Stumbled upon this while looking for those Bakemonogatari songs. I have no idea how they mixed three songs into one but it’s epic! ]]>
Somehow there’s a full version of 君の知らない物語 on niconico (youtube repost above). Everybody should be waiting for this song because it’s written by ryo (famous for making miku songs) and sung by nagi (formerly known as gazelle, famous for singing stuff on niconico) and most of all it’s the Bakemonogatari ED! lol I ripped it and uploaded it as an mp3 for my friend but. Quality isn’t great though so I’ll probably download the single again when the proper version comes out next week. The quality of it isn’t too good though because it seems to be a radio rip.
I found mock full versions of the OPs on niconico too. Mock full as in that someone one the internetz (probably 2chan lol) got the TV size version, chopped it up and stuck bits together to imitate what the full version might sound like. They’re pretty good for not being the real deal so I’ll just post them here too. Just in case I’m the only one that think TV size songs are too short. Links after the break:
Bakemonogatari OP#1 (Hitagi Crab) – staple stable
Bakemonogatari OP#2 (Mayoi Snail) – 帰り道 (Kaerimichi)
Bakemonogatari ED – 君の知らない物語 (Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari) – updated link pointing to proper single not the radio rip
I really love Mayoi Snail’s OP. Lolis everywhere <3
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Pantsu Shot #1
My main excuse for not blogging for months is that I was playing Project Diva! I have to admit that I actually didn’t play that much because it makes my thumb hurt every time I play for about an hour but hopefully these picture will help you overlook that little fact. Well Project Diva is great and very fun and it is for perverted otakus like me, but not just for perverted otakus. But the reason I say it is for perverted otakus is because you can dress Miku up in a miko costume! Miko Miku is my favourite look out of all the costumes that I’ve unlocked. There’s alot of them to unlock but it’s too much effort. They have pictures of them over on the Project Diva Wiki.
Pantsu Shot #2
I somehow noticed that when watching the PV of Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru with miko Miku, there are about 2 or 3 spotswhere you can take pantsu shots! Took me a little while but I managed to screenshot a few >=D
No pantsu to be seen but still a good view!
While I do quite like the dancing miku in the background, it is in fact very distracting when you’re trying to concentrate on hitting buttons really fast. My eyes always seem to wander off and look at Miku instead of the circles and crosses flying around the screen and I break my 100 combo =_= even when there is no pantsu to be seen. I especially hate 初音ミクの消失 because even though there is no dancing Miku, the PV is just a very fast slideshow which is blinds you whenever you try to pass the song.
I’ve been playing idolmaster too but I for some strange reason when I try to take screenshots of it my PSP freezes T_T I picked Azusa as my idol. For some reason I called myself Azunyan P, but it worked out coz I picked Azunyan =D For the longest time I’ve been wondering how come all the people who make vocaloid songs call themselves “something P” but I finally understand after playing idolmaster. P is for producer lol
その目、だれの目？
ゆきにゃんの目だ！ Has everyone been good little kids and watched Haruhi’s second season? If not you might incur god’s wrath and turn into a Kyonko.
I still love what the crazy picture of Rimi does to your eyes <3
Looks familiar?
Saw this scan on moe imouto and of course being a lover of all things Key I had to investigate! Of course the portal of knowledge somehow had information on this “Angel Beats!” that I was not aware of. All I can tell is that it’s drawn by Na-Ga (I swear I’ll write up a post about Na-Ga one day). It’s a “mixed media” project, whatever that means so it’s probably not a visual novel but apparently there will be an anime so thats good. And all this reminded me to check up on Rewrite official site and it’s actually changed from just one picture! Yayz! Still no release date though but that’s fine because I still haven’t touched my eroge. Need to get a laptop still. Even though Mio has a Mac I not be getting one because they are cost way too much and apparently eroge doesn’t run on Macs.
Anybody else heard about this Angel Beats! thing?
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OMGG Mio uses a Mac!!
While I was excited writing up about what good stuff has appeared this season I forgot about the crap. I’ll just shove that here for now. Though some of these shows were terrible and made me feel like I had just wasted 20 mins of my life, some were ok. Obviously none were good though.
Natsu no Arashi just put me off. I gave it a chance because it’s by the author of School Rumble, even though I don’t like School Rumble. The art put me off. The story put me off. No more Natsu no Arashi for me. No pic for this show.
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Saki is ok, though I read the manga. The manga seems more interesting and looks better too. I don’t get what is happening in the show though because I don’t actually know how to play mahjong – trying to learn though. The anime is strangely ecchi though. Maybe just mahjong isn’t interesting enough for some people? The main reason I gave up on it was because I don’t know anything about mahjong. It’s not too bad.
