Jan/0915
Nijuu-Mensou no FFFFFFFFF
I was forced to watch yet another episode of the story of Hirano Aya still not being able to voiceact properly in an anime about a boring girl. Episode 21 felt like an ending to the show, FINALLY, yet there's an episode 22. I don't even... this show has again and again frustrated me with how it was damned cool with a really cool concept from the first few, is it five episodes? And then they just killed the cool crew Chiko hang out with. And the whole concept of a gang of thieves doing ridiculous thefts like in say - Ocean's Eleven - just vanished, and Chiko met up with all kinds of fucked up characters and especially that goddamned annoying maid and COITUS SHUNKA. Akechi was cool though. But I hated that fake detective with my every being and you were supposed to feel for this guy and sister complex.
And then it just went down the drain, really. Characters modifying their bodies, a mecha woman lusting for OJISAN, some other weirdo that looked just like the mecha woman lusting for OJISAN and those fucking kids and then the doc has molded himself into OJISAN? Topple all that with that song Hirano Aya so wonderfully fails at singing and then they're making Ion Cannns and I don't know anymore. I can't wait for episode 22 so I can finally say I managed to watch through this show and that I can rate it so low that I will forget it existed and announce how it managed to be worse than Evangelion. And from my point of few, that is a seriously major feat - and Evangelion doesn't even have Hirano Aya!
Dec/0819
Maikaze Touhou Anime Seiyuu list?!
Wait, what? Touhou anime? This was completely unknown to me till it came up in a channel on IRC I will not name, but I will link to our fabulous member rk who told us about it while we frenzied on 2chan to find the names.
Maikaze "Touhou Anime Project; Musou Kakyou" (舞風「東方アニメプロジェクト・夢想夏郷」), is the title, and Musou Kakyou roughly translates to Visionary Summer District. It's gonna be on sale at Comiket 75, apparently with soundtracks, high-quality prints and postcard sets coming with it's limited edition, price will tentatively be 2800 yen during the event. Also, there's going to be the ability to get a reproduced script that's been signed by the awesome seiyuu list. The doujin group will be located at West hall 2, on day 2 (12/29), section あ (hiragana A) block 41A.
The list is as follows:
Hakurei Reimu: Nakahara Mai
Kirisame Marisa: Sawashiro Miyuki
Shameimaru Aya: Fujimura Ayumi
Patchouli Knowledge: Takahashi Mikako
Izayoi Sakuya: Tanaka Rie
Remilia Scarlet: Tsuji Ayumi
Ibuki Suika: Toyosaki Aki
Narration: Inoue Kikuko
I'm so excited if this shit is happening, since holy shit this cast list is insane. I'm not too happy about Reimu, but jesus christ Suika, Remi, Sakuya, Patchouli, Aya, all of them! GENIUS!
Nov/0822
Toradora sidecharacters: who are they?
People have been asking me, who are these "Nanako" and "Haruta" etc that I talk about when I blog? I am of course talking about the many side-characters with no real stories on them yet, that are getting love in the novels we've yet to see. I thought I'd introduce them to you with the slight knowledge I have of them.
Oct/086
Toradora OP & ED; kara kara mawaru~
ilifin during full Pre-Parade
Both singles released on the same day means I have to update both OP and ED for the coming episode. And of course enjoy the music too, I had hoped. The Pre-parade full song wasn't all that, I like the anime cut better. Vanilla Salt I never liked in the first place either. BUT! On the OP single there's this song Karakuri that is freaking awesome and has been on repeat for a while here now.
Overall impression is that Horie can sing on her own, but her songs bore me. The combination of Kitamura, Kugimiya and Horie work out as long as they're vocoded. How weird's that?
OP had to be only slightly changed because of some mishearing of... 3 syllables I think? inb4 they change verses on the OP so we have to modify even more.
Back to the ED tho, this was more of a pain. Not too much changed here either, and there's dumb japanese going on which had one of the other TLs ripping at his hair. But of all these things... there's one line.
We've had "vanilla salt de, vanilla". Turns out this is so wrong, the pamphlet reveals "vanilla salt de, BURNING LOVE". If you were to say BURNING LOVE japanese pronunciation style, it'd be ba-nin rabu. Horie says this exceptionally fast, making the difference between ba-nira and ba-nin rabu next to nothing.
EDIT: I forgot to mention how much I raged about this. This song is making less and less sense now:
ilifin during Vanilla Salt, you can't put a smile on this face
Oct/0819
Toradora episode 2 translation notes
Toradora episode 2 has proven that J.C.Staff are able to properly channel the works of Yuyuko Takemiya. Or well, somewhat, since they heavily rush through the original content. But, we didn't want to spam the episode with text, so here's me trying to explain some of the more peculiar things you'll find in the episode.
Jul/081
Kugimiya for Toradora?
MoonPhase seems to have received a mail listing up 4 of the main cast for the upcoming Toradora! anime. While they doubt the credibility of the mail, there is arguably proof of these rumors being true, since the next issue of Dengeki Daioh is going to have a collaboration of the manga-adaption of the Toradora light novels and Shakugan no Shana. Looking at the fact that Kugimiya voices the main character of the Shakugan no Shana anime, this might be the leading trail to this. We might get some even angrier (than Shana and Louise combined) Kugimiya as Taiga, even though there is buzzing on 2ch about it being Tamura Yukari. Cast after the jump.
