An avid manga reader who even reads anything from right to left which will cause a lot of confusion much to her stupidity.
A self-proclaimed anime fan who has been watching anime since she was little, with Cardcaptor Sakura being the first anime series she religiously followed every Saturday morning when she was in college. Her first male character's crush was Kinomoto Touya.
A proud fujoshi who secretly watches/reads BL series when her roommates are not looking. (Or they will question her sanity). Oh, they question her sanity alright. Seeing her blushes, screams and laughs while she's listening to BL drama CD. If only they knew...
Has a soft spot for:
- anything megane, shades included (Itoshiki Nozomu, Kishitani Shinra, Mayama Takumi, Kirihara Misaki, Fujiwara Keiji)
- bishounen/biseinen
- silent male characters (think Mori senpai, Sanada Ryuu, Tsuji Ryuu, Doumeki Shizuka, etc)
- goofy male characters (like Sakata Gintoki, Suou Tamaki)
- cats. She wants to own Nyanko-sensei (Natsume Yuujinchou), Tama (Nyan-koi) and Chobi (Ani-Kuri15).
- Nakamura Yuuichi
- and wants to own a Haro.
Loves the awesome and talented seiyuu behind the characters.
Enjoys watching Japanese/Korean drama and movies although she rarely watches them nowadays.
Loves Japanese music and spends most of her time listening and memorizing the lyrics. Has pitchy voice but frequents karaoke center with her friends to sing her heart out. XD
A chronic procrastinator by nature. So don't expect her to update the list anytime soon. Mendokusai na!! (Especially to update the anime list... *sighs*)
Could spend her day listening to THE BACK HORN and The Rodeo Carburettor all day if she doesn't feel like watching anime.
Randomness of the month (or year, or whenever she feels like updating this lol)
"If Tokuchi Toua is a real life person, Yu Darvish probably resembles him the most."
Before you start asking Yu who? Try clicking his name above.
More randomness...
Well, maybe because I love Japanese seiyuu so much, and maybe because I listen to a lot of drama CD, I noticed that I imagine the manga I read to be voiced by those seiyuu (like VOMIC). Lol. Even with the manga that's yet to be adapted to drama CD (or in some cases, there might never be a drama CD version).
Take a manga called "Natsu no Zenjitsu" [warning: mature content, NSFW for kids] for example. I can't help but imagining these seiyuu to voice the characters in the manga.
Aoki Tetsuo - Kiuchi Hidenobu (because Aoki is like a mix of Hei and Ren)
Aizawa Akira - Kuwashima Houko (because Akira needs a seiyuu who sounds matured and soft-spoken)
Riko - Sawashiro Miyuki (because Miyukichi can be either girl or boy or (in this manga's case), a reverse trap)
Mori - Hiyama Nobuyuki (because... err, Mori looks like Hii-chan.. I mean, physically)
Hanami - Itou Kanae (in her Saten Ruiko voice, because as much as I don't really like Hanami, she deserves a good seiyuu)
Well, this is only wishful thinking.. because there's no effin' way it might come true. And besides, I'd kill to hear karami scene between Hidenobu x Houko. @__@ *hanaji* Lol.
Vocaloid randomness...
I don't know why but I've always trying to find a good non-vocaloid version of popular vocaloid songs... err.. which means, I want to hear a real person singing them. Here are some of them:
1. Marble Bright (Hatsune Miku) vocals by kalon. (I love this version than the original... sorry Miku... :p)
2. Tokyo Teddy Bear (Kagamine Rin) band version. (Seriously, I could put this song on loop mode all day...)
3. Mosaic Roll (Gumi) drums by rojer. I couldn't find a good version of vocals done.. so if anyone would want to recommend, I'd be more than happy to listen! Btw, rojer is my fav drummer from nicodou! He's just awesome!!!
