Magical Girl Madoka Magica / 魔法少女まどか★マギカ

What? I watch magical girl? Gasp! Yes for one good reason. Look at the staff list below:

Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Series Composition: Gen Urobuchi
Character Draft: Ume Aoki
Character Design: Kishida Takahiro
Music: Kajiura Yuki
Animation Production: SHAFT

One can marvel at the amount of firepower assembled here for this series. No wonder a lot of fans went berserk in anticipation. I am intrigued by the fact Shinbo was given a carte blanche/ blank cheque to direct a fresh anime instead of adaptation work. Reportedly he expressed desire to direct a magical girl anime genre while he is still working on Bakemonogatari.

Slated for air on 6 January 2011. I wonder which one will be better; this or Fractale? Only time will tell. This is also first SHAFT original anime since 2001. If anyone doubts Shinbo doing magical girl, just check Nanoha S1. Yes, that is done by him.

Yuki Kaijura joined the project due to "amusing script".

Home Site

UPDATE:
My final impressions here.

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Fractale / フラクタル

Yutaka Yamamoto, director of Kannagi, Black Rock Shooter and The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi Season 1 is coming up with new anime which soon to be aired on 14th January 2011. The series was called Fractale. I have no idea what is the story about so I will quote this synopsis here:

"In the future, the world is managed by a network called the Fractale System. A boy named Crane is living an aimless life with his parents, who are actually computer-generated "Doppels". One day, he runs into a pretty girl named Furyune, who is being pursued by someone. When he rescues her and helps to keep her hidden from her pursuers, he is pulled into her troubles as well. After meeting her, his life will never be the same."

Yamamoto staked a lot on this series, wrote that he will retire if Fractale fails. Pretty bold. Some people called him a drama queen, some people are impressed by his commitment to make good anime. One thing that struck me is one of the staff is an anime scholar whose task is to develop the story. Now I am really curious when I learn about this. Looking at the trailer, it reminds me shades of Last EXILE for some reason.

The only reason I want to watch this is because of Yamamoto.

Cast:
Clain : KOBAYASHI Yuu (小林ゆう)
Phryne : TSUDA Minami (津田美波)
Nessa : HANAZAWA Kana (花澤香菜)
Enri : IGUCHI Yuka (井口裕香)
Sunda : ASANUMA Shintaro (浅沼晋太郎)

Staff

Director : Yamamoto Yutaka (山本寛)
Original Work : Mandelbrot Engine (マンデルブロ・エンジン)
Series: Composition : Okada Mari (岡田麿里)
Original Story Concept : Azuma Hiroki (東浩紀)
Original Character Concept : Hidari (左)
Animation Production : A-1 Pictures
Production Assistance : Ordet

Home Site

Airing on 14th January 2011.

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School Uniforms from various popular animes

Some of the uniforms here are ridiculously designed. And none of the female uniform have pants. LOL. Perhaps the most normal is Detective Conan.

Merry Xmas to all by the way.

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One of the most beautiful anime OP I ever seen so far.

One of the most beautiful anime OP I ever laid my eyes on. Right music, right animation, right feel. What a nostalgic feel to watch this again. The Record of Lodoss War TV, made somewhere in late 90s.

However the TV series is mediocre at best, did not live up the magic feel of the OVA or this promising OP.

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Fate Zero anime and manga confirmed! Yes!

TYPEMOON and Ufotable has confirmed the adaptation of Fate Zero as anime and manga! YES! Finally after years of speculation, my prediction came out as reality. So far no news on casting, movie/OAD/TV series is out yet but it will be revealed May 2011 issue TYPEMOON ACE Vol 6. Director is Ei Aoki (あおき えい) whereas character designer by Tomonori Sudou (須藤友徳)and Atsushi Ikariya (碇谷敦).

After awesome work on Kara no Kyokai, I was hoping Ufotable will be doing more TYPEMOON stories and I was right. This time, I predicted fans will like charismatic and manly Rider (Alexander The Great) and very stern, serious Saber. Shirou's foster father will the main driving character for this story. Here we can see how ruthless and cold man he is, much to Saber's disapproval.

