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1.　1037　Hiiragi Kagami
2.　976　Hiiragi Tsukasa

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I am not going to go into a summary of all episodes. Other blogs does it better, and I realize that the first episode of the season doesn’t have much elements of the Sunohara-ke arc.

I’ll just try to look into the elements of the arc.

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According to one guy on the animesuki forums, Strike Witches are the most moe thing ever. Apparently, it will trample its competition w/o breaking a sweat. I, and a couple of regular reader of Asuki’s Saimoe thread, loled over it. But we were also facepalming because that guy was adamant in his conviction, and he really think that pantless, this part alone makes me cringe, lolis with random animal ears and pants would stand a chance against the Nanoha, Hayate no Gotoku and Higurashi blocks.

I’ll say it again out loud, pantless lolis is a fucking bad idea.

Once in a while I shall voice my opinion over this tournament.

Today was the upset of the year, in my opinion. Indeed, Rei Ayanami, trumpeted to be the one who will effortlessly wipe out her competition, is out.

This picture portrays my emotion over the result:

I am not sure why Rei have lost. Maybe it is fans being too confident, not caring or people have moved on (I mean, 12 years have passed, people like me have grown up and opened to new kinds of moe). Maybe it is a combination of all of that. In my opinion, it’s a relief that she is out.

However, as far as this tournament go, I have cast away my illusions over the odds of a Key/KyoAni character getting the title. One cannot win saimoe if she:

- is a KeyKyoAni character.
- is not a loli.
- is not a tsundere.
- all of above.

I am not too sure if any of the Higurashi characters can grab another win in a row, Fate Testarossa from the Nanoha series may be cursed to fail again in the most unexpected moment, she often does. Lucky Star? Not a chance in hell, they are KyoAni and I already said what’s about KyoAni and Saimoe. Clannad? LOL. Maybe this year will be Shana, Shugo Chara or Minami-ke. Depending on the outcome of Sunday’s match (where Horo is running), we may see if Horo have the same caliber as the heavyweights of