...Just woke up... ...and thus completely missed the Onitama radio show AND trying to look for the Onegai!Ranking show on Keyhole... I had even set two alarms just in case... One of which was set to the very last possible minute just in case... Oh, yeah. "Just in case" is never enough in my case. There goes my rare live(ish)-Namikawa dose of the day. Usually I wouldn't even know of such things until they are over (unfortunately I don't have the time to check his news/blog/twitter everyday), but this time I found out in time, yet I still missed it -_- Come to think of it, Hirata-san also appeared in these two exact shows previously. I didn't know about the Onegai!Ranking until weeks later, but managed to catch the Onitama show :D   Now where was my recording for that Time to listen to Hibiki's Zet Night Radio to let Namikawa's idiocy cheer me up

Thursday, April 19, 2012 :: 02:47 a.m. |

ZET NIGHT RADIO

Oh, great This ZET NIGHT RADIO is really hyper XD Damn these two high-strung excited little kids.   Especially you, Mamo And to hear Namikawa actually say "Tiger & Bunny" out of the blue was a tad weird (but amusing). I doubt it's even in the script. You don't even appear in it at all! Censor yourself! XD But I just noticed, this radio airs fortnightly, not weekly 囧 ...Not enough to cover my Mayokage Radio withdrawal syndrome...! And let's say if this radio is to run its course in the same period as the anime - 2 cours = 6 months = 26 weeks, Wouldn't there only be 10+ episodes? noooooo Will now wait to listen to HERO RADIO to see how it is. Seems like the first guest to grace the show two episodes later will be Gou-san. Sky High the top batter, as always(?) :D [Edit:] OH GREAT. I forgot that ZETMAN is only one-cour. Ehhhhhhhhh?! I don't think the radio show will run that short then...?

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 :: 11:10 a.m. |

Just finished watching the Tiger & Bunny special on Ustream. More like, out of 30 minutes, I've just finished watching about 6 frames of moving picture of 2 seconds each after which are either frozen or black screens for the rest of it. -_- Missed the broadcast timing yesterday, and now this repeat broadcast streamed like a Powerpoint slide show (made with only 6 slides) on that other computer... I want to watch it! The show title was "劇場版『TIGER & BUNNY』前売券発売記念　香港上陸スペシャル" - it apparently showed part of the C3 event held in Hong Kong in which BunnykazuMorita-san was a guest. But that was secondary. More important was the Morita + Hirata-san interview! HIRATA-SAN INTERVIEW! How can I have missed iiiiiiit? (Network Connection: "Sucks to be you. :D" ) And THEN, apparently it was mentioned (as I watched the blissfully #000000 black screen and read the tweet-comments flowing beside it) that the upcoming movie will be shown across 10 countries in the same period as it is airing in Japan. And one of those countries includes Singapore. <_< >o> You know, as one of those places that always gets left out in many things (most things I'm interested in - ESPECIALLY SEIYUU GUESTS - happens in Taiwan/China/HK/USA/etc), I'm just glad they even thought to include SG for this... ...Guess I'll go watch it myself then...? One of the still frames I was presented with: :D (I won't even deign OzakiP a tsukkomi for his ojisan-cos :D) Hopefully this special will be uploaded sometime somewhere so I can see what kind of tricks Hirata-san is up to this time ;3; --- [EDIT:] Oh hey, look. "HERO RADIO" is starting in April! Host is Morita-san. Somehow I think of Bleach when I see Morita and radio in the same sentence.

Sunday, March 25, 2012 :: 11:19 a.m. |

Mayonaka Nama TV The ULTIMATE, Episode 1(lol)

Final episode of Mayonaka TV starting soon! Will Namikawa-san survive?! STAY TUUUNED   /bricked === [EDIT after watching:] The starting cut was so cute - Namikawa-san holding on to Kuma-chan's お手手 paw. :D And holding And holding... ...Namikawa-san, stop molesting Kuma!!! Lookie, comments! -Grabz- -Returns to lap- OI. XD Namikawa-san, being clingy much? Feeling insecure? Oh right, this is Mayonaka TV live and you're facing certain Death by Chaotic Guests. OK THEN YOU'RE FORGIVEN. ...But can you stop molesting Kuma-chan('s paw)?! （゜q゜） -returns to hugging said paw- To be fair, it... does look quite comfy. In fact I can imagine all that fur to feel like my ice-cream cone plushie/pillow thing I have on my lap now. Huggable and warm and comfy. :D This guy just won't give up even when he had to stand up to invite the guests in. Kuma-chan - not short enough for you eh? Stop compressing on him! XD ...was what had been going on in my Inner Tsukkomi Theatre, until Oh hai ther Kappei-san. Oh is that why Namikawa was so clingy? Fear of an out-of-control kuma. XD And the matching shirt wow. XD XD XD ...and Namikawa-san still won't let go. THAT PAW MUST BE REALLY REALLY COMFY. Ok, one issue that needs to be addressed: that very important question as to whether Namikawa would wear specs to the show... As seen in the screenshots so far, he obviously is wearing specs - a similar, if not the same, kind as his previous one. How...? 大家來看圖找真相 -_- Megane-kun's corpse as posted in Namikawa's blog last week: So, Right side: seems ok. ...Left side: Ooooiiiii. Your glasses are showing apparent signs of repair. XD XD XD Welcome back to the living, megane-kun. With that out of the way, Flying tackle! (That must hurt. I hope Namikawa-sensei has recovered from that backache of his from dancing too vigorously with mikestand-kun during KiraFes.) Kappei-san, please give your 46-year-old body due consideration... Seki-san, he is so calm and composed and IN A SUIT AGAIN you can't help but laugh on sight. O, dear calm before the storm... What is this 男子高校生の日常. A group of 30+/40+ year-old uncles swarming over some collectable cards like little kids... PeekingLooking at (a Nendoroid figure's) underwear like some highschool kids... Namikawa stop hiding your giggles daintily behind that hand I think the moment some comments started inquiring What colour? (lolPavlov reaction to last month), both Seki and Namikawa (they were the ones in last month's show after all) noticed and the former happilyobligatedly reached out to inspect the relevant parts again... Poor chibi Yukiko, she was so cute too... Listen to AdachiP speak, you bunch of overgrown kids you. STOP EXAMINING UNDERWEAR SO 光明正大ly DURING LIVE BROADCAST Show-chan must have been either all ??? or was completely zoned out. XD Namikawa is deep in thoughts. Must be forming an outline for a thesis about Yukiko's underwear I only noticed what really happened here when I rewatched it, but after the PV for Golden finished playing and the camera faded back in, SekiTomo was seemingly adjusting his suit. When I was watching it live, first thought was: That's it, he's making sure his suit is ready for stripping. Only when I rewatched it and Kappei-san pointed at that spot on Seki's suit a while later, and after which was a close up on the latter reading a mail, did I notice that chibi Yukiko was actually sitting in his chest pocket. XD XD XD So cuuute And after the "Memory Album"(phbtt) section, Namikawa rescued Yukiko and put her back on the table (Where she toppled over two seconds later.) IKIRI-TATSU! Kappei-san, please give your 46-year-old body due consi(ry A~~~ah. Looked who sprained something now. XD And I'll skip the... gory details for the Namakawa part. 你們懂的。 Human mosaic: censoring done right. Lol Show-chan......... so desperate. "End it! End it quickly!" Pile it on, boys People, please give Kappei-san's 4(ry ... （´З`）～♪ Just as planned Seki-san has thus been sacrificed... Kuma is nade-nade-ing Seki-san! I'm so envious Happy ending~ （＾∇＾） Conclusion: KUMA-CHAN IS SO CUTE pyonpyon I think the person inside is just a random member of the staff, but Kuma's actions are JUST SO CUUUUTE in each and every episode nhhhhhhh especially that one episode when Namikawa said at the end, "All of you who watched this far, you are a warrior *points*", and Kuma-chan did that sideways-point motion thing which involved turning the whole body and mhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhsocute   GJ staff. Please let it/her/him be at the event too. On hindsight, the reason why Seki-san seemed to be so calm this episode must have been his trying not to make sudden movements and accidentally "triggering" off his suit. On the other hand, those staff must have had way too much time on their hands <-is a compliment So it has really ended; I'm really thankful to P4 for letting Namikawa-san have the opportunity to be the MC for such and entertaining show. Live, at that. For at least 6 months, too. Live Namikawa is always good; live Namikawa being a host is even better, since he doesn't do it much; live Namikawa being the solo host is just godly. (All I can think of right now is the Sweet Paradise Live Radio segment on the Ange Event, and maybe certain Neoromance ala Mode segments, and of course those are not solo.) He is such an anti-host(lol) that it's always entertaining to watch. These days I feel like I've fallen in love with Namikawa all over again   i.e. going through that phase where you have to dig up every single work he is appearing in and hope that you have the time to go through them all. Which I don't. Will need to watch 魔界転生 soon...