Penned by Nitroplus Gen Urobuchi, it is more action packed compared to more mystical and obtuse Kinoko Nasu.

Hell yeah.

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Manga publisher backlash against new censorship law has gone global

As predicted, the backlash is getting global coverage from top newspapers. I wonder how long the right wing Tokyo Governor can hold on before he buckle under the pressure. It won't be long in my opinion. I don't think he expected this kind of coverage and indirect complaint from Premier of Japan, Naoto Kan. While he is no Aso, he nevertheless deplored the new law as he feared it will reduce Japanese economic competitiveness in global market. Not to mention the often overlooked softpower aspect. What a lot of people including the Governor of Tokyo did not realise is, one of the mainstay of Japanese global power is its ability to influence world audience thru softpower.


Wall Street Journal

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BBC

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Shoji Kawamori short anime

I find this anime short done by the famous Macross guy, Kawamori. It is tongue in cheek humour, using NHK building with Domo-Kun as the "captain" of the transformed mecha to block the meteor.

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Bill 156. What does it mean?

Someone asked what does the bill mean. This is what I understand so far.

Well for starters, DPJ has agreed to support the bill that specifically aimed to tackle the perceived otaku social issues. Why DPJ counts? Because they still have clout in political Japan and if they willing to support any Bill, it most probably will pass the voting. The formal process to stamp the Bill to be in effect is on Wednesday. The one who proposed this Bill is Tokyo Metropolitan Government which led by notorious right winger Governor Ishihara.

Stuffs like underage characters in explicit situations, yaoi or yuri stories or anything that is seemed to impede desirable youth development in Japan by suggestive content that glorifies anti social stuff. Problem is the Bill is very subjective and almost everything under the sun can be censored or banned. It is so easy to abuse this interpretation: "unjustifiably glorify or exaggerate" certain sexual or pseudo sexual acts". The word "pseudo" is giving me heebie jeebies. What does it qualify as "pseudo" then? (slaps head in confusion)

This one too: “rape and other sexual acts which violate societal norms”. Fine, rape is bad. But "other sexual acts?" Another big hole here.

What is more intriguing that this law is very specific on anime, manga and games. Why they do not examine films, tv series or novels especially those from "pinku genre"? Some otakus are enraged by this very specific targeting by lawmakers.

What does it mean for anime fans around the world?

Well beginning next year June or even earlier, no more panty shots, no more hot springs scene, no more beach scenes, no more stumbling into female changing clothes scene, no more males or females engage in intimate behaviour and possibly most interesting is no more school life scenes. There is even reports of publishers already banning depictions of school uniform in light of the Bill. Pretty extreme.

The famous Japanese school girl phenomenon will probably die with the wider adoption of this Bill.

Some titles like popular Love-Ru or School Days might be banned, needless to say stuffs like Sekirei or Rosario might in danger of being cancelled too. Seinen stuff like Index or ToraDora! might not survive this Bill too. Even mega popular stories like Evangelion or Fate/Stay Night could be in hot soup too.

Maybe games like Love Plus or those countless eroge VN will be in trouble since they emphasize a lot on romantic encounter with school girls.

Another scenario is there will be less anime or manga output since most of them will be branded adult which means higher cost of production since market is smaller for them. Less anime content in Japan, even lesser for rest of the world. Less anime means less stuff for subbers to translate too. So every anime fans around the world, legit or not, will suffer from this law.

No more glorious years of 2002-2006. Or even worse, anime stories will be more stale since it is gonna be so kosher/clean.

Am I too pessimistic?

I don't know but looking at the wordings of the Bill 156 certainly very open to interpretation. The word "pseudo" is very worrying and too convenient for anyone to ban any works without much examination. Not helping when anime/manga industry in Japan is declining and now have to face this bizzare law that further squeeze their market from usual demographic.

I will be hard pressed to see how any mangaka or animators going to make a living with this law in force soon. Not surprising when 10 major manga publisher companies decided to withdraw support from Tokyo Anime Fair 2010 which is chaired by Ishihara.

