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Mnemosyne 3

post from We Are Mizuho! on 06 April 2008 11:21:41 PM. © We Are Mizuho!

More lesbian sex.

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Toshokan Sensou == Library War == AWESOMEE!!

post from BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog on 06 April 2008 09:07:08 PM. © BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog

So I just found out (for whatever reason, I’m slow) that there’s going to be a Spring anime about all out library war! Apparently the military has gotten involved in the censorship of certain books. So going to library school means basic training and learning to use a rifle to protect books.There’s a lot of [...]

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Coming of Age

post from Hop Step Jump! on 06 April 2008 08:01:00 PM. © Hop Step Jump!

To fill the time during the recent lull between anime seasons in Japan, I went on a bit of a Studio Ghibli binge. Good theatrical anime is a convenient thing to have around when you’re itching for something worthwhile to watch but don’t have the time or energy to devote to rewatching a television [...]

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Da Capo II S.S. 01

post from Kurogane's Anime Blog on 06 April 2008 04:50:21 PM. © Kurogane's Anime Blog

Okay, I’m signing on for another trip through Hatsunejima again. Yeah, that scene kinda sold me on to it. D.C.II S.S starts not long after the end of the first season. Things are getting a bit busy in preparation for the upcoming Christmas celebrations, and Yoshiyuki’s class chooses to do a ningyogeki thanks to Anzu’s [...]

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Nabari no Ou (The Hidden King) Episode 1 - The
Awakened One

post from Cinnamon Ass on 06 April 2008 04:08:00 PM. © Cinnamon Ass

OP - CRAWL (VELTPUNCH) - good CG grass! The song is fairly uninteresting rock, but pleasant enough.

ED - Hikari (ELISA) - sappy song, sappy animation. Bad guy in foetal position, people with blood and bandages, blah blah blah.

In the past, a small child and his father are attacked by a clan of ninjas - however, the small child awakens special powers and vast plants tear through the ground to attack them, as a woman cries out to him to forget…

Present day. Miharu Rokojou is a fairly withdrawn young man, prone to disappearing without warning, who lives with his aunt and their family in a okonomiyaki restaurant that he expects to inherit when he is older. His classmate, Koichi Aizawa, and teacher, Kumohira-sensei, attempt to convince him to join the “ninja” club - at first for innocuous reasons, but Kumohira makes an appearance at the restaurant and warns Miharu that he is being targeted for assassination. Miharu brushes this off as a joke; however, a substitute teacher at school is actually after the “hijitsu” that Miharu apparently possesses, making him powerful enough to be “the ruler of Nabari”, the hidden world that ninjas still inhabit.

Aizawa reveals himself to also be a ninja, with elemental powers allowing him to teleport short distances; at first, he is ambushed by the ninjas after Miharu, but Miharu is called by a strange female voice and Koichi has to protect him. However, when the mysterious female voice tells him to kill them all, Miharu’s powers re-awaken, and it’s uncontrolled vegetation a-go-go once more. Koichi tries to seal his powers by stabbing Miharu to weaken him, but this merely causes him to go further out of control until Kumohira manages to remove the sword again.

Miharu is taken to the school hospital, where after some chunks of exposition he is attacked again by the substitute teacher and his minions - unwilling to defend himself (unwilling, in fact, to do anything, he is so withdrawn), Kumohira comes to the rescue once again and swears fealty to Miharu as the ruler of Nabari; he’s still not particularly keen on joining the ninja club, though…

Oh, and Joji Nakata is plotting something evil. Who’d have guessed?

Whew, that was a big long chunk of plot summary, but this was a fairly packed first episode. I don’t know if it was faithful to the manga or whatever, and I don’t really care; Nabari no Ou surprisingly managed to live up to my expectations. It’s hardly revolutionary or anything like that, but it’s surprisingly well produced and intriguingly set up.

