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Another new writer has been spawned here at T.H.A.T., and this would be my first official blog post. I'm pretty much an anime junkie and I've been so for quite awhile. I'm watching several shows this season and I am planning on blogging a couple of them here on this site. Hopefully I can bring to light some shows that not everyone and their mother already watch that the readers here might pick up and enjoy with me. If you can get past the piles of romance and moeblob out there (don't get me wrong, some of it is good), I think this season has a lot of great shows to watch. For now, I'll be blogging on a couple of shows, trying things out and generally seeing what is the most interesting stuff to throw at you. That being said, here's a summary and some thoughts on one of this season's gems, Night Wizard Episode 4.
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I seem to remember the Kaguya myth being somewhat different from this.
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*sigh* Intro: I’m doing this as I watch it so I won’t forget any details. As soon as I saw the girl sitting in her high chair drinking tea, the legions of people and the guy in a school outfit I wasn’t impressed. I was thinking “this HAS to be a parody…right?”, and then [...]
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  No time for love, Dr Jones.
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  I conduct yet another experiment with a show I knew nothing about. And this time, I was surprised, even delighted, at this peppy, funny, and well-animated show that bears such a serious-sounding title. To the degree that I may end up following this one long term.
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Kimikiss Wow...I thought Clannad had a big cast, but I can't remember two-thirds of the characters in Kimikiss's names. If I had to guess from the first episode, I'm guessing by the end we'll have at least two couples: Mao x Quiet, Delinquent-Looking Dude Sitting Next to Her, and Guy Who Showed Up First And Is Presumably the Male Lead x Shy Girl in His Class that He Blushes Looking At. But
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Hiiragi is forced to become a student in Elis’s class. Elis remembers back to what happened when she spoke with Anzelotte. She explained to them that monsters have existed throughout history and are known as Emulators. Only Wizards can fight them. Because of Elis’ bracelet, she’s now a wizard, and since the jewels in her [...]
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  Party to be held at South Pole.
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Opening Sequence: OP: “KURENAI” by Miyazaki Ui
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Um, what in the world did I just watch? Anyways, the first five minutes were somewhat confusing as we see Hiiragi entering what has to be the Earth’s atmosphere … in nothing but his school uniform. What? Last time I checked things burn up when entering the atmosphere, oh well whatever. Summary Next scene we have this [...]
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Title: Night Wizard the Animation Studio: HAL Film Maker Genre: Adventure Ratings (out of 5): Story: ♥♥♥♥ Animation: ♥♥♥ Character Design: ♥♥♥ OP/ED Themes: ♥♥♥ Overall: ♥♥♥♥ (A goodnight kiss is definitely on the first-date gameplan.) Thoughts: I’ll be the first to say that the individual elements of Night Wizard are, at least in the first episode, pretty mediocre. What I like about the show, [...]
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Series Information ANN Encyclopedia | AniDB | AnimeNfo Genres: Adventure, Fantasy OP: [KURENAI] by Ui Miyazaki ED: [Erinyes] by BETTA FLASH ナイトウィザード The ANIMATION [ Episode 1 ] A loli that kidnaps you to do her bidding? I AM SO THERE!
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OP: “KURENAI” by Ui Miyazaki - The OP isn’t bad, but not anything really new either. The animation seems to be taken out of scenes from the first episode.
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Mokke Mokke was one of the two series I’ve been looking forward to the most for this season, and it doesn’t disappoint. What we have here is two sisters who live at a local shrine. One of them can see spirits, the other is easily possessed by them. There’s a very nice combination of slice-of-life and [...]
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Verdict: not watching. Baddie designs are reminiscent of Otogi-juushi Akazukin. The gar guy was cool until I found out that his “I’ll defeat these bastards and then go to school!!” line was a repeated gag, thereby making him not gar. The music was very cool, but I won’t fall for that one again. [...]
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Though I’m sure I’m alone in this, I was very much anticipating this title. It looked like it would have a fantasy/magic-using theme to it, and I really enjoy that genre. Unfortunately, the recent Deltora Quest bored me greatly. I’m pleased to say that this is rather impressive so far. The characters are interesting enough [...]
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Maybe it’d work better as a Day Wizard?
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Jeez, what a slow trickle of trailers today. Rather, they were around, but I have meetings and shit like that to attend, so there you go. Next up on the list of trailers is Night Wizard, the anime adaptation of a table top RPG. The animation looks pretty good, and those nerds have some badass [...]
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Enterbrain announced the production today of upcoming TV anime Night Wizard, based on the "table talk" (Japanese jargon equivalent of tabletop or PnP) RPG by the same name. Direction will be handled by Yamamoto Yuusuke, most recently the director of Welcome to the NHK; given the spotty history of Japan-animated tabletop RPG spinoffs I'm not quite sure what to make of this, and while I have a hunch that it's headed straight for the mediocrity barrel it won't be for lack of interesting subject matter. (no more)
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