Saimoe Again

It’s voting time again.

And crap now that I see this thing I notice I failed to vote in the Index vs C.C arena >.<; Now if C.C wins I’ll feel bad because I didn’t vote for Index. T^T

ARENA 01: [Furude Rika] Kawashima Ami

ARENA 02: Kawasumi Mai [Furude Hanyū]

ARENA 03: Mizunashi Akari [Kushieda Minori]

ARENA 04: [Nagato Yuki] Nagi

ARENA 05: [Kōzuki Kallen] Fujibayashi Kyō

ARENA 06: Ryōgi Shiki [Ryūgū Rena]

ARENA 07: Minase Nayuki [Aisaka Taiga]

ARENA 08: Alice Carroll [Katsura Hinagiku]

ARENA 09: Shinku [Izumi Konata]

ARENA 10: [Furukawa Nagisa] Kamio Misuzu

ARENA 11: [Louise Vallière] Kurata Sayuri

ARENA 12: [Vita] Sakagami Tomoyo

ARENA 13: [Hakurei Reimu] Takamachi Nanoha

ARENA 14: Suzumiya Haruhi [Ibuki Fūko]

ARENA 15: [Fate Testarossa] Katagiri Yūhi

ARENA 16: Hiiragi Kagami [Misaka Mikoto]

ARENA 17: [Illyasviel von Einzbern] Holo

ARENA 18: Hinamori Amu [Saber]

ARENA 19: [Hiiragi Tsukasa] Kawazoe Tamaki

ARENA 20: [Patchouli Knowledge] Evangeline McDowell

ARENA 21: C.C. [Abstained] Index Prohibitorum

ARENA 22: [Ichinose Kotomi] Anya Alstreim

ARENA 23: Kinomoto Sakura [Yagami Hayate]

ARENA 24: Tsukimiya Ayu [Shameimaru Aya]

ARENA 25: Chiba Kirino [Maria]

ARENA 26: Suigintou [Misaka Shiori]

ARENA 27: Asahina Mikuru [Remilia Scarlet]

ARENA 28: [Chii] Suiseiseki

ARENA 29: Sawatari Makoto [Konjiki no Yami]

ARENA 30: Kasuga “Ōsaka” Ayumu [Shana]

ARENA 31: [Sunohara Mei] Tōsaka Rin

ARENA 32: [Sanzen'in Nagi] Kirisame Marisa

Saimoe 2

Latest Saimoe Matchups

ARENA 01: Patchouli Knowledge [Takamachi Nanoha]

ARENA 02: Shinku [Nagi]

ARENA 03: C.C. [Saber]

ARENA 04: Alice Carroll [Index Prohibitorum]

ARENA 05: Chiba Kirino [Fujibayashi Kyō]

ARENA 06: Ibuki Fūko [Sakagami Tomoyo]

ARENA 07: [Sanzen'in Nagi] Aisaka Taiga

ARENA 08: [Hiiragi Kagami] Maria

ARENA 09: [Vita] Misaka Shiori

ARENA 10: [Kasuga “Ōsaka” Ayumu] Kawashima Ami

ARENA 11: [Hinamori Amu] Suiseiseki

ARENA 12: [Kōzuki Kallen] Yagami Hayate

ARENA 13: Sawatari Makoto [Tōsaka Rin]

ARENA 14: Louise Vallière [Shana]

ARENA 15: Mizunashi Akari [Holo]

ARENA 16: Tsukimiya Ayu [Kinomoto Sakura]

ARENA 17: Minase Nayuki [Izumi Konata]

ARENA 18: [Furukawa Nagisa] Remilia Scarlet

ARENA 19: [Ichinose Kotomi] Shameimaru Aya

ARENA 20: Ryōgi Shiki [Misaka Mikoto]

ARENA 21: Kawasumi Mai [Katsura Hinagiku]

ARENA 22: [Chii] Anya Alstreim

ARENA 23: Kawazoe Tamaki [Suzumiya Haruhi]

ARENA 24: [Hiiragi Tsukasa] Kushieda Minori

ARENA 25: [Hakurei Reimu] Kirisame Marisa

ARENA 26: [Illyasviel von Einzbern] Katagiri Yūhi

ARENA 27: [Fate Testarossa] Kurata Sayuri

ARENA 28: Suigintou [Evangeline McDowell]

