Anime Odd Thoughts Lot (Week of Feb/25/07, time for anime talk again)
秒速5センチメートル 第1話 桜花抄 (5 centimeter per second, or in american english: 2 inches per second)
One of the most stunning visual from any anime I've seen. It's a shame that the preview comes in a somewhat low-definition 640x360 version. This will probably be the first HD-DVD or Blu-ray disc I'll get later this year. What interesting about this somewhat ordinary love story is that it started in the early 90's (the first episode or first part, 90-94 to be precise... see below) It is a piece consist of three short stories on the long distance relationship between Takaki and Akari in different perspectives.
In the early 90's, it was an era just before the cellular phone became popular. It brought back memories of the time when I have to physically wrote letters and mail it to my friends back in my old home. Eventually it has switch to electronic mail and message, and then my busy life here make me lost contact with them for quite a long period of time. I assume that is what happen in the later episodes which I have yet to see. (In theater March 3rd in japan, the rest of the world probably won't see it until the DVD comes out)
I won't spoil it for you since I'm sure some fan-subbers are already working on this. Here's the proof that the first part of the story happened in between 90-94:
NARUTO ナルト 疾風伝 Naruto Shippouden 1-3
I'm no shounen series fan, but I have known enough about Naruto to enjoy the prologue of the "new" series. That eight minutes was very exciting since we get to see "him" again... I assume they(TV Tokyo and ぴえろ) really put more production values into this to lure the old Naruto fan back. The episode looks a bit better than the "old" series (so far). However the pace is painstakingly sloooooooowww. So if you have a problem sleeping or staying asleep, tune in for the many staring contests.
コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ 第18話 枢木スザクに命じる Code Geass 18
Words can't descripe how much fun this series really is. I have two words and punctuation marks for you: orange-kun?! (love his evil grin in the OP)
武装錬金 第21話 Busourenkin 21 Gone into flame
Now this's some fast pace shounen action here. This episode introduce another one of my favorite charaters 坂口照星大戦士長 (Sakaguchi Shousei the Great Chieftain).
獣装機攻ダンクーガノヴァ Dancouga Nova 1-2
Way too cheesy...if you know what I mean. The chance of me dropping this series is high, and it speaks volume coming from a Mecha-nuts. But then I bet no one will subtitle this for you neither.
OVA watch:
2/23: 舞-乙HiME Zwei (Mai-Otome Zwei) Vol.2
Not a single appearance of Mai or Mikoto here, I think I'll skip it...
2/25: 苺ましまろ (Ichigo Mashimaro) OVA Vol.1
Cute Loli series are a dime a dozen these days. But Ana-chan and Miyu are simply irresistable, no?
Other stuff I look forward to in February:
Master Grade Hi-v(v is the lower case Greek nu) Gundam from Bandai, so a MG Nightingale is in the works too?
That's all the time I have for this week, you'll see more in the coming week since I have cached up many post in the back log.
One of the most stunning visual from any anime I've seen. It's a shame that the preview comes in a somewhat low-definition 640x360 version. This will probably be the first HD-DVD or Blu-ray disc I'll get later this year. What interesting about this somewhat ordinary love story is that it started in the early 90's (the first episode or first part, 90-94 to be precise... see below) It is a piece consist of three short stories on the long distance relationship between Takaki and Akari in different perspectives.
In the early 90's, it was an era just before the cellular phone became popular. It brought back memories of the time when I have to physically wrote letters and mail it to my friends back in my old home. Eventually it has switch to electronic mail and message, and then my busy life here make me lost contact with them for quite a long period of time. I assume that is what happen in the later episodes which I have yet to see. (In theater March 3rd in japan, the rest of the world probably won't see it until the DVD comes out)
I won't spoil it for you since I'm sure some fan-subbers are already working on this. Here's the proof that the first part of the story happened in between 90-94:
Monday, April 9,1990
Monday, April 8, 1991
Friday, March 4th, 1994
NARUTO ナルト 疾風伝 Naruto Shippouden 1-3
I'm no shounen series fan, but I have known enough about Naruto to enjoy the prologue of the "new" series. That eight minutes was very exciting since we get to see "him" again... I assume they(TV Tokyo and ぴえろ) really put more production values into this to lure the old Naruto fan back. The episode looks a bit better than the "old" series (so far). However the pace is painstakingly sloooooooowww. So if you have a problem sleeping or staying asleep, tune in for the many staring contests.
コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ 第18話 枢木スザクに命じる Code Geass 18
Words can't descripe how much fun this series really is. I have two words and punctuation marks for you: orange-kun?! (love his evil grin in the OP)
武装錬金 第21話 Busourenkin 21 Gone into flame
Now this's some fast pace shounen action here. This episode introduce another one of my favorite charaters 坂口照星大戦士長 (Sakaguchi Shousei the Great Chieftain).
獣装機攻ダンクーガノヴァ Dancouga Nova 1-2
Way too cheesy...if you know what I mean. The chance of me dropping this series is high, and it speaks volume coming from a Mecha-nuts. But then I bet no one will subtitle this for you neither.
OVA watch:
2/23: 舞-乙HiME Zwei (Mai-Otome Zwei) Vol.2
Not a single appearance of Mai or Mikoto here, I think I'll skip it...
2/25: 苺ましまろ (Ichigo Mashimaro) OVA Vol.1
Cute Loli series are a dime a dozen these days. But Ana-chan and Miyu are simply irresistable, no?
Other stuff I look forward to in February:
Master Grade Hi-v(v is the lower case Greek nu) Gundam from Bandai, so a MG Nightingale is in the works too?
That's all the time I have for this week, you'll see more in the coming week since I have cached up many post in the back log.
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