iBleach

Bleach or iBleach??

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all hail britannia!

Ever been confused what the differences between Great Britain, Britain, England and the United Kingdom were? Well, I certainly have. Especially after watching some of that Code Geass anime a while ago. It’s a good watch, really. Each episode is about 40 minutes, so if you multiply that by 12, you get around 8 hours of Japanese anime goodness. But wait, there’s more!

Quick side note. Check this out. And rest in peace Billy Mays.

There are currently two seasons, so you get a total of 16 hours worth of giant mechas fighting with grapple hooks and medieval lances retrofitted to tear through titanium armor and energy shields.

Now back on topic.

Let’s look at each of these terms individually.

1. Great Britain is the 9th largest island on the face of the globe, situated next to the island of Ireland.
2. Britain is the commonly spoken variation of the United Kingdom.
3. England is the southern part of Great Britain, the island. Welcome to The Island.
4. United Kingdom is the country, or a “sovereign state” as stated on good ol’ Wikipedia, and is more formally known as the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.

God Save the Queen. That is all.

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Is romance really that evil?

Title: School Days

Type: Drama, Romance, Tragedy, School Life, Anime, Horror

Author: Overflow

Artist: Sakazuki Homare

The story revolves around a love triangle between the male protagonist, Makoto, and two girls in his year, Kotonoha and Sekai.

Makoto develops an interest in Kotonoha, and although they both take the same train to school, she seems to be unaware of his existence. One of his classmates and close friend, Sekai, gets the two together, but apparently, she seems to have strong feelings for Makoto.

Now this is a really nice story, simple, fun, with love in the air. I personally feel that love triangle are really awkward, heck I’ve never been in one and I sure as heck don’t wanna be in one…..

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Especially after reading this…. well… the ending…especially the….ending…..

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shiver….

I think the most horrifying horror stories are those of real life….

I’m still shivering….

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Anime Eyes

AKIRA (male)

Creating the eye style in AKIRA is not unlike forming an 8-sided polygon, the difference being rounded corners. The eye lids are simple enough that both eyes can be drawn with just two strokes.

The eye structure used in the anime AKIRA is very simple in nature. Basically, you have a top lid, bottom lid, and the iris.

If you want to classify this style of eye, it’s called abbreviated realism. Manga style eyes or “big eyes” as they’re sometimes called, is not abbreviated realism. The difference between the two styles can be determined by comparing them to the real human eye structure. The closer the resemblence, the more realistic. And the farther away, the more styalized or manga it becomes.

The reason I started with an example from AKIRA was to make a point. AKIRA was created in 80s, so some may think that this style of abbreviated realism is old hat. This notion is false. If you want a recent example of abbreviated realism, just take a look at Jin-Roh, a recent release this year.

Rurouni Kenshin OVA (male)

The eye structure in Rurouni Kenshin is probably one of the more mainstream styles used today with male heroes associated with fighting or action anime. It’s important to note the major differences between male and female eyes.
Size: Male eyes are almost always smaller than female eyes. The reasoning behind this is somewhat cultural and traditional in nature.You’ve heard the saying that eyes are “windows into the soul”? Well, this applies somewhat. Larger eyes = innocence. You have nothing to hide. Smaller or narrower eyes = distrust. You’ll notice that evil characters or villains almost always have smaller eyes than the hero of a story.

// // That’s why children are always given large eyes regardless of sex to point out that they are innocent and have no experience with the evil or corrupt nature of the world. Old characters always have tiny eyes, because they have seen too much and have that squinty “wise” look.

Females in anime, on the other hand, have larger eyes to better express emotions. After all, it can be said that females are much more outwardly emotional and physically social than males.

However, there are always exceptions to the rule. If you have watched Spriggan, you’ll note that the main villain is in a child’s body. How do his eyes look? From what you’ve learned, what does that say about the character?

Rurouni Kenshin OVA (female)

The female eye is usually more detailed because they almost always have prominent eyelashes. Sometimes male characters have eyelashes, but they’re either thicker, shorter, or in very small numbers.

