26.2.11
キリトリセン
A brand new GUMI song by 40 meters. The producer is pretty popular (he did torinoko city) so its not surprising this hit #1 almost immediately. Its not super great, but certainly catchy and a nice song to listen to (in contrast to most other songs I found on the charts these days... :/)
The title says "kiritorisen", I think, which means... I don't know lets just ask google translate. :V
GOOGLE TRANSLATE DOESN'T KNOW EITHER
WHAT'S THE WORLD COMING TO
22.2.11
Pretty Cure Splash Star
On the surface, a complete rehash of the 1st season.
But then I watched it, and I think the more appropriate term is UPGRADED version of the first season. :V LET'S GO OVER THE THINGS THAT WERE WRONG WITH THE PREVIOUS SEASON AND SEE HOW THEY APPLY HERE:
-Material Propaganda. Still existent. Somewhat less cheesy, except for the whole spinning theme. Now, really?? Wtf, there's not even really any... drama in it. But this aside, lets move onto other things.
-50% of the lines in a new episode are repeated lines from the previous episode. <<< Reduced to about 10%, which is normal enough for a magical girl anime. Everyone needs the transformation scene. :x
-Mediocre art. << Ok, for whatever reason, the hairstyle for their transformed version is OUTRAGEOUS... but I got used to it. :V Aside from that, the art design is much better. And Mai is just MOEEEE.... Oh, although the two other girls, they actually look kind of creepy... :(
-Logic is where? << There is logic. Well, there is somewhat better logic, considering the fact that this is a magical girl anime. There were some parts over the series that didn't quite add up but overall it was good in the sense that for the most part it had a sensible logic. And a good sense of humor. VERY good sense of humor.
-Attacks << They improved much on this part. Two new transformations! Actual powers they can do ALONE rather than holding hands! DIFFERENT attacks they have when the hold hands! HURRAY!
-anger << Less anger. Still has the occasional "I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU" But generally it seems more acceptable. Or maybe because Mai is just so AWESOME.
Ok Mai fanboying aside, she really is like a better version of Honoka. Its quite true that the two characters are almost complete ripoffs of the first season characters, but they at least seem to stay in character (plus, they're not EXACTLY the same...). One of the things that bothered me in first season was the fact that Honoka, while cool most of the time, acted a bit OOC when she got into those more intense fights... and that didn't seem too cool to me. :(
Speaking of fights, they REALLY had better action scenes this time around. Perhaps it was just the sparkles, or perhaps they just had so much more awesome matchups. Or maybe its the addition of more super powers. Regardless, the fights were definitely much more exciting than the first season.
And included with the fights are the bad guys! The whole "blow up the giant monster" theme is still there, but the midbosses so to speak were actually quite likable. Likable in the sense that it was fun to watch them, but the watcher (at least me) didn't feel like they were getting beaten up for no reason. The second part of Pretty Cure 1st season had some bad guys I actually started feeling sorry for, and part of what irritated me was the fact that Pretty Cure seemed so ignorant of the opponent's situation, always prattling off that they're in the right. This time around, even though the oppponents are likable, Pretty Cure is still for the most part "right" in beating them up.
TL;DR Pretty Cure Splash Star was a pretty good anime.
Now moving onto Yes, Which is, apparently, something like a sailor moon clone complete with almost similar personalities and aspects of the chars (almost, not quite though). Also, cute mascot chars turning into handsome bishonen. :V WOW THEY ARE REALLY TRYING TO APPEAL TO THE FEMALE AUDIENCE AREN'T THEY.
But then I watched it, and I think the more appropriate term is UPGRADED version of the first season. :V LET'S GO OVER THE THINGS THAT WERE WRONG WITH THE PREVIOUS SEASON AND SEE HOW THEY APPLY HERE:
-Material Propaganda. Still existent. Somewhat less cheesy, except for the whole spinning theme. Now, really?? Wtf, there's not even really any... drama in it. But this aside, lets move onto other things.
-50% of the lines in a new episode are repeated lines from the previous episode. <<< Reduced to about 10%, which is normal enough for a magical girl anime. Everyone needs the transformation scene. :x
-Mediocre art. << Ok, for whatever reason, the hairstyle for their transformed version is OUTRAGEOUS... but I got used to it. :V Aside from that, the art design is much better. And Mai is just MOEEEE.... Oh, although the two other girls, they actually look kind of creepy... :(
-Logic is where? << There is logic. Well, there is somewhat better logic, considering the fact that this is a magical girl anime. There were some parts over the series that didn't quite add up but overall it was good in the sense that for the most part it had a sensible logic. And a good sense of humor. VERY good sense of humor.
-Attacks << They improved much on this part. Two new transformations! Actual powers they can do ALONE rather than holding hands! DIFFERENT attacks they have when the hold hands! HURRAY!
-anger << Less anger. Still has the occasional "I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU" But generally it seems more acceptable. Or maybe because Mai is just so AWESOME.
