Sakura Hime Kaden Chapter 9: A Parody

Wow, er, I just disappeared on y’all, didn’t I? ^^; Sorry about that, I’d make up some excuse but honestly I just wasn’t motivated. None of the new anime interested me (except for Kimi ni Todoke), and I was mostly on a manga slump. As an apology, here be gratuitous Sawako pic:

Now, to the main point of this post: what brings me back to the animanga blogging world?

If you guessed Sakura Hime Kaden, YOU’D BE RIGHT. I’m the most predictable person ever, I know.

I was compelled by the cracktastic developments that followed in the latest chapter so I decided to neglect my many papers and studying for exams to write something for Sakura Hime Kaden. Now, before what I usually did was just post my page/panel reactions to the chapter and have commentaries at the end, but thinking about going through all the pages to do so hurt my brain. So I decided to change things up about and will from henceforth talk about each chapters in parody-style, script-format! W00t~~

And the first up on my list is the last chapter I left off: Chapter 9.

Top OP/ED Full Version – Summer 2009

Yeah, two posts this week to make up for last week? =D

So, the majority of the full versions for OP/ED of this season has been released. Hence, having heard the full versions, I picked out my favourites!

As I’m assuming everyone who listens to anime music would know, most of the time when we get the full version of the OP/ED, they end up sucking. Either the ones we hear during the Opening or Ending are the best part of the whole song and everything else is boring, or the song itself is just a repetition of those words for the next 4-5 minutes. But sometimes a full version will come along and surprise you, and you end up liking the full version over the tv version. =D

A Collection of Sports Manga Reviews

…I completely missed out on posting last week AND didn’t make it in time for this week’s monday. *hides* My excuse reason this time is actually because I’ve actually been mass-reading manga like a mofo. To be specific, sports manga. *insert shocked gasps here* Yeah, I’m gonna have to update “My Taste in Animanga” Page now… ETA: Updated, take a look

So what’s this post gonna be about? You guessed it, SPORTS MANGA REVIEWS~ =DDD

The reviews will be split into two categories: 1) Exactly My Cup of Tea and 2) Tea’s Okay, Have Doubts on the Milk & Sugar.

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Summer Anime 2009 – Mid-Season Impressions

why yes I do realize I keep missing my Monday blogging promise. Maybe I should just make it into “must blog any day within the week” promise? Sigh.

So, we’re about halfway through the summer season. Hence, Mid-Season remarks! Also, new rankings for my favourites of the season.

Just when you think the Avatar!movie news can’t get any worse

Here be slogan from the awesome racebending team:

As some of you may or may not know, the Live-Action Adaptation of Avatar is using a white-washed cast. But you know, racebending is already doing a good job telling the world why this is WRONG WRONG WRONG so go to the link and check it out. What I’m here to post about today is the news that Del Rey is going to make a “manga” out of this live-action adaptation. Here be link

I could post a long rant about why this is the stupidest idea ever, but thankfully wistfuljane has a post about it already so that I don’t have to! Go there and read it now.

Yeah, I’m boycotting this movie. Excuse me while I drop off posters in protest now.

Also? In other relevant news, we have official word from the Avatar!movie staff that They are not going to use Chinese calligraphy at all, replacing it with unreadable symbols. I think this is one of those days where I just hate people and despair at humanity.

(In conclusion, I totally suck at keeping up my blogging promises)

ETA: Pimping out International Blog Against Racism Week Because I can.

Sakurahime Kaden – Ch. 8 Recap Impressions

Wow, I barely lasted two weeks before I broke my Monday blogging promise. *dies* I tried to write up something, I really did… I just, wasn’t really feeling inspired? =/ I’ll try to keep my promise for next monday though. =D

I love how Sakura Hime Kaden always manages to get me to blog here again, even if I loathe this chapter. Seriously WTF. The only saving grace was Enju, and 1 panel of him being hot doesn’t make up for 40 PAGES OF FAIL. (it’s like Ch. 5 over again, but WORSE, SO MUCH WORSE)

But anyhow, let’s talk about the cover. I actually like it a lot, anger issues over this chapter in its entirety put aside. Their sibling-like resemblance emphasized through colour scheme! Yeah, I’m still sticking to that theory. =D

Warning: Spoilers for the whole chapter. Also, the few pics I uploaded are all in full size so depending on your connection they might take a while to load.

Top 3 OP/ED of Summer Anime 2009

I said I’d post every Monday, and just because I posted yesterday doesn’t mean I will back out on this promise no matter how tempting it was to do so. ETA: hmm, the blog thinks its tuesday, but MY clock says 11:06 PM, so this still counts as monday, y/y!? =D

As a bit of a disclaimer, I’m not going to count Bakemonogatari in this because they seem to be doing the whole New OP Every Episode thing, and I’m already incredibly biased towards that series as it is. ’sides, I figure it’d be more fun to do an examination of the OPs in that series when it has finished airing, lulz. =D

Summer Anime 2009 – Watchlist & First Impressions

You know, I don’t know why people are complaining about this Summer having a lot of “crappy” anime. I mean, this wasn’t any worse or better than the last 2 seasons. In fact, there’s actually MORE shows that I’m interested in watching this season than before. It’s been a long time since I felt inclined to follow on a weekly basis more than 2 series in one season.

Then again, this season is full of female-centric anime, and y’all should know that I love my girls, lulz.

Okay, so this post is gonna be divided into three major categories: 1) Definitely Following 2) Checking Out and 3) DROPPED for it makes my eyes bleed

Warning: I’m not particularly nice when it comes to anime shows I don’t like. ^^;

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Three Reasons Why I’m Loving Ga-Rei – Tsuina no Shou

(See? I’m keeping my blogging on Monday Promise)

Ga-Rei is one of those weird series where I love all the spinoffs but cannot stand the main series the world of Ga-Rei is based on. This is mostly because I find Kensuke extremely annoying. That, and I shipped Yomi/Kagura like a madwoman in Ga-Rei Zero, and Kensuke/Kagura pisses me off. Don’t mess with my ship, yo. D<

But we’re not here to talk about Ga-Rei, or even Ga-Rei Zero (which was epic and awesome and so much love). We’re here to talk about the relatively newly released 1^st chapter scanlation of Ga-Rei – Tsuina no Shou! =D

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*hides* Wow, it’s been a while. Trust me, I didn’t abandon this blog. It’s just, one of my book reading challenges was catching up to me (have to finish 31 more books by POC before August… shit.) so I’ve been reading whenever I wasn’t hanging outdoors with my peeps, and then I finally got myself a job and THAT sucked up all my time soooo yeah.

I was thinking of ways to motivate myself to blog here on a regular basis, and wasted a while plotting out this whole monthly schedule before I was like “SCREW THIS. Let’s just make it “Must blog every Monday” thing and get this over with”

So yes, a promise to y’all – I will blog here every Monday. If I miss a monday feel free to bring on the hate mail, or whatever. =D

And also, a list of things I will for sure blog about, aside from Sakura hime kaden, obviously. But before I get to the list, I will say this now: I read the 2nd chapter of Watashi ni xx Shinasai! and while I liked it, and am looking forward to the next chapter, I don’t really have anything to say about it that would warrant a proper recap post.

Behold, the list, in no particular order:

• MOMO (Reviews of the 2 volumes)
• Ga-Rei: Tsuina no Shou (Impression Post on First Chapter)
• Ai no Shintairiku (Review)
• Don’t Touch me (Vol Review)
• H2O (Vol Review)
• Boys Next Door (Review)
• Dear Green (Review)
• Camelot Garden (Review)
• ARISA (Rec Post)
• Aoi Hana (Ep Recap)
• Natsume Yuujinchou (Rec Post and/or Natsume Character Study)
• Hotarubi no Mori E (first 2 one-shots of anthology review)

Also, will blog about the Pixar movie Up once I watch it in 3-D. As I don’t know when I’ll get around to doing that I didn’t want to promise or guarantee anything. But yeah, LOVE that movie.

And I also read the novel version of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Homg, so good. I actually never watched the anime before having read this, but damn, it was brilliant. Unfortunately, I watched the anime right after and it seriously didn’t measure up to the epicness that was the novel… =/ *is shot by fans* I think I’ll just stick to reading the novels, eheh. ^^;

Now, if you’ll excuse me… *goes off to speed read another novel*