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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Cardcaptor Sakura 1-70 Blu-ray
Wiki : Cardcaptor Sakura begins when ten-year-old fourth grader Sakura Kinomoto accidentally releases a set of magical cards called Clow Cards from the Clow Book, created and named after half-English, half-Chinese sorcerer Clow Reed. Each card has its own personality and characteristics and can assume alternate forms when activated. The guardian Beast of the Seal Cerberus emerges from the book and tells her it is now her responsibility to retrieve the missing cards. As she finds each card, she battles its magical personification and defeats it to seal it away. Cerberus acts as her guide, while her best friend Tomoyo Daidouji films her exploits and provides her with battle costumes. Sakura's older brother Toya Kinomoto watches over her, while pretending that he is unaware of what is going on.
A boy Sakura's age and descendant of Clow Reed, Syaoran Li, arrives from Hong Kong to recapture the cards himself, but finds his goal complicated as he comes to respect Sakura and begins aiding her instead. Once Sakura captures all the cards, she undergoes the Final Judgment, presided over by Yue, the cards' second guardian, who tests Sakura to determine if she is worthy of becoming the cards' true master. Yue is the true form of Yukito Tsukishiro, Sakura's crush and her brother's best friend. Sakura is aided by her teacher Kaho Mizuki, who was sent by Clow to ensure Sakura is able to pass the test, because he chose Sakura to be the cards' new master when he knew he was going to die. Sakura passes the test and becomes the new master of the Clow Cards.
(Sakura Kinomoto (木之本 桜, Kinomoto Sakura?) is a fictional character, the heroine of Clamp's manga series Cardcaptor Sakura. In the English anime adaptation of the series, Cardcaptors, her name is changed to Sakura Avalon. She captures cards with Li Syaoran, by using her 'sealing wand' to store them and their magical powers into the 'clow cards'. Her outfit changes every episode always made by her rich friend Tomoyo (always an accessory for Kero too.) In the second season Master of the Clow,syaoran expresses his love for her, she returns these feelings in the second movie. For all Japanese-language productions of the anime including movies, audio CDs, and video games).
Life for Sakura is initially peaceful until a boy Sakura's age, Eriol Hiiragizawa, transfers from England, which coincides with new disturbances occurring in Tomoeda. Suddenly unable to use the Clow Cards, Sakura transforms her wand and creates a new activation spell, which can transform a Clow Card into a Sakura Card. As strange events continue, Sakura gradually transforms each card into a Sakura Card, unaware the events are being caused by Eriol and two guardian-like creatures, Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon. Yue begins to grow weaker, because he requires magical support from Sakura, but her magic is not yet strong enough to sustain him. Toya gives all of his magical abilities to Yue in order to ensure Yukito does not die. Sakura eventually deals with the pain of Yukito's gentle rejection of her feelings, as he instead loves Toya. Syaoran consoles Sakura, while finding himself falling in love with her, but is unsure of how to tell her.
When only the Light and Dark Cards remain to be converted, which must be done together, Eriol reveals to Sakura he was behind all the strange events. After the cards are transformed, Eriol explains that he is half of the reincarnation of Clow Reed, with Sakura's father being the other half. Eriol, who has Clow's memories and magical abilities, aided Sakura in converting the cards so they would not lose their powers. Before returning to England, Eriol asks Sakura to split his magic between himself and her father, so that he will no longer be the most powerful magician in the world. Afterwards, Syaoran confesses his love to Sakura, but she is unsure how to respond. Sakura is hurt and upset when he tells her he is returning to Hong Kong, and comes to realize she loves him too after talking with her friends. She rushes to the airport to tell him and he promises to return when he has taken care of some things. One year later, Syaoran moves back to Tomoeda permanently.
Tomoyo Daidouji (大道寺 知世, Daidōji Tomoyo?) is the best friend of the series' protagonist, Sakura Kinomoto, and her second cousin on their mothers' sides. The daughter of the president of Daidōji Toy Company, Sonomi Daidōji, Tomoyo lives a life of wealth and is watched over by a team of female bodyguards. She has access to a variety of prototype technological gadgets from her mother's company, and supplies Sakura and Cerberus with different communication devices throughout the series. She is depicted as being mature, kind-hearted, and intelligent, and regularly speaking using more formal verb conjugations and expressions than normally seen in elementary students. She is a talented singer, and is shown performing in various school events. In the anime, her musical ability causes her to be targeted by both the Voice and Song cards.
The plot of the anime series is extended, featuring 52 Clow Cards from the manga's original 19, and certain scenes are stretched and delayed, such as Cerberus' true form not being revealed until just before Yue's appearance.[1] Sakura creates a 53rd card, Hope, a talent she is not shown to have in the manga. Some of the circumstances around the capturing of the cards is changed, such as Syaoran capturing several cards himself and being tested by Yue in the Final Judgment. Syaoran's cousin and fiancee Meiling Li is introduced in the anime, who positions herself as a romantic rival for Sakura later in the series. The role of Sakura's father as the second half of Clow's reincarnation and the splitting of Eriol's magic is removed from the ending. The TV series leaves the relationship between Sakura and Syaoran unresolved, but Sakura confesses her love to Syaoran at the end of the second anime film.
When she learns of Sakura's new role as a Cardcaptor, she insists that Sakura must wear "special clothes" and begins providing Sakura with the various costumes she wears during her captures as well as accompanying her on missions to record the events with her video camera. In the manga, some scenes give the appearance that Tomoyo has a crush on Sakura's brother Toya; however, according to an interview in the Cardcaptor Sakura Memorial Book, this was an error caused by one of the finishing artists not being aware that CLAMP intended for Tomoyo to have feelings for Sakura. In future volumes, this is corrected by having a scene note that Tomoyo blushed around Toya because he reminded her of Sakura.[2] While Tomoyo is in love with Sakura, she notes that she is happy to be able to be with Sakura and does not require Sakura to love her back. Instead, she encourages Sakura's love of Yukito, and later becomes Syaoran Li's confidante and ally when he falls in love with Sakura.
