That’s Bandai Entertainment, not Bandai “$50 for a volume of Galaxy Angel Rune!?!?!?!?!?” Visual. Anyway, it’s Sakuracon in the US this weekend, and in a not particularly surprising move Bandai Entertainment have announced that they’ve picked up Zegapain. With Zegapain being a Sunrise mecha show, I bet you are thinking I’ve been all over this title [...]
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Well~ I was staring around in my room when I realised that I never finished up this particular post. Just want to say that it’s been fixed up a long time ago but it’s just that I never posted about it. I’ll try to find time to actually bring it out for a photoshoot one of [...]
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If you like good looking anime with lots of action then this anime should be in your list. I still haven’t finished the anime but since there will be an OVA; I’ll going to see the difference between the animation quality of the OVA and the TV series. This anime is somehow similar to Zegapain [...]
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(for those of you who recognise this picture, please don’t spoil :P) Planetes is probably the most awesome work of Sunrise this decade I will recognise (second is probably Zegapain). The whole series is an exploration of humanity as a whole and probably a very accurate representation of what our near-future will be, particularly in the [...]
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Am I out of my slump? Unfortunately, no. I’m just happy to mark the fact that I had just finished NHK ni Youkoso! very early this morning (like 1-2 AM?), and I also managed to finish Zegapain a few days ago. I don’t know if I can squeeze a review from my brain though, [...]
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Alright. Everyone knows by now that I’m such a sucker for Tony Taka’s work and at C71, there’s a new release! This time it features Zegapain. Don’t know why the heck Minato is on the cover instead of Kaminagi or Shizuno.=\ Anyway, the artwork is faptastic superb! Frankly speaking, I’ve read the doujinshi. It’s real funny. [...]
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I can now exclusively reveal that the reason my blog is so HARD GAY is because I have Lui chained up in my basement.   As the days became depressingly short and winter tightened its grip upon the land, I had the great idea of summarising all the 2006 series I watched in one great ‘Annual Round-Up’; [...]
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My 2006 Anime Review These are my personal opinion and only on those anime that I watched. :) My Anime of the Year ARIA The Natural, Code Geass, Fate Stay Night, Mai Otome My Manga of the Year Suzuka, Tsubasa Chronicles, ARIA My Soundtrack of the Year AMG sorezore no TsubasaFate Stay NightGundam SEED Destiny Best The BridgeBinboushimai MonogatariAria The Natural My Theme of the Year Colour ~ Code Geass [OP ]We are not alone ~ Crescent Love [OP]Hoshi no Tobira ~ Gundam SEED Stargazer [OP] I decided to rate the anime with my expectation and enjoyment, rather than the quality or the anime as a whole, which is often disputable and differ with people's interest. Enjoyment: Enjoyable: Anime which is enjoyable to watch Fair/Content: Anime which is average or content to watch Disappointed: Anime which is disappointing to watch Expectation: Above Expectation: Anime which exceed expectation or impression As Expected: Anime which match expectation or impression Below Expectation: Anime which fall short expectation or impression Exceptional: Anime worth watching and enjoyable. Ah! My Goddess Sorezore no Tsubasa I am an avid fan of AMG but the second season really performed below my expectation, especially how it was concluded. Animation quality, soundtracks and settings were great. The way the material was delivered was weak. Air Gear Air Gear, had high expectation due to the manga but the quality in the anime degrade over time. Weeks after weeks, I gradually lost interest in it. ARIA The Natural Better than the first season and comprised 26 episodes. The settings, background and the music certainly make the anime enjoyable to watch. Surprised that spice-of-life anime could be so enjoyable. Bartender Didnt have much expectation but it is enjoyable to watch especially the information on the liquor and alchohol. Binboushimai Monogatari As expected.. wasn't much of interest and the quality degrade over time. Though the background music matched the anime veyr well. Binchotan Nice animation and simple story plot. Good for learning Japanese with the simple and short conversation. Kawaii is the cue of this anime. Code Geass Didnt expect Code geass to be this good. Although people mentioned several reference to GSD, I didnt really notice much similarity. Even so, it's distinct and interesting to watch. Not to mention that an antagonist is the main character. Crescent Love The one thing