More Shokotan antics!

Shoko-bruce! (Haha this word rhymes with Shokubutsu!)

SHOKO - SHINY GATE - ( MOE! )

Shoko-Heya

Are cats delicious?

Filming Shoko-Bruce!

One of Shoko's most famous song, which catapulted her to fame! Sora-iro days MV

Nakagawa Shoko

With upcoming AFA'09, I guess it's nice to dig up find out more about the performing artistes. Whoa! She looked like Felicia Chin in this video! (Video on Felicia)

Watch this at your own risk though!

hahahaha Before she left the store: "Thank u KURIRIN!" LOL!

Nice MTV!

Sugoi! Shoko! Sasuga Otaku! 5 vs 1 mo らくしょう! 03:04 (Shokotan たいしたことねね!) LOL!

Latest Shippuden episode!

The fight's awesome!

AFA Tickets!

Muhmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm- 手に入れた...... Chikara dewa naku, sono チケット no da! うらやましい daro, omae-tachi. Muhmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm Kira-kira! Tickets wa!

Annual "most moe character" goes to...

Taiga!

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Sob.. Sob.. Yui maketa! Sonna! Nevertheless, it is a close match...1332 - 1278 votes Anime Saimoe Tournament Wiki | An english unofficial site Now what would Taiga have said when she won this award?

All your base are belong to us!

Anybody knows the origins of the phrase 'All your base are belong to us"? haha now I know. Read this article and have a good laugh!

Anime Fall 09

A picture speaks a thousand words.. Instead of lists, lists and endless lists of anticipated upcoming titles, an artist/blogger chartfag has compiled/categorised the anime of different seasons into very beautifully-graphically-arranged charts for our viewing pleasure! Have got to visit his/her site!

So back to what u all are waiting for!         Fall 09 - Anime titles

Bleach 3rd Movie - Fade to Black - Kimi no Na o Yobu

I push the rock aside, ahhhh I've not seen the sun for so long now! (pun) I didn't know BLEACH 3rd movie is out! And its a year ago! Crap. The story looks good, well having everyone losing all memories of Ichigo means Ichigo gets to fight everyone - all the captains again! Hoo hoo! It is another great anime plagued with fillers. Yes fillers are a disease. They spread within the most popular/epic shows. The production studios all too often fell prey, to this simple (and wrong) way of prolonging an anime, while slowing its tempo for the manga. It is the stupidest idea ever. PPL should take a leaf from Gundam 00. I don't know the real reasons of it spliting into 2 seasons, but the spliting is very nicely executed. First, it keeps the fans anticipating, it could generate more buzz. I would rather wait than to have crappy storylines and fights. That said, Shippuden is getting everyone fired up! It has taken a novel approach of 'inserting little fillers' by slightly altering the storyline. (wahaha Jiraiya arc!) What we get, manga fans don't get too bored, now with a little twist from the original storyline. It has pros and cons, as with everything. It may be shunned by the 'purists'. But overall, its a good step in the right direction. NOT ENTIRE FILLER SEASONS! ( But in fact, I get turned off with just ONE episode of filler! ) We are at the famed fight of the show! Jiraiya vs PAIN! SENNIN MOD-DO! WOOOHOOO! Shippuden Anime made lots of minor changes to the fights. A bit prolonged, but still acceptable. Who knows, they might even scrapped away Jiraiya's death!(OK, thats a bit impossible..) Watch Naruto Shippuden at crunchyroll !

Yesterday is moe day??

Yesterday is moe day?? Seems like it! Almost all the sites I surf concur! Origins of Moe day Other sites: Bonkurasu    |    Alafista    |    Moe-side.net

ANI-SON

Disclaimer: Ani-son lovers might have a rude shock when reading the article. If you have heart disease or exhibit inability to control excessive impulsive behaviour, please do not continue reading this article. But boo! You can't get me in any case! I really loved ani-sons, so I have to write an article bout it! ( actually I have been composing this article for a very, very long time now, like 6 months on and off??!? been dragging my feet on it ) At least once, everybody would sit down, think of why they absolutely loved someone; some thing or their own hobby/hobbies.

K-ON is the latest anison sensation! The identity: I used to look for the 'anime' songs genre on the internet. To my lol, 'ani-son' isn't a genre at all! That was a little silly :) There are jazz, country, blues, electronic, rap, pop j-songs.. Saying Anime has different genres is ehh a little..... So what makes an anison so much different from a japanese song or any other song? The answer: There are no difference. Anison is just another j-song : ) Before u all beat me up, I will explain my answer: It is complicated, even after thinking bout it for a few years, I still can't completely comprehend this whole thing...but here goes..

