When I first thought about the upcoming season, I couldn’t really think of anything that I actually wanted to see. No, Kanon does not count. I get the feeling that I’ll have to rely on other people to watch stuff for me in order to find out if there’s anything like say, Zero [...]
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What’s with all of the remakes? Kanon is almost here (27 days and counting!), a new Kiminozo project is in the works, Shuffle (of all things) is getting a Director’s Cut, and now, more Neon Genesis Evangelion? I’d be lying if I didn’t say Evangelion was special to me as an anime fan - it’s [...]
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Personally looking forward to: Kanon ‘06, the new Tokimeki Memorial, and of course, volume 1 of the Ichigo Mashimaro OVA series! -Premiere Dates- September: Lupin the 3rd: Seven Day Rhapsody - [09/08] BLACK BLOOD BROTHERS - [09/08] Silkroad Shounen Yuuto - [09/16] A Spirit of the Sun - [09/17] UFO Princess Valkyrie: Toki to Yume to Ginga no Utage - [09/22] Oban Star-Racers [...]
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Yeah, that's right. You Kanon fans can suck it, because it's been announced that Shuffle! will be getting a directors cut and that it will be airing on broadcast TV in Japan. None of that DVD special, omake, super plus edition bullshit, no sir. This one is going to be piped right into our sexy [...]
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A few random news bits/things I have to say: -With the release of the KamiKazo DVDs, I'm finally able to listen to the full Kamisama Kazoku OP and ED (creditless OP/ED sequences are nice too). Given that I haven't liked a lot of the past season's theme songs, I'm glad that I can now put on repeat some songs I really do enjoy. -This week has been a bit frustrating in the sense that it seems like every post has someone asking about the episodes I skipped last week. For the final time: I will not be making up the episodes that aired during my break. I realize some of you folks aren't happy with the jump in continuity, but you have to realize how much time it takes to blog everything - time which I just don't have. The only exceptions are the series that are now being covered by the other writers. -Newsweek is running a story about the popularity of YouTube in Japan. Of particular note is the fact that it mentions The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya as an example in the final paragraph. That's the first time I've seen something like that mentioned in print media. -There are A LOT of series coming next season, so I'm starting planning early (especially since I won't be able to take on nearly as many series this time as I normally do). Series I've got marked right now include (in no particular order) Sumomomo Momomo, Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Crescent Love, Kanon, Ayakashi Ayashi, and Death Note. That's only a small fraction of the total number of shows, and it's even still a bit early since some shows don't have airdates yet. Hopefully I'll be able to write a fall preview sometime soon.
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カノン Genre: Drama, love-romance Episodes: 24 Release: Autumn season 2006 Airing: 05/10/2006 OP: “Last regrets” by Ayana ED: “Kaze no Tadori Tsuku Basho” by Ayana Official Site: http://www.bs-i.co.jp/anime/kanon/ The original Kanon was immensely popular … no, that’s just a wild guess. Anyway, I haven’t seen the first one so I have no idea what anything is about. For some information on the [...]
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I barely knew about the Kanon preview and before I could even screencap the image above, everybody had blogged it. Yet, I can’t help myself. I’m having trouble pulling the thoughts on this show into 100% coherency, so I’m just gonna yammer for a minute here. When the TOEI version of Kanon was released [...]
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Here’s my amv featuring the 2002 version of Kanon: So if you’ve watched the trailers for the new one…Big difference right?
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Opening: "Last regrets"          Everybody else is saying the same thing, but I'll repeat it anyways -- KyoAni quality as expected ;) The style is familiar for openings in this genre, introducing each heroine, and there's not much movement, but it's all extremely high quality. Beautiful scenery, the CG snow is very good, and the 3D blends in very well, too. Ayu's too cute when she bites into the taiyaki there :) Ending: "Kaze no tadoritsuku basho"    A rather simple ending in comparison to Haruhi, but fine by me. Can you tell I'm an Ayu fan yet? ;) Preview          A 3 minute preview with voices is on here, too... and I'm sorry, I can't help but hear the now very cool Yuuichi@Tomokazu Sugita as anyone other than Kyon for now ;) No problem getting used to it, though. For comparison, some shots from the Toei version of Kanon. It's often called an ago anime or agome -- 顎 ago meaning "chin" -- because of the prominence of character's chins. The original character design already emphasizes chins, but Toei's character designs did it that much more (among other things), so they weren't liked that much...     Scene where Nayuki meets Yuuichi from both versions. And here's Yuuichi. Definitely looks cooler in the KyoAni version. Anyways, it's all looking pretty good. I can't wait for Kanon to start in October. Uguu~~ ;)
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Thank goodness it's finally the weekend. Woke up at 4am this morning, couldn't go back to sleep, got to school a bit late (thanks to my dad being busy with eBay stuff), had to walk from Statistics to Joe Brown where my Korean class is -- about a 15 minute walk uphill, downhill, then uphill again. I'm not in shape after being lazy all summer long ... And then my mom's car breaks down while she's on her way to get me, I don't get home until 6:30 ＿|￣|○ Anyways, I'm caught up watching stuff for the most part, so now I've got a backlog of stuff to blog here, but like I said, until I get adjusted to this schedule stuff'll get done when it gets done. It'd be helpful if I could make myself keep it short so I could do it quickly, but we'll see ;) Some news for now before I doze off here.New Promo Trailers from TBS/BS-i Asatte no Houkou (TBS Asatte no Houkou Site) Animation: J.C. Staff Watch here. Looking pretty good, so I'm looking forward to it. Also, Suara (Utawarerumono OP/ED) will be singing the OP/ED :) Hidamari Sketch (TBS Hidamari Sketch Site) Animation: Shaft Watch here. Looks cute and seems like it could be fun. I should read the manga... Yoakena (BS-i Yoakena Site) Animation: Daume Watch here. And y'all have all probably seen the trailers and OP/ED for that other BS-i show, Kanon. I'll have something to say about that later ;)
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