Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
April 14, 2011
April 08, 2011
April 03, 2011
Nichijou Episode 1 Impressions
Man, been a while since I've done this. Well, with the beginning of the Spring Season, I started watching a few shows, namely Dog Days, Hanasaku Iroha and Nichijou. What really stood out to me is Nichijou by far. I'm pretty sure most of you have heard of it.
April 01, 2011
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu OVA 2 Release
Took us a while (shorter than OVA 1) but nonetheless, here it is.
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| Hideyoshi Kinoshita: Making me question my sexuality since Episode 1 |
March 05, 2011
January 31, 2011
Houkago no Pleiades Episode 3 English Subbed!
Third episode here. Forget what I said about this being released tomorrow.
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| I'm fucking fabulous. |
Houkago no Pleiades Episode 1 English Subbed!
A little fansubbing job our translator did during his spare time. Both lyger and I checked over the script, and now the first episode is all ready, english subbed and all.
January 20, 2011
December 31, 2010
Ougon Musou Kyouko (Umineko Fighter) Released! (Download Link Here)
Yep yep. Here it is, in case any of you were still searching for it.
December 23, 2010
December 17, 2010
Full Impressions on Amagami SS
Back to blogging a little about anime. I stopped doing so because it was too tedious and I had time restrictions. Luckily, our "writer" will be picking that up in my stead.
Anyways, I just recently finished Amagami SS.
Anyways, I just recently finished Amagami SS.
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| Far right girl is mine. |
November 06, 2010
October 12, 2010
Shinryaku! Ika Musume Ep. 2 Impressions
And so comes the second episode of Shinrayku! Ika Musume.
Nothing has really changed fundamentally from the first episode. The overall structure, pacing, style and humor remain intact, which is a great thing. The whole show feels really light hearted, and it's a show where I can just sit back in my chair and relax while watching.
So as the episode progressed, the first of the three stories in the episode introduces us to a new character.
He's named Arashiyama Goro, and he works as a lifesaver on the beach. He's apparently Eiko's childhood friend. Soon after he's introduced, Ika Musume develops a rivalry with Goro, with both competing against one another to see who the "true" guardian and protector of the sea is.
The animation remains top notch, with no visible glaring QUALITY scenes like Star Driver had. Everything flowed smoothly, and the background and character details were fleshed out smoothly as well. The great facial expressions were evident in this episode as well.
The second story in the episode follows cast celebrating Ika Musume's birthday (when it really wasn't her birthday).
Cake, fireworks, and imaginary attempted murder was involved.
The third story in the episode introduced us to a new female character, Sanae, who happens to be very cute.
Yes, I have a thing for Alice headbands and short brown hair.
Thing is, she's completely head over heels in "love" with Ika Musume, since Sanae thinks she's really cute. Or something.
She even went as far as to take various pictures of Ika Musume, and made a photo album out of it.
Sanae rape face imminent
Here are various pictures of Ika Musume in various outfits for (Sanae's) your viewing pleasure
Still a keeper for this Fall season. Great, comedic show thus far with a cast of likeable characters.
Look out for the next episode impression, or my Star Driver episode 2 impression.
Nothing has really changed fundamentally from the first episode. The overall structure, pacing, style and humor remain intact, which is a great thing. The whole show feels really light hearted, and it's a show where I can just sit back in my chair and relax while watching.
So as the episode progressed, the first of the three stories in the episode introduces us to a new character.
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| Pictured on the left. |
The animation remains top notch, with no visible glaring QUALITY scenes like Star Driver had. Everything flowed smoothly, and the background and character details were fleshed out smoothly as well. The great facial expressions were evident in this episode as well.
The second story in the episode follows cast celebrating Ika Musume's birthday (when it really wasn't her birthday).
Cake, fireworks, and imaginary attempted murder was involved.
The third story in the episode introduced us to a new female character, Sanae, who happens to be very cute.
Yes, I have a thing for Alice headbands and short brown hair.
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| The kanji character reads "love" |
Sanae rape face imminent
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| gon' get raped |
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| ...and caught red handed. |
Still a keeper for this Fall season. Great, comedic show thus far with a cast of likeable characters.
Look out for the next episode impression, or my Star Driver episode 2 impression.