Friday, March 23, 2012 :: 10:32 p.m. |

Sometimes I wish that Namikawa's events/outings wouldn't come so close together. Last week I was just trying to catch up on fan reports of the Azazel-san Lucifer Arc talkshow, and before long it's time to look up Kiramune Festival reports as well. Today I'm still trying to sift through both. And tomorrow, it'll be the final episode of the Mayonaka TV on Nicolive. Seems like it -really- will be the last episode this time. (First and last episode of "the Ultimate" XD) And looking at the guests... How will Namikawa face up to the dangerous challenge of SekiTomo+Kappei+Morikubo live? All at once? I guess it will be a taste of what's to come in the upcoming Persona 4 event. May Namikawa come out alive XD But more importantly, will Namikawa wear new spectacles to the show? Yes of course this is an important question. Just slightly more important than the how-did-Namikawa-look-in-SUIT&MEGANE-singing-UTAO-in-KiraFes-is-it-anything-like-the-PV-preview-ineedtoknownow question. Seeing how his spectacles failed to read the atmosphere and "became a star in the sky" some while back (my first reaction was really why didn't you last till the next Mayonaka TV megane-kunnnn), will Namikawa don a new pair or just trash the whole concept altogether? (Was this even a concept in the first place? XD) Look, he's the only one left with specs on after the first few couple of episodes... (AdachiP...) XD While I'm feeling sad about Mayonaka TV ending its run (anime is ending, no choice), I had hoped that the Mayokage radio will continue just a while more. Easier to produce and broadcast, right? ...So of course in the latest episode it was suddenly made known that there will only be 2 more episodes left. NOOOOOOOO O O O O O O O O OOOOOO When the SZBH radio ended back then, I had the consolence(lol new word) of the Azazel-san radio, which was a really good adjustment because, well, same radio director + Kamiya-san is practically a half-regular in there. XD Just more shimoneta but that's never a problem. (ｷﾘｯ The Mayokage radio is really interesting in its own rights. The segments are fun, I love the Seki + Morikubo dynamics (Yeah, I call that dynamics; Show-chan just thinks SekiTomo falls asleep in front of him unless there's a female guest. XD), and the topic somehow always ends up being not-Persona. XD So now my only hope is the ZETMAN radio starting in April, hosts being Namikawa and Mamo. Other than the recent works, I can't quite remember what they had worked in together. (I just, JUST thought of Ouran, but that doesn't count.) But considering that Nicolive ZETMAN talkshow some time back, and listening to the audio commentary in Wonderful World, I think these two will make it just fine. Except... this will air around midnight, so it's best to be prepared............ for stuff. XD --- TBC

