Sanity… is for the Weak

Audio/Visual Update

Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+The Sex, the City, the Music: Shanghai
+Monkey Majik: 空はまるで
+Queen: Greatest Hits
+The Rolling Stones: Rolled Gold
+Metal Gear Solid 20th Anniversary
+Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Heroes Season 2
+My Neighbor Totoro
+Appleseed: Ex Machina
+Band of Brothers
+The Machine Girl

Animania:
+Freedom
+Hayate no Gotoku dropped
+Clannad
+Rental Magica dropped
+Bamboo Blade
+Toshokan Sensou (図書館戦争)
+Birdy the Mighty: Decode
+イヴの時間
+乃木坂春香の秘密

Movies to Catch - ‘08:
+Sweeney Todd
+The Spiderwick Chronicles
+Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
+Iron Man
+The Dark Knight
+Cloverfield Missed this
+Jumper
+Hancock missed this
+Get Smart missed this
+Charlie Wilson’s War
+Bangkok Dangerous
+Speed Racer
+The Love Guru
+Wanted missed this
+Indiana Jones and The Temple of the Crystal Skull
+Forbidden Kingdom
+Doomsday
+27 Dresses
+Juno
+The Bucket List
+Hellboy II: The Golden Army
+You Don’t Mess With The Zohan Missed this
+Kung Fu Panda missed this
+The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
+Wall-E
+Star Wars: The Clone Wars
+007: Quantum of Solace
+Tropic Thunder
+The Spirit
+Death Race
+Punisher: War Zone
+Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
+Full Battle Rattle

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+Oneechanbara
+Zombie Strippers
+Jack Brooks - Monster Slayer

Current Reads
RAWs
+謎の彼女Ｘ - Chapter 25
+魔法 先生 ネギま! - Chapter 222
+死がふたりを分かつまで Chapter 15
+おばあちゃんはアイドル

Dead Tree
+Freakonomics
+Conquistador
+Why We Want You To Be Rich
+Party of One: The loner’s Manifesto
+Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition

Online
+Questionable Content
+Real Life
+The Order of the Stick
+Turn Signals on a Land Raider

The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
I meant to post this together with the writeup on The Machine Girl, but totally forgot. Well, we caught this third installment of the Mummy franchise, and it was a let-down, after the antics of Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones. I’m not that rabid a fan-boy to piss on the movie simply because Rachel Weisz is not on the cast list this time (in fact I thought that Maria Bello filled her role rather admirably), but despite the exotic locations and exciting action sequences, it still fell flat on the plot. It just simply didn’t feel… epic.

Anyway:
One star for the hilarious pissing contest between father and son when comparing guns.
One star for the adorably cute Yetis.
Half star for the huge undead vs terracotta warriors battle scene.

Total 2.5 / 5 stars

Introducing Kung Fu Jimmy Chow; a production that that simultaneously spoofs and salutes the anime genre.

Words cannot describe the random madness and anime homage paid….

Only thing I can say is… “What the?!?”

ED from Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (乃木坂春香の秘密)

Seriously though, for an anime to poke fun of the Akiba-Kei and Otaku sub-culture isn’t entirely new (c.f. Densha Otoko, and NHK ni Yōkoso! (N・H・Kにようこそ)), but it does put a twist in changing the stereotype from the guy to the girl.

Audio/Visual Update

Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+The Sex, the City, the Music: Shanghai
+Monkey Majik: 空はまるで
+Queen: Greatest Hits
+The Rolling Stones: Rolled Gold
+Metal Gear Solid 20th Anniversary

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Heroes Season 2
+My Neighbor Totoro
+Appleseed: Ex Machina
+Band of Brothers

Animania:
+Freedom
+Hayate no Gotoku dropped
+Clannad
+Rental Magica dropped
+Bamboo Blade
+Toshokan Sensou (図書館戦争)
+Birdy the Mighty: Decode

Movies to Catch - ‘08:
+Sweeney Todd
+The Spiderwick Chronicles
+Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
+Iron Man
+The Dark Knight
+Cloverfield Missed this
+Jumper
+Wall-E
+Hancock
+Get Smart missed this
+Charlie Wilson’s War
+Bangkok Dangerous
+Speed Racer
+The Love Guru
+Wanted
+Indiana Jones and The Temple of the Crystal Skull
+Forbidden Kingdom
+Doomsday
+27 Dresses
+Juno
+The Bucket List
+Hellboy II: The Golden Army
+You Don’t Mess With The Zohan Missed this
+Star Wars: The Clone Wars
+007: Quantum of Solace
+Kung Fu Panda missed this

