If you haven't heard, Funimation has acquired Shikabane Hime: Aka for North American release. They promise "high-quality, English subtitled streaming episodes." Why do they even bother with terming it high quality? We all know that's bullshit. "Through video-sharing partners YouTube.com" means it's as low a quality as you can get. And the alternative to that crap?
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Hi, my name is Makina. I'm dead, and my love-interest looks like an older version of Bleach's Ichigo.
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Makina has two modes: Serious and Dead Serious.
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Episode 4 of Shikabane Hime, “Cruel Beautiful Song”, starts off with Keisei on his continuously failing quest to turn his little brother Ouri into one of his own kind, a perverted otaku. It would have been more useful if he gave all of his anime goods to me instead of an uninterested party like [...]
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I just received a press release regarding Funimation’s recent acquisition of Shikabane Hime (aka: Corpse Princess). Now, I don’t know much about Shikabane Hime, but it’s undead-sukeban style heroine and premise of zombie action has me intrigued. Apparently Funimation acquired the rights to Shikabane Hime just weeks after its initial Japanese Television debut — I’m [...]
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Short Synopsis: An idol-turned-Shikabane kills people who don’t like her songs. Highlights: Best fight so far; Makina’s background. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7/10 (enjoyable) Okay, so I’ve gotten a lot of varied feedback on the new episode rating scale, some positive and some negative reactions. As a result, I’ve changed the scale a bit yet again, where anything above [...]
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Summary: In a mysterious case, Makina and Minari chase a shikabane, but the shikabane always escapes, leaving behind only women in puddles of purple slime. From the victims’ belongings, Keisei deduces that the shikabane is hanging out at an OB/GYN clinic; Makina is sent to infiltrate Inankan Clinic by posing as a schoolgirl who got [...]
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While episode one of Shikabane Hime set the scene in a not particularly spectacular style, and episode two added some genuinely creepy and horrific atmosphere to the mix, what can the third instalment bring to the series? In short, what it brings us is some depth to the plot. The episode starts with another of those time-honoured cornerstones of the horror genre - The echoing sound of a crying
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Via My Anime List. My, that was certainly fast, we’re only going into the third episode and it’s already picked up.  The current plan is to offer subbed episodes for free on their various streaming partners, including the ever-present Youtube.  They’ll also be offering a high quality download of the episodes for $1.99 a pop.  Click [...]
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[ Episode 3: Voice of the Night ] Makina pretending to be a pregnant schoolgirl = LOL. Hoho, the plot thickens. This episode features a Shikabane that willing followed a human’s will. There was a catch though. That is, the Shikabane was a mother that died while giving birth and while her baby survived, she obviously didn’t. [...]
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I just got a press release announcing that FUNimation has acquired the currently-airing Gainax TV series Shikabane Hime: AKA, for which a first date review is pending. More exciting than my review, to be sure, is the information that FUNi will be offering up the subtitled version of the series within weeks of its Japanese airing; [...]
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Caught this last night but was too tired to blog about this, until now. If you did notice, we had a lot of anime reviews out yesterday - because we’re trying to finish the entire fall season before we blog our impressions for fall season. The post is halfway done, but still, reviews have to [...]
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[ Episode 2: Continuation of the Game ] Just how soft is Makina’s body? I found this episode to be much better than the first. Maybe it’s because I’ve already gotten used to the characters already or maybe it’s because it was better structured. Whatever the case, the Shikabane this time around were ones that I didn’t [...]
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Summary: The episode begins with the death of four kids in a traffic accident, one of them being Hikari, a friend of some kids at the orphanage where Ouri grew up. At her own funeral, Hikari suddenly resurrects as a shikabane. In comes Miakina, and in the ensuing battle, she is run through by shikabane Hikari’s tail. Hikari then transforms into her human form when Ouri shows up and Hikari begs him to save her, leaving the injured Makina behind. Ouri is lured to ...
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Episode 3 of Shikabane Hime: Aka, “Voice of the Night”, starts off with a couple taking a walk near a temple when they hear the cries of a baby. They encounter a shikabane and run for their lives, but soon bump into Makina who tells them to forget everything. She’s chasing after the [...]
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Summary: A bus of preschoolers blows up, and one of the victims, Hikaru, used to come play at the orphanage. Her friend passes Ouri a drawing to place in Hikaru’s casket at the wake, but unfortunately Hikaru has turned into a shikabane. Makina stops by the wake to investigate, and is spotted by Ouri [...]
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Spotted this news blurb on ANN that said Funimation has Gainax’s new anime, Shikabane Hime, on the upcoming shedule of their Youtube channel. Does this means Funi wants to test the waters before doing an official license? We can only guess because I’m not clairvoyant.
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I know I’m so late to the First Impressions party that I’m stuck at the back of the queue for the bar, but I try to draw my conclusions after watching more than one episode. I don’t think it’s a good idea to go on one outing alone; after all, you don’t commit yourself after [...]
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So yes, I will be blogging Shikabane Hime through the fall, and possibly the winter. I haven’t quite decided how I’m going to blog this series. If it’s episodic, and the storyline goes a slow pace, I’ll probably cover the episodes in bunches of two or three. This opening image is seriously scary to me. I think [...]
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While I referred to the first episode of Shikabane Hime as a jigsaw puzzle that had to be put together without the picture on the box, perhaps I should have looked at it from a more simplistic angle and simply labelled it as being a case of style over substance. Thankfully, episode two actually manages to balance out those particular items on the "important things for anime to have" agenda far
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