anime

More XEDO ammunition

My friend Ketsugi has just blogged a new post that should add fuel to the “have you been ‘DEXed” saga. Check it out here. Anti-you-know-what will love this.

P.S. I really did like Love Hina a lot, still remember the evening Ketsugi and our group of friends had the Love Hina marathon (FWIW, it’s ODEX discs) at my place, didn’t sleep till we concussed from exhaustion. :)
Oh yeah, Ketsugi, you owe me marketing fees!

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Random

Tags: anime, ODEX

Pseudo blogger

I guess it’s not hard to figure out that my ‘blogger’ status is more of a semi-hobby than a passion :p The truth is ever since I graduated from university in Singapore the desire to pen my feelings doesn’t come as naturally anymore. Even though I set up this pretty nice-looking (I hope!) blog, frankly I’m more interested in the design and implementation (Drupal) of it rather than the actual content. I could spend hours tweaking this functionality and adding this plugin and that but frankly the actual usage doesn’t justify the effort taken to implement. ^^

Nevertheless, I think the start of my Masters course in Sydney should warrant at least a couple of posts so here I am, more than a month since I reached here. To be fair to myself, I didn’t actually get internet connection till the end of last month (thanks Telstra, geez)..

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像, Life 生涯, School 学校, Sydney シドニー

Mood: Random

Tags: anime, ODEX, Sydney, USyd

アニメの追跡

長い間見ていなかったアニメを一気に見るのはやっぱ素晴らしい!ブリーチアニメのオリジナルストーリー「バウント篇」は結構面白いと思う。今は第87話を見てるところで、漫画に戻るのはまだ約23話の残りになる。楽しみにしてます!

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Bordom

Tags: anime, Bleach ブリーチ

End of the fillers

Naruto’s finally returned from filler hell!! I just watched the one hour special opening (comprising of two episodes because each episode is normally half an hour) of the new series, 疾風伝, which starts off rather nicely with a premonition of what’s to come. I wish the episode weren’t interrupted with so many omakes, but I guess the producers had to extend the episodes to fill up the TV timeslot. 仕方がないな。

Speaking of which, Bleach has also returned to the manga plotline some weeks ago. Now I’ve only watched a couple of them Bleach fillers which aren’t so bad, and I guess I have to watch them eventually to catch up with the new arc because the writers seem to have integrated some elements of the fillers into it. Now I’m wondering if I should bother catching up with the mangas at all.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Gratifications

Tags: anime, Bleach ブリーチ, manga, Naruto ナルト

Tales from Earthsea 「ゲド戦記」 Anime Preview

Is it an understatement to say I’m looking forward to this film?

FYI, the American TV movie was such a disaster I couldn’t get past 20mins of it.

I’m of the opinion that most fantasy novel adaptations, especially narrative kinds, should be left to the hands of the Japanese to be animated :-) That is not to say I didn’t love Lord of the Rings — that was an anormaly (plus Gandalf wouldn’t be Gandalf if he wasn’t speaking in English).

The trailers:

And for those who can’t read Japanese:

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: anime, Studio Ghibli, Ursula Le Guin

Zegapain Episode 11

消されるなこの想い
 忘れる我が痛み

I just finished watching Zegapain episode 11 and bawled my eyes out. T__T

It’s the people relationships in this anime that drive home a point that The Matrix tried but failed to accomplish in its third installment simply because it was overambitious:

人は島ではない
 一人では生きてはいけない

The Matrix 2 involved too much pseudo-philosophy and religious threads, which was great fun in itself, but made it difficult for the Matrix 3 to weave into a proper story. I guess TV animes have the luxury of time to tell a story, and if carefully contructed can become sheer brillance.

Anyway it’s too early to tell how the anime will end. I hope it can keep up to its current momentum and not sink like some anime (read: Ev*ng*l**n) towards the end.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: anime, Zegapain

「プリンセス・プリンセス」ドラマ化って、思いがけないナァ…

「プリンセス・プリンセス」ドラマ化!