In the English adaptation Cardcaptors, Tomoyo's name is changed to Madison Taylor. The familiar relationship with Sakura is removed and all dialog suggesting that she has romantic feelings for Sakura are edited to be purely platonic in nature.
Cerberus (ケルベロス Keruberosu), nicknamed "Kero", is the appointed guardian of the book which holds the Clow Cards. He is one of two magical creatures created by Clow Reed along with the Clow Cards. Before his death, Clow appointed Kero as the one to select the potential candidate to be the next master of the cards, Cerberus himself, and his "brother" and fellow guardian, Yue. After Sakura accidentally releases the cards, Cerberus chooses her to be the candidate and teaches her the basics of capturing the cards. Throughout the series, he displays an extensive knowledge of mysticism. After Sakura passes the Final Judgment to become the Clow Cards master, Cerberus remains with her as a friend, companion, adviser, and protector when new threats appear.
Having spent a lengthy amount of time in the book while it was in Osaka, Cerberus speaks with a pointed Osakan-accent. He tends to be bossy, demanding, egotistical and gluttonous, but clearly displays his affection for Sakura, especially if she is hurt or in danger. He becomes very fond of video games, and is addicted to sweets. Cerberus spends most of his time in a "temporary" or "false form": a small figure resembling an orange stuffed animal with wings. Unlike Yue, Cerberus' magical powers are like the sun, and thus largely self-sustaining, and he is subsequently not as dependent on his master's power to support his life as is Yue. However, his master must have control of the Firey and Earthy cards in order to power his true form, a large-winged cat. In the anime adaptation, the Light card is changed to the Earthy card to delay his obtaining his true form. Cerberus' name is taken from the Greek mythological figure, Cerberus, a large three-headed beast who was assigned to guard the gates of Hades. In the bilingual Kodansha version of the manga, the name for Cerberus' borrowed form is Cero.
In the anime adaptation, his false form is voiced by Aya Hisakawa, while his hidden form is voiced by Masaya Onosaka. In the English release of the anime adaptation, his name is spelled Kerberos. In the English adaptation, Cardcaptors, it is changed to Keroberos. His false form is voiced by Matt Hill with a New York accent, and Richard Newman voices his true form, though the accent is not as distinct. In the second film, he is voiced by Wendee Lee and Dave Wittenberg, in his respective forms.
Syaoran Li (李 小狼 Ri Shaoran, Chinese Pinyin: Lǐ Xiǎoláng) is a distant relative of Clow Reed (on Clow's mother's side), the creator of the Clow Cards. As such, he believes that he should be the one to inherit the Clow Cards. He is initially Sakura's antagonist, trying to capture the cards for himself, and also finding himself competing with her for Yukito's affections. From the moment they first meet, Sakura's brother Toya appears to dislike Syaoran, which he later explains is because he had a vision long ago that Syaoran would "take something precious from [him]".
As the series progresses, Syaoran comes to respect Sakura and becomes her friend and ally. He eventually falls in love with her, though she is initially slow to realize it due to her own feelings for Yukito. In the anime, Syaoran's feelings became apparent at the beginning of the third season. In the manga, Syaoran begins to develop feelings for Sakura after she captured the Erase card. After Yukito rejects Sakura's feelings, Syaoran comforts her and Sakura slowly returns his feelings. Near the second half of the series, Syaoran confesses his feelings to Sakura, but she is not sure how to respond. With the issue of the cards settled, he decides to return to Hong Kong, and Sakura meets him at the airport. He gives her a teddy bear he made. He promises to return as soon as he can finish settling his affairs there and make arrangements to permanently relocate. At the end of the series, he returns from Hong Kong a few years later to reunite with Sakura.
In the anime adaptation, Syaoran manages to "collect" several cards by playing a major role in helping Sakura seal them. He is allowed to attempt the final judgment but fails. Sakura also does not return his feelings in the initial anime but does confess at the end of the second film. In Japanese media, Syaoran is voiced by Motoko Kumai. In the English Cardcaptor adaptation, he is renamed to Li Showron and he is introduced in the first episode, as the male lead. He is also called a "Cardcaptor", despite his not being chosen by Kero as such. Syaoran is voiced by Rhys Huber during the Clow Cards arc and the first movie, by Jordan Kilik in the Sakura Cards arc, and by Mona Marshall in the second movie.
I've seen the movies and the TV dub that came to america, but have never really sat down and watched the whole thing like I'm about to do. Later.
A boy Sakura's age and descendant of Clow Reed, Syaoran Li, arrives from Hong Kong to recapture the cards himself, but finds his goal complicated as he comes to respect Sakura and begins aiding her instead. Once Sakura captures all the cards, she undergoes the Final Judgment, presided over by Yue, the cards' second guardian, who tests Sakura to determine if she is worthy of becoming the cards' true master. Yue is the true form of Yukito Tsukishiro, Sakura's crush and her brother's best friend. Sakura is aided by her teacher Kaho Mizuki, who was sent by Clow to ensure Sakura is able to pass the test, because he chose Sakura to be the cards' new master when he knew he was going to die. Sakura passes the test and becomes the new master of the Clow Cards.
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| 10 seconds in and she's flipping me off. |
(Sakura Kinomoto (木之本 桜, Kinomoto Sakura?) is a fictional character, the heroine of Clamp's manga series Cardcaptor Sakura. In the English anime adaptation of the series, Cardcaptors, her name is changed to Sakura Avalon. She captures cards with Li Syaoran, by using her 'sealing wand' to store them and their magical powers into the 'clow cards'. Her outfit changes every episode always made by her rich friend Tomoyo (always an accessory for Kero too.) In the second season Master of the Clow,syaoran expresses his love for her, she returns these feelings in the second movie. For all Japanese-language productions of the anime including movies, audio CDs, and video games).
