Beck is a lot like the younger rebellious brother of Nodame Cantabile. While the latter is about students, classical music and orchestras, the former is about a bunch of middle and high-school kids who try to start a rock band. Nodame Cantabile was very much up-beat and a positive series, while Beck is much darker, [...]
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Ah, I managed to finish this one just in time for the second season that starts in October. Nodame Cantabile is a series about classical music: it follows the rise of a brilliant conductor named Chiaki, and how he spends his college years. If for some reason, you needed any more reasons as to why [...]
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Nodame Cantabile's manga artist Tomoko Ninomiya had revealed in an August 11 blog entry that she was several months pregnant and would take a break to have her baby. Which means her manga will be on temporary hiatus from Kodansha’s biweekly Kiss magazine until the issues that ship in October [...]
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...to make you strive to continue on following a show. Yes, I'm looking at you, World Destruction. Whenever I think of whether to continue following World Destruction, I end up watching Nodame Cantabile instead, the anime with mascots and splendid music (and story) too. Juxtaposed side-by-side each other, obviously, World Destruction is no match against Nodame Cantabile, unless we're talking about pure silliness and randomness and mascot cuteness in these two shows.
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For this interview, we’ve delved into the depths of absurdity to bring you Shin from Atarashii Prelude. You’d think that a blog named after the Nodame Cantabile OP would be romantic and wholesome, but of course you’d be wrong. Whether it’s using Photoshop exactly as Adobe intended, or making jokes that make you feel [...]
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Upcoming fall series Kuroshitsuji has a website now, and on it is a 2-minute promo video. It requires Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player though, so I've uploaded it for those of you who have troubles getting it to play. Nitroplus game Chaos;Head is getting an anime adaptation this fall, and they've opened a new website for it. You may remember that last year around this time NTV aired a three-hour Death Note special that covered the entire L arc. Well they've announced that they'll be airing another one on August 22nd, this time covering the Near/Mello arc. Web series Axis Powers Hetalia is getting an anime adaptation. Junjou Romantica 2 has been confirmed to start in October of this year. The Queen's Blade anime adaptation now has a website. MOON PHASE reports that the Seto no Hanayome OVA will be released on November 28. Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter will start on October 9 in the Thursday night noitaminA timeslot. The Macross Frontier Superlive was last night, and mainichi.jp has pictures and a report from the event. Pretty much all the songs from the series were performed, including Kanno Yoko herself playing a piano version of Triangular to Sakamoto Maaya's singing. Nakajima Megumi and May'n finished the concert by performing the new OP Lion together. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the new OP will premiere on this upcoming week's episode. If you find anything that you think I should mention on any particular day’s Daily Dose, please send me an email with the words “ANIME NEWS” somewhere in the subject line. Image at left courtesy of あさの on pixiv (account needed to access)
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I am back from my trip, and it's been no less than fun fun fun :D I had such a great time staying at the hamster's den, not simply because she and her entire family were such kind hosts (smothered us--me and my officemate/ travel buddy, the hamster's buddy as well--with love, foodies especially <3), but because we got to spend time together with the hamster chef, her sister, and the rest of the hamster's buddies (including our duck chef BeLe :P)--quality bonding time playing Wii until the wee hours of the morning~ Hanging out someplace in Davao City in the morning, playing Wii at home at night. That's basically our "leisure lifestyle" throughout the trip, with the scrumptious snacks and meals in between *yum yum*
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Just to follow up on what Kabitzin started and this post is dedicated to dear Shin of Atarashii Prelude (cool blog name because Nodame Cantabile rocks). So while Kabitzin has mischeviously teased Shin and Ranka fanboys on whether THEFT IS MOE, we would like to see how MOE the Ranka sign is when used by real [...]
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With One Piece out for a breather, there goes one of my regular titles. I was hoping for translations for Fullmetal Alchemist c.85, Psyren c.30, and Nodame Cantabile c.125. Alas, I was to be disappointed. Maybe this coming week.  I was about to add Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles in this week’s roster, [...]
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Let us cry. I finished the Live-Action Drama version of Nodame Cantabile a while ago (a few hours, actually), and I didn’t realize that this series also fell under the “shoujo” catergory after stumbling across Wikipedia (midnightrose’s favourite site). So I might have said that I despised all shoujo series because of its typical storyline [...]
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