Friday, March 23, 2012 :: 02:15 a.m. |

It's like it's yelling at me to just buy the damn Sky High Figuarts

Japanese Yen: "You have no excuse now." Come the week of 24 Feb, I was to have come to my senses, concluded that, no, I wasn't going to buy a 4-digit-yen figure after all, forfeited my payment and cancelled the pre-order. BUT NON That upward-sloping line... it went into 13 Feb rising, and is still rising as of yesterday. In other words the JPY was prancing along level-headedly before this, but decided to take a plunge in the weeks approaching the release of the Sky High figure. How am I supposed to react?! Between the time when I had preordered the figure in Nov 2011 and now, the figure must have been discounted by $5-$10 on exchange rate. How am I supposed to r So I paid for it. XD I figured... I can earn it back in a day's salary anyway. Or less. XD XD Better to regret buying than to regret not buying. <-useful little motto Ah~~ah. Now to clear a space on the shelf for the KOH to arrive. And (no) thanks to this good timing of the JPY, I'm now tempted to pay the xxxx yen to watch the JOF2 event on Nico. s.C. before 19 Feb: LIVE NAMIKAWA WANNA WATCHHH. But wait. They're showing the 19th Night show, which means -does some research- this, this, this and this game are going to be the main spotlight. Which means Namikawa isn't going to get much screen time. Which means... hm. -brain explodes minutely from thinking- Since the broadcast will be left running till 26th, maybe I'll read some fan reports, then decide. s.C. on 20,21 Feb: -reads some reports- N a m i k a w a - sannnn. -in total depair + can't stop laughing- You. You just won't let us down, would you? Wait, does that mean I should watch it after all? Wait- [Useless analysis starts here] 1. Namikawa appears in the variety corner + one love message. 2. Love message is with Hiiro no Kakera's Yuuichi-senpai. ♥ 3. That equates to about 30min-1hr + 1min worth of Namikawa. 4. Whole event is about 2.5 - 3hrs? = Namikawa appears for 1/6 or at best 1/3 of the show. 5. Putting it in perspective, if JOF2 comes out on DVD, it'll probably cost about 7,000 yen (not that I'm buying it). Namikawa will appear in 2 out of 4 shows within, 1 of which he will feature more majorly (likely with Clock Zero live drama), and the other (the 19th Night) significantly less so (the Hiiro love message). 6. Hence DVD-wise, it's about 3,000-yen worth of Namikawa spread across 2 shows, if you discount the omake that usually comes with the DVDs. If you count the one show that Namikawa will appear less in, that might be about 1,000-yen worth. 7. Going back to Nicolive, the net-ticket for this one show costs 2,200 yen, and you'll get to experience the live kind of atmosphere/occasional accidents that gets cut in DVDs. And you can see the comments from other viewers. 8. I definitely can watch it for the other seiyuus, not just Namikawa, but looking at the list of games featured... I haven't played otome games recently so I hardly know any of these newer games. Means I won't know much of what goes on during the live drama part. 2,200 yen... 9. 2,200 yen to watch Namikawa have his LOLGENIUS moment(s) live... well, pseudo-live now. 10a. I want to see the Maguro Dance. 10b. I do want to see what's up with the Maguro Dance. 10c. ???? 11. Profit!(for Nico) Conclusion: -brain implodes silently from heavy thinking- I'll wait till after the Mayonaka TV live. If my mood is right... By the way, it's SekiTomo and Koshimizu this coming episode of Mayonaka TV. I'm just glad it's not SekiTomo + Paku Romi because Namikawa will definitely die. XD XD Not that SekiTomo + Koshimizu pairing is safe, no. I eagerly await the 放送事故 to happen. :D

Thursday, February 23, 2012 :: 08:25 a.m. |

Just finished watching the Tamashii Nation 2011 live talk show streaming, and I just have to note this down: The second head replacement-part that comes with the Sky High figure is the broken-horn versionnnnnnnnnnn now we only have to find a pegasus figure to hang him on Just how understandable of Sky High T&B fans are you in this respect, Bandai.

Sunday, November 27, 2011 :: 03:43 p.m. |

Before I dive into discussion threads after 12pm to discover just how tall Sky High is described to be in Monthly Hero, I'll hazard a guess and say they've made him a less-than-lofty 175cm. Although I'd dearly love him to be 177cm. DEARLY. --- [Update:] It's 25 Feb 2012 today, but just to update that somehow, Sky High really is 175cm. I forgot what my exact reaction was like, but it was an unhealthy mix of being highly-amused and AHHHHHHHhysterics.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 :: 09:46 a.m. |

This week's dose of Sky High moment

Sky... High...! Sky High('s arm) is next to me...!! (ノ^p^)ノ< kyaaSkyHighsan *sticks self to window for abnormal amount of time* -末期- -terminal stage- -incorrigible- -past help- -etcetera- --- Just finished tuning in to the Rock Bison special on Ustream. TaitemTontem-san XD XD XD Why so cute hugging the usatora soft toys so otomely like that XD I had worried about not being able to catch this and Namikawa's Nicolive Mayonaka TV live on the 30th since I'm currently overseas. Luckily, at this rate, seems like there is a possibility I may still be able to catch the Mayonaka TV. I figure I really shouldn't miss it if I want to kill myself rolling off the bed with laughter. Also, I'm looking at the Kinokuniya bookweb SG & HK for news of the Hero Gossip Book I posted about previously. Results - SG: Out of stock. HK: Not in stock. [Edit: HK doesn't have a Kino(!!). It was Australia's I was looking at.] Reaction 1. (shock.) Uwaaah the Japanese weren't kidding when some said they were getting delayed notice even though they had preordered it at the start of this month. Reaction 2. (calm.) It's only out officially today; maybe the books aren't shipped in to other countries yet. Reaction 3. (...resignation.) At any rate, there'll definitely be 2nd press... Though 1st press would add to the specialness of this keepsake. Don't fret, don't fret, you'll definitely get your paws on this book. (self assurance stage now.)

