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Apr. 10th, 2012 @ 11:20 am
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The main problem I'm having with High School of the Dead is the same problem I have with 95% of all zombie apocalypse movies, which is that in general all of the crises and conflicts are caused by the living people being stupid. So for instance, if the characters know zombies react to sound, why the fuck are they going to have a shouting match in a crowd of zombies? I'll give it a few more chances if only because of the 豪華声優陣 and the attractive girls but otherwise it's not really doing much for me.
On a completely different note... those of you who live in the US may remember the series of Old Spice commercials featuring Terry Crews, AKA the President from Idiocracy from a few years ago. Recently somebody uploaded these videos to Nicovideo, and just like how Americans are often fascinated by bizarre Japanese commercials, the Japanese have been fascinated by the strangeness of these commercials. The original compilations (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17444108 and http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17466816) are creeping up on a million hits and have consistently been on the ranking charts since they were uploaded.
But the real gem is Nico's meme/MAD-loving audience. So for instance you get Touhou versions of the commercials:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17467167
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17500563
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm17484686
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17478567
Mashups with Japanese commercials:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17494646
Putting him in Rhythm Heaven:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17483463
And numerous well-known songs:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17509012 (Totoro Theme)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17470022 (Hakugin Disco from Nisemonogatari)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17482612 (Those who Fight Further from FF7)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17465194 (Tai-buki Boss Battle from Super Mario RPG)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17486682 (Kono Ki, Nan no Ki)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17493229 (The "Tettette~" theme from Idolmaster)
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/5945.html.
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Apr. 8th, 2012 @ 12:47 pm
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I sure don't post much anymore, do I? Then again I think the number of readers for LJ/DW has dropped in general. It's a little sad though, cause LJ was always what I reserved for fanboyish life updates pertaining to games or anime or whatnot while Facebook and so on was for more "normal" posts.
Anyway.
Played the Madoka PSP game. It's fun if you're a fan of the series. Otherwise I don't think anybody would like it.
Shows I recently watched:
Black★Rock Shooter Short run, only 8 episodes. It was pretty good, though kind of weird.
Nisemonogatari Eleven episodes, just finished. Bakemonogatari was really good (incidentally I heard that they announced they were bringing Bakemonogatari to the States at Sakuracon this weekend). Nisemonogatari is pretty good too. I really should read the original light novel series, it seems pretty damn popular. They've announced that they're making a movie out of Kizumonogatari and that they're working on a new series as well, so this will be long-going.
Fate/Zero Second Season Yesssssssss. Been waiting for this for months. The new OP is pretty fantastic, though I'm still debating in my head as to whether it's better than the first season's. I still can't get over how good the first season's OP sequence fits along with "oath sign" as the song.
Lupin III: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna I was shocked to hear a new Lupin III series was coming. For those not familiar with it, it's a classic manga series that has had several anime series and 10+ movies/OVAs associated with it. The first two TV series were in the mid-'70s, the third one was in the mid-'80s, so yeah, to have a new TV series in 2012 is pretty incredible. And Mine Fujiko is Miyukichi this time around!
High School of the Dead Not a new show, but one that I recently started watching. The main heroines are Inoue Marina, KitaEri, and Miyukichi, so yeah, of course I was going to give it a chance. I'm not sure that it's any good so far though, guess we'll see.
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/5643.html.
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Mar. 23rd, 2012 @ 09:05 pm
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Japan needs to stop making Madoka music videos that make me cry.
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/5621.html.
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Mar. 21st, 2012 @ 08:15 pm
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Haven't posted in awhile. Busy as usual.
So, among other things, I watched Kannazuki no Miko recently. As opposed to what Maiki thinks, no, I didn't watch it because some girl told me to :P I've heard that it is somewhat of a cult favorite here for being one of the few yuri anime to make it to the States. I didn't really know anything about it though, other than you'll see tons of parody artworks of the ending sequence for both yuri and yaoi (and some straight too, I suppose) couples.
The series overall though was kind of a mess. It's part yuri... part shounen mecha series. If that sounds discordant to you, then yeah, pretty much. There's a lot of sudden things that develop which I'm sure may be better-explained in the original manga. It's not particularly memorable otherwise... although it is pretty refreshing to have a series where the lead male and lead female characters don't end up being the canon couple, and it's the two female leads that are the canon.
Oh, the music is an exception though. The opening theme is Re-sublimity by KOTOKO, and the ending is agony by the same, and both tracks are really good.
Last episode of Black Rock Shooter airs this week, if I am not mistaken, and Nisemonogatari just finished. I have some catching up to do... Fate/Zero comes back in April!
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/5306.html.
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Mar. 5th, 2012 @ 11:47 pm
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http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/5957700.html
So, the mystery as to why the Lollipop Chainsaw trailer had two voices for Juliet is revealed... for some reason, the PS3 and 360 versions of the game have different lead seiyuu! Juliet is Hikasa Youko on the PS3 version, and Kitamura Eri on the 360 version.
I have to say, that's probably the first time I've heard of the PS3/360 versions of the game having different seiyuu despite being in the same language. But options, I guess? Maybe ![[profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) rumichan will be interested in the PS3 version now, heh. Conversely...
Did I mention, that Kitamura Eri is rapidly becoming one of my favorite seiyuu? I'm really annoyed that this is developing AFTER AX 2011, where I actually met her, though at the time I was only moderately familiar with her and I wasn't really a huge fan of anything she'd done at that point (Juri in Street Fighter, Alleyn in Queens Blade, Yui in Angel Beats etc.). But fastforward to 2012 and you have her being Sayaka in Madoka, and Karen in Nisemonogatari, two of my favorite characters in recent years. She's got some good range, spanning everything from the cute moeblob girl (Yui) to the sadistic psycho villain (Juri). And you know, she's not just a good seiyuu but an interesting person too; thinking about her talk event at AX, she was really good at working the crowd and being an interesting host, compared to say, Horie Yui's panel where the MC just lead things. Her twitter is fairly entertaining too, not quite as randomly entertaining as Sugita's, but then again, few people are. So yeah. I have a Kitamura Eri autograph from AX, which is great, but it's on ToraDora CD which I don't really have strong feelings for one way or the other.
Anyway, interesting news. I wonder who the rest of the cast will be. I'm pretty sure I heard Okamoto Nobuhiko (Accelerator from To Aru) in the trailer, his voice is pretty distinctive.
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/4935.html.
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They announced the results of the 6th annual Seiyuu Awards!
http://seiyuawards.jp/201203/02020000.php
Best Male Lead:
Hirata Hiroaki (Tiger & Bunny - Kotetsu; One Piece - Sanji)
Best Female Lead:
Yuuki Aoi (Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica - Madoka; A Channel - Tooru; GOSICK - Victorica; Last Exile - Giselle; Ben To - Hana)
Best Male Supporting:
Kimura Ryouhei (Haganai - Kobato; Kimi to Boku - Yuuki)
Miyano Mamoru (Uta Prince - Kiya; Steins Gate - Okabe; Dog Days - Izumi)
Best Female Supporting:
Katou Emiri (Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica - Kyuubei; Denpa Otoko - Ryuuko; Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu - Hideyoshi; Ben To - Ayame; YuruYuri - Sakurako)
Best New Male:
Eguchi Takuya
Matsuoka Yoshitsugu
Best New Female:
Kayano Ai
Mikami Shiori
The awards define "new" as "debuting within the last 5 years", so ample room for selection there. There's numerous other awards too. One of the winners of the Special Award category this year was Kawakami Tomoko... rest in peace :(
One of the major criticisms the Seiyuu Awards gets every year is that the major awards (including the ones above) include public voting as part of the criteria, and in general sometimes a seiyuu gets voted up not because they are a particular good seiyuu but because they happen to do an extremely popular character that year. For instance, this year Hirata Hiroaki really only did Kotetsu, and he's had Sanji as an ongoing role. Kimura Ryouhei also basically just had his role in Kimi to Boku (I doubt anybody voted for him for Haganai), and if I'm not mistaken both characters were extremely popular among slash fangirls. Compare this to for instance Yuuki Aoi, Miyano Mamori, or Katou Emiri, all of whom had multiple big name roles in 2011 - they seem a little bit more deserving of an award for making big splashes last year. Oh, and also showing that slash fangirl voting may have a disproportionate role - the winner for this year's Singing Award, which in the past has gone to the likes of Mizuki Nana or Chihara Minori, this year went to the entire Uta no Princesama cast. LOL. They aren't particular good or bad singers one way or the other, but yeah, they are really damn popular with the fangirls. Not the first time it's happened though; several years ago the winner was the Haruhi cast, then in 2009 it was the K-On cast.
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/4609.html.
Mar. 1st, 2012 @ 05:36 pm
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Going along with that Disney theme... this video is like 5 years old but on the off chance that some of you have never seen it before:
This guy sings A Whole New World... both the male and female parts. And he's a damn good singer too. He has a whole series of these actually.
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/4544.html.
Feb. 29th, 2012 @ 09:06 pm
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Now that they've started releasing Madoka here, I wonder what they'll do with the ED for Episode 9. On the BluRay release, they changed it from Magia to a duet song by Kitamura Eri/Nonaka Ai (Sayaka and Kyoko's seiyuu), as if the episode wasn't tearjerking enough.
The Madoka PSP game is coming out soon. About two and a half weeks now? If you go to the About section of the game's website, then click on the last entry in the left hand column, you can see some of the special moves for each character. Kyoko has a "Kuu kai?" move complete with apple, apparently. Whereas Sayaka has a berserk mode...
Random thoughts, don't mind me.
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/4090.html.
Feb. 27th, 2012 @ 06:19 am
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Hey Los Angeles pals:
In about two weeks (week of March 5th or thereabouts) I'll be visiting LA to try and find a place to live for when I move out there in June. If anybody could put me up for a few nights, that'd really be appreciated. And even if not, I'd love to see/hang out with y'all while I'm in town.
...it occurs to me I've never even rented a car before. Oh geez, this'll be a world of new experiences.
Originally posted at http://doctorfaust.dreamwidth.org/3690.html.
Feb. 20th, 2012 @ 10:36 pm
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