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Spring 2008 Anime: Piece by Piece
As it seems I’m never going to finish the post I’ve had in queue for a few weeks about the new anime season I thought I’d divide it up into bite sized chunks and pick at it until it goes away. I’ll be talking about one show per day (or per Mainichi update, which might not be the same thing) until there aren’t any more interesting shows left, the season ends, or my terminally short attention span wanders elsewhere. First up on the chopping block: Macross Frontier.
Macross Frontier
- Production Studio: Satelight
- Genre: SF musical mecha action romance
- Overlord: Kawamori Shouji
- Director: Kikuchi Yasuhito
- Series Composition: Yoshino Hiroyuki
- Character Designer: Ebata Risa / Takahashi Yuuichi
- Doujin Potential: some
- Figure Potential: bishoujo figures? maybe. valkyries? hell yes.
Moody pretty boy pilot meets energetic and innocent part-Zentradi wannabe idol. As humankind’s colonial ambitions expand their reach to the furthest corners of the galaxy, can a colony survive the onslaught of a mysterious alien menace? Only through the power of song and rapidly transforming CG mecha, baby. With designs from the feminine hand behind [ERO] Hitozuma Kasumi-san, direction from the creator of cult favorite mid-life crisis HARD ROCK SAVES THE SPACE anime Black Heaven, music from Kanno Yoko, and a budget seemingly the size of a small moon a space station a Macross colony, how could it possibly fail?
… oh yeah, that Kawamori guy…
Regardless, this is one of the series I’m most anticipating this season.
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Ero News
- Suzuki Mirano’s Renketsu Houshiki ep. 2 [SCHOOL] on sale May 30th
- Mogudan spotted in new Studio Zealot doujinshi (Comic1 2 release)
- Key’s 18+ conversion of Little Busters gets a new heroine, Tokido Saya
- Discovery’s Aniyome wa Ijippari ep. 1 on sale April 18th, demo movie online
Nuketan: Words you can Fap to
Eroanime studio Pink Pineapple has taken the novel approach of promoting their April 25th package release Kojin Jugyou ep. 1 (based on the Kino Hitoshi manga by the same name) with an online phrasebook of erotic English they’re calling “Nuketan” (short for nukeru tango ヌケる単語, or “words you can fap to”). The phrasebook contains a word entry for every letter of the alphabet, complete with pronunciation guide, .wav file, and example English sentences such as that for the letter M: “Can’t the energy generated by his masturbation be used for something useful?” Probably the most intelligible one on the list, in hindsight, though the one for WXY evokes fond memories of Genshiken.
Related affiliate item: Kino Hitoshi eromanga
Today’s Mainichi Junk entry brought to you by the letter M
DLsite Recommendations
- Eromanga – Kaitou Blue Rice Child by Oohashi Takayuki
- CG Collection – Futari no Nikki by Maniac Street
- Eroge – Kiss x 400 by Winters, designs by INO
- CG Collection – Nama Shoujo 28 by Otohime (loli)
Now that DLsite’s bookstore is open I’ll be shamelessly mining it as well for eromanga selections deemed recommendable. I’m just starting to realize the true potential of this crazy DLsite thing… the purchasing FAQ, while already slightly deprecated, should still work fine for those interested in taking the plunge.
KAWAMORI!
I’m of the opinion that shortly after Escaflowne was done, Shoji Kawamori was abducted by aliens who removed the part of his brain that prevented him from making terrible shows.
Now we will see if they have given it back to him.
I’ve been lurking and buying from DLsite (english) since a while ago and I still don’t understand why it doesn’t get more attention.
Yes, some of the better stuff can be found in the net, but some people with very specific tastes can find great stuff in there along with good yet obscure stuff. And yes, I’ll forever blast’em for not accepting parody works from foreginers, but still, it is a great option.
Hopefully your FAQ and word-of-mouth will get it rolling for international costumers. (Also Shingo, I think you should update the HD Affiliates links in the left sidebar to add DLsite and CDJapan, so I can get to those sites through HD)
Also, gotta love the “doujin/figure potential” in your anime reviews; what about speculating what doujin circles will do which series? :P
The Nuketan stuff had me laughing hard.
Such masterful use of language:
“She launched the banana to the seats by pressure of the queef.”
hahaha! shingo you should do every single letter!
>>lostdog
I must confess that I’m rather partial to Arjuna (I know, shoot me now) but Macross Zero was the worst Freudian drivel ever written. Great to watch with friends while intoxicated, though.
>>Nemo_N
Is your br…. oh, there in the links. Right, I’ll do that. Thanks for the reminder! For now, you can check out the upper end of the left sidebar – links to all current affiliates can be found there, as graphical buttons.
Edit: Oh, and I don’t think I have the time or mind-reading capability to divine precisely what circles will draw. I may try to make a few predictions if something comes to mind, though…
>>oiokamioio
That alphabet was one of the funniest things I’ve seen all week. I can see a whole picture book in the making…
>>CMWilly
I think I’ll pass; most of them aren’t really fit to reprint. ^^;;
I would like to figure out what (aside from dollar signs) was going on in the heads of all those ‘geniuses’ who attempt to ‘adapt’ anime to live-action films. Anime is anime, and live-action is live-action. Pancakes and steak are both foods, but you don’t see anyone making steak-flavoured pancakes,do you? Mark my words, live-action ‘adaptations’ of anime will either end up as utter hokey and unwatchable excrement, or wind up so radically changed as to bear little, if any, resemblance to the original anime that you wonder why the filmmakers didn’t just write their own original story to start with.
Oh, wait. ‘Original’. That’s where they got stuck…
>>Agent Wax
My guess is that some whiz in a Hollywood marketing firm did a study and found that the “anime fandom” had reached the sort of critical mass required to form the audience base of a new type of genre flick (like superhero movies or what have you), which is why we’re seeing the explosion of new projects now.
I think it’s within the realm of possibility that projects like this could turn out a decent final product, but the likelihood is so close to zero that I’d rather bet on winning the lottery than funding the production of GitS: THE MOVIE.
Though, who knows. With nothing invested in it I’m holding out hopes that they just might get things right; I’m used to disappointment over such things but it doesn’t stop me from being optimistic to the point of sheer lunacy.
The nuketan has me Elected.
check E out…
Wow, Speilberg got the Ghost in the Shell rights?
Groooooovy.
Gonna keep an eye out for that one!
Thanx Shingo!
Annnnnnd DAMMMMM that Kanu looks awesome…..jeez could her ass be any more perfect???? =( I’m so frikkin’ broke….why couldn’t this be a PVC??
Printed Pictures will have to do……