Life for Sakura is initially peaceful until a boy Sakura's age, Eriol Hiiragizawa, transfers from England, which coincides with new disturbances occurring in Tomoeda. Suddenly unable to use the Clow Cards, Sakura transforms her wand and creates a new activation spell, which can transform a Clow Card into a Sakura Card. As strange events continue, Sakura gradually transforms each card into a Sakura Card, unaware the events are being caused by Eriol and two guardian-like creatures, Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon. Yue begins to grow weaker, because he requires magical support from Sakura, but her magic is not yet strong enough to sustain him. Toya gives all of his magical abilities to Yue in order to ensure Yukito does not die. Sakura eventually deals with the pain of Yukito's gentle rejection of her feelings, as he instead loves Toya. Syaoran consoles Sakura, while finding himself falling in love with her, but is unsure of how to tell her.
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| I never got to see this title until I watched it in Japanese. |
When only the Light and Dark Cards remain to be converted, which must be done together, Eriol reveals to Sakura he was behind all the strange events. After the cards are transformed, Eriol explains that he is half of the reincarnation of Clow Reed, with Sakura's father being the other half. Eriol, who has Clow's memories and magical abilities, aided Sakura in converting the cards so they would not lose their powers. Before returning to England, Eriol asks Sakura to split his magic between himself and her father, so that he will no longer be the most powerful magician in the world. Afterwards, Syaoran confesses his love to Sakura, but she is unsure how to respond. Sakura is hurt and upset when he tells her he is returning to Hong Kong, and comes to realize she loves him too after talking with her friends. She rushes to the airport to tell him and he promises to return when he has taken care of some things. One year later, Syaoran moves back to Tomoeda permanently.
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| 90's vids and rollerblades. |
Tomoyo Daidouji (大道寺 知世, Daidōji Tomoyo?) is the best friend of the series' protagonist, Sakura Kinomoto, and her second cousin on their mothers' sides. The daughter of the president of Daidōji Toy Company, Sonomi Daidōji, Tomoyo lives a life of wealth and is watched over by a team of female bodyguards. She has access to a variety of prototype technological gadgets from her mother's company, and supplies Sakura and Cerberus with different communication devices throughout the series. She is depicted as being mature, kind-hearted, and intelligent, and regularly speaking using more formal verb conjugations and expressions than normally seen in elementary students. She is a talented singer, and is shown performing in various school events. In the anime, her musical ability causes her to be targeted by both the Voice and Song cards.
The plot of the anime series is extended, featuring 52 Clow Cards from the manga's original 19, and certain scenes are stretched and delayed, such as Cerberus' true form not being revealed until just before Yue's appearance.[1] Sakura creates a 53rd card, Hope, a talent she is not shown to have in the manga. Some of the circumstances around the capturing of the cards is changed, such as Syaoran capturing several cards himself and being tested by Yue in the Final Judgment. Syaoran's cousin and fiancee Meiling Li is introduced in the anime, who positions herself as a romantic rival for Sakura later in the series. The role of Sakura's father as the second half of Clow's reincarnation and the splitting of Eriol's magic is removed from the ending. The TV series leaves the relationship between Sakura and Syaoran unresolved, but Sakura confesses her love to Syaoran at the end of the second anime film.
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| Watch out Kinomoto |
When she learns of Sakura's new role as a Cardcaptor, she insists that Sakura must wear "special clothes" and begins providing Sakura with the various costumes she wears during her captures as well as accompanying her on missions to record the events with her video camera. In the manga, some scenes give the appearance that Tomoyo has a crush on Sakura's brother Toya; however, according to an interview in the Cardcaptor Sakura Memorial Book, this was an error caused by one of the finishing artists not being aware that CLAMP intended for Tomoyo to have feelings for Sakura. In future volumes, this is corrected by having a scene note that Tomoyo blushed around Toya because he reminded her of Sakura.[2] While Tomoyo is in love with Sakura, she notes that she is happy to be able to be with Sakura and does not require Sakura to love her back. Instead, she encourages Sakura's love of Yukito, and later becomes Syaoran Li's confidante and ally when he falls in love with Sakura.
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| Oh yeah, That's real platonic. >_> |
In the English adaptation Cardcaptors, Tomoyo's name is changed to Madison Taylor. The familiar relationship with Sakura is removed and all dialog suggesting that she has romantic feelings for Sakura are edited to be purely platonic in nature.
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| Mighty Keroberos |
Cerberus (ケルベロス Keruberosu), nicknamed "Kero", is the appointed guardian of the book which holds the Clow Cards. He is one of two magical creatures created by Clow Reed along with the Clow Cards. Before his death, Clow appointed Kero as the one to select the potential candidate to be the next master of the cards, Cerberus himself, and his "brother" and fellow guardian, Yue. After Sakura accidentally releases the cards, Cerberus chooses her to be the candidate and teaches her the basics of capturing the cards. Throughout the series, he displays an extensive knowledge of mysticism. After Sakura passes the Final Judgment to become the Clow Cards master, Cerberus remains with her as a friend, companion, adviser, and protector when new threats appear.
