청춘물의 최고봉, 허니와 클로버입니다. 특히 1기의 앤딩은 정말 감동의 도가니죠. 삽입곡들도 Spitz 와 스가시카오의 음악들을 적극 기용, 정말 말이 필요없는 명장면들을 만들어냈죠. 원작에 충실하면서도 애니만의 멋을 가진 이 작품, 정말 추천을 안할 수가 없습니다. 일단 1기 DVD 코드2인 만큼 화질은 깨끝합니다. 음.. 좀 패키지에서 아쉬운 점은 케이스별로 박스를 넣지말고 차라리 다른 작품들처럼 평범하게 3개마다 박스를 넣주던가 했으면 좋았을..글 전체보기
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Because I need to get the image I have of Stalin dancing to 'Barbie Girl' out of my head so I can actually sleep tonight.
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After trying Honey and Clover out in Anime and Movie forms, I finally went to the roots and read the manga version. Not surprisingly, it's awesome. I should've read this a long time ago.
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Do they exist? Yes they do. But they’re few and far in between. 1. The cast of Honey and Clover are everything that most anime male leads are not. They’re funny, sociable, independent, quirky, and professional [some of the time]. In the second season the main protagonist goes on a soul-searching bike [...]
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Let's just get the bad thing about this episode out of the way. I think the dialogues on this episode are too stilted and abrupt. One moment they're talking about one thing and in a matter of seconds, they're already talking about something else without any transition in between. It's really disorienting because there are times when one can be fooled into thinking that they'll go into one direction with the dialogue only to be abruptly shifted into another topic. I also think that the motivation of the spirit in question is not very clear this time around. On the one hand, he is annoyed with the girl for coming to the school over and over again but then he also doesn't want her to stop coming to school. On the positive side, the whole ghost story part was pretty fun. I also can't help but feeling nostalgic for Honey and Clover when Kamiya Hiroshi said "Chiisai koro kara...." in this episode. The way he delivers that line sounds just so similar to the way Takemoto said it back in Honey and Clover.
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This show is hot. It's been a while since I have a desire to purchase anime on disc and the last series I purchased on disc were Honey and Clover and Suzumiya Haruhi. However, I think I'll at least get the first few episodes of this show on Blu-ray. I just think the combination of the character design, story, and animation are top notch here. It's probably a personal taste but I like this one better than Code Geass's first few episodes mostly because it feels more adventurous than political. It helps that the opening gives me a Cowboy Bebop kind of feel but the thing that impresses me the most about the series is its character design. Character design is my main reason for watching anime. I know it's not a really good criteria to judge an anime but I have the tendency to dislike series that doesn't have good character design. On the other hand, it doesn't take much to make me interested in an anime than a set of well-design characters. It can't be helped since I'm a graphic designer and looking at pretty graphics is something that I love to do.
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This is a guest article written by lelangir in response to the July 2008 Minimum Tempo article, “[Dinner Discussion] Manga aisle freeloaders.” I buy most of my music. Anime OST’s I usually don’t buy unless they really warrant a purchase – i.e. Honey & Clover insert songs by Shikao Suga; Eureka 7 OST, anything by Joe [...]
