At last, Ao manages to make it to Okinawa. You might be wondering how did she got there?
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 11 – First Day of the Star Challenge
Archives for 2020
Bang Dream Third Season – Episode 9 – The Rebirth of Poppin’ Party
Now that Poppin Party’s promotional video explodes in popularity, they are doing their hardest to make up last ground. However, things turn south for RAISE A SUILEN.
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Pitfalls of Anime Streaming, Competition and Subscription Fatigue – Is It Becoming Too Fragmented?
It’s obvious that the Novel Coronavirus has caused a lot of public events to become cancelled along with schools. Aside from people who have a job, but can’t telework, most will be at home. In other words, some or most of you would binge watch on anime while being stuck at home.
This of course brings the topic of anime streaming. In recent years, anime has become more accessible legally through legal streaming services like Crunchyroll, Funimation, and others. Not only that, you don’t have to spend $50-250 to buy the whole series on DVD or Blu-ray to watch it. Of course, we started to see Crunchyroll losing the lion share of the anime streaming as competition heated up.
If you recall, Amazon tried to jump in the fray with Anime Strike and Netflix doing its own thing. While competition is good as it doesn’t cause a service to become complacent. During that time, Crunchyroll became a bit lazy by not updating their video player and with poor video quality.
Once competition took hold, they eventually added an HTML5 player. It’s not without consequence. They lost a good amount of their catalog once Funnimation pulled out of the deal.
As expected, exclusive simulcasting is becoming an issue as people have to subscribe to the multiple services to watch the content they enjoy. Otherwise, he or she will miss out unless they subscribe. As they say, each subscription adds up in the end. This phenomenon is called subscription fatigue. While some bloggers have covered this concern, it’s time to go more in depth in it.
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Magia Record – Episode 11 – Finding Nemu and Mifuyu’s Surprise Visit
Now that Sana is part of the team, Iroha finds out from her that she knows about Nemu. However, Iroha doesn’t seem to know where she is.
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 10 – A New School Year, New Beginnings
A new school year has started. Ino tries to stop Mira and Ao from trying to recruit members without approval. It seems that they don’t need to do that since two members are planning to join anyway.
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Bang Dream Third Season – Episode 8 – Girl Bands Take a Breather
Now that Roselia finally recovered from their loss against RAISE A SUILEN, they finally take a breather at a hot spring hotel.
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Magia Record – Episode 10 – Alina’s Revenge and Sana’s New Home
Now that Sana finally shuts down Ai, it seems that Alina has something up her sleeves.
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 9 – Ao’s Plea and Mari’s and Mikake’s Farewell
Misa hands Ao a lifeline by allowing her to use her room at Mira’s place. While Mira seems excited by the idea, will Ao’s parents accept her proposal?
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Bang Dream! Third Season – Episode 6 and 7 – The Surprising Result
At last, Yukina went ahead and took ChuChu’s challenge. However, it seems that Sayo is having second thoughts about Yukina’s decision.
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Magia Record – Episode 9 – Sana Escaping Reality and Befriending Ai
Now that Yachiyo allows Iroha to interact with the mysterious text messages, you might be wondering where they are coming from? The text messages aren’t from a girl, but from a rumor that uses advanced deep learning artificial intelligence technology.
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 8 – Ino Tries The Olympiad Test and Ao’s Secret
Ino decides to give Earth Science Olympiad a try. Can she make it?
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The Mysterious Blogger Award – Part I
It has been a while since I have done one of those blog award posts. As you have might know already, I have been busy relocating to the Washington DC metro area. Yes, it’s for a new job that I have been working at for almost 4 weeks.
Since I have been doing lots of driving back and forth moving stuff, finding a new place and such towards the end of last year, I didn’t get the chance to do it. It’s not until the end of January that I finally moved into a new place. The only problem, I didn’t have stable internet since I didn’t have stable internet. In other words, I couldn’t publish any other content besides episodic reviews, until now.
While I was busy moving, two people appeared to have nominated me for the Mystery Blogger Award. They are SparkNorkx of Supaku Blog and Keni from The Anime Basement. Apparently, the latter person appeared to have lost their post, so if you want me to do it, contact me as soon as possible.
If you are wondering, here is some background on what is this award.
