Yet another anime blog.

Seems like I’m suffering from Hiatus Disease. Yeah, your job can make you become a lazy blogger, especially one where you have to multitask. Continue reading →

Mikan-chan episode! Mikan-chan, kawaii yo, Mikan-chan!

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This episode is material-heavy. We learned that Itsuki’s eye turned into what it is today when he, led by Honami, entered a haunted house created by spirit wave contamination. They were chased by a translucent blob. Anime cliche #54 dictates that Itsuki the boy must protect the girl who will so love him in the future by diverting danger from her to himself, and that resulted in his right eye turning ugly. The irony has it that the girl felt so guilty that she became an expert magic user just so that she can protect him instead. (This last part might not be a cliche though. I have not seen it before.)

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Clannad #2

Clannad #2 was so good I could not imagined how an episode can be this good. Both the comedy and the drama are so intense, and KyoAni juxtaposed them without making me feeling awkward. Things I like about the episodes are: Continue reading →

Rental Magica’s premise is, like, my cup of tea: shounen actions with lots of cute girls, and the girls do have massive firepower. Now, add sorcery, familiar beasts, and rocket broomstick, and it should be just plain win. However, the first episode didn’t impress me that much. Continue reading →

After much anticipation on my part, Clannad starts strong. The pacing, the comedy, and almost everything is about right. I have nothing to complain, obviously. Continue reading →

Nico Nico Douga is such a fun place to be! One of the nice feature is that, just like the doujinshi community, there are so many memes and “good ideas” that people just take, modify, and then republish. Today I’m going to write about a meme in Nico Nico Douga’s music department: kamikyoku. (Or is it “shinkyoku”?) Anyways, the Japanese for this word is 神曲, which literally means “song of God.” A kamikyoku is a song that the video publisher think is so good that it becomes divine.

Makka na Chikaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

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I got a couple of weird kicks watching Hiyorin’s exploits in Lucky Star 18 & 19. I seriously thought she was the greatest character EVAR. Now I think I know why… Continue reading →

I’m in the process of making an interactive database of Anime Saimoe 2007 Tournament using MIT’s SIMILE Exhibit and Google Spreadsheet.

A work in progress is available here: http://cardcaptor.moekaku.com/saimoe2007/by-character.html

The data are based on the following spreadsheets:

• http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGliomIE2vdkHk9HeTooDcg
• http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGliomIE2vdnYE6VAN4xQfQ
• http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGliomIE2vdm8osyRCL1LXA
• http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGliomIE2vdl3XAAYswwxLQ

Stay tuned as the data entry process is painful indeed…

By the way, if there’s something wrong with the data, please tell me.

(The following portion of the article is summarized from local news reports.)

On July 19, police officers from the Public Security Bureau raided a manga/anime goods shop “Akiba” in Siam Square, a popular hangout of Thai teenagers. They arrested the owners, Thawatchai Prueksrisakul (26) and Warunee Kampolkanjana (45), and accused them with possession of obscene materials for commercial purposes. Continue reading →