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Watanuki got lost on the way to Yuuko’s place. He was already late because he was hanging out with Doumeki and Himawari. On the street, he met the kid kitsune whose father ran the oden cart. The kitsune gave him oden in thanks for the balloon that he he gave him through the dream buyer. He wondered to Yuuko if it was alright to take it since he gave the kid the balloon as thanks . Yuuko just told her that the kitsune did it because he was really happy. Then he told Yuuko that he had a wish. Yuuko just told him that it was going to cost him, as usual.The price ended up being Yuuko’s bag carrier when she went out shopping, which really pissed Watanuki off especially when she learned that what Yuuko want to buy was a new refrigerator. In the electronics shop, he encountered Raiju, a thunder god. He was attracted to the electronics shop on the way somewhere and got stuck on a tight corner and couldn’t get out. Watanuki got out and in payment, Raiju made all the broken appliances in Yuuko’s home work again.Later that night, Yuuko just asked Raiju where he was headed for, Raiju just told her that it was a good place to go that night since the moon was just right. Yuuko said that they might as well get with him and asked Watanuki to call Himawari and Doumeki.They ended up in the kitsune oden stand, where he met the kid kitsune again and gave him mittens as thanks for a thanks.What a way to end the season: with a filler! The part about Raiju was only very short and uneventful – they might as well have ended the season with Episode 12. Episode 13 was merely an omage of all the characters that passed through xxx-HOLiC from the first season and the current one – both the still living humans (the Internet lady, the twins, the fortune teller, the winged girl and the two guys who worked in the pharmacy who now both work in the electronics shop who were really supposed to be in Legal Drug)– and spirits (the cat lady who brought the lamp for the demon festival, kuda-kitsune, zashiki-warashi and her minions, ame-warashi, neko-musume and the dream-buyer). I’m not really complaining, the episode was nice but quite unnecessary. Episode 12 had enough closure to end it.I’m just wondering why Watanuki is starting to talk like Lelouch on this episode (Yes, I am aware that Fukuyama Jun is Watanuki’s seiyuu) when he never did for the last 12 episodes…All in all, it was a fairly decent season… I like the OP ┌Nobody Knows┘ by Suga Shigao, not so thrilled about the ED ┌Honey Honey┘ by… well, I’m not that into it that I didn’t bother looking it up. I I was extremely disappointed by the Water Gathering arc, hated the Kohane arc, but was OK with the Spider Lady arc and liked the Himawari arc. They really moved a lot of things around that as a fan of both –HOLiC and Tsubasa Chronicles before they made Syaoran out to be a character with a mom complex it pissed me off especially since CLAMP originally made the two stories independent of each other enough since the two series are supposed to be for different demographics (seinen for –HOLiC and shonen for TRC). Anyway, in consideration for that, it was supposed to be no longer necessary for Production IG to change it some more. Well… I have the same opinion of it and the j-drama of Honey and Clover – if you really didn’t know the story, it’s actually good, but it would piss people who do off...
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I finally got around to this show, thanks in part to my sister expressing a desire to see it. Final Series Score: 10/12 A Rewatchablity: low, unless the second season is really awesome and this awesomeness leaks back to the first season – it probably will be awhile before I have a desire to watch this again Pros: [...]
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Well... my internet has been retardedly slow yesterday... "Everything is alright on our end." my foot! Your customer service sucks! My next door neighbor and a friend who lived in another district also complained of the same thing. They should really start expanding their coverage of their service they offer cheaper promos for their ISP. Grr...Anyway, my one-day reprieve of anime allowed me to watch shows with a clearer head and no burnout. Either way, subs are coming in slow (except for the shows that I have no intention to pick up *storyofmylife*) so I resorted to downloading some raws too.Natsume Yuujinchou 01 ~The Cat and The Book of Friends~Natsume is a boy who moved to a town to live with some relatives (or is it friends?). He has always been a loner because of his ability to see spirits since he was a child. His parents died when he was young and he has been jumping from relative to relative. When he moved to the a town, spirits have been actively pursuing him, asking him to return something. He stumbled upon a temple and accidentally released a sealed cat spirit, which followed him home. Anyway, he learns that his grandmother Reiko was a lot like him – able to see spirits and a loner. She defeated a lot of spirits