around the end of August for two reasons: it was from Key, meaning it had been on my list for quite some time, and a friend of mine kept bothering me to get to it, so I figured I ought to appease him. So this is our day six. The Basics Episodes: 24Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, SupernaturalAired: October 5, 2006 to March 15, 2007Directed by: Tatsuya IshiharaProducers: Kyoto Animation, ADV Films, FUNimation EntertainmentOpening Theme: Florescence by Miho FujiwaraClosing Theme: Flower by Miho Fujiwara The Review The Story: Yuuichi Aizawa hasn't been to the city where his aunt and cousin live in seven years, and hasn't seen them in all of that time. When he ends up moving to live with them, it turns out most of his memories of the people he knew and the things he did are completely gone. As he meets a number of girls besides his cousin Nayuki, those memories begin to return. Much like some of studio Key's other works (Clannad and Air), Kanon is focused on a single male lead and the way he interacts with the girls around him, particularly the things he does for them. In this case, a lot of the focus is on his memory failure, and the series is chock full of lightbulb moments where he remembers something very important. Of course, because it's from Key, a lot of the lightbulb moments are also very depressing. At heart, Kanon is a story of friendship with a smidgen of romance thrown in for good measure. The Characters: As the main character, Yuuichi is a pretty good guy. He tends toward teasing the females in his life—yeah, he's no Casanova (<--a phrase I never expected to use in my lifetime). However, he also goes to some amount of trouble for them. Besides him, there are four girls I qualify as “main”, meaning they have full arcs of their own. They are, in no particular order, Mai Kawasumi, Shiori Misaka, Makoto Sawatari and Ayu Tsukimiya. Each girl is lovable in their own right, with their own depressing storyline. Of course Nayuki is something of a main character, but her arc runs alongside one of the others and seems to take the backseat. Honestly, if you don't get teary over at least one of these girls throughout the series, you probably have no soul. The Music: While I was watching Kanon, I was frequently distracted from paying attention to the characters and story merely by the background music. It's all completely beautiful, and sometimes I probably wouldn't have cried if not for the perfect juxtaposition of events and the music surrounding them. Now, this made a whole lot of sense once I was looking at the credits for the series and found Tchaikovsky's “Sleeping Beauty, Op. 58” listed. That explained so much. So really, the music here was altogether lovely. On another music-related note, all of the episode titles had to do with musical terms—Silver Overture, Requiem Atop the Hill, Midnight Oratorio. I found that to be a really fascinating aspect. Conclusion?: As is typical, Key produced a masterpiece. The characters are wonderful to watch, easy to fall in love with, become attached to and cry for. The typical style of artwork used shined, and Kanon had what is probably my favourite anime snow of all time. For people who love feel good series, Kanon might not be right for you (though it would be better for you than Air). On the other hand, for people who love emotional rides, beautiful scenery and girls who are entirely too easy to adore, Kanon will be a great fit. Another great aspect of the series is that none of the girls have stories which are too similar, so there's no sense of “haven't I seen this before?”. My rating: 9/10. I'm not giving it a less than perfect score because there was anything wrong with the series. There really wasn't. The only reason I personally can't view it as a 10 is that I watched it after both Air and Clannad, and both of those series hit me a lot harder than this one. If I end up watching it again it'll probably become a 10, though.
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Kotobukiya is going to re-release the Seena Kanon ( シーナ・カノン ) 1/8 PVC figure form the “Shining” game series “Shining Wind” published by SEGA. Will be re-released in April 2011. Around 210mm tall, 5,500 yen. Beside the Katsuragi Misato from 2008, we also have another re-release figure by Kotobukiya today. Here is Seena Kanon. She [...]
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Continuing with the analyzing of the arcs I played in Kanon, the next girl’s arc I am going to focus on is Mai Kawasumi. She is viewed by everyone as an anti-social, quiet girl who seems to have this urge to go to the school at night with a long, sharp sword. There could be [...]
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