The version of Arad Senki i downloaded had terrible sound. Once again the art put me off, lack of proper direction in the storyline put me off and I’ve never really liked game -> anime adaptations in the first place. It’s a miracle I’m watching two of them this season. No pic for this show either.
I watched 5 episodes of Chi’s New Address (the pic at the top of this pots of a cat). It’s about a cat that lives in a new home. It’s like an anime version of a 4koma manga – each episode is 5 minutes and they’re just filled with random stuff. It’s kind of cute but I don’t have time for it.
Higepiyo is pretty much the same as Chi’s New Address except that instead of being about a cat that got a new home, its about a wierd bird with a beard that got a new home. It’s a bit strange and it’s trying to appeal with it’s “ugly cute” style but once again no time for ugly cute birds with beards that drink sake, eat curry and read the newspaper.
I watched the first episode of Denpateki na Kanojo too. It’s rather odd too and I stopped watching it because it’s rather gruesome with blood and guts and yanderes. I can put up with Kara no Kyoukai even though it has the same stuff, because the art is so much better – it’s easier to just admire the art and try to ignore the scary stuff. Obviously from this screenshot Denpateki na Kanojo doesn’t have great art. I just took the screenshot because of the Akikan refernce XD
I shall write about the two remaining animes I am going to watch this season later – Hayate no Gotoku and Tayutama. They are both quite good and definitely deserve more detailed posts. I’m also still waiting for Queen’s Blade, Hatsukoi Gentei (don’t feel like watching it anymore because of excessive fanservice and Ichigo 100% anime was terrible compared to manga) and Ippatsu Juuden-chan to come out before I judge those. I think they are already out somewhere but not on the site that I download from. I wait for people to convert anime into rmvb format before I download in a futile attempt to keep my downloads below 50GB every month. It helps.. but I still always go over =_=
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I think I said I was going to write things up in the order I watched them, but quite frankly I can’t remember what order I watched them in when I had a 15 episode anime marathon so I’ll just do them more or less alphabetically.First up is 07 Ghost. First thing that surprised me about this show is that it is subbed by Dattebayo. I thought that they died or disbanded or something, but it’s been a long time since I’ve watched naruto anime so I haven’t heard anything about them.
The second thing that surprised me was the yaoi vibes that I’m feeling from this show. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not bad and there isn’t any yaoi but isn’t this a bit too far as “friends”? Apart from that animation is good and storyline is decent – random guy who lost his memory regains some of it, tries to avenge his father, gets pwnt and then runs away leaving his boyfriend behind. There is a hot instructor at his school and the bad guy has white hair and is called Ayanami. It’s not extremely original but it’s not too bad either.
Second is Basquash. Basquash has vibrant colours and an art style I don’t like interesting art style. I think I’ll get used to it eventually like I did with Gurren Lagann. Once again it’s fairly good, but everything this season is quite good so I would place it to the bottom of my watching priority. It’s about some kid that probably ends up playing basketball in a mecha. Though it seems interesting, to me mechas are only cool when they shoot beam weapons/drill holes in each other (Gundam/Code Geass/Gurren Lagann). Eureka 7 was good but sports on a mecha just doesn’t interest me as much. Rideback is another example of sports/mecha that failed to keep me interested.
Third is Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. I guess I don’t really need to say much about this. It’s every bit as good as the first season. It seems to be covering content that was in the other anime as well, but even though I’ve already seen it before and I’ve also read the manga it doesn’t bore me at all. Another one of the top 5 this season!
I really like the cartoon style in the ED movie too – especially the bit at the beginning where Ed’s arm is assembled. It sounds a bit strange saying that the ED is in cartoon style though, after all it should be cartoony because it is anime otherwise it wouldn’t be anime!
YOU WERE ALIVE AFTER ALL LOCKON! (Neil or Lyle it doesn't matter which Lockon)
Fourth is Sengoku Basara. Another good show, based on a PS2 game. I usually quite dislike game -> anime adaptations but this one isn’t bad because it has Lockon. Just from the name you can tell it’s a warring states anime just because it has the word Sengoku in it. What I like most about the show is that it has a very 燃える魂 feel. Hmm I guess that translates to burning soul, which doesn’t make any sense in english. Just think of it as a bit like Gurren Lagann where you want to shout out RAWR RAWR FIGHT THE POWAH when you see a drill. The fight scenes are quite good and the weapons are cool, but I just wonder why does Kenshin have such a disgusting outfit?! Why is Lockon Masamune’s reincarnation? Why does Lockon’s Masamune’s horse have exhaust pipes on it?! The mysteries of modern character design continue to perplex me.
