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This is the first year of high school for the four girls, looking for that very special club. The healthy and energetic Tainaka Ritsu (club president, drums) decides to join the school’s Light Music Club, only to find out that the club is about to be closed — due to the lack of members. Without much ado she drags along her childhood friend, the shy, mature, and sensitive Akiyama Mio (bass). That leaves only two more members, required to keep club from closing. Luckily the gentle, calm, warm, and cute Kotobuki Tsumugi (keyboard) stumbles into the club, only to be “convinced” by the pleading Ritsu to stay. The last member, the easily distracted klutz Hirasawa Yui, can only play castanets, even though the club needs someone on the guitar, but she is “bribed” — with cake — to stay anyway. Will Yui be able to learn to play the guitar — the special one she just bought and loves so much — before the four girls graduate? [stolen from AniDB] I must say unlike many other animes with the genere music/band I liked this one and enjoyed it. It wasnt focusing too hard on just the band-thingie but also featured some life outside the band, making it more balanced. Also the characters are something one can enjoy as they sometimes a bit typical but also have their own cute behaviors. Funny was definitly Tsumugi (Nickname: Mugi-chan) with her big eyebrows, a very unusual attribute for a girl in anime (and reality aswell?). Normally I would expect her to be some bad-ass angry something, but its more the other way round. A bit quiet but lovly person. Through my favorite unlikes the masses opinion is still Yui, as she is just so wonderful clumsy, but also is just great when she is set on something. Its like she goes on fire but well… she lacks a bit planning ahead sometimes so… u can imagine what comes out^^. Mio is nice, and have a good makeup for a moe-char that pleases the masses (shy, easy to scare, easy to embrass, nice body). Ritsu is the impulsive and a bit hyperactive one of the quartet, but the same amount she is hyperactive she is lazy at other times and keep forgetting her forms for things (bad bad ritsu), and so causing Nodoka (the representative of the student concil) pain. At some points I feared it might end up in some worse drama (I cant stand drama stuff too much currently, having too much IRL drama around me) but thankfully they didnt choose that way. It always just was some lil “panic” event that get resolved within an ep. Also fun was their club supervisor, which i would call “metal teacher sawakawa”. Boy… she was definitly evil, also have this nice cosplay fetisch. (why i call her metal teacher sawakawa, u have to find out yourself, i already spoil too much^^) If this all is to your liking, watch it. The only thing I would have liked to be different would have been the amount of songs. 1-2 more songs would have been nice, but well, you can’t have everything, right?

Trailer

Source: Youtube

Opening

Source: Youtube

Ending

Hopefully u enjoy it as much as I did. I suggest to watch Frostii’s version.

-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

A video of a very naked (not complete high school girl dancing energetically to the Idol master tune “go my way”. I found it at Sankaku Complex, and well… yea, i enjoy it :-p  . It seems to attract even ppl outside the usually schoolgirl obessed NicoNico viewers, but like u can imagine the video got killed at NicoNico pretty fast. Intresting wise her first video (i got here all of her videos that appeared at sankaku complex) is still around at YouTube while the 2nd even got killed at YouTube. Some might argue that the dancing she does isnt very good but well… i dont think that matters for all of us or ? Anyway, here we go:

Sources: Sankaku Complex 1 2

I’m sorry if some reader feels offended by the content. But I wanted to present this video to the fellow oppai lovers :p.

Have fun, Death

Based on the awarded shoujo manga by Tomoko Ninomiya. Shinichi Chiaki is the top piano student at his university and an excellent violinist, but Chiaki doesn`t care about playing these instruments as much as he dreams of someday being a conductor. Chiaki, however, has several deeply rooted fears about traveling, and so finds himself “trapped” in Japan. Because he`s trapped, Chiaki starts to question exactly how far he can possibly go in music, especially when he`s passed over again and again for others he thinks are less worthy of musical scholarship and fame. Recently dumped by his girlfriend for a “sausage” looking fellow, passed over for a chance to go overseas, removed from his star spot in the piano competition because he walked out on his piano instructor, Chiaki is at his limit. This is when he meets Nodame, or Megumi Noda. Nodame is a free – if filthy – spirit who reminds Chiaki that music can be fun. She reminds him what drew him to be a conductor in the first place and, in learning how to deal with Nodame, Chiaki learns how to deal with others. Chiaki begins to realize what is possible for him, even on the tiny island of Japan. For Nodame, Chiaki is everything she isn`t. Clean, neat, dedicated, studious and inherently arrogant about his accomplishments and capabilities, Chiaki constantly bullies her into being more serious about life. He sees potential in her and her abilities as a pianist that she doesn`t care about. Nodame loves Chiaki and wants to be with him, but, because she`s not serious about her piano studies nor her personal hygiene, Chiaki denies her affections again and again. But Chiaki and Nodame complete each other in ways no other can, a musical compliment that neither of them can completely escape entirely. Watching them grow as people and musicians, and even as a couple, is an interesting ride. It was one of these anime which made me first go “wth is this all about ??” but then make me addicted. I felled after Episode 3 for this one. Its a anime in a direction like Honey and Clover which means we have a student anime (so a bit “mature” anime), but the special about this one is thats it not about art but about music and to be more specific about classic music/orchestra music. Its a thing u need to get used to but as for me i must say it made me a bit more intrested in orchestra music since i like some of the pieces that got used in this anime. As stated before already its really enjoying to see them grow as students as well as a couple while the anime progress. Also it stays still natural unlike some other animes where it feels too unnatural. This time i got a music video (the opening) and the op/ed from the anime for u, latly it seems there are less promos for the animes on youtube…

This music video u get along with the series from Froth-Bite (thanks f-b for such a great sub!!).

This video is a compilation of the op/ed songs. While the OP shows less about the actual show, the ed shows some scenes from the series.

Some last words on this, first i want to thank Asakomi that she bugged me enough to watch this wonderful series and i want to warn u, dont try the Dorama series from this.  It horrible bad.

-Death

When i was watching around on YouTube i found another crazyness.

Smile Nipah☆ ,and Right Nyaa Nyaa ♪

Insane Tsukasa Goes Into Overdrive!!

I kinda like the idea of mixing anime and tohou music from IOSYS. Its matching good through there is room for improvement.

-Death

I dont get why all the ppl love to dance the haruhi dance but well… its a international thing by now it seems (the german clip is from the AniMagic i belive).

If you want to see one of the clips used in this one, go to the youtube page of this clip, there is a list of all the clips he used for this one with links. But I cant help myself… ppl cosplaying as Haruhi or another char of the series always look wrong, extreme wrong… :ermm:

-Death

And finally i have them all up^^. yea ~~ :happy:

Like usual u can download it from http://www.shinsen-radio.org/pages/nunchi. Dont forget to visit our page or chat with us in #shinsen-radio@irc.rizon.org.  So until next time,

- Death-chan

Its 31.10.07, yep, its there. 1 left …

Like usual u can download it from http://www.shinsen-radio.org/pages/nunchi. Dont forget to visit our page or chat with us in #shinsen-radio@irc.rizon.org.

-TheDeath

So, then here u got 31.10.07, and i have 2 left to finall get up2date, yeah!

Like usual u can download it from http://www.shinsen-radio.org/pages/nunchi. Dont forget to visit our page or chat with us in #shinsen-radio@irc.rizon.org.

-TheDeath

Yep, and here we have the 24.10.2007. Now we catch up more… ^^

Like usual u can download it from http://www.shinsen-radio.org/pages/nunchi. Dont forget to visit our page or chat with us in #shinsen-radio@irc.rizon.org.

-TheDeath