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+The Machine Girl
+Oneechanbara
+Zombie Strippers

Current Reads
RAWs
+謎の彼女Ｘ - Chapter 25
+魔法 先生 ネギま! - Chapter 220
+死がふたりを分かつまで Chapter 15
+おばあちゃんはアイドル

Dead Tree
+Freakonomics
+Conquistador
+Why We Want You To Be Rich
+Party of One: The loner’s Manifesto
+Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition

Online
+Questionable Content
+Real Life
+The Order of the Stick
+Turn Signals on a Land Raider

The Dark Knight
One word:

Wow.

Mwahahaha!!!

Prepare to lose your sanity!

And additionally, a little something for our Finnish friends:

Be seeing you next month when we head up to Helsinki!

I was doing a little research on Vocaloid, and came across this little gem on YouTube.

It’s something that can only be described as… Disturbingly Cute.

So, remember kids:

Sanity… is for the Weak!

Audio/Visual Update

Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+The Sex, the City, the Music: Shanghai
+Monkey Majik: 空はまるで
+Queen: Greatest Hits

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Heroes Season 2
+My Neighbor Totoro
+Appleseed: Ex Machina

Animania:
+Freedom
+Hayate no Gotoku
+Clannad
+Rental Magica
+Bamboo Blade
+Toshokan Sensou (図書館戦争)

Movies to Catch - ‘08:
+Sweeney Todd
+The Spiderwick Chronicles
+Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
+Iron Man
+The Dark Knight
+Cloverfield Missed this
+Jumper
+Wall-E
+Hancock
+Get Smart
+Charlie Wilson’s War
+Bangkok Dangerous
+Speed Racer
+The Love Guru
+Wanted
+Indiana Jones and The Temple of the Crystal Skull
+Forbidden Kingdom
+Doomsday

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+The Machine Girl
+Oneechanbara
+Zombie Strippers

Current Reads
RAWs
+謎の彼女Ｘ - Chapter 21
+魔法 先生 ネギま! - Chapter 211
+死がふたりを分かつまで Chapter 13
+おばあちゃんはアイドル Vol 3

Dead Tree
+Freakonomics
+Conquistador
+Why We Want You To Be Rich

Online
+Questionable Content
+Real Life
+The Order of the Stick
+Turn Signals on a Land Raider

Iron Man
Iron Man was a total blast! From the soundtrack to the F/X to the comic scenes to the fast and furious fights, in a totally awesome romp through the Superhero genre. The only thing that jarred came at the end, after the credits rolled ~ why, oh why, did they cast Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury?!? Then again, this probably means that this vision of the Marvel Universe will probably be cast on the Ultimates couch… but why did he mention the “Avenger Initiative”? Will that mean we’ll be seeing a Thor and Captain America movie sometime soon, seeing as Hulk is coming up next?

Scored a Soul Eater bag, courtesy of One - thanks bro!

Been a while since I did this

Audio/Visual Update

Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+The Sex, the City, the Music: Shanghai
+Monkey Majik: 空はまるで
+Queen: Greatest Hits

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Heroes Season 2
+My Neighbor Totoro
+Appleseed: Ex Machina

In the PSP:
+Freedom
+Hayate no Gotoku
+Clannad
+Rental Magica
+Bamboo Blade

Movies to Catch - ‘08:
+Sweeney Todd
+The Spiderwick Chronicles
+Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
+Iron Man
+The Dark Knight
+Cloverfield
+Jumper
+Wall-E
+Hancock
+Get Smart
+Charlie Wilson’s War
+Bangkok Dangerous
+Speed Racer
+The Love Guru
+Wanted
+Indiana Jones and The Temple of the Crystal Skull
+Forbidden Kingdom
+Doomsday

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+The Machine Girl
+Oneechanbara
+Zombie Strippers

Current Reads
RAWs
+謎の彼女Ｘ - Chapter 21
+魔法 先生 ネギま! - Chapter 210
+死がふたりを分かつまで Chapter 12

Dead Tree
+Freakonomics
+Why We Want You To Be Rich

Online
+Questionable Content
+Real Life
+The Order of the Stick
+Turn Signals on a Land Raider

Other Stuff

Finally went back to training after a 1-month hiatus due to increased workload, and it seems like my conditioning has slipped by quite a bit. This is worrying, as we’re due to head up north to Helsinki in June for training at the mother school ~ looks like additional training is in order. That aside, due to the change in syllabus, and me missing most of the classes last month, I had to skip the current evaluations ~ I don’t really mind, as I think I’m now at a comfortable position of the learning curve, trying to get the basics down perfect before moving on to the advanced stuff. That said, kudos to the rest of the students who worked very hard and were promoted, you guys deserved it!

Guess what we did today? ^_^

I can’t believe that it’s been more than ten years since I first saw the Evangelion series and was totally blown away. This time round though, it was the wifey who was impressed.

The production unit has really put a lot of effort and thought into this remake. The visuals and soudtrack have been beautifully brought from the original TV work to the big screen; words alone cannot describe how good it was ~ run, don’t walk to watch this.

Can’t wait for the next movie in the series to be shown.

Now please excuse me while I go dig up my Utada album

:Link:

Caught the latest offering from KyoAni, Clannad.

Two episodes so far, and it’s great animation and pacing right from the start, with what is now the studio’s characteristic off-beat humor and gorgeous colour palette.

Now, why is it that I keep expecting to hear a “Uguu~” during the above scene?

Oh. Kanon. Right.

らき☆すた final episode ED.

Will it spark a Hare Hare Yukai craze like The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi?

Saw this when I was surfing randomly….

Dragons of Autumn Twilight: The Animated Movie

My jaw hit the table.

Will it be good like the Lord of the Rings? Will it bomb like the previous D&D movie before? Lordy knows…

Partial cast list:
Tanis Half-Elven - Michael Rosenbaum (! Go Lex!!!)
Raistlin Majere - Kiefer Sutherland
Goldmoon - Lucy Lawless (Xena?!?)

What the?!?

Spidey’s Maguire Dons Robotech

Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire will produce and may star in a film based on the classic SF anime Robotech, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Warner Brothers Pictures picked up the rights to Robotech, which features giant robots known as mechas. Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment banner and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans as an SF franchise a la Paramount’s hit Transformers.

Drew Crevello also is producing through his Supercool Hollywood BigTime Productions. Craig Zahler has been tapped to write the screenplay.

Robotech was a cartoon series during the 1980s from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Productions. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.

Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship’s energy source, known as “protoculture,” and the planet’s survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.

Hell yeah! CGI VF-1 Valkyrie ftw!

Transform *this*!

:Links:
Sci-Fi.com
Engadget

:Source:
The Fool’s Progress
Tomorrow.sg

Other bits of interest:
An analysis of the Odex vs PacNet ruling

Just so you know, I *DO* buy DVDs in support of the anime industry.

And no, this is just a small part of my collection.

*edit*
Oh, and, I don’t buy Odex. The stuff is crap (yes, I admit to contributing to their dwindling sales… because I *DO* get better-quality stuff from the States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and heck, even direct from Japan), VCDs just don’t have enough space to cram high-quality video data, and I don’t fancy having stacks of VCDs cluttering up my home when a few DVDs will do the job. Not to mention having better box art too.

Audio/Visual Update
Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+Queen: Greatest Hits
+OST Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Wave 103
+Red Hot Chilli Peppers Greatest Hits
+Utada Hikaru: Ultra Blue
+Diablo Swing Orchestra: The Butcher’s Ballroom
+OST Samurai Champloo - Departure
+Monkey Majik + Yoshida Brothers - Change
+Lisa Ono: Soul & Bossa

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Mythbusters: Season 1 / Season 2 / Season 3
+I.33 - Fencing with the Sword and Dagger
+Man of the Year
+CSI - Season 1
+Initial D - 4th Stage: Project D

In the PSP:
+Sumomo mo Momo mo Dropped.
+Pumpkin Scissors
+Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
+Freedom
+Kanon 2006
+Ghost Hunt
+Lucky ☆ Star
+Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS Dropped.
+Lovely Complex
+Murder Princess
+Monster Princess Dropped.
+Sola
+Hayate no Gotoku
+Dennou Coil

Movies to Catch - ‘07:
+Spiderman 3
+Transformers: The Movie
+Ghost Rider
+Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
+300
+Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Missed this
+The Simpsons Movie
+Shrek: The Third Missed this
+Bridge to Terabithia… missed this one.
+Seraphim Falls
+Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
+The Last Mimzy… looks like we missed this one.
+Day Watch
+Nomad
+Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End
+Live Free or Die Hard
+Next
+The Golden Compass
+I Am Legend
+Hot Fuzz
+The Kingdom
+The Seeker
+Beowulf
+Get Smart

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
+Grindhouse Missed this
+Balls of Fury
+Black Sheep Missed this

Current Read:

It’s the sequel to Ghost, which I enjoyed immensely:
Ex-Seal Mike Harmon has bought the farm-literally, in Eastern Europe. But trouble follows him even there, and the man who has made himself anathema to terrorists from Syria to Paris suddenly has Chechen terrorists banging on his own door..

