For Kyoto Animation

broderic on July 27, 2019

Haruhi OP – made me the weeb I am today.

It’s been a week since the fire in Japan at Kyoto Animation studios. If you are just hearing about it the story is rather sad. Thirty-four employees of this famed animation studio were murdered by some nut via an arson attack. There were about another thirty survivors all in various conditions. It was the most tragic of crimes in Japan since the days of World War II.

Kyoto Animation means a lot to me. It has produced some of my personal favorite anime. K-ON! and Haruhi come to mind. Haruhi being my re-introduction into the anime world. K-ON! really is so good it’s my favorite of all time. This studio has done really fine work both in television and in the movie theatres. You can’t beat the K-ON! Movie, and you really can’t beat A Silent Voice movie. Both will make you cry. really is so good it’s my favorite of all time. This studio has done really fine work both in television and in the movie theatres. You can’t beat the K-ON! Movie, and you really can’t beat A Silent Voice movie. Both will make you cry. Cry like the news from Japan…

I pray for those souls lost in this senseless attack. I pray for those survivors. I pray for the studio to come back and give us some more beautiful anime.

~*Biri-ri*~*Biri-ri*~Biri-ri*~

broderic on May 15, 2014

Wait, there’s a rocking Houkago Tea Time tune that I never heard before? And it’s sung by Yui? How come it’s taken me this long to hear Curry Nochi Rice? I’ve actually heard it in the second season of the anime, but not until the K-ON! movie did I get to listen to it. It’s another favorite.

It’s Possessive

broderic on May 9, 2014

Just received this from Japan. It’s the K-ON! Music History’s Box filled with 12 CDs worth of music from one of my all time favorite anime, K-ON! It’s supposedly all the soundtracks, released music, and singles. I used the word supposedly because I can’t read Japanese, and I have yet to listen to any of the disks. You see, I don’t have a CD player. The new MBP doesn’t have a drive. So now I’ll have to listen to it in my cars. I am going to figure out how to rip all of these to this computer.

I can’t wait to listen to them…

Cagayake Girls! (K-ON! OP)

broderic on April 22, 2014

You look, and you look, and you look, then you find some K-ON! cover you’ve never seen before. Here’s the first season’s OP in fingerstyle.

Tee-hee

broderic on October 26, 2012

Sawa-chan-sensei

Someone please make me an avatar/icon of Sawa-chan-sensei for my twitter badge.

“Well, make it fast. I’m in the middle of telling the guy why he’s so special to me. No, no, it’s work-related.”

broderic on September 23, 2012

For the first few times I watched this cover of my favorite K-ON!! song, I thought I was listening to Mio. Woah. Now I figured that it’s the girl playing the guitar who’s singing. I couldn’t figure it out because lots of these anime covers featuring a girl in a japanese school girl uniform end up being a guy in a japanese school girl uniform. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but damn, japanese guys with smooth lady-like legs is disturbing. Being slightly attracted to, even more disturbing.

Anyway. A for the cover. A++ for the exposed knee a lower thighs. A+++ for the singing; I thought it was Mio.

Torrented: K-ON!

broderic on July 26, 2012

It’s been a long time since K-ON!! but finally K-ON! (the movie) has seen our shores. So in its legal form, K-ON! (the movie) will take another year to reach here. Come on Sentai and hurry up with the official US releases.

To catch up with the girls from Hokago Tea Time, it’s Mugi, Mio, Yui, Ritsu, and Azu-nyan doing their whole lot of nothing on a trip to London. But we also get to see them craft their song for Azusa, which is the best part.

The movie operates as a bridge from just after the Blu-Ray only episode 27 and takes us right to the end of their last day at school, episode 24. The girls decide to go on an after graduation trip, and use their pet turtle, Ton-chan, to decide where to go. It’s London just in time for the Olympics! They get into cute situations involving revolving sushi and Otokon in London. Yui spends lots of time thinking about the song. Azusa fears Yui is yuri. Mio watches circles. Mugi does as Mugi does. Ojo-sama. Ritsu? Not so much buchou as buchou!

Loved it. I miss their antics and thank kami-sama, we got a last few episodes. Yes, it was just like the show. Not too much and the small thread that kept it together made it bittersweet. There was some more music, and Death Devil was there. Sawa-chan-sensei rocks! Where’s my normal Sawako-sensei nendoroid in full Death Devil garb? The played some music: in London, twice, for their classmates in class, and for Azusa.

I guess I am going to have to save this to iPhone as well.

Fuwa fuwa time!

4 of 5 stars.

The animation was great too.

Link of the Day [1.04.12]

broderic on January 4, 2012

The new year brought some terrible news on the US anime front. Bandai, a US anime and manga publisher, had halted production on new anime and manga for the US market. They would still sell out the last of their inventory, but they would not be bringing anything new to the US from Japan. This may mean the end to legal access to kami-sama, Haruhi, anime if and when Kyoto Animation decides to produce the next season. It most certainly means that season two of K-ON! won't be coming out from them, and means that the K-ON! movie may never reach the shores of America legally. I am sad. After reading today's link, a review of the K-ON! movie, I so want to watch it. Maybe, some other US distributor would snap up the rights to this franchise and deliver for us Mugi-Mio-Yui-Azu-Ristsu fans a sweet Christmas present next year.http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/k-on/the-movie