Tuesday Tally Months October to November

2 months behind is better than 6! Anyway lots of anime consumed here so I'll get to it.

October was a busy month as I really started to get my goals list finished off. I dunno why I wait till the last minute for everything, yes even anime watching apparently, but I got a lot watched. I guess it helped that my wrist was injured during this month and I had nothing better to do than just sit and actually watch anime. Most was rather meh but there were a few that stood out from the rest. I also think this list is a little short because of the wrist too (lol contradiction) but I watched a shit load of hockey during October too and when I'm watching hockey I ONLY watch hockey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October

• Piano - Snore fest to the max. The main characters hair was one of the worst styled hair I've ever seen in all of anime. I wouldn't recommend watching this unless you are a huge fan of the piano or slow paced anime.
• Narue no Sekai - This ended up kinda like Onegai Teacher in my eyes but instead of the alien being an "adult" she's a teenager. So because of that it was much more boring for me. Kids and aliens falling in love in a school setting... Blehhhh
• Neo Ranga - Is probably the most fun I had watching an anime this month. It was super campy at first then it turns into something that really made me think of Evangelion. The little sister of the three sisters is the best character of the show easily. Episode 40 onward it gets really awesome and had me hooked to my computer screen till it was over. I also really like short episode series for some reason since these ones were about 10 minutes long.
• The Big O - Super classy and very batman cartoon like. I dare anyone having watched both to not think that. Dorothy is fucking awesome and definitely my favourite character in the show. The first OP was weird as hell but awesome where the second OP was not so awesome at all. The 2nd part of the series really takes you for a loop. TOMATOES as A Day Without Me put it.
• Daughter of Twenty Faces - Has a great first half then it sorta goes downhill. Still interesting in the end but not as awesome as the first episodes at all. Episode 6 pretty much murders everyone which was quite shocking to see so early in a series. It was rather awesome actually. I was upset that there was a really crappy filler episode for the final episode of the series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Ninja Scroll TV - WOW is it ever bad. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece like the movie was (in my eyes) but I really had no idea that it would be this bad even though I have heard nothing good from those who have watched it before I did. The main character is the only good thing about it because I think it's impossible not to make him awesome even if everything else around him is complete shit. The music in the show does not fit at all (even though it was awesome music) and was just laughable half the time. It's like someone was like "Hey I like this song! Put it in the show even if it doesn't fit the scene at all!" oi
• Petite Princess Yucie -Girly and slice of lifey with some really dark undertones that pop up now and then. The meh ending was a let down but I didn't expect them to actually go through with what should have happened even though it comes from Gainax.
• xxxHolic ALL - Great looking, fun stories, and Yuuko is simply amazing and super pretty. The 2 boys, Watanuki  and Doumeki are clearly VERY tsundere for each other and I'm sure there's plenty of fan art on the internet of them making out. Like Caraniel said to me over twitter I would surely enjoy to have a wardrobe as glamorous as Yuuko's.
• Requiem From The Darkness - This was an arty, episodic horror show. Very enjoyable if you enjoy that sort of thing.
• Human Crossing - Urg this was so boring and it doesn't help that it was episodic real human stories. The only thing it has going for it was that it actually had a good last episode where the rest I really didn't enjoy sitting through very much.

OVA/MOVIE

• Ah! My Goddess - Together, Forever - Boring first episode but the 2nd one made up for it because of the girls in swimsuits.
• One Piece 3D - Fucking awesome~
• Space Neko Theater - Man do I ever like cats and people who make strange shorts about them. A cat space suit is just awesome!
• Sorette Dakara ne! - Very shitty and very glad it was only 8 minutes.
• Aoyama Goushou Tanpenshuu - This was a really fun ova from the creators of Conan. It's like they made this first to work out some kinks that they fixed up when they started production on Conan. The last episode with the voice actors was really cute to watch.
• Deadman Wonderland - meh
• Thumbelina - "When you are sick you go and see a doctor, when there's something REALLY wrong you go and see a witch." Damn that's been my issue all along with my health I suppose! There's this blue thing that has hair like Lisa Simpson that scares the crap out of me that was in this too... I wouldn't recommend wasting your time watching this.
• Oishinbo: Nichibei Kome Sensou - Political RICE!
• Oishinbo: 2 - Make some food to make people live longer! I really wish the series for these 2 movies was avaliable in English.
• Lupin Special 1-4 - All were fun but #4 was my favourite because of RASPUTIN!
• Macross Frontier Movie 2 - Just as awesome as movie 1 maybe even more so. I'll have to watch it again just because I <3 Macross.
• Detective Conan Movie 15 - Conan is having some fun in the snow. The movie featured some hilarious skateboarding/snowboarding. I like that they made a reference to diamond dust. This is the longest Conan movie to date and was definitely one of the best.
• xxxHolic Movie - Fun short story. Loved the food and the art was interesting like the rest of the series.

