Relentlessness has a great three part write-up (1 – 2 – 3) on Campanella (hereby known as Campy) from the standpoint of someone who actually played the damn thing (unlike everyone else — myself included, herpderp). I’d recommend reading it if you actually care to get a handle on what to expect (and how to enjoy the show, I guess). Why bring this up now? Because…
Via Zait via Kuro on Campy:
One thing I’m quite liking about Campanella is how they are doing a better job of depicting an RPG game than most other RPG game anime adaptations. Ironic since it’s actually an eroge in origin.
Which is funny because from what I’ve seen from the people who played it, Campy has clear RPG-inspired components to the gameplay… I guess most people don’t bother to look past the “eroge” moniker but these things can have genres you know? Also, it’s not uncommon for VNs to have some (usually gimmicky) elements outside of your usual textbox clicking to help differentiate from the pack (I think there can be anywhere from 10 to 20 “full-length” VNs released per month so competition is stiff). Of course all indications are that it’s nothing like a full-fledged RPG but it makes me shoot like one the roots are there.
Too much focus on the eroge factor. Trees, forest, etc.
Been a long time reader of Ani-nouto so was a bit surprised to see Author with some strong bias towards loving Amagami, and the consequent strong objection to “the haters” [1]. He makes it sound (a bit on irc too) that it’s common decency to like it… no thanks! Continue reading →
While trying to decide between a PS3 or an Xbox360, I came to be interested in the character mish-mash that is Cross Edge, however recently not only has the Cross Edge website gone down, NIS America no longer sold it on their site!
I ventured a public query on the forums and to my surprise apparently IP conflicts have caused this (after a whole year!?).
What’s up with that eh?
Edit: screenshot in case the forum thread disappears.
Honestly a rather underwhelming first episode, I will admit the source manga did not come into its own until some time during the “Tanuki arc” when the eponymous protagonist Rikuo mans up. Not to excuse the first episode for sucking, but it wasn’t unexpected either. Continue reading →
Well back doing anisongs anyway :3
Via a friend via ANN, and confirmed on her website, Mikuni is doing Fairy Tail’s 4th ED, “Kimi ga iru kara” and releasing an album (Replay! Mikuni Shimokawa Seishun Anison Cover III) with that track on it this 21st!
The album will include a lot of covers, but a few (if not all) apparently will be featuring other artists like Momoi~. Quite exciting news for me as I’ve always enjoyed Mikuni’s original songs and I’m quite expectant to hear what the collaborated songs sound like.
The 4th ED will start on episode 37 of Fairy Tail, airing next week (Sunday or Monday I think?)
Via Cirnobar at Desucon, I managed to beg him to get me something signed by the one and only Momoi Haruka (Halko)!
Fig 1-1: Signed art book.
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This is coming from a friend whose last anime series was Naruto… 2 years ago… basically the only contact with anime he has is through the blabbering from the rest of us on irc.
And yet:
<gorillion> i just looked up angel beats
<gorillion> it looks like haruhi
LOL.
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This OVA begins the “prequel” arc of the Shana series (Shana Zero novel I believe). Continue reading →
Know what this means?! I’ll tell you what it means!
A whole new default theme I can use!!! ♡♡♡
Going to have to edit the CSS a bit, but overall twenty ten looks quite a bit cleaner (back-end-wise) than the wordpress 2.0 theme.
Unfortunately unless I change the header to a solid block of color, I’ll be in need of a header image (/nudge Nobar).
So yeah, I’ve totally been busy with real life so haven’t had time to post muc– hahaha who am I kidding?
My draft count is current sitting at a whopping 15 (although a few are just notes) so apparently my problem is getting posts into a publishable state.
For the sake of posting, I’ll go the safe route and ramble about my recent viewings over the next week.
Let’s begin degozaimasu!
Finished Komugi a while ago but the failings of the later episodes swamped my initial enthusiasm. From a strongly comedic start (2ch and Big Cytron ♡) it quickly ran out of gas but still good for few laughs. Episode 2 was just so awesome that I don’t regret a moment of it though.
I’ve re-watched the first two episodes already for screenshots but otherwise I can’t really recommend the rest (Gundam spoof OP in Magikarte Z eps. 2 felt better than Genshiken’s take — BUT THAT’S JUST MY OPINION, MANG).
Momoi and Pikachu Ikue Ootani (especially) do a great job with their acting keeping the pace going when they can. Also, really shocked to see Yukarin using her Yamada voice. Fun stuff :)
