.Summer ’08 on paper is actually a really crappy season. No big title actually highlighted the season that everyone in their respective genres couldn’t wait for like Spring’s Code Geass, Vampire Knight and Itazura na Kiss. If you would look at everyone’s Summer Season Picks, it’s filled with a lot of “maybes”. Here are three titles that I watched and felt that they don’t deserve their own entries:Birdy The Mighty Decode *What else was I supposed to expect with a title like this?What… the… hell was that? Ugly alien fugitives running amok with alien police running after them on Earth and it just so happened that a young boy was in the area and became involved. Nothing new, but considering that the title is a decade or so old, it may have been revolutiona- No! I don’t like the art, the character designs are blegh, the music is like something from a bad 70s police drama-comedy, I don’t find anything appealing about the storyline. What a waste of 24 minutes and 9 seconds of my life. On instinct, I didn’t want to watch this already because the title is… well, crap. But as a general rule, I never judge a book by it’s cover, I should listen to my instincts more. But it was quite a hit when OVAs were released back in the 90s. But considering that the anime series failed to pique my interest, I don’t really want to bother anymore.Strike Witches 01 * Lolis with no pantsApparently in 1939, aliens came and started blowing up things for no apparent reason, which brought about the scarcity of pants and skirts for women. In order to save the world from their panty-wearing existence, scientists invented The Striker Unit using magic (HAH???) and they gathered lolis witches from all over the world to work the magic and fight the aliens. The people who are fighting people them aliens are picking up candidates and one special girl (there’s always one) who was being recruited into their line of work. Again… what the hell was that??? Is GONZO that desperate for a hit that they are exploiting the loli pantyshot moe subculture that much??? I mean, I’m not a whiny feminist who has anything against fanservice. Nowadays, in order to be an anime viewer, you will have to have a calm acceptance of things like this. I mean, having them once in a while is fine (and more often than not, funny) unless the genre is really ecchi. Actually, even if you are into loli pantyshots, the novelty of it wears out after the first 2 minutes – unless you’re a pedobear. It’s such a shame though, the concept looked interesting if they wrote it good enough. But WTF!?!?Sekirei * Screw this... Next!OK, I admit. I really have a prejudice against this show. I saw the promo and just thought, “The hell is this crap?” In fact, I told people I wasn't gonna watch this (though with the way things are going, I’ll probably just settle for Antique Bakery and World Destruction), I watched it anyway and just thought, “The hell is this shit?” Seriously, after being so pissed off by watching Birdy and Strike Witches, I couldn’t even get myself to finish this anymore and just deleted it.What a waste of an hour. It would seem that a lot of anime released this season are ecchi versions of Aa! Megami-Sama – loser guy ending up with a powerful woman who has huge knockers and little common sense to put on a bra (Not that I didn’t think Belldandy didn’t have common sense, but her naïveté was more because of innocence than actual lack of common sense). The only title that I like among the four things I watched but couldn’t watch because if I watched it, it would be under-appreciated if I didn’t watch the previous seasons first would be Slayers.Slayers Revolution 01 ~Amazing~I knew that this is a sequel of sorts from a 90s anime. I never saw that though – stupid network television scheduling shows in a time not conducive to high schoolers -_-* But I watched the first episode of the current season anyway. I actually found it funny. But I find myself appreciating the scenarios, dialogue and everything else because considering that it was a 90s anime, they tried not to upgrade much on the anime style to give it the same feel as when you watch 90s anime. Anyway, I feel compelled to search out the previous seasons of this anime before watching this..
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Note: If you’re wondering why I’m posting this here and not over there, I just felt that this was a more appropriate location for these types of episodic posts. Besides, I am soooo behind that I won’t even make a dent with this entry. Nonetheless, I hope you’ll continue to enjoy reading…for [...]
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- The rumors for a sequel to Full Metal Alchemist and Darker than Black are not yet confirmed but BONES still have the possibility of continuing their project (Yeahhh!!) or maybe not (Boooo!)… As for me, I absolutely loved the two series and I’ll be glad if there would be any sequels to them but [...]
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So, the first season of Vampire Knight has finally come to an end, but a second season is already on the way. This was a weird episode to me, it combined chapters that were roughly 20-22, but then all of a sudden they stuck in an important scene from chapter 30. Well, I hope in [...]