4. Shotgun Lovers (Hatsune Miku) drums by rojer. I'm ready to admit that I'm a rojerfag-- I mean, rojer-fan! Lol.
5. Matryoshka (Miku & Gumi) cover by Zebra & Hashiyan. The best of this song. Though I must say the original is cute, this version is just addictive! Oh, this and the dance by Bouto. <3
Where do you get those terms?! You are so funny at times! I know you might not be watching JoJo but I am wondering how many breads you have eaten over the last few days. :D
I hope you are out of that crazy work load now! At least I am. Taking things easy now that the year is coming to an end! Stay healthy! Eat healthy!
I am into Y-Youkai? W-Who said that?! Don't accuse me of s-something like that! I-It's just that I like N-Natsume Yuujinchou, Otome Y-Youkai Zakuro, Kamisama H-Hajimemashita, H-Hotarubi no M-Mori e etc. o-okay.
M-Momo e no T-Tegami? I-It's not l-like I am going to w-watch it j-just because y-you recommended, o-okay!
/me adds it to his watchlist.
LOL, you and your Hosoya <3 <3. So he got to be in that bit role part and you still recognized him. Hmm. Impressive!
You must be watching Magi right now right? I mean this Masrur guy has a nice voice you know. So you better be watching it! Besides, this typical shounen anime is damn good. At least at this point of time (replying just after watching the 11th episode!)
Also, eagerly waiting for Sugita Tomokazu-san to appear in it! And he is the most handsome character in Magi by a long shot!
Mistaaa Pleyadesu! I am actually enjoying R;N much more than the other noitaminA anime right now. Actually, I have put psy-pass on hold because I have grown this interest in watching non-violence anime over time. Thriller is okay, but anime such as psy-pass is hard to take. I know you might put a finger on my list and tell me that "Hey! You are watching BTOOOM!" but you see even though it has a lot of violence, but not as sick as those in psy-pass.
What is your new year's resolution? I am planning to add 100 more anime in my almost reaching 400 list!
Congratulations to your younger brother! But you can never get old if you keep on loving anime! Hang in there! <3
Tonakai? Nice shortening lol. Rest assured. Brains Base will make sequels to it because it is already appreciated largely by both male and female anime fans and I have strong belief that the digital media will sell a lot. They have made four successful seasons of Natsume so I am expecting the same from this anime too!
Correct me if I am wrong, isn't Sukinayo's whole point is Sakurai Takahiro-san sexy voice and cute Mei-Mei moments?
I know! I know what you meant there! I loved the mantama short anime too. God!! Only Gintama can pull stunts like that! So many anime squeezed into that OP. I am sure someone will make a list of it in the forums and I will just read the list to see how many I might have missed.
I am yet to see this week's PsyPass and R;N really. But between the two, I think I will enjoy R;N more because it's already snowing here like crazy and dark themed anime would be the last thing I need right now to make a mess out of my life :D
Chihayfuru! I just cannot wait to hear Chihaya again. I love her so much. And yes, Hosoyan will probably have more air time in the second season. I have reasons to believe he will probably take the torch from Mamoru and light up the show even more. But coming back to the anime, honestly, I am kind of Chihaya x Tachi shipper. I dunno why. Probably because he was shown more in the first season and there were more moments with him than with Arata. I mean, I like Arata. but something about Taichi makes him a more attractive partner for Chihaya.
I can talk about Chihaya like forever, but anyway, I will resist myself. Coming back to the original shows I was supposed to discuss, yeah, both noitaminA shows are done with Production I.G. this season and I have to say, they have put a lot into animation. I love the style of Production I.G because they have such a wide range of animation, but more often they just blend perfectly with the anime. Kimi ni Todoke is from them, Kemono no Souja Erin is from them, and so is Ghost in the Shell: SAC. That's like a huge spectrum of animation yet they are so fitting for all of these shows.
On the other hand, we saw quite the drop in animation quality for both Sukitte and Shinsekai Yori. I was thinking about redrawing those episodes myself lol, they were so badly done. Kinomoto Touya? Seriously? She is my younger of the two older sisters' crush too!
Urobuchi Gen was the primary reason why I was looking forward to the anime after what he did with Madoka and F/Z. So yes, expecting good things from this anime too.
