Riuva: Research Institute for Unicultural Visual Arts
12/21/2006 08:18 AM ESTFigure News: Oops, Even More! Suzumiya Dioramas, School Rumble Swimsuits etc… >>
I just came across more news. Credit to Reideen of the Hobbyhype forums for this.
Looks like Konami’s going to pwn some fanboys! Remember the Ichigo Mashimaro dioramas that Konami made? They are now adding that style to Haruhi and merry friends.
Slightly less interesting is a ready sample of the next instalment of Alter’s School Rumble [...]
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School Rumble
Ichigo Mashimaro
Note: This is a suggestion post, not a VOTE NOW post!
This is A3 2006, where the underdogs, the unknown and the bizarre gets their place in history!
Let us not wallow in our love for Yuki, Tsuruya (nooooo!) and Haruhi, I say to you today, my friends.
So even though we face the difficulties of today and [...]
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A couple of figurines were releases today and I’m certainly sure they wet the pants of the least enthusiastic collectors.
I fired up Hobbystock to see those new releases, after getting sick of practicing how to sing FLOW’s ‘Color‘. Yes, that ‘Color‘ from Code Geass OP.
So, erm why am I practicing how to sing [...]
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Code Geass Hangyaku no Lelouch
Final Fantasy XII
After I played the demo, I had no intention of picking up this game for a while. A friend of mine got lucky playing poker, however, and I received it as a gift. Lucky me. Well, in spite of that, fate did not seem to want me playing this game. [...]
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12/21/2006 06:42 AM ESTMega Figure News: The Real Sakura, Pahira, Revy and other Babes… >>
Here’s a massive haul of figure news! It’s been a long time since I got excited over new figure news, what with all the crap that’s coming out these days. Thankfully, it’s up to the Jesus of figurine making, Max Factory and his brother Buddha of figurine making, Alter to solve this lack of interest. [...]
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Horror is the feeling of dread and anticipation that occurs before something frightening is seen, heard or experienced. Terror is the feeling that follows afterwards.
Numerous accounts of chilling events took place in this episode, which is frankly very surprising. Ghost Hunt has come a long way from the amateur attempts at the Super-natural which was [...]
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Ghost Hunt
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12/21/2006 03:54 AM ESTMusic Review, Lyrics and Translation: STAY GOLD! By Stevie Wonder… No Way. It’s KIBA! >>
Unlike its more famous namesake, Stay Gold by Limelight is merely the third ending song for the strangely never-ending shounen series, Kiba. Speaking of which, there’s no actual Kiba (fang) in Kiba.
Like most other mainstream shounen anime, Kiba borrows the songs of a lot of the more mainstream popular artistes. So far, all three endings [...]
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The Third ~Aoi Hitomi no Shojo~
Kiba
According to these two sources, production for Gonzo’s “Mardock Scramble” OVA has been cancelled. Although managing director of Gonzo explained the decision was owed to “various reasons,” many fans speculate the annulment of the project was due to GDH’s incurring losses of over a billion yen for the March 2007 fiscal year.
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Ok yeah I know like EVERYONE is doing awards and stuff but I just couldn’t resist doing one myself. The awards will go according to polls. I will put up one poll every few days. This also means the results will be out like well into January but WHO CARES!? Well anyway, everyone please comment [...]
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{Lighty Lively}
12/21/2006 01:12 AM ESTYoake Mae yori Ruri-iro na -Crescent Love- Episode 12 [END]: With the Princess… >>
A potentially could’ve-been-good anime comes to an end.
I haven’t watched any episodes of Yoake Mae yori Ruri-iro na -Crescent Love- since the disastrous first few. I’m blogging this one just because it’s the last episode of the series. I’ve never played the game or read any detailed story summaries, so I don’t have any clue [...]
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Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na
It’s here! It’s here! The postman just left! MINE MINE MINE!!! Bunny Haruhi!!!
;_; <— tears of joy.
My life is now complete.
It’s a pre-painted recast from e2046 of the most awesome figure of Haruhi-sama ever produced by mortal hands. I was pretty sceptical about this when it was first announced, since pre-painted resin figures tend to [...]
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12/21/2006 12:11 AM ESTKino no Tabi: Book One Of The Beautiful World - Light Novel Review >>
I had first heard of Kino no Tabi (Kino’s Journey) when it was released as an anime in 2003. I had seen one episode, but shortly afterwards, the anime got licensed, so I sorta forgot about it. Fast forward to October 2006, and the Kino no Tabi light novel is released in the US! I’m [...]
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Unlike a lot of anime fans, I’ve never been particularly interested in “ranking” shows (or characters, or studios, or seiyuu, or… well, you get the picture), especially if it means pitting one show against another. I think it’s a personality quirk. I may be a geek, but I’ve never much enjoyed working with [...]
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…….I’m out of words so here’s a simple pictorial breakdown:
“Daddy! I’m gonna marry this boy!”
“No you don’t bitch!”
(slow motion)”NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo!!11!one”
Deus ex machina Tatsuya’s Dad saves the day.
After X years they get married…and are still pinching each others noses (and other body parts)
Uh well seriously guys…who actually ENJOYED THIS SERIES all the way? It reminded me of [...]
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Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na
Let us compare the way the characters from Haruhi look across the various different medias that have appeared so far.
From the left to right:
Cancelled manga, current manga, novel illustrations, anime, cosplay porn movie
For once I think the anime has the best art of them all. The original cancelled manga has horrible art that looks nothing [...]
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Actioned packed episode featuring Chouno’s crotch + thong combo once again. Anyway Chouno overhears Dr. Butterfly saying how he doesn’t wanna use him to fight and instead asks Moonface to take care of the BR soldiers. Chouno then gets irritated and uses his Busou Renkin to sprout butterfly wings. This causes his body to [...]
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Busou Renkin
Kita ze Inbou!
12/20/2006 09:34 PM ESTWildfire Report: Kadokawa Pictures USA licenses Haruhi? Zero no Tsukaima Second Season Confirmed! >>
There are now talks about Kadokawa Pictures USA. If you don’t know about them they’re the company who licensed Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid for US distribution. It seems as if it is now a pretty sure bet that the Haruhi series was licensed by them and, if and when they officially announce it, [...]
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Full Metal Panic
Zero no Tsukaima
I’m finally starting to get back to watching NHK and the rest of my neglected backlog and I think I’m going to do more of my episode entries in batches. For example, this post covers the four episodes of the “off meeting” mini-arc and is a little long because of it and my temporary inability [...]
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NHK ni Youkoso!
Since ANN were being dicks about who bought the ads for Haruhi, I decided that the fuckers ought to have one done in on them and I told pKjd to tell me who licensed it… well, he figured it out through a little trick of shitty programming for their shitty counter. If you carry yourselves [...]
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12/20/2006 07:40 PM ESTHaruhi Series Licensed by… Kadokawa Pictures USA? *99.9% Confirmed >>
By adding an extra “slash” to asosbrigade.com, you’ll find that the counter on top dumps an error which reveals the username on the account: “Kadousa“. I’ll report back when official word is out.
-Edit-
The counter just reset itself back to “0″ a few minutes ago. It seems they’re trying to fix the error as we speak.
“The [...]
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