TOMOYO BANZAI. Needs moar Tomoyo After. OH TOMOYO~ D3 1位　675票　坂上智代���CLANNAD(Sakagami Tomoyo@CLANNAD) 2位　398票　シェリル・ノーム���マクロスFRONTIER(Sheryl Nome@Macross FRONTIER) 3位　121票　坂井千草���灼眼のシャナII(Sakai Chigusa@Shakugan no Shana Second) D7 1位　482票　ヴィルヘルミナ・カルメル���灼眼のシャナII(Wilhelmina Carmel@Shakugan no Shana Second) 2位　397票　六瓢代理���鴫守���しぎもり���������我が家のお稲荷さま。(Mubyou Dairi(Shigimori)@Wagaya no Oinari-sama.) 3位　161票　久遠寺夢���君が主で執事が俺で(Kuonji Yume@Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de) D11 1位　564票　宮子���ひだまりスケッチ 特別編(Miyako@Hidamari Sketch Tokubetsuhen) 2位　341票　アディリシア・レン・メイザース���レンタルマギカ(Adilicia Ren Mathers@Rental Magica) 3位　163票　音無芽留���さよなら絶望先生(Otonashi Meru@Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei) Yay, all predictions in. Based solely on camps this would have been very clear. KyoAni, Shana and HS. And [...]
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Group D3 有効コードがある票の順位 1位　675票　坂上智代���CLANNAD [Sakagami Tomoyo @ CLANNAD] 2位　398票　シェリル・ノーム���マクロスFRONTIER [Sheryl Nome @ Macross Frontier] 3位　121票　坂井千草���灼眼のシャナII [Sakai Chigusa @ Shakugan no Shana II] Group D7 有効コードがある票の順位 1位　482票　ヴィルヘルミナ・カルメル���灼眼のシャナII [Wilhelmina Carmel @ Shakugan no Shana II] 2位　397票　六瓢代理���鴫守���しぎもり���������我が家のお稲荷さま。 [Mubyou @ Wagaya no Oinari-sama] 3位　161票　久遠寺夢���君が主で執事が俺で [Kuonji Yume @ KimiAru] Group D11 有効コードがある票の順位 1位　564票　宮子���ひだまりスケッチ 特別編 [Miyako @ Hidamari Sketch] 2位　341票　アディリシア・レン・メイザース���レンタルマギカ [Adilisia Lenn Mathers @ Rental Magica] 3位　163票　音無芽留���さよなら絶望先生 [Otonashi Meru @ Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei] ;A; Sheryl! [...]
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Group D-03 Results: 1位　675票　坂上智代���CLANNAD (Tomoyo Sakagami @ “CLANNAD”) 2位　398票　シェリル・ノーム���マクロスFRONTIER (Sheryl Nome @ “Macross FRONTIER”) 3位　121票　坂井千草���灼眼のシャナII (Chigusa Sakai @ “Shakugan no Shana II”) Group D-07 Results: 1位　482票　ヴィルヘルミナ・カルメル���灼眼のシャナII (Wilhelmina Carmel @ “Shakugan no Shana II”) 2位　397票　六瓢代理���鴫守���しぎもり���������我が家のお稲荷さま (Dairi Mubyou (Shigimori) @ “Wagaya no Oinari-sama”) 3位　161票　久遠寺夢���君が主で執事が俺で (Yume Kuonji @ “KimiAru”) Group D-11 Results: 1位　564票　宮子���ひだまりスケッチ 特別編 (Miyako @ “Hidamari Sketch”) 2位　341票　アディリシア・レン・メイザース���レンタルマギカ (Adilicia Ren Mathers @ “Rental Magica”) 3位　163票　音無芽留���さよなら絶望先生 (Meru Otonashi @ [...]
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Summary: Leon tells everyone that Vajra carrying machine guns must have killed President Glass, and so is able to become the new president. Outside, Klan Klein dons a ton of heavy weaponry while Luca tells Alto about Little Girl, the small MDE bomb on Island-3. The plan is to have Ranka sing and lure [...]
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I know why Nakajima Megumi is singing: Satelight is cutting her a check for every song, plus it’s not every big break that involves singing Kanno Yoko songs. Why Ranka is singing, however, proves to be a much more problematic, uh, problem. I must admit, when I saw 19 (yesterday ;__;) I screamed blasphemous words towards [...]
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If I close my eyes it will all just go away… We get a very Ranka-centric episode this week, which is kind of sucky I would have liked it better had they spent more time focusing on the aftermath of Michel-kun’s death. But with so few episodes to go, I guess they don’t really have time [...]
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Didn’t see that coming…? So, last week was one heck of an episode. Wasting no time, we’re immediately shown Leon taking advantage of the situation and taking command of the Frontier fleet (now that the President is out of the way). His first command is to detach the Battle Frontier from the main fleet, which causes [...]
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I finally got to see the new Clone Wars computer animated film, which just opened here. One of the minor agonies of being a Star Wars fan in Japan is having to wait an extra long time for films to open, because George Lucas likes Japan and always wants to personally be here for any of his film releases. Whenever a new Star Wars film comes out, my son and I pick through it to see what character names were obviously inspired by Japanese words, like Count Dooku's name from doku meaning poison, or the obi in Obi-Wan meaning a kimono belt. The new character in this film was Anakin's padawan Asohka, which seems like it can only have come from the phrase ah, so ka? meaning, "Oh, is that so?" The new film was obviously inspired by Japanese animation to a certain degree, and I noticed the animators even followed the recent convention of including an okama or gay character, in the form of the makeup-wearing Ziro the Hutt, nephew to Jabba. It's quite common for recent anime series to feature one effeminate male character, called okama kyara in Japanese, to provide comic relief and act as a foil for the main characters. Some examples of these fabulous characters include Leeron, the capable and flamboyant engineer from Gurren Lagann, and Bobby Margot, the helmsmen of the Macross Quarter from Macross Frontier, so manly and yet so girlish. Heck, Gonzo's gorgeous Romeo x Juliet anime remix even featured an okama character: it was William Shakespeare himself, repurposed as a mentor to the starcross'd lovers.As for the Clone Wars film, hrrm, it was a nice extension of the Clone Wars animated shorts, that's for sure. As long as you hypnotize yourself into pretending you're a 12 year old boy again, it was great.
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First of all, I will say that I applaud Ranka for finally leaving behind everything that has entangled her for so long on Frontier and boldly searching for the truth herself at where must have been the most dangerous place she knows to be. At this point, the Vajra, having inflicted indescribable pain on Frontier, are [...]
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Macross Frontier seems to have taken a delightfully serious turn in recent weeks, culminating in the Vajra shitstorm that left homes destroyed, families mourning, Michel buying the pineapple salad and Ranka being whisked away by Brera to take her pet Vajra home. Klan has so far been a bit of a minor character but here [...]
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