that sustain my interest in this anime is Feena, that's all. Animation quality degrade over time and a bit cheesy at the end. I rather have Tatsuya hurt critically but didnt die and was saved by magic, than having alien resurrect him. Fate Stay Night Already had high expectation but the duel choreography and the animation quality made it superb. Love Saber most. Excellent music background accompanying the emotion of each scenes. Gun Parade Orchestra Wonder why I bother watching it? Only the first part is acceptable, the 3rd part is crap. In general not an enjoyable anime to watch. Gundam Stargazer Expected a lot from Gundam but it's just 3 short OVAs. Gundam Noir is average but certainly Gundam Stargazer concept is new. Though simple but I like the quality and the gundam as always. Hope they would continue Stargazer as a series. I"s Pure Expected a lot from I"s pure since it's 6 DVDs release and the promo looked promising. There were too many silent scenes and much of the story/characters ommitted. But it's enjoyable to watch the manga animated, especially the previous OVA failed severely. Kanon Kanon, better than expected but not that exciting to watch for me. Superb quality, background music and character development. But something's missing that I didnt longeth for it every week. Strange... Lemon Angel Project A fairly good animation with musical idols as theme. Enjoyable to watch though not to eager. Background setting was good but the bacground music and themes were lame, considering it's an anime with music as the core. Mai Otome Mai Otome Zwei Included Mai Otome since a large part of it was broadcasted in 2006. Really enjoy Mai Otome, especially the otome robe design. Though storywise not a good as Mai Hime but it interesting and enjoyable to watch. Superb quality and also excellent background music. Really eager to watch more of Mai Otome Zwei. Muteki Kanban Musume An average anime but really love the humour, although it always repetitive. Wish there were more food elements in the anime than constant unaccomplished duels. Primo Passo Finally, an anime with heroine as the lead character of anime and classical music as the theme. Excellent quality and really enjoy the anime. Love the concluding Seed of Knowledge by the fairy Lili. Super Robot Wars I picked it up half-way after I saw the robots. The robots are nice, the characters are bad, the story is worse. Too many characters, bad animation quality, too many failed reference to GSD and poor story plot. Soul Link Fall below my expectation and didnt understand what's going on until the end of the series. Animation degrade severely over time. Suzumiya Haruhi Main deficit is the order of the anime. Would you like to watch a drama series that is not in order? Yes, humour's there, superb animation quality from Kyoto animation, what else? Didnt find the story too interesting. I must be the minority since it's a hit in Japan! Tokimeki Memorial Only Love Repetition of chasing event, chick fight and of course, Tokimeki Memorial is famous for its harem theme. Animation quality is quite good. The story plot's not that interesting but I just eager to watch it every week. Other people also felt this way. Why? Tsubasa Chronicles II Season II's a big disappointment. Not only quality dropped near the end, they added several new arcs that's not in the manga. Two or three would be acceptable but ending the series with an arc that's not in manga is disputable, not to mention that it was poorly concluded. Hope they'd follow the manga more closely in season III. Zegapain The animation quality is excellent especially the Zega. In fact, it has one of the best animated quality this year. The story got more exciting and interesting towards the middle of the anime, just in time before people start to lose interest in it. Zero no Tsukaima Excellent humour and really enjoyable to watch, although too much of the pants joke for me. Animation quality is fairly good. It's not an anime that copy Harry potter, it does have distinct storyline and I really like the concept on how the noble people treat earthly stuff as treasure.
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I haven’t been particularly well emotionally, which makes for bad writing. Some people work better when mildly insane (Nash, Anno, Beethoven, Tsubaki) but others’ work suffers along with their mental health. What has been causing this emo tj han? It’s the UMIZARU manga, that’s what! Plus Zegapain’s ending. Too much good emo stuff makes one [...]
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3 months after Zegapain finished airing in Japan on the 28th of September, we finally get to watch the final subbed episode of Zegapain. I must say that Zegapain is a beautiful and good anime, and by large, quite underrated and ignored by the anime community. Probably because it falls under the “Yuck Mecha” category. Well, I’ve [...]
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