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a picture of how it could look

Saitama prefecture (home of the anime Lucky Star) is currently considering a proposal that should make the schoolgirls of the prefecture wearing school uniforms which follow the design of the ones found in the hit anime “Lucky Star”. Here are are more pictures, one from the Uniform and one from Lucky Star.

The Uniform

Kagami wearing the uniform

The “Prefectural Anime Tourism Investigative Commission” came up with the idea behind this and also submitted this proposal. They’re a group of professional in the anime/manga industry which thinks when this is taking place it should definitly help to boost the popularity of Saitama for anime/manga orientated tourism. That would result in even more money for the local economey as they already earn with other stuff in this direction. Also they plan more meetings to find futher ways to improve the anime/manga tourism in the region. The final results can be awaited in 2010. The prefecture’s tourism board is non-committal: “We’d like to consider the results of their deliberations for events and so forth.” Well, i personally wouldnt disagree on that proposal ^.^

The reaction on 2ch (maybe also intresting in this context) are however mixed:

Saitama has started up!

Saitama is just too amazing…

These will probably encourage sex crimes.

Aren’t these uniforms unsightly? Their colours are designed for anime after all.

The uniforms are ripped off of ToHeart anyway.

The colours are totally unrealistic.

Whichever way you look at it, these uniforms are from an eroge…

Tourism is for people coming into the prefecture. These look a huge nuisance to students.

Let me just go get my little sister transferred to a Saitama school…

Well, we’ll see what comes out in the end.

Sources used for this article: Sankaku Complex

Enjoy, Death

Magician’s Academy revolves around Takuto Hasegawa, who attends a magic academy that is not marked on any map. During a summoning spell exam, he accidentally creates a girl named Tanarotte, who happens to hold enough magical power to destroy his country, but fortunately Tanarotte professes undying loyalty to her “creator.” The universe separated in three worlds: Heaven, Human World (Earth), Demon realm. The Gods & Demons are not seen fighting among themselves in the human world and try to keep their existence a secret from them. The human world is only source of entertainment and enlightenment to both the demons and the gods to the point of smuggling human goods to both realms. (taken from Wikipedia, and shortend to remove spoilers) Also it should be said that this anime is based on a game for the Playstation 2. Its really a feast of catgirls and cuteness, it begins with Tanarotte and goes on with the other girls. I also to a big liking in Falcé, especially when she is in the “small” mode. She appears later on and follows Takuto around, often in form of tools like pens and stuff. And there is that scene in the cafe where is she a small chibi sipping some kinda soda. Its so damn cute~. Its not much special about this one besides the pretty high catgirl/nekomimi and animal ear appearence. Take that away from it u get a more or less normal anime with the topic “magic” spiced with some small potions romance and some parts school. The romance part is more used as a base for jokes and fun then beeing too honest with it, so it dont become annoying as in some other anime. It fits my latly intrest in more comedy/fun orientated animes, and so u shouldnt expect anything “special” or “great” from it. Also some may say it contains a lot of loli, that a point where I say NO. That isnt what I call loli, at least not in the terms when loli gets used as “bad” attribute. hmm… but stop, one thing is a bit outstanding here… I actually never saw the higher ups from the demons and angels going along, where the Gabriel is a goth loli and both are hardcore otakus for anime and stuff. OK, so I should correct here my further statement it lacks something special, but its maybe still something not everyone consider great. Anyway, I could tell u more about the other chars that are part of the regular play but that would kill off the fun factor for u. There is quite some parodise in it. I add some pictures to show a few scenes i refered to in the review earlier. So, those who search for something to have fun with, and not for a great honest romance story or something other more “real” thing, should enjoy it.

Trailer

The chibi Falcé (bottom of the picture)

Gothic Angels and the Deamons

hm~ this cube is somehow familar, dont something run in the cinema these days….

Anyway, lets end it here. I really suggest if u dont have a problem with loli and like fun stuff to watch it. There is so many stuff that everyone probably find something for himself.

-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

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

Source: YouTube

Ending

Source: YouTube

Trailer

Source: YouTube

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

Have fun,

-Death

I was a bit bored and for fun i was searching at youtube for the word “oppai”, since i came across some videos at Sankaku Complex featuring some random japanese school girl topless dancing to some anime soundtracks (hell i’m single and a man^^). Anyway, it was a really funny trailer and so i digged for more information. It appeared to be a funny movie (taking place in the 1979) about a 23 year old teacher (Haruka Ayase) with the name Mikako, that got transfered recently to a junior high school in Kitakyushu. Young and eager like she is, she immediately volunteers to train the boys volleyball team. Unfortunately for her, she finds the team to be made out of just 5 members that are rather obessed over girls then with practing. In an afford to motivate them and to get em to practice, she talked to promise em to flash them her “oppai” (breasts) if they win the big tournament. Like u can expect, such a promise works like a charm. With the perspective to see the well grown rack of their instructor, they immediatly become fiercely determined to become better volleyball players. Obviously Minako is nervous about the implications of ther promise, but also she is pleased with that completed change in the attitude of the players and even reagains her confidence that she once lost. The badside is that the school finds out about this “motivation” right before the first game, possibly jeopardizing her job. Its basedo n a novel by Munenoiri Mizuno. Its supposed to get released on April 18, 2009.

