http://www.animenano.com/ An anime blog aggregator and community. en-us While the US Congress/Bush adminstration lock horns over the US$700b bailout plan and Singapore deliberates if we are in a technical recession, this tanuki is in minor financial fix himself. The 12,000 ¥ question - Is Asatte no houkou worth ¥12,000? First, some background. Despite the non-siscon end, I enjoyed the series sufficiently to want to own [...] Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:04:15 -0000 http://hontouni.com/taihendesu/?p=857 A common thread runs through my favourite anime scenes - Great music. I remember choking up in Asatte no Houkou ep 8 as “Kasa” hit a crescendo during a very poignant moment; cheering on Sasuke as he battled Orochimaru in ep 29 against the high tension flute notes of the Naruto soundtrack and inhaling [...] Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:42:50 -0000 http://hontouni.com/taihendesu/?p=847 Karmaburn: I fully agree that Asatte no Houkou is a very good show — presumably doubly so if you like Karada, Tetsumasa, and Hiro more than I did. That I still found Asatte no Houkou so enjoyable despite liking only Shouko is a testament to J.C. Staff’s storytelling abilities. I’m pleased the plot did not [...] Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:13:23 -0000 http://ani-nouto.animeblogger.net/2008/08/23/evirus-on-asatte-no-houkou/ All right, I also like Kotomi, but only because she dresses so provocatively all the time. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:37:13 -0000 http://karmaburn.com/?p=325 One of my anime-related dreams is to raise a daughter beautiful both in body and soul like Kotori (DCSS), Karada (Asatte no houkou) or Kanami (Scryed). Mrs Stripey objects every time I bring it up. Not because it’s an impossible task (with her, I have 50% chance :P). but because such gentle-kindness/perfection is ill-suited [...] Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:46:37 -0000 http://hontouni.com/taihendesu/?p=670 There goes our Health Minister, being forced to tender his resignation due to a sex scandal - he was videotaped having sex with a "personal friend" of his, but that's off topic. School's starting for me tomorrow so I won't be able to be active online anymore, but that's off topic again. Nevermind. Oh and yeah, Happy New Year 2008 to all readers of Yamaki's Anime Blog.What I am supposed to do right now, is to think of a few resolutions for the year 2008, hoping that I can actually achieve them by the end of the year, and that means that I have around 365 days to complete whatever that I have added into the resolutions.But before I do that, I'm going to reflect on the resolutions that I have given myself to achieve last year, and they are: Resolution #1: Finish watching all of the animes in hand before starting new onesNow that I think of it, in order to achieve this, I've only picked up only one or two animes per season. In the year 2007, I've picked up and successfully finished sola, Asatte no Houkou, School Days and Honey & Clover (first and second season) while dropping none (perhaps Digimon Savers), and so:Verdict: PASSResolution #2: Improve my writing skills to prevent readers from dying because of boredom*looks around* Hey you, don't run away yet! I've not even started... see what I'm talking about? I don't even know any of my loyal readers even if they are any, and so, I can say that readers must have not been returning due to boring articles.Verdict: FAILResolution #3: Improve my grammar in EnglishI can't feel any major improvements in my English grammar, but I think that I have definitely improved a little bit.Verdict: PASSResolution #4: Do/Write at least 10 blog updates/articles per monthLet's see... I only did four updates in February, nine updates in March, four updates in April, seven updates in May, four updates in June...... that's more than enough to make me fail.Verdict: FAILResolution #5: Create 3 Anime Music Videos (AMV)That was what I had originally planned, but in the end, I've only managed to make two - Who I Am, I Am in March and My Angel in December.Verdict: FAILResolution #6: Attend any cosplay events/conventions if they were held here in my placeThere's one HobbyCon that was held in December at the newly built shopping complex Komplex Asia City here in my side. However so, it had already ended when I found out about it... so there you go. I'm definitely going next year.Verdict: FAILShouldn't they be sleeping by then? The moon's so high up!Resolution #7: Sleep by 4 a.m. everytime I stay up lateWell, I don't know whether I should let myself pass this one... but I guess I'd go lenient on this one as most of the year other than December I've been sleeping quite early.Verdict: PASS Resolution #8: Be like any of the characters voiced by Tomokazu SugitaLet's