Angel Beats - A Loli Has Appeared

She will be the only reason I'm going to watch this show now.

Too Much StarCraft 2

I've been playing way too much StarCraft 2 beta lately, so I haven't been keeping up with posts. I think I've already logged over 250 games in a couple weeks; I've been playing exclusively as Protoss. Now I'm waaay behind on my anime.

StarCraft is pretty fun. I'm starting to understand the whole mindgame aspect of RTS and why's it's insanely popular in Korea.

Ninja Chop!!

This is an xbox360 livemarket downloadable indy game. So basically in this game, you try to break 5 bottles by trying to make the back and forth bar stop at the red marker. You do the same thing over and over again, exactly as you see in the video. You get new costumes every 5 levels and it takes forever to get to the next level at higher levels, unless you chain combo red marker after red marker.

The fun comes from making fun of the game I guess, unless you're into ninja girls getting covered in milk.

Wakusei no Samidare Ch 46

I always knew she was awesome.

Hayate no Gotoku Ch 267

Hinagiku gets ears!

Mayoi Neko Overrun! Episode 1 - A Tale of Two Chise's

Impressions: When a series starts, the way a character is introduced into the series is very important. It completely dictates the way the audience will view that character for the rest of the series. As an example, let's take Mugi from K-On season 1, since K-On is also airing this season also. In K-On, Mugi more or less stays kind of a side character and doesn't get as much screen time as all the other characters. Mugi first showed up as a character in the first episode of season 1 originally looking to join the choir club. You found out she didn't really know about fast food, and likes eating delicious pastries and sweets. Her behaviors in this episode conveys to you as a reader that you expect her to continue acting this way with possible character development happening as she learns more about the world. If it wasn't already blatantly obvious, you found out she's a super rich ojou sama character that doesn't really like showing off her massive wealth. That's all and good, because you pretty much know how Mugi is going to act from the first episode alone.

Little Busters! - Baka To Baka To Bakakanjyu

Introduction: I'm playing through this visual novel at the moment (non-h version because that's the one that has an english patch, so I don't have to go look up every single kanji.) Almost every character in this VN is an idiot, minus the main character. Someone suggested that I play more VN's/eroge. I told him that I couldn't read Japanese that well, which is why I don't really bother playing them. The same day, someone showed me a little busters remix video on youtube, then told me that someone was also telling her that she play the game. I was curious because I didn't know she could read Japanese, and looked up if there was an english translation online. I found out that there was. I knew that I was watching Angel Beats! this season, and that I enjoyed Key's anime versions of Kanon, Air, and Clannad. I also played through the English translation of Planetarian, and I've , for some reason, been playing a lot of Eternal Fighter Zero lately. Little Busters is the game that I really haven't paid attention to, because I never really had access to it. The only thing I knew about the game was that my Guild in the mmo Mabinogi was named Ritobasu, which I actually found out not too long ago was named after Little Busters, even though I'd been in that guild for a really long time. The tagline for joining the guild was 'We are a baseball team," which I thought was some weird quirky thing that our guild leader made up. Well, since there's a (partial) english translation for it and I have a lot of free time, I decided I'll give it a go.

Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou Episode 1 - Girl in Fundoshi

I was told this girl wears fundoshi, so I decided to check this show out. If you want a pointless show with lots of girls in it, I guess this one is pretty much on the spot. Apparently its about this dude that wants to help people or something, ends up going to a magic school, then is predicted to become a demon king.

Dead or Alive Paradise

Hitomi makes the cover because Kasumi sucks

Dead or Alive Paradise is a PSP port of the Xbox360 game, Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. For anyone that doesn't know, this is a game designed to waste your time in some of the most meaningless ways possible.

Angel Beats! Episode 1 - Where's the Loli's?

Impressions:

I didn't really set my expectations too high going into this show. I watched one trailer for it and thought it looked pretty good. I also heard it's by famed Key writer Jun Maeda, that's about it. I sat down with the raw because I wanted to check out it out early to get a preview of whether it might live up to the hype the internet has given it or not. The sub luckily came out pretty fast though, so I didn't have to strain my brain to decipher what little I knew in Japanese.

Futagami Double - Manga About Doubles

Short Summary: Futagami Sousuke, 14 years old, is a normal student, wishing to live a normal life. But everything changes the day he sees a doppelganger of himself in his house. Since then, the girl he has a crush on, Amane, will introduce him to another side of his world he had no idea about, and there won't be anymore of the dear peaceful days for Futagami.

Introduction: This is a one-shot manga, which I think is that they only release one chapter as a prototype for a possible release of an actual series; or is just a manga that is one chapter. So hopefully this turns out into an actual series because I read it and thought it was good. I stumbled upon this after looking of the what other works the illustrator of Mayoi Neko Overrun! did since the art style from that series is godlike. The author and illustrator for this series is Yubaki Kentaro who also did the art for To Love-Ru, which was both a manga and anime. I didn't read or watch To Love-Ru though because the main character is one of those I hated- random guy gets harem of girls for no good reason. Mayoi Neko Overrun! is getting an anime release this spring though, which I'm looking forward to. I looked at the trailer and thought that the detail of the characters was very subpar in the anime compared to the manga, but the Seiyuu cast is pretty top tier so that might make it worthwhile. I'd still watch it for Chise no matter how bad it is though. Anyway, because of Mayoi Neko Overrun!, people are complaining that Kentaro doesn't have the time to work and develop Futagami Double.

Koharu no Hibi - Manga About a Cute Stalker Girl

Summary:

On his way to the school, Torii Akira helps a girl who was about to fall down. From that moment he keeps running into that girl, and she seems very happy to see Akira. It's all smiles for Akira all day, until he stumbles upon a uncertain scene. Will he still be smiling after this?

Shin Koihime Musou ~Otome Tairan~ Episode 1

Ok, so this will be the first anime I'll blog about since I'm just going to blog the new spring animes. Incidentally it's going to be on season 3 of Koihime Musou called Shin Koihime Musou ~Otome Tairan~; whatever Otome Tairan means, I have no idea. It's no secret that Koihime Musou is a show that I like despite me thinking that it's also a really bad series. I watch this show for the characters, and not so much the plot. The one character I watch this show for is the girl who goes by the name Shuri or Koumei. Don't ask me why each character in this series has two different names. Koumei's a little girl that's a pretty much a child genius, but has no fighting power, unlike the rest of the characters in the cast. She is a strategic genius and usually is the one who ends up getting the characters out of a bind. Oh, and she's a loli. The reason why I think this series is really bad is because it's an anime of all filler episodes of nonsensical plot.