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GA is a class that specializes in the arts at Ayanoi High School. Kisaragi, Nodamiki, Kyoju, Tomokane and Namiko are a group of five friends who have colorful adventures and learn about art techniques. Its the anime adaption of the ongoing slice-of-life manga series “GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class” by Satoko Kiyuzuki, which premiered in 2004. Its one anime to like as it have quite intresting parts when the characters go about color type, what they made of, or what techniques all there. The technique are real stuff and usually good enough explained to a new comer to the topic to understand how it works. Also if you like to draw or to create things u might get a new impression what you can do or whats possible. But also the characters are a funny bunch. There are the hyperactive two, namly Miki Noda and Tomokane (we never got the familyname during the series). Noda images herself often as some colorful magical girl featuring a paint brush, also she love to play pranks on others, especially on the more settled Kisaragi. She also love fashion, getting alon with her small and cute looks, but on the other hand she is pretty spoiled. Tomokane is also quite hyperactive, and also does stuff together with Noda (while Noda is beeing the initator of that action for the most part), also she is also pretty tomboyish (she made me wonder for quite a while if she is maybe a trap, like a dude wearing girls clothes^^). She tends to get often into trouble during her rather explosive temperament and beeing impulsive. Then there is Namiko Nozaki, she is the tallest aswell as the oldest of the bunch. She behaves more adult then the rest and so act as the “older sister” character. She often offers assistance or scold when its needed (well, Noda and Tomokane gets it usually, but I think that was forseenable ^^). Kisaragi Yamaguchi is the opposite with her rather soft and sometimes also childish personally. So she becomes the target for the hyperactive tag team or at least gets affected by the actions of those. Matching her personality she likes natural cats (Sunekos), and so u often see her drawing them. Last but not least we have there Miyabi Oomichi (usually called “Masa” or by her family name), a shady person. Her expression seems to be the same the whole series, and no matter what she always come up with a solution or have the right thing at hand. But not enough with that she also posses strange powers like natural magnetism or the ability to control animals. She is the mysterious character, reminding me a bit on Ichijo from PaniPoni Dash!, which also was behaving pretty strange. Also speaking of weird chars, I found the idea of the Lord Chickens in G.A. pretty weird but somehow fun. The chickens are the lords of the land so are allowed to do anything and you’re not allowed to do harm to them. Also the animation styles like using those eyes without pupils which often gets used on Noda, I liked it as it made me even more lul since her expression gets so wonderful strenghtend by it. Sure it might sounds a bit scary but when you saw it you realise what I mean. All together its a quite intresting and also entertaining anime with a bunch of funny chars and lots info about art. The art infos arent getting you annoyed, rather they worked it pretty good in so it fits right into the flow of the series itself rather then making it too much like some teaching movie. I really consider to get the manga to get on with it and hope you got some intrest and check out this real good piece of anime to find out that you have the same amount of fun with it as I did. Also watch and hear the endings, they switch every episode. Every episode another char from our crew sings the ending song and so the songs vary, also there are 4 different endings. So dont just skip it like usual, also thats why I only feature one single ED this time.

Opening:

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Ending:

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So, and now watch it.