Sources for video: 1 2 @ YouTube

Additional Information Sources: Nippon Cinema

I hope u guys enjoy it as I^^. I will definitly get me this movie.

Based on a shoujo manga by Maki Minami serialised in Hana to Yume. When Hikari was little, she and her father liked to watch pro wrestling, and she became very good at it. She was the pride of her family until one day she was introduced to Kei, the son of her father’s friend. He instantly defeated her in wrestling, and started what would become Hikari’s major ambition to one day beat him. To do this she enrolled in Kei’s school, an ultra elite school that costs her father a lot of money. This unusual school created classes according to grades, and the top seven students become members of the “SA”. They have their own building, and can optionally attend class. Hikari is usually the only one who does so, since she desperately wants to beat Kei with test scores. The members of the “SA” have been close friends since their first year. (yep, like u guessed, i stole it from aniDB again^^) Hmm, special it says in the title but still its a romance comedy. It have its good points and its unusual points, like having that extreme rivality between Takishima (Kei-chan) and Hikari. Sure u say we got other anime with that but its somehow different. Funny was that the other characters made their proposal way earlier then our main couple and sometimes u got nice “games” that get played with the main chars. But they dragged it way too much out of my taste, they could have them come together much earlier so we could have a bit fun with they as a couple. The chars are an interesting mix, thats again one of the better points. You get a Animal Lover, the girl who is all over Hikari, the boy who trys to play the violien but its horrible at it and aside from that rather shy, his silbing? (i think she was, i forgot already, had a lil gap between the last episodes^^) that wish to sings but her singing have the impact of a small nuclear strike (no joke, u see why i call it that when u see the animation), the dude that looks kinda homeless and always is after something to eat, and our main stars, Takishima, super rich and sucessor to a big company group, and Hikari, the compared to the rest pretty poor but hard working girl, and have a constant fight with Takishima. Its an intresting mix, that have to withstand much bad blood and maintain their friendship. It becomes pretty deep (not just because of the building of couples) but that gets explained later in the series^^. I probably spoiled a lot, and i wanna apolpogize for that. If u’re into this topic, or just need a filler u can try it. Some episodes i suggest to leave out, at least i considered them not important for the story and way too cheesy. Seems i’m not that easy with such stuff anymore^^.

Promo Trailer(eng subbed by Rozen):

Opening:

Well, thats it for today. Hopefully i manage to finish off Mnemosyne these days, but i’m rather on “Grim Tales of Billy and Mandy” trip, so it can eventually take longer. Anyways, have fun

-Death

A 15-year-old Hitotose Chitose moves out of the orphanage back to his vacant parent’s house and finds himself very alone and unhappy. But when five of his female high school teachers decide to move in with him to become his new mamas, he learns that the chaos of their constant attention and concern change his life for the better, if only to teach him about the very special meaning of being part of a family and enjoying a quiet moment. Each of his new mothers has something special to share with him; an artistic cosplay princess, a nurturing supportive homeroom mother, a rowdy athletic sports fanatic, a priestess (sword miko) high school nurse mother, and a quiet secretive (possibly mad) science teacher/mother. These five adoptive mothers accept not only Chi-kun, but also his two sisters. This is a very special story of a family tied not by blood, but of heart and love. But what of the female homeroom class president, who is appears to show a very special interest in the lazy and inattentive Hitotose-kun? (summary from MIKOMI) Well, it was kinda funny in the beginning but the fun factor of 5 teachers wores fast off, beyond well one expect some ecchi stuff but thats not present in that one. I’m atlast used to a combination teacher + together with pupil = give ecchi and fun. But well, beyond that i didnt liked the way its drawn too much, it makes it look really cheap and like low buget. Sure u got the incho which is in love with the “delinquent”, u got 5 not nice but somehow funny teacher but its all still too… well… normal, standart, we had it already… thats what bored me. It missed the spiece or i watched really too much of similar stuff so i got too used to that. Dunno, i tried to follow up series but dropped it pretty fast since it was worse. If u like teacher/pupil relation anime, better stick to Onegai Teacher and such, they’re WAY better then this one here. I suggest to skip it.