Dark days indeed for anime and manga.

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Most realistic mecha firefight so far in last 5 years.

No screaming weapon names, no lolicons/kids or childish hot blood shit. I want more of these mecha combat. Seriously.

Why no more realistic mecha series? Sigh.

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Cara Download Video di Youtube

Download Video youtube memakai IDM (pakai browser mozilla firefox)
Bisa pakai internet download manager versi idm portable atau idm 5.19 . Klik aja di sini untuk free download idm 5.19 build 5. Install softwarenya, setelah itu buka video youtube yang akan kamu donlot dan mainkan. Biasanya di bagian atas video akan ada tanda simbol idm berwarna hijau bertuliskan “download this video” yang apabila kamu klik akan mendownload video yang kamu mainkan secara otomatis. Atau apabila tak mau muncul tandanya, maka kamu perlu menginstall add on IDM cc (jangan lupa restart firefox setelah proses instalasi selesai).

Untuk download IDM versi 6.05 klik disini.

Semoga Bermanfaat.

Impressive anti war animation from Chinese artist

Titled "See Through" or 打，打个大西瓜, it is 3 years worth of work by a Chinese artist goes by name of Jokelate. Great timing, good music and crisp animation with strong anti-war massage. Nicely done.

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Naruto 517 part 2/2

Sementara Anko yg ketahuan sama Kabuto, akhirnya Tak berdaya, Kabuto pun membawa Anko dgn melilitkan Ular di leher Anko

Sementara Pasukan Aliansi bergerak di pimpin Gaara dan Divisi satu yg dipimpin Darui mulai berpencar.
"Divisi Satu, berpisah.," aba-aba dari Darui
Kembali ke tempat Divisi Penyergap, Ittan sudah selesai membuat lubang dan parit di sekeliling Area juga ranjau-ranjau kertas peledak telah terpasang
Saji Yamanaka yg bertugas mensensor merasa kaget.
"Ada Apa ..?"tanya Kankuro
"Teknik Pengganggu ... Teknik ini mengganggu kemampuanku mendeteksi chakra, ada sesuatu yg mendekat, tapi Aku tak tahu itu apa ?" kata Saji
"musuh ?" kankuro keheranan

Di balik pepohonan ada sesosok bayangan,
Tiba-tiba Muta meluncur menghampiri
"itu Muta-san dari klan Aburame yg bertugas bersama Tim Pengintai"kata Saji Yamanaka menghampiri Muta
"Tunggu berhenti, ada banyak jebakan. Aku akan mengurus dia" kata Kankuro
"Muta... Apa kau baik2 saja ?" Tanya Saji pada Muta yg tersungkur ke tanah.
"HOHETO..." teriak Kankuro
"Ya..Aku mengereti" balas Hoheto Hyuga
Byakugan... Hoheto melihat aliran chakra pada Muta Aburame
"Saji.. Menjauhlah dariku !! " kata Muta yg menolongnya
"?!" Saji tidak mengerti yg diucapkan Muta
"ada sesuatu di dalam Guci Serangga dipunggungnya itu, dan itu bukan serangganya Klan Aburame" kata Hoheto
"mereka tak menyianyiakan waktu" kata Kankuro
Tiba-tiba Muta berbalik dan mempiting Saji dari Belakang, Saji yg tak mengiranya hanya diam
"Dia menggunakannya sebagai Tameng, dan mendekati Kita, apa yg harus kita Lakukan" kata Hoheto
Kankuro yg memperhatikan pergerakan Muta yg Aneh, mulai curiga lalu mengeluarkan tali chakra di tiap ujung jarinya pada Saji
"Caranya bergerak... Ini adalah... "pikir Kankuro
"Sudah kubilang jangan Lengah" kata Ittan

