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October 22, 2007

Fall Season III

Filed under: anime — = kiwiish = @ 2:56 am

Let’s see… around 10 new shows added to my list… I suppose that’s fair xD

Hmm… let’s start with the ones I’ve decided not to follow:

Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun: Too much fanservice. Plus it’s a bit embarrassing when your mom is sitting right beside you while you’re watching this show… LOL.

Night Wizard: The Anzolette girl is annoying, and Elis is too simple. I’ve got too many of this type of show anyway.

KimiKiss Pure Rouge: Typical, nothing amazing. Not enough time. (plus there really are too many shows about high school kids)

Prism Ark: Yea about the same as Night Wizard. The main reason I wasn’t interested is that it was similar to Shining Tears, and I dropped that show not to try to be picky, but because I was just that bored by it.

Mokke: Don’t like the animation (feels like an 80s/90s show). While it’s interesting to learn about Japanese mythology, it’s not entertaining enough. The audience imed at little kids.

Kodomo no Jikan: Yea… no. Don’t like the art. Not a lolicon. They’re not even cute. I’d rather watch Shugo Chara over this.

Blue Drop: I hate the main girl. Okay, so she’s never been to a school. You’d think with her background (she was living in a mansion before right?), she would’ve been raised properly. She makes me mad. D:

Rental Magica: I was contemplating this one. But I’m not really that excited by the show, and I haven’t got the time. Oh, and I was sooo confused with ep2 cause ep1 supposedly happened after ep2?

Okay! And for the new ones:

Moyashimon: The humans aren’t anything amazing, but the microbes are sooooo cute. Especially the ED. I’m keeping the actual eps xDDD

Shion no Ou: I was looking forward to this one. I loved Hikaru no Go, but I’ve actually learned Go before. Don’t know anything about Shougi. Haha. But the premise seems interesting, and omg Romi Paku!!! I love her voice and the characters that she does.

Sketchbook ~full color’S~: Their expressions are so cuteee. The only thing is that Sora’s nervousness - the way that she just waves around her arms and makes a bunch of noise - annoys me sometimes. Other than that, she’s so cuteeee. And her friends are so random - just the way I like it xD

Suteki Tantei Labyrinth: Genius kid who solves mysteries. Seems kinda cool. He’s way too polite though (said ‘thank you’ about 50 times in one ep…) but I suppose that’s better than that Blue Drop girl. haha.

Hero Tales: Character design style is similar to FMA, hehe. This one is still ‘tentative’ - waiting for ep2.

Ghost Hound: Haven’t watched this yet, but Shinsen-Subs just released ep1. I hope this is as good as it looks.

Special note about Clannad - forgot to mention that Okazaki looks so much like Takuto (Full Moon wo Sagashite). That’s another reason why I’ll keep watching xD Plus I lurrrve the ED. dango dai kazoku~~~

Finished Bokurano. That was a good show.

October 14, 2007

Fall Season II

Filed under: anime — = kiwiish = @ 6:17 pm

The next batch! We’ve got some good ones here :D

Minami-ke: The keeper that I was looking for. You could say that this is the kind of anime that I’m into right now. Comedy + slice of life + a bit of randomness. Like Lovely Complex. Like Lucky Star. Things like Nodame Cantabile too. Anyway. The tone is simple, set by the neutral colours. And then you’ve got Kana’s personality. Hehe. Their mouths are drawn in such an unconventional way that I’m in love with the shape. It’s hard to describe it - a cross between a rain drop, a hershey kiss, and dough…?? xD

Kaiji: I’m not too excited about the drawing style. It kinda reminds me of American cartoons. But I think it’s appropriate given the story and setting. And the story/setting seems like a good one. While it may not make it over to my hard drive, I am fairly certain that this is one of the shows that I will follow.

Dragonaut ~The Resonance~: Doesn’t seem that interesting to me at this point. Maybe if these “dragons” look cool then I’ll keep watching. The Kazuki guy seems like the typical best-friend-got-jealous because the main char was special and he could only ever stay at the sidelines kinda thing. Oh, and one thing I can say this show: boobs.

Bamboo Blade: I’m actually kinda tired of the whole high school setting. I just noticed that. But I do like the art, and I don’t know much about Kendo, so I’ll give this a few more eps. Tama-chan reminds me of that quiet girl from Negima. Heh.

ef - a tale of memories: The way they make the scene cuts and stuff (it’s probably not the right terminology lol) more artistic and unique than the usual show is what attracts me about this show. Otherwise it seems kinda typical, something along the lines of sola.

Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun: Hayate? That’s the association that my mind made when I watched this. Nothing too spectacular. Of course lots of fanservice for the boys. But I’m not a boy. lol.

KimiKiss Pure Rouge: Yay more high school kids. [/sarcasm] The girl near the end seemed interesting. We’ll see.

So I watched all this yesterday. And after that my brain was just mushmush. With the exception of Shugo Chara and Myself; Yourself, I think I’ll just continue on to ep 2 for everything else.

Just downloaded Suteki Tantei Labyrinth 01. Wonder how many more new shows there’ll be >_>

Btw I’m not checking out anything sequels to shows I haven’t watched. e.g. Shakugan no Shana II, oh and I gave up on Da Capo at the beginning of season 2.

D.gray-man 52 had a new OP and I was sorta pleasantly surprised by that. Not sure why. I do miss the first OP for some reason though, but I have to say that I find abingdon boys school to be a lame name, and I hate watching the main vocalist perform. He looks so weird too @_@

October 13, 2007

Lovely Complex

Filed under: anime — = kiwiish = @ 2:36 pm

Oooh I guess I was so excited (??) about Lovely Complex that I kinda forgot I had finished the last ep (which is also sad at the same time)!

The ending was nice. It’s good that everyone has decided on their paths after high school. Or at least they have an idea right now, whether that may change or not.

I was literally laughing out loud even in the last ep, which is one of the things I love about this show. I love being able to actually laugh when I watch something. The other notable show which made me do the same thing is Yakitate!! Japan. That was a good show too.

As usual for good shows that end so soon, I see people hoping for a second season. Personally, I don’t know if I want a second season. That might ruin it for me, since I am rarely impressed by sequels. Plus, the way they ended it, there’s not much else to tell, without making it really lame.

Of course, that being said, some kinda New Year’s special just to see Otani and Risa and their antics again might be fun.

*sigh* Now I want to read the manga too. I wonder if you can tell they have a Kansai accent in the manga, haha. That’s another thing I loved about the show. It’s so fun to hear their accents. *needs to find an online place to buy raw manga for cheap*

This is one of the shows that I will definitely rewatch… eventually. haha.

Come to think of it, there hasn’t been one show, of the new ones that I’ve been checking out, that jumped out at me and made me think, “This is a keeper!” Guess I will save some hard drive space xD

Fall Season I

Filed under: anime — = kiwiish = @ 12:50 pm

Haven’t watched half the ep1’s that I downloaded. lol.

Here are the few that I have:

Myself; Yourself: blah. Boring. Too reminiscent of Kanon. And Aoi’s voice is so annoying. SO annoying. >_>

Clannad: Typical KyoAni stuff I guess. And I think I’ll follow it just because of that. I mean, nice animation, nice bgm. That’s got to count for something, right? haha. Either way, I’m interested enough for a few more eps (even have ep 2 downloaded already, heh.)

Rental Magica: Nothing too outstanding. It feels like they just mismashed a bunch of diff magical characters and got this show. The Shinto girl looks like Kamichu haha. But I guess it’s got nice action, so I’ll give it a couple eps to see if it’s got a good plot.

Mokke: I don’t know if it was the encoding or something, but it looked like an old anime =\ Seems kinda like a show that would introduce different mythical creatures in Japanese culture. Or something. Will watch ep 2.

Night Wizard: Why does he want to go to school so bad??? Most *normal* human beings dread going to class, lol. I’ll see what happens in ep 2.

Blue Drop: The main girl (can’t remember her name, too lazy to check) is a bit extreme in her personality. At this point I’m interested to see if Hagino (I think?) is aware that she’s an alien. lol.

Shugo Chara!: This show looked stupid when I looked it up. Upon watching the first ep, my impression hasn’t changed much. I guess the audience is like 6-year-olds. Way too cutesy, way too much pink. And don’t get me wrong, I like pink. And the villain has cat ears?? Humpty Lock??? I did sorta like Amu’s voice though. And her eyes reminded me of Aishiteruze Baby, hehe. But nonetheless, I’m not watching anymore @_@

Other ones I have yet to watch:

  • Bamboo Blade
  • Dragonaut ~The Resonance~
  • ef - a tale of memories
  • Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun
  • Kaiji
  • KimiKiss Pure Rouge
  • Minami-ke

October 10, 2007

Anonymous

Filed under: anime, IRC, Bittorrent — = kiwiish = @ 11:59 pm

LINK TO IRC CHANNEL (#anon @ irc.rizon.net)
LINK TO PACK LIST (NEW RELEASES)
LINK TO PACK LIST (ARCHIVE)

DL method: IRC, Bittorrent.

woot an actually useful post.

Two bots, by Anonymous. anon|new has new releases and not just their own releases. Again, it’s like baka-upload (yes I love this bot).

The archive bot, anon|old, has some old releases (duh), lots of doujinshi, a few soundtracks. There are some licensed stuff, and I also saw a couple of Heroes eps, so download at your own risk!

Both bots have some raw eps.

There’s a search box at the top of each bot listing, so that could come in handy. (or you could just use your browser’s find feature…)
The bottom of the page shows the bot trigger/stats.

The bots each reside on various channels. Just do a “whois/ [bot name]” while you’re on Rizon to see where they are.

Also tested out the ‘new’ bot, and the speeds are fairly decent (though it jumps around sometimes… not sure if it’s my connection).

Well. Have fun~

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