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Kasumi Kogen, the so called Village of Mist, is a town located somewhere in a tasteful and rural place in Japan. In this town, there is a training school. Surprisingly, it is the Sinobi Gakuen, a training school of kunoichi, or the female ninja. It gathers competent students from all over Japan to train them to become kunoichi. Needless to say, the villagers are alumni of the school, and they run and jump, appear and disappear, as if the whole town were a big ninja house. To this strange town, there came a girl and a man. The girl is Himawari who wants to be a ninja and respect “Ichikawa Raiso” as her master, and she came here to enter Shinobi Gakuen. The man is a new assigned teacher Marikoji Hayato. He was deceived into paying money and came here to repay his debts. They encounter in this Village of Myst. Whether their encounter is by chance or inevitable? A teacher and his student. Forbidden Love? Other students like Azami, Skimi, Himeji, Yusu wait and see their situation secretly. Whether can Himawari become a full-fledged Kunoichi? Whether can she protect her master? Well i must say usually i dont like ninja animes too much but this one was just hilarious. The mix between the characters is pretty good done as u have the stupid one, the “superpower” ones and the victim that gets targeted by the stupid one^^. It reminded me somehow on 2×2=Shinobuden! where u had a bit similar constellation (a ninja setting, a complete failed ninja, etc). Its quite enjoying to see what Himawari will undergo to please her “master”. I think if u like the ninja comedy type this should me a nice funny series. There is also a 2nd season coming as the first one i here speak about have 12 episodes and much stuff left to make fun of. Sadly it seems that the english fansub group that have picked the 2nd season dont really make progress… sigh. Well lets hope and see. Here is the opening since i couldnt get a hold of the promo yet, but it should help to give u an idea how the chars look like and stuff.

Enjoy, Death

When i was on the hunt for new pictures to add to this blog i came across this one:

I didnt thought too much about it, added it to the blog along with some other pics but still it bugged me somehow… So when i was bored i begun to ask a bit around and got a hold of more pictures:

When i saw the last picture it even raised more my interest in it as it looked it is some book. So i begun to ask around and got some response in the internal channels of my groups. This books are english instruction books for japanese people with a manga style. But their image of words one should learn to speak proper english with other peoples seems to be rather weird. Sure this ones target at young people but still… especially these should learn it proper. On the other hand this stuff gave me lots of laughs. The figure we see (the red haired one) is Maritan. There are also 3 other girls, and its all styled to imitate some military akademy or similar. Maritan is the sea drill instructor (what ever this have relation to learn a language). As for the other i found this picture here but still figured out their names:

It seems that Maritan is even so popular that its not limited to english instruction books anymore but also get used to advertise other products:

Well, i hope they have also some real english instruction books there… anyway, i will definitly get me Maritan books and will have some fun with them. If u also have deeper interest in them:

Maritan to hanasou
ISBN 978-4-89425-534-0
2100 JPY

Das ist Maritan
ISBN 4-89425-440-9
1524 JPY

and  there is more to be found in the internet or on yesasia.com if you prefer originals like me.  Enjoy the fun,

-Death

Here it is finally after i watched the last episodes (i NEVER will touch GG, go Oyasumi!). Pani Poni is a gagmanga like Azumanga Daioh (we all know and most probably love this one) or Sensei no Ojikan. It’s the first commercial manga by Hikawa Hekiru who was previously active in the doujin scene. The 11 year old Miyamoto Rebecca becomes the new teacher of a classroom which is full of weirdos. Despite her cute looks she`s a little beast and can be pretty sarcastic and offensive. The school is not safe anymore now that she`s in charge of a class and her students, Himeko, Ichijou, Rei and a white rabbit who took a liking to Rebecca help her to rough up the school and the neighbour-class with its teacher “ojiichan”. Join them now in their daily life full of gags and nonsense. [stolen from AniDB] I had really much fun with this one. Its an intresting mix of characters we got here, they’re more intensive in their ways than Azumanga Daioh. Also we got the always a bit angry but genious kid teacher Becky, she is lovly ^^. Nah, this no loli or typical school one like u get at every corner. They make fun of fucking much stuff, its extreme much. Also its not only limited to anime and manga but to all u can integrate into a manga/anime.  Thats also why i was pretty thankful to ADV for include their so called “AD Vidnotes” cause u really need these references to understand some jokes/parodies. Also what made me pretty happy was they also included all the signs and stuff in the background. They not only integrated them but also gave them a styling, a design, not the always used Tahoma or Arial. I can really suggest getting the US DVD if u liked this one, its worth the money what u get! If u maybe know the scanlation u notify the Anime use a slight different character design but i dont consider this bad, cause they took over the way of behave from the characters which is more important. Rei is still the class whitch and Himeko is nuts like before (damn i really love this 2). Give this one a chance and u will get really a lot stuff to laugh about, i always cry tears of laughting when i rewatch it.