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 :: 10:46 p.m. |

Final episode, camping on Ustream nau

Here's hoping for a good connection Here's hoping for a good connection Here's hoping for a good connection （＞人＜） --- [23:20] Looking at the tweets, seems like Gou-san has appeared as a secret guest at the live-viewing event. Damn it! If I were Japanese, I'd dearly have loved to attend this event. Hirata-san + Yusa-san were enough of a bait, now Gou-san too... 豪華すぎっ --- [23:25] And is Gou-san's wearing that custom-made SkyHigh-coloured Poseidon Nike?! IF SO I WANNA SEEEEE --- [#25 final thoughts] I didn't make notes this episode, so I've forgotten a lot of things, but I haven't forgotten these: Tiger is so cool and so scary looming up from behind I went "kyaaa". Rose-chan reading "How to capture the heart of a single father"(?). I slammed the table in hysterical laughter. "Saitou-chan." SAITOU-CHAN. Ben. LOL BENNN. Glad it all wrapped up with that Orion OP 1. I've grown to really like that song. Isn't this... isn't this totally pointing to a 2nd season/OVA/etc...?!?! They're not even making an effort to make it mysterious. I'm thinking... with all the non-confidence of the series before it aired, surely there hadn't been any plans to make any continuation at that time. But with the cliffhanger way the show ended, it makes me think that maybe halfway through, when it got more and more popular, they forced last-minute changes into the script to make room for a continuation. ...Well, T&B will always be a premise+character-driven show for me, because I can say with 100% certainty that I didn't get hooked because of the plot. If When they make the continuation, they'd better make that Bison + Fire Emblem episodes that never came around. And Keith's 18-year-old summer. And Keith's 18-year-old summer. This is important. XD ... ...So I won't be seeing a moving Sky High anymore, at least for some while. I better find a way to rectify that asap. === Taking advantage of Bugis Kino's 20% off period, I went ahead and bought the T&B Official Hero Book. There was also the Mook fanbook (darn overlapping contents!), but I settled for the former. I haven't finished it in its entirety yet - just the character pages - but flipping to the Sternbild guide and storyboards, I find it very relevant to my interests, and the Sternbild contents are probably more accurate than the DVD special booklets...? XD Not to mention there are staff interviews and cast comments compiled at the very end. They did put character designs in the character pages, but I think there's still not enough information on the Hero Suits. Not enough! I want to see more detailed designs, and of how the suits work / are layered. The above is a cut from Sky High's section. It amazes me that it's never occurred to me before, but looking at the picture on the right, does that mean that the greyish part - or least part of the front of the costume - serves as a sort of breastplate/light armour? Should I have deduced that in the first place from the standing collar? I've always thought that amongst the male Heroes, Fire Emblem and Sky High both look pretty vulnerable if an attack did catch them, elemental barriers aside. Well, I imagine FE will explain it away with the reason of sty~le, but Sky High, heh. It'll be cool (to me) if there is some kind of protection there. But what I really want to say is- they have pretty detailed drawings/sketches of the Good Luck Mode, Tiger's Wild Shoot device, the main heroes' Lonely Chasers, Rose's bike + gun, Bison's catapult truck (lol), Dragon Kid's crest + club design, FE's car, and even how Origami's back look like with that huge shuriken tagged on/removed. BUT! There's none of Sky High's jetpack apart from the two angles shown above (which... is useful enough, to be honest). Or at least how Sky High's back looks like without the jetpack ala Origami. Oiiii I'm missing out on something precious here----------! They even gave Lunatic's bowgun a close up hey! ...And while I'm grousing about this, they've decided to come out with [hold on time for a toilet break it's nearly time for #25] --- [Finally back to continue this... 1 day later.] ... they've decided to come out with the "TIGER & BUNNY Official Guide Book - HERO gossips", set to be released on Sept 26. It's the book on the right. Things we can look forward to include: 100 Q&As - Exclusive interview with the Heroes 48-hour coverage of Heroes' everyday life - From "Good morning" to "Good night" Staff interviews + Cast talk Character designs, famous scenes, location shots, etc. ...Darn. I'll have to get my hands on it now, won't I. I'll have to fork out money for this now won't I. I'm just a total sucker for this kind of book, especially the character-focused sections. But 100 questions split amongst 8 Heroes = about 12 each. Not... enough...! XD Here's also hoping that chara design = jetpack. (I'm being terribly insistent on this eh. XD) I wonder if the cast talks will be a rehash of existing interviews in anime/seiyuu magazines. I very much suspect so. Especially the Hirata-Morita one. At least it's mentioned that the "photos" will be new. Good enough(!!). Contents-wise, I'd imagine it to be similar to Saiyuki's Saiyubito, and I'd absolutely loved that book. (Great, now I totally want to reread it. But it's not with me...) Anyway, I've included the other two books in the above screenshot because it further confirms my belief that Bunny looks x1000 more Handsome without those shady glasses, while ojisan looks super sexy in that ojisan sort of way with the same glasses. XD Lose the (5 pairs of) glasses, Bunny!

Saturday, September 17, 2011 :: 10:48 p.m. |

T&B #24

K-KOTETTSAA A A A A A N N  N   N    N つ【fried rice】 So previously, I didn't think I'll be having sunny-side-up eggs for breakfast cos I'm not a high-level fan(?) and all. But, For this case, Ojisan deserves all the fried rice he ever wanted regardless of fan-status. So - like everybody and their neighbours - I made some. XD GET WELL SOON, OJISAN. Initially, I had wanted to cook the fried rice the day after I watched #24 since I'd be alone in the house, but surprise surprise, I fell asleep (and therefore missing BOTH lunch and dinner goodness now I think I know why I never gain weight), waking up just in time to go to work. So I had to postpone it to the next day, which meant my mother was in so I cooked fried rice for two :D Ingredients used for future reference: - cooking oil (2 rounds) - cut green beans (a tupperful) - dried shrimp (a handful) - lean meat (a small spreadful, less than the shrimps, cooked last for about 3 minutes) - 麻油 (sesame oil? Interspersed drips whenever appropriate) - 生抽 (soy sauce? Added with feeling to get the colour, 1-shot, 2-shot) ... ... ↑ Gosh wow such helpful instructions... ... what kind of counter is "2 rounds"... ... teaspoons and tablespoons are for wimps ...Which actually is a good mix of ingredients (used whatever that was found in the fridge), as the shrimp and meat brought out the taste without any use of salt. Personally, I think Kotetsu is fine. How "fine" is fine I don't know, but I don't think he'll die. The vital signs went off on Saitou's screen simply because his suit is damaged beyond recognition... And therefore the person inside the suit is also damaged beyo I still stand by my belief about this show having an overall good ending, just because Tiger & Bunny feels like such a show. ... OHSH- Tiger & Bunny is... ending. -sudden denial stage- Thoughts about #24: Maverick's little explanation at the meeting = Luna begins to suspect him = bokoboko flag? Luna's injury = can't go on his justice spree anymore? ...Or somebody finds out about him via the injury. Blue Rose ii ko. Blue Rose is such a good girl. Origami looks totally composed and zenned out this episode. XD Kaede-chan is a genius NEXT now. She can delicately control new-found powers just like that. XD Dragonball... Fried ric ee... Bunny's long eyelash... Yeah, Rock Bison definitely shone in this episode. ... ...BUT NOT IN THAT WAY DAMN IT. The animation staff loves him so much the portrayal of his character is bordering on cruel. I think they made a mistake in portraying him this way when he wasn't even given a main episode for character expansion. Without that, I think it's rather hard for some people to sympathise with his behaviour in #24. Actually Fire Emblem feels very OOC this episode also. Panic-mode notwithstanding, the character interactions that have built up thus far in T&B seem to have imploded in this episode. But Blue Rose is a good girl and made everything all right. Except for Wild Tiger, whom I think is the most unfortunate character in this show. Right from the start of the show there's just bad news + bad news for him. Keith "asking" Sky High for help... It's as if Keith looks up to a certain model of "Sky High the Hero" to chase after as much the next Sky High fan. I'm sad that he got misunderstood just like that, but I've decided to ignore the character interactions in this episode and look forward to the next. XD According to Ozaki-san's tweet, the number of screenings of the final-episode-live-showing event is going to exceed that of Gintama's Sakuramatsuri and is a record in anime history...? T&B you are one scary kid.