when she was younger and asked them to write their names in a book and they would become her servants. And now, he aims to return the names of the individual spirits that his grandmother took.I remember reading off Memento that Natsume’s seiyuu is the one that also did Takemoto from Honey and Clover and the cat is voiced by the guy who did Miyagi from Junjou Romantica (I loved him in Junjou). But my problem with series with these kinds of themes is that although I get really interested in them in the beginning, I tend to lose interest in them after six or so episodes (i.e. Wagaya no Oinari-Sama). I’m wondering how this is going to play out since it’s only supposed to be only 13 episodes and I don't really want to watch Natsume just meeting, defeating and returning the name to some random spirit at each episode. This will be placed in the “Maybe” pile – will watch two more episodes.Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na koto –Natsu no Sora–Yay! I’m picking this show up. And it has nothing to do with Maeno Tomoaki (since his character Gouta had very little screentime)!!! o^^o So happy that I am still at that road where my interest in an anime has nothing to do with a seiyuu… probably. With the lack of anything else to watch, I picked up the way of the second episode and realized my boredom with the first episode had something to do with the countryside scenery (which always bores the hell out of the city girl like me) and the long gaps in between dialogue. And when Sora finally gets around Tokyo, the pace picked up, they talk more (even if it’s just Sora talking to herself), the Celtic BGMs last longer and for some reason has turned interesting to me. I can’t wait for the subs!My watchlist is now up a whopping two shows, this and Hidamari Sketch X365 – Chocolate Underground does not count since they’re only 3-5 minutes at a time. I will stop calling this by the Japanese title since I just copy-paste it everytime because the effort to memorize is too great and calling it Mahou Tsukai blahblahblah is still too long. And anyway, everyone else knows it as Someday’s Dreamer already ^^Koihime Musou 01 *Needs more MANS*The only non-ugly, non-just-standing-in-the-background man character... and he's dead. >.<Nothing but glorified fanservice in pretty animation. Fail humor. Every character is female. The men are either ugly or uglier. Umm... no.Koko wa Greenwood 01I fell in love with this anime OVA series when I watched this it last month and couldn’t believe that they had a j-drama for this! Well, I never heard of any group subbing this (still crossing my fingers that there is >.<) so I picked up the raw. The first episode was kinda loyal to the first episode of the OVA so won’t put in a summary anymore with a little modification. But when I checked out DramaWiki, the cast does not include anyone playing Nagisa or Miya (that sucks!) and I didn’t read the manga (usagijen beat me to them from the Manga Kissa sale) so I’m not sure where they’re planning to go with this. Drat! I like the Miya episodes. Most of the actors are relative newcomers with little dramas to their credit. Maybe it’s because I love Mitsuru so much in the anime, but I didn’t like the guy playing him – reminds me of a psycho.My main struggle with this show would be the fact that no sub group is going to be picking this up – please let me know if there is. This is the only j-drama I’m picking up this season and I really wanna watch it with more understanding than my broken Japanese can handle.Takane’s BicycleThis is not really a series, but a one-episode thing. I picked it up because this won the 2007 Animax Pan-Asia Awards. To those not living in Asia, this was an Asia-Pacific-wide story-/manga-/script-writing contest sponsored by Animax where the winning entry will have his/her entry animated by A-1 Pictures into a 30-minute short. Surprise, surprise, someone from Japan won -_-''' There is another entry that won a special recognition award and will be animated too (LaMB), but that won’t come out til next year I think. Anyway, I was curious what it takes to win this.This is what won!?!?! I don’t get it. Tanukis come to town. Takane got knocked off bike by tanuki. Little sister is afraid of the temple because she was freaked by the place when she was a child and the dog ran off there when she was walking it. Takane goes to temple to get dog. Little sister gets eaten by kitsune and runs off. Takane chases after him in the bike. Tanukis show up and bowed down at him and enchanted his bike so he can follow the kitsune and save little sister. He and little sister float in the sky and little sister apologizes. Seriously, I don’t get it. Maybe it’s based on Japanese local folklore type thing. But I just thought that since it's a Pan-Asia competition, they could have at least picked up a winner where the story would be something everyone in Pan-Asia can appreciate. Anyway, this actually makes me not look forward to LaMB now - even if it's bound to have some Filipino elements to it..
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