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (female)

While I’m on the topic of eyelashes, a note-worthy exception to the eyelash rule is Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Both male and female characters have long eyelashes. However, the difference between the two is that the male eye is usually a lot wider and vertically smaller than the female counterpart.

Important note: The author is not a natural English speaker and there is a high chance of mistakes in every way. Corrections and comments are welcome. // //

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Dance in the (Censored) Bund

Funimation announced this past week that they have acquired the rights for Dance in the Vampire Bund. Shortly after making the announcement, the Funimation representative said that the streaming and home video (DVD and BD) would be edited because of content they found “unsuitable” to release. Since this revelation, internet backlash has been immense against and for Funimation and rightly so. Sites such as Funimation’s own blog, Mania, Anime News Network, MyAnimeList and various other sites have unleashed a hell storm on Funimation.

Really, Funimation?

That being said, as its the weekend, Funimation has yet to respond to the overwhelming fan response against their decision to edit and censor anime. I expect come Monday, they will hopefully have changed their minds and will release it uncut and uncensored. If they choose to keep the current position, this will not end well for them at all. They would be considered hypocrites because they let stuff like Rin, Shin-chan, Strike Witches and various other anime series go unedited and uncensored. Do you see the hypocrisy? Its that big building that has majority share of the U.S. anime market.

I have read the first three volumes of Dance in the Vampire Bund (which is being released uncensored and uncut by Seven Seas, go to your local bookstore and buy it). I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. It’s perfectly fine. There is no nefarious agenda involved Mina’s lack of clothes. Funimation has no right to tell us, the consumer, what we can and can’t see. I’ve also seen people use the “Handley excuse” – if people actually did research on the case and dug deep, they’d see it would have nothing to do with possessing loli. ANN and various other media outlets have led you to believe it does. They’ve installed a fear factor into both us and the companies.

People, who are in support of the censorship, say it will never happen again and this is a one time deal. WRONG. They’ll do it again, and again, and again if they get away with it just once. You would be ignorant as can be to believe otherwise. That’s why you need to pick a side and not hold middle ground. You are either for censorship or against it. There is no middle ground. If you are for, I pity you and wish you the best of luck in the harsh world. If you are against it, you have my deep respect and I tip my hat to you.

I’m not calling for a boycott of all Funimation products, even though I myself am doing a semi-boycott (as in not buying expensive first releases, waiting for dirt cheap releases and collections). The less I give, the better I’ll feel. I will ask that should this be released cut and censored, to boycott it and send a message that this crap is unacceptable in 2010. I’m not expecting much, but I sincerely hope that tomorrow Funimation will issue a statement regarding the enormous outcry for this debacle. I can only hope they make the right decision – which would be to release this anime series uncut and uncensored.

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Baka to Test to Shōkanjū:Episode 9

Guess who’s come home(?)…to check on you…~…?

I thought that this was just a really fun episode. I would say it’s the best of the series, but every time I say that, the next episode always ends up even better than the last! not only was it funny, but it got a bit of character development between Yoshii and Akira out of the way. And I have to say that I really like Akira as a character. This series just has a whole cast of characters you can’t help but love(except for a select few…Miharu…). And I’m sure you’ll be able to tell I had fun watching this episode….

This episode focused on Yoshii’s sister Akira coming down for a visit to make sure he wasn’t up to anything she would find questionable…and throughout the episode he must prove that he is responsible enough to live alone like he has for a while.