October 11, 2010
Star Driver Episode 1 Impressions
Five words: This show is fucking FABULOUS!
So the episode starts off to a quick note.
...With the main heroine giving our protagonist a life-saving mouth to mouth CPR. Apparently, Takuto (the protagonist) swam all the way to the island when he missed his ferry, thus his unconscious state.
Within the first few minutes of the episode though, I did notice some glaring QUALITY animation.
There are many more examples of such glaringly bad animations early on, and almost prompted me to stop watching the show.
The first episode goes through with quite a fast pace as it progresses, introducing characters left and right.
Nothing felt too slow, and although you may notice the pacing to be really fast, everything actually connects and flows really smoothly, giving the show an excited, rushed feeling. This is especially evident in the latter part of the episode, but I'll get to that.
As I clocked in about 9 minutes, the opening starts to play. Boy, was I impressed. I have never seen such a colorful display of colors in an opening before, and it really captured my attention.
They even threw in a Sengoku Basara advertisement!
As the story progresses, I found out that there's this whole weird secret cult thing with people wearing yellow bird masks all over the place. A lot of confusing terms and sudden plot development left me wondering if I really was watching the first episode. Many things are talked about and discussed between the characters, but nothing really gets explained.
As I remained confused, Takuto decides to break into the goldmine he was specifically told not to trespass. Well, guess what.
He ends up lying off the wires off the fence. However, he's soon caught by more people wearing strange bird masks, and he ends up fighting one of them. Sadly, I have no pictures to show since I was so immersed with the sudden huge jump in animation production. The short fight scene was very nicely animated, and by the time it was over I was left wanting for more.
Anyways, the main girl (the one who's shown giving CPR to Takuto in the first picture), Wako, is kidnapped and is going to be used for...something. She seems to know what's up, but I sure don't. Like I said, the plot just advanced by itself without explaining anything at all. I suppose this whole thing will be explained eventually, but I felt really left out as I continued watching.
Things happen, a really amazing transformation scene takes place (no, it's not a girl) and we're introduced to our very first mecha in the show.
And suddenly, out comes Takuto and his own mecha.
Begin the FABULOUS transformation scene.
This is when the animation really kicks it up a notch. I was mesmerized, I'll be honest; I almost forgot to take screenies because I was so immersed with the animation itself. The fight scene itself was FABULOUS as well, being very heavily reminiscent of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan.
Even the enemy mech looks like something out of TTGL.
I don't have any screens of the actual fight scene itself, because it was so goddamn amazing that I completely forgot to take some pictures. As the fight ends, everything is nicely wrapped up, and we go on to the ED.
All in all, this show is not without its glaring animation faults at times. Though, I'm glad their actually important scenes seem to have a really high budget, and are animated beautifully. The animation style throughout (especially during the fight scene) heavily reminded me of when I watched TTGL, which is awesome.
All in all, definitely give this FABULOUS show a watch. It'll be well worth your time.
Star Driver Episode 2 Impressions coming up tomorrow.
So the episode starts off to a quick note.
...With the main heroine giving our protagonist a life-saving mouth to mouth CPR. Apparently, Takuto (the protagonist) swam all the way to the island when he missed his ferry, thus his unconscious state.
Within the first few minutes of the episode though, I did notice some glaring QUALITY animation.
There are many more examples of such glaringly bad animations early on, and almost prompted me to stop watching the show.
The first episode goes through with quite a fast pace as it progresses, introducing characters left and right.
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| This show is full of fabulously handsome bastards. |
Nothing felt too slow, and although you may notice the pacing to be really fast, everything actually connects and flows really smoothly, giving the show an excited, rushed feeling. This is especially evident in the latter part of the episode, but I'll get to that.
As I clocked in about 9 minutes, the opening starts to play. Boy, was I impressed. I have never seen such a colorful display of colors in an opening before, and it really captured my attention.
They even threw in a Sengoku Basara advertisement!
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| Put ya guns on! |
As the story progresses, I found out that there's this whole weird secret cult thing with people wearing yellow bird masks all over the place. A lot of confusing terms and sudden plot development left me wondering if I really was watching the first episode. Many things are talked about and discussed between the characters, but nothing really gets explained.
