Earlier today, KOTOKO released her new single, Chercher, and as for as I know, it's her sixth "MAXI" single. As for why the single and the song featured was named "Chercher" (the pronounciation should be "cher-cher", I suppose), I have no idea at all. This song would be the ED of the OAV, Maria-sama ga Miteru (when translated into English, it becomes "The Virgin Mary is Watching Over You"), which will be released in Japan in November on the 29th, as the third season and a stand-alone movie anime, unlike it's previous two seasons, which are made into 13 episodes in each respective seasons. Meanwhile the anime has started to show in the Philippines, I haven't even heard of the anime till I do this post now.I have always been a fan of KOTOKO. Her songs have never let me down, from the days when I only have a PC game music video featuring the game "Farland Symphony" using KOTOKO's "Wing My Way", to the songs featured in this new single, although I didn't really enjoy the song "Tsukiyo no butoukai". Her songs usually have a unique flavour I do not know how to describe. Like for example, Wing My Way has the feeling of someone looking for a brighter future, meanwhile Chercher here has the feeling of joy and happiness one would have in school. Both songs also have adventurous feelings, too!Her last single was "being", and the song "being" itself was also the second OP of Shakugan no Shana. She has also being performing in other animes (mainly Geneon stuffs) such as Onegai Teacher and Onegai Twins. I had really like the song and still like it until now. Meanwhile I'm not sure about KOTOKO's age, she looked quite old in one of the photos during her appearance in Anime Expo 2005 in America. In anyways, she still looks pretty attracting in this single's jacket. So... if you are interested, go try the songs out. Note that they are for sampling only, so please support the artist by buying the original CD when it reaches your place (yeah... KOTOKO's singles/albums would never reach where I live). I've uploaded them specially to my Opera blog server, and as usual, do not hotlink.- Chercher - KOTOKO- being - KOTOKONote: Oh well... I didn't knew that this song would be an anime's ED. I was wanting to do a random update talking about the animes which I an downloading and the animes which are recently licensed in the states. Oh well, there goes.
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And…. with a fucking close margin….. Desu triumphs over Shana (sob sob sob). Voting Graph Fake votes Final Result: Total: 2108 votes casted No.1: Suisuiseki@Rozen Maiden [1471 votes (1746 votes in total, 273 fake)] No.2: Shana@Shakugan no Shana [1431 votes(1637 votes in total, 206 fake)] Margin: 42 votes(strangely, I’m halfway through the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy) Tis’ was a small margin… such [...]
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As Saimoe reaches the semifinals stage, I am pleased to report that not only has a Strawberry panic character got into the final stages, but Minamoto Chikaru beat the immensely popular Tohsaka Rin from F/SN to go through to the semifinal together with Shana, Suisuiseki and Fate Testarossa. The drawings for the semifinal are Shana Vs [...]
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I finally finished moving stuff around in my room and have the digital camera back, so as promised: Apologies if it's too shaky (digital camera video, I can't hold it steady and such), but I hope y'all like it :) And here's some of the stuff I've gotten since the digital camera broke (and wasn't fixed for a couple months). Not too much since I got the new laptop then ;) Here's my Dell Inspiron E1505. Worked pretty well for me since I got it at the end of July. Only got 15GB (of a 120GB hard drive) of space left, through, already (^^;;) And here we've got Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club DVD #1 (with only one episode, but cheap and with some extras), Shana DVD #1, Fushigiboshi no Futago Hime DVD #13 (the last one), and Fushigiboshi no Futago Hime Gyu! DVD #1. Here's the box that came with the first pressing of the last Futago Hime DVD. Very cute :) Anyways, I'm feeling much better today since I actually slept well for the first time in about a month or so. Got a bit of news here first, then I'll get to doing some catching up here. If you haven't voted in the poll yet, hurry up since it'll be closing soon. Glad to see Asatte no Houkou up there in the #3 spot :)Utawarerumono Shadow Warrior Chronicles Utawarerumono: Mask of a Stranger (via ANN) Well, looks like ADV listened and changed it to something more acceptable. Thank you :) Lik-Sang Forced To Close (via Gizmodo) Well, more bad publicity for Sony (I'm a Nintendo person, so it's not like I'd complain about that). Can't they get a decent PR person? (^^;;)
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And thus… the first Semifinal of this year’s Saimoe kicks off with the Shana vs Suisuiseki round. Thus far… “Burning Eyes” Shana has been quite lucky on her draws, with the only real challenge to her was her Quarterfinal battle, facing the immensely popular Eri Sawachika from School Rumble. However, she is facing an extremely strong competition [...]
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Anything which panders to my love of gratuitous magic circles can’t be bad. Yuji is dead, apparently. Well, that’s what the stroppy girl with the trenchcoat and sword is telling him. Apparently those monsters, or Rinnes, she just killed had devoured his existence, leaving him as a Torch – the remaining dregs of his being, slowly [...]
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I got these goodies at near the end of August (click on images to enlarge): DVDs: Clockwise, from top left: Witchblade vol 2, Jigoku Shoujo vol 8, Simoun vol 1, Ah! Megamisama Sorezore no Tsubasa vol 2, Kagihime Monogatari vol 5, Mai Otome vol 8, and Shakugan no Shana vol 7. Scans of Witchblade box [...]
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I bought this figure a while ago from bj0rn the stalker, and never had time to fix it up until yesterday, during my weekly photoshoot with tjhan. And I think some of you guys took this post about him too seriously. It’s a joke, everything is a lie, except for the part where he has 3 [...]
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After all the questions that were asked, here are the answers and I wonder who would be the top scorers ^+^ The answers are….. 1. Gao~ = Misuzu from AIR 2. De arimasu~ = Wilhemia from Shakugan no Shana, Keroro from Keroro Gunsou 3. Miipa~ = Rika from Higurashi 4. Desu~ = Suisei Seki from Rozen Maiden, note green [...]
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Wow, see, I like their, you know, animal girl line of figures, but before we go there, let's continue the laundry list of shitty figures. Next up ion the list is a sort of grossly sneering Shana figure from Shakugan no Shana. The hair is that semi-see-through stuff… and the pose looks like it roots [...]
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