COLLAB REVIEW! Os: I just saw the preview for the new Negima OVA and I'm still crying in joy. Unlike the trash that was the TV series by Xebec, Shaft's Negima?! is *gasp* GORGEOUS. Really, words cannot express how excited this promo makes me feel and how high my expectations are. If it's ANYTHING like the [...]
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Watched the Negima OVA preview that’s been floating around and I think a lot of the skepticism that I had about it when it was first announced has gone away a bit. The character designs don’t look as bad as I first perceived them in the first magazine scans. All of the girls look pretty [...]
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Good Friday morning to everybody. At work a bit early today, so the blogging for what I posted last night will have to wait 'til I get home ;) Anyways, some news that y'all will like first.Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha 3rd Season (via MOON PHASE) ｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━ｯ!! Instead of an OVA we get a new season. Coming in 2007, the title for this season is StrikerS as you can see from the photo above from the Nanoha booth at Comiket -- appropriate title considering. Now, the question is what setting will they use? Are they going to use older Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate that we saw at the end of A's? I'd prefer maybe 2 or 3 years down the line instead of 6, but we'll see. Anyways, I'm happy :) Hidamari Sketch Site Open Story summary and 4-koma manga up. I've read good reviews of the Hidamari Sketch manga, so I'd like to read it before the anime starts... see how much books this semester cost and we'll see if I can buy manga.. got to pay off my new laptop, too (^^;;) Fall WOWOW Lineup (via MOON PHASE) Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club Season 2 - October 5 (Thursday) at 18:00 Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo - October 5 (Thursday) at 24:00 Soukou no Strain will likely take The Third's timeslot. More Negima!? (via Neko to Negima! to Seiyuu-san) A couple more scans about Negima!? from recent magazines for y'all here: More scans of stuff here. Sounds like cards and battling will be prominent in Negima!?, fitting for its afternoon timeslot. The cards (check the background of the second scan) are a bit different than the Pactio cards in the manga, and there are multiple cards for each character. The cards with SD characters are apparently called "Friendship Cards". Looking at all the information out recently, it looks like they're going to go mostly original for Negima?!. If so it's rather disappointing, but I'll try and watch it as something different from the manga and hope SHAFT can bring us something entertaining as they did with Paniponi :) Anyways, to really do justice to the manga you'd need to go 52+ episodes..... btw, volume 15 (included with DVD digest of the Spring OVA) is out next week (though some shops are apparently selling it now) and the full Spring OVA will be out October 25.
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Welcome to a little section that I’d like to call, the Dub Domain! This is where I’m going to be reviewing some of the voice work that our American companies do to the anime they bring over. Now before you hit the back button on the browser and call me a noob, hear me out. [...]
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And it's the last week of summer before classes at UGA get started up again next Wednesday. Where did all the time go? (^^;) A bit of news from today and over the weekend for now:Otakon Licenses (via ANN) ADV did good picking up Utawarerumono, outside of changing the title to "Shadow Warrior Chronicles".... really, just leave the title as Utawarerumono, please (^^;;) Funimation picked up both seasons of School Rumble... not much of note other than those two. Kadokawa Shoten had a panel where a representative mentioned that they are in talks with various companies about licensing Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, and that it should be released next year. If I had to choose, I'd hope Geneon would pick it up since they're usually quick about things. Keep all the extras, and please, please encode it at a high bitrate and put it on a dual layer DVD9. Hopefully someone will pick up the novels as well since the Haruhi anime is heavily slanted towards those who've already read the novels. Negima!? Dated (via MOON PHASE) Starts October 4th at 17:30, and a serialization of it by Takuya Fujima is slated to start in Comic Bonbon.... 17:30, not late night? The first season could've run at that time since there was next to no service or pantsu so it's not surprising, I suppose, but still... the serialization in Bonbon would seem to indicate it will be targeted towards a younger audience as well. Just have to wait and see how it turns out... Idolmaster Anime - Idolmaster XENOGLOSSIA (via MOON PHASE) The game where you, as producer, make a girl into the most popular idol there is.... will be made into an anime by the Mai-HiME people at Sunrise? Yeah, there'll be robots. Dunno about live events ;) Director is Tatsuyuki Nagai (Honey & Clover II), series composition by Jukki Hanada (Rozen Maiden series).
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KAWAII~~~~~~~~ .....but for some reason…. I was thinking, “I hope it’s not a trap. I hope it’s not a trap.”, over and over again, when I saw her. Something is very wrong with me. Takahata-sensei kakkoi! Seriously, Akamatsu needs to stop making the cameo characters so cute. Suddenly, I really want to see more of Chibi-chan.
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I got back sometime yesterday, managed to stop over in Singapore for a while and picked these up, probably my biggest manga purchase in a while, if not ever. Sorry for my crappy photography. Hung’s been raving about these. Picked up the first volume to give it a try, getting the other 2 was pretty [...]
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.... well a fake one that is… but still… sugoii~~~. I so want her Artifact. And I wholy agree that Paru-made’s Artifact would so pwn is she uses it for doujins.
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Published in Weekly Shounen Magazine 34 (2006) It turns out that the magic user that created the illusion that pwned the Negi’s Harem Negi Party is a moelicious loli kindergartener who is the daughter of Mitsuru Nijuuin (the fat magician). “I’m sowwy…” Being made to fight the person who just rejected her, Asuna threats that she’s [...]
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  ‘Lo everyone, it’s been a while ^_^. My computer is all fixed and lovely, so I thought I would get up out of my bed of laze and do something imaginative for once… So I wrote a short fic about one of my favourite alternative pairings, Evangeline and Chachamaru from Negima. Its pretty short, so it [...]
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