Fifth is Shangri-la which is ok but if I’m going to drop anything, it will probably be this. When I saw the pic in the Spring anime preview I though: girl with weapon = win. However this show is not actually win because it has lots of stuff about carbon dioxide and global warming which somehow annoys me. Makes me feel like I’m watching the news… The characters seem a little strange too. I can’t tell if the character in the pic below is an okama or not, but I think so. I didn’t really feel like taking many screenshots of this show so you only get this one disturbing image.
Sixth and last is Valkyria Chronicles.Valkyria Chronicles is also another game -> anime adaptation. Was a PS3 game though! It doesn’t seem particularly engaging but the main character girl is kind of cute and the art style is cool! Apparently in the game all scenes were made to look like a watercolour painting and you can see that kind of style in the anime too in certain scenes. I kind of like that. If I run out of time I’ll probably have to drop this too though, after Shangri-la. I remember seeing a post on Danny Choo about there being some ridiculously overpowered tank in the anime, which is carried over from there being a ridiculously overpowered tank in the game XD At least it’s a faithful adaptation!
srs face =D
Well that’s not actually the last. I was intending to shove all the animes I am watching into this post, but now that I am up to 6 I realise that the post is getting really long and it’s getting late and I want to sleep so I’ll write the rest up in a separate post tomorrow.
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Well that’s winter and spring in Japan at least… here it’s the opposite way around. But of course the only seasons that matter to me are anime seasons!!It’s easter holidays for me now, so I spent pretty much the whole weekend having another anime marathon and I’ve managed to finish all winter anime and watch episode 1 of all spring anime that I’m interested in!
I didn’t think Rideback’s ending was too good. There was hardly any character development since episode 1 in my opinion. In the first episode she found out that she really liked Ridebacks. In the end she gave up on them, then found out that she still liked them. The end. Oh well maybe she did help to destroy some bad government along the way, but overall I have to say that in the end nothing really happened. I had a very meh sort of feeling after watching it and I can’t even be bothered posting a picture of a rideback here.
lol the lame jokes were what made Akikan! worth watching
Akikan! on the other hand had a much better ending. It was pretty full of fail at the beginning of the show as well, and even though the animation never really improved that much and the storyline was fairly shallow, at least I didn’t feel like I had wasted 4 hours of my life watching it. The sexual jokes weren’t bad and while some were extremely stupid there were a few that I thought were a bit funny. I must admit that the stretchy faces and evil Akikan being called Miku did make me think better of the show, but once in a while stupid shows aren’t that bad. After all Naruto is one of the most popular animes/mangas and the main character is a brainless idiot. But still in the end, happy endings are the best after all =D
I also remember reading on someone’s blog that Hatsune Miku sang the ending of this Akikan episode, just as a joke coz the big bad boss character was called Miku. I couldn’t really hear her well but “初音ミク” definitely showed up somewhere in the credits.
Takane-oneesama is still one of the main reasons I watch Sorakake Shoujo though <3
That’s all of the winter season anime finished! Except for sorakake shoujo because that’s still airing of course. Sorakake shoujo is getting better I think. Still waiting for the last episode of Candy Boy too but I’m starting to lose interest in that yuri twincest anime as well.I watched the first episode of 18 new animes this season I think new so I’m going to split them into separate posts. Probably in the order that I watched them.
For some odd reason the first three animes I watched this season all had some mysterious woman attacking the main character guy, except for K-on! of course because that doesn’t have a main character guy. Maybe violent girls are the new in thing this season?
Nice maid =D
First of these three shows was Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~. Plot is something about a guy that has been brainwashed and turned into an assassin. The animation seems pretty good, fighting scenes are good and characters are interesting so I’ll probably watch it. I was assuming it to be a little crazy because it’s an anime adaptation of a visual novel, by Nitro+ (remember Chaos Head?). It is a little similar to Chaos Head in that the main character has no identity, but Chaos Head seemed crazier. But then again Chaos Head was a collaboration between Nitro+ and Pb5. Maybe all the crazy stuff came from the people at Pb5?
The animation is done by Bee Train which really pissed me off with that El Cazador anime because it was so bad. They have redeemed themselves in my eyes with this show but it’s definitely not the best this season. K-on! is still the best of course!
mismatched eye colours are just so cool!
he next thing I watched was Asura Cryin’. I’m quite pleased with this show, probably because there is a wide variety of bishoujos >=D There’s the childhood friend, who is dead and is a ghost, the mysterious senpai and a violent miko with mismatched eyecolours that transforms into a timid girl during the daytime. All very original and cover s a wide range of criteria to appeal to otakus of all tastes! Oh and it has big mechas as well! Definitely will keep watching. Probably one of the top 5 of the season.
