The promotional CGs were nice. The theme was cool. The girls were attracting......but the first episode of the anime was disappointing. Seriously disappointing. I don't see any strong points of the anime; The art sucks, the music sucks, even the story sucks, mainly because I don't understand a thing of the story. What is it all about?We were introduced to the male protagonist of this anime, Yorito, who has an enthusiasm for photography, and not just normal photography; he'd take photos of the sky. He claims that the sky is always different and they're never the same and there are many types of skies. That's not just it. He can be seen getting up as early as 4 in the morning just to have a glimpse of the sunrise scenery which would would disappear briefly. On this fateful day, he met a girl who was kicking a vending machine. What was a girl like her doing at a time like that? It's 4 in the morning! The girl claimed that she had inserted some money into the machine but nothing came out of it. Yorito decided to help her but by the time he managed to force out a can of tomato soup out of the machine, the girl was nowhere to be seen. It was also because of that Yorito had gone looking for her, making him miss the scenery he wanted to shoot.In school, Yorito told the whole story to a female classmate of his. Mana was her name. As Yorito was looking at the sky with his camera while Mana went over to him, asking him whether he ever gets boring taking photos of the sky. Yorito told her, "There's no way I'd get boring. There are so many changes (to the clouds in the sky)!"Co-incidently, that day was also the birthday of Yorito's younger* elder sister, Aono. Mana wanted to go shopping with him to buy a present for her. However, Yorito had already bought one. The two end up heading towards the hospital after buying a birthday cake. Hospital? Oh yeah, I forgot this, but it seems that Aono's a sick girl ever since she was born. Even her hair's white.In the hospital, we were introduced with another girl who was playing with Aono who happened to be Mana's younger sister. Somehow, this little lass prefers to call her elder sister by her name in which her sister 'chops' her head due to her rudeness. Actually, she's not that rude at all, but rather, she's a lass with quite an etiquette. As they were about to celebrate Aono's birthday, suddenly they hear a noise. It seems that there was a church that was being demolished opposite to the hospital. Yorito wanted to have a look outside but Aono told him not to pull away the curtains. But that didn't stop Yurito from doing it after seeing the sunset scenery outside the ward. Yurito with his camera.At night, Mana had followed Yurito home as she would be cooking dinner for him. She wasn't happy at all with how he had reacted earlier. It was his sister's birthday after all but Yurito didn't care much about it. As a result, Mana told Yurito to go outside and buy some ginger.It was then again Yurito saw the girl he saw a day before. She was kicking the tomato soup vending machine just like the first time he saw her. She was holding a sky-coloured umbrella. Suddenly a breeze blew as the umbrella slipped of her hand. Yurito picked it up and handed it over to her. From here on there's the long, boring story and so I'll skip them. From their conversation, Yurito got to know that the girl's name was Matsuri.Are these people perhaps another Nagi (Negima) and Suiseiseki (Rozen Maiden)?I'll continue from the part where Yurito suspected that Matsuri lived inside the church which was to be demolished. He then went to the church out of curiousity. Coincidentally, Matsuri was also being hunted by some mysterious man. Out of pure luck I guess, Yurito arrived at the scene before the mysterious man were to have his sword laid on Matsuri. The end for the first episode.Well, I guess the only thing that attracted me was the ending sequence. Look at how beautiful Matsuri was. The ED song wasn't that bad either, but I think I need more time to get used to it.
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I have a lot of stuff going on right now (more on that later), but since you guys miss me and all, I figure I should try blogging a bit. Anyway, with the new anime season continuing to mature, I thought I’d share some thoughts on the shows I’m watching… Sola - If you ask me, Matsuri [...]
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Today we glance over the June issue of Megami Magazine and its usual explosion of bishoujo visuals and pin-ups. Prevalent in this issue are your representatives of the newly aired Spring '07 shows and indeed enough of them to please and excite the amorous and eager explorers of two-dimensional female flesh. Does Megami succeed here in reeling in the reader with its voluptuous wiles? Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Nagasarete Airantou, Kamichama Karin Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo, sola, Touka Gettan, Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny iDOLM@STER XENOGLOSSIA, To Heart 2 OVA, Zero no Tsukaima ~Futazuki no Kishi~ Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica, Saint October, Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula, Hitohira Rocket Girl, Hayate no Gotoku, Negima!? (yet more) Negima!?, Seto no HanayomeMegami, as we've been seeing in several issues of late, has been this recurrent Nanoha machine -- in-depth features, posters (as usual), packed-in manga covers, standees, CD soundtracks, 1/1 real dolls (wait, that's not true) -- however, this issue we're seeing them falling back a bit with the Nanoha sally. And that makes this Nanoha fanboy, a little disappointed and flaccid in the gentleman's area. Indeed it's still featured as the main poster prize, but I suppose Megami has to take heed to the many new titles elbowing their way to get a fair slice of the attention pie. Despite how the styles seem to be noticeably less provocative as ye olde Megami issues would demonstrate, many fans of the new Spring shows (or the few, the proud, and the lewd that lurk this blog) should still be pleased with the selection that is served up here. Personally, it would have been nice to see Louise (and her fellow cast-mates) and the Hayate no Gotoku gang slip into something a little more... masturbatory, to the eyes, but we'll probably see more of that later as we're nearing into the heart of summer. A sighting of Yoko (of Gurren Lagann) would be justice as well. Sigh, I can only wish~Huge respect, it must be said, goes to the person responsible for the Hayate no Gotoku cover image, as he/she has taken the one scene that ignited a paroxysm of tingling sensations to yours truly and illustrated it... cleverly, I might add. A welcome variant to the traditional zettai ryouiki. Is there an actual term for this, by the way? :3I realised I have written more than I should have... uguu~ You people have eyes. If the posters gets your willy jumping (or for the female readers; ignites the yuri in you), buy this magazine. For the devoted buyers, the last few paragraphs of this entry are completely irrelevant.