Tim Deidara dan Sasori
"oh.. Rupanya mereka telah menyadarinya ya.." kata Deidara
Ternyata Sasori yg menggerakan Muta dgn teknik tali chakranya.
Muta yg dijadikan boneka hidup oleh Sasori, meluncur menghampiri Kankuro, Hoheto dan Ittan
"Deidara... Lakukan !" kata Sasori
Hoheto yg terus memantau keaadan berteriak
"ada segumpalan putih didalam Gucinya Muta, serangga dgn chakra besar didalamnya " kat Hoheto
"Ittan tahan Dia !" kata Kankuro
"tak salah lagi... Ini adalah tanah liat peledak Deidara" kata Ittan sambil merapal Jutsu Dotton nya
KATSU...
Deidara mengucapkan Mantranya
Guci pun meledak...
Sai yg sdang memantau di udara keheranan
Tapi Ittan berhasil membuat benteng tanah untuk menghalangi ledakan
"hancur berkeping-keping.. Itu adalah seni hmm" seringai Deidara
"Lacak !! " perintah Sasori pada Chuukichi
"Dapat" kata Chuukichi
Saji terselamatkan oleh Kankuro dgn tali2 chakranya, sedangkan Muta tak terselamatkan
"Kita tak dapat Menyelamatkan Muta Aburame"kata Kankuro
"aaaarggh" Saji mengerang Kesakitan
"Kiri cepat obati Saji ! Mereka segera datang, bersiap-siaplah " Kata Kankuro
"Aku rasa tak ada waktu dalam perang ini, untuk meratapi kematian rekan kita " pikir Omoi
Tiba ada bayangan yg melompat turun dari benteng Dotton-nya Ittan
"Juga tak ada waktu untuk memikirkannya" kata Omoi lalu mengeluarkan pedang dipunggungnya
"Hanya ada waktu untuk KUMOGAKURE WANGETSU-TSUKI KATTA" Omoi mengeluarkan Jutsunya untuk menahan serangan yg tiba-tiba, dan 2 sosok bayangan itu pun mundur
Saji kaget setelah mengenali 2 sosok bayangan itu adalah Tokuma Hyuga dan Ranka
"Hah... Orang2 dari Pihak kita lagi? Apa mereka mengendalikannya ? " kata Omoi
Lalu ada satu sosok bayangan lagi datang
"Ada satu lagi diatas" kata Saji
tiba-tiba Sai melabrak sosok bayangan itu
"bagus Sai.."kata Kankuro
"Sialan.."sambung Kankuro ketika Melihat ke atas ada Deidara diatas burungnya
"mereka masih hidup rupanya.. Jadi selanjutnya gimana? Mmm"kata Deidara "Kalian licik" kata Kankuro
"Kalian akan membayarnya"kata Saji
"Aku tahu Kau ada di situ Sasori, tunjukan dirimu" kata Kankuro
"oh jadi mereka mempunya Master Puppet juga rupanya mmm''kata Deidara
"kalian Squad Penyergap juga... Sangat Jarang kedua Squad dari kedua belah pihak bertemu" kata Kankuro
"hehe... Jadi siapapun yg memenangkan ini, akan menyelesaikan serangan penyelinapan. Kami yg pertama mereka kirim, kemenangan ini akan menentukan Alur dari Perang ini" kata Deidara
"Dan Kami takkan Kalah, karena Kami adalah... Abadi" kata Deidara
Tubuh yg tadi dilabrak Sai bangkit dan mulai menunjukan muka-nya,
Sai sangat mengenali wajah itu yg ternyata adalah Kakaknya yg selama ini Dia cari
"Sai... Larilah adik kecilku ! kau sudah melihat apa yg mereka lakukan pada tubuhku kau takkan menang" kata kakak Sai
"kakak...." kata Sai "tak ada waktu untuk gelisah Aku takkan membiarkan Kau membuat Teman dan Keluarga saling menyakiti" kata Omoi

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Female anime fans are more hardcore.

A voice actor/actress concert from Tales series, back in 2009. What really struck me is high number of female fans in the crowd (less polite nick will be fujoshi) and their stark rudeness. When male actors appear, they went wild with such enthusiasm but when actresses step out, not even an iota of cheer can be heard to acknowledge them.