For your record, the answer would be a big Y E S! for all four shows you have mentioned and I am enjoying them a lot. :D
Sakurasou is an ecchi anime. But that's what I thought after watching the first episode. But not anymore. It is probably going to be one of the best shows of the season at this rate. The rating for the anime jumping from 7.12 to 7.94 after the third episode speaks a lot about how the anime has caught many followers by surprise. Personally I am loving it. The setting is almost like Honey and Clover. And I am expecting great moments like Toradora in it! This could be J.C.'s one of the best shows in recent years. :)
I mean Clannad, Kanon, Air and Angel Beats!. I have loved all of those shows and I am well recognized as a Clannatard in IRC channels. And it makes me happy when anyone tells me that! For someone who loved everything Key had to offer in the past, and to ask him whether he is watching it of all the people! T_T
Little Busters! It's hard not to love Maeda Jun's works. I mean happiness is a disease that spreads with Maeda Jun's works. But I am also always ready with tissue boxes because you don't know when to get hit by his heart-wrenching moments. I am yet to see any of his shows where I haven't cried.
As for the anime adaptation, I would say J.C. actually did pretty good to keep the characters lovely and lively. The animation isn't that great, but if they can deliver the story from the VN, it just cannot fail. Personally I am already in love with the anime after getting to know Komari-chan's Shiawase Spiral Theory. :)
Chuunibyou is rivaling Psy-pass with it's stunning animation if I dare say! Nothing less expected from Kyoani. But that's just the small part of what makes the anime an outstanding piece of entertainment. Jun-Jun is back with his Lelouch madness, only that it sounds so much better. Rikka is a magic-box full of moe. Nibutani is beautiful. Kumin-senpai is the happiest napping girl in the world and Zeeeath! is awesome-DES! I think alongside Little Busters!, this is the only anime I am rating at 9, because after coming from work, watching this anime and the Lite 5 minute episodes just bright up my day! A serious mood changer for the better-DES! :D
Magi looks interesting. Very interesting. I am following it with quite a lot of expectations. Actually the anime you have mentioned in your previous post C:B, Zetsuen and K didn't interest me the way all four of the shows you have asked for my recommendation did.
Actually, I am ready to see C:B, Zetsuen and K in one go. For the last one, I may not even finish because it never seems to be my type. I am enjoying Psy-pass and R;N too. But the four anime you have asked my recommendation for, are probably those shows I am looking forward to see week-in week-out as much as the three shoujo anime along with Gintama this fall! :D
If I wanted to make a list from priority 1 through the least (excluding the shoujo and Gintama, which are for given that are in my top priority), the list would look like this:
Oh! So you are already reading the manga of Sukitte and Tonari! I love both shows. But I gotta say Tonari might as well become my all time favourite shoujo anime. Well not may be entirely true because I am still a huge fan of Natsume. Strange how both of them are from Brains Base. Well actually, Brains Base is win! I hope they make a sequel to Kuragehime too. Coming back from my wishful thinking, Tonari is probably the best show this season. It could well become the best show of the entire year for me! I love Haru. And I love Shizuku for falling in love with him!
Sukitte is nice too. The last episode had a huge drop of animation quality so it was a disappointment. The story progress was overall nice and I am approving more of Kurosawa as we see more of him. Each time I hear the OP, it takes me to all those wonderful memories of Furuba. I cannot believe I missed Okazaki Ritsuko's voice so much. And the ED! Sunohair! You should know better than anyone where we have heard his songs!
I am loving Kamisama Hajimemashita too! The last episode of it was so damn cute. Nanami is love. And Tomoe is such a badass familiar. I was expecting a typical shoujo anime from it, but it seems I will enjoy it much more than I thought I would. The art is like those classic old days' shoujo anime form the late 90s. And the pacing so far has been perfect. And I love the OP and the ED.
The only anime in your list I haven't enjoyed much is K. The animation is nice and all, but something about the anime doesn't really appeal me.
R;N could be either hit, or miss. I loved S;G but didn't like C;H. It just didn't work with me. But yeah, it seems we are in a timeline where time machine isn't invented. Yay! for a successful Operation Skuld!