When November rolled around  I started to panic a little again because I was still quite behind on all the titles I wish to have complete before the year is out. I gotta say I did pretty good at finishing off most. I have 2 more titles to watch off that list but I think they'll wait till after the December flurry of posts that are coming up. (More on this in a post scheduled for December 1st) I did however end up reading a lot of manga, One Shots to be exact since I read like 60+ of them. But I also made myself read a longer manga too by the name of Cat Street. I wish I had good things to say about it but I really dislike most shoujo manga and it doesn't help that it was about an actress. I can't relate with someone who acts and complains about being awesome at something and gets paid a lot of money to do it. Fuck that. -.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 November

• Darker Than Black ALL - S1 was very good. A tiny bit too episodic for the type of thing it was trying to do but it still worked. I really loved all of the amazing characters. I started watching S2 right after S1 but Scamp was all like NOOO watch the OVA next since it happens before S2. Glad he mentioned that to me so I wasn't as lost with what was happening in S2 after watching the OVA which has great violence, bloodshed, and a very interesting main bad guy. The music for all the shows were awesome. S2 really made the music shine for me. It also made me love Hei more than I already did from S1. (Hei without a mask is the best Hei) He really reminded me of when Sousuke from FMP Second Raid was all depressed  but Hei actually took to the bottle unlike Sousuke. I really didn't like the chick with her twin that was introduced in S2. I found everything about her boring and the end just kinda leaves you wanting more or at least should have take another episode to not rush things to finish up. Her magical girl contract for calling out her gun was also another quite annoying thing about her.
• Shuffle ALL -SHIT. I will however give one credit to it. In the end he did choose a chick! Not many harem shows do this.
• Genshiken ALL - HILARIOUS! S2 surprised me with a lot of things I didn't think they would venture into. This show is definitely best watched after one has consumed a lot of anime and engrossed themselves in otaku culture. I think that if I watched this way back in 2004 it would have been lost on me.
• Kujibiki Unbalance - Unlike Genshiken that was awesome this was oh so terrible. I'm not sure how this even got made honestly but now I know that the Genshiken group was obsessed with a pretty shitty anime. LOL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• GTO - Onizuka is the most hilarious teacher ever. His students were all annoying little brats though and made it hard to sit through a lot of the episodes where they were front and center. Having seen the OVA of when Onizuka was a young delinquent first made viewing this extra special.
• Read Or Die - I went into this expecting AWESOME. The first half of the show blew huge chunks and made me hate the 3 sisters right away. From episode 14 onward though things came around and got much better. But because of the sisters I still couldn't stand it very much. It was worth watching but ended up not living up to my expectations I had from the OVA.
• Ergo Proxy episode 1 - I tried hard to keep going but I keep getting this really bad Witch Hunter Robin feel to it because of the lead chick... I will complete this but it just may take a while longer... The world interests me but if that's all there is to it I don't think I'll have a good overall impression of the series.
• Maze - I was honestly expecting something not so great but this might not even be watchable for most people. Maze is what happens when you have an idea for a hentai title with a "plot" but can't add in any of the sex. So all you are left with is a shitty plot, characters, and very out of place sexual tension. The OP was good though... but holy shit was that OVA for it ever... something... hello nudity at every turn!
• Le Chevalier D'Eon - This oddly ended up being nothing like I was expecting it to be. It has a very supernatural feel to it that is very interesting. I hate how slow paced it is though. Even when amazing sword battles are going on and great action it still feels like the show is inching along. I really enjoyed how it ended.
• Allison & Lillia - Really reminded me of Last Exile but slower and not as awesome plot, animation, and character wise.
• Neuro - This was a great anime that was full of quirky amazing characters. I really liked the episodic stories aproach but it did have one main plot that they visited often enough so we wouldn't forget about it. I found it to be very much like Ghost Hunt in that it had an awesome male lead with a sucky female that just happens to be with him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOVIE/OVA

