Monthly Archives: March 2008

Want to know what it’s like to have Louise and Tabatha sleep by your sides?

By cardcaptor | Published: March 31, 2008

Get a headphone. Prepare your heart. And listen to this: <a href=”http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1328727″>【ニコニコ動画】ルイズ＆タバサと小の字になって寝る動画</a> My head exploded multiple times already… Arrggghhhh… Kugyuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!

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Clannad: A Bleak Look at Family and Child Raising

By cardcaptor | Published: March 21, 2008

I’m at Episode 20 of Clannad now. There’s no complaint about the animation, the comedic timing, or the emotion KyoAni could project. So, expression-wise, Clannad gets an almost perfect score. Story-wise, it has down-to-earth stories that I think many find touching and easy to relate to. However, thinking about what happen to each family, I […]

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Loli ABC

By cardcaptor | Published: March 21, 2008

A is for Arche Klain. B is for Becky Miyamoto. C is for Coquelicot.

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Negima is Awesome

By cardcaptor | Published: March 15, 2008

I didn’t sleep last night because I marathoned chapter 152-206 of Mahou Sensei Negima. It was that good. Here’s why: Designs Costumes, beasts, cities, environments, and battle choreography. Detailed and beautiful.Akamatasu-sensei sure get himself a group of assistants with l33t skillz.

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Japanese(?) I Learned from Nico Nico Douga

By cardcaptor | Published: March 4, 2008

wktk (wakuteka) Stands for ワクワクテカテカ (wakuwakutekateka). “Wakuwaku”is an onomatopoeia for being excited, and “tekateka” for gleaming. It is used to express the feeling of expectation for a good thing that’s going to happen soon, like when you’re waiting to watch a good video while it’s loading, or the state that Tama-chan is in below: wktk

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Anime Readings #1: Celebrating Two Decades of Unlawful Progress

By cardcaptor | Published: March 1, 2008

If you look at Wikipedia page on fansub, the first citation you’ll see is the article “Celebrating the Two Decades of Unlawful Progress: Fan distribution, Proselytization Commons, and the Explosive Growth of Japanese Animation” by Sean Leonard. (Grab the paper here.) I’m writing this post to record what I learned from the paper, and I […]

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