see... am I surrounded by girls by now? No.Verdict: FAIL All in all, I can see that I did not fared well in the year 2007. Maybe I'd do better in 2008. So, let's see what I have prepared for myself as my resolution for 2008: Resolution #1: Attend HobbyCon Being the one and only major hobby based (including figurines, animes and mangas) conventions ever organized in Kota Kinabalu, I hope that I can attend it and make a report about the convention in this blog. Takeshi is nice to cosplay too... Resolution #2: Cosplay an anime character Kurogane from Tsubasa or Kyouya from Ouran sounds nice and simple, and if I can get my hands on the costumes, I might consider cosplaying in HobbyCon since it is after my SPM exam. Unless if I'm like this... Resolution #3: Continue to watch animes even on tight schedules I can feel that my passion towards animes slowly fading away, and in order keep the passion burning, I'd have to continue watching animes, non stop. Resolution #4: Create at least one anime music video WITHOUT using Windows Movie Maker Well, I felt that I have been rather dependent on Windows Movie Maker and should move out of it. Maybe I should learn Adobe Premier... Resolution #5: Get Yamaki's Anime Blog out of livejournal Seriously, I'm starting to think that livejournal sucks. Not only it discourages people to leave comments, it is not flexible at all without a paid account. Perhaps to Wordpress or a personal server, but it won't be anytime soon anyways.Oh and by the way,I was in camp the last week so I had to cancel the Remedial Anime Awards for December 2007. Let's hope that nothing would happen to me when it comes to the last Saturday of this month so the January 2008 awards can take place. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:56:42 -0000 http://community.livejournal.com/yamaki_anime/42262.html Decidedly, the word is that 2007 is not as exciting as 2006. We did not have Haruhi, we did not have Simoun, we did not have Black Lagoon. In fact, I'm going to talk about shows I didn't see in 2007 (and some that I did, but not like Haruhi, Simoun and Black Lagoon). Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:19:14 -0000 http://omo.serenana.info/2007/12/31/year-in-review-conclusion/ A normal day at Azure Flame. It’s been a year of ups and downs, of anime gems and utter disappointments- a year when I’ve alternated between craving more and feeling utterly fed up with the continuing deluge of episodes that take no account of the fact that people might have other things to do than stay [...] Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:00:03 -0000 http://azureflame.ikimashou.net/2007/12/30/annual-round-up-2007/ Some anime fans celebrate Moe Day on the 10th of October every year. Why? Well, if you tear the word "萌"(moe) apart, you'll get "十月十日" which is 10 of October in both Chinese and Japanese kanji, and there goes Moe Day. Not many anime fans are aware of the fact!The Saimoe Tournament is still on-going and I can see that almost all of the characters that I had openly supported had been eliminated! - Nayuki was eliminated by Konata, - Shouko was eliminated by Momoko (Sumomomomomo), - Ayu was defeated by Elulu (Utawarerumono) by a slim 39 votes majority- Mai was defeated by Louise (Zero no Tsukaima) by some 2(!!) votes majority, - Mana was defeated by Ayane (Nagasarete Airantou), - Karada was eliminated by Gretel (Otogi Jushi Akazuki), - Shiori was eliminated by Rena (Higurashi no Naku koro ni) while - Vita (Nanoha StrikerS) eliminated both Aono and Matsuri.There you go Mai. Louise won the second round by a very slim margin of 2 votes. For now, all of the candidates for Asatte no Houkou and sola have been eliminated, while only one Kanon character remains in the list - Sayuri. I now stand on the fence as an observer of the competition as I no longer have anyone to vote for. At least those characters who are still in the list deserves are popular enough. Let's hope Sayuri is moe enough to defeat her next opponent to qualify for the quarter finals - there should at least be one Kanon character in the quarters.Last but not least, I dedicate this Moe Day greetings to everyone out there reading this! May all of you have a Happy Moe Day! Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:20:10 -0000 http://community.livejournal.com/yamaki_anime/38433.html This picture has nothing to do with the contents of this post. My finals are next Monday and all I’ve done this week is to rewatch Elfen Lied and finish watching Asatte no Houkou. Wonder what anime should I marathon watch next? RahXephon? Another run of Evangelion? Or maybe something more contemporary like sola or [...] Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:46:01 -0000 http://kurogane.animeblogger.net/2007/09/27/i-just-wanted-to-shout-at-the-center-of-the-world/