So it's Mine's turn to shine… I guess. It may just be me, but the way the episode opened with Mine mimicking Chiaki's entrance the previous episode made me really lawl. I'm not quite sure why, but I'm guessing it's because of the dorama. Seeing as it's already finished, I know who Mine really is and [...]
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Nodame Cantabile is really good. I quit covering SaiGar because I got distracted watching 135 episodes of Naruto am too busy with my schoolwork. I might return to it when it wraps back around to the top of the brackets.
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Episodes: 23 Genres: Comedy, drama, music, romance, shoujo, slice-of-life Studio: J.C. Staff OP: “Allegro Cantabile” by SUEMITSU & THE SUEMITH ED: “Konna ni Chikaku de…” by CRYSTAL KAY Official Site: http://www.nodame-anime.com/ Rating: 9.5/10 Impressions: Now this is what I call a good anime. I guess I kinda knew I was going to blog this before watching it, even though I said I wouldn’t. [...]
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Harsh, Chiaki. Harsh. Summary: This episode introduced Mine Ryuutarou, a violinist who is preparing for a violin jury seeking a pianist to accompany him playing Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 5. Chiaki had been set to be his partner before, but quit after insulting his skill. Nodame trips over the power cable for the amp [...]
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Apologies for the sudden and unannounced hiatus; I know many of you will have experienced unpleasant withdrawal symptoms due to a lack of your daily Azure Flame, but I must assure you that this period has been equally painful for me as well. Due to a recent bout of gale force winds, some local power [...]
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Beautiful song Rating: 9.5/10 The artwork in the first few minutes of this episode almost put me off, and I was thinking “Wtf? Why do people even bother watching this?” Now, I’ve watched the episode three times since yesterday, and I’m still listening to it as I write this entry. My diamond in the ruff [...]
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The second episode of VVV ceases to impress - the artwork isn’t exactly fantasic, and the story seems to be progressing a tad slowly. Actually, the episode isn’t that bad - they covered quite a bit of ground in terms of sumire coming to terms with her new goals in life and things like that, [...]
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This (Nodame Cantabile) has been my most anticipated anime of 2007 so far (apart from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu S2 of course). Even though I haven’t read the manga as of yet (stupid local bookstore, it doesn’t stock any Viz titles >_have watched the dorama version. Which in its own was simply fucking amazing. One [...]
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Well, this is slightly disappointing after last week's episode. I think the animation dips slightly down in this one. Mine's face, for example, is rarely consistent in this series. Prior to watching the live action, I always thought that Mine's hair in the manga is a lot better than Eita's hair in the live-action. Now, however, it's kind of strange to see Mine with short, cropped hair. I also kind of suspected that the animators won't animate much of the hand movement but the result is a bit disappointing. They often rely on visual tricks such as shadow or static still but I don't think it works as well. I hope this won't be a big problem when the series reaches the part where everyone gets to perform on stage. On the positive side, I like the drawing style, which I don't think is that similar to Honey and Clover. If anything, the character design reminds me a bit of The Adventures of TinTin.
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phew, apartment internet is so slow! ~_~ About the new episode of Nodame Cantabile, I felt that they might be cutting down too many stuff from the original manga. However, I was definitely used to Chiaki and Nodame’s voice this time. Animation:10/10 BUT I didn’t like 3D work too much. Though it probably is really accurate [...]
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