Yachiyo finally decides to visit the memory museum to save Iroha. However, it’s not for the reasons that you think it is.
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Magia Record – Episode 13 – Iroha’s Vow
Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 12 (END) – The Dream Lives On
Now that the sky cleared up, will Ao and Mira be able to find an asteroid this time around?
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Bang Dream Third Season – Episode 10 – Turmoil and Bringing Back RAISE A SUILEN
After ChuChu became upset at everyone since RAISE A SUILEN dropped to second place. Masuki walked off as a result. When Paero try to comfort ChuChu, she lashed out of her. Now, Paero seems to have given up on the band.
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Spring 2020 Anime Season Preview and Addressing the Blogging Motivation Issues
While things have been chaotic this month with the whole coronavirus scare. As expected, things haven’t been going well with my blog. In fact, losing motivation again. I will share my concerns along with my preliminary picks for the spring season.
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The SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak – The Impacts on the Anime Industry and Everyone’s Lives
As expected, it seems that the Novel Coronavirus has started to affect everyone’s lives. For an anime fan, it definitely had an impact. Not only anime productions are getting delayed, but also events and even anime conventions. Even the Tokyo Olympics that is happening later this year is in jeopardy and will most likely see a delay.
Not only that, various anime productions faced delays as a result. Some are very noticeable with Koisuru Asteroid, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T, A3, and others. It doesn’t end there. Some spring anime, most notably Re Zero Second Season along with a bunch of films pushed back until the summer. Moreover, Amazon is prioritizing shipping of certain goods to deal with the virus. This causes things like anime DVD/Blu-rays, merchandise, video games, etc to face shipping delays. With that, we are living with a new reality and life as we know it is changed forever.
You might be wondering, what is the Novel Coronavirus (aka Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2/SARS-CoV-2/nCov-19/Covid-19) and what affect it is happening on the anime industry. Most of you should have heard about this virus on the news and social media. As expected, it’s having a huge effect on people’s everyday lives. I will share some of my thoughts on how this situation is affecting me personally.
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Magia Record – Episode 12 – The Cold Truth of Magical Girls
Iroha and her friends finally arrives at the Memory Museum for a lecture. Iroha sees one of Ui’s friends, Satomi Touka. Does she still remember Ui?
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Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 11 – First Day of the Star Challenge
At last, Ao manages to make it to Okinawa. You might be wondering how did she got there?
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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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