Thursday, September 15, 2011 :: 12:22 a.m. |

Just some thoughts of last week's T&B #23 as I sit waiting for #24. Bunny-chan maji Handsome. First time I'm thinking this throughout this series XD Well, it's more "cute" than handsome, especially later on when Bunny turns this way and that while trying to recall. :3 Sunrise just wanted to put the manly slap in there a 2nd time, didn't they? "Don't dirty Wild Tiger's name anymore!" <- First time I sense how highly Barnaby really respects Kotetsu. Though he only says that now when he's not in front of "Wild Tiger" cos... tsundere and all? What is this Deadman Wonderland/Saw/Hollywood movie plot. XD Sky High-san, don't give me that "Ladies and gentlemen, are you all right? (shoop!)". Please get up from the floor On second thoughts, maybe he's trying to observe the surroundings inconspicuously, trying to find a way out. Though he's being pretty conspicuous staying on the floor like that. And with the jetpack, it's gotta be a pretty tough position to maintain. XD On third thoughts, perhaps he's injured? Laying his hand on his abdomen in that casual way... Conclusion: Sky High is just being Sky High. "Androids have no heart, they cannot save people", etc. （´；ω；）puwa-   Sky High, even if you didn't know it, an android girl had saved you from certain depression... Saitou-san & Ben-san: the last boss' last boss. How can 23 minutes go by so faaaaaast Now there are only 2 more episodes to gooooooo Rock Bison, now is your turn to shine. Now! Do it damn you! XD I actually like this turn of events, in a rather morbid way. But if you listen to Mr.RedNose's obligatory badguy-explanation, well, it's all good if Tiger+Bunny win, right? And since T&B is as cliched王道 as it gets, I'd think there should be a happy ending overall. But it'll be interesting if the bombs were going to detonate and they found a way to stop/escape tragedy. Post thoughts: - Ben-san has a death flag about him since laughing with Tiger in #21... hope he'll come through and be the next Hero combi with Saitou-san. - Looking at Japanese responses, it's Softbank v.s. Android. XD - Thanks to Keith and his yolks (why does this sound so... XD), I think of that yellow thing now when I'm watching YuruYuri's OP and get to the line "Kimi ga suki~ (Kimi ga suki~) Kimi ga ii~ (Kimi ga ii~)". At least I'm not imagining Keith singing this (yet).

Saturday, September 10, 2011 :: 07:22 p.m. |

Bad luck often brings good luck

[I wrote this but forgot to post it!?] --- It was 2.47am JST, and there was a peak of just slightly fewer than 60k people tuned in to Tiger & Bunny #22 on Ustream live. T&B, you are quite amazing. (And so are the tens of thousands of Japanese who stayed up this late just to catch the delayed broadcast on subpar streaming quality. You guys are too hardworking.) Granted, there could be a sizable number of people like me who are proxying from outside Japan, but still... Episode 22 started out a bit anti-climatic from the rush of #21. End of #21 had made me "kya!" in real life if only because I was expecting the normal "Wild ni hoeru ZE!(exclamation marks)" from Ojisan, who instead went "Wild ni hoeru ka.(fullstop with sexy ojisan Hirata-voice)" djfa;fKYAA. But the A part of #22 was just a tad contrived and convenient. Kaede was basically "I don't know how I did it, it just happened!" （ `3´） ...which is kinda cute so nevermind :D But nearing the end, the pace picked up significantly as Tiger and Barnaby fight their little street-racing oiltruck-avoiding bridge-jumping bike-sacrificing 王道 Hollywood fight, so all is forgiven :D Anyway, I just wanted to throw that screenshot up there for another reason. When fakeTiger appeared behind the Heroes after Tiger led Barnaby away (the building leap was a really cool sequence btw), I was completely "OHMGfasjesfjakkd, don't let Sky High into this don't let Sky High into this DON'T LET SK" and our dear Sky High all but maxed out his ATB gauge again and flew/clambered/jumped/climbed fakeTiger the very next second and we got the very excellent flexi-pose we see in the screenshot. SKY HIGH WHAT U DOING ;___; IS THIS A FLAG? Is this a flag that fakeTiger will be revealed as an android, and through some circumstances Sky High will get to know about Cis...? You of all people I don't want fakeTiger to get close to... - the ones who saw the android in Cis form were Tiger and Barnaby. These two are now away from the scene. - Sky High was the one who could defeat the android (thanks to Cis-smile-boost); Tiger+Bunny barely made it. - if Sky High finds out about Cis, -> lose morale/freeze up/inner-mind battle -> can't fight android with full power -> the other Heroes can hardly match up to the android like how Tiger+Bunny couldn't touch Cis -> ???? - title of #23 is "Misfortunes never come singly." This can't be good. Actually it sort of contradicts with this eps' "Bad luck often brings good luck", much like how #1 and #2 did with each other also. XD But if it's Sky High, it's possible he can shake it off quickly, segregating private emotions from what needs to be done, especially after episode 15. King of Heroes after all, ex or not (he's still my KOH at least). But T&B can just break the flag and I wouldn't be surprised. NEXT WEEK COME WITH THE SPEED OF AIR-CUTTERS PLZZZ Some thoughts about #22: Sky High-san kakkokawaii (coolcute? koolkute? XD). Sky High slurps the york on sunny-side-up eggs like he's eating spaghetti...? I-I can't imagine it. Can yorks stretch THAT far up?! And his reaction of "Huuh?!". ...Wtf we should be the ones doing that. Rock Bison... you're quite cool this episode (e.g. when helping Tiger block Barnaby's attack)... but not cool enough! You could be cooler dammit! And pay Tiger back the $20! "You bastard, you're retaliating...!?" <-what do you think, Bunny-chan. I was freaking bursting of laughter when I imagine Tiger bringing that fist down on Bunny's face, and inside the helmet Bunny was all （ °Д°）＜貴様、反撃かァァァァ nbsp; Bunny-chan, what kind of 13-year-old are you. When Sky High caught Tiger's wrist to arrest him, I was just... SUNRISE YOU BASTARD how dare you did that to Tiger with somebody other than Barnaby. I mean Tiger and Bunny can hold hands and princess-lift and girly-slap each other for all I care, it's all part of the entertainment(!?). But with this I could hardly focus on this episode properly since I actually do ship Tiger and Sky High. XD Ok well I ship Sky High with almost everybody Not to mention the sunny-side-up eggs scene. Could Kotetsu and Keith actually be rather good friends? They were in the same frame so many times this episode too, Sunrise you... XD When Tiger asked Kaede what that person looked like, I was fully expecting "the guy with the wart" as the answer. Sorry. But I'd like to think I'm not alone. So Kaede doesn't retain all of the powers she copied. Only the most recent one? Well that makes her less cheat-mode. If Kaede can float on her own, that'd mean that Sky High can also fly without the help of his jetpack? This question has always been on my mind ever since I saw fanarts of Keith flying suitless, but it's not really been shown in the actual series, and being able to control wind and being able to make wind "float" himself may not necessarily mean he can actively "fly", so... ... ... ...was what I was thinking when out comes the Tiger & Bunny BD Vol.4 Drama CD featuring Origami Cyclone, Sky High, and Fire Emblem. Seems like it implies that Keith indeed can fly (either that or zoom off into the horizon very, very quickly) without the help of his costume. *o* I don't think I've mentioned it before, but I really love Sky High .................................................................................'s jetpack very much. I love the whole of Sky High's Hero Suit design actually, but especially so for the colour concept and the JETPACK. So mechanical, so much movement details... I'd love to see the elaborate concept art/design work for the jetpack someday. I guess the jetpack is there as a booster so Sky High can reach up to xxx km/h? ...Also, lemonade. As Ustream finished airing #22, you can see people tweeting about how their breakfast later in the morning would be sunny-side-up eggs. Man, these people are too high-level. I'm not that professional a Sky廃 like you guys. ......................was what I remembered thinking. Then in the morning (just now), my mother brought me to Han's for breakfast. Han's breakfast = sunnysideup fried eggs = s.C.   :O   :D   niyaniyaniyaniya Original picture taken with mum's phone. Picture of original picture taken with my phone. Cos, you know, can't find a way to connect mum's phone to laptop... And lastly you imagine the bacon to be an apple - it's a very nice red indeed - why, it's the perfect Sky High breakfast!   -is past terminal stage- If you think about it, that tidbit about how Sky High eats his fried eggs must have come about with profound randomness. Much like the end-of-episode tidbits about Tiger & Barnaby. Staff A randomly eating spaghetti: "Sky High? Maybe he slurps his egg yorks like -*violently slurps mouthful of spaghetti*- this. ...And Wild Tiger would totally have a mole on his sole." Director/Scriptwriter: -tablebang- "採用っ！" |宣|＜えっ

