Sacrilege I tell you. Sacrilege that I haven’t thought about this series for a while and even had to find out a month afterwards from flame-haze.net that the OVA had been subbed by Eclipse already… that’s a bad Shana fanboy, bad!
Source from http://www.wretch.cc/blog/pikuotaku
Continue reading ‘I cried tears at the Shana Special… Tears of joy and laughter!’
Alright, so I’ve not been that crazy on upcoming anime… Alright, that was just a plain faced lie; I literally went all fanboy when I heard Busou Renkin and D.Gray-Man were getting the anime treatment. Well, I was browsing around, and came across an upcoming anime post… which I don’t normally, read through but when I saw what the third anime on the list was, I was instantly ecstatic.
Continue reading ‘Mermaids, Mobs AND Marriage in an anime!?… Could only be Seto no Hanayome…’
So maybe you’ve been a lurker at one point. Don’t worry; I used to do that all the time and so does 99% of the interweb community. So maybe you’ve become a valued member of your little anime niche and actively discuss anime and the like. Excellent, that’s the whole point of the communities. So maybe you’ve seen some anime blogs and you think that may be an interesting thing to do, that’s brilliant… however, unlike the other two, this one may take some work.
Um, just no…
You can easily just connect to the internet and just go about lurking; that’s basically just ‘surfing the web’. You can just as easily see something that interests you or someplace where you believe your opinion can be counted so I do something, like write a comment and that takes very little effort.
Blogging on the subject, well… now we are talking a whole new dimension where multiple things could go wrong for you from content to technical problems to even just not knowing what to do and where there are just so many things you could do… So here I’ll begin a multi-part ‘guide’ (more like general tips and a few good pointers) to how to start blogging, and more specifically, how to blog anime. We begin with first, the most important thing….
Continue reading ‘So You Want to Blog Some Anime… Part One!?’
Alright, a little something I had wanted to do every so often is have a little spotlight on some smaller and less well known manga that I have read upon (and damn have I read a lot… ) Most do not know but there are a good number of manga only titles out there that are just pure gold but get little attention at all so I’m going to try to remedy that, even if it is just a bit… The first one is on the series, ‘Pretty face’ by Yasuhiro Kano (whose other work includes Mx0).
Continue reading ‘[Manga Spotlight] Pretty Face - by Yasuhiro Kano’
Yay, the sub has finally come out for this which is just brilliant as we were just served a spectacular action packed episode… Let’s have a look at it then…
1. Pose Lelouch… POSE!!
2. Cue the Suzaku emo scene
3. The Art of Terrorist Mastermind
4. Just no… that’s a bad Lelouch…no happy smiles for you
5. Ah, it’s great to have a hot amnesiac living with you… and making your lunches…
6. Love C.C.’s look here….
I was alerted to this video by Haohmaru on a forums. A little sample of the dubs to come and in my opinion, it’s actually quite good and I would be happy watching this is english. Although, I kinda don’t like Yuki’s voice, which is just a crying shame D:
And also, on a slightly related point, this was hillarious…
So, it’s finally out. Quite likely the last 2 character CDs unless there’s a second series, Koizumi and Kyon hit it big with their own singles. Talk and speculation have been flung around ever since the anime comunity were alerted of these were about to come out and who can blame them. And on finally coming out, there has been some mixed reviews from Youko’s amused (and quite attentive, I had trouble myself picking up some of those points and totally missed the cover alignment thing) post to some shameless but hilarious parodying to just the outright show of dislike for it so really, you gotta check it out to really find out how it is…. But then, here’s my thoughts on it…
Continue reading ‘The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Character CD Vols 8-9’
Well, I’ve moved from manga for a bit too long so here’s a short review on Eyeshield 21, specifically the manga…
Alright, today I went out and dropped down into a store picking up my first iPod… for the last few years Ive been running on Creative Zen and since I sort of crashed my old one I thought I would check out the iPod… my model being the black iPod nano 8 GB… I have to say, its shiney, sleek and looks great. Very easy to use I just synced it with one of my itunes playlists… now, 8GB is an alright size but I definately won’t be able to keep every single piece of music I have on there… (which i was having trouble doing so with my old mp3 player), so I thought to myself of actually going through and checking to see what I should have on my ipod… so i came up with a quick essentials anime music list of the important stuff I am going to add… I hope this helps to speed reference some good lesser known albums and such from jpop to BGM to character CDs… Alright begin the lists of albums!
