Just opened my Twitter and got a follower whom having a sheet music forum. I did a mini research and these are other big sites that may useful for you. Note that comparing to the first article, the websites I listed below have limitation in quantity. But still, they are worth it to see:ShareMusic.com : the title might make you think it's a pay download file but nope! Not at all. It is obvious that the site will potentially grow bigger. The collection is actually varied from Western movies to Anime. You can find Legend of Zelda's transcription here.L'indestin : the copyright showed me it was made from 2004. I don't know whether this site is always updated because there's no date of update file. However, the collection is interesting. It includes Byousoku 5cm which - in my opinion - is quite challenging to play.Sebastian Wolff : it doesn't have too much of anime/game sheet music but the good thing is.. it refers you the websites that provide it. Another interesting matter : it has tutorials for piano like how to play as accompaniment and improvisation techniques.Piano Squall : you also have to consider this site, especially if you're a Final Fantasy and Tetris fan. The site itself is unique. I think this is the first time I see an anime/game sheet music website that also refers for charity.Enjoy surfing!
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The first two episodes of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 have been outstanding. And the perfect voices have been a big part of the deal.Hanamura Satomi as Mirai has been particularly brilliant. She did the sullen middle-schooler so perfectly in episode one that many people hated her. And her determination to find her brother in episode two is both moving and real.Hanamura, 25, is best known for playing Anise Azeat in Galaxy Angel Rune and Kanae, the surfing girl in part two of Byousoku 5cm.But she has also appeared in live-action films and on stage, particularly as a child and a teen, early in her career.Kobayashi Yumiko's fresh, open portrayal of little brother Yuuki makes it obvious why she is the go-to girl for young boy roles.I know her best for her brilliant comedy as Puni Puni Poemi. She also played Sarah MacDougall in Love Hina and Kobayashi Excel in Excel Saga. But in latter years, she has been doing boys: Akira in Dennou Coil, Black Star in Soul Eater, and the young Genji in Genji Monogatari Sennenki.She is 30, has two degrees in Japanese literature, and has been married for three years. She also does a reasonable amount of dubbing of foreign TV and films.And Kaida Yuuko is a suitably calm Mari, the woman who helps the siblings after the quake.She is probably best known now as Shimei in Ikkitousen and Amane in Strawberry Panic. But she does a certain amount of stage acting and a lot of dubbing of foreign films and TV. She voices Neera in ER.Kaida is 29 and is married to a stage actor.
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The last anime that I shed tears as I watched was Byousoku 5cm, and the last time I watched it was almost a year ago. Therefore, it’s been quite a long time since a single salty droplet flowed out while I watched anime. I was determined not to cry while watching any anime anymore, but [...] Related posts:I am now a fan of Shinkai MakotoOne Outs Strikes OutPuchi Eva DS Game
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Being inspired, I ended making a GDM login theme from a 1080p Blu-ray rip of Five Centimeters Per Second: It is designed for my 1920x1200 resolution laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. Modified it off of this Serial Experiments Lain theme. Source GIMP XCF file is available inside the tar.gz if you want to modify it. It's not the greatest, but it really didn't take much work. I added some sharpening and adjusted the colors and saturation from the source video screenshot, but that's about it. I'll probably make more from the various 5CM screenshots I have. I'll also want to get a few themes based off of The Place Promised in Our Early Days, too.
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I’m sure you’ve seen enough headlines about this, and the critical acclaims Shinkai gets with his works. But I’m just pacing through CrunchyRoll’s Byousoku 5 Centimeters feed now, and funnily enough the speech-like pacing of Oukashou made streaming that 480p video casually easy. It gives you a lot of places to hit that pause button so [...]
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I figured this was going to happen last week, but it was only a few days ago that crunchyroll announced that they were going to host Makoto Shinkai's three major works for streaming for free for the 24 hours that Global Shinkai Day will last (Friday (2/27) from 5 pm/PST to Saturday (2/28) 5 pm/PST). So I'm late that even Anime News Network had covered this yesterday, just been a very busy time between work, trying to prepare a few things for GSD, and other responsibilities. There's a group made on crunchyroll for this event. Click here or on the banner below to go to it. Props to Crunchyroll1 for bringing even more attention to an excellent director. What just started as an idea on a fan forum has spread out far beyond what I expected. Hope more of these events can be held. Now hopefully I can get a Yasuhiro Yoshiura Day event going at some point in the future2... 1. Even if they have a pretty dubious reputation, they are at least working with the Japanese companies for distribution now. 2. He might need more significant work out before that happens, but Shinkai did get a "Collection" box set created when he only had 2 major works out!
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In my little corner of the world, Global Shinkai Day 2009 will be a quiet affair centred on a chronological private DVD viewing of Shinkai Makoto’s four main works: Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko; Hoshi no Koe; Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho; and Byousoku 5 Centimeter. I had originally intended to do [...]
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This week gravure idol feature is the beautiful Ayaka Onoue 尾上綾華. I really don’t know much about her except that she was once casted as the seiyuu of Akari Shinohara in Byousoku 5 Centimeter. From the Wiki JP, she seems to have done some commercial as well. She is from this talent agency called Space Craft [...]
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Though I've seen some quick write-ups from some lucky bastardspeople who got to see (and meet) Makoto Shinkai at the BFI in London, Martin was another of those lucky bastardspersons who got to even shake his hand and wrote about the experience at Nakama Britannica. When last linked to an interview of Shinkai, I had pointed out that he was working on a new feature-length film. In his talks at the BFI, he confirms one of my thoughts at the time: Shinkai went to London to get some new inspirations for his new film. He mentions getting out of his "comfort zone" to recreate the feelings of when he left home for Tokyo when he was eighteen. In other but related news, I mainly have two words for Fledge: Do it!1 I did buy the Shinkai: Collection Box Set2 for $30 a few years ago at the local Best Buy3, an investment that was well worth it. Worth it enough to import the Special Edition R2 DVD of Byousoku 5 CM when it was released in Japan4 along with buying the R1 release when it came out here in the U.S. 1. The power of peer pressure compels you! 2. I've always found it a bit amusing and presumptuous that it was called a "Collection" when Shinkai only had two movies and a short out that totaled to only about 120 minutes total, but they are probably my most re-watched DVDs so far. 3. It might also be available at Robert's Anime Corner Store if Fledge couldn't wait, but I'm sure there's a good reason he's waiting for it to be available on Amazon. 4. Picture of box here. I should put up a pic of the full contents of the DVD too...
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Definitely one of the greatest songs ever. I can’t stop listening to it. ahhhhh. So incredibly leet. Such great lyrics that match up with the story too! damn damn damn, Byousoku really was a sad ending wasn’t it? Lyrics from Animelyrics: Koreijou nani wo ushinaeba kokoro wa yurusareru no Dore hodo no itami naraba mou ichido kimi ni aeru One [...]
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