大人気コミック「プリンセス・プリンセス」がアニメ化に続いてドラマ化!」
タイトルは「プリンセス・プリンセスD」
男子校・藤森学園には「姫」という制度があった。 それは男子校での男ばかりの生活の潤いとなるべく見目麗しい生徒を選び、 構内のイベントの度に女の子の格好をさせるという学校公認の制度。しかも衣装はロリータ

金銭面をはじめ様々な特典があると聞き、積極的に姫を引き受けた裕史郎と亨に対し、いまだ姫から逃げ出そうとしているドラマ版の主人公・実琴。
 3人の姫を中心に繰り広げられるちょっとオカシナ学園コメディ。

「プリンセス・プリンセスD」では豊実琴が主人公でドラマオリジナルのストー リーが展開します。
黒姫とは!? 裏生徒会とは!? 学園を揺るがす大事件が!
イケメン俳優が歌い、踊り、女装する!?
 「プリンセス・プリンセスD」6月28日よりテレビ朝日にて放映開始予定!

—Source: http://drama-pripri.jp/story/index.html

OMG. I’ve been following the anime and think it’s hilarious, but to make this into a jdorama, 何か気持ち悪っ O___O

プリンセス・プリンセス「プリンセス・プリンセス」アニメ

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: anime, Japanese, jdorama

The decay of my English

It’s been three months since I graduated from the university and nearly four months since my last blog entry. In the process of writing this entry, I uncover the decay of my English writing ability… T_T

So what have I been up to of late? Well, let’s see… Passing my driving basic theory (driving lessons to begin in September), watching tons of anime (Juuni Kokki, Escaflowne etc.) and reading manga. However, the highlight of the past few months since graducation would definitely be the intensive 5-day-a-week Japanese classes that I’ve been attending. Well, I haven’t yet learnt enough grammar and vocabulary to make a decent conversation in Japanese, but I discovered yesterday at Kinokuniya that I could stumble through some simple Japanese manga (e.g. Hikaru no Go). This made me really happy.

On the one hand, I don’t feel like I’ve wasted my time doing nothing these couple of months, on the other, I feel like there’s a lot of things that I need to do that I have yet accomplished. These things include writing my resume and updating my Mythology website (I’ve been so lazy and unmotivated). I also want to get my English back to standard (this is an actual need, for me to write a decent resume), which means I need to read the books that have been lying unread in my bookshelves for months.

Subjects: General

Tags: anime, English, Japanese, website

3D art can go to hell

Shit, I have no life at all. It’s the midterm break and guess what? I’m in school right now waiting for the computer to render the blasted 3D artwork that I’ve been working on for for the past 2 weeks. The ultimate sad thing is that I have been spending hours on the 3D assignment and the animation run time is a grand total of 8 seconds. How pathetic is that? *whine grumble grumble*

On the bright side, I’m meeting Joel, Leanne, Shawn and Mel in the evening at KAP. Then we’ll be heading to my place to have a mini Anime festival which will last late into the night. However, I’m not so sure whether I can stay up so long. Right now, my eyes are already red and swollen from staring into the monitor. The irony is that I could be having a break right now since I don’t have to do anything but wait for the computer to render the work, but instead I’m on Blogger griping about how my life and computers suck, the sole reason being that I can’t just sit down and do nothing. It’s too boring. *sigh

Subjects: General

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: 3D, anime, project

Seisouhen

I just watched the second part of the Kenshin Seisouhen OVA today. It took me days to get a complete copy. the default server for WinMX was kind of frustrating, so many connection and download problems… until I discovered this website Anime Fantasia. Through their OpenNap server, I had no problems locating and downloading the file quickly. It occurs to me that the people using the server are all anime fans who are willing to file share and will not disconnect you just because you have nothing that they want to trade from you.

Kenshin and Kaoru

Anyways, about the OVA? All I can say is…. WHHHHYYYYY? I watched the first half of Seisouhen (that I got from Ketsugi and could already guess what was going to happen. But still…WHY IT HAVE TO BE THAT WAY?!

That’s the irrational bit of me acting up I guess.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: anime, Kenshin 剣心

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