• WOW…Akira sure is blog to have changed into a bathrobe on the train.
• It seems as though Yoshii’s sister has just as much “sense” as he does…but she’s got a great body Es they’re Es!!!
• If his sister found out that Yoshii was doing all of those things she didn’t want him doing, he would definitely be out of that place of his.
• Ha-ha, Yoshii is so poor that he had sold most of his video games for food.
• That text message Yoshii sent sounded so wrong…and more BL-ness…Yoshii’s sister was even fine with him going out with someone of the same-sex as him  instead of a girl. And everyone thinks Yoshii is gay [or something] now.
• You’re the worst Yoshii! you’ve got all that porn!? XD and of course when he said his room is full of 2,000 different porn magazines, the girls offered(no demanded) to clean it all up. Kouta will even help put them away~(but more than likely he’ll walk away with a few).
• LOLZ Yoshii’s got a girlfreind~ naw….I love the “serious Himeji” I wish she was like that a bit more often.
• XDDD they all went over his house to this “girlfriend” of his, only to find bras, and panties hanging everywhere.Which leads to a “sadistic” Himeji coming out, “This bra is not your size Yoshii”. Or rather, she’s in denial.”That cotton puff is a fish-cake”.
• XDD Yoshii’s sister was the first person to realize the Hideyoshii is a guy!!! and Himeji and Minami are guys as well, but that’s because Yoshii would never be able to make friends with girls~ yeah, that makes perfect sense. But you should’ve let her think they where guys Yoshii…cuz you just lost 200 points. But he wins ten points for being “close” to Yuji.
• Yoshii, you’re the dumbest person who has ever lived!!
• Because you have no brotherXsister/incest porn, you lose 10 points!
• The next day Minami arrives with a huge rack, and Himeji with pontytail. < those are two of Yoshii’s fetishes, girls with a large rack and ponytail. Your breast don’t drow like overnight Minami…you’re padding. LOLZ Kouta popped those things with a tac…she was just using balloons(so desperate)
• …he signed his name as “Alexander the Great”…I’m sure you’ll pass that mid-term test now…

But unfortunately for Yoshii(being the idiot that he is…), he fails his test, which take away the points he away towards him being able to live alone. So in the end it seems as though Akira will be staying with him for a bit.

So overall it was an excellent episode, one of the best the series has had to offer yet! But when I got to the end of the episode, it felt as though this was the last episode. Especially since the ending was omitted this time around. And I actually think that this would’ve made a nice ending to the series, not like I want it to end though…

                     

        

                

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[Anime] The reverse watching chain.

The titel of this articles comes from some rememberings of my school courses (the reverse supply chain in logistics courses). Don’t be afraid of that, I just want to explain an easy concept.
At the beginning of my toys/figures collection, I bought products following a “normal chain”:
I watch an anime -> I like the anime -> I have a favorite character from this anime -> I buy a figure of this character.
J’ai choisis ce titre en me rappelant de quelques souvenirs de cours de logistique (la reverse supply chain). N’en soyez pas effrayés, le concept qui se cache derrière est vraiment simple.
Au début de ma collection de figurines et de jouets, j’achetais les proders suivant une certaine logique :
Je regarde un anime -> j’aime l’anime -> j’ai des personnages préférés dans cet anime -> j’achète une figurine de ce personnage.

Lately I didn’t know which anime to watch… and I was guided by some crushes on PVC figures: Canaan by GSC made me watch Canaan, Akiha Shishidou by GSC made me watch Sora Kake Girl, the prototype of Mikoto Misaka made me watch Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (21 episodes to be more exact), and the one of Senjougahara-sama made me begin Bakemonogatari.
It’s half-scaring and half-understandable. Someway I would say that my interest for the Japanese culture “evolved” What about you? :p

Dernièrement, je ne savais pas quel anime regarder. J’ai au final fait des choix en prenant en compte des coups de cœur pour des figurines: Canaan de GSC m’a fait regarder Canaan, Akiha Shishidou de GSC m’a engrainé à Sora Kake Girl, le prototype de Mikoto Misaka par GSC au dernier Wonderfest m’a décidé à visionner Toaru Majutsu no Index ainsi que Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (21 épisodes en fait), et j’ai commencé Bakemonogatari à cause/grâce au proto de Senjougahara-sama.
Vous trouvez ça effrayant ? D’un point de vue personnel, je le considère comme une évolution par rapport à mon hobby pour l’univers de la japanimation. Qu’en est-il de vous ?
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