-Death

Set in a city of scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Toma Kamijo’s right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, but not his own bad luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum – all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation. [stolen from AniDB] Well, this anime is something. You have a chibi that knows every magical book and stuff, a dude with a Hand that kills all supernatural, a girl that sends flashes behind you or use her eletric powers to speed up things. Also u have have a army of clones and more weird people coming up in it. What is weird is the title if u think about it when u have watched it (its no harm if I explain it) since the most time all chars besides Index plays a bigger roll then Index. At least when the big action begins it is like this. This might be also the reason why we got a side anime featuring Biribiri. Desprite that the anime is not too bad since u have lots of fun when Biribiri gets angry again since she is lovly dovly for Toma but Index is having a big problem with that. She think of Toma as her belonging^^. But well, Biri isnt the type to admit what she feels either. Also there is there Kuroko who also have a problem with Biri getting together. Ok ok, this is a side story but its one of the lulz things and well it probably gets merged somehow into the To Aru Kagaku no Railgun anime. Damn yuri-anime, stop entering my thoughts. Back to Index, what I missed in it somehow is the big end-fight to give it an end. They fight serveral enemys during the show once Index is freed from her fate. Even they announced that there will be a big end fight but it never happens, at least none that I consider as final fight to end it all. So this anime have the problem of feeling un-finished to me. Who can get along with that feeling and still wanna have fun, should watch it. It combines good action and some comedy/romance storyparts. But it focus more on action, so dont worry about too much lovlydovly shit. Thats rather side stuff to add more fun to the whole thing. And this anime made me ultra intrested in To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, as u might figured out earlier^^. So be sure to look forward to my review of that one, and also let us hope they give us more Index one day so it gets a proper end. Til’ then, enjoy the videofeeds and make your decision about to watch it or not ;). And before I forget, you also can check more of the index parodies in this article I wrote earlier.

Promo:

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Opening:

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Opening 2:

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Ending:

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Ending 2:

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So, thats it.

Your Death-chan

Toradora!’s story begins with the male protagonist Ryuuji Takasu who is frustrated at trying to improve his look as he enters his second year of high school. Despite his gentle personality, he has a natural outer-appearance which makes him look like an intimidating delinquent so he is utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either. After being greeted by his hungover mother in the morning, Ryuuji goes to school and finds out that he is in the same class as his best friend Yuusaku Kitamura. But what makes him extremely happy is that he gets to be in the same class as his crush Minori Kushieda. However, it is then that he unexpectedly knocks into “the creature ranked most dangerous in the school” — Taiga Aisaka —, who goes by the nickname “Palmtop Tiger” and who just happens to also be in his class. Taiga has a negative attitude towards others and will not hesitate to snap at people. After a series of misunderstandings between Ryuuji and Taiga, Ryuuji is taken in by Taiga as her personal servant. Taiga had moved out to live on her own due to family issues and isn’t able to do any housechores. After discovering the state of her apartment Ryuuji, who has a real talent at domestic chores, decided to do all of her housechores. Taiga spends a lot of her time over at his house, so much so that she could almost be considered a member of his family. Since Ryuuji spends a lot of time with Taiga, he is opened up to her world and to a side of her that most people do not see. The two also attempt to help each other in order to improve their relationship with their crush (Taiga has a crush on Ryuuji’s best friend, Yuusaku, and Ryuuji has a crush on Taiga’s best friend, Minori). Unknown to them, however, people they know from school start to become curious about their strange relationship together and rumors begin to spread about them. (stolen from AniDB) Well, since you know now the story of it, we can go over its good and bad points :)) The characters are definitly intresting and differes a bit from the typical “harem” ones a bit. I mean u hardly have a model that is a bit schizophrenic, an ultra sports girl, a sword wielding lil chibi and a dude thats look like a good for nothing. What I also liked about it that they didnt used the usual “drama” scenario towards the end. Sure we (attention spoiler) get the old my parents are divorced and now my father/mother wants me back stuff but thats just a small fraction. Also no “I maybe die soon of some random illness” and no “I will kill myself since u didn’t choose me” emo shit we had way too often. No, rather they do straight at the topic from the beginning. In the begin they choose the wrong persons as their girlfriend/boyfriend but that works out in a manner you buy off them. It’s not too uber dramatic but more or less “realistic”. Well realism overdo it might a bit, but still I can imagine a similar scene quite good. Also u have some side stuff happening that support the main storyline in a pretty good manner. It makes the anime standing out from the usual sex and boob animes, or even worse those shota rape animes like Kanokon. If you want the real thing, and maybe already enjoyed Lovely Complex, then you should like this one too. Also the chars like said earlier have their own thingies that brings fun. Yacchan, Ruyuji’s mom, and her childlike but still cute behavior. The weird bird they have, called Inko-chan, you always wonder when he probably will die since he always seems to choke on something (I say its his tongue). Minorin and her hyperactive and happy beeing. Teiga does wonderful towards the end the part of the I never admit it girl, also lovly are the animation of her beeing a lil neko-like creature, its so cute, regardless the angry face. There is more but I close here or I spoil it too much.

