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)
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Episode 10 – Rikka’s Recovery and the Confession of Love
There is no stopping the love train! It has already departed.
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s – Episode 5 – Trying out New Powers and More Troubles
It’s time to try out the new powers!
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Status of the Aniblogosphere in 2012 – Haitus = Dead Blog?!
Just recently, the current state of the Anime Blogosphere doesn’t look great with a good number of blogs dying. In the last three months, We Remember Love, Kaminarianime, and Otaku Life: Anime Review hanged up their hats and call it quits (Moe Fundamentalism decided to go on hiatus before the author reversed the decision quite recently). Judging from my blogroll, there are 6 blogs that haven’t updated since October.
From the look of things, did the Mayans predict that December 21, 2012 is the end of Anime Blogging as we know it? Maybe, or probably we are overreacting. In a recent twitter conversation between Marow, Marth and myself concerning how long blogs last after Morrow mentioned a blog that only lasted two months (full conversation here), It gave me some thoughts where the blogosphere is heading. Early this year, I have covered quite a lot on blog longevity and the reason why blogs die. However, I would like to go over the current trends since there is a good number of blogs spontaneously dropping dead from the sky, which currently gives us this disturbing trend. (Image Source)
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Little Busters – Episode 9 – The Quest to Save Dinner!
Oh my! Nobody is preparing dinner at the cafeteria? What should we do?
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Episode 9 – Shinka Plays Cupid
Believe it or not, we are witnessing a transformation in front of our eyes with Rikka. That is romance!
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s – Episode 4 – Ordinary Life Before the Battle
As recovery commences, Fate attends her first day at her new school.
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Little Busters – Episode 8 – Finding Kud the Perfect Roommate
I think my heart exploded with Kud appearing again.
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Episode 8 – Awakening of Love
As reality settles in, Rikka discovers love for the first time.
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Discovering New Anime and Personal Experiences
Just over a year ago, I shared my viewing experiences and taste testing shows. People might be wondering how do I discover new shows. It’s a good question since I’m picky and I don’t have time to watch everything. Therefore, I use several means in choosing what shows to watch at any given time, which I will share. (Image Source)
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Nogizaka Haruka’s Secret ~Finale~ – Episode 2 – Saved by the Bell
Make this stop! This drama is putting me to sleep…
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Little Busters – Episode 7 – Haruka’s Grand Pursuit
Haruka is quite the troublemaker.
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Kyoto Animation and Why They Remained Successful
Believe it or not, sometimes a studio that animates a particular show sometimes brings appeal to a work. As seen with the likes of Studio Shaft, Production IG, PA Works, Sunrise and Kyoto Animation, they add something unique. Most notably, Kyoto Animation from the past several years has gained a lot of praise for its production values. This is more so with the airing of Hyouka and now Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai this year. I felt that they do deserve the praise for various reasons as they pay attention to detail, bringing appeal to the characters and their ability to make faithful adaptations. (Image Source)
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Episode 7 – Rikka’s Hidden and Melancholic Past
We learn the harsh truth about Rikka’s past.
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