Shut the hell up and die. So, Tokyo MX had the premier broadcast on the tail end of prime time on Friday. Then, CBC and MBS both broadcast the first two episodes as a special on Saturdays, and at least according to Syobi, will be continuing right along with episode 3 next week, thus [...]
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Oh god, Tear so moe~ wwwwwwwwwwwwww Anyways, it seems MBS did a special back-to-back screening of TotA so episode 2 is already aired. The story continues with Tear realizing the carriage is headed the wrong way, so Luke and her stop at a small village while they look for a different way to head home. They [...]
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The second wave of fall anime impressions is now on the way. Despite my huge dislike for harem shows (particularly stupid ones… wait ain’t all HAREM SHOWS STUPID?), I decided that I have not burned my fingers enough. Putting my hands into a hot stove of harem crap sounds like a good way to wake [...]
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Not having played the game, I don’t how this anime matches up to it’s counterpart, but it’s not a bad start for an adaptation. Story is pretty much the standard JRPG-style, out protagonist being Luke, son of a noble and said to bring great prosperity bla bla bla. A series of events leads him to [...]
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「預言の世界」 (Sukoa no Sekai) "The World of Score" First Glance: From Namco's "Tales" video game franchise comes another anime adaptation, except this time, the folks over at Sunrise are in charge of the production.
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Summary: Lorelei made a prophesy about a red-haired boy that will be born into a royal family. In the future, he will send ‘his people’ to disaster. Afterwards, war will wage between Malkuth and Kimlasca. At the present, servants are running around, looking for their Master Luke who has disappeared again somehow. Around [...]
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Tales of the Abyss Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a prince and has special. Highlights: Bad first half, second half with promise. Overall Enjoyment Value: 6,5/10 I’m pretty much a fan of the Tales of-franchise, but I’ve never played Tales of the Abyss or Vesperia, so this was all new to me. At first, this promised to violently [...]
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But still containing two men scared to death of vaginas. New Season Disclaimer: I’ll make a post for almost all new series (barring sequels) with a wrap-up and bullet point opinion of each once the premier week is over. Remember that these are just my kneejerk reactions to the first 20 minutes of shows, many of which [...]
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‘Cause it’s got 30 ++ minutes of Animation by a certain studio that is made of win, an excellent story (of barriers that seperate the cities and terra lumines run by technology from an ancient race that governs the elements and whatnot~), an OP that’s practically already there and Estelle, who is my moe moe~ [...]
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With the OP of the anime adapation of Tales of the Abyss being BUMP’s Karma, I was hoping for the ED to be something done by BUMP too. Hence, when I learned that the ED, Bouken Suisei, will feature the vocals of Enomoto Kurumi, I felt a little disappointment. However, on closer inspection of the song’s [...]
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The tales of the Abyss Anime website has been updates with official station airdates and the official Seiyuu cast! Now to play the actual game. PS2 FUKKEN WHAR. ���MBS������10/4, 25:55〜26:25 ���CBC������10/4, 26:30〜27:00 TOKYO MX���10/3, 21:00〜21:30 BS11(digital)���10/31, 23:00〜23:30 - (I presume digital takes longer) Cast: Luke von Favre - Suzuki Chihiro Tear Grants - Yukana Jade Curtis - Koyasu Takehito Tatlin anise - Haruko Momoi Guy [...]
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Tales of the Abyss TV begins this October on MBS, CBC, Tokyo MX, and BS11. The series is slated for 26 episodes…
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According to Moon Phase, which brought us the oh-so-wonderful announcement that there will be a Season 3 of Black Lagoon, has now gleaned to me that Kyou no Go no Ni will get an Anime adaptation as well.Sauce HERE.Personally, I didn't even watch the OVA, but I might be interested in a TV series...Apparently it only has 1 volume so far as a manga, serialized in Bessatsu Young Magazine.Also, I said Tales of the Abyss trailers would be here right?HERE YOU GO:<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9J2wvn_cgKw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9J2wvn_cgKw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>I also realize that today, Chiba TV airs episode 2 of Zero no Tsukaima ~princesses no rondo~As tribute, and due to my flu, which prevents me from going out anywhere, here's a sketch of Mai Waifu~PREEMPTIVE DISCLAIMER: I suck at drawing, and I tried, as far as my n00b skillz will let me, to produce a Light-Novel-style Louise.DISREGARD THAT I HAS NOOB SKILLZ.
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Moon Phase has more details on the Tales of the Abyss anime, although still no say on OVA or TV anime. But the big news is that Sunrise will do the animation. The director will be Kenji Kodama, who directed City Hunter and Case Closed. Yoshihito Hishinuma (InuYasha, Yakitate!! Japan) will do character design.
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Word comes from 2NN that the Tales of the Abyss game is being developed into an anime. But the details are somewhat mysterious; Moon Phase notes that it’s unclear whether it’ll be an OVA (like Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia) or a TV anime (like Tales of Eternia). No studio has been mentioned [...]
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Continuing with Kotobukiya's December announcements… or well, this one is slated for November, but probably late November, so same thing anyway.. ok, ok, moving back to the figure. Kotobukiya announced a lovely Tear Grants figure from Tales of the Abyss. This… very brown figure stands about 205mm tall and has some nice weapon accessories. I [...]
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