Random Rumblings
I’m pissed.

I’m pissed because I’m so busy at work that I have to miss Open Session Training. *Again*.

And that fustration is compounded by the fact that I can’t even blow off steam by swinging the sword at open sessions.

On the upside, our leathersmith has come through beautifully on the Rapier Frog (the leather thingy that holds the sword to the belt) and pouch. I’ve commissioned him for another frog, this time to hold the Main Gauche, as well as a scabbard for the Liechtenauer. With the amount of work the Society is giving him, we might as well put him on retainer and use him as our armourer!

Chara Fest is coming!

Must. Resist. Temptation. To. Buy…. and Buy…. and Buy…. *Arrrrrrggggghhhh!!!*

I like the poster. It’s soooo… Lucky Star

アニメ版「らき☆すた」ED #13
「俺の忘れ物」
Ore no wasuremono
唄：白石みのる（白石稔）
Singer: Minoru Shiraishi (Minoru Shiraishi)
作詞：白石みのる
作曲：白石みのる
出演：白石みのる（白石稔）
演出：白石みのる（白石稔）

The funny bit? The is the same song that vioce actor, Minoru Shiraishi, was singing in “The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi” as the character Taniguchi when he walks in on Yuki and Kyon:

XD XD XD

Audio/Visual Update
Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+Queen: Greatest Hits
+OST Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Wave 103
+Red Hot Chilli Peppers Greatest Hits
+Utada Hikaru: Ultra Blue
+Diablo Swing Orchestra: The Butcher’s Ballroom
+OST Samurai Champloo - Departure
+Monkey Majik + Yoshida Brothers - Change

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Mythbusters: Season 1 / Season 2 / Season 3
+I.33 - Fencing with the Sword and Dagger
+Man of the Year
+CSI - Season 1

In the PSP:
+Sumomo mo Momo mo
+Pumpkin Scissors
+Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
+Freedom
+Kanon 2006
+Ghost Hunt
+Lucky ☆ Star
+Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
+Lovely Complex
+Murder Princess
+Monster Princess
+Sola
+Hayate no Gotoku

Movies to Catch - ‘07:
+Spiderman 3
+Transformers: The Movie
+Ghost Rider
+Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
+300
+Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
+The Simpsons Movie
+Shrek: The Third
+Bridge to Terabithia… missed this one.
+Seraphim Falls
+Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
+The Last Mimzy… looks like we missed this one.
+Day Watch
+Nomad
+Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End
+Live Free or Die Hard
+Next
+The Golden Compass
+I Am Legend
+Hot Fuzz

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
+Grindhouse
+Balls of Fury
+Black Sheep

Cop Shows
Actually caught two police shows last week… Hot Fuzz & Die Hard 4.0

Hot Fuzz was… hilarious to say the least. Typical quirky brit humor and lots of references to pop culture and movie trivia, we enjoyed laughing ourselves silly for this little gem, though the abrupt censorship for the gory scenes were more than a little jarring.

Caught Die Hard 4.0 with Aaron & Mo since wifey refused to watch Die Hard 4.0, citing that she never caught the first one as a reason. But it still was an enjoyable romp; totally updated for the 21st century with hacker terrorists. The action scenes were fast and furious, and featured the typical big explosions and narrow escapes that are the trademark of police officer John MaClane.

“yippie ki yay, ************!”

Audio/Visual Update
Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+Queen: Greatest Hits
+OST Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Wave 103
+Red Hot Chilli Peppers Greatest Hits
+Utada Hikaru: Ultra Blue
+Diablo Swing Orchestra: The Butcher’s Ballroom
+OST Samurai Champloo - Departure

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Mythbusters: Season 1 / Season 2 / Season 3
+I.33 - Fencing with the Sword and Dagger
+Man of the Year

In the PSP:
+Sumomo mo Momo mo
+Pumpkin Scissors
+Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
+Freedom
+Kanon 2006
+Ghost Hunt
+Lucky ☆ Star
+Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
+Lovely Complex
+Murder Princess
+Monster Princess

Movies to Catch - ‘07:
+Spiderman 3
+Transformers: The Movie
+Ghost Rider
+Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
+300
+Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
+The Simpsons Movie
+Shrek: The Third
+Bridge to Terabithia… missed this one.
+Seraphim Falls
+Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
+The Last Mimzy… looks like we missed this one.
+Day Watch
+Nomad
+Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End
+Live Free or Die Hard
+Next

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
+Grindhouse
+Balls of Fury
+Black Sheep

Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End
As usual, Johnny Depp gives an impressive performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, though in this installment his screen time was much reduced. Not as good as the previous outing, probably because the idea is getting stale, but a good show nonetheless.

The King and his men stole the Queen from her bed,
And bound her in her bones.
The seas be ours, and by the powers,
Where we will, we’ll roam.

Yo ho, all together,
Hoist the colours high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
Never shall we die.

Some men have died and some are alive and others sail on the sea –
with the keys to the cage…
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler’s Green.

The bell has been raised
from its watery grave…
Do you hear its sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home.

Yo ho, all together,
Hoist the colours high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
Never shall we die.

Freedom Episode 3
And after a wait of months, the next episode has arrived ~ lots of high action sequences, but in the end, all the heroes did was escape from EDEN Administration and escape in a rocket for Earth. Duh.

Lunch 30 May 07
Almost forgot this one. Bento box of leftovers from dinner the night before for lunch at work.

Been listening to the sound track of Samurai Champloo quite extensively these few days, and I’m quite impressed with Japanese Hip-Hop music producer Nujabes.

But in the process of finding out more information about his music, I came across two rather talented gems:

Siik, who did a very impressive mash-up of Amerie’s “1 Thing” and Nujabe’s “Aruarian Dance” from the Samurai Champloo soundtrack (and incidentally, my currently most-listened-to song ~ it reminds me of diving… dunno why though).

And then, there’s Korean Funkyman, who did this:

Going to see if I can get hold of his other albums

Oh god. Initial Lucky. Go figure.

Pwned. Totally laughed my head off. XD XD XD

You should know how this goes by now…. XD XD XD

Cha-la Head Cha-la

From Dragon Ball Z:

Samurai Champloo
Been watching Samurai Champloo as well, and as expected from the guy who produced Cowboy Bebop, the musical theme just blew me away. Needless to say, the OST is now on eternal repeat on the B&O.

I *love* the ED

Audio/Visual Update
Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+Queen: Greatest Hits
+OST Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Wave 103
+Red Hot Chilli Peppers Greatest Hits
+Utada Hikaru: Ultra Blue
+Diablo Swing Orchestra: The Butcher’s Ballroom

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Mythbusters: Season 1 / Season 2 / Season 3
+I.33 - Fencing with the Sword and Dagger
+Man of the Year

In the PSP:
+Sumomo mo Momo mo
+Pumpkin Scissors
+Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
+Freedom
+Kanon 2006
+Ghost Hunt
+Lucky ☆ Star
+Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
+Lovely Complex
+Murder Princess
+Monster Princess

Movies to Catch - ‘07:
+Spiderman 3
+Transformers: The Movie
+Ghost Rider
+Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
+300
+Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
+The Simpsons Movie
+Shrek: The Third
+Bridge to Terabithia
+Seraphim Falls
+Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
+The Last Mimzy… looks like we missed this one.
+Day Watch
+Nomad
+Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End
+Live Free or Die Hard
+Next

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
+Grindhouse
+Balls of Fury
+Black Sheep

Current Read
+John Ringo & Tom Kratman: Watch on the Rhine (Die Wacht am Rhein)
+David Drake: The Complete Hammer’s Slammers - Volume One

Spidey 3
We caught Spidey 3 on sunday morning, courtesy of wifey’s company. Overall impression was that it was just a little too long, and yet not enough. With two major villians, the 2.5 hour movie just didn’t have the time to fully develop them, and yet all the emo scenes between Peter Parker and MJ did was just to drag it out painfully.

The high point of the movie for me? Bruce Campbell hamming it up as the French maître d’. He has been doing cameos in every Spidey movie since the first, gotta love the guy

This time round it’s a TV drama series with a rather disturbing theme.

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun.

And oh lordy. Soooooo many Haruhi references in this episode too, together with Kanon and FUMOFFU!

Some Changes
I think we may expect to see some changes from the next episode onwards since the directing effort has been changed from Yamamoto Hiroshi to Yasuhiro Takemoto. Not that the show has been bad, but perhaps the higher-ups in Kyoani aren’t too pleased with effort so far.

We’ll see.

And the first anime theme song appears on the third episode ED:

FUMOFFU! The insider joke being Kyoani was the company which produced this series XD XD XD

I’m very impressed with Hirano Aya’s vocal range ~ especially since her normal voice is squeakily breathless:

Audio/Visual Update
Audio:Slave
In the B&O:
+Queen: Greatest Hits
+OST Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Wave 103
+Red Hot Chilli Peppers Greatest Hits
+Utada Hikaru: Ultra Blue

Visual:Slave
In the DVD:
+Mythbusters: Season 1 / Season 2 / Season 3
+I.33 - Fencing with the Sword and Dagger
+Man of the Year

In the PSP:
+Sumomo mo Momo mo
+Pumpkin Scissors
+Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
+Freedom
+Kanon 2006
+Ghost Hunt
+Lucky ☆ Star
+Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
+Lovely Complex

Movies to Catch - ‘07:
+Spiderman 3
+Transformers: The Movie
+Ghost Rider
+Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
+300
+Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
+The Simpsons Movie
+Shrek: The Third
+Bridge to Terabithia
+Seraphim Falls
+Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
+The Last Mimzy
+Day Watch
+Nomad

Movies soooo bad, it’s gotta be gooood
+Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
+Grindhouse
+Balls of Fury
+Black Sheep

Current Read
John Ringo & Tom Kratman: Watch on the Rhine (Die Wacht am Rhein)

I was right…… T_T||

It *WILL* be a different karaoke of some random 70’s Super Sentai theme song for every episode ED.

Lucky ☆ Star - ED #2

Akumaizer 3 OP

Oh God….

I wonder if someone will link all the ED’s together at the end of the series run for a whole two hours worth of Konata’s karaoke?

Just caught episode 2 of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Freedom_Project. All I can say is that it really gave me the chills, especially since it sticks pretty close to the “hard” science fiction genre that I like. The sight of a blue Earth, rising over the Lunar horizon was…. breath taking, to say the least. Will be looking forward to the next episode, to be released on 25 Apr 07.

Of course, having one of my fave singers perform the OP is a bonus too!

:Links:
+Freedom Project
+Utada Hikaru

Just caught the RAW of episode 1, and though I only caught about one joke out of every eight or nine, it was still funny, not the usual funny-ha-ha physical comedy of Kyoani’s previous works, but still tickled my funny bone.

For those who caught it as well, but was left wondering where the heck was the ED… well, remember what Konata (seiyū: Aya Hirano) was singing in the Karaoke at the end?

Lucky ☆ Star - ED #1

Uchu Tetsujin Kyodain. XD XD XD

Wait. Does that mean that every episode ED will be a different karaoke of some old cheesy 70’s Super Sentai series??!?

Oh God. What have I gotten myself into?!? T_T||

Adds another to anime “Must Watch” list:

And now… to stop hitting the play button again, and again, and again, and again….

+Lucky ☆ Star

GTA IV, what else?

And of course the other reason is Metal Gear Solid 4:

Anime Updates
Finished Kanon 06 and Ghost Hunt (?)

Kanon Remake
At times happy and funny, and others tragic and heart breaking, this is an emotional roller-coaster of a series. Not going to recommend it to wifey though, or at least, I won’t be anywhere near when she’s watching this or I’ll end up with my Tee-shirt half wet from tears and snot. She’s emo that way. :p

Ghost Hunt
Episode 25 ended rather… abruptly. Did the producers run out of funds of something? But all in all, a great season, with very unusual background, great story and creepy atmosphere, this series really creeped me out. Recommended if you’re feeling hot and need a chill down your spine….

New to watch

Lovely Complex
Been reading this best-selling manga for a while now, and it’s finally made it’s way to animated series. The first episode just aired in Tokyo yesterday evening, and I’m waiting for it to be uploaded to youtube… or something

Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Aaaaaaaannnd Season 3 is finally out. From what little I could make out with my limited Japanese, looks like the new season will focus more on the new blood than the old Nanoha/Fate/Hayate combination. We’ll see… in the meantime, the upload quality on youtube sucked, big time.

:Links:
+Lovely Complex
+Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS

Audio/Visual Update
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