Whatever was happenning yesterday, livejournal was having it's server's power feed maintainence. So, I wasn't able to make an update yesterday, thanks to the matter. Anyway, I was just wanting to talk about something which have nothing to do with my usual anime updates. Just some random rants.Well... just to announce it, a few days ago, I emailed Hung, the owner of Anime Nano about some "application error" that happened. I had also took the opportunity to request him to add this blog onto Anime Nano. He had replied, saying that he had fixed the bug and added the blog. Meanwhile, I had also sent an email asking tjhan of RIUVA, to add this blog to his blogroll, and again, he replied with a good news. Finally, it's Ex-fansubber Hinano. I had also requested her to add this blog to her blog's blogroll by leaving a comment in her blog. She then replied saying that she had done so. Well... when I had started this blog, I was expecting some responce from users in livejournal, but after three months, I see that I am not doing very well at home in livejournal here. So, I had decided to link to anime blogs outside of livejournal. I'll see how it's going.Other than that, I also want to talk about what I had done yesterday surfing Wikipedia, after livejournal went down and I had nothing to do at that moment. I got to know that users who contributed to articles regarding animes had had a mascot for themselves, and the mascot is Wikipe-tan, a dark blue haired chibi wearing a maid outfit with Wikipedia's trademark puzzles as her hairband. She was first drawn by Wikipedia user Kasuga, was introduced in the Japanese 2chan channel, and now, her face appears in most, or perhaps, all anime and manga related article's discussion page. Well... although I am the one who started the "anime" page in the Bahasa Melayu Wikipedia, I see that no other users are actually interested in translating anime or manga related articles into Bahasa Melayu. However, it had improved as time went on, as I had found an anime category in MS Wikipedia, although most of it's articles listed are empty. Somehow, Wikipe-tan is also featured in the Bahasa Melayu page. I wonder why. =\I also found an article on Comic Weekly a.k.a Manzhou, the Malaysian manga serializing magazine which I had been reviewing. However, the article is due for cleanup sooner or later if no one improves the article. From here, I had also found the MxO page. It looks like I had made a mistake all along: MxO is not MxO (em x oh), but M×0(em × zero), and note that the × sign is not x, just like xxxHolic, which should be ×××Holic. The × sign is a variable, as used in maths, in where × may represent anything (for example, Workaholic, or Alcoholic). However, in M×0, I have no idea why did they use the variable sign.I have school tomorrow. I'll stop for now. I shall do a review for Kanon episode 4 and 5 when I get back home tomorrow. Until then. Don't expect much from me. =\
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Watanuki Kimihiro can see what others cannot see, but the worst part is the experience is usually not good. One day he comes upon the store of Yuuko, who can grant wishes in exchange for payment. He then works part time to pay for his wish. (c. 2006, Rating: Above Average)
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Once again, my computer has gone down to a critical level, where there is less than 1GB in my E:\ drive. The last operation was cleaning Karin off the computer. Now, it's Ouran's turn. I have removed around 12 episodes, and I got to save up to around 2GB of harddrive space in my computer. I could have removed the 26 episodes of School Rumble. I can also remove Shakugan no Shana, but I plan to make a music video of the anime. 2GB should be enough for the moment.Well... I have been downloading #Yugioh's release of Tsubasa Chronicle. They have recently subbed until episode 49. Meanwhile all 52 episodes of Tsubasa had already been shown on Japanese television, the American licensor had only licensed until episode 26. Well... I had regretted that I did not download xxxHolic when it was still available, and now, it has already been licensed by FUNimation. On the other hand, I still have to download Shuffle!. Meanwhile, I also hope that the two animes which I am following closely, Asatte no Houkou and Kanon, ends as soon as possible. Asatte no Houkou shall end at episode 12, while Kanon has another 22 episodes to be released. Whether I'm not going to continue Mamoru wo Shufuku wa... whatever the long title was or not, it depends. :DWhoever that Fujima Takuya is, he should never be able to draw Negi and the others as perfect as Ken Akamatsu-sensei. But whatever is going on, the fellow is going to draw a manga adaption of the new anime Negima?!, called "Negima?! Neo". What do they think this is? Proton Satria Neo?! I wonder what would Akamatsu-sensei's responce be when he knows about this. This Takuya fellow looks like some random CG artist you'd find scathering anywhere in the internet.. even his website sucks.