Air Gear OP - Chain
Superb, one of my favourite OPs and the rest of the single is just pure brilliance as well… best jrap/jrock Ive ever listened to…
AVALON -Fate-stay night Arrange Sound Album-
Brilliant album with beautiful BGM tracks, i especially love Unlimited Blade works, techno version of Emiya theme…
One Piece Insert Song - From the New World
Antonin Drovak. Remember when Crocodile was being totally anihilated by Luffy, gomu gomu no storm? Well, I thought the music choice for it was absolutely spectacular bring such a powerful and emotional drive. This is the whole thing from first to fourth movement
Ichigo 100% ED - Ike Ike
Haven’t watch the anime actually though have read through the manga a bit but I was linked the first track and loved it getting the rest soon afterwards. For anyone who would like some beat heavy dance trance.
FLCL OST
The Pillows!! ‘nuff said… and if you don’t what that all meant, for shame… for shame!
NHK OP - Puzzle
A good jazzy piece of an OP to one of my favourite series. Twists and turns in the music with a light clashing of instrumental goodness and great vocals… the rest of the single is okay as well I guess…
Ouran High School Host Club OST
Over exposure of classical. I loved the series to bits because of its treatment and the mood was often set perfectly with its excellent orchestral pieces, found here, including full orchestra version of Sakura Kiss…
Ouran High School Host Club ED - Shissou
Good power ballad, I loved it and I remember always watching through the ED of Ouran, which i rarely do for most anime…
XXXHolic OP - 19sai
Good and unpredictable jazzy number heavy on the intonations with the vocals which just work…
School Rumble… Every single thing including all the drama CDs and Character ones…
Even though half of this is japanese speech, the multitude of music goodness mixed in sure makes up for it… any unicorn table work is a must listen as well…
Beats Crusaders (the whole discography and that failing, Pop on Arrival will satisfy all your needs)
First heard them in Bleach OP4 and then I saw the Beck OP. The band has a magnificent sound, their bad english grammar aside. You’re guaranteed for alot of enjoyment with any BC album
Asian Kung Fu Generation (again the whole disography)
This band is very notable from FMA to Naruto, I would suggest checking out all of their works, Kimi tu la Hana being a prime example of one of the lesser known greats of Asian Kung Fu Generation…
The Eureka Seven OSTs and infact, Complete Best for all the OPs and EDs as well…
What can I say? The whole thing is a music masterpiece, with good variety as well. Well worth checking out all this, as there are some real gems out there as whole tracks XD
Neon Genesis Evangelion Symphony Live
Loved the classical in Eva, well, relive it in performance taping of some of the best classical pieces ever… Pachebel’s cannon just wins all for me… unless you’re a celloist…
Escaflowne The Movie OST
Powerful stuff… it’s a classic really…
Melty Blood OST
Its damn good!!
Shuffle OP - You
Wonderful, reminded me of the style used for some visual novels Ive played…
and on that note, all the visual novel OPs you can find… which reminds me that recently actually (specifically from 6 am today and its 7 pm now Ive had the thing on repeat after getting the mp3 since then,….) its actually teh first thing I put on my iPod and the only thing at the moment… well, here’s where I first heard the song, thanks to LiL Donkey for the find. Code Geass fans may find this absolutely hillarious…
And now, to pull this mismatch of a music recommendation together to a finish: well, I’ve been kinda bad mouthing 1000% sparkling lately which may seem weird cause I gave it such a good review, but listening to that much of the near same music has an effect I guess. Well, in all honesty out of all the 1000% Sparklings, only two really stood out to being good to me, and I’m having trouble deciding on which one is the best now that Ive played them so many times… well, here they are, have a good listen and hopefully just vote on the poll at the end of this post on which one you think is the best… hope this post was helpful even though it was kinda rushed…
Big Band Mix
Recap on my review: Lovely collection of VAs here; Chachmaru, Evangaline and Satomi. Their mix was a big band mix, which i would better class as Jazz… Its rhythm is infective and i love the brass fill ins. One of my absolute favourites of the whole box set…
Eurobeat Mix
Recap on my Review: Sayo, Kazumi, Chao and Satsuki… EuroMix!!! Good heavy beat and stong chords blaring, this was my absolute favourite track of the whole Box Set… XD
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