Anime-House-Project The fusion of the anime and song: A song without a video is like a soul without a body, the essence is there, it is just lacking something to give the whole experience a form, of its own, something that we can visualise. An anime opening n closing sequence can make or break a series. [citation needed] In the beginning, I used to think one of the reasons why most of the anime sequences are great songs is because they would of course pick the best, if not the better songs for the op/closing videos. They are also of course exceptions, where I find the whole thing sucks, but like art, it is about perspective, personal likes n dislikes.. The union of video and song is perfect[citation needed] (most of the times). There are Animes that I wanted to stop watching. What kept me faithful to the series are the opening and ending themes themselves! To say they have a certain effect on the success of the anime is not an overstatement. First impressions has never been so important. That said, there are also Anime opening/closings that totally spolit the songs! (should I give examples? muhehehe) An beautifully made anime sequence can make a normal song sounds terrific?!? Or are we just getting used to it (OMG what do I mean!)? And we delves into human behaviour/habits. wiki-link A new series comes along and you are watching the first episode, wow a new opening! You find it is ok, don't quite know the characters in the opening sequence. Then as the episodes goes by, you will make sense of the opening, you could relate the characters, know the lyrics(the meaning and how to sing them). All these sounds familiar? Then after repeated times of looping the new downloaded anison on your computer, you find the tune more likeable, catch-ier, and starts picking up words from the song. What am I trying to drive at?

Mikuni '06 anime album 「Remember～青春アニソンハウスアルバム～」. Mikuni (wiki) is into remixing too? Shiranakatta! The startling truth: Back to the statement earlier, "Anison is just another j-song : )". As much as I don want to admit it, it is the truth. We are only getting accustomed to it! The additon of the video merely boost it, but it does addd another dimension to the whole experience! Any song can be a hit (ok not just any song..), if done beautifully into an anime opening/closing sequence. Still have doubts? Lets do an experiment. We are all not almighty, there are always some animes we have not started watching or have not watch. Now pick one with very good review (good review on overall series, not just the song). Now get hold of the opening song, and of course listen to it. After a few days, go watch the anime. It is a whole hell of a difference when you get to know the song before u listened to it on the anime. Even I have not got over what I have realised. But all these, have not diminished even a bit of my fondness of ANISON and Anime! still my "best-to" hobby! Open to comments!

336 songs! Can you beat that!

I wanted a 'formal' explanation of 'ani-son', I entered ani-son onto google, and expected wiki-entries. Instead I found this,

http://www.anisoncentral.com/ Wow every year, on her (I presume) birthday, she went on her ani-son marathon! Each year out-singing the record of the previous! This year she sang 336! But all the songs 'si-bei' old school sia, haha. (and now she sing only one verse as opposed to the whole song in the past, still you must hand it to her for knowing so many songs in the head.) Singapore also has CyberDam systems. It has probably the most extensive library of titles, but items on my wish list - better song quality and more 'relevant' videos. Gotta brush up reading furigana! (then again, maybe not, I am too lazy for that :) After meddling with wikipedia, finally found the entry though. Anison

The NEWS OF THE MONTH! AFA09 getting K-ON seiyuus

Latest updates! The additional of K-ON seiyuus sure make this a 'must-see'! Chat session, and they be dubbing a scene from the anime. Wow fun! Will they add more to the list? Muhehehehe. もっと , もっと .

Everybody is drooling about it!

Tickets fly off on 19Oct. Who ever fights with me for a ticket, KOROSU-zo!

Macross F Theatrical Film x 2

A lot of anime series have this 'condensed' version of the series in a form of a movie. Here's Macross Frontier's. Titled 'Gekijō-ban Macross Frontier ~Itsuwari no Utahime~', it opens in Japan 21 nov. ( Very near to AFA09! so MF fans have to choose to see May'n or watch the show! Or they will have to learn kage-bunshin :) ) Itsuwari no Utahime - who are they referring to? Both are true songstress to me! The second movie film however, has a new story! A new arc? Sequeal? Pre-queal? No news yet! See the article.

Funny videos

Luigi finally snaps!
We didn't start the flame wars!

The 2 videos here are a series of videos produced. Click on the youtube playlists for more!