Sunday, August 28, 2011 :: 09:52 a.m. |

Camping out on Ustream now, waiting for the latest Tiger & Bunny episode to air. (Tsukkomi: It's 5+ hours away you camper!!!) waku-waku shakeshake Just hoping that I will be able to connect, as I'm not using my usual connection that can go through Japan proxy. --- [Edit: 11:33pm] Gou-san kawaii yo Gou-san. （´；ω；） --- [Edit: 1.38am] Uwah... Even though this plot advancement has already been predicted by some people, it's still extremely heart-breaking to see it played out. I was all "Nooooo!" when Mr Lloyds said that very first sentence he said to Tiger after the "gathering" with Maverick happened. And S-Samanthaaa...!!! ;___; Due to work which was completely KY and took up that exact half-hour of the airing, I missed quite a lot of the little details. Would have to rewatch it tomorrow. Nevertheless, a couple of things I believe in: - this is where Antonio comes in, isn't it? He must still retain some memories of his best pal. HE MUST. Oi you didn't have a chance to shine (in a serious way, I mean XD) in this anime yet! You MUST REMEMBER him! - But actually Ben-san was the first name I called out in that scene. Sorry Rock Bison :) Surely Ben is untouched and can do something about this, too. - Tiger's kuso-suit will make a come-back. XD I firmly believe. - In the drugging scene, Keith, Nathan, and I think somebody else weren't shown. Is this a flag that they may not be that contaminated by the memories? Fire Emblem still hasn't really had a main episode yet after all. And KOH is KOH, albeit an ex-. (Edit: My bad, Nathan was drugged as well. Think I was focusing too much on the non-appearance of Keith...) --- [Edit: 3.46am] The live SP of Haterumade Radio after the anime broadcast was a really great way to sooth the pain of Ep 20. Right from the start, when one of the first few mails came from a "Sky 廃", I burst out laughing. And then they came to this question again, AND THEN THEY actually showed video footage of the okama bar segment. There was only sound when they played this in the previous live recording (in which Hirata-san appeared and good grief it confirmed I do love him very much still XD). As expected of Nee-san. XD How about Barnaby? Reply: "The spectacles look shady." L.O.L. Bunny you... What animal would you associate with Barnaby? Various answers: - Mangoose. - Zebra. - Guinea pig. - Small animal. - Bambi. MANGOOSE. Oh gosh this was a killer. Was laughing so hard. BAMBI. LOL Bunny you... (Nobody answered "bunny", which by the way was ranked 1st on Animate-goers' answers of course.) As for Nathan, ranked 3rd on Animate-goers' answers were: - Flamingo - cos pink - Mum ..."Cos he's pink." ...Associated animal = Mum  XD XD XD can't take it how gold can you guys get And this ended with a PR segment on an upcoming event in the bar. XD Yeah, definitely saved me from the doomy Ep20 ... ...which I'm going to rewatch later. Will end with a Sky High screenshot because product placement is fun: USTREAM, SOSHITE USTREAM   (宣)/ === [Section that updates bit-by-bit as I type] Little things that happen when you are a Sky廃 Sky High fan: You are browsing something entirely IT/work-related and you find this wallpaper that makes you throw your head back, go ちょ、まっ, and scream silently What is this conspiracy: Really is a nice wallpaper though, but sadly too small for my desktop. (Why on earth is a site whose niche target is IT professionals offering wallpaper of a max resolution of only 1024x768??) You've always loved cycling. Speeding down the lane - fast enough to make your heart leap - grinning into the breeze in free-flying mode. This time, add to that shouting "SK--Y--HI------GH!" (silently in your heart), and you feel yourself grin twice as bright.

Saturday, August 13, 2011 :: 07:18 p.m. |

Welcome to the Sky廃 Club

Skyhigh appeared in my dreams... Must be a result of too much pixiv-ing... I don't think I have the time to love yet another character so intensely... But but but Skyhigh-san maji tenshi!! SKYHIGH-SAN MAJI ANGEL. /screams Now I can't wait to see the Tiger & Bunny comics that will appear... first in this week's Young Jump. It's so wonderful to like a character so much, and yet it's so time-wasting when you go through the I-have-to-dig-up-every-single-info-on-this phase (been there, done that with Saiyuki, Gintama, Namikawa, and Hetalia; now I'm just a stable, non-volatile, but every bit still fervent fan of all of them XD ).