“Mystery Blogger Award” is an award for amazing bloggers with ingenious posts. Their blog not only captivates; it inspires and motivates. They are one of the best out there, and they deserve every recognition they get. This award is also for bloggers who find fun and inspiration in blogging; and they do it with so much love and passion.
– Okoto Enigma
Since I am very busy, I will not be nominating anyone from this award, but I will just do it.
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Magia Record – Episode 8 – Mysterious and Suspicious Messages
Now that Iroha and her friends defeated the Rumor of the Misery Rhyton, Iroha finally moves to Kamihama city. She starts her first day at a new school. However, she starts receiving weird text messages from someone.
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 7 – Ino’s First Planned Event As Club President
Now that Mari and Mikake steps out of the spotlight as they prepare for entrance exams, they made Ino the president. How will Ino fare with the club activities?
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Better Late Than Never – Chikorita157’s Anime Blog Turns 11 Years Old
Believe it or not, I have been so busy between the move, adjusting to my new place and new job that I forgot that my blog turned 11 years old (started February 17, 2009). This makes me wonder how long I have been doing this for. By now, a good amount of people who were blogging about anime back when I started in 2009 have pretty much moved on. With that, I would like to reflect on the last year of blogging and focus on the future.
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Magia Record – Episode 7 – Defeating the Misery
Given Fellicia seems to not like witches, she decides to join the Wings of Magius. Then again, did Yachiyo plan this all along?
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The Reasons Why You Should (Probably) Not Pirate Anime
Since 2017, I started the shift towards streaming mostly because it’s convenient and it’s probably the cheapest way to support the industry. From the monthly subscription fees, royalties are paid from the shows you watch, which eventually goes back to the studios and the industry.
Given the problem that studios are facing with low pay and poor working conditions, if more switched to legal alternatives, it would help the industry. After all, revenue generated overseas will become more important given the change in demographics in Japan.
While streaming is not the ideal solution mostly because of region restrictions, it’s not a problem if you live in North America. Of course, exclusivity of titles and fragmentation is another issue. Certain titles will only be available on Crunchyroll, HIDIVE, Amazon, Netflix or Funimation. In other words, this will require subscribing to multiple services.
If you take these drawbacks from the picture, it’s a better way to watch anime as it’s convenient. One doesn’t have to mess around with Bittorrent, worry about what video players to use, and having enough disk space. You just watch whatever you want.
However, people who live in regions where legal options are readily available and can afford it still choose to pirate. People have to realize that not only this is selfish and immoral given the poor state of the animation industry, you are also putting your information security at risk. Not to mention, piracy or rather the correct term, copyright infringement is illegal. I will explain why you should probably stop pirating anime and consider legal options if available.
(Note: Pardon the lack of images, they are coming in a few days)
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Magia Record – Episode 6 – Iroha’s and Felicia’s Extreme Luck
As Iroha recovers from facing off the Rumor of the Machibito Horse, another rumor lurks. Also, a certain blond hair, twin-tailed magical girl that welds a huge hammer appears.
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 6 – The Lovely Astronomy and Geology Cafe
At last, the cultural festival nears. With that, Ino and Mikake prepare for their boring exhibition. Meanwhile, Mari, Ao, and Mira prepares theirs.
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Magia Record – Episode 5 – Twisted Imposters
Iroha and Yachiyo finally meets the person they desire the most. The only problem, are they the real or simply a mirage.
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 5 – Fun at a Beach
At last, the girls take a break and went to the beach. Sadly, Mikake and Mari couldn’t go.
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Bang Dream! Third Season – Episode 5 – Poppin’ Party’s First Music Video
After seeing RAISE A SUILEN’s new promotional video, Kasumi and her friends want to create one.
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Magia Record – Episode 4 – The Mightiest Magical Girl Appears
Iroha with Momoko, Rena and Yachiyo rescues Kaede from the Rumor of the Friendship Breaking Staircase. While Iroha finds some clues about the roommates that stayed with Ui, she is still far away from finding her. Mitama finds someone that can help her.
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 4 – The Exciting Earth Sciences Summer Camp
At last, the Earth Sciences Club goes on a summer camp during break. Yes, it involves going to some museums and tours.
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