I am enjoying the other shows in your list though. Gintama aside, which is a given, I thought Urobuchi Gen's Psycho-pass has huge potential. Reminds me of Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell and Minority Report.
Code Breaker seemed a pretty good shounen pick for me. Oogami is such a badass. It is hard to find righteous shounen leads who will actually kill for the cause. And he is just taking out people at will. Pretty win if I had to say. Just that Sakura is bit too airhead for my liking. :/
Shinsekai Yori. Dark anime is dark. The first four episodes got me worried, because I cannot see anything but dark story ahead. :(
Zetsuen no Tempest is sad. Every time they show the flashbacks, I go myself, why? why? She is so beautiful, yet why? T_T
I like Japanese music too. Of course I am more into songs directly coming from anime and VNs in particular, but if I like songs from certain artist, I actually listen to their non-anime, non-VN related songs too! I have around 40 gigs of Japanese songs, so you can imagine I am quite a fan! :)
What are your impressions on the three shoujo shows this season?
I always start with 20 anime per season and half of them either get stuck midway and shoved off to on hold, even worse, dropped. So it's not a big deal :D
Gintama was brilliant this week, right? Yeah, I was like yeah! Nakamura Yuuichi and then he turned out to be complete jerk. :( Gintoki is Gintoki. No one can replace him.
I knew Sugita-san and Yuuichi-san are close friends from somewhere I read online. Didn't know they hosted such a show. Looks like I will be doing some searching online with Tokyo Encounter since you sounded it is fun! :)
Shoujo series this season are amazing, right? Yes! I was really surprised with the first episodes of all three of the shows. We hardly ever see chuu~ moments in shoujo anime and they started right off the bat! even though my favourite kissu-sheen was Tonari's. Haru is so unpredictable. I love Shizuku for falling for him! The second was Kami-sama's even though it was a dire situation and Nanami had to kiss that thing since she had to save herself. But I started to like that since the second episode and decided to stick with his name. So from here onward, I will call him Tomoe. So, ironically the kiss shown in the first episode of Sukitte wasn't much appreciated by me. But Sakurai Takahiro amended with the following episode (GOOD JOB SAKURAI-SAN!) and now I think the second episode had one of the most romantic moments in any anime.
Btw, you have to update your watch list. Otherwise I might spoil you. <_<
I wanted to talk so much about the three shows but your backdated list kept my lips shut. I am not talking to you anymore. >,<
Yeah I noted the two poor usagi. Was happy with the old hag youkai getting injured. It should have stayed away from my Nanami in the first place.
What is shamisen to Pando Hero by GUMI? That's one big name for a game. Boku wa omae no gaem no koto mada shiranai :(
We are almost like osananajimi when it comes to how long we have known each other! I am sorry for not keeping in touch myself :(
I have seen the first two episodes of [IB] and the first two episodes of [AraAra] and I have decided to stick with the latter. Mainly because their translation is accurate and seems natural. [IB] has been a bit too liberal for my liking for this anime. When I was reading the translations, and even with my limited knowledge of the language I could almost point out every 3 out of 5 lines where they changed what is being said to something entirely of their own. The inherent meaning didn't change, but I guess it is okay for those who are okay with just understanding what is going on. For someone like me who is emphasising on learning the language by watching anime (there you go, I have revealed it) it was not a nice experience. But if you are okay with liberal translation, then [IB] is as good as you can get. :)
I am glad to have you back in MAL. Since we have three lovely shoujo anime this season, I hope I get to share with you more on them through SMS and MAL.
Btw, if you haven't seen it yet, you should seriously watch Gintama recaps :D
Having recieved the following "Club messaging has been disabled for now. This will likely return in the future." every time I try to message all club members. And after spending about an hour trying to find out if they even have an ETA on the return, I decided I have to do this the old fashioned way.
Time to nominate your favorite anime!
Rules are simple, nominate a single anime or second one that someone else has nominated.
You may nominate something you have nominated before, but not a previous winner.
Any finished anime series, movie, or finished OAV is eligible. Any anime series currently airing is not.