First up - as I thought, the visual design is very reminiscent of Loveless, although the background art isn’t quite as polished; instead we have an almost underdrawn, watercolour look, like Erementar Gerad but pretty. The use of colour for the fight sequences is very effective, and the digital effects such as Aizawa’s swirling teleportation leaves are very well integrated. There’s also a surprising amount of rather good action animation - perhaps not that surprising given some of JC Staff’s past work but the ninja fights are fluid and well choreographed (if brief) and the giant plants that Miharu summons are very Jyu-Oh-Sei esque.

Most pleasingly, the show has great central characters. Miharu, although perhaps a little “dull”, is pleasantly demonic when turning Kumohira into a figure of yaoi fun, and Aizawa somehow manages to avoid being annoying by proving surprisingly useful in a fight; Kumohira, meanwhile embodies the dumbass/kickass dichotomy of characters like Vash and so forth, but entertainingly so.

I’m very pleased with the first episode of Nabari no Ou; there’s enough mystery in the plot to keep me interested if the quality of the action diminishes slightly, and the overall look of the show is exactly what I thought it was going to be which pleases me enormously. Let’s hope it remains entertaining!

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Minami-ke Okawari - Final Impressions

post from Xebek's Blog on 06 April 2008 03:00:00 PM. © Xebek's Blog

I absolutely loved this series. I was a big fan of the first season and I remember being quite a bit worried going into this one. There was a lot of uncertainty with this series because it was really unclear on what the hell it was, some kind of remake of the first season, a sequel but with a different company, so on and so forth. Even if it wasn?t a remake and was indeed a sequel like it turned out to be I was afraid that a change in animation and the company doing it might change the way they handled the humor or the jokes too much. However in the end it turned out fine. Although if I really had to choose I?d probably favor the first season over this one it?s not because this one is bad. It was a lot of fun to watch, the same kind of great humor the first season had.

I do have to mention Makoto/Mako for a bit. I would say that his parts in this season/series was definitely one of the higher points. It seems like they focused on him a LOT more then in the first season. Now, that is easily explained by the fact he didn?t take on Mako until the middle or so of the first season so they had the entire series to work with him. Regardless, his parts always made me laugh. I still remember just holding onto my sides, literally, laughing at the bit where he was making Valentine?s chocolates and said he was going to give it to Makoto. They definitely dealt with his character in a great way, really making it one of the best parts of the show.

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Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de - Final
Impressions

post from Xebek's Blog on 06 April 2008 11:00:00 AM. © Xebek's Blog

Well?this show was certainly?something. It?s one of those shows that didn?t turn out any different then what I would expect. Full of ecchi comedy and incredibly stupid and weird happenings. The show didn?t really try and be more then that, but that pretty much limits how serious anyone can actually think about the series. While it would not be anywhere close to what I would call ?good? it was at least fun to watch in times, it was an alright time killer. Still, it was a bit nice to see things end all happily with the characters even if they were really shallow and stupid at times. The show was just fun to watch in the end.

One of the things that was?interesting to see was the way they tried to handle parodies. It seemed like they tired too hard or the approach didn?t quite work. Although there were plenty of spots where they would make jokes referencing other anime, especially anime that the seiyuus had parts in, but for some reason it didn?t feel as cleaver and intelligent of humor as some other shows that specialize in parody humor like Hayate. It just seemed like the amount of slapstick humor was too much for them to try and do much with the parodying. The general theme of having that kind of slapstick humor was alright for a show like this, but not when they were also trying to have some humor that takes a bit more intelligence.

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Code Geass R2 starts

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Kanokon 01

The show where Ayako Kawasumi puts the moves on Noto Mamiko. God, I can’t get rid of the mental image. Looks like they moved stuff around, as the series first starts with Kouta getting his daily glomp from Chizuru, presumably after they’ve known each other for a while, and only then they flash back to [...]

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Review: Liar Game Live-Action

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched any live-action; I think the last one I saw was the hokey yet fun Hana Yori Dango. This time around, I was looking for something leaning more towards suspense, so I marathoned Liar Game (based on the manga of the same name). The story centers around [...]

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