The New Matthew's Anime Blog » Random Stuff http://matthew.animeblogger.net New blog engine, same ol' lazy blogger Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:38:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Snow Day http://matthew.animeblogger.net/2009/03/02/snow-day/ http://matthew.animeblogger.net/2009/03/02/snow-day/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:08:22 +0000 Matthew http://matthew.animeblogger.net/?p=1438 yuki!

Good afternoon, everybody. Not at work today since the University of Georgia is closed due to the 5-7 inches of snow we got around Athens yesterday. Snow’s not melting a whole lot, so schools might be closed tomorrow, too. Unlike y’all up north, we don’t know how to deal with this much snow. Didn’t help that the power was out from Sunday afternoon until this morning (^^;;

Idolmaster SP and Tales of Eternia

I got Tales of Eternia and Idolmaster SP Wandering Star from YesAsia in Friday, and since there wasn’t much to do with the power out yesterday, I played PSP. Mostly Eternia, though. Iori’s gonna be mad at me for not keeping a promise to produce yesterday (^^;; I actually hadn’t played Idolmaster (only watched videos and such), so I had to learn how to do the producer thing — harder than it looks (^^;; Iori’s only at rank E now, so there’s still a long way to go. I’ll do Ami/Mami after I make Iori top idol.

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Now with twice the laptop power

Hey, y’all~! It’s been more than a few months since I last said anything around here… not that I had anything interesting to say then or now, but I figured I’d try out this WordPress thing that everybody else is using along with trying to post just a wee bit more. The old pages are still around so any links should still work just fine. Now to try and figure out a decent theme…

I would try to blame the lack of posting on my almost full-time job working the phones at the University of Georgia HelpDesk, but there’s a lot of downtime there (enough for much Nico Nico-ing) so that wouldn’t pass… Once you stop doing something it’s hard to get back into the habit. I’ll try posting more than once a month as a start (^^;;

Anyways, moving on now… here’s my viewing schedule for the season, along with my best attempt to sum up how I feel about each in approximately one sentence… or paragraph, maybe.



Sunday
Kyou no 5 no 2
I didn’t like the character design (faces weird), but then the second episode turned out to be good so now I watch, still hoping that each episode’s animation director moves the look closer to the manga design.

Monday

German this time

German this time

ef ~ a tale of melodies.
I like SHAFT. I liked ef ~ a tale of memories.. Therefore I watch, and I like (Chihiro showed up in this week’s episode~). And thankfully, one of my coworkers is a grad student from Germany.


Wednesday

Tsundere... obviously

Tsundere... obviously

Toradora!
Like Kyou no 5 no 2, I didn’t like the character design, then I saw it in motion. Rie Kugimiya as cute tsundere Taiga. Good enough for me.


Thursday

Onii-chan?

Onii-chan?

CLANNAD after story
KyoAni fan, so of course. Mei-chan kawaii yo Mei-chan! in last week’s episode. Thank you, episode animation director Yukiko Horiguchi, character designer for Lucky Star (easy to guess). I’ll have the kleenex ready for later on, though. And why do you keep on doing this to us, TBS? (4:3 Pan & Scan instead of 16:9)


....no

....no

Yozakura Quartet
Character design not my preference, but interested because of director Kou Matsuo. Pre-scoring isn’t having as much an effect as it did for Kurenai, though, since the material isn’t suited to it. Last week’s story was somewhat odd.. Jukki Hanada chief scriptwriter. And why do you keep on doing this to us, TBS? (4:3 Pan & Scan instead of 16:9)


Saturday

New goods to sell to kids... is that a bad sign?

New goods to sell to kids... is that a bad sign?

Shugo Chara! doki
Rumors of internal strife among staff have me worried. Change of chief scriptwriter has me worried. The first two episodes being mostly recaps didn’t help (^^;; However, the new “pattern” of characters doing chara-nari is okay. Jun’ichi Satou (ARIA, Futago Hime, etc., etc.) as supervisor is good — I’m waiting for when he does storyboards for an ep. When will they get back to the manga storyline, though?


No points for people who thought the OP would be a dance

No points for people who thought the OP would be a dance


Kannagi
Yamakan FTW! After being fired from KyoAni, director Yutaka Yamamoto tries to prove that he’s at the level of director, and succeeds so far. Best animation quality this season. Easy to do since he took some KyoAni staff with him to form Ordet.


Anise, in not cute mode

Anise, in not cute mode


Tales of the Abyss (HD)
I haven’t played the game. But I have watched a playthrough of the game (on Nico Nico, of course), so I know how the story goes. Anise kawaii yo Anise! Faithful to the game, but can they do it all in 26 episodes?


Tamako kawaii yo Tamako

Tamako kawaii yo Tamako


Kemeko Deluxe
Read the first volume of the manga. Director Tsutomu Mizushima (Dokuro-chan, Dai Mahou Touge, Hare Guu) = chaos as expected. OP and ED are this season’s tops in crazy stuff — I agree with the bit in the ED about Freud being a perverted old man. Chiwa Saito at her best(?). Rie Kugimiya’s non-tsundere characters are always amusing.


Index bunny. Cute

Index bunny. Cute


To Aru Majutsu no Index (HD)
Shana? Light novel anime means much explanation of setting. But I’m okay with it since Index and Komoe-sensei are so cute. Though Komoe-sensei could cut back just a bit on the smoking and drinking. It ruins the loli teacher image (^^;;

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