Opening:

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Opening 2:

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Ending:

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Ending 2:

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So, I hope u like it. Sorry for the break but real life kept me busy. But therefore today I write some more reviews.

-Death

so i decided to share it with you out there to get u hooked too. A problem shared is a problem halved.

The song is from the Band “BOTS”, a dutch band which made projects in dutch but also in german. The title is “7 Tage lang”, which is translated to english “7 Days long”. I will first add the german original lyrics and then the english lyrics, so non-german speaking ppl can also enjoy its content.

German Lyrics:

Was wollen wir trinken, sieben Tage lang,
was wollen wir trinken, so ein Durst.
Es wird genug für alle sein,
wir trinken zusammen, roll das Faß mal rein,
wir trinken zusammen, nicht allein.

Dann wollen wir schaffen, sieben Tage lang,
dann wollen wir schaffen, komm` faß an.
Und das wird keine Plackerei,
wir schaffen zusammen, sieben Tage lang,
ja schaffen zusammen, nicht allein.

Jetzt müssen wir streiten, keiner weiß wie lang,
ja, für ein Leben ohne Zwang.
Dann kriegt der Frust uns nicht mehr klein,
wir halten zusammen, keiner kämpft allein,
wir gehen zusammen, nicht allein.

English lyrics:

What do we want to drink for 7 days,
what do we want do drink, such a thirst.
It will be enough for everyone,
we drink together, roll the barrel in then,
we drink together, not alone.

Then we want to work, seven days long,
then we want to work, come on lets do it.
and this will be no drudgery,
we work together, seven days long,
yes, we work together, not alone.

Now we have to argue, nobody knows how long,
yes, for a life without restraint.
Then the frustration wont get us down anymore,
we keep together, nobody fights alone,
we go together, not alone.

From the sound of the song some of the readers probably figured out the age of it. Its from the 1970, when the social and poitical critic movements was popular. Those also influenced em. Also some might reconise the melody, as it got used in various songs from other artists, like Scooters “How much is the fish”. I also fun a funny little video i want to show u from some guys at google video.

Source: Goggle Video

I hope u enjoy it the same as me. And if u think u can help me improve my translation of the song text, please dont hesitate to write a comment with the improvements. And even if not i would like to hear your thoughts on my articles. And if u want to know more about the group, there is much on Wikipedia (english) or on their homepage (dutch/german).

-Death

Latly I came across an article on Sangaku Complex telling us about how dangerous can a Wii be for your nice Plasma TV. Here u can see some pictures of the case explained on SC.

It appearently happend to some rambunctious 2ch Wii user. It have an intresting effect, doesn’t it ?

Last but not least I took the opportunity and dug around a bit for more, especially for videos documenting this failure, or additional Wii accidents and came across some fun ones. Also my friend Marcus was pointing out some to me, thanks for that.

What can all happend on a kids birthday…

And here we get shown why u should wear the strap it have…

Well, its not always the TV that gets it

And this happens, when idiots get bored and wanna make a funny youtube clip^^

So if u wanna get Wii make sure to follow the security instructions and regulary change the straps! Save playing~

-Death

“Let’s begin a new myth, sweet battles, and a miraculous love story…” declares a man on the top of a building in New Tokyo in 2020.

