Sunrise is Sunrise is Sunrise (Update)

I mentioned in my one death is never enough post, that Sunrise is known to kill off characters to bring them back later. And I EVEN mentioned that I doubted Nunnally had really been killed off for good. Well at 20:27 of the GG subs for ep 21 of Code Geass: R2 it is reveled that they found Nunnally.  >_> Sunrise, you’ve ruined awesome deaths for me, forever.

(Update) So some people suggest that the comment of finding Nunnally might have been aimed at the 1 year gap between the two seasons when they found her in Japan. I’ll admit, it’s a possibility that’s what was meant.

Eternal Sonata First Impressions

At the 4.5 hour mark I have decided that ES is the simple-man’s RPG, stats aren’t important(there isn’t even MP), combat isn’t insanely complex. I mean there isn’t even inn’s or anything that you have to heal at, I’ve never seen, used or needed any kind of healing place like that, the potions the game hands out like candy is MORE then enough. I mean REALLY more then enough. The money you can make extremely easily, Mixed with the fact that you don’t need to buy much…… Lvling up comes often and increase your health noticeably again adding into the never needing to heal. But it’s fun, and looks amazing(AMAZING!!!!), the music is really good as well.   So ya, It’s not like any RPG I’ve played before, ^_^ But I like it.

One Death is NEVER Enough

What really triggered this for me was ep 7 of Zero no Tsukaima S3. While Season 3 has many things going for it, See pic below.

Anime Stuck in Limbo

After reading about the rumors that Vandread might be getting the rumored sequel, I started thinking about other shows. More specifically shows that have been announced once, and then just disappeared off the face of the planet.

Tales of Symphonia

I finally finished not only the Tales of Symphonia game for the GameCube (played on my Wii since I never owned a GC), but I also watched the OVAs for the show. And I have a few things to say about each. Mostly about the game, but a bit about the OVA.

Also since this post actually broke the 1000 word mark I’m going to try out what I believe to be a page break function. I’m also trying out the Publish on specific date/time feature, but that’s just for fun.

Lucky Star OVA News

While the trailer itself is no where near the awesome of the ones for the original show. The REAL gold for this is on the official japanese site for it. They have some great pictures of the girls cosplaying. And I can’t pass that up.

Check Out: The Daughter of Twenty Faces

This is that section that I mentioned in my previous post. The idea, to show off a show from the current season or maybe a show from the past that I’m currently watching that isn’t already being blogged by everyone else. (So you’ll never see me mention Code Geass, Macross F or anything else that everyone is already blogging about in this section.)

"My job is taking treasure away from the pigs."

Starting out I thought it appropriate to mention my current favorite show from this season. “The Daughter of Twenty Faces” also known as Nijuu Mensou no Musume. Is produced by Bones, so great animation is a given. The Twenty Faces character is based off of Edogawa Ranpo’s literary anti-hero. And in this version shows up as being much in the same style as Lupin the third if you will. But as the title suggests the story is not about Twenty Faces himself, but of his daughter.

Chizuko (voiced by Hirano, Aya) is an intelligent young girl who is currently in the care of her aunt after her rich parents died. The aunt has been slowly poisoning her food to kill her off without suspicion and inherit the fortune herself.  After hearing about the daring adventures and life of Twenty Faces, Chizuko wishes she too could live such an amazing life. And as the plot would dictate he shows up to save her from her aunt whisking her away to learn the joys of stealing precious art and running away from police. And it’s more then enjoyable watching.

Careful dissection of the OP can lead us to believe that Chizuko and Twenty Faces will be separated once she learns her new father’s trade. The ED animation appears to be there for the Hirano, Aya fans. And the setting of an Alternate Shōwa period for the show fits perfectly for the adventures of a master thief.

As I mentioned near the top, this is currently my favorite show from this season. The writing, animation, and characters make this show incredibly enjoyable to watch. And I can’t help but love this show. I really don’t want to give too much away, and can’t recommend it to be watched enough.