As I remained confused, Takuto decides to break into the goldmine he was specifically told not to trespass. Well, guess what.
He ends up lying off the wires off the fence. However, he's soon caught by more people wearing strange bird masks, and he ends up fighting one of them. Sadly, I have no pictures to show since I was so immersed with the sudden huge jump in animation production. The short fight scene was very nicely animated, and by the time it was over I was left wanting for more.
Anyways, the main girl (the one who's shown giving CPR to Takuto in the first picture), Wako, is kidnapped and is going to be used for...something. She seems to know what's up, but I sure don't. Like I said, the plot just advanced by itself without explaining anything at all. I suppose this whole thing will be explained eventually, but I felt really left out as I continued watching.
Things happen, a really amazing transformation scene takes place (no, it's not a girl) and we're introduced to our very first mecha in the show.
And suddenly, out comes Takuto and his own mecha.
Begin the FABULOUS transformation scene.
This is when the animation really kicks it up a notch. I was mesmerized, I'll be honest; I almost forgot to take screenies because I was so immersed with the animation itself. The fight scene itself was FABULOUS as well, being very heavily reminiscent of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan.
Even the enemy mech looks like something out of TTGL.
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| Takuto is the Galactic Pretty Boy, apparently. I don't know. |
All in all, this show is not without its glaring animation faults at times. Though, I'm glad their actually important scenes seem to have a really high budget, and are animated beautifully. The animation style throughout (especially during the fight scene) heavily reminded me of when I watched TTGL, which is awesome.
All in all, definitely give this FABULOUS show a watch. It'll be well worth your time.
Star Driver Episode 2 Impressions coming up tomorrow.
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| FABULOUS! |
Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Episode 2 Impressions
So here comes the second episode of the so-far highly acclaimed anime.
As I watched, I still couldn't help but be amazed at the high production values. The OP was really, really well done.
And so, with the second episode comes some new characters.
Good cast of characters so far. Kirino and Kuroneko (the gothic loli) seems to have developed a (friendly?) rivalry as the episode progressed.
Animation throughout the episode remained amazing, and the humor is quite well done too. The interaction between the characters are fun to watch, with Kirino's rivalry with Kuroneko being humorous overall, and Kyousuke's sarcastic manner towards Kirino amusing to watch.
The latter half of the episode consisted of Kirino visiting Akihabara for the first time. Seeing as it was her first time there, she was very ecstatic about the trip, and even came upon a few things.
They even threw in a Code Geass reference, of all things.
Nothing to pick at so far. I haven't really noticed any glaring faults with the pacing, humor or animation.
Nothing felt too rushed; nothing felt too slow. It's been following the manga closely so far, something that's quite rare in anime adaptations. Hopefully this keeps up.
Anyways, Shinryaku! Ika Musume Episode 2 impressions coming up tomorrow.
And about that Star Driver Ep. 1 impression I said was coming? Wait a little bit longer :/
As I watched, I still couldn't help but be amazed at the high production values. The OP was really, really well done.
And so, with the second episode comes some new characters.
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| Obligatory twin tailed loli |
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| Obligatory gothic ojousama loli |
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| Obligatory extreme otaku |
Good cast of characters so far. Kirino and Kuroneko (the gothic loli) seems to have developed a (friendly?) rivalry as the episode progressed.
Animation throughout the episode remained amazing, and the humor is quite well done too. The interaction between the characters are fun to watch, with Kirino's rivalry with Kuroneko being humorous overall, and Kyousuke's sarcastic manner towards Kirino amusing to watch.
The latter half of the episode consisted of Kirino visiting Akihabara for the first time. Seeing as it was her first time there, she was very ecstatic about the trip, and even came upon a few things.
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| Anyone into BL? |
They even threw in a Code Geass reference, of all things.
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| ALL HAIL LELOUCH |
Nothing felt too rushed; nothing felt too slow. It's been following the manga closely so far, something that's quite rare in anime adaptations. Hopefully this keeps up.
Anyways, Shinryaku! Ika Musume Episode 2 impressions coming up tomorrow.
And about that Star Driver Ep. 1 impression I said was coming? Wait a little bit longer :/
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| Sad Kirino is fine too. |
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