• Fafner - Meh it was alright.
• Tekken - LOL!!!
• Lupin Special 5-11 - Not much to say here honestly. All the Lupin films after a while start to blend together as one. The only thing that changes is what treasure they are after. I did really like Special 9 (A poison spider tattoo that made them stuck on an island) and 11 (really good action and sexy scenes) though.

So yeah, that's it! Quite a lot. XD

365 Days of Anime Characters 300 Done! Oh Hey! One Year of Blogging Complete!

So the last time I did a progress report on this was when I hit 100 characters with that silly girl Nagisa. There has been plenty of ups and downs with this little project of mine but it has always remained fun. This time after 300 characters with that awesome manly man Toriko, I figured it was time to give some more thoughts and progress on what has been happening with this project. Things are the same comment wise with the characters but there's always a good 300+ (haha) people viewing each day now which I find pretty amazing. To think I was excited at the beginning when 100 people would view these posts XD

I still never wrote a bunch up in advance to post up so I'm still doing these each and every day. They are still very random as well. Generally goes in par with that I've watched recently or what I've noticed others chirping about on twitter. After spring and summer anime finished airing I'd do a character from every show that ended as soon as possible. I went through all the Macross titles and a lot of Gundam ones so far and I'd be sure to post a favourite or hated character from each show in their franchise after viewing. To be honest though, all my macross characters are love. <3

I decided to try character theme weeks, in which I would pick something random and find anime that meet these demands. The first one I did was anime music videos, which were official ones done and released by anime companies. I kicked it off with Clamp and ended it with Daft Punk. I got 2 comments on the Clamp post a whole month later and no comments on the rest. I almost didn't want to do another themed week again after that but ended up doing 3 more. Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs week where I actually wrote 3 of these posts in advance because I took a trip down to Boston. This is the only time I wrote any posts in advance so far. Then I did anime made from RPG's and VN's followed right afterwards. VN week was fun because I got to show case some Key hate. I love hating on Key Although to be fair I did talk about the ONE Key character that I actually do "like" from the one Key anime I can tolerate. This one is funny to me because most people considered it to be the worst one of all their works. Guess I just LOVE being different from the group!

Keeping along with themes I did some nice posts for Mother's Day and Father's Day picking out the best anime characters that represent mom's and dad's to me. Even though I had already done a character from Hetalia back when it was the Chinese New Year, I couldn't just not have some Hetalia characters for good old Canada Day and Independence Day for the Americans. Hetalia is the only show I have repeated characters from but I think national holidays were a good cause to do so. I'm kind of shocked that no one really mentioned that I repeated a series XD and I'm a little sad that no one wished me a Happy Canada Day since I'm Canadian

The lack of wishing someone a Happy [whatever] Day doesn't just stop at national holidays though. I had 2 guest posts on each of these guys special days. That's right Birthday posts! I got 2 birthday wishes on my Anime Birthday post and my boyfriend got one on his post. I'm sad to say that my other guest post got no comments at all.

Lately I've been on an obscure anime roll because I just came off watching a lot of older movies and ova's I hadn't gotten around to. I like doing things that aren't so popular because if I can make just one person take an interest in any show, I feel that this project has been a success.

If anyone has a request for one of the last 65 spots to be a certain character, please leave a comment and hopefully I'll be able to do it. The only restrictions I have on this is the character can't be from an anime I have already done and I have to have actually seen the anime myself. If I haven't seen an anime for a character you would like to request tell me about it in your comment and if it isn't too long I'll watch it and do your character! (har har har)

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed this progress report. I'm still debating if I want to continue doing these posts again next year. I'll see how I feel closer to the end in December.