"In order to survive, what's important is to watch, listen, and think carefully."

Dennō Coil

So to kick off my first week with a neat new blog site, I thought I’d start out with something worth talking about. Denno Coil (also known as Coil – A Circle of Children).

“The Hacker”

In the future, glasses have given the world the ability to practically live IN the internet. Or more precisely display a digital overlay onto the world. But in Daikoku City, the technological center of this megane filled world, something is amiss. A mysterious entity known as the Illegal are causing havoc in the city, what caused these strange creatures and why do they exist?

The show itself revolves around a group of grade school children as they find themselves in the middle of this mystery. They start out simple enough, trying to save their digital pets that have gone missing or have been infected by the Illegals. All the while having to run away from the city’s overzealous Anti-virus program, AKA Sacchi, before it destroys their infected pet or even worse corrupt their megane. Eventually leading to trying to figure out the mystery of the Illegal, special treasures, rumors of a net entity that will grant you any wish, and what happened four years ago.

Probably the #1 thing this show will be remembered for is all the running. Every time the Illegal show up, running, every time Sacchi shows up, running, every time they are late for school….. well you get the idea. These children could put those Olympic runners to shame with their mad skillz. And I have to admit the animations for running never felt annoying, unlike others…….

Spam Attack

The glasses themselves are a neat idea. For within the augmented reality these children have instantaneous access to all forms of the internet, cellphones, virtual pets, and best of all war games. The only problem I saw with these glasses is the lack of privacy, how are we supposed to view our NSFW pictures if everyone around us can see exactly what we are looking at.

Another thing that’s note worthy about the show is the pacing. Many gave up on the show while it was broadcasting due to this slow pacing. Personally the pacing reminded me of Serial Experiments Lain…. in fact there were a number of things about the show that reminded me of both Lain and .hack://Sign. But I’m one of those people that loved both those shows so the pacing did not effect me much. As far as slower paced shows go this one is very well done. It never looses sight of where it’s going and everything that happens, happens for a reason.

Fishing for Illegals

Denno Coil is a good show, and I really recommend giving it a try. If the pacing doesn’t kill you, you’ll end up loving this show.

Turn Over A New Leaf (Updated)

So, now that I have this fancy new site that I’m playing around with. And still more hours of just surfing the internet doing nothing then any human should ever do without anything productive coming from it. I have decided that I should try something new for this site.

The idea, do something consistent. Usually every other week or so I suddenly remembered, “Hey, I should post stuff to my Anime Blog” And then I would post 2-3 things over the span of 24 hours, forgetting about the site until the next time. I think it would be productive to start doing something at the very least 1 consistent post a week. By consistent I mean a post along a similar theme…… And thinking about my history with anime the best idea I’ve had so far for this idea is that I should make a weekly post about one of the random anime I watch and or am watching that the larger blogs I read don’t mention much.  And the idea would be that on top of this weekly post I would do more usual stuff.

Episodic posts have never really been my style, but intros to new seasons, ends of seasons, and basic reviews of shows I’ve completed are fun to do so I’ll try to focus on these for now.

*Update: So after thinking about it I realized that when I started talking about a show that I’m currently watching I’d start setting it up to be reviewed and that wasn’t the point of this. And I’d feel weird just picking the latest ep and talking about that. So currently I’m thinking that I’ll do a first impressions sort of thing. Show some pics from early on, and say if it’s worth watching or not.  We’ll see how that idea goes.

Hello Za Worldo! (updated)

Look at that I made a WordPress. Lets see if this thing works better then my try at using LJ…….

*update: So I tried importing the last month of stuff from my LJ, some of it came in better then I expected, the pictures on the other hand appear to be hit and miss. The size I was using for LJ is not good for the setup I have here…. not right now at least. So I’m going to try to fix that and then move on with playing around with things.