Having spent a lengthy amount of time in the book while it was in Osaka, Cerberus speaks with a pointed Osakan-accent. He tends to be bossy, demanding, egotistical and gluttonous, but clearly displays his affection for Sakura, especially if she is hurt or in danger. He becomes very fond of video games, and is addicted to sweets. Cerberus spends most of his time in a "temporary" or "false form": a small figure resembling an orange stuffed animal with wings. Unlike Yue, Cerberus' magical powers are like the sun, and thus largely self-sustaining, and he is subsequently not as dependent on his master's power to support his life as is Yue. However, his master must have control of the Firey and Earthy cards in order to power his true form, a large-winged cat. In the anime adaptation, the Light card is changed to the Earthy card to delay his obtaining his true form. Cerberus' name is taken from the Greek mythological figure, Cerberus, a large three-headed beast who was assigned to guard the gates of Hades. In the bilingual Kodansha version of the manga, the name for Cerberus' borrowed form is Cero.
In the anime adaptation, his false form is voiced by Aya Hisakawa, while his hidden form is voiced by Masaya Onosaka. In the English release of the anime adaptation, his name is spelled Kerberos. In the English adaptation, Cardcaptors, it is changed to Keroberos. His false form is voiced by Matt Hill with a New York accent, and Richard Newman voices his true form, though the accent is not as distinct. In the second film, he is voiced by Wendee Lee and Dave Wittenberg, in his respective forms.
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| Syaoran and cousin/fiancee Meiling lei |
As the series progresses, Syaoran comes to respect Sakura and becomes her friend and ally. He eventually falls in love with her, though she is initially slow to realize it due to her own feelings for Yukito. In the anime, Syaoran's feelings became apparent at the beginning of the third season. In the manga, Syaoran begins to develop feelings for Sakura after she captured the Erase card. After Yukito rejects Sakura's feelings, Syaoran comforts her and Sakura slowly returns his feelings. Near the second half of the series, Syaoran confesses his feelings to Sakura, but she is not sure how to respond. With the issue of the cards settled, he decides to return to Hong Kong, and Sakura meets him at the airport. He gives her a teddy bear he made. He promises to return as soon as he can finish settling his affairs there and make arrangements to permanently relocate. At the end of the series, he returns from Hong Kong a few years later to reunite with Sakura.
In the anime adaptation, Syaoran manages to "collect" several cards by playing a major role in helping Sakura seal them. He is allowed to attempt the final judgment but fails. Sakura also does not return his feelings in the initial anime but does confess at the end of the second film. In Japanese media, Syaoran is voiced by Motoko Kumai. In the English Cardcaptor adaptation, he is renamed to Li Showron and he is introduced in the first episode, as the male lead. He is also called a "Cardcaptor", despite his not being chosen by Kero as such. Syaoran is voiced by Rhys Huber during the Clow Cards arc and the first movie, by Jordan Kilik in the Sakura Cards arc, and by Mona Marshall in the second movie.
I've seen the movies and the TV dub that came to america, but have never really sat down and watched the whole thing like I'm about to do. Later.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Vampire Princess Miyu (OVA) 1-4
Wiki : Its central characters are a vampire girl named Miyu and her demonic companion Larva. Miyu is the daughter of both a human and a shinma (demon) and as such she was awakened as the guardian whose destiny is to hunt down all stray shinma and send them back to the darkness.
Miyu was one of my first finds when I searched for anime on my own. I go back to a ton of anime back when I was a kid early 90's. There was anime around in mom and pop shops, but never was it complete or, let's face it much good. It was a serious piece compared to the ecchi pieces I would slog through. I took it serious after a few rentals.
Miyu is a little hottie that had her shiima blood awoken by a baddass enigma named Larva. Yeah he's a preety boy, but dammit if he ain't cool. The oversized cloak and mask are what I cheer about every time Miyu call him forth. An awesome familiar to be sure.
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| Miyu calls Larva |
Miyu was one of my first finds when I searched for anime on my own. I go back to a ton of anime back when I was a kid early 90's. There was anime around in mom and pop shops, but never was it complete or, let's face it much good. It was a serious piece compared to the ecchi pieces I would slog through. I took it serious after a few rentals.
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| Larva |
Miyu is a little hottie that had her shiima blood awoken by a baddass enigma named Larva. Yeah he's a preety boy, but dammit if he ain't cool. The oversized cloak and mask are what I cheer about every time Miyu call him forth. An awesome familiar to be sure.
K-ON!
K-ON! Ann summary : It's Yui Hirasawa's first year in high school, and she's eagerly searching for a club to join. At the same time, Ritsu Tainaka, a drummer, and her friend Mio Akiyama, a bassist, are desperately trying to save the school's light music club, which is about to be disbanded due to lack of members. They manage to recruit Tsumugi Kotobuki to play the keyboard, meaning they only need one more member to get the club running again. Yui joins, thinking it will be an easy experience for her to play the castanets, the only instrument she knows. However, the other members think their new addition is actually a guitar prodigy...
One of the coolest bass players this side of anime. She is one of 5 of the hottest selling MOE titles ever created. KyoAni, the people who brought us Haruhi, Munto and Sora no Woto created this powerhouse girl band and has been raking the cash in ever since. I didn't think it would last when it first came out, but fiercely supported it all the way. Who would have thought that a girl band anime would do so well. I'm still shocked by it's success.
Yui is the main character of K-On!. She is one of the members of the light music club and plays a Heritage Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard electric guitar that she nicknames "Gīta" (ギー太?).She does not get good grades in school (though when properly coached, she can achieve astounding results) and is easily distracted by trivialities (mainly those deemed cute and adorable). Yui is clumsy and easily spaces out most of the time. Yui has shoulder-length, brown hair (a little longer than Ritsu's) which she accessorizes with two yellow hair clips, and brown eyes. She takes a huge liking for any kind of food (she practically never gains weight, which is greatly envied by Mugi, Mio, and Sawako). She has her younger sister Ui, who is the very mature and down-to-earth opposite of Yui, to take care of her and keep herself in line. Yui works extremely hard to get better at playing guitar, which is shown in later chapters.[volume & issue needed] During performances, Yui plays with amazing energy and joy, which usually results in great response from the audience.