Oh yeah! Here's to one year of blogging anime and many more to come I'm sure ^___^ I hope to start doing more fun projects in the future and actually start pumping out those strange opinion posts I have kicking around. I hope my readers keep going up and up

The Beginning of the 365 Days of Anime Characters 2010

365 Days of Anime Characters 100+ Done

365 Days of Anime Characters 2010

With over 100 done so far I didn't expect this to turn out as well as it has. (At least I think it's going well) It's been a lot of fun so far and it's always been interesting to see which characters get comments and which ones don't. Obviously the more popular the character is the more interest they will have. But surprisingly a lot of rare characters have been getting comments when I thought they would get none.

In the beginning I was going to write a whole bunch up and just post each one day by day. That never happened and I find myself writing these up each day. It hasn't been too difficult to do this unless I was out of town, but I still managed to do the posts even when I have not been at my computer. When possible I take my own screen shots of the character and use those because I don't like most of the ones that turn up for some characters on say google search and whatnot. It's nice to be a little unique. Each day I generally have no idea which character I will do and pick it at random. Sometimes I chat with people and ask them what characters they would like me to do/see.

The only character that came remotely close to not being posted on its day it was suppose to be was Sailor Mercury's. I was just getting back from Boston after some New Year's celebrations and we were a little behind because of a snow storm. So I wrote that entire post up in 10 minutes with 1 to spare before the day changed. I can't believe I got my images ready in that time because generally those take me the longest to do as I'm a little picky at times.

I've already done my favourite character of all time, Yang, on my birthday because I thought it was fitting to do someone I really loved on that day. My most hated character of all time, Nagisa, I did too. I choose day 100 just because I thought that having done 100 characters was a little special and I needed to mark it with a memorable character. Shinmaru made the most memorable comment on her post of all the character posts I have done.

If any readers out there have suggestions of which characters they would like to see done, please leave a comment and hopefully I'll get around to them. The only restrictions I have on this is the character can't be from an anime I have already done and I have to have actually seen the anime myself.

Thank you for reading these posts. I know sometimes they aren't all that special and can be well a little boring. But I try to entertain as much as possible. I'm still kinda new at this blogging thing after all.

The Beginning of the 365 Days of Anime Characters 2010

2 Days out of 4 of my Anime-Planet Christmas Marathon

So I started a little marathon event for Christmas on Anime-Planet where members get together and choose from the list provided and try to out watch each other within the 4 days. I choose the following from the festive list:

1. Itsudatte My Santa!
2. Princess Tutu
3. A Little Snow Fairy Sugar
4. Cooking Master Boy
5. Popotan

I have finished all but Cooking Master Boy as I plan on starting that later with my bf when he gets home.

Itsudatte My Santa! - .5/5 DO NOT WATCH!!! I can't express that enough... It was so bad. I thought it was just going to be a lame story about a boy who hated Christmas because his parents were never around and they had the balls to name him Santa because he was born on the 25th. What I got was a terrible boring story along those lines but it had a super annoying chick in it that was painful to not only look at but to listen to as well. Then they made a second episode that had NOTHING to do with the first one..... *sigh*

Princess Tutu - 2/5 I can see how this anime would appeal to some people but I found it dry and boring. It had great potential but it just didn't turn out well. Generally I love weird twisted stories about fairy tales but Princess Tutu took the fun out of it by being too serious for it's own good when everything surrounding it was so absurdly awkward and quirky. I will say that the animation was lovely to see. It was outside of the normal way of anime animation and it was a nice change. The classical music soundtrack as well. I think if it wasn't for the music I wouldn't have made it through this anime... although the music might have added to the sleepy effect I had while watching.

A Little Snow Fairy Sugar - 2/5 Watching this right after Princess Tutu probably wasn't the best of choices but I did it anyway. Surprisingly it went by much faster than Tutu did. This anime was about fairies that are training to become a certain kind of fairy. Sun, wind, snow and so on. They train in the human world and they meet Saga who can for some reason see them. They have to plant seeds and then find a"twinkle" to make them bloom... yeah it was that exciting. But for a true moe experience this show was right up there. My oddest complaint about this series was that Saga took a LOT of baths. For something that was so innocent it almost seemed like they were trying hard to make it a fanservice of some sort. But then again maybe that's just me. There were at least 10 bath scenes in a 24 episode show about fairies and innocence. I certainly hope there are no weird creepy otaku out there that would fap to such a cute show... I hope.

