Subbies and Seven Sisters
If you don’t watch the anime I tell you to, then I’ll bring the anime here.
Link of the Day [1.25.11]
In Japan, Evangelion is big. I cannot understand why.Maybe, it's because when I came to anime a decade after Evangelion was first released, the anime genres I liked most featured happy schoolgirls in a comedy, slice-of-life routine. Evangelion features no happy school girls. They are sad and the protagonist, Shinji, is even sadder. Shinji is mopey. He was emo before there was emo, and emo boys make me angry.After all these years, Evangelion is coming to America. Today's link is to the official website for Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. I wonder if it will show somewhere in town?http://www.funimation.com/evangelion/
Ready?
This has nothing to do with Christmas, but everything to do with Christmas. It is the opening theme to the Haruhi movie, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. It takes place in December right around Christmas. The SOS Brigade would’ve had a nabe Christmas party unfortunately developments happened that side tracked the holidays. You just got to watch it. Of course, I’ve been telling you this for years now, but no one listens to me, because I have a blog. First, watch the two seasons of Haruhi and then watch the movie. I swear to kami-sama that you’ll enjoy! I think.
It’s an anime Christmas
A scene from Toradora anime during a school fest/Christmas dance. I haven’t seen Toradora in a while, but since I was searching out videos on youtube and found plenty of anime, I thought I would post this in the spirit of the season.
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!
Although, you have to wonder what type of Christmas spirit occurs in Japan, a mostly non-Christian nation.
Anime or Animation
Ponyo or The Princess and the Frog? Faced with this choice, my niece went with the safe comforts of the Disney production instead of the Studio Ghibli film. Who can blame her as The Princess and the Frog had a princess, and Ponyo, well, it had a creepy human faced fish. So what sets an animated movie from Japan from those produced in the United States?
Character matter? Probably not. Ponyo is derived from The Little Mermaid. There is a princess except she’s not pretty. She’s a fish with a face. She’s not an ugly duckling but a true ugly duck. You can’t make her beautiful just by removing her glasses and putting down her hair.
I just wondering if there was a difference…
Tasked With The Rip
Spent the first CPU cycles of the MacIntelMini converting MKVs with softsubs into MP4s for the iPhone and for the big trip to the HI. The conversion process didn’t work out as well as the subs were getting dropped at times and I then had to rely on my lack of Japanese skills. It’s like when I try to figure out tagalog: all things in context. Yet, still I’m missing things context be damned.
What I converted was the first season of K-ON! I finished watching them tonight. Let me say that it works better after watching the second season. All the cuteness is there, but a little bit rougher on the edges. When I first watched the first season, it wasn’t as fun. There was some slowness to the season that made it slightly disappointing. Loved it but it was a chore at times. The comedy and Yui hard to come by. Mio and moe all the time. Good, but not too great.
The second season of K-ON!! is plain awesome. Then watching the first, again, so it is also.
Let’s go convert the next season….
“Aren’t you wondering why I came in through the window?” “Right now, my curiosity is taking a back seat to my sanity these days.”
Link of the Day [9.29.10]Usually the link of the day comes before the quote of the day, but I wasn't into having a link of the day until after I thought some more about the ending to the K-ON!! anime. I haven't seen it yet (the fansub group I've been following hasn't uploaded the torrent as of this morning), but the usual anime recap site, which I'm linking you to today, has as always a great, image filled narrative of the highlights of the story. It's come to this that I get more joy out of this one anime than anything currently going in my life, and it has ended. As all endings are it's bittersweet. I'm glad I watched it and can't wait until the DVDs are available in the States. I remember K-ON's first season and thinking that it was nothing special. Not until this season did it hit me how completely awesome the show is. It's an animated Seinfeld: a whole bunch of nothing, but charming and sweet. Now it's over and I'll have to find some other show to torrent.http://randomc.net/2010/09/29/k-on-s2-26/
“This music speaks to me in places I didn’t know had ears.”
Just returned to work this morning from the families' Disney World adventure. I've missed a lot of things that I regularly do, because of being slightly off the net. My RSS feed was over 400 entries long. The Twitter time line went days on end without ever being read. Email has piled up. The blog has missed many awesome NewsRadio quotes. I'm making it up with this post.One of the items I missed is Anime News Network reviewing the late Satoshi Kon's work. They're reviewing most all his works which is something I wanted to do. After he passed away last month, I wanted to revisit his works. I came to watch his movies too early in my anime binge. When I was enthused about ecchi school comedies, I watched Paprika. This one flew over my head somewhat. I liked what I saw (it was anime), but couldn't really get into it. Even with the esteem I hold the medium of animation to, I was late to realize that Kon really did animation to tell his stories. They are films that so happen to be animated.I'll revisit his movies, because all the retrospectives on his career have saddened me that we have lost truly genius of a film director.