Yui is the band's main vocalist and lead guitarist and has absolute pitch—she can tune her guitar perfectly without a tuner, which greatly impresses Azusa, who has played the guitar much longer than Yui. She has a very easy-going nature, but has incredible focus and retention when she has a clear goal in sight; unfortunately this is limited to only one subject at a time, and her other skills deteriorate quickly (for example, Yui is at one point pressed to make up failing test scores, and she quickly brings her math skills up to par while allowing her guitar skills to deteriorate.) Despite all of this, Yui is still devoted to her band and will always practice hard enough for the club. At school, she has become quite admired for her great voice. However, she is known to forget her lyrics in mid-performance as well as overdoing things, making her unable to perform sometimes. Mio was the lead vocalist at first, since Yui could not play the guitar and sing at the same time.Yui is also known to write childish lyrics as Ui has assisted her in creating them.
Wiki - Azusa is a student in the same year and class as Yui's sister Ui, who joins the light music club and becomes the rhythm guitarist, playing a Fender Mustang electric guitar. She eventually names her guitar Mu, as it is a Mustang. She is a self-proclaimed novice guitarist who has been playing the guitar since she was in the fourth grade, and her parents are working in a jazz band. She often finds herself bewildered by the tea parties and cosplaying aspects of the club, when she would rather just practice, and is curious about how the club is able to play so well despite their problems and lack of practice. However, she has a certain weakness for cakes and can be calmed down rather easily, sometimes by just being petted. She is constantly a victim of Yui's skinship and is nicknamed Azu-nyan after trying on a pair of cat ears and meowing ("nyan" being the equivalent of "meow" in the Japanese vocabulary). Despite this, Azusa is not too good with cats. Azusa has long black hair, which she wears in pigtails, and red eyes.
In the band, she looks up to Mio the most due to her maturity and the fact that she is an experienced bassist, even trying to give Mio chocolate on Valentine's Day. However, she sometimes unintentionally makes remarks concerning Mio's weaknesses, such as her weight. She also finds Mugi very beautiful, and envies her hair and large eyes, and later starts teaching her how to play guitar when the two are alone in the club room. Since joining, Yui comes to her for advice on playing guitar, as well as maintenance. She gets a tan extremely easily, once during their time at the beach and another during a music festival (even after applying sunscreen). As a result, she frequently gets sunburned as well. She gets lonely very easily, and often worries that everyone in the club will leave her, as they are one year older and eventually will graduate. Due to this, the rest of the girls buy her a turtle to look after, naming it Ton. Outside of the band, she often hangs out with Ui and Jun whenever the other girls are busy. When the others graduate, she becomes the new light music club president.
Wiki : The first Japanese DVD volume of the anime series sold around 8,000 copies to debut seventh in the ranking on the Oricon charts for the week of July 29, 2009. The Blu-ray Disc release of the first volume sold about 33,000 copies in the same week, to top the Oricon BD charts. In August 2009, the first volume of K-On! was the top-selling television anime Blu-ray Disc in Japan, having surpassed the previous record holder Macross Frontier, which sold approximately 22,000 copies of its first volume. It was the second best-selling Blu-ray Disc in Japan, trailing only Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, with around 49,000 copies.However, in October 2009, the first volume of Bakemonogatari surpassed K-On!'s previous record, having sold 37,000 copies at that time. Later, with the release of K-On!! volume 3, total BD sales for the series have outsold Bakemonogatari. K-On! received a Best TV Animation Award at the 2010 Tokyo International Anime Fair. K-On!! won the Best Television award at the 2010 Animation Kobe Awards.
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| KyoAni's anime K-ON |
One of the coolest bass players this side of anime. She is one of 5 of the hottest selling MOE titles ever created. KyoAni, the people who brought us Haruhi, Munto and Sora no Woto created this powerhouse girl band and has been raking the cash in ever since. I didn't think it would last when it first came out, but fiercely supported it all the way. Who would have thought that a girl band anime would do so well. I'm still shocked by it's success.
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| All the girls are awesome. Here is Yui. Umm the main chara. |
Yui is the main character of K-On!. She is one of the members of the light music club and plays a Heritage Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard electric guitar that she nicknames "Gīta" (ギー太?).She does not get good grades in school (though when properly coached, she can achieve astounding results) and is easily distracted by trivialities (mainly those deemed cute and adorable). Yui is clumsy and easily spaces out most of the time. Yui has shoulder-length, brown hair (a little longer than Ritsu's) which she accessorizes with two yellow hair clips, and brown eyes. She takes a huge liking for any kind of food (she practically never gains weight, which is greatly envied by Mugi, Mio, and Sawako). She has her younger sister Ui, who is the very mature and down-to-earth opposite of Yui, to take care of her and keep herself in line. Yui works extremely hard to get better at playing guitar, which is shown in later chapters.[volume & issue needed] During performances, Yui plays with amazing energy and joy, which usually results in great response from the audience.
Yui is the band's main vocalist and lead guitarist and has absolute pitch—she can tune her guitar perfectly without a tuner, which greatly impresses Azusa, who has played the guitar much longer than Yui. She has a very easy-going nature, but has incredible focus and retention when she has a clear goal in sight; unfortunately this is limited to only one subject at a time, and her other skills deteriorate quickly (for example, Yui is at one point pressed to make up failing test scores, and she quickly brings her math skills up to par while allowing her guitar skills to deteriorate.) Despite all of this, Yui is still devoted to her band and will always practice hard enough for the club. At school, she has become quite admired for her great voice. However, she is known to forget her lyrics in mid-performance as well as overdoing things, making her unable to perform sometimes. Mio was the lead vocalist at first, since Yui could not play the guitar and sing at the same time.Yui is also known to write childish lyrics as Ui has assisted her in creating them.