Popotan - 2/5 Ecchi, ecchi, ecchi... For a while at least. Then suddenly out of no where it turns super serious. WTF and then just ends... There isn't much more to say about this... It oddly had a Christmas feel to it but that only was because it was about a house that was a Christmas shop too, that transported around from place to place...

Lets just say after all that mediocre stuff I hope Cooking Master Boy will be awesome.

Fall 2009 First Impressions

I've decided to watch everything since fall tends to be the best season to see awesome stuff in the anime world so I've noticed. Here's what I've watched so far and a small blurb on my first feelings of each series. I'm slowly catching up with everything so some stuff is missing as I haven't gotten around to them yet.

11eyes (based on 1 ep)

It's ok so far. It caught my attention. A tad cliche but whatever. If it proves to go somewhere interesting it could be good.

Aoi Bungaku (based on 1 ep)

This series interests me. I still have no idea what it's about or anything like that but it looks very promising.

Asura Cryin' 2 (based on 2 eps)

Meh I didn't overly enjoy S1 and S2 is proving to be nothing special as well.

Fairy Tail (based on 1 ep)

Very fun. Will be interested to see where it will go. I like the characters a lot.

Inuyasha: The Final Act (based on 3 eps)

It's moving along a hell of a lot faster plot wise than the first series ever did. Good to see fans of the show finally getting an ending.

Kampfer (based on 3 eps)

This show is shit. I should drop it.... We'll see...

Kimi ni Todoke (based on 2 eps)

I've found a mushy school/drama/romance show that i like! shocking! About time for another one to shine through the crap.

Kobato (based on 2 eps)

Bleh I don't get it..... Although seeing the Wish bunny at the halfway point makes me smile. CLAMP is quite interesting with their character cameo's.

Kuchu Buranko/Trapeze (based on 1 ep)

WTFWTFWTFWTFWTF?!?!?! No it's not the weird art that bothers me... I'm generally all for artsy farsty shit but this show... I don't even know what the hell it's about. I just felt like they were shoving odd visuals/characters down my throat for 20 mins...

Letter Bee (based on 2 eps)

SO PRETTY!!! The plot is pretty decent too. I saw the ova to this a year or so ago and wondered when they were going to make an actual series to it. glad I didn't have to wait long.

Nyan Koi! (based on 3 eps)

Guilty pleasure anime of the season so far. It's so typical but I guess if you add cats to almost anything I'm bound to like it.

Queen's Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugumono (based on 4 eps)

Yup living up to S1. LOL BOOBIES!

Sacred Blacksmith (based on 2 eps)

I don't even remember what this show is about right now... I remember swords and a chick... Hopefully it'll get less forgettable.

Sasameki Koto (based on 2 eps)

Yuri at a nice boring pace... Is it so hard to ask that someone actually makes an interesting yuri based anime that doesn't totally blow???

Shin Koihime Musou (based on 1 ep)

My girls are back and just as awesome!! Can't wait to continue the journey watching my favourite black haired beauty.

Sora no Otoshimono (based on 3 eps)

All I have to say is wow... I generally don't like ecchi shows... And this one doesn't do anything special that we haven't all seen a million times over but... Episode 2.... If you don't bother watching anything else in the series.... You NEED to see ep 2... FLYING PANTSU. This episode goes into the list of awsome single eps from shows for me. Second guilty pleasure of the season.

Tentai Senshi Sunred 2 (based on 1 ep)

Picked up where they left off very nicely. Interesting humor and wacky characters. I will enjoy this as time goes on as S1 made me laugh quite a lot.

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (based on 2 eps)

Meh I know it's an extra story revolving around one of the other characters but it isn't grabbing me and kinda sucks compaired to S1.

Yumeiro Patissiere (based on 2 eps)

I'm still on the fence with this one... It's too girly for me... But it's about food... I love food...

Miracle Train ~Ooedo-sen e Youkoso~ (based on 3 eps)

Men ride a train. Magical hot bishies and help women who need help. LOL