Thursday, August 4, 2011 :: 08:44 a.m. |

Laptop came back after a rather long trip to the Service Centre. Now it's branded like the profile photo of a wanted criminal... (Do they not remove the sticker before returning customers their laptops?) June was quite a bad timing to have the laptop spoilt. Because of that, I'd missed most of June's in-game events in Dragon Nest JP. And to think it was the first anniversary! I'd pretty much missed a lot of chances at getting some useful items... like a permanent hat that actually has useful stats (great boost for F2P-ers like me), Epic Code (totally needed that), Kin-usagi keys (so hard to get when you're at higher levels), etc. And so my paladin stayed at Lv37 instead of the Lv40 I'd wanted to bring him up to before the level-cap raise. Paladin-kun is sad! AND MY LV40 SPECIAL EARRING EXPIRED because I couldn't collect it in-game. I just remembered this as I am typing. A bunch of armour/weapons/badges for my other lower-level characters expired in the post too. Especially my Lv28 Swordmaster's. One whole list of stocked-up Lv32 Epic items, and the Rare Crescent Cleave badge... What is this tragedy... Things to do: - Marathon Dragon Nest - Bring paladin up to Lv45 by mid-July - Catch up on the missed episodes of anime - Starting with final 3 episodes of AnoHana - Marathon Persona 4 gameplay - to prepare for next season's P4 anime!! Can't decide on which to do first... === As I collect the HK version of the Gintama manga, my aunt in HK would always help me buy them in bulk and have my father bring them back whenever he visits HK. But for the latest batch, she was really nice to send it directly here by post. When I opened the package... The Four Kings + Pirako arc! What coincidence, as that was just before the start of the very same arc in the anime. (And you can see that the chibis on the spines feature the rest of the three Kings :D ) I had caught only the first episode of that arc before the laptop busted, so the manga made for a perfect revision. I remembered it was an epic arc, but I had forgotten how epic it was. Now to marathon those last couple of Gintama episodes. R-18 time starts now.

Friday, July 1, 2011 :: 00:54 a.m. |

Exercising your heart to the fullest

This week's Jump: while reading Dois Sol - heart: *DOKI-DOKI* while reading Sket Dance - *DOKI-DOKI* while reading Gintama - *DOKI-DOKI* Conclusion: Stop drinking iced coffee when reading mangaaaa! ...or more like, Momoka kakkee! MOMOKA KAKKEEEEEE E E E E   E   E    E    E     E         ssu Putting aside how my otome-heart burst on full-load last week (why is there such otome-ness in a Jump series), I will nevertheless continue to support my dear Switch-Reiko platonic friendship. Bo-"delicacy-zero"-ssun, you're just incorrigible XD And I'm still mightily interested in Dois Sol. Last I check, it was anchored quite hopelessly in the bottom ranking. :( :( :( I still hope it doesn't get axed. === This morning, my colleague showed me a newspaper advert, asking why this laptop is so cheap. I took a glance - the biggest wording shouted "$999". Ok, I thought, it's not -that- amazing to have a laptop costing $999 these days, is it? Specs must be somewhat on the average side. But then I swept my eyes over the laptop design... didn't it... look a bit like Alienware? Took a closer look at the next-biggest wording: hey, it is Alienware! Took a even closer look. U.P. $2499? i7-2630?? What? 6GB RAM??? 750GB HDD???? 3GB GT555M????? What is this laptop doing at $999 ?????????? Right from the get-go do we even get i7 laptops these days within the $1000 range?! And this is a 14" Alienware with all these s- Specs! Plus you'd get to pay in weekly instalments. Torn between imma go get it right after work later no maybe right now it's just 5 minutes away and Hey, there must be a catch, ...I googled. ...And found: http://vr-zone.com/articles/curious-case-of-the-999-alienware-m14x-carrefour-mega-expo-sale--bait-and-switch-/12604.html ...AWWW... Oh look, the newspaper was dated 9 June... XD

Saturday, June 11, 2011 :: 06:06 p.m. |

最近のジャンプ

Just a few things to say about various Jump series before I leave them to be elaborated later. Dois Sol - Loving this series. I hope it stays good, and stays in Jump (i.e. not get axed before you can say "misanga"). Sket Dance - SHIIIIIIINBAAAAAAAA-SANNNNN! Shinba-san finally! I thought you'd never appear in the manga againnn (/^3^)/ Gintama - SAKAMOTOOOOOOOOOO. YOU. FINALLY. APPEAR. AGAIN. I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH (/;3;)/ (/;3;)/ (/;3;)/ And he appeared and spoke in this(?) week's anime Gintama too. What is this sudden influx 'that out of the way, Champions League Finals-ing nau. --- [Edit:] Well, United started brightly enough, but after that... complete deja vu XD The one thing that was running through my mind thoughout the match was, if United didn't even feel like they can keep possession, they're not going to deserve a goal anytime soon. At around the 24th minute, they finally kept some of their cool and managed to start keeping the ball amongst themselves (I took note of the time because damn, took them long enough -_-), but then I got interrupted and didn't quite catch the rest of the match until a little into 2nd half. For the same reason, I almost missed Rooney's goal, but I managed to turn around and catch the moment :D Such excellent football, that Barca. I'll still be grieving for United (and van der Sar in particular... Is this what one would call "bittersweet" - to be bowing out on such a note?), but Barcelona... such a pleasure to watch.

Sunday, May 29, 2011 :: 02:06 a.m. |

Happy birthday, Namikawa-san!