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Azunyan is another part of HTT.Ho-kago Tea TimeAzuza for short. She appeared in the end of the first season. |
In the band, she looks up to Mio the most due to her maturity and the fact that she is an experienced bassist, even trying to give Mio chocolate on Valentine's Day. However, she sometimes unintentionally makes remarks concerning Mio's weaknesses, such as her weight. She also finds Mugi very beautiful, and envies her hair and large eyes, and later starts teaching her how to play guitar when the two are alone in the club room. Since joining, Yui comes to her for advice on playing guitar, as well as maintenance. She gets a tan extremely easily, once during their time at the beach and another during a music festival (even after applying sunscreen). As a result, she frequently gets sunburned as well. She gets lonely very easily, and often worries that everyone in the club will leave her, as they are one year older and eventually will graduate. Due to this, the rest of the girls buy her a turtle to look after, naming it Ton. Outside of the band, she often hangs out with Ui and Jun whenever the other girls are busy. When the others graduate, she becomes the new light music club president.
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| Mio is still my fave though. |
Wiki : The first Japanese DVD volume of the anime series sold around 8,000 copies to debut seventh in the ranking on the Oricon charts for the week of July 29, 2009. The Blu-ray Disc release of the first volume sold about 33,000 copies in the same week, to top the Oricon BD charts. In August 2009, the first volume of K-On! was the top-selling television anime Blu-ray Disc in Japan, having surpassed the previous record holder Macross Frontier, which sold approximately 22,000 copies of its first volume. It was the second best-selling Blu-ray Disc in Japan, trailing only Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, with around 49,000 copies.However, in October 2009, the first volume of Bakemonogatari surpassed K-On!'s previous record, having sold 37,000 copies at that time. Later, with the release of K-On!! volume 3, total BD sales for the series have outsold Bakemonogatari. K-On! received a Best TV Animation Award at the 2010 Tokyo International Anime Fair. K-On!! won the Best Television award at the 2010 Animation Kobe Awards.
Monday, November 8, 2010
SailorMoon Musical
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| Ah, Queen Beryl . Mischievous as ever. |
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| Sailor Galaxia |
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| Sailor Pluto looking sexy as ever, |
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| Sailor Moon with sword. My dreams come true. |
Sunday, October 24, 2010
PS3: Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and the Last Guardian
Ico
The escort-a-thon/ puzzle game. It had the main character tug the objective (princess Orda) around literaly by holding hands, and randomly destroy shadowy pursuers all while trying to solve inane puzzles without throwing your controller in anger. The graphics were unbelievable for the time (hey man, we are talking about the old blue cd games. you can't compare it with today's games)and don't really hold up compared to Shadow of the Colossus. I had a ton of other games to play at the time so I never really had to focus on more than just beating the game once. Though I had a ton of friends that went through the multiple difficulties unlocking the light saber and the special watermelon ending, which is cute as hell.
Shadow of the Colossus
What a simply amazing game. The game seemed to be more of a for the fans, than a mainstream money maker. The games narrative only mentions something about the forbidden land, then you are free to roam. It doesn't take long to figure out what to do from there. The game was different from ICO but still had the atmosphere, level design and made up language. Much like the feeling you get when traveling into different games like Vagrant story, FF Tactics, Tactics advance and FF 12, there are many different styles of play through but it's all within the same universe of Ivalice. Ico and SOTC share that world whenever they took place from each other, The last Guardian is seeming to continue that tradition.
One thing I'm sure people didn't like about Shadow of the Colossus is that you are essentially alone in the game. Besides the bellowing colossus and the shrine where the voice of the statues lay, your only real objective is to follow the sunlight that gleams off your sword until you find another colossus.
I look forward to seeing these two in HD. It's a fantastic move for sony to make. The last guardian is going to be even more so.
If Ico had the princess permanently bound to the castle, and Shadow of the Colossus had the Hero sacrifice his life for his resurrected love, than the last Guardian will have the tragic loss of either the boy or the griffin. It's what this division of Sony is good at.
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| Ico covers |
The escort-a-thon/ puzzle game. It had the main character tug the objective (princess Orda) around literaly by holding hands, and randomly destroy shadowy pursuers all while trying to solve inane puzzles without throwing your controller in anger. The graphics were unbelievable for the time (hey man, we are talking about the old blue cd games. you can't compare it with today's games)and don't really hold up compared to Shadow of the Colossus. I had a ton of other games to play at the time so I never really had to focus on more than just beating the game once. Though I had a ton of friends that went through the multiple difficulties unlocking the light saber and the special watermelon ending, which is cute as hell.
Shadow of the Colossus
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| Shadow of the Colossus covers |
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| SOTC HD |
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| The Last Guardian |
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| Ico HD "Yorda demands it" |
Friday, September 24, 2010
The Hatena Flipnote collection ONE
This is the collection vid that i never wanted to make. But did anyway.
Dead Space : Xbox 360
I'm six chapters in and loving every minute of it. I'm sorry I missed out, when the game came out.Well my old roommate played it day and night when it came out. I walked by and said "yeah I'll play it eventually. Well that eventually is now.
The game stars a dull looking space knight named Isaac. Isaac is going through the USG Ishimura, trying to locate the crew and solve the alien threat. For one the graphics are awesome. EA got a budget for this. It fucking shows. When the asteroid shower hit, I just stood there and got killed a few times.
IGN review:
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Fuck Copyright and the Collage/Internet Vocabulary it brings!