Younger male characters get more wilder cheer as usual.

Based on this video, I would say hardcore Japanese anime female fans are more scary than males. Seriously.

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naruto 491

Ternyata katak segel disimpan di dalam perut naruto dan celakanya dia lewat mulut naruto.. dengan muka masam air mata, keringat dan ingus bercucuran naruto terpaksa membuka mulutnya dan dengan susah payah katak segel masuk ke dalam mulut naruto. "hai buka lebih lebar!" kata gamatora susah memasukkan pinggang sampai kakinya.

"kenapa harus lewat mulut..? membuat saya serasa mau muntah,...." pikir naruto tapi tiba-tiba fukasaku melakukan tendangan terbang dan pas mengenai pantat gamatora . membuat gamatora langsung masuk ke dalam perut naruto. "gulp..." naruto menelan gamatora hueeekkk.

"penyimpanan selesai, saya akan mengembalikan kamu ke konoha sekarang" kata fukasaku. "saya harus menemukan gurita kan..? jadi tepatnya dimana dia? bisa kau beri aku sebuah petunjuk?" tanya naruto pada super sage. "saya tak bisa mengatakan tepatnya... tapi di sebuah pulau yang sunyi... yang tak di dekati manusia... sorga bagi semua makhluk... jika kau tanya akan kujawab ini seperti resort menyenangkan" jawab super sage katak.

naruto dengan senang hati langsung membayangkan pulau indah dan tentram. "gurita akan bekerjasama denganmu disana...kau akan dapat bimbingan" tambah super sage katak. "oke sip"jawab naruto bersemangat. "baiklah kalau begitu.. kembali!" kata fukasaku mengembalikan naruto ke konoha.

bufff! naruto tiba-tiba muncul lagi di kursi ichiraku dan untung saja tak ada orang di kursinya ninja yang sedang makan di kanan kiri naruto terkejut termasuk penjual ramen. "ah saya telah kembali..."kata naruto bingung. "kemana saja kau? saya baru saja berfikir kemana kau pergi menghilang tiba-tiba sekarang kau muncul lagi tiba-tiba" tanya penjual ramen. "ada sedikit bisnis" jawab naruto.

"oh ini naruto ya"kata ninja sebelah kiri. "saya tak menyangka kita akan bertemu di tempat seperti ini, oh ya boleh minta tanda tangan? bisa kau buatkan satu lagi untuk anakku?dia fans dirimu"kata ninja di kanan naruto. "tanda tangan?"kata naruto heran. "pahlawan konoha, anak yang membuat keajaiban, uzumaki naruto! boleh minta juga?"kata ninja dikirinya.

naruto bengong... "ya?anda tidak mau?"tanya ninja dikiri lagi. "bukan,.. sebenarnya saya tak pernah melakukannya saya bahkan belum pernah menanda tangai apapun " jawab naruto malu. "akhirnya mereka menghargai anak ini sebagai anak ajaib.. tapi dulu ini sangat berlawanan... kukira ini alami" pikir penjual ramen.

"sebelum acara tanda tangan bisa kalian biarkan dia makan dulu?" kata penjual menengahi. "oh ya..."kata ninja kiri. "akhirnya waktunya makannnnnn!" kata naruto bersemangat.

3 hari setelah raikage memanggil untuk pertemuan kage. 6 kage duduk di meja pertemuan dengan di temani 1 pengawal. "kalian semua datang lebuh awal" kata raikage. "situasi menuntut untuk tergesa-gesa" jawab gaara. "tapi apa kau sudah sehat tsunade?kau bisa menggantikan posisimu dengan yg lebih muda... "kata tsuchikage. "aku tak mau mendengar kata-katamu orang tua.. cukup dengan standar gandamu" jawab tsunade.

"akhirnya tsunade kembali ke kursinya sebagai hokage" kata mizukage. "kita cukupkan basa-basinya dan mulai pertemuannya. pertama kita ketahui dimana kyuubi dan hachibi... dan juga informasi mengenai markas musuh, kekuatan perang dll" tengah mifune. "orang kami sedang menyelidiki markas musuh, ini mungkin jebakan... jadi tak ada cara lain selain mengumpulkan lebih banyak informasi" kata tsunade.

