I could not resist this title once it popped in my head. It’s just entirely too appropriate. Remember all the waffling I was doing over 7 and 8, going “ehhh, this powered armor superhuman thing is…” that pretty much made those posts pretty dumb? After seeing 10, I no longer care about that kind of thing, Now [...]
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Hirano Aya held a small event Sunday afternoon for the release of a special Animate edition of her second idol DVD, Love Story.The picture at right, from her blog, she describes as herself waiting in the wings, looking like an idiot.She thanked the fans for coming out in bad weather and said it was cold -- as she found out during the question and answer session (below left) when she was in bare feet.In other news, the set list for her album Riot Girl is out:Love Gun, Hero, MonStAR, Ashita no Prism, Breakthrough (new version), Boken Desho Desho?, Aimai Scream, Yorokobi no Uta, Maybe I Can't Good-bye, Neophilia, Harmonia Vita, For You, Hoshi no Kakera, Riot Girl (fourteen songs, six of them new).The album will be out on July 17, and she will do a three-city "Riot Tour" in October-November: Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka.There is a clip from the Riot Girl PV on this page. To be honest, it doesn't do much for me.But her work as Chiko in The Daughter of Twenty-faces (Nijuumensou no Musume), just gets better, as we reach episode ten. It's her best work ever, it seems to me.
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It’s Nijuu Mensou no Musume Episode 9 and Chiko and Shunka decide to start looking into the disappearance of Twenty Faces, and Shunka has a guess as to who he may really be. In the meantime, and old friend of Chiko returns. Go Straight to the Screenshots | Go Straight to the Review Chiko’s aunt invites [...]
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Now this is more like it. I’m not a big fan of the new and angsty Ken, but he does spice up things a bit if he continues to develop like that (which is very likely, considering the nature of this series). This episode pushes the plot forward again, and I’m glad to see that [...]
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It’s episode 8 of Nijuu Mensou no Musume, and the mysterious lady and her large sidekick go off in search of Chiko, hoping that she can show them to Twenty Faces’ legacy, something which they hope will allow them to finalize research on a weapon which was started during the war. Go Straight to the Screenshots [...]
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There has been less anime for me this month since Code Geass and Macross Frontier both took a week off, and the subbing of Kamen no Maid Guy and Nijuu Mensou no Musume seems to have slowed to a crawl (with a little activity this week). I was out of town for several stretches [...]
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With Chiko returned to her “loving” (and now, actually murderous) aunt, and her PR being handled by the slimey Akine, she ekes out an existence in a manner even more catatonic than she was in episode 1 - even willingly eating her poisoned soup. However, once it is insinuated by a mysterious detective named [...]
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Before I start on the episode - what’s the significance of the “utsushiyo” of the title of this episode (”utsushiyo no yume”)? It’s my understanding that the manga this show is based on was subtitled “Utsushiyo no Yoru”, and those of you who’ve watched Ghost Hound will be familiar with the term as it’s [...]
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The crew goes back to England again (at least I presume it’s England in bizarro Nijuu Mensou world) and poses as a circus troupe in order to carry out their latest heist. But how will Chiko cope when she has to betray a girl she’s made friends with to be successful? This episode [...]
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I was browsing the many OP/ED Reviews by ffviiknight and that’s when I saw the OP for Nijuu Mensou no Musume. I found the OP rather interesting and thought, “Cool! I’ll give it a try.” Hence, began my online search as I try to locate the videos. It was tough finding the videos and I [...]
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