Copyright
I've never fallen in line when it comes to this. Media is (fuck I hate saying this) "consumed" (doushebag collage term) in different ways. If you see it on tv, it's yours. Recorders have been around since the 80's and "they" didn't like it then. Any signal that runs through my TV is "MINE" to do whatever I want with. Ya can't tell me that I can't manipulate the media that flows through my set, this isn't communist Russia and this ain't a police state yet. Fuck you. When I run across brainwashed assholes on the internet, I can't help but pick on them for being so damn green. I don't do what I'm told, unless I'm being paid to. If I want to do It, I will.
Listen, I know it's law, but I fully disagree with the shit that crosses the line of common sense. If "THEY" could monopolize air, you bet your brick-in-the-wall ass they would. There is no sympathy for these people. Times have changed, and I've changed with it, adapt or die as it were.
This brings me to........................................
Former and Ladder
Ha! What the fuck? No one that exists in the real working world, yeah, the one I grew up in, would ever, could ever use this in everyday conversation. EVER! It's lazy garbage. Kids who do not want to type back what they previously said, will use this. Every fucking time. I can't hold collage kids in high degree when they are the actual filth of the world. Lazy fucking bastards. They are the useless without us. I'd prefer the Former, rather than the Ladder. I would most aptly make use of a wood shredder if I could get my hands on you! Fuck you!
TL:DR
You really are a piece of shit for making up this garbage. So lazy, shit I even blame the brainwashed soliders in Iraq. They must be so bored chasing a figment of the government that they gotta fuck with the kids on the internet before being decapitated. That brings me to................
Troll (ing) : to upset moderators, to entice the ban masters.
This is something I blame on us, heh. When AOL instant messaging first came out, we fucked with everyone on there. That build up over time no doubt mind fucked a few generations.These kids that I talk to now are the aftermath of that good time we had wrecking the weak minded. So in their defense moderators have banded together and have vowed to keep bully's like me, off their precious 2.0 boards. So that another generation won't succumb (or shit, have an independent thought for once) to verbal IM style punishment for being lazy retards. Essentially they are fucking retards with people watching over them at all times. I wanna meet the little kid who got "troll" put into in the internet's everyday language. Only defenseless children fear trolls. Which brings me to.....................
English Anime Fans
Ahh, defenceless children. One part collage douche, one part A.D.D. 10 year old, All fucking retard. These are the people I have to wade through when I'm looking for the next anime title. There are very few that actually have intelligible things to say, the rest is instigated garbage,walls o text and know-it-all/know-nothing shit talkers. Scumbags to be sure. Brainwashed masses armed with whatever their bible thumping clone parents knew, which when it comes down to Japanese animation, NOT A FUCKING THING!
Dub Fans
Oh, god, yes! These fucks are my rivals. Not a drop of intelligence is found around these dopey wall huggers. There is such a variety of these motherfuckers. You either have the silent awkward mother fuckers that make me feel uncomfortable, you got the super nerdy/overly vocal anime fan, you got the cosplayfans that love to dress up and smell as well as clog up hallways with a passion, you got the fake otakus, the light novel readers, the figure collectors, the dojin artists, the wannabe OEL artists, you got the leachers seeders and fansubbers, you got the 4-chan crowd, Hongfire crowd, Elite crowd, the dub actor crowd. There are so many that make up the anime fandom, it's sometimes too much. But not for me. I am an Otaku, not a fake like so many of these freaks.
Dub fans are miserable piles of moe goo. Too lazy to read anything they didn't type themselves. Scrolling marquees of text are their biggest enemy.
Fansubs
The Oxford Comma
Never in my wildest dreams would I ever give a flying fuck to actually, aceptingly, acknowledge, the definition, of such, bullshit. I ,wonder, what, it's, like, to, have, a, super, intelligent, brain, and, be, so, lowly, regarded, that, even, the, kids, in, Africa, wouldn't, look, your, way. Fuck, You, and, your, breath, spaces.
MOE Let's pretend (you love that) that you actually know what you are talking about and go with your definition, everything that's kawaii is MOE? Fuck up, MOE is when the audience watching the animation, develops a savior like feeling towards that character. Cause you gotta remember that what we are watching is not REAL and they feelings you're having can actually endanger you of losing all your friends because of it. MOE is just a feeling no need to overuse the label. Which brings me to..................
EPIC It's like listening to a surfer from the ninties claim bro after everything they did bro. It was tottaly epic bro, more epic than last week brosef. The word Epic has completely lost all meaning because of this bullshit. Which brings me too...............
FAIL it's such a beginner's phrase isn't it? When Americans are first born they get the pledge of aliegiance and FAIL drilled into their minds. Sad? naw, their brainwashed so they don't know anybetter. Poor english teachers have nothing to run to now that the word fail has lost all meaning.
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| It keeps us from having it all. |
Listen, I know it's law, but I fully disagree with the shit that crosses the line of common sense. If "THEY" could monopolize air, you bet your brick-in-the-wall ass they would. There is no sympathy for these people. Times have changed, and I've changed with it, adapt or die as it were.
This brings me to........................................
Former and Ladder
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| I'll punch you in the latter |
TL:DR
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| So lazy |
Troll (ing) : to upset moderators, to entice the ban masters.
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| Pure Fear |
English Anime Fans
Ahh, defenceless children. One part collage douche, one part A.D.D. 10 year old, All fucking retard. These are the people I have to wade through when I'm looking for the next anime title. There are very few that actually have intelligible things to say, the rest is instigated garbage,walls o text and know-it-all/know-nothing shit talkers. Scumbags to be sure. Brainwashed masses armed with whatever their bible thumping clone parents knew, which when it comes down to Japanese animation, NOT A FUCKING THING!