"kita juga harus membuat tim rekonstruksi, dan mereka akan mencari informasi yang bagus kita harus membandingkan informasi dari masing2 desa" kata raikage. "kita harus menyatukan kemampuan intelijen kita "kata mizukage. "oke baiklah dan sekarang dimana kita akan menyembunyikan kyuubi dan hachibi?" tanya tsuchikage. "menyembunyikan?!" tanya tsunade heran."apa?"tanya raikage juga.

"naruto dan bee adalah aset utama kekuatan perang kita bagaimana mungkin kita menyembunykan mereka?!" kata tsunade sengit. "saya juga pikir begitu tapi mereka berdua target musuh. mempertimbangkan hal ini kita tak bisa mengirim mereka ke garis depan, kita sudah menyetujuinya di pertemuan terakhir" jawab tsuchikage.

"musuh adalah uchiha madara! jika kita kehilangan kesempatan menang karena tak menggunakan mereka takkan ada kesempatan kedua. kita harus menyerang dengan kekuatan penuh" kata tsunade. "ini perang melindungi mereka berdua, kau tak bisa membuat keputusan sendiri kami akan memutuskan dengan suara terbanyak" kata gaara. "kau bocah ingusan naruto adalah..." kata tsunade tapi di potong gaara "jika kau mau bicara naruto saya lebih tau dia dengan baik. dia akan melakukan apa saja demi temannya... itulah maslahnya"kata gaara. tsunade terdiam.

"sebelum kita mempertimbangkan kekuatan militer, perpecahan di antara kage akan menghalangi kemenagan" kata mifune. "saya juga setuju dengan mereka tsunade" kata ayah shikamaru yg mendampingi tsunade. "sudah cukup..." kata tsunade mengalah. "tampaknya putri dalam keadaan sehatnya" kata tsuchikage meledek. "mari kita putuskan kemana menyembunyikan naruto dan bee. tak ada keberatan kan tsunade?" kata raikage. "ya baiklah lanjutkan"jawab tsunade.

"mhh.. lokasi perlindungan telah ditetapkan. ini tempat yang saya sediakan. tempatnya di kumogakure yang tak ada anggota akatsukinya dan ini pulau terisolasi dimana saya dan bee berlatih bersama" kata raikage.

dikapal ke pulau Onigashima. "saya melihat seekor gurita.." cerita yamato. "dikirim ke pulau surga, persisi seperti kata super size sage" kata naruto senang. "sepertinya naruto tak mencurigai papaun" pikir yamato. "bersiap mendarat" kata ninja kumo. "wah pulaunya mulai terlihat"kata ninja lain. "yang benar saja" kata naruto tambah senang.

di depan terlihat pulau menyeramkan penuh bebatuan berserakan bangkai dan tengkorak dan suara monster. "s...sso...rga" kata naruto kecewa. "ini seperti hutan kematian konoha tapi ini lebih ekstrim" kata ninja kumo. "ini sangat aman selama kau tak mengganggu binantang mereka jinak.. hanya ada satu hal.." kata nija kumo. "apa?" tanya yamato. "bagian mana yang terlihat seperti sorga super sage bodooooohh!!!!" kata naruto kesal .

"di daerah ini ada..." kata ninja kumo. "tangan gurita!!" naruto berteriak. "hei gurita tunjukkan kami jalan"kata naruto bodoh hahahah. "naruto ini...." kata yamato cemas. "CUMI-CUMIIII!" kata ninja kumo. "dia disini!inilah yg saya mau katakan supaya kita hati2 ternyata dia sudah disini" sambung ninja kumo. "apa!!!" kata yamato dan ninja konoha. naruto malah tidak panik cumi2 raksasa muncul di atas mereka. dia malah menghitung tentakelnya. "walau tentakelnya tak cukup kau tak bisa diam saja ayo naruto kita lawan" kata yamato.