ARENA 29: Asahina Mikuru [Ryūgū Rena]

ARENA 30: Sunohara Mei [Kamio Misuzu]

ARENA 31: [Furude Rika] Konjiki no Yami

ARENA 32: [Nagato Yuki] Furude Hanyū

Saimoe International

It’s Saimoe time again.
and randomly, my votes were ::

ARENA 01: Shameimaru Aya [Sunohara Mei]
ARENA 02: Tsukimiya Ayu [Alice Carroll]
ARENA 03: [Hiiragi Kagami] Suzumiya Haruhi
ARENA 04: [Misaka Mikoto] Minase Nayuki
ARENA 05: Furude Hanyū [Illyasviel von Einzbern]
ARENA 06: Ryūgū Rena [Sanzen'in Nagi]
ARENA 07: Nagi [Mizunashi Akari]
ARENA 08: Suiseiseki [Furude Rika]
ARENA 09: Konjiki no Yami [Vita]
ARENA 10: [Saber] Kasuga “Ōsaka” Ayumu
ARENA 11: [Maria] Shinku
ARENA 12: [Yagami Hayate] Kawasumi Mai
ARENA 13: Kawashima Ami [Ibuki Fūko]
ARENA 14: Anya Alstreim [Abstained] Sawatari Makoto
ARENA 15: Remilia Scarlet [Hakurei Reimu]
ARENA 16: [Index Prohibitorum] Louise Vallière
ARENA 17: [Kōzuki Kallen] Asahina Mikuru
ARENA 18: Takamachi Nanoha [Holo]
ARENA 19: Kurata Sayuri [Abstained] Misaka Shiori
ARENA 20: Fujibayashi Kyō [Nagato Yuki]
ARENA 21: Katagiri Yūhi [Abstained] Evangeline McDowell
ARENA 22: Chiba Kirino [Abstained] Ryōgi Shiki
ARENA 23: Ichinose Kotomi [Abstained] C.C.
ARENA 24: Katsura Hinagiku [Fate Testarossa]
ARENA 25: [Tōsaka Rin] Suigintou
ARENA 26: [Chii] Hinamori Amu
ARENA 27: Kinomoto Sakura [Furukawa Nagisa]
ARENA 28: [Izumi Konata] Hiiragi Tsukasa
ARENA 29: Kirisame Marisa [Kushieda Minori]
ARENA 30: [Shana] Sakagami Tomoyo
ARENA 31: [Kamio Misuzu] Patchouli Knowledge
ARENA 32: [Aisaka Taiga] Kawazoe Tamaki

Another treasure from danbooru

I was digging through danbooru the other day and found soemthing so awesome I’ve now got it everywhere I can put it. Twice in a couple places. (PSP, has the .mp3 and the video)
Now I should explain a bit. This isn’t a ‘music video’ in the mtv version of the word. This just happens to be a flash containing music, a picture for a background and some text that scrolls by. And is in moon runes.
The song itself is… well. <.< One needs to be able to tolerate a cute sounding girl or two singing about exceedingly perverted things. Done with her brother. The song is, for lack of a better word, obscene. Exceedingly so, which is probably why it’s so funny. Or perhaps I just like the engrish ‘fellatio fakku!’ about thirty seconds in. Or maybe the part where they pseudo rap and half of it is dirty sound effects.
Seriously, not a song to play around a normal member of society, presuming of course they have a grasp of japanese. If they don’t though crank it up and grin like a Cheshire cat because they have no idea. Or you could tone it down a bit and play Tsurupettan… or both.
The lyrics to the song are… well. <.< I’ll sum it up with one line later in that goes “Onii-chan we can have a baby.” And that’s a tamer chunk of the song.
So here’s the song.

I have no idea who it’s by or what it’s called. I wish I did. Freaking hilarious, not that I condone any of what goes on in the song… at least not with *my* sister. ;p Someone else’s though… or if she’s just calling me onii-chan. <.<

Merry 11 days until christmas.

rage, rage against the dying of the light

Please share a moment of silence with me whilst I mourn the fact that while my computer WILL in fact play Subterranean Animism… it’s at 2fps… which makes it by far not worth it. T^T

Get it here if you haven’t already.

Manga splurge

Well, after spending the work week in “The City” I raidied the local book store every day after work and managed to aquire the entirety of the Pretty Face manga. Which I recalled hearing about a whole bunch somewhere around eight years ago, when it was new and not in english form yet. A particular piece of the Megatokyo (www.megatokyo.com) mentioned it in a blog of his on the comics site and iirc he translated it to a script form. So I saw it on the shelf and figured “oh, hey, I think I heard of that.” And indeed I had.

Pretty face is about a dude named Rando. He’s this absurdly strong little guy. Very violent and well everything you’re not supposed to be. He has a crush on this girl blah blah blah, enter horrible bus accident and he wakes up looking exactly like the girl he likes. Because his face was screwed up so horribly it had to be entirely reconstructed… and they found the picture of that girl in his wallet and crazy scientist guy made him look like that. It gets way better from there; the girl Rando likes, Rina, had a twin sister, and they think he’s her. he plays along for zod only knows what reasons and decides he’ll go looking for Rina’s real sister, whose name is yuna btw, and yeah. Most of the comedy here is the result of the fact that Rando is now a trap…. ie, a ‘girl’ who is actually a guy. (The polar opposite being a reverse-trap, girl who looks like a guy. See “Fujioka Haruhi” of Ouran Highschool Host Club for an example)

Apart from those 6 volumes I picked up Welcome to the NHK vol 2, the Third vol 2, and yubisaki milk tea vols 6 & 7.

The Yubisaki is entirely an impulse buy. >.> Volume 6 had some art on the back that made me pick it up and well yeah. I’m weak to dfc okay?

On a much more random note I also picked up Iced Earth’s new album “The Crucible of Man: Soemthing Wicked Part 2″ Yeah I know, not anime related at all, but hey they did do an entire album centered around spawn, who as we all know originated in comic books… which is essentially what manga is. Because we all know “graphic novel” is just a facy way of saying either, comic book, or picture book but picture book doesn’t serve my devices near as well. >.>

RAGE!

So I go to my “local” book store fully intending to buy another issue of Shugo Chara because… well that’s what I do. The ‘what the hell?’ looks I get from employees who haven’t run into me before are hilarious. But alas they didn’t have any, heck they hadn’t even restocked that title since the last time I was there and bought… whichever one I bought last I don’t even remember where I am. >.< So in my rage I bought volume one of Welcome to the NHK and volume… something of DearS because it was in the 5$ mini-shelf along with a billion volumes of Slayers. At least I got something by Peach Pit…

I haven’t posted in forever but I was busy living in the middle of nowhere for three or so weeks. Not that I don’t live in the middle of nowhere to begin with, but that place was even more nowhere than here.

Found something on a Danbooru raid.

Well that should whet your appetite for this absurdly awesome version Miku… I have no idea when or why but DO WANT! I was lurking around an irc channel and someone mentioned danbooru and ads, something I’d never seen before (thank you lolifox, for blocking that crap) and I started two day raid, yesterday I just wandered around comparing the place to moe.imouto and then stumbled across brs miku and proceeded to grab every picture I could possibly find of her. (Today has consisted of mostly Saber searching, some Vita, some Illya and now Agrias…)

Apparently it spawned from a niconico video. (youtube version for the nico-less) Checking the comments there’s a claim that it’s not an alt. Miku but an original character. Looking at her though either it is an alt. or very heavily inspired by here.

Subs vs Dubs aka ‘The state of the DVD case 2′

Now anyone who knows me, or has been into the ‘About’ section… or read a few posts knows one thing.

I’m anti-dub. Now of course this means a lot of people are going to decide to stop reading right there because I’m an anime downloading pirate who’ll not pay for anything any chance he gets. I obviously don’t really care about anime blah blah blah and I just nitpick dubs because I’m a weeabo, wapanese, japanophile … whatever other terms there are to negatively imply my Japan worship.

This isn’t entirely true. I’ve bought some anime, but I have rules… well… mainly I buy it whenever it’s priced normally. Which means I’m not paying near fifty bucks for one disc that contains three, and if I’m really lucky, four episodes. And heck I buy manga all the time at store values. Not much mind you, three volumes of Shugo Chara, one volume of The Third and one volume of Shrine of the Morning Mist (which was on sale for about five bucks) But manga quality is good. I’ve got a whopping total of about twelve dvds of anime, one disc of Project Arms I found in Giant Tiger for under 3$ and a couple discs of Chobits and three (I think) of Mahoromatic one of Blue Gender, one of Vandread season 2, one of Dual!, three discs of Niea Under 7 and two discs of something called Great Dangaioh that I bought because it was cheap. Then technically I guess I own the Appleseed cg remake… and I bought Howls Moving Castle for my sister… and I have Princess Mononoke on vhs somewhere. One needs to keep in mind at least half of what I watch has or will never be ‘localized’ for North America. then again Higurashi no Naku Koro ni got turned into “When They Cry” So pretty much anything is possible.

See popular opinion of us people who’re anti-dub is that we all just want anime for free… which isn’t the case for all of us, though I won’t pretend that part of our numbers feel that way. I’d be willing to shell out the same money they want for a dubbed DVD for one that just had the .jp audio and subtitles. Well presuming they start adding stuff to the DVD’s again. Mini-posters, keychains all that random collectible stuff they get over in Area Eleven, we want it two you jerks. Heck I’d start buying regular price dubs if they included stuff with the dvd. Face it, as a continent we get gypped. The onyl DVD’s in my collection that had something were Mahoromatic, Chobits and one of the three Niea Under Seven’s. Which gives me four mini posters and one paper doll… erm not paper dall… those little paper people where you fold them and there’s backgrounds and they stand up after. Not one of those little punch out things with various outfits you can put on it… though I wouldn’t mind a couple of those. >.> What?

Then there’s the other major flaw a lot of us find other than voice actors lacking talent and being overused. (This of course ignores those dubs that have gone and hired actual talent, like the Disney version of Howls Moving Castle, which had Billy freaking Crystal in it.) Like I said I like them (well I said don’t mind) when they’re done right. Oddly enough my sister hated the english Howls Moving Castle… one of the whole three dubs I didn’t mind. Then of course there’s the issue our man Rets brings up. THat’s a link to a webcomic and if you don’t like cussing I advise you to avoid it… and like anything I link to it’ll open in a new window… or tab if your browser is capable of it… but if it’s not you need to be slapped in the face anyway.

I like Mistakes of Youth… Heck first ever got there because of Kodomo no Jikan scans

I’m done my mini rant now… mostly because I need to get to the store before it closes and I have to finish watching a few episodes of Abenobanshi so that I can watch more MacGuyver… and there’s dishes that need to be washed. And you should feel happy I babbled on and on for another three or four hundred words but I removed most of it because it was cost comparing and in general repetition of these earlier thoughts of ‘I want the product to match what I pay for it’ Which is why I outright refuse to buy anime discs that are priced over 20$ running time is less than a movie, it should priced less than one dammit. Just because ooooooh you imported it from Japan and re-recorded your own audio for it… wait a tic that means you did practically none of the work, you spent far far less than those guys who made that movie did and they want twelve dollars and forty seven cents for it. “But we have a smaller market!” Yeah, and it’s shrinking all the time because you guys ask a lot of money for your product and apparently don’t give a flying fu….rry little squirrel about the quality of your dub. Yeah that means less and so less money you can spend to dig yourselves out of that little hole.

(and I was done ranting >.> anyway some recent dubs have been okay, When They Cry, what I heard of it was good and the new Haruhi too but I haven’t bought any of that, largely due to never seeing any though, as opposed to price. Without a credit card this stuffs hard to track down in the middle of nowhere Canada.

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Make sure you vote in this character brawl. There’s actually only one Arena that gave me trouble, that being when I had to choose between Vita-chan and Nagi from Hayate no Gotoku. Aside from that I either like one character more than the other or didn’t know their competitor was from, either that or I knew neither of them. There’s 32 arenas total and you MUST VOTE IN AT LEAST 4 ARENAS! Yes Bold *and* Italics… I dare to tread there because it’s important. It’s on that page (as is a suggestion to bookmark it in case the main site goes down) but it bears repeating as most people don’t read the rules.