Ok Mai fanboying aside, she really is like a better version of Honoka. Its quite true that the two characters are almost complete ripoffs of the first season characters, but they at least seem to stay in character (plus, they're not EXACTLY the same...). One of the things that bothered me in first season was the fact that Honoka, while cool most of the time, acted a bit OOC when she got into those more intense fights... and that didn't seem too cool to me. :(
Speaking of fights, they REALLY had better action scenes this time around. Perhaps it was just the sparkles, or perhaps they just had so much more awesome matchups. Or maybe its the addition of more super powers. Regardless, the fights were definitely much more exciting than the first season.
And included with the fights are the bad guys! The whole "blow up the giant monster" theme is still there, but the midbosses so to speak were actually quite likable. Likable in the sense that it was fun to watch them, but the watcher (at least me) didn't feel like they were getting beaten up for no reason. The second part of Pretty Cure 1st season had some bad guys I actually started feeling sorry for, and part of what irritated me was the fact that Pretty Cure seemed so ignorant of the opponent's situation, always prattling off that they're in the right. This time around, even though the oppponents are likable, Pretty Cure is still for the most part "right" in beating them up.
TL;DR Pretty Cure Splash Star was a pretty good anime.
Now moving onto Yes, Which is, apparently, something like a sailor moon clone complete with almost similar personalities and aspects of the chars (almost, not quite though). Also, cute mascot chars turning into handsome bishonen. :V WOW THEY ARE REALLY TRYING TO APPEAL TO THE FEMALE AUDIENCE AREN'T THEY.
20.2.11
家出少年と迷子少女
THIS GUMI SONG IS SO AMAZING I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT
No really, I'm not very sure what's going on. :V Ah, the time when not knowing japanese can be such a detriment...
Song-wise I think its ok, but the animation for the video is very cute. Although as I said I'm not sure what's going on, and the very end part has... quite a surprise where I do wish I knew what was going on.
Speaking of not knowing what's going on, all I can know from the title is there's "something" boy and "something" girl. The boy part looks something like "out of house" so maybe, outdoor boy? I dunno about the girl part.
GOOGLE TRANSLATE WHAT DO YOU SAY? "Runaway boy and Stray girl". We need a Watson for translating languages like japanese. :V
(Watson the computer that played jeopardy)
18.2.11
"Endocrine Regulation of Male Fertility by the Skeleton"
This is one of those papers where you have to do a double take and go "wow, really??"
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2811%2900118-8
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2811%2900118-8
Lasers
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110217/full/news.2011.104.html
Next up, Thomas's laser glasses... IN REVERSE!
Next up, Thomas's laser glasses... IN REVERSE!
15.2.11
Ferrets
In times of tests and labwork and agony, titles like these amuse me.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/grad-student-to-serve-six-months.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/grad-student-to-serve-six-months.html
11.2.11
無感覚的干渉性完全制御装置
HERE IS YOUR NOT-SO-DAILY VOCALOID SONG OF THE DAY!
Right now I'm not really feeling too much with this song, although I am kind of amused at the scarily long title it has. From the limited chinese I could interpret, it says something like "no feeling (insensitive)" something "completely" something something.
...google translate says "Insensitive coherent and complete control system". Right Google. I'll use that.
Pretty Cure 1st Season (Unfinished)
Things wrong with this season:
-Material Propaganda. What, a new EASILY-TO-MAKE/IMITATE item every 5-10 episodes? Are you just screaming out there "lets produce merchandise, make lots of money off of gullible girls who will get their parents to buy this"?
-50% of the lines in a new episode are repeated lines from the previous episode.
-Mediocre art. (especially for 2004)
-Logic is where?
-3 special attacks over the course of ~40 episodes. Basically used one same attack for like 30 episodes, now spamming the new special attack for the last 10. Variety is where?
-So much ANGER :(
HOW THE HELL DID PRETTY CURE GET SO SUCCESSFUL? IF NOT FOR HONOKA I'M NOT SURE I COULD SURVIVE THROUGH THIS SERIES...
Luckily it seems that at least the art design gets better in later Pretty Cure so I'm kind of excited to see what the series will eventually turn into.
-Material Propaganda. What, a new EASILY-TO-MAKE/IMITATE item every 5-10 episodes? Are you just screaming out there "lets produce merchandise, make lots of money off of gullible girls who will get their parents to buy this"?
-50% of the lines in a new episode are repeated lines from the previous episode.
-Mediocre art. (especially for 2004)
-Logic is where?
-3 special attacks over the course of ~40 episodes. Basically used one same attack for like 30 episodes, now spamming the new special attack for the last 10. Variety is where?
-So much ANGER :(
HOW THE HELL DID PRETTY CURE GET SO SUCCESSFUL? IF NOT FOR HONOKA I'M NOT SURE I COULD SURVIVE THROUGH THIS SERIES...
Luckily it seems that at least the art design gets better in later Pretty Cure so I'm kind of excited to see what the series will eventually turn into.
2.2.11
Amagami SS (unfinished, part 2)
So ever since the last time I posted about Amagami SS, I've progressed by TWO EPISODES!!!
AREN'T I AMAZING, SAE-CHAN?
...;o;
AREN'T I AMAZING, SAE-CHAN?
...;o;
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