OP

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-Death

The Series original script and the concept base on a work by Sakaki Ichirou. Twenty years from now, in early summer at Amizawa Village… 18-year-old Ebihara Chinami emits electrical waves when she becomes distressed. Due to this, she cannot use electronics such as PCs and cellphones very well. Her power is so strong that it nearly crashed the plane her family was on by causing instrument malfunctions. Her power leads her to transfer schools frequently. As usual, on the first day of school, Chinami is a little nervous, causing her classmates’ cellphones to glitch and electronics to react to her. The more nervous she becomes, the worse the situation gets, so she begins to take notes on where and how badly the electronics react to her. She eventually meets Kotaro from the science club, who is interested in experimenting on her; Yumi, a classmate and shrine maiden with the same power as she; and Sonomi. They refer to the power as “TYPE-E.” What they don’t know is that a secret organization is after Chinami’s power. There will be a moment when many lives will be saved by Chinami’s power. However, at the same time, someone will be watching her… [taken from AnimeNFO] Its again one of the more unusual type of series, at least i dont remember a series with a main character emitting EMP waves. The viewer here follows the main character Chinami and see her finally getting a hold of her power, or at least control it until a certain point which enables her to make some friends which knows about her ability. Later they mix in some secret agents, thankfully in a way thats not annoying, means they dont take up all the attention and steal away the lead role from Chinami. That is a problem i see in some other animes from time to time, when those “secret groups” comes into play and take away the lead role from our supposed to be main character. Also ok was the amount of romance in this series, which plays a role but is moderate of importance. I’ mean its not one of these typical harem-type series we often got latly, as we have only like 2 parties intrested in the guy. It affects her ability quite a bit but that also makes it intresting (remember, the more nervous or emotionally chaotic she gets, the more she emits the waves^^). All together it makes up a fresh feeling and enjoyable anime, which is maybe a bit short but gets continued these days as Mission-E (i give u a trailer  a bit below).

Trailer

Clean OP

I like the music of the opening, it reminds me on those agent movies like James Bond and stuff.

Mission-E (Code E 2) Trailer

Enjoy it,

-Death-chan

Based on a shoujo manga by Nakahara Aya, serialised in Margaret. Risa and Otani are always being laughed at as the comedy duo. Risa, a girl, is taller than the average girl, and Otani, a boy, is shorter than the average boy. The two are always bickering and even their teacher sees them as a comedy act. But as their friendship develops, so does Risa’s feelings toward Otani. [taken off AniDB] It was a funny romance anime, which brought a fresh feeling and new fun to me. Here you have not the “I know him from my childhood and now still love him” or “I love him because he helped me with something” or similar. No, here those 2 had in the beginning not even the slightest intention to get together, but develop a relation in a quite “normal” way, so not some extreme stuff happends, no psychic drama. Its just a story of a romance developing over the time u spend in school in a way that I consider as not too unrealistic. That means not its getting boring, instead u get lots of fun. It begins with the lil problem already meantioned in the description, that they always get considered as the comedy duo “all-hanishin kyoshin” (forgive me if i wrote it wrong). That comes from Risa beeing like 1 1/2 head bigger then Otani, and the concidence they act at some times similar, like its a practiced comedy (but it isnt). It goes on with the stuff u can drag out of this difference in high but not limits itself to it (this is where the “complex” in the title comes from^^). You have also her friend Nobou (which damn reminds me on Ren from Super GALs) and her boyfriend (he is not the brightest but well…^^), they also cause a lot of situations and try to help Risa and Otani (mainly Risa) to develop the romance.What you shouldnt expect from this one is any fanservice scenes as its no fanservice anime. That makes it in my eyes even better and refreshing, since i watched too much of those romance fanservice comedy stuff… Another thing is that one should watch this one with an open eyes as you can find here and there some little parodies again on other animes^^. All together a nice and entertaining romance anime, so if you like this genere you probably want to give this one a try.

Opening 2 and Ending

Here you get OP2 and the Ending. I personally like the song of OP1 better but i couldnt find it. Seems the japanese cried once again cause ppl putted the op/ed on youtube… *sight*

Enjoy,

-Death

Its the first series i spend the time i found in my week off from work on. It is based on a light novel series by Sanda Makoto, illustrated by pako. Itsuki Iba is the cowardly president of a ‘for hire’ magic company called Astral. Always in need of money, Itsuki’s company rents out magicians to perform misc jobs. His company features many magic schools such as Solomon (Demon Magic), Shinto (Prayer Magic), Onmyodou (Spirit Magic) and Celtic (Ritual/Paper Magic). Not the only company out there looking for work, but Itsuki’s company has an ‘ace’ in the hole which happens to be Itsuki himself. If things become more than they can handle, Itsuki will remove his eye patch. As a side note, most of these people are grade schoolers and 2 of them happen to be classmates of Itsuki’s. [description stolen as always from AniDB.] It was a good anime but with a little weak ending (sadly). What i quite liked was that we here got not only the typical japanese “magic” but also western stuff like Honamis Celtic Magic, which also is a type of magic i dont remember seeing before in any anime i watched. Also new to me was Adelicias Solomon magic, which is basically a type of demon magic but still different to the usual type. Through she need to have a special item i rather woudn’t it call demon magic but summoning magic as she calls her servants as she needs them. Also u get a little love triangle in this series but i guess that is used to add a little spice and comedy to this series. I hope they give us a 2nd Season as i still have some stuff that i want to know, most of it small things but well. The end was a bit weak to me as it was rather short and not well prepared enough as the story reveals. It feels a bit too sudden.

Trailer (net version):

Opening:

Ending:

I choose the net trailer, as it is longer and so shows more of the actual show.

-Death