"For you" from AZU

最近忙しい。 くそ。Have not been updating my blog, feel so bad. I was surfing around when I realised あの新人まで, Michael, has more posts than me! ( And I started at Blogger before him!! AH!!! むかつく!!)

Another six months and I can quit my job! Muhahaha (evil smile)! I have planned to rest for half a year then, or if my savings end (whichever comes first). Hontou no 引きこもり ni naru!

正直, watashi ちょっと不安 desu. What if I grow too comfortable to the "ひきこもり道", and can't come out of it! Abunai desho... But a break is really necessary(for me). 必要だ! 命の賭けてだ! And this entry was made a week ago, I only completed it now. AHHh!!! I've always like opening n closings of Anime, they are creative and fun products from the anime. The new Shippuden closing is one. (In case anybody didn't notice, time-line-wise, they isn't any time they are all of the same age together!! Thats what it makes this a little special...)

I haven't heard of AZU before this song. Paisei hehe. Nice voice, the whole ending theme experience is good, overall. I am guessing the animators have some form of freedom over the openings and ending themes(more than the more-profit-driven-content-main-show itself). Why do I say that? 1. Some of trial-and-errors are great success, like e.g. "Don't say lazy!" and "Hare hare Yukai", that propelled the seiyuus or singers to overnight sensations and 2. Quite a lot are experiments-gone-wrong that really sucks!(I will not name examples here to protect the companies involved..LOL.... ) To further explain what I meant, when a manga proved its worth, a production company turns it into an Anime(normally the case). Even without the economic downturn, though big, the anime industry isn't doing very well. Where profit margins are concerned, in this society, there is lesser room for mistakes. The main story is already there, the studios are only animating the plot. What's left are the openings and ending themes for the animators to play around. This is all my speculations though.

My Ani-son article re-cap!

K-ON OVA

おちつけ, minna-san..

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More Yui no da! We have a Yui-version of FUWA FUWA. WHoa, sasuga Aki-san, her voice is totally moe.. Makes ppl cringe...ha! Soo cute it almost resembles a vocaloid... まるで ミク みたい! Haha It really felt a little strange, to see the all familiar Cagayake☆ and DOn't say Lazy☆ after such a long time. なつかしな! Doki-doki shita...Will the op/ending songs in the second season be as catchy? 楽しみにする!

NAME of the moment! "Michael"

The dominant language is eh still English, though it is not the most commonly used(matter-of-fact), if you ask me it is the most mainstream. You turn on the TV nowadays, switch channels, notice the different languages of the human race, have to make frequent references to the English language. I can get a good laugh at some of the chinese channels, Party = 派對. Saddam Hussein = 萨达姆. They are 'literally-translated' mainly for the purpose of having the words to be (written down) documented.

The japanese language, no exception, has its own translation of English (words). I am so used to the japanese pronounciation, that unconsciously I would use it! ha! Most words are standard, but I find the name "Michael" having quite a few variations. (I don't know if it is just me...) In Macross Frontier, in the same show itself, "Michael" is pronouced in 2 ways, by 2 different ppl!

The official pronounciation is "Ma-e-ke-ru". link

Alto's version is "Mi-ha-e-ru"

Luca's version is more like the english female name "Michelle". "Michelle-ru"

And................

How to speak fluent Japanese - series! ROFL!

Mascot of the moment! HAPPY!

So what makes a successful Anime nowadays? Realism. What then makes an anime realistic? It must let the audience feel "yeah I would do that if I were him/her too". Human-mannerism, Sarcasm.. Cute mascots that do nothing but "purrrr" is rubbish. HAPPPY is clever(yes he's intelligent!), cute and funny! 'Over-cute' dialouge too cheessy and/or unnecessary are a no-no. (yes u heard us! too much fanservice is killing us - in the wrong way!) Even the recent 11Eyes, the forums are echoing the pantyshots are spoiling the show, how unprofessional it has turn it into. Oh speaking of this, ah another show just came into my mind, Ikkitosen is another great example. Although both shows are not 'true' martial arts Anime, they can do without the fan-service.. Do the studios know how dumb it looks when in the middle of a fight, shirts/skirts/panties are torn-ed?

Article on fan-service

Die die must watch!

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Yeah u can find the trailer anywhere :) Woo "Resident Evil: Afterlife" too! Now we wait for its trailer! Alice's maybe going to Tokyo, or maybe not.

Chouuuuu kawaii Neko!

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Michael Jackson's double..

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K-ON 2nd season announced!

Ore-tachi まだみすてられない! K-ON-bu wa mata kuru! Official site But what is real scary isn't that. I thought I am the first of my friends to know that. But look at Michael's post! He posted his about the time when the article I am reading is out! (look at the time he posted it!) And that news is barely out in the open (from K-ON's Let's GO concert on the 30th!) So soon after the concert! Michael must be trawling the net 24/7!