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There’s going to be a bit of a parody break for the next few days; not just because of the Jyu-oh-sei HDTV incident, but because I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Mai-HiME RPG (despite a tendency for the victory music to play in unwanted places, episode three is generally going well). If [...]
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There’s going to be a bit of a parody break for the next few days; not just because of the Jyu-oh-sei HDTV incident, but because I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Mai-HiME RPG (despite a tendency for the victory music to play in unwanted places, episode three is generally going well). If [...]
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I’ve been devoid of any anime, save the Adult Swim fare, for over 2 months now. While this has had its drawbacks, like not being able to watch freakin’ Pumpkin Scissors after getting all pumped up about it over the summer, it has also been a blessing in disguise-er sort of. If anything it’s allowed [...]
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I'm sorry for the late entry but I had too much of a problem yesterday to be able to do any writing beyond the first 2 entries. First Nightmare host made it difficult for me to post anything and then I accidentally locked myself out of my house. At the end of that day, I was too tired to do anything else apart from finishing up Code Geass entry. Oh well, it's probably a good thing this way because I think I would have reacted to this new plot twist badly otherwise. I still have reservation about it and I hope the writers won't go there. Unfortunately, I think they will do this so I'll just have to see how they do it. As a side note, there is actually a Widescreen version of this series being aired 3 weeks later than the original version. This is similar to other TBS series like Rozen Maiden and xxxHOLiC. I've changed the screenshots in episode 1 and uploaded the Widescreen OP and ED in case you want to see the changes. Opening Theme: 「光の季節」 - Hikari no Kisetsu by Suara (AVI Widescreen, 25.5MB) Ending Theme: 「スイートホームソング」 - Sweet Home Song by Yuumao (AVI Widescreen, 21.5MB)
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If there’s one thing I’m not too keen on when watching fansubs, it’s mkv format. According to its proponents, mkv is new and ‘1337’ whilst avi is old and outdated, but the fact remains that mkv is a pain to play. The picture gets stuck, it uses up more CPU resources than I’m willing to [...]
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Something which I had posted in my older post, you can actually post your grudge in a website to Ai Enma, also known as Jigoku Shoujo, which also means "girl from hell". Personally I do not have any grudges on anyone, but meh, this is just for fun. Ai Enma looks alot like Yuko-san from xxxHolic, and here goes the wish granting part.First of all, go here if you don't have an idea on what are you going through.Then, click on the "Post Your Grudge Now".You shall reach a page with the words "Welcome to Hell's Website". Here, type in the name of the person you want to take revenge on, or just want to kacau the person, up to you, I don't care. Then Ai Enma would be summoned. Type the email of the person you want to disturb, then a nice reason (hey, you might win a straw doll after all) why would you want to send him off, then type in your name and email. Click "Continue". Pull the red string off the straw doll.</a>You will be given a message saying that "revenge is a double-edge sword and you shall die in hell," blah blah blah. Click on "Finish".You will be brought to a page which tells you to come back after two days to check. And it's done!Okay, so Jigoku Shoujou will start showing on Animax Asia starting October 24, 2006. Rejoice, you people with Astro. -.-"Edit: Okay... I just found out that you can only post grudges in the midnight between 11:34 pm to 2 am (GMT +8). Cooincidently, when I make this post, it's around midnight..
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Under the new, harsher regime, I’ve decided to drop a few more series that I haven’t watched lately, but have no desire to get back to. This means that Chocotto Sister and FLAG are gone from the anime line-up (I hadn’t even realised that FLAG 3 was released last month, which shows how closely I’ve [...]
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