GA Graphic has the honor of the first scoop from yesterday's inaugural Hobby Complex garage kit convention in Kobe, at which Goodsmile unveiled a prototype of a new Pastel Ink PVC figure from the POP-designed Moetan English phrasebook and anime. According to GA's coverage she's scheduled for a January '08 release, so we'll be watching for further details to appear on Goodsmile's official site soon. We'll also be bringing you further coverage of yesterday's Hobby Complex and Yokohama Dash 2 as fallout from the events makes its way online. (no more)
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  Moetan 4 starts out by showing some back stage stuff at a idol television filming session, and the idol is a loli looking girl named Alice. Then Ark-kun makes fun of Ink because of her small breast size, and we get to see Sumi get tormented by her maid again. Later that day Ink and [...]
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Short Summary: Not only the strange bunny girl on the roof, but also a dark "fog dog" seem to hunting Ark-san. The dog, who is a cute little cat in his animal form, is Ark's rival. He's meeting Sumi-chan, who sees her rival in Ink-chan, ans as she discovered by accident Ink is also "Pastel Ink" she apirs up with Ark's rival and changes into a magical girl herself. After saving someone from a dangerous situation Ink receives an email telling her she earned points for her help and she gets to know she has to collect points so Ark can return to his world. My opinion: After this episode I'm feeling uncertain wether I should continue blogging this show. It's supercute and fun to watch it, but I'm bored by summarizing it, as nothing really interesting is happening. It's a pure entertainment thing.
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Anime references in shows that try to be funny aren’t new these days. Still, Moetan makes fun of the maho shojo stereotypes. But you know what? I think its selling points are still the delightful moe moe loli girls, and that awful English. Oh, and don’t forget the little detective Conan work and some love [...]
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Not 6. It wasn’t explained what happened clearly what happened (a lot of things have happened, as the author of the article stated) but apparently, the next episode for broadcast will be “すみと瑠璃子のもえたんダイアリー” or (pardon my poor Japanese translation ability), “It’s completed! Ruruko’s Moetan diary-(Ruruko’s moetan diary is done)”, instead of the originally scheduled “始めてのデート” [...]
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What, a recap already? For those who thought Moetan was getting a bit too pervertedly loli, well, you're not the only ones.
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Short Summary: Nijihara Ink is a high school student, still she looks like she's only in elemntary school. Because of her small appereance poeple often treat her like a child. She's in love with a boy called Nao-kun; she dreams of attending university together, but Nao seems to be rather bad in English and it's not clear wether he will make it to university. Ink goes to a local shrine to pray for her and Nao's future, when a talking duck falls down from heaven. In reality the duck is a cursed magician from a magical country. Ink takes the duck - "Ark-san" - with her and is told she has to become a magical girl. First she refuses, but then she understands she can help other people with magic, especially Nao-kun, so she changes into "Magical Teacher Pastel Ink" and visits Nao-kun at home. Together they study English and have fun, till Ark-san behaves stupid and Nao tells them to leave and never come back. This night a strange girl appears in front of Ink-chan's house. She has come to find Ark-san. My opinion: What a supercute funshow. Ink-chan looks like a child, but she's not the annyoing type of Chibiusa-character. In fact I like her very much, as well as Ark-san, aka the duck. He's an pervert and it's just hilarious if a duck drools because of a little girl changing into a candy-holding loli-magical girl. I like the humour, character design and...everything :) It's not very special, I know, but it's mahou shoujo, and most of the time I can't resist that!
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Having seen spicy pictures of 17 yr olds masquerading as 8 yr olds in various issues of MEGAMI, I figured it’d be wise to abstain from Moetan for the sake of my battered online reputation and pristine derrière. But I was glad I yielded to the Dark Side my academic thirst for anything lolicious. 3 [...]
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Um, so QUANTUM MECHANICAL PARADOX works in Moetan, too! Interesting (Data’s tone)! Fascinating (Spock’s Tone)! Just with a little help of magic, Pastel Ink actually goes back to the past anbd shapes her crush into a gamer (rather than being a healthy young man who goes outside playing sports and dating different but [...]
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At school Sumi asks Nao to go to her villa for a vacation (date?), but Nao’s not interested, then Ink’s friends but in and invite themselves and Ink along. Nao says that if everyone’s going then he’s interested, and so Sumi basically has no choice. Sumi’s maid throws Sumi in the car while she’s still asleep, [...]
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Not quite sure why I'm still watching Moetan, but a lot of it is down to cuteness and my general affection for bad English. The latter is why I enjoy the radio show more than the anime itself, where humour comes in fits and spurts and the Engrish puns seem more of a sideshow than the main event. Ooh, and DVD1 comes with a Listening Radio CD~~ Anyway, more on the radio show - I know few people
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  At the beginning of episode 2 we see that one of Ink’s classmates, Sumi-chan also has a crush on Nao-kun, Sumi-chan is another loli looking girl like Ink. Sumi is a slightly spoiled rich girl whom has a maid that likes to torment her when she gets the chance. Like Ink-chan, Sumi-chan  is a very loli looking [...]
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  Moetan is an anime based on some English language study guides published in Japan targeted towards anime, manga, and video game otaku. These study guides were originally made fun of because of there poor quality in studying proper English usage, and these guides have even been parodied several times. The series follows the adventures of [...]
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In addition to the Pani Poni Dash trading figures we reported on earlier today, preorder pages are now up around the interwebs for Kotobukiya's earlier scooped Shining Wind Xecty and To Heart 2 Another Days Chie, as well as a partial reissue of their earlier released Moetan trading figure set (this one augmented with several limited edition repaints). All three items are set for release in November. (no more)
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I agree whole heartedly, Remi-san. Ink-chan’s adventures bring joy to my life too. Moetan has become like a necessary drug to relieve my rage when I watch School Days. It is so infectiously happy, cute, and bright compared to the oppressive fanservice, unimaginative uniforms, and stupidity of School Days. Even Nao-kun does not seem so annoying, [...]
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You know Ink-chan its better to piss on people rather than be pissed on. (Yes this picture is so wrong yet funny at the same time kinda like Post Colonial Africa) So I just completed my one weekend a month commitment and separated myself from my 360. I have no idea what conscript Impz is doing [...]
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