Third thing I watched was Pandora Hearts.I didn’t like it that much after watching episode 1, because the middle was a little creepy. Talking dolls creep me out. It seemed a bit of a horror type show as well, with the bit how he got strangled in a dream and woke up with strangle marks on his neck? Second episode was much less creepier and makes me want to watch the show more – probably because of the cute girl at the beginning of the show XD Oh and the crazy girl that looks like Meishen from Koukaku no Regios and turns into a big B-rabbit with a scythe is not bad looking either!
I’m quite happy with this season’s anime! Last season I watched about 6 shows I think, but this season I’m picking up more than 15! I’ll probably have to drop a few to keep up with uni though T__T Will write up my impressions of all the other anime I’ve watched later, namely 07 Ghost, Basquash, Full Metal Alchemist, Hayate no Gotoku!!, Sengoku Basara, Tayutama and a few others that I can’t remember at the moment
Cute! Not gonna drop this show!
I’ve been having to put off anime for a while because of stupid assignments, but mid semester break is only one week away! I managed to finish Clannad After Story and Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai (hopefully that’s the last time I ever have to type that ever again =_=) and I think I wrote something about them in my KyoAni rant post. Now I’ve managed to finish off Gundam 00 and Maria+Holic too! I’ve finished watching half of the series that I picked up last seasons, which is why I’m halfway to the finish line. Now I only have to finish off the last episode of Akikan! and about 5 episodes of Sorakake Shoujo and another 2 episodes of Rideback =_= I’ll write up the afterthought posts after I’ve watched those (obviously) and for now I’ll just tell you how weak I thought the Gundam and Maria+Holic endings were – THEY WERE TOOOOOOO WEAK especially Maria+Holic. In fact Maria+Holic didn’t even have an ending =_=
lol Miku appears in Maria+Holic once again
Maria+Holic was nice like usual, except this week there was bikinis, even it was just a dream ending >=D Dreams endings are always weak, but I guess they become amusing if even the characters in the anime complain about them. Father Kanae is an interesting character mainly because I try to read all the words that come off the top of his head, and I fail miserably. If you didn’t already know, whatever he says turns into words that appear off the top of his head. Could be good for learning kanji, if all the things he said weren’t so random and complex…
The “hi hi” hives were amusing too, as was the fundoshi-loving hypnosis and the whole pool and earth and universe and galaxy turning red XD We even got to see Matsurika and Shizu in sukumizu tpp <33 That was all very nice but it sill didn’t stop me from feeling let down when there was no proper ending. That also leaves me hopeful though, because Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei didn’t have a proper ending and now there’s rumours that there will be a 3rd season of Zetsubou Sensei! Maria+Holic better have another season or two otherwise i’ll despair too!
Gundam 00’s ending wasn’t actually weak. I was just surprised at how Allelujah became a backpacker at the end. I didn’t really like Ribbons’ Reborn Gundam with the uber powered cannons on one side and melee weapons on the otherside? It would have been better if they made that fight a bit longer though coz people only watch Gundam for the mecha. If they bring out uber powered mechas, then destroy them in one episode we don’t get to admire it and say wow that’s so cool. And that sucks.
I still thinks Setsuna looks pretty gar when he turns into innovator mode and his eyes go into spiral power mode. I have to admit that Lock-on’s sidestep was very good, th0ugh the yaoi suggestions were not so good. I laffed when I saw the comments on other blogs that said stuff like – I can understand why Ribbons is making that face XD I was a little disappointed how they kind of ripped the final fight off Gurren Lagann. While Gurren Lagann had Space King Kittan > King Kittan = win, G00ndam had 00 > Exia and Reborn > 0, which I probably would have thought was a bit more win if I had not seen Gurren Lagann before. On that note anyone know when the Gurren Lagann movie DVD will comes out?? I want to watch the movie now! While G00ndam’s ending wasn’t actually bad I hear there will also be a movie! There was a little bit at the end of the episode that had a picture of Jupiter and 4 little shining lights which might be mobile suits?! and said: The Childhood of Humankind Ends. I think I agree with the rumours about there being aliens in the movie XD After all Celestial Being was made to turn everyone into innovators so they can understand each other, then understand aliens? I’m sure aliens were mentioned somewhere in the show!
I still need to get around to watching the last episode of Akikan so I’m not going to write anything about the second-last episode but I’ll just put the pictures here. Don’t want to waste all the effort I put into taking screenshots XD
Misaki is a rather moelicious looking loli >=D And for some reason Melon’s hair becomes pink in the last episode?!
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