Dub Fans
Oh, god, yes! These fucks are my rivals. Not a drop of intelligence is found around these dopey wall huggers. There is such a variety of these motherfuckers. You either have the silent awkward mother fuckers that make me feel uncomfortable, you got the super nerdy/overly vocal anime fan, you got the cosplayfans that love to dress up and smell as well as clog up hallways with a passion, you got the fake otakus, the light novel readers, the figure collectors, the dojin artists, the wannabe OEL artists, you got the leachers seeders and fansubbers, you got the 4-chan crowd, Hongfire crowd, Elite crowd, the dub actor crowd. There are so many that make up the anime fandom, it's sometimes too much. But not for me. I am an Otaku, not a fake like so many of these freaks.
Dub fans are miserable piles of moe goo. Too lazy to read anything they didn't type themselves. Scrolling marquees of text are their biggest enemy.
Fansubs
The Oxford Comma
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| Run Oji-san |
MOE Let's pretend (you love that) that you actually know what you are talking about and go with your definition, everything that's kawaii is MOE? Fuck up, MOE is when the audience watching the animation, develops a savior like feeling towards that character. Cause you gotta remember that what we are watching is not REAL and they feelings you're having can actually endanger you of losing all your friends because of it. MOE is just a feeling no need to overuse the label. Which brings me to..................
EPIC It's like listening to a surfer from the ninties claim bro after everything they did bro. It was tottaly epic bro, more epic than last week brosef. The word Epic has completely lost all meaning because of this bullshit. Which brings me too...............
FAIL it's such a beginner's phrase isn't it? When Americans are first born they get the pledge of aliegiance and FAIL drilled into their minds. Sad? naw, their brainwashed so they don't know anybetter. Poor english teachers have nothing to run to now that the word fail has lost all meaning.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Lamune (2005) Ep 1 of 12
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| Lemonade? |
ANN's Plot Summary: Lamune tells the story of a boy named Kenji and his childhood friend Nanami. Although, everyone seems to know that they have a relationship, neither are determined to push it anymore than close friends. The story goes through flashbacks, explaining why they are such close friends and any action doesn't seem to push them apart, but draw them closer.
So far just from the intro I see that it's a harem. Made popular by Pioneer's Tenchi Muyo. Kenji looks like he shares a ton in common with the main chara Kenichi from Ah my Goddess as well. Here is hoping he is a mute douche.
The OP has also told me that it's a lot like the Harem feelings like in Ranma 1/2. One chara surrounded girls that are jealous that the worst of them is the one he grows closer to. Also whenever someone notices them get too close, they will jump back, as if we all didn't know whole damn story long before anything was even implied.
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| Oh, hold on, wait a minute. |
It's gotta suck to animate garbage such as this. But Damn, Let me watch it first episode before railing on how jaded I am in the animation world.
Kenji: POS main chara
Nanami: Primary Girl
It's opens with two young kids on a beach and they are messing with softshell crab. FF to the future.
Kenji has one more exam until summer vacation. He slyly jumps next door (because some one built two houses too damn close to eachother.) to find the Nanami has fallen between the bed and the wall. "I can see your panties" Nine minutes in Nanami is pantless. Oh she's also a fucking retard with zero intelligence in her eyes. She is also easily impressed. Kenji leaves. Suddenly Nanami's mom walks in, same candy colored hair and all that good stuff. Look's like her only job is being a MILF. Well done mom. It' then brings us to Nanami putting on her sailor schollgirl uni. We are treated to an animator showing how a girl puts on some socks. Yeah, real Miyazaki pal. Wait, they keep doing it. Nanami closes a desk, Kenji (that is waiting for her is exercising? ) Nanami says "Hi" , then turns around, digs into her pocket and locks the door.
Mom: Series MILF
She then some how looks at her mom, while her mom is sitting in the ketichen and she's halfway down the street. Odd? Not in the anime relm, noob.
Running full sprint hand in hand the two stop by the beach from the OP. Nanami decides to take off her 2nd dress in order to retie the ribbon. What ever keeps us from going to school right? Mid dress pull, Kenji decides to go tickle monster on the well occupied Nanami, to my surprise she steps back from it.
The two finally get to school and they are greeted by some tracksuit wearing bitch named Tae. Cleaning lady Tae. She's like 15 but who cares, right? Lady? Anyway. Class goes on and we are treated to the first eyecatch lamest fucking eyecatch I've seen in 30 years. Class is over and the Hatano walks over to Kenji, "how was the test" "Hope I don't have to go to summer school". Urrrgh Slice of life..............
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| Quick, Tickle Me! |
Tae: Cleaning Lady
Hatano: 2nd douche
Suddenly "squeezed helium" comes for Kenji.The two walk home and Kenji is hungry, aparently MILF and Nanami own a restaurant. So the two go home, get changed, and head on over to the restaurant (yeah they made it a point to make sure I was aware that they did that.) In the resturaunt.... nothing happens again .A flashback shows us that Kenji gets smoked by a 1994 Nissan while walking back with some water eggplant for the restaurant. So MILFy gets some idea to loan Kenji and Nanami a "Wagon" (old school) On their way out the do the couple thing where Nanami was in such a rush to leave she forgot her (accessory) Sunhat. Nanami blushing tells me shes easily impressed again or MILFy's daughter is autistic.
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| Paradice |
The two (wagonless) chara go down to the super garden to do nothing it seems. Come to find out that Nanami has a special watermelon patch that she has raised.So many things wrong with that. Kenji ends up calling her a kid and eats her special watermelon. Nanami just whines. It's late and Kenji tells Nanami to wake him up this time. Focus on Veggie basket and that's the end of EP 1
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| What, you think I'm joking? |
This is definitely a slice of life series. It's also mixed with the style I hate, but it's getting better. At this point I just can't wait to see more of the Girls.
Monday, July 19, 2010
SSA Summer 2010 04-10 Codec
Monday, July 12, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
New Anime Update.
I've been working constantly, so it's kind of hard to get back into the style of things Anyway, I'm working on a new stolen sub list. coming soon.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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