Starting off from last time. Makoto suddenly gets reminded of a sad incident from his childhood while Rei struggles to survive in the rough waters.
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Free! – Episode 6 – Remembering Sad Times
Anime Fatigue: How I deal with it and Take a Break
Despite watching and blogging about Anime non-stop for over five years, one can eventually get fatigued from watching the same things over again. There are a few notable reasons why some people usually get tired and stop watching, which I will share along with past experience and what I do to prevent fatigue. (Image Source)
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Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation – Episode 5 – Defeating Piracy with Friendship
With Nepgear first to transform into her HDD form, it’s time to kick Magiquone’s butt.
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Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya – Episode 5 – Saber Alter and the Return of Magical Girl Rin and Luvia
As it seems, Saber looks like the final boss that Miyu and Illya can’t possibly defeat.
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Happy 24th Birthday and Behinds the Scenes of Blogging
Before I knew it, time flew by so quickly. During that time, I finally graduated college this year and experienced the worse power outrage last fall because of Hurricane Sandy. Even so, this year was a rather peaceful one as I focused more on writing about Anime, and diving into intermediate level Japanese language studies despite my up and downs. The question is, how I will manage my time as I head to grad school? I probably do more of the same, with a few adjustments.
For this birthday post, I will share behind the scenes on where I do my blogging. I do most of my blogging in a separate room, which has my desk with a LCD monitor and a screen. Since I’m busy all the time, my desk is unorganized and it’s pretty embarrassing. While I do most of my web surfing and browsing at this desk, I also do my blogging and web surfing at college and when I’m on vacation, in the hotel room. Since these places usually have Internet access, I no longer have the excuse to go on hiatus.
As for the computers I currently use, I have two Macbook Pro laptops. The one on the left (Takanashi Rikka) is my main one, which has a faster Intel i7 Quad Core CPU, 16GBs of RAM, 750 GB Hard Drive, Matte Display and nVidia Geforce GT 650m graphics. The right is a 2010 model, Takamachi Nanoha, which replaced my lemon laptop.
With that, feel free to say Happy Birthday in the comments below. As always, my parents are going to take me out later for a special meal. (Image Source)
Free! – Episode 5 – Training in Paradise
To prepare for the upcoming competition, the swimming team decides on going to a bunch of islands for a training camp!
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Tamayura and the Power of Photography (With Vacation Photos)
After finishing the first season of Tamayura Hitotose and watching a few episodes of the sequel, it showed the little things of life as Sawatari Fu becomes interested into photography. While watching the show, I felt that photography has something special for the fact that photos can capture special moments in life along with having the power to change someone’s life. (Image Source)
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Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya – Episode 4 – Power of Imagining
It seems that Miyu is not completely immune to failure…
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Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation – Episode 4 – Nepgear’s Renewed Hope
As the four goddesses get’s trapped into a field created by Magiquone, Nepgear desperately wants to save them.
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Photo Kano – Final Review
In the sea of dating sim game adaptations, Photo Kano (Photo Girlfriend) takes the mundane concept of a typical male lead hanging out with a bunch of cute girls and throwing photography into the mix. Some say that Photo Kano is the spiritual successor for Amagami, but does this show live up to that reputation? Not really. (Image Source)
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Will You Still Enjoy Anime Several Years from Now?
Last week, Marow of Anime Viking answered an interesting question in his post on whether or not someone will continue to enjoy a hobby such as Anime as time goes on. Here is my take on the question. (Image Source)
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Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation – Episode 3 – Live Concerts, Gaming and Ambushes
At last, Vert gets some time in the spotlight as Neptune and company gets invited to Leanbox for a live concert and a party.
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Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya – Episode 3 – Miyu’s Godly Talent
As Rider gets captured, how will Miyu react with Illya in the same school?
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More on Region Locking – Why this practice needs to be abolished.
In an editorial several months ago, I criticized briefly on region locking on streams. This month, Ryu Shoji from Bulbanews wrote a good editorial on why Nintendo should go region free after Microsoft changed their DRM policy, effectively abolishing region locks. Considering that licensed Anime and streams is region locked and most Anime fans play video games, I think this will be a great topic to talk about since I am against region locking for various reasons. (Image Source)
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Free! – Episode 4 – Overcoming the Inability to Swim
I wonder, will Rei master swimming in a week? I hope so…
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The Life Lessons I Learned From Watching Anime
Back in February, I shared my thoughts on why I continued to watch Anime. Still, the special thing about Anime is its ability to cover a wide range of topics and in some instances, show the little things in life. It makes me wonder, how does Anime presents this? (Image Source)
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Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya – Episode 2 – Illya’s First Fight
From the look of it, this show is becoming more like Cardcaptor Sakura and Nanoha.
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Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation – Episode 2 – Trouble in Super Retro Land
As Rom and Ram causes trouble at home, Neptune and company pays Blanc a visit.
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Free! – Episode 3 – A New Swimmer Appears!
Kou can’t stop obsessing over those muscles.
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Suisei no Gargantia – Final Review
In the past, I didn’t really care for shows containing humongous robots fighting each other. However, when Gen Urobutchi revealed that he is working on a new anime original called Suisei no Gargantia, Based on his previous works, I decided to take a look. (Image Source)
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Overused Character Archetypes and Clichés – Are they making Anime Unoriginal?
One of the things that some fans complain about Anime is how similar the characters are. It’s true that there is an array of archetypes you can use to describe a character, but is this a reasonable complaint? (Image Source)
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Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation – Episode 1 – What it means to be a Goddess
For a long time, video games played a big part of my life because of the escapist element coupled with interaction. Of course, somebody came up with a brilliant idea to make a video game personifying the console wars such as the battle between the big three (Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft) or the one that happened in the 90s between the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis.
Now, these consoles are personified as cute girls in a video game titled Hyperdimension Neptunia, which is made by Compile Heart and Idea Factory. While Idea Factory has a bad reputation for making not so good games (although Monster Monpiece was enjoyable), at least their installments to their franchise improved on their gameplay and story. From that, we have the Anime, which everyone waited for.
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Tamayura ~More Agressive~ – Episode 2 – The Mysterious Photography Contest Winner
As Fuu becomes “more aggressive” by creating a Photography Club, the winner of the photography contest makes her somewhat nervous.
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Free – Episode 2 – Birth of a Swimming Club
The plot advances as we finally found out who actually won the race in the last episode.
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