Reviews and previews
Logically, part III of the Spring 2006 Anime Preview should come after part II. And that’s just what it does:
Air Gear is a sports shounen anime based off of a manga done by the same mangaka who wrote Tenjou Tenge. It’s about a guy who enters the world of Air Trek; an inline skate with engines! My guess is that this show will just end up being boring shounen fluff. How interesting can flying rollerskates be?
Without further ado, part II of the Basugasubakuhatsu Spring 2006 Anime Preview:
Joshikousei translates to “Girl’s High School Students.” Supposedly the anime falls under Seinen (young men’s), Ecchi, and Comedy genres. So I’m envisioning sort of a more mature version of Azumanga Daioh. Or maybe that’s just what I want to see. It also seems like it could be similar to School Rumble (without the boys). I’ll keep an eye on this anime. After all, it does have a cute meganekko in it!
As promised, I did a little detective work on the latest upcoming anime. Here’s Part I of my Spring 2006 Anime Preview:
Gakuen Heaven is originally a manga and video game. The genre? Boy’s love! Uh oh! Not that there’s anything wrong with that… Shounen Ai just isn’t my bag. I guess I’ll watch the first episode anyway to try it out, but I have a feeling I won’t be into this for the long haul…
In the battle of Meganekko, Yomiko Readman wins! I guess I underestimated the power of her hot meganekko looks coupled with her ability to use paper as a weapon. Don’t worry Ayuki, I’ll win a poll for you one of these days!
The next poll: Which Spring 2006 anime are you looking forward to most? I figured if I didn’t do it, someone else would. Unless someone already has… The choices for this poll include some, but not all of the new season’s anime. This is because just about everyone and their mom has an anime premiering this Spring. My sidebar will cry if I put them all in there. The choices are:
Just busy. Really busy. Super omega kawaii busy. So just a few news things and then I’ll get back to being busy.
For pretty much a whole week, I was in Tucson, AZ for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. Our team won the first game, so I had to stay there until Yesterday. While there, we pretty much ate all the time, went to malls, and had fun. But I didn’t really have any access to the outside world.
I think I’m going to switch this to a “look what I bought” post, because I did get quite a few things in my absence:
While at the mall, I went into a Borders and checked out their manga selection. Unlike my normal Borders at home, they had import stuff! I saw a few titles that I recognized (Death Note, other stuff I can’t remember), but the one that caught my eye was the School Rumble manga! They were really expensive (like, $12 a book), but I decided I’d go ahead and grab the manga anyway. So now I have the first 2 volumes of School Rumble in Japanese! And it’s really tough to read!
I also got my yesasia.com order finally. It included the Keroro manga, the Hantsuki manga, Hayate Cross Blade, and Shikabane Hime. I’ll try and post pics and reviews and whatnot when I’ve got more time to breathe.
I just wanted to give a quick heads up, especially after reading this post about quitting the whole anime manga blogging scene and realizing I seem to be falling off the face of the Earth.
There are many ways to go about watching anime. One thing that never changes (unless you watch raws) is that there will be a middleman: The fansubbers.
So when I first started up the anime forums section of this ol’ site, I did so somewhat recklessly. That is to say, I figured I had the resources to put em up there, and that was enough of a reason.
Things started off pretty cool with nice people such as Mr. Rogers (okay, he’s my cousin), Os, and Problematic (one of the reasons why she’s the nicest anime blogger around) joining and contributing a lot!
Via ANN, Via Manganews, Via ODN.ne.jp,
Apparently, manga characters are evolving a 6th finger. No one really knows why. As Manganews has translated:
In any case, fingers are a pretty famous topic in manga, but 2004 saw some strange occurrences: one after another, titles from famous shonen magazines started showing people with 6 fingers.
I thought that originally, cartoon characters had four fingers because they were easier to draw. Think about it. If you’re doing 24 or so frames per second, and you have 1 less finger to draw per hand, that’s 63,360 less fingers to draw per character per 22 minute anime episode! Sure, fingers aren’t the hardest thing to draw, but they add up!
I wonder if this is just a wacky coincidence, or if these manga artists are seriously trying to change the way that manga are universally drawn. Do they really need to make things harder for themselves? Though it’s weird seeing six fingers on a manga character, it’s probably just as strange seeing 4 fingers on an American cartoon character. I’ve just sort of been desensitized to it.
The results to last week’s poll were truly inspiring. The number of people spending money on anime, manga and whatnot far exceed the number who don’t. Furthermore, there were a lot more people who spent over $200 a month than I had estimated. It makes my spending seem paltry, to say the least.
This week’s poll is sort of a continuation of the top ten anime meganekko list I did earlier this week. If you didn’t like how your meganekko placed in my rankings, now’s your chance to make a difference! The poll? Meganekko Fever (based on the name of a magazine that Yuuichi was forced to destroy, the humanity!)!
This is also a blatant reattempt to “win” a poll for the lovely Ayuki of Kashimashi anime fame.
If you don’t remember the various meganekko, here’s a refresher:
Before you get too impressed, no, I’m not a basketball player; I play in the band! Anyway, if you’re watching the games, look out for an Asian trumpet player in the UNM band! Go Lobos!
In my absence, I’ve prepared a few posts so that Basugasubakuhatsu will be rockin’ even while I’m away. Hopefully they’ll appear everyday around this time. I want to make sure my readers will be able to have (semi) fresh anime and manga junk to read, even if I am on vacation. Actually, it’s mostly just all of that shoujo manga stuff that I had lying around. If I were to write about some timely anime news, it would most likely become old news by the time it showed up…
Now if only my yesasia manga would come soon enough for me to read it on the bus…
I won’t be completely disconnected while I’m away, so if something blows up, I should still be able to fix it. Without further ado, enjoy the time-released goodness, starting with my quick preview of the Full Moon wo Sagashite manga!