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Spring 2007 Anime Preview: Part 2

Post author By hung
Post date March 7, 2007
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My Spring 2007 anime preview continues today with Idol Master Xenoglossia, CLAYMORE, Wellber no Monogatari ~Sisters of Wellber~, Darker Than Black – Kuro no Keiyakusha and Kamichama Karin. Get ready for pure speculation!

Idol Master Xenoglossia

Idol Master Xenoglossia is based on an idol simulation game where you train young girls to become pop idols. Hopefully this anime won’t be as bad as that other idol show, Lovedol… This one also includes mecha for some reason. Are Japanese people just randomly adding mecha to all shows now!?

I can’t see how this anime could be very good, but I might watch one episode to see how bad it is. Apparently DiGiKerot likes Idol Master enough to buy the super secret special edition…

Anime

Spring 2007 Anime Preview: Part 1

Post author By hung
Post date March 6, 2007
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It looks like it’s finally time for the Spring anime season previews. Or at the very least, it’s good to use as filler since I’ll be out of town for a week. For this preview, I take a look at Hitohira, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, Gegege no Kitaro, Hayate the Combat Butler and Seto no Hanayome.

Hitohira

From the trailer that I watched, it looks like Hitohira is about some girl who can’t talk. I’m pretty sure “mute” and “can talk” are on the list of moe charm points, and this girl seems pretty moe to me. She seems to be pretty close to her friend (yuri!!!) who’ll probably help her to learn to speak up. The character designs look really cute, and the possible (only suggested?) yuri means I’ll be watching.

There’s also a Hitohira manga. Too bad it’s a seinen or I might be able to read it.

Animation Runner Kuromi 2 – Anime DVD Review

Post author By hung
Post date March 5, 2007
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Animation Runner Kuromi 2 continues the Kuromi saga with multiple series, multiple deadlines, and more drama. Plus better animation!

Anime

Legal Anime Download Service Review: ADV Universe

Post author By hung
Post date March 4, 2007
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After doing a post on one of those direct download anime sites, I figured it’d be only fair to do some reviews of the sites that offer legal anime downloads. A few of these have popped up over the past few months, though not much has really been written about them.

Today I’ll look at ADV Universe. ADV Universe is ADV Films’ own anime download service. They offer DRM protected windows media files of their anime for download.

Anime

AnimeGround – Anime Direct Download Site Review

Post author By hung
Post date March 3, 2007
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I’ve never really felt the need to sign up for a direct download anime site before. Bittorrent does just fine, and I don’t really like the thought of people actually profiting from fansubs. One of these sites, called AnimeGround, set up an account for me to try out, so I figured what the heck?

Anime DVD Expenses

Super Crazy ADV Anime Sale at RightStuf!

Post author By hung
Post date March 2, 2007
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Remember that insane Geneon anime sale at Rightstuf a while back? Well, they’re sorta doing it again, but with ADV stuff now. You can get 10 ADV dvds for $50 or 25 for $100. That’s seriously cheap!

I have a weak will. Even though I have waaaayyyy too many anime dvds in my review queue as it is, I ordered this:

Cromartie is just a really fun series that I never saw all of. I would’ve ordered more Kino’s Travels, but the last volume was already sold out! Wandaba Style was an anime that I had started out really liking a lot, but then it got licensed and the fansubs stopped.

There’s a lot of good stuff, and it looks like it’s selling out quick. So hurry up! Here’s the official sale text from RightStuf:

Heat up your March with an abundance of savings on selected fan favorites from ADV Films! From now until March 11, take your pick from our hit list of ADV titles and bulk up your personal collection!

Choose the deal thatâ€™s best for you:

Get 10 ADV titles for $50 (Use coupon code abundance10); OR

Get 25 ADV titles for $100 (Use coupon code abundance25)

Expires: March 11, 2007

And keep in mind that BOTH offers will net you FREE economy shipping to U.S. and Canadian destinations!

In addition to our standard restrictions*, this special event has a couple other rules to note:

To use these coupons, you cannot have any other items in your cart aside from items that qualify for the sale, PLUS you must have the exact number of items for the coupon you plan to use. (In other words: If youâ€™re looking to purchase some other items in addition to your â€œAbundanceâ€ coupon selections, youâ€™ll need to place a separate order.)

You cannot have duplicate items or multiple quantities of any single item in your cart. (This way no one customer can load up on all of the available inventory of a specific item. Fair for all and more savings to go around!)

Anime DVD Review

Animation Runner Kuromi – Anime DVD Review

Post author By hung
Post date February 28, 2007
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It’s no secret that my favorite anime are usually the insane gag type. Like Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu or Excel Saga or Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. I just finished watching Animation Runner Kuromi, which sorta falls into that category. It was directed by Akitaro Daichi, who did Gag Manga Biyori and Jubei-chan. He also did Sexy Commando!!! So it should freaking awesome, right?

Anime Music Translation

Crystal Kay – Konna ni Chikaku de: Lyrics + Translation (?)

Post author By hung
Post date February 27, 2007
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The single for Nodame Cantabile anime ED song, Konna ni Chikaku de, is out! I really enjoyed watching the PV, and before this single came out I was forced to play the PV to listen to it.

Right now I have the titular song, Konna ni Chikaku de running on infinite repeat. It’s really freaking good! Plus Crystal Kay is pretty cute. Apparently she’s bilingual in English and Japanese, though she’s actually African American/Korean. Which means her English lines in her songs turn out pretty smooth and not Engrishy.

I tried writing down all the lyrics and translating them to improve my Japanese listening and translating skills. For lyrics I wasn’t sure about, I got help from either Memento’s post or this other one. The translation itself was totally done by me though. I don’t know if that’s something to brag about…

Tags Nodame Cantabile

Anime

American Anime Awards Results

Post author By hung
Post date February 26, 2007
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So on Saturday, they had the First Annual American Anime Awards at the New York Comic con. I was actually streaming the show for a while, but I lost interest fairly quickly. I only checked back again to find the results today. Here they are:

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The Adventures of the ASOS Brigade 005 – Haruhi Meets The Box

Post author By hung
Post date February 25, 2007
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So the next episode of The Adventures of the ASOS Brigade has come out! For some reason this one is number 005. So they’re skipping around like the original Haruhi anime? Great… In this episode, Haruhi gets a tip about a secret alien base. She, Mikuru and Yuki go to Area 42.

They stalk around and find a real life alien closet! The closet is some kind of clothes changing one. So Yuki gets the witch costume and Mikuru gets the bunny suit from Asahina Mikuru no Bouken. Would it have killed them to get Patricia Ja Lee in a bunny suit? Seriously, that’s how you sell dvds!