About Kitayume's April Fools' so far: France, still ever so fabulous. SmallFrance, still ever so pretty and cute (and sometimes kimoi but that's a praise). Russia in crazy-hiding mode XD He just gets cuter and cuter why. Spain. I think he's drunk. I think he's drunk. Everybody run. --- One more hour till Wales v.s. England The above sentence was supposed to be the start to a little commentary on the Wales v.s. England game I had been watching, but England scored so early I lost all motivation... It's funny, but I still support Wales all these years on, even if Giggs had retired from international football long ago. (Was it really "long ago"? Hard to tell since my biological clock stopped working... long ago.) The team itself actually doesn't look half bad on paper, but sometimes thanks to... untimely occurrences, they can't get the full team around, and they just don't get the right results as much as they should. Anyway, I was watching the SKY Sports? broadcast, and because they had Giggs and Gary Neville in as guest pundits, alongside Glenn Hoddle. Like. XD XD XD. I just can't get used to the idea of certain players becoming pundits. -thinks of Alan Shearer- What do you call that? 違和感。 At the post-game analysis, there was some strange atmosphere between Neville and Hoddle as they debated the bad/good(respectively) of England's 4-4-2. I half thought maybe Hoddle used to do 4-4-2 in the past and Neville was somehow remembering those days and was attacking it. But I actively avoid know zilch of England's football team so... Good to see more of Giggs though. :D At least Wales gave England some good scares in the 2nd half. I'll be looking forward to the return leg. REVENGE. --- ここから本編↓ A new season of anime! Prior to the January 2011 season, I have not watched anime for a long time. Really long time, I think. (Other than the 5-minute Hetalia.) My Gintama is still stuck at #100, which I can't continue because the laptop containing those episodes is spoilt. (HDD is ok though, I'm just too lazy to take it out.) My Kuuchuu Buranko was still stuck at #4, which I finally marathoned at the end of last year and EPISODE 10. Its episode 10 was just brilliant. Wonderfully presented, absurdly touching, so... so overwhelming, it got me wondering why I hadn't finished watching this series sooner. Oh, right. HDD SPACE NO ENUF. But now I have a new laptop (a desktop seems to be a foreign concept to me now), and I decided to start watching anime again. January 2011, I decided to follow 3 series: Level E - Namikawa + Togashi. Speed of light decision. Hourou Musuko - I simply have to catch this the moment I read the synopsis. Plus, it's noitaminA. Fractale - Fantastic concept art. I love concept art. I love concept art that is pretty. The synopsis doesn't appeal to me, but it's on noitaminA! All of these are 1-cour, which means they've finished airing by now. My thoughts: Level E: Plain enjoyable. As in, 普通に面白い。Can't think in English these days. Loved the epicness of it all. And nobody loses when Captain Kraft is voiced by Koyasu. XD XD XD Since the manga is finished, we had a good wrap-up of the anime as well (though it seems they did not animate the final chapter). Perfect match for the prince. Namikawa-wise, it was very grin-worthy. As baka-ouji, there was a variety of voices for him to do. A-And you get to hear him sing the whatever-ranger song...! -IS TOUCHED- (<-don't get touched so easily!!) Loved the ED. OH AND THE 2ND PRINCE IS VOICED BY HINO-CHAMA. No no, I absolutely did not niyaniya over this. -loves Namikawa-Hino combi niyaniya- Fractale: Ah~ it certainly has lovely backgrounds. I like the character art too - simple and easy on the eye. Almost Ghibli-like. But the plot... just... doesn't... do it... for me. Even before that, it seems confused as to what kind of genre it wants to be. I'm currently left with the last two episodes to go... I want to complete it, just for completionist's sake. But... it's... so... hard... Hourou Musuko: I am just surprised that I have never even heard of this manga before. Because I love the anime. Actually, I'm glad I've not read the manga, because I've seen people criticising it for skipping volumes of manga and starting from the middle of nowhere, as well as for other faults that they feel do not match up to the manga. To me, Hourou Musuko the anime is a brilliantly directed piece of art, and nowhere at all was the pacing or the plot confusing. And here I'm watching it raw, unsubbed. A lot of details are certainly implied, but nothing that you cannot deduce along the way. Anime that doesn't take its viewers to be idiots - I like. The OST is great - very fitting - and the soft pastel wash is a very fitting palette for this series. (I'm out of vocabulary :D) Love the OP+ED. Also, MAKO~CHANNN~ XD He's an otomekko!(sez the offical website) I love me otomekkos. For an anime whose manga is still ongoing, it had a perfect ending. Perfect fadeout, perfect symbolism. The whole of last episode had me all warm and fuzzy. I liked the anime so much even while halfway through the series that I decided I'd have to start reading the manga once the anime finishes airing. And start I did - streaked through 5 volumes of manga the same day I finished watching the last episode. I like the manga art as well; I'll be sure to catch the other works of this mangaka. Having now read the manga, I can sympathise with those who feel that the anime threw away a lot of interactions via skipped manga material. You see more into the personalities of, say, Shii-chan, Saisho-sensei (voiced by Nakai-san lol), ...SEYAAAA. Seya. I think he'd make a very nice boyfriend in real life. :D Nevertheless, that does not make the anime any less interesting. If anything, the anime adapted many highlights of the manga and wove itself into a splendid standalone anime. I have now also collected the subbed episodes, and will be marathoning them in one shot some day. --- こっからマジ本編↓ Which brings me to! The list of anime I am looking out for this season. At first, it was a short list. Then I watched most of the PVs offered this season, and it grew into a long, long list. Just to try out the first episode and drop where necessary. Anime I've decided from the start to follow: Gintama' - Manga that I'm following. Restart of the Gintama anime. BUT OF COURSE I'LL FOLLOW IT. Sket Dance - Manga that I'm following. I updated my journal from Japan a few entries ago just to say I saw the Sket-Dance-gets-animated announcement, right there on a Jump cover in Japan. Isn't that special? Ao no Exorcist - Manga that I'm following. A tad disappointed that Namikawa is not going to continue voicing Rin, but deep in my heart, I'd admit Namikawa's voice isn't quite "Rin". Just like in Sket Dance Yocchin's voice doesn't quite go with my image of "Bossun" (but his tsukkomi timing is faultless so nothing to complain about). BUT IT'S ALL GOOD ANW COS NAKAI-SAN GOES KANSAI-BENNNN yahahaha. I can HARDLY WAIT. Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san. - Superb seiyuu cast. Keeping in mind the OAV, I've steeled myself up for the contents... coppered up my mind and all. So it should be ok. And the radio so far... you guys are horrible, Onosaka and Kamiya-san. *is a compliment* Nichijou - Your extraordinary everyday life series with cute girls. Worth a catch. A Channel - Similar reasons to Nichijou. The cute girls part, at least. C - Director Nakamura. Screenplay by person who wrote Baccano, Drrr. noitaminA spot. Definitely worth a watch. Or it could become another Fractale, because I'm not quite interested in the premise. But it's Nakamura kantoku! Have faith, have faith. Hm, ok. 7 anime is not exactly a "short" list. Now add to those the list below - anime I've decided to catch after watching the PV: (i.e. whether they are eroge or not, I don't know :D ) Hanasaku Iroha - Quite the jaw-dropping backgrounds. Did I mention I'm easily swayed by good art? I love pretty art. And good music. あの日見た花の名前を僕達はまだ知らない。 a.k.a. Ano Hana - Long-ass title aside, I keep confusing this with HanaIro (anime above). AnoHana, HanaIro. I was unsure whether to catch this at first - it's the other noitaminA anime, but I can garner nothing of the plot from the synopsis. After watching the PV, guess I'll give it a chance - art and BGM are not bad. Steins;Gate - This seems popular. Will give it a go. Deadman Wonderland - No PV offered, but seems worth a watch. Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko - No PV, but the style of the original art is to my liking. Hidan no Aria - GIRLS WITH GUNS. I fell in love on first sight with the sniper girl. Maybe I'll turn out to hate her and this anime (girls with colourful hair is a warning sign of Not-My-Genre), but doesn't hurt to give it a try. Yuruani - SUR.REAL. XD Will definitely watch if I can find it anywhere, but odds don't look great... Showa Monogatari - lol. I quite like the atmosphere of such shows. That's doubled the list. I also have other anime I might watch for the lulz like   30歳wのw保健w体育www   since it's conveniently broadcast on Nico, or Tiger&Bunny (it's Hirata-san! But it seems mecha... but it's Hirata-san!)... Well, if I feel like it. :D Entries always turn out so freaking long...

Saturday, April 2, 2011 :: 08:46 p.m. |