As 2012 comes to an end, I would like to reflect on what happened in 2012 related to Anime Blogging and other stuff since it was a pretty eventful year. (Image Source)
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Archives for December 2012
The Best and Worst of 2012 Anime
As 2012 finally comes to an end, I felt that this year is rather subdued for Anime. Although there were some Anime that received some rave reviews that I didn’t watch, I was still satisfied by what I have already watched. Not only that, I only dropped one show this year compared to two in 2011. Still, there were some disappointments, which I want to go over.
For now, I will list my top whatever lists of best Anime in 2012 along with some disappointing/worst ones. (Image Source)
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Final Review
Back in 2010, Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai light novel was given an honorable mention in a Kyoto Animation award competition. Obviously, this means that they will eventually make an anime based off this work. (Image Source)
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Nogizaka Haruka’s Secret ~Finale~ – Episode 3 – More Painful and Overused Misunderstandings
This episode was so painful that I had to watch the rest of it at 1.5x speed.
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Merry Christmas!!
For those who celebrate, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays [1. Take that Fox News who thinks that there is a so-called “War on Christmas“]. Be sure to check out my last 12 Days of Anime post. There is no Secret Santa review this year since I didn’t have the time to do it this year.
Just as a note, I won’t be blogging tomorrow like I done in previous years. I will resume on Wednesday the earliest. For now so along and Happy Birthday to Nagisa and Yukiho, whose birthday lies on Christmas. (Image Source)
12 Days of Anime – Day 11 & 12 – Papa Kiki and Chuunibyou
Since I lacked any motivation yesterday because hardly anyone commented or read my last 12 days post, I decided to merge Day 11 and 12 into one post. For that, I’m putting a spotlight on two shows in this final 12 days of Anime, Papa Kikinasai and Chuunibyou. (Image Source)
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Little Busters – Episode 12 – Mio Becomes Manager and the Mysterious Girl’s Smile
After being introduced to Mio two episodes ago, her story finally starts with a bang.
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12 Days of Anime – Day 10 – Hyouka
On the 10th day of Anime, I can’t stop thinking about it! (Image Source)
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12 Days of Anime – Day 9 – Tari Tari
With a few days left until Christmas, we focus on a girl who helped saved the last cultural festival from those vulture capitalists in Tari Tari. (Image Source)
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Episode 12 (END) – Redemption
Harsh reality settles in as Yuuta makes the wrong decision that he seriously regrets. Will he do a 180?
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12 Days of Anime – Day 8 – Dog Days 2
It’s time to return to the land of Flonyard filled with people with animal ears and tails.
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12 Days of Anime – Day 7 – Little Busters JC Staff Rage
Sadly, not all announcements were good news as VisualArts gave an announcement that caused some Key fans to go ballistic. Yep, it’s JC Staff doing the animation for Little Busters. (Image Source)
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12 Days of Anime – Day 6 – 2nd Anime Blog Tourney
You know it’s coming! Yes, I’m mentioning the Anime Blog Tourney. (Image Source)
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12 Days of Anime – Day 5 – Fate Zero
On the fifth day of Anime, the focus is on the second part of Fate/zero. (Image Source)
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Little Busters – Episode 11 – Komari and Company goes Ghost Busting
Not much in terms of plot in this episode besides the good old “Test of Courage.”
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12 Days of Anime – Day 4 – Natsuiro Kiseki
On the 4th day of Anime, we have troll rocks aka Natsuiro Kiseki. (Image Source)
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12 Days of Anime – Day 3 – Saving the Blogosphere from SOPA/PIPA
For the third day of Anime, we remember the strike that saved the Internet.
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12 Days of Anime – Day 2 – Milky Holmes 2
On the second day of Anime, the focus is now on the lovable and toy-less detectives known as Milky Holmes. (Image Source)
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Episode 11 – Normalcy that Gone Terribly Wrong and The Trail of Broken Promises
Obviously, my body was not ready for this episode.
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12 Days of Anime – Day 1 – Amagami SS Plus
With 12 days remaining until Christmas and since I don’t want to write a post on Christmas Day, its time to get started as I write about some highlights on Anime in addition to fandom stuff in 12 separate short posts. For the first day, I’m going to focus on a show that fits the mood a bit named Amagami SS Plus. (Image Source)
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s – Episode 6 – Hayate’s Kindness and the Harsh Reality
After the Wolkenritter retreated in the last episode after underestimating Nanoha’s and Fate’s new power, we get to hear more back story regarding Hayate and the Book of Darkness.
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Oh my! The Server Screwed Up!
Its kind of funny that Murphy’s Law always kicks in at the worst possible time. At first, I thought grass was greener on the other side with Virtual Private Hosting having better uptime and security (if set up properly). Unfortunately, that is not the case. In short, the server started having high load times this morning. This is probably the reason why you had a hard time loading any page on my blog. Believe it or not, I experienced high load times in the past that lasted all June before dropping to normal levels despite not impacting performance. The only difference this time is that the website could barely load and readers kept getting 500 Internal Server Errors. Because of this, I decided to change servers.
Believe it or not, although OpenVZ is cheaper than Xen hosting, it has its share of problems. Since it’s not actual virtualizing or can be viewed as running a computer that is shared by everyone although you can use it at the same time, it caused more stability problems with overselling. Since Xen hosting is not that much more per month, I decided to switch to that. At least with that, you get a dedicated slice of resources (CPU, RAM, SWAP and HD), ability to use the latest OSes and more isolation. For that, I dived in and luckily, I got everything up within a few hours of getting the new server since I have backups. While it will cost more than the last one and I still have to move more stuff and tweak the server settings, I hope there will be less problems so I can spend time blogging and do other things besides messing with the server.
Also, if you experience any problems or have any thoughts, please leave them in the comments below.
Little Busters – Episode 10 – Mio and the Briefly Lost Book
At last, the final member joins the team.
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12 Days of Anime – Prelude
It’s that time of year again and with Christmas coming in a few weeks, it’s time to announce the 12 Days of Anime project once again. Like the same suggest, it’s an activity that bloggers retell moments in anime or anything related to it. While each blogger does it slightly differently, it’s the same concept.
As for me, I’m doing the format differently since I have pretty much finished all the heavy lifting of my final semester besides finals. Therefore, I’m doing 12 separate short posts focusing on anime and of course covering two major events related to Anime Blogging. This obviously includes the SOPA/PIPA protests that happened early this year and the 2nd Anime Blog Tournament. Besides those two, the other 10 posts I plan on writing is a secret, so stay tuned until December 14th when I plan to start publishing them. (Image Source)