It is a signal of the start of the Sekirei Project. 108 beautiful fighters called Sekirei are dispatched to the world to seek Ashikaba, their masters, in order to be the last surviving Sekirei and realize his or her dream. Sabashi Minato is a high school graduate who failed his college exams last year. He is a loser; he doesn’t have any goals nor does he have any friends, let alone a girlfriend. He failed all his exams this year, too. On his way home, a beautiful girl suddenly falls from the sky. Her name is Yui. She identifies herself as one of the Sekirei and has chosen Minato as her Ashikabi, her fated partner. (stolen from Fansub.tv) And he instantly fell for her… I mean, i guess every single man would fall for a girl like her (yea yea, there are always different tastes but the most ;). But well, this is the anime which made me understand why its sometimes not just called a trap but a “Boobietrap”. I mean its quite some time since I had last an anime with this much boobie fetischism thats not entirly dumb, but putting that aside the chars are also quite intresting as u can feel they hide something, but they dont let u get it too fast. They reveal the things bit by bit, still leaving enough space for another 12 episodes as Sekirei isnt finished with this 12 episodes. There is already a OVA but I didnt watched it yet, aswell as a 12 episode series planned which is supposed to finish it. The char i liked the best besides Yui (more or less the main char i would say) is Tsukumi followed by the Landlord. On Tsukumi i like her tusundere behavior, at first she hates Minato but then she wont let go of him… she is really a wicked one^.^. The landlord lady is just fun as she is the good old “one look and its solved” type… a char with the evil “look”. I love that. Where the story might go… I wonder, i just fear we get an emo battle royal ending, but since season 2 isn’t out yet, I have to wait and see…

Sekirei Trailer

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Enjoy, Death

And here we have one of the lulz. I found this old video (finally subbed!) of MiniMoni (a subgroup of Morning Musume) doing some funny stuff with lockers and the fact that they’re just 1.50 m. Here we go:

Source: YouTube

Enjoy, Death

In a future world where an organization called the GGP has taken control of the world, Rin Ogata was a promising up-and-comming ballet dancer, but suffered a serious injury and decided to quit. Years later in college she comes across a club building and soon finds herself intrigued by a transforming motorcycle like vehicle called a Rideback. She soon finds that her unique ballet skills with balance and finesse make her a born natural on a Rideback. (stolen from ANN) Its a quite intresting one, to combine a motorcycle with a kinda mecha structure. The story begins slow but then gains speed. Our man char is a more quiet type but then when she got used to the ridebacks she gets pretty agressive at some point. I like that development since its realistic, sure its kinda fast, but thats needed as the series isnt too long. Also its not too unrealistic that she have a certain degree in balance and agility from her ballet dancer carrier, so i dont pick on her fast learing too much ^.^. Also from a mechanical point of view should it be possible within 20 years or so do make something like this, so its not ultra futuristic, also the enviroment is pretty “normal” from our point of view, not extreme weird and ultra tech style like some other series. So u can say regardless of all SF in it does it stay on the bottom of realistic development of humanity ;). So, enough word, here is some video feed for u to help u to decide if u like it or not.

Opening

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Ending

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Trailer

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And to make things a bit funnier, there is a lil parodie pic.

Have fun,

-Death

Hi everyone out there, u probably think “this dude is a goner” or “this blog is dead”, but NO it isnt. In fact there was some real life which was taking my nerves and attention so I was unable to write. Anyhow I will go back to my usual self and write more again, since stuff keeps piling up otherwise ^^. We begin todays show with the great Lucky Star/The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi opening parody I found over at www.sankakucomplex.com (i just love their stuff).

Source: YouTube

You might notice that i use now a different player for the video. I like this one better as i can control its propertys way better then the one I used before, so I will use it from now on I think. Also i will switch from FLV (FlashVideo) to MP4 videos, so i can present u better quality video when I have a source that offers MP4. So i hope your internet connection is fast enough to keep up.

-Death

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Its maybe not the best quality and dont show tons of stuff but still its a funny lil tease, thanks goes out to Jd-, who gave me the link. I think we all look forward to this one.

-Death