english trailer (by adv):

japanese trailer (without subs):

german fandub trailer:

So, get it and enjoy it (i suggest japanese dub/english sub, their voices in japanese are definitly matching the char better ).

-Death

In a rare move that favors the Germans above all else, Valve is preparing for a free weekend of Team Fortress 2 starting January 4th. In the press release of Valve which is included below in german aswell as english TF2 gets descripted as one of the best multiplayer games in 2007. If u want to participate in this event, fire up steam and get playing already . I would check it out myself, but sadly i have to work, and also my comp act up when i try to play games… shit happens, but still u guys can enjoy it, so u use it. It’s for FREE!

Valve’s press releases:

Team Fortress 2: Free Weekend in Germany

All gamers in Germany may experience what many are calling the best multiplayer game of 2007 during the Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend, offered exclusively to German gamers via Steam January 4th through 6th.

The Free Weekend is open to all gamers in Germany during the event. To participate, simply visit steamgames.com and install the free client. To maximize the free play time, Team Fortress 2 is available now for pre-loading, so players can have everything installed and ready to play the moment the Free Weekend begins on Friday, January 4.

The Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend in Germany will conclude on Sunday, January 6 and no purchase is required to participate in the free weekend.

Team Fortress 2 is one of three new games introduced in The Orange Box, a unique collection of new critically acclaimed games from Valve available for the PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 that is winning Game of the Year awards across the world.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com.

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Team Fortress 2: Gratis-Wochenende in Deutschland

Exklusiv und nur für die deutsche Community: Team Fortress 2 – von vielen Spielern als bestes Mehrspielergame aller Zeiten gefeiert – gibt es vom 4. bis zum 6. Januar für ein Wochenende gratis!

Dieses Gratis-Wochenende gibt es nur für deutsche Spieler. Zur Teilnahme laden und installieren Sie bitte Steam kostenlos von www.steamgames.com und folgen den Installationshinweisen. Sie können Team Fortress 2 umgehend im vorraus herunterladen und am Freitag, dem 4. Januar, sofort loslegen und das gesamte Wochenende voll ausnutzen.

Das freie Wochenende endet am Sonntag, dem 6. Januar, und verplichtet Sie nicht zum Kauf.

Team Fortress 2 ist eines von drei neuen Spielen der Orange Box, einer einzigartigen und von Kritikern gefeierten Kollektion brandneuer Valve-Spiele für PC, Playstation 3, und Xbox 360 und die Orange Box gewinnt momentan mehrere Auszeichnungen als bestes Spiel 2007 weltweit.

Für weitere Informationen besuchen Sie bitte www.steamgames.com.

[Source: kotaku.com]

-Death

I saw many funny advertisments for wow and they were great. so here are some of them:

WoW Coke Commercial

World of Warcraft Commercial – Mr T

World of Warcraft Commercial – William Shatner

World Of Warcraft Office Space Commercial

World of Warcraft Commercial – Verne Troyer

World of Warcraft Commercials – Jean-Claude Van Damme

World of Warcraft Commercial Willy Toledo

Have Fun,

-Death

I found this lil’ bit weird british comedy series at youtube. Its named “Balls of Steel” and got around 12 Episodes. The Format: There are a total of 12 acts. In each episode, six acts compete with one of them being the winner from the previous episode. At the end of each episode the studio audience has to decide which act was the nerviest, or had the biggest ‘Balls of Steel’ by voting on a keypad. The winner is the contender with the most votes, and wins a trophy in the shape of testicle. [Stolen from Wikipedia]. Its pretty weird and remind me somehow on the good old jackass… i have fun with it^^ and i hope u too :-p .Here is the best of compilation:

Enjoy…

-Deathy