28.7.07

AIR to be released soon

My friend told me that AIR had premiered on Anime Network yesterday, July 27th, the date of my birthday. As such, I decided to look up when AIR will get released in anticipation of buying it.


Amazon.com says it'll be released on August 14th.

http://www.amazon.com/Air-TV-vol-1/dp/B000RHMQLM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-3770257-6421245?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1185655046&sr=1-1


Man, the cover looks so nice. *drool*

Best. Anime. Ever.

4.7.07

I My Me Strawberry Eggs

Overall a fairly interesting comedy anime. I think the characters are a little weak and need development, especially the characters besides the main characters. If they had more story behind some of the other characters besides just the teacher and about 3 students, then this should could have been potentially more interesting and touching. The thematic concept of the anime is decent enough; not unique, but touching upon many of the aspects of discrimination, though I do say some of the characters are quite stupid in some respects. (AKA they took WAAAAAY too long to settle the whole ZOMG IT WAS A GUY AFTER ALL issue at the final episodes) The music is a little funky (weird country music) so not that great.

Well, at least the main heroine was really cute, and though she was spaced out most of the time she seemed smarter than most of the other girls in the school. A decent enough anime to watch.

2.7.07

AX 2007

Once again, all my BSing skills will be needed for my ethics paper in WRIT 340, which REALLY needs the BS because ethics is ALL about BS. Therefore, short bullet point summaries.

-Aya Hirano is the cutest seiyuu I have met so far, and probably will be the cutest seiyuu ever. While I still like KOTOKO and eufonius better in terms of singing, Aya has everyone beat in terms of personality, (normal) voice, and basically being an idol. Her (incredibly high) energetic nature is just like... dangerously cute for some reason. While other seiyuus might pretend to be cute, for whatever reason I find that the way she acts is as if she's genuinely excited and curious about America and her American fans, and that excitement is terribly incredibly cute for some reason.
-Aya Hirano likes cake, Yuki Goto likes alcohol, and the voice actor for Nagato likes chocolate.
- quite a lot of stuff bought. There was a lot of 2 dollar manga that me and my sister jumped on and pretty much bought the entire shelf.
-Orskaband (sp?) is cool but only because they have a trumpet, saxophone, and trombone player in their band. Unique!
-savage genius was really good, but unfortunately I was worrying through most of the concert that I wouldn't be able to get a good seat at the SOS concert to enjoy it thoroughly. I bought one of their albums though.
-the SOS concert, in the meantime, was the most poorly organized concert that ever existed. There was a 1 and a half hour delay, then when the concert finally started we find out that about half of the "concert" was just the Japanese and American VAs reciting lines from the anime. In what little music they had left, Hirano Aya and the voice actor for Nagato (I highly apologize but I cannot remember her name) both were lagging in their singing, that is, they started their singing a bit later than they were supposed to. Not only that, but the VA for Nagato also forgot some of her lines from her songs.
If concerts were graded on a 1-10 scale, this concert would have gotten a -22 except Hirano Aya was there, so that adds +100 to the concert scale. :V
-Chiaki Ishikawa (or the Yuki Kajiura sidekick) Concert was decent, and my sister liked it.
-The Momoi concert was the most organized and "best" concert in AX. Too bad it was the concert with the smallest attendance.
-Bought a lot of box sets. Only 35$ for thinpacks now, that's within my range for buying series.
-Did I mention Aya Hirano is cute? I won't deny that it might also be the age factor (being one year younger than me), but if it weren't for her remarkable enthusiasm and cuteness she would have never charmed me as much as she has right now. :V

Maybe more, if I can think up more later.