"tapi kita harus pastikan...jika ini cumi2 dia punya 10 tentakel jika gurita hanya 8" kata naruto tapi tiba-tiba dia dililit tentakel cumi2 dan mengangkatnya ke atas. "whoaaaa..." naruto bodoh berteriak. "yamato!" kata yamato terkejut.

tiba-tiba muncul makhluk lain "cumi2 kembali ke tempatmu atau kau akan mendapat tanda kaki di wajahmu" kata makhluk itu sambil memukul perut cumi2. "apa!! makhluk lain muncul" teriak orang di kapal. "8 tentakel... ini gurita!" teriak naruto gembira. dia terlepas dari lilitan cumi2. "ini sudah pasti gurita"kata naruto mendarat di kapal kembali. "ini gurita?"yamato heran."killer bee!" kata ninja kumo. "oh jadi inilah killerbee..." kata yamato."kau terlambat bodoh" kata bee.

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Female android performer. Creepy yet chillingly cool.

Personally I see it as a novelty, I am not too sure if artificial humans can do performing arts to the level than normal humans can be. But it is an interesting scene.

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Noir / ノワール will be remake into live tv series.

Tinseltown just got into another anime adaptation, this time is Noir / ノワール (2001) the famous Bee Train work that shows their signature slow pace and eye shot camera pan emo scenes. This anime is the progenitor to many Bee Train "chicks with gun cool killer" genre such as Madlax and Cazador. When it is came out at first, many fans hailed it as an artistic and fascinating story of semi lesbian pair of Kirika and Mirelle. However, personally I think it overstays its welcome with 26 formulaic and predictable episodes ( the music cue did not help to hide the suspense). I do liked the soundtrack a lot though. (by Yuki Kaijura no less)

Sam Raimi and Starz will be making the live action adaptation, curiously, it gave me hope since I enjoyed the visceral and bloody Spartacus: Blood and Sand immensely. So my anticipation is there as how they will approach this anime and turn it into live action series. Since it is cable company, it will be more for mature audiences and less concerned with TV censorship.

I find it interesting.

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New Makoto Shinkai work: 星を追う子ども

Good ol' nostalgic shot in the sky dude is back! The title is pretty mouthful this time: Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below /星を追う子ども.

Looks great to me. Scheduled for release on May 2011.

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Zac Efron as Kaneda in Akira? Really?!

Oh no. According to this website, the dude that once rumored to be Sousoke in Full Metal Panic live action might be possibly casted as famous Kaneda in live action Akira. Talks are still in progress though.

Albert Hughes (Book of Eli) will be directing it. Leo Dicaprio denied any rumors that he might acted as Kaneda in the adaptation.

As expected, it is "Americanized" by setting it in New Manhattan instead of Neo Tokyo in original movie.

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What really, really bothers me about Oreimo / 俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない ?

The recent infamous anime series based on light novel adaptation, My Little Sister Can't be This Cute have received lots of flak for much unneeded fan service scene which is highly disturbing (incestuous)in episode 4. Yuck stuff absolutely.

However this is not as bothering to me as this one aspect: The main female lead is a superhuman, something that will make pro-eugenic people dancing in giddiness. Nazi little sister? I can't really watch without this bothering me every second. Don't think it will matters how she feels or do, she is almost flawless superhuman. Her brother is almost a non-entity in contrast to her which according to my friend, highly unusual and jumping the shark. Another nail on the coffin.

Ah well, this is only so much I can take to be honest. Dropping this anime like a hot shit. It is a shame, I kinda take a liking for Kuroneko, the gloomy anime fan.

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New season lineup, 2011 Winter

Here we go again! I am intrigued by Lovecraftian anime series the most. Iron Vendetta is another anime I looking forward to watch, so is Mirai Nikki and Kara no Kyokai Epilogue.

Looks fun, as always.

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I 'm back

Hmmmm....

After 1 month of hiatus for mourning over Kon Sensei, I decided to come back to this old blog of mine. Will be writing something soon.

I guess this entry is kinda like my own therapy.

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