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Anime Weekly – Episode 3 – New Computer, Photo Kano (Haruka Niimi), Ore no Imouto 2 5&6

May 14, 2013 by 4 Comments

Artist: 501092-taka
Sorry for the long delay as I was wrapping up the Spring Semester and also my Undergraduate degree. However, I’m not done with college yet as I’m getting my Master’s Degree and be finished about a year. Hopefully then, I will be able to get a job in Information Technology.

Also, this is the last episode I’m recording on my 2010 Macbook Pro, Takamachi Nanoha. Future Anime Weeklies will be done on the new computer.

Episode Content

  • Intro – 00:00 to 00:30
  • New Computer – 00:31 to 1:34
  • Photo Kano (Haruka Niimi’s arc) – 1:37 to 2:40
  • Ore no Imouto 2 Episodes 5 and 6 – 2:41 – 4:05
  • Anime Power Rankings for Week of May 7 – 4.07 – 4:35
  • End – 4:37 to 5:00

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Remembering Love II – Madoka Magica – Part I – Make a Contract with Me!

May 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Artist: masara (acgarts)
Back in 2012, a now retired blogger named trzr23 have created an Anime Blog project called “Let’s us Remember Love.” Apparently, Justin at Organization Anti-Social Geniuses will be doing the second year of it and I will be participating.

For this year, I decided to take a look back at Madoka Magica since two movies has already released for the franchise. When I watched this back in 2011 with a group of people online when it was airing, it felt like a different magical girl show filled with despair. This is mostly contributed to Gen Urobuchi’s writing, the person who is also behind Fate/zero and Gargantia. His stories are filled with tragedy and a lot of character deaths. While shows like Lyrical Nanoha have girls fighting for survival to maintain peace, Madoka completely deconstructs the genre, which is already a good reason to take a look back. (Image Source)
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Censorship in Anime – Looking back at the Past and Why its Ineffective

May 4, 2013 by 4 Comments
But, they don't look like doughnuts!

But, they don’t look like doughnuts!

When Idolmaster Shiny Festa got released in the United States, it’s apparent that they have removed swimsuits scenes from the game. When I heard about this, I got the idea to write about censorship in Anime since I knew about some pointless changes in the Pokémon anime. Besides the awkwardness, there are some reasons why they do this such as the differences in cultural values. However, some of the reasons why changing or censor some things is not acceptable in my opinion.
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Anime Weekly – Episode 2 – Free!, Shiny Festa, Site Updates, Photo Kano 4, Gargantia 4

April 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Artist: takumi (scya)

I apologize for the delay since the Spring semester is finally winding down. However, I have lots of updates to share in the second episode. In addition, Ore no Imouto 2 will replace Suisei no Gargantia in the podcast. This means that I will be writing about Gargantia starting next week.

Content

  • Introduction – 00:00 to 00:22
  • Kyoto Animation Announces Free! – 00:28 to 00:55
  • Shiny Festa on iOS – 1:00 to 2:30
  • Site Updates – 2:35 to 3:32
  • Photo Kano Episode 4 – 3:40 to 3:48
  • Suisei no Gargantia – Episode 4 3:50 to 4:55
  • Anime Power Rankings – 4:58 to 5:28
  • Conclusion 5:30 – 5:40

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The Dark Side of Male Characters – Weak-Minded Male Leads

April 27, 2013 by 1 Comment

Artist: santa (sunflower)

Last week, I focused on how females are being more capable. Some may be asking, what about male characters? While I have seen a few shows with strong males such as Kritsugu Emiya from Fate Zero or even Ledo from Gargantia, most of the romantic harem comedies or slice of life have weak beta male characters. I blame myself for watching a lot of these shows, but there are some things that really bother me a lot about them. (Image Source)
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Ore no Imouto 2 Editorial – Hobbies and the Influence on Life

April 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Artist: banchii

From the look of a timid Saori to the one we know already, this episode shows the hobbies’ everlasting effects on people as it enables them to know other people with the same interests and even become friends. (Image Source)
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Challenges of Keeping the Passion of Anime Going and Growing Out of It

April 13, 2013 by 8 Comments

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Back in February of this year, I had shared my thoughts about why I continue to watch Anime. However, there are reasons why people lose passion for it and it’s not usually clear. Also, I will share some personal experiences.
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The Art of Reviewing and Scoring Anime

March 29, 2013 by 10 Comments

Artist: mattari yufi

Before we end off the season, I wanted to share my thoughts about reviewing Anime and grading since they are highly subjective. In general, people will have different opinions based on personal experiences and tastes. While people on Social Networking and Anime Forums tends to share a few thoughts on what they saw, Anime Bloggers are different as we tend to be more critical on what we see. This is because we take the time to share our thoughts to make a more detailed review and for the fact that opinions aren’t necessarily the same.  Because of this, I like to share how I write reviews and go into a few scoring systems Anime bloggers use. (Image Source)
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Genkai Totsuki Monster Monpiece – First Impressions – A Cute and Fanservicy Monster Girl Trading Card Game

March 21, 2013 by 2 Comments
Since there is no Monster Monpiece art, here is the next best thing...

Since there is no Monster Monpiece fan art, here is the next best thing…

For a while now, there has been a good amount of criticism surrounding Idea Factory/Compile Heart games. They have a bad reputation of having overly complicated gameplay, needless grinding among other things. While the first Neptunia game had a lot of bugs, at least I heard that they improved the gameplay in the sequels. Now with the Playstation Vita, I think they kind of learned their lesson with Genkai Totsuki Monster Monpiece (限界凸騎モンスターモンピース, lit: Unlikely Knight: Monster Monpiece), which sold over 50,000 in retail and download. With that, I would like to share some experiences of playing it after getting through the first Chapter and a part of the next one. (Image Source)

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Chikorita Cast – Episode 3 – Google killed Google Reader! How dare they!

March 14, 2013 by 8 Comments

Artist: takuya kame

Sadly, the black smoke has come. Google decided to say “Sayanora” to Google Reader, a web application that allows people to subscribe and read people’s blogs through RSS feeds in one place. I think the decision is very idiotic and just will make people hate Google more, especially the crap they pulled with Google Images taking 60-80% of the traffic away from blogger’s websites.

Because I felt strongly about this issue, I decided to make another video podcast showing people how to use other applications to follow Anime Blogs. These solutions are Wordpess.com Reader, Feedly, Vienna (for Mac users) and RSS Bandit (for Windows users). I didn’t mention other clients since they cost money, but if you are using Reeder, they plan to make it Google Reader independent in the next update, so check out for that. So enjoy and feel free suggest other topics I should focus on in future podcasts. (Image Source)
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