My Lovely Ghost KANA is a short manga ( 3 volumes) about a guy named Amano Daikichi who after losing his home and job stumbles upon an abandoned apartment building where resides the ghost of a girl (Kana) who can’t remember her past. And so it’s the story of their daily life ( despite the fact that she’s a ghost) . Also they hop on like rabbits.

My Lovely Ghost KANA didn’t get much the exposure it could have gotten however. At first people jumped on it because it was written by Tanaka Yukata, yknow , the same bloke who gave us Ai-Ren ( which, I still haven’t read past chapter 2 ) , but then they quickly lost interest because it apparently didn’t have the level of life drama they wanted it to have. meh. My Lovely Ghost KANA was very Slice-of-life, nothing more, nothing less. If slice-of-life isn’t your cup of tea, you should pass, but if like Slice-of-life, then it’s definitely worth your read.

oh, also, it’s mildly heart-warming/touching and might give you a fuzzy feeling or something. there’s some daww as Kana is adorable. This definitely could / should get a one episode OVA . I’d dig Hanazawa as Kana ( See what I did thar ?!).

So yeah, give it a try if you don’t mind slice-of-life, and the hopping like rabbit part.

Woo, once again I’m late to the party. I finally started reading Yankee-Kun to Megane-Chan. It’s probably a good thing that I was late because the first chapters are so-so.

Here’s the description if knew of this manga :

“The story starts with a seemingly unassuming class rep Adachi Hana who has taken an interest in the school’s known delinquent, Shinagawa Daichi. Just what is her reason for following Daichi and wanting him to go on the class field trip?”

I somehow concluded that this manga was about some diligent Class-rep-like girl who decided to reform the class delinquent to be a fitting member of society.

BOY was I wrong !

Turns out Megane-chan is a former delinquent and a quite strong and feared one at that. And that is why she felt a connection with Yankee-Kun. Also turns out that Megane- chan, against all stereotypes…is pretty retarded. And by retarded I mean…stupid…extremely stupid.

She sucks in class ( so much that she repeated once already ) , fails to present any kind of logic, is crude, selfish, thinks with her stomach and seems to have no redeeming quality.

Well no ok, to be fair, she does have a big heart and really want to help people out.

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The story in the first 3 volumes thus follow the adventures of Yankee-Kun (Shinagawa Daichi) and Megane-Chan (Adachi Hana) trough their freshman years, and I suppose their getting accustomed to each other. Sadly, the first 2 vol are actually not that interesting.

   Things eventually get better when the 3rd gang member joins in, Chiba Seiya , the sweet , tall and shy classmate with the glare of death.

Chiba is the somewhat comic relief of the manga. He gets his own 2 chapter mini-arc in chapter 3 and 4, too suddenly be forgotten until chapter 19. Chiba suffers from frequent bullying due to his involuntary glare of death that makes him look like he picks up fight with anyone when in reality he’s pretty chicken.

Not long after that the 3 friends pass on the 2nd year and are joined by Himeji Rinka , Hana’s underclassman from her previous school who had a pretty strong entrance, and  while not as stupid as Hana, is almost as particular.

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But the real deal begins when Hana decides to be candidate for student council… yeah… a bunch of delinquent in the student council. Crazy idea right ? …Until they actually get elected. 

  They are joined by their final (gang?) member : Izumi Gaku . The second best student after Chiba…who happens to also be a former Yankee.

Interestingly enough, He and Daichi become BEST buds from the get-go.

While the formula didn’t change much and it pretty much stayed the same manga with more characters, the fact that delinquents became Student council makes the manga 10 times better simply for the Irony.

It gets better, while on a “student council retreat” during the summer, they meet the former student council.

The former president is actually a pretty cool and laid back guy……until someone calls him the forbidden word “ Girl” and he instantly turns into a blood thirsty , hungry for battle , super vicious delinquent.

It is then explained that it’s almost a tradition in the school to have a student council composed of erm “strong” elements, for the school attracts “particular” students.

But while composed of delinquents, they are actually good people with big hearts, even if they can get pretty sidetracked at times…

Helping bullied students here and there, making geeks look more confident, etc.

From to

There appears to be some sort of subplot with Hana, not being a simple girl ( or rather former delinquent), but the manga doesn’t dwelve too much into that so far. or rather , at least not what I read so far.

If you don’t read this manga yet and have some spare time, I highly recommend you start reading it.

here’s to hoping it gets an anime soon.

Music :

• Best Anime Opening

Sword of Uruk op

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Runner up : Maria+holic, Juuden, Tears to Tiara , Needless

While not having made my top 10 opening , Question? was what I believe to have been the most entertaining anime opening of 2009.

• Best Anime Ending

Sora no oto ed 2

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not comment needed.

• Best Soundtrack

Xam’d Original Soundtrack

• Best Original Score

Shin Mazinger
Runner up :  Sengoku Basara , Chrome Shelled Regios and Asura Cryin’

• Best Original Track

「聖者誕生」(Shouja Tanjou)
from the Eureka 7 movie

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• Best Original insert song

翼をください Eva 2.0

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General :

• Best Animation Movie

evangelion 2.0
runner up : Eureka 7, Gurren Lagann 2 , Summer wars

• Best OVA

Denpa teki kanojo

• Best Anime Series

Shin Mazinger

• Best Animation

Kimi no Todoke
Runner up : Higashi no Eden, Bakemonogatari, Sengoku Basara, RideBack

• Best Animation Studio

production I.G

• Best Director

shinbo

• Best Seiyuu

Marina Inoue

Particular :

• Best Drama

White album

• Best comedy

Sunred 2
Runner up : Akikkan , Maria+holic

• Best romance

kimi ni todoke
Runner up : Toradora

• Best mecha

Shin Mazinger

• Best Character

Arawn

• Best sequel

Asura Cryin’2

• Best fight(s)

Sengoku Basara

• Best Final Battle

Regios

• Best cliff hanger(s)

Shin Mazinger

• Best show ending/ conclusion

Asura Cryin’2 & Tears to tiara

runner up : Toradora

Lol posting 30 min before 2010, pics later and stuff

• Opening :

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• Ending :

I cheated a bit for this one, but for good reasons. Somehow….

[[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]]

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And that’s it for my top 10 opening and ending. Check back soon for more on 2009 ~

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I had found quite a load of creditless OP/ED yesterday , and figured I’d give a shot at making some sort of remake or, rather my own version of one of my favorite amv on youtube.

So there you go , Legend of Gundam MkII.

This was made purely for fun and my personal enjoyment, so I didn’t invest too much time or work into it, I am however pleased with the end result.

enjoy ~

Like Pegasus Seiya , I shall burn my Cosmos to the summum and save Saori-saaaaaaaaaaaaaan ~ [/random]

PS : this post is better read when listening to this :

Well , almost 2 month after my last post, I has come back…again. I should just stop kidding myself and just post whenever I actually feel like it. Though some shit happened between last time, and I wasn’t really in any position to post much. Haven’t even seen that much anime since then actually, I’m currently in the process of clearing my backlog , but it sure is a pain D:

In any case , I have a few post that I’ll need to vomit before the end of the year , and after that expect me to disappear again for a while. At least here that is. My friend Shiroth and I have a project ready for January , stay tuned for more info ~

We then go back to Shun and Raskmoon. Raskmoon wonders is she imagined things as the cosmos she felt is gone. She thus returns to her duty and is about to execute Shun when she’s hit by a feather.

She tries to retaliate , but HE stops her arrows like it’s nothing.

He , the one said to be the strongest of the bronze saint , Phoenix Ikki !

Ikki tells raskmoon that he however is not the strongest saint , that Shun is much stronger, but because of his pure heart , she is able to stand there before him.

Unimpressed, Raskmoon attack pheonix , who sends her back her arrow and promptly defeats her.

Ikki tells her that her arrow was already weakened by Shun , and thus her wound wouldn’t be fatal.

He then makes sure Shun wound’s isn’t fatal either , and leaves saying that there are still things he needs to take care of , and leaves Athena in the care of his brother.

When Shun wakes up , he finds Phoenix’s feather and knows his brother protected him.

On their side , Athena arrive at a giant lake, Hecate tells her that this is where she will meet Chronos , the god of time , the one said to be the father of Zeus .

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Awesome , Ikki , FUCK YEAH !

As usual , Ikki makes random appearances and leaves as fast as he appeared. But that’s why we love him. Actually it’d probably feel awkward if he stayed for once. However I wonder what is this thing he still needs to do.

The last time he went to talk to Pandora , this time what could it be ? Maybe he went to see Artemis ? time will tell.

I am however wondering what is going to happen concerning our friends back in the 18th century and Saori, does that mean she’s going to go back in the past and be their Athena ? if true , does that mean it was always meant to be , and the circle is complete , everything that happens has happened and will happen again ? or will they this time break the chains of time ?

Can’t wait to see what Kurumada has in store for us.

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Like last time , raw courtesy of snk-seiya.net

Magnificent, simply magnificent. The amount of badassery from the mechanical beast left to fight Kouji was extreme. It’s sad that they will soon become canon fodder, but , Kouji must go rescue his friends, Hurry Kouji ,save your friends and settle your score with Ashura !

• Bleach #237

eh , ok episode. I burst into laughter when ikaku and his zanpakuto started doing that weird dance, that was rather unexpected.

• Tokyo Magnitude #07 – 11

Caught up with this. Seriously , It was great. I really didn’t saw Yuuki dying coming. And they did a good job making us not suspect a thing until the end of episode 9.
I however would like to know of what he died. well its a minor detail , but it’d still like to know.

• one piece #417

Watch this because I wanted to see how Hancock sounded. Her seiyuu’s doing a good job id say. Nothing to add more really, go read the manga.

• Zan Sayonaya Zetsubou Sensei # 03-10

Caught up with this one too. It’s classic Zetsubou sensei , so it’s rather enjoyable. I just wish i’d know why his students keep killing him.

• Umineko #12

New arc eh, so Beato was a human before ? cool. Her teacher looked like a respectable person, actually she even looked like a respectable person. Wtf happened ?
Then there’s the Maria Issue. No really Maria…actually im tired of raging at you , I just wish I’d know why you have to be so “creepy” whenever there’s something to do with Magic. Can’t you read a letter like a normal person ?

• Princess lover! #11

“oh noes, when i was a kid , that rich man i wanted to pickpocket taught me a lesson and I never felt this much humiliated in my life before, despite being a kid and being poor. So I held on a Super grudge against him that I nourished during many years, created a terrorist organisation and hurt everything that was dear to that rich man for the sole purpose of appeasing my humiliation.”

That was cool Haltman. ….. and by cool I mean silly. no really..wtf ? see that’s what im talking about , because they for some reason needed to have “DRAMA” arc , they put this excuses of a villain. gawd. I lol’ed at him shooting Josephine. nothing this guy did made any sense , really.

• Needless #11

It’s back to the current story with a TWIST, Eve has gone 3vil ! oh noes ! <_<
the first half fight was pretty nice.There was still no yamada abuse.=/

• Bakemonogatari #11

pretty nice episode . We got to see Nadeko again , though I could have passed on that. I wanted to see some Suruga, but alas , she was busy it seems. No Senjougahara either, but Black Hanekawa made up for it. The animation was pretty slick. I wonder why Shinobu looks at chicks angrily though. Isn’t she supposed to , not have any emotions ?

• Valkyria Chronicles #24

This was an actually decent episode. we got a pretty nice fight , tough im not sure how Alicia managed to win in the end, but oh well. Sad to see Selvia go , especially this way , but at least general dickhead died too . Lol at maximilian shooting that guy I don’t remember the name of.

• Juuden #10

And here’s come the beginning of the “Drama” arc of any 12 episode/harem series. This time we have a little kid (in dire need of a good slap) running mayhem in town , and pretty much kicking everyone’s ass.
on other news, Alesta is love.

The chapter begins as Callipso ask Raskmoon, captain of the commando unit to eliminate Saori as she feels she represent a danger for the 12 olympian gods enough as it is.

While on their way to Chronos , Shun expresses doubt concerning Hecate , but as to put his distrust aside as they are being followed by Raskmoon’s unit.

Shun stays behind to confront them and easily defeats them

Raskmoon then herself appear and deafeat Shun.

But as she is about to deal a fatal blow , she feels HIS comos

his fierce and burning cosmos

The Phoenix as returned !

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Fanboy mode On :  FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YEAH !

Ikki returns !

OMG , can’t wait for the next chapter , this is going to be EPIC !

Fanboy Mode off

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Thanks to snk-seiya.net for the scans

err , 22 was half a recap episode , but was still nice has it showed back epic moments from the series ( Zeus rocket punch, Mazinger’s first rocket punch), But then episode 23 happened and fucking blew me away. So much greatest, twas truly amazing. We had some Sayaka and Kouji development , but then ending of the episode was simply subpar ! With Kanjite Knight playing as Kouji depart to face Baron Ashura, and the narrator’s comment , it was Perfect!.  Still , only 3 episodes left to go , I am beginning to wonder how they plan on wrapping it all up with a somewhat conclusive ending , if they are going to have the mazinger squad die , ankoku daishogun appear and beat the crap out of kouji , and him winning somehow…unless they end it with a “everyone died” which I’m cool with.

• Bakemonogatari 09 & 10 :

ok episodes i’d say. Suruga is really growing on me , she’s definitely my favourite character after senjougahara. I really loved the 4koma gaijin nod. The fight against the snake was actually very disappointing with all those frames about missing cuts or something. It might be art and all, but if you’re not going to animate a fight , just don’t tease us about it , and skip it altogether. I feel that I must also point that Koyomi is being an idiot with his superhero complex , but I guess some good came out of it (Senjougahara!!!!!). Oh and I wasn’t impressed by the nadeko snake opening .At all, It was just meh to me and i kept thinking during the whole song that Kana’s best role was definitely Ryoko in Zegapain and how much i would rather have had a ryoko song than a nadeko one . meh.

• Needless 10 :

a good episode, showed us how Blade and Seto met Solva, and how they became friends. it’s funny how Blade was somewhat different back then, wonder what happened to him in the meantime. This episode however lacked the crucial Yamada abuse I long so much for =/

• Tears to Tiara 23 :

still got nothing to say , tears to tiara is one of these shows i sit back and enjoy , can’t find anything that really annoys me now that Arthur straighten up.

• Bleach 236 :

This was actually a decent episode. We got to learn why Zantegsu decided to fight against ichigo , Renji defeated his Zanpakuto, but then we learn that Muramasa was controlling them…by uh, releasing their inner desire or something which didn’t make any sense. Im still waiting to see where they are going with this arc, but I think i can start to guess what’s up with that Muramasa guy, and I hope it’s not as cheesy as I think it will be.

• Asura Cryin’ 09 :

Meh episode. Nothing more to say. Just , …Meh.

• Princess Lover! 10 :

What’s this ? Drama ? In my princess lover! ? Fuck Noooooooooooooooo. Well it was the inevitable Drama episode of all Harem series. I seriously dont get why they need to do that everytime. Gotta say that Haltman’s sudden smugness was hilarious. oh and no uncensored shots for you ! they are plastered all over the internet, just google it.

• Valkyria Chronicles 23 :

(shop courtesy of Sassarai)

No really , they should have just called it Fabio’s Chronicle and be done with it.

(5:55 PM) Me: I just watched ep 23
(5:55 PM) Shiro: super hero Faldio get’s away with everything

(5:56 PM) Shiro: ALLLLLICIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(5:56 PM) Me: seriously

(5:57 PM) Me: it was like " oh Faldio , I know you kidnapped me , pointed a gun at my head and all , but it was for the greater good , please , go and live an happy life ~" followed by " I know faldio shot me and all , i could have died if he was wrong , but it was for the greater good , please let him have a peaceful life forever like the hero he is , actually , you should make him king"

(5:58 PM) Shiro: yeah, seriously awful

(5:58 PM) Me: oh and team 7 was like

(5:59 PM) Me: " k guys , so remember when be bitched on her last week ? yeah i don’t get it , why wont she reply to us ? it’s not like was our fault she was scary. "

(5:59 PM) Shiro: haha yeah
(5:59 PM) Shiro: I know, so bad

(6:02 PM) Me: im totally expecting now to learn in the epilogue that he marries cordelia

(6:03 PM) Shiro: if that happens, i know i won’t stop laughing into the day i die

I think this sums pretty much my impressions of episode 23. Obviously the Drama continues , but it’s getting old now.

• Umineko 11 :

ah well , this was somewhat disappointing. I can’t find any sort of liking to any of the characters in this show save for Shannon , George, Jessica and Battler. So this was a pretty meh episode for me. I’m just sad they didn’t kill Rosa. But what’s more saddening is that even in death Maria finds the way to irritate me. dammit Maria , dammit. I gotta admit the whole serving Rosa’s plate made from her family was well played from Beato, It’s all well deserved and all. I just didn’t get how Battler suddenly reappeared , that made no sense to me. Gotta say he disappointed me in giving up so soon, still ,how was he allowed to come back ? meh.

• Juuden 09

Well this was a usual Judden episode doing it’s job at entertaining me. I love how everyone is getting addicted to Sentou’s bat, but I really love how Alesta is the one who wants it the most.