(This post has nothing to do with anime.) Before I started blogging, I used to be a feature writer for Star City Games. I don’t play or write about Magic: The Gathering any more, but I still follow the developments around it. A few months ago, Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic, wrote an [...]
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Welcome to the new home of ‘hontou ni sou omou?’ The current domain name and hosting plan with Dreamhost expires in a month. Despite much inertia after four years with DH, I have finally knuckled down to transplant the hontou ni blogs to a new domain, after almost six months of proscratinating, under a new host [...]
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Jigoku Shoujo, ep. 21: “The Floating Paper Balloons” (Kamifuusen Fuwari) The episode is predominantly about the story of Hone Onna’s previous life as there’s a link to the current client. Summary and thoughts following the pics (click to enlarge): In old Japan, a passing fisherman sees a crying woman and seeks to comfort her by inviting [...]
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The current domain name and hosting plan with Dreamhost expires in a month. Despite much inertia after four years with DH, I have finally knuckled down to transplant the hontou ni blogs to a new domain, after almost six months of proscratinating, under a new host which is 30% cheaper, has got a 99.9% uptime [...]
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No, it’s not a fan service episode! It’s just a recap similar to the previous episode 8.5. Gundam Seed have around 3-4 episodes for recap and Code Geass is seems to follow the trend. You should be familiar with most of the scenes except for the last part when Euphemia appoints Suzaku [...]
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Oh, along with Marimite and Saiunkoki Monogatari, too. Also, my condolences to Danbooru - R.I.P. T_T
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I've been holding this in for a long, long time. No, I'm not talking about toilet related humor, but I've gotta say this: 80's rocked! 90's sucked majorly-sorry-mf#@%#$%$#%-asses and stinks to high heaven! (Oh just shut up and get over it.) Anyway, take a look at the title of this article, and you may ask, what about the designs? Well, to me, it just seems like the 80's designs were more distinctive - at least with character designs. Let me explain...
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Not everyone enjoyed the story of the first Appleseed movie, however no one can deny that it had absolutely amazing visuals. Work is currently underway on Appleseed 2, and a trailer has just been released for it as an extra on the PS2 game Appleseed Ex. Appleseed was originally a manga created by Masamune Shirow (also [...]
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This is the PV to Ai Otsuka’s new single: CHU-LIP I just thought to sharing it with you people because its seems nonsensical and funnie. If you listen to the lyrics carefully, it somehow talks about not caring about others view or something like that. No matter what its still funny. (”\(o.O)/”)
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Imagine you are out in the forest and suddenly a group of masked girls came out of nowhere and beat the fucking shit out of you. You don’t have your +8 Excalibur of Pwnage and you don’t have a party. Your pm is blocked and you can’t alt-F4. In a scenario like this, what would you [...]
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I hear the figurine store on the fifth floor of Funan Centre is having another clearance sale again. Well, the storeowner told me it would be on the 11th of March and would feature hot cosplayer girls doing publicity. LOL. Anyway, disregarding the hot cosplayer girls, the sale is apparently a combined one, with stock from [...]
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A virtual cookie for anyone who can tell me where this parody of a game came from. No, the assumption that I actually know what is parodied is in fact a wrong notion. That is the reason why this very similar rpg-like graphics is my attempt to get people to answer my questions. Ha ha. Anyway, [...]
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Name: Saishu Heiki Kanojo (live-action) Genre: Drama, Love-Romance, Science-Fiction Year: 2006 Rating: Not Recommended Chise is a shy girl who one day manages to confess her feelings to her loved one Shuuji. They both go to a high school in Hokkaido but one day Japan comes under attack. Shuuji is in danger when Sapporo comes under an air strike, while attempting to avoid danger he is saved from death by Chise who is now a human weapon. Chise is apart of the war, she is the ultimate weapon in the defense force of Japan. Its a test of love and commitment as Chise and Shuuji are confronted with several hardships.
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Oh my, Rukia’s Zanpakutou Sode no Shirayuki is so beautiful. The name is nice to the ears too. When I read from the manga, it said it’s the most beautiful of all the snow and ice Zanpakutou in Soul Society and the anime doesn’t disappoint me. I’m not sure whether is my [...]
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I really begin to wonder if something happened between those two! But a nice person wrote a comment to a post, pointing me to a new collaboration. You know that Yuki Kajiura worked on Xenosaga II and III, with the III having unreleased tracks (more of that later). Well the japanese official website of Xenosaga published [...]
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This was mine and Caliburn's reaction when we shared our haul. I'm on the left and he's on the right, of couse Sorry for lack of updates lately. I've been swamped down with work and so are the other two, so nothing's really getting done and I appologize to the two or three readers that return [...]
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Rating: 9.7/10 Impressions: Aww, seeing as how Nayuki is my favourite character now, this episode makes me feel especially sorry for her. Just watching her suffer and blame herself is so sad. After such a heartbreaking rejection seven years ago from Yuuichi, she has to live with a single parent, and just when Yuuichi returns, Akiko now [...]
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Trojan Targets Winny Users with Anime Pictures posted on 2007-03-02 23:59 EST Sophos reports that the trojan Troj/Pirlames-A and its variant Troj/Pirlames-B, are being circulated on the Winny file-sharing network. The trojans pose as screensavers, but when downloaded and executed, they overwrite various files with images from popular anime / Ero-game Kanon. The images contain statements that warn [...]
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Nami Matsuo is a magic user, but it’s never been something that she’s been any good at. Her failed attempts at spells have caused her a few problems with both classmates and family over the years, and the last thing she wants is to have to train as a licensed magic user. Even as Nami [...]
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What can I say… I’d go emo too if I were in Nayuki’s position. Akiko-san is truly an important existance for Nayuki and also for all of us Kanon fans. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’ll say it…. Yuuichi’s a jerk. Really. That being said, my general impression of this episode would be it’s [...]
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