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Koyori’s classmates drop by to see her and she tells them that she isn’t lonely since her sister visits her and she has someone to play with here, but she is hesitant to call Aono her friend. Back at home, Yorito sees Matsuri looking at the doll he bought which she thinks is cute. Mana [...]
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I don’t know what’s worse, really — finding out that a show you thought sucked actually becomes quite decent a few episodes later on, or realizing that the promising premise that a show kicks off with was nothing but smoke and mirrors. After watching sola 02 & 03 I think it’s developing into one of [...]
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Just to make the long story as short as possible, I'll go directly into the story and skip those minor minor details. And if possible, not to talk about the Ijok by-elections, our new king installation and Air TV & OAV's licensening in North America by ADV, in which all three happened earlier this week, lol. But hey, that had proved that, whatever they had said about harem animes being a waste of source, is totally not true!See that black CD reader up there? That's not any ordinary CD Writer, but it's a DVD Rewriter; In other words, it's a DVD Burner. In short... NOW I CAN BURN DVDs! In that case, I am able to save a lot of my limited computer hard drive space easily by moving over 4GB at a time into DVDs. ...however, it's weird. The place where I plan to buy those DVD discs happened to run out of stock! Fu-yoh! Maybe all those cetak rompak (pirated DVD) manufacturer needed more DVD and so, cheap DVD discs have been having a stronger demand? ;_;So, about what I have watched for this whole month of April, I have to admit that I have been rather lazy. Other than Shuffle! and Honey & Clover, or some Kanon, other than that, I haven't been any other animes. I plan to pick up Lucky Star and Sola, but in that case, I have to finish up those animes I have in hand right now, namely Honey & Clover, Shuffle!, Tsubasa Chronicles and Negima! as well as Digimon Savers, but I plan to do that one slowly. I plan to drop Tonagura and Tenpou Ibun Ayashi Ayakashi. So, maybe after I finish at least two of the 'currently watching' animes, I'd pick up the two new animes. Okay, back on to the awards. I have to deeply appologize, but due to my laziness in watching different anime titles, all of the awards would go to Shuffle!. In other words, I have only been watching Shuffle! this month. And maybe an episode of Honey & Clover, perhaps. I'm still waiting for hughwong's supply of the anime. =\ There would be no best OP/ED for the month. Best Male Character: Takemoto Yuta (Honey & Clover)Takemoto portrays the life of an ordinary, typical student studying in an art university, being trapped in the feeling of love for another girl but end up in somesort of love triangle.Best Female Character: Primula (Shuffle!)Despite being very sick to the level that her life's on the line, she'd still refuse to go back to the Demon Realm. The two lords, Eustoma and Forbesii revealed that she's not human nor demon nor god, but a clone. The researchers' hypothesis was that if Primula were able to develop emotion, she would be able to control her huge amount of magic. And that was why she was allowed to stay with Rin and Kaede...Best Non-Human Character: Cat doll (Shuffle!)The doll which Lycoris handed over to Primula before evaporating into thin air. Primula cherished it a lot.Best Villian: Lisianthus's twin sister (Shuffle!)Accordingly, she is Sia-chan's twin sister which was never wanted to be borned. Much more aggressive than Sia-chan, causing Rin to become evasive to her.Best OP: NoneBest ED: NoneBest SceneYou're looking Eustoma and Forbesii's best looks ever. They're indeed the lords of the demon and god race respectively. Usually we see them as a whimp, especially Eustoma who was usually beaten by her daughter, but now, they look rather neat, cool, and powerful.Best Quote: "Furthermore, we're powerless against a girl's plea."Forbesii and Eustoma's reply to Rin, who was determined to see Primula in the Demon's Realm. The laboratory was a restricted place, but since both Lisianthus and Nerine begged their fathers, the lords weren't able to do much.Best Seiyuu: None
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Sorry for the lateness this time around, finals ftl. A relatively calm episode, compared to the last two. No action scenes or significant plot development, this week’s installment of Sola was Matsuri fanservice for the masses. From what I got out of it, the whole episode was an attempt to showcase the stupidly naive, innocent, and [...]
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Apologies first to our Reformation fathers for my liberty with their slogan. But grace, faith and Stripey are indeed ingredients of this post albeit overstretched in relation with the Spring series, Sola. Sola Gratia And by the grace of Nanao Naru sama, we, undeserving mortals, can now bask in the divine beauty of our moelicious Sola [...]
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“Erm…um…I’m sorry to do this…but please let me call you on those cards.” Does anyone else think that that’s the most sinister way to call BS (as in the card game)? It sounds so pensive, yet you totally know what’s going to happen next. ▲
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