Please include a url link to the anime that you are nominating as occasionally the name is repeated, but the series are completely different (i.e. Macross).
This thread will remain open until 3 June 2012 and is located here.
Somehow I felt exactly the same about Shouwa, something that never got picked up by anyone after hatsuyuki if i recall correctly dropped it until very recently being picked by another renowned group.
I think over the last couple of weeks, the two noitaminA shows and one certain kyoto animation show impressed me to the point I think I might as well say those three are the best three ongoing new series at this moment of time.
The third episode of Tsuritama, that "thank you" conversation between Haru and Kate made me fall in love with the show. It is still weird and I don't know where the anime is heading, but I am loving the pace of it. And guess what, one of my very first anime (when I understood the term anime) was Grander Musashi, so I cannot say this is my first anime I am enjoying which deals with fishing. Besides I still remember Harima Kenji going for the big catch to find the man in him. :D
I also listened to the Spitz version and I loved it! Didn't know until I searched yt after you mentioned about them. Spitz is one of my favs from HnC days.
And I am admitting that I am in love with Sakamichi right now. I could cheer on for Kaoru and Ritsuko for like forever. But I have a feeling she will end up with Sentarou. Just my speculation.
I am enjoying Tasogare Otome and Sankarea. Surprisingly, both are supernatural and horror genre anime with a lot of ecchi in them, but while I am not a big fan of ecchi, somehow I feel I wouldn't have enjoyed the two shows the way I am without ecchi in them. I am sure I am not the only one who finds the two shows surprisingly sad.
I was really excited about Hyouka after its cast was posted in MAL. You already know I have similar soft spot for a certain guy (man I sound so ewww~ being a guy) but also realizing that the best buddies Tomoya and Sunohara are uniting! The first two episodes are not the best first two episodes I have seen for anime of course, but those sparkling eyes would kill any man. :P
Dropped the following shows because of lack of interest/time/you-add-more-excuses-here: Jormungand and Shining Hearts.
I would recom you to watch E7. It took me 7 years to finish the anime, maybe AO gave me the final push to re-start on it last month, but I endorse all the reasons for it to actually claim that anime of the year award when it aired for the first time. The second half of the anime is undeniably a true masterpiece.
I also find Fate/Zero 2 ending unbelievably sad too. I know where it is heading, so I am already a bit sad, but I really don't want them to make it even sadder, by executing the inevitable in such a way that it would require me tissue boxes. T_T
Should I be surprised that you didn't mention anything about KimiBoku2?
Yeah, I noted that on the credit rolls too. I thought I would recognize most of them, but I couldn't.
As for my favourite new show this season, since you said 'new', that leaves me with no other choice but to not put Kimi to Boku 2 (I love it! and not being able to put it there makes me a sadpanda), I think at this point of time it would be either Sankarea or Uchuu Kyoudai. But I saw this second episode of Natsuiro Kiseki last night and thought it was cute and could become my favourite. Tsuritama is weird and I dont have any other word to explain it at this point of time. There is a huge wave of appraisal going on over Sakamichi no Apollon, and while I personally liked the way the first episode introduced the three main characters in the anime with a lot of interactions between them, with nice artwork and continuity of plot progression, somehow I cannot say it was one of the best first episodes I have seen in recent times.
Since you used the word "new", oh how I wish you didn't, it left me out to make any comment on Eureka AO and Fate/Zero 2 too. :(
Accel World is fun so far, Acchi Kocchi seems nice. But I cannot see Shizuka-hime in Koko or Sayaka-san in Sofia. Jormungand didn't attract me the way it did to many fans.
Hi! Hagumi! It's been a long time. I am doing good, but I cannot understand why we are still experiencing snow at this time of the year, which is a big minus. Work is going great! So far. But I don't know when things will get busier, as schedules and deadlines are coming ever so quickly these days. Rest of the things are anime, anime and more anime. I really didn't think I will be following this many anime after getting into the workforce :P
I loved the video! Thanks a bunch for sharing it! No matter how many times I see situations like these in anime, they are still refreshing and endearing. I loved the following one to:
