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Hello again, young and old. First time readers or long time… readers. I’m back, and glad to be blogging on my otaku-ism once again. You may be asking, “Ryo, where did you disappear to for all this time, leaving me alone to cry myself to sleep instead of spending a few minutes reading your incessantly ranting blog entries?” Well, I don’t really have a great answer for that question except for the fact that I was working full time over the summer and was traveling across the country for the time I wasn’t working.
However, out of all the depressing line-up of fall 2008 anime to choose from, a couple of my most anticipated animes forced me to come back and blog once again. And as you may have guessed from the title, one of these fore mentioned animes is the “Clannad After Story”, the follow up to one of my favorites of all time. So without further ado…
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Tomoya still feeling emo about his father: The unresolved Clannad issues incoming?
So for a while my soul was consumed by gaming. Apologies to people who read my posts about not so popular series and the staff ><”. Anyways onto blogging about Koihime Musou…
Boys and girls, it’s finally here. Bee Train presents Blade of the Immortal, in style.
NOTE: I apologize for any technical difficulties you may have experienced when browsing thumbnails - they have been fixed (FO’SHO), and now you can mouse-over any thumbnail (small) to see the larger image of it right below without having weird testing messages or pseudocode pop out at you. You may, as always with B.A., click on the images to see the original screenshots in larger form. Comments are also open. Thank you for your patience, and sorry. -RHO
A suiting image, for a badass series.
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OP: “Love Jump” by Minami Kuribayashi
I’m not such a huge fan of this OP. It’s not the music that turns me off, but the style of artworks just freaks me out a little bit. It’s like puppet versions of the Kure-nai characters done in Flash. This isn’t to say that I particularly like the style of art in Kure-nai, but theres something about the OP animation that just irks me.
Continue reading ‘Kurenai - First Impressions’
Druaga no Tō (The Tower of Druaga)
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OP: “Swinging” by Muramasa☆
This is a pretty cool OP with a pretty good song. The part that was most interesting to me about it is that all the characters are in a normal high school environment: riding trains, sitting by the movies on a bench, wearing a uniform. This led me to believe that the whole fantasy-magic-medieval-action storyline was going to be another .hack//sign virtual type of thing (which, to my delight, is not the case).
Continue reading ‘Druaga no Tō ~the Aegis of URUK~ - First Impressions’
Note: Since I’m a few weeks late in blogging about this series, normally I would do all the first few episodes together, but I’m splitting it up because of the massive amount of pictures. (I’m sorry people, but this series is really that good.)
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OP: “resonance” by T.M.Revolution
The opening sequence starts off with an intro of the soul world and the shinigami (death gods) lead by the head Shinigami-sama (seen in image 4).
T.M.Revolution’s hit single resonance then kicks in and, I’ll be honest with you all, it’s one of the best OPs that I have ever seen. From the moment it starts, you get pumped up to the upbeat music. Also, you get your first taste of the creative artwork that helps make Soul Eater so great. The main characters are all introduced as the viewer quickly flies through the town. The tone of the song even feels like it’s about shinigami, with a very Gothic tone to the guitar.
Continue reading ‘Soul Eater - 01′
Often times when browsing the shelves at my local bookstore, I’ll pick up a few manga to see if they have any potential. When choosing the books that I’ve done for today, it wasn’t necessarily because they were new or unknown, but rather that I had never read them before and either the artwork stood out to me, the storyline stood out to me, or I had heard from another source that it was a good book. So without further adieu, here are the books I bought this week I thought I should share with you.
Note: All the photography is done by myself, Ryo. I apologize for the shabby quality. I did this pretty quickly, I’ll take a little more time in the future.
Kieli Volume 01
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Original Story by: Yukako Kabei
Manga by: Shiori Teshirogi
Continue reading ‘Manga First Impressions 01: Kieli, Kamiyadori, Chibi Vampire’
Note: As you may have realized, this is the sequel to the original Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion series, and many parts of this show / review / summary assume that you have seen the last series in its entirety (I’m sorry, but thats just the way this second series was made :/).
OP: “O2″ by ORANGE RANGE
This opening sequence hints at the awesomeness that is to come in the series. The song has a very upbeat pop-rock type of melody and it matches really well with the animations. Also, the opening slides show all of the old main characters in it, along with a few extras (which immediately answered some cliffhanger questions for me from the last series).
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Continue reading ‘Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 - 01′
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