Belated post, I know. Because I’ve been looping this opening for quite a while before actually making this entry.

Subjectively I admit Shaft itself makes, in my honest opinion, best anime openings for anime shows. It can be eccentric, yet creative.

I know, we know, everyone in the world knows. It doesn’t take a genius or much analyzation to make a point about it.

But Bakemonogatari’s “Nadeko Snake” opening was one exceptional case where this entry has to be made to pimp it. It simply has to be there, P-E-R-I-O-D.

Simply because it’s MOE. Despite it has decent, to little, to almost none of relevance to what this show is all about (SHAFT style, Words and Subjective Quotes > Animation most of the time)

However, putting aside this moe comment (hence it cuts short), I couldn’t help but to realize that how good the movement and the animation that the staff has spent making on it. Fluid, natural and convincing – but unfortunately, it also takes quite a lot of animation paper for that (I estimate roughly about above 8 frames at least for Nadeko’s moe movements)

Point? This OP is one of the best among all 4 Bakemonogatari openings shown so far. Mayoi Snail is second (damn that bag movement!)

And conclusion? SHAFT is geniusly awesome. Keep it on, and bring some Maria+Holic style opening too if possible.

P/S : I haven’t watch the show yet, Still waiting for it to finish airing so I can marathon them at one go.

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The rest is self explainatory, so Happy BakaCirno Day!

P/S : Screw minute and second for this, you can wait for such moment for all I care, Ba~ka.

Seriously, Type-Moon. SERIOUSLY. S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y…

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Archetype Earth Arcueid, Mecha Hisui + Neco Arc, and Mecha Hisui + Kohaku!?

ECLIPSE STYLE? Boss only style, Continous shielding and high evasion, Reverse Speed, Magic Circuit auto recovery!?

I’m SO getting this game. This is NO JOKE man, NO JOKE. By putting Archetype Earth in means we are most likely going to see the long awaited and rumoured Tsukihime 2 news anytime soon. Though that’s my only personal assumption and wish though…(and I’m not very well versed with the Type Moon universe compared to Ci…)

Now if only Altrouge Brunstead is included…

Source : http://www.akiba-ch.com/?p=1209#more-1209

How I wish it’s winter now…

And here ends my second year first semester of my school. Things doesn’t come easy, but I’ve managed to get past all the bad things that came.

…and it was just the beginning.

And with the summer holidays coming I have a lot of materials to write from my absence. And it’s all in the backlog of mine. Considering that I’ll be making my visit to Odaiba tommorow (which makes me the 293103809128039th time to make an entry about a 18 feet tall Gundam which you might call it “OLDDDDDDDDD” – but I don’t aim for being the first of writing entries anyway, remember this blog is all mainly about my fandom experiences I encountered.)

A reminder is always a good thing, so that I won’t forget it. So here’s the list of backlogs.

- Rebuid of Evangelion 2.0 entry
- Yoko Kanno 7/7 Choujiku Tanabata Sonic concert
- Another experience with Director Shoji Kawamori
- Odaiba Gundam’s experience

I don’t know if there is any more, I consider this the list that I wanna clear off as of now.

Still glad that I manage to have fun with things despite having a very hectic, busy schedule. I don’t mind – considering it’s a good experience in a lifetime. And I’ll look foward into writing them all out.

出たああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああ――――――――――――――!!!!!

700 USD. 700 GOD DAMN USD. And if this falls into DoCoMo’s hands – I’ll turn white and cry for 2 months straight. So hopefully this goes into Softbank. Pretty please, Softbank? Please?

Or aU-KDDI is fine too.

Source : Here and Here

Pixiv can be sometimes, amusing.

We all know Doraemon, for manga or anime, is considered one anime where most of us grow up with. It became a memory for those who grew out of it, and a neverending journey for those who follow the series up till today. But still, when you hand on the series to the people who thinks the root of the series itself can be modified to a next level. You’ll get these kind of results in the end.

Note : These are taken from Pixiv. I do not claim any copyright for these pictures. All works belong to their respective owners.

Oh, I don’t responsible for your brain breaking, either!

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Obligatory Akyama Mio picture is needed for this welcome back post.

So…hallo, I’m back.

Where have I been? Well, taking my time resting, having tea, and…catching up some anime for the past 3 months. It doesn’t come easy. Initially I actually had this sort of writing dilemma that I do not know what am I suppose to write anymore. Nothing really caused it, it’s just once in a while sort of thing. Considering that now that I’m back into the spirit of blogging again. You can expect more things in the future.

…Maybe less, biased entries about episode summaries (I’m looking at my Gundam 00 entries here!).

Previously I was back at Malaysia having my lovely outing time with friends and families. Unlike most otakus around, I actually have a life. But now since I’m back in Japan – the loneliness kicks back again to it’s full gear. So writing and drawing is the only thing I can do to keep myself occupied from this boring lifestyle.

Coming up next (hopefully) would be more on anime stuff and seiyuu stuff. And this time, hopefully, it lasts for a while before I’m calling for another rest.

But what happend when you said you want to make a dual language for this blog?
That I’m still thinking what to do about it…eheh.

So, Tadaima.

Here, have a Cow New Year Girls!

First of all, Happy New Year. Though 5 days late.

Considering that there aren’t many entries made, and this blog is still new. I am taking it easy and not too rush into writing many stuff as of yet. But an update never hurts.

IF there are any lack of updates, I blame my animation project that took me almost 80% of my free time – the remaining 20% would be free time : Recently hooked into a game called “Dissidia : Final Fantasy”, Kannagi (Marathoned it) Eat, and Sleep. Boring life I know. I never got to even enjoy my Japanese New Year, save that I actually stayed up to wait for 初日 (shonichi), which is basically the first sunrise in Japan. I did, and it was satisfying.

I know I am suppose to write a report about Comiket75, but to condense it and not make it TL;DR (it’s for my next entry), let’s just say that both the releases of doujins and the experience has been extremely satisfying. Though my regret was that I couldn’t get Nise’s new doujin on time. But I got my T2 Clannad doujin. So it’s all good. Better than C74, personally in my opinion.

If there is anyone who expects more entries from this blog, I promise that it will be somewhat satisfying this year as the anime announcement and it’s releases seems to be promising. I can’t promise to blog everything. But I’ll do whatever I can, 2008 has been great to me so far, so hopefully 2009 keeps it up.

また会おう！

I got your marketing strategy right. RIGHT? SQUARE-ENIX?

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days DS-I Special Bundle Edition announced.

For those who knows no Moonspeak, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days will be on stores during 2009 February. Knowing them, They are going to release their special edition with a new DS-I bundled along with it – with the illustration of the characters slapped onto the DS-I and it will be really shiny and special. Well, I can’t say much about it – I WANT IT. Time to save on money to buy this – As a Kingdom Hearts fan that is.

I’m looking foward for more info from S-E regarding this. Too good to pass it up.