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Extended weekend fuuuuuuuu~! Finished Vampire Knight season one, which was crap (started out well enough, but didn’t go anywhere interesting, and moved too slowly). Finished Library Wars which was okay, but a little lukewarm. Finished Reaper’s Gale, the 7th volume in Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. If you like brick-sized [...]
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I wasn’t in CMX’s panel yesterday since I was busy at Kadokawa’s, but CMX apparently licensed only one new title: The Name of the Flower　(Hana no Namae), a shoujo manga from Hakusensha’s Lala mangabon (the same one as Ouran Host Club and Vampire Knight), by Ken Saitou.　 The story is about a girl whose parents die, [...]
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The second part of the Cosfest 2008 photoshoot. I will not be linking the previous posts from now on, since they are easily accessible via my local RSS feed, found on the left sidebar. I will also be doing a consolidation post for all known blogs that covered Cosfest over at Team Blue. Once it is up, I will do a post covering all my coverage, as well as a link to the post for Team Blue, in an updates post. This is also an autopost.Here, we have the outdoor shots that will not be featured in the next 3 parts. I really liked the lighting we had today, despite the early rain in the first half of the afternoon, and this is the first time I felt proud enough of my shots (GG) to offer, should any cosplayer featured here want it, hi-res untouched originals of the shots I took. In fact, I saved almost all (not all) outdoor shoots, for this post and subsequent posts that have outdoor shots (and are not blurry due to motion or anything). So if you are interested in getting any of this in hi-res, please leave your name and email contact here. However I stress that I have friends who have probably taken far better shots than mine using better cameras, so you might want to look for those first, but just in case you do want, be sure to tell me which picture it is you want in hi-res, and I will see if I saved it.Not all external shots were listed here, so any cosplayers I took several of, you may find more at my Cosfest album. Photo-intensive post still, you have been warned.As usual, feel free to identify the cosplayers I did not manage to, or made a mistake in identification.I am unable to identify the girl on the left. The one in the middle is from Vampire Knight, no idea who since I never watched that, and the elf is Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War. In case you wonder why the elf looked familiar, I took a picture of her and her sister (at least, Squee says it is her sister) at Streetfest. I took a separate picture with the elf as well, but the pictures are with Squee. Character from FLCL. Pretty good too. I know immediately from the keyblade that this character is from Kingdom Hearts, but is it Sora? Last week at TCC I spotted this lovely cosplayer in the exact same costume but failed to take pictures of her. I made good this time round. From D.Gray-man, but as usual, I have no idea who the character is. Counter-terrorist from Counter-Strike. I hate Rozen Maiden, so I am not going to bother identifying any of these lolies. The scythe-wielding angel from earlier, now with loosened hair that makes her look even prettier. <3 Beatmania girl from earlier. Yes that is Soul Eater from Soul Eater in the background. I refused to take pictures of him and Maka. Though they were good, I gues, when it came to costumes. Another C.C. from Code Geass. A little girl, was she cosplaying? Not sure, even though she allowed photos of herself. Damn the light from the background for poor pictures of her. The earlier girl from D.Gray-man on the right, with this cosplayer that seems to be from the Final Fantasy series, but I am not sure who the character is, she is holding a gun and seems to be cosplaying a male though. This group gathered in a ring, then Hexlord stood upon a chair and took pictures of them from above. Can someone identify the series they are from? What you doin', mon?Walk like an Egyptian.If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life...That ends part 2 of the coverage. Next up, the Conga!External shots @ Cosfest,Panther
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This episode of Vampire Knight covers chapters 10-12 of the manga of Vampire Knight, and this episode of Vampire Knight goes into details about how Kaname, Yuki and Zero meet each other, when they were young. This episode also goes into details about something inside Yuki changing in this episode, that IMO is leading [...]
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Well, never expect the angst to end, eh? Good that Vampire Knight is taking a break till the Fall season comes and I won’t be writing down episode 12, ’cause it’s the same old stuff (And more angst than ever). I want to see modifications in Guilty (For those of you who are unaware, it [...]
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This episode of Vampire Knight IMO is very good, because of the scene where Zero drinks Yuki’s blood. I thought that the manga handled this scene better, due to the higher quality art. In the manga (chapter Eight) before Zero drinks Yuki’s blood, Zero says ‘Let’s us do something unforgivable’, which IMO sends a shiver [...]
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