Thursday, August 7, 2008

Upcoming Anime

It's that time again! A look at all the upcoming anime series.

One Outs
Shinobu Kaitani's Baseball gambling related manga will be created into an anime with work starting October 2008.

Kyo no Gononi
Coharu Sakuraba's school comedy manga will be making it's anime debut October 5th 2008.

Guin Saga
Kaoru Kurimoto's Conan-esque novels will be animated for television Spring 2009.

Tentai Senshi Sunred
Makoto Kubota's comedy battle manga will air in Japan October 2008.

Asu no Yoichi!
Akita Shoten's Romantic comedy manga will be animated. No release date yet confirmed.


Chaos; Head

Nitroplus and 5pb's psychological suspense computer game will be animated for television this Fall. No release date yet confirmed.

Hetalia Axis Powers
Hidekazu Himaruya's World War comedy web manga will be given an animated TV release. No release date yet confirmed.

That's all for now! I will continue checking for updates and will hopefully conglomerate all this release info into a fandy dandy calendar.

Until next time :D

release info from ANN

Oh dear, Special A Love Triangles..

I just finished watching the latest episode of Special A, episode 17. It would seem the Akira, Yahiro and Tadashi love triangle is picking up rather quickly ^-^

Akira seems to finally be recognizing her feelings for Tadashi, even though he's blind as a bat and can't even see the tell tale signs, as most men usually are.
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Akira's Father asked her to go to a marriage interview, seeing as she has no boy in her sights. (or so he thinks) This entire Episode is pretty much based on Hikari trying her best to cheer Akira up as she seems down from some strange reason. Akira, being Akira, chose not to tell anyone about the marriage interview.

In this episode the Special A group helps out at another school's festival, in hopes it would cheer Akira up. Yahiro was given a chance to interact with Akira by recovering her lost cell phone for her. They had a little lovey dovey moment. It meant the world to him, but she was obviously oblivious to it.
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Near the end of the episode, Tadashi overhears Akira talking about her marriage interview on the phone. Being the hopeless male that he is, he of course makes careless remarks about it, saying she might find a good guy after all. Bad move, Tadashi, bad move.
In retaliation, Akira slapped that bitch up.
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I have to give her kudos for having the strength as I, personally, have never slapped someone in a fit of inner struggle and pain. It looks so alleviating. Or maybe not. Akira ran off in tears to leave poor ol' Tadashi shocked and bewildered, wondering what the heck just happened and using all his male brain power to figure out what he said wrong.

In other Special A love news, Sakura is still deeply in love with Jun, who is also deeply engrossed in running away from her.
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And Kei is still insanely over protective of Hikari, who, for a good portion of this episode, was dressed in a pink rabbit suit.
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I can only hope that Akira FINALLY confesses how she feels about Tadashi. That is, if she's really certain how she feels herself.

Until NEXT time!

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Anime, Anime, Anime..

So it's been far too long since my last post. I must apologize. Gomen. -_-

Truth be told I've been so busy with work. Working away from home sure slows down my blogging process.
I've been uploading videos to Veoh like crazy. I have over 100 now all vying for the attention of your eyes and ears. My "currently watching" list in the sidebar needs an update badly as I've added so many more new shows. @_@
All of which I have to say I'm enjoying quite thoroughly.

Blade of the Immortal is quickly becoming a favourite. Only two episodes have aired thus far but I can tell it's one I'll be watching to the very end. The animation seem to be a bit darker than in most, colourwise, but it definitely suits the mood of the show. (I even tried fixing the brightness of my monitor but nay, the anime was just made that dark :P)

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu is.. well, simple. The plot isn't very intense and the characters seem average. I'm really only watching it for the Akiba plot line. I was actually quite surprised at how they treat people who enjoy anime to that extent. I suppose I just assumed that everyone in Japan enjoyed anime. Episode 3 brought that thought crumbling down as the student's harshness was shown towards Yuuto when he claims Haruka's anime book as his own. Shocking, really. I knew people could be that harsh here in North America but I didn't feel it possible in Japan.

Antique Bakery is becoming quite popular. Each episode I upload instantly accumulates hundreds of views. :) But I have to say it is a pretty good show thus far. Things are finally starting to heat up between Ono and Chikage. Ono still goes bananas whenever Chikage removes his glasses. :P Oh man on man love is so romantic.
I kind of wish Tachibana's kidnapping plot would move along a bit faster but the animators seem to want to leave it until last. Guess they need something to keep the show going.

I'm curently uploading the first episode of Eve no Jikan. It looks to be quite interesting and hopefully will be an enjoyable hit. I watched the trailer on the anime's homesite but.. yes, it's in Japanese so I couldn't tell what the plot was other than the slightly vague one given on myanimelist.net. Reminds me a bit of Bicentennial man with Robin Williams. Time shall tell..

That's all for now. I'll be updating more of the shows I'm watching as I go on. Keep it real on the flipside, home slices.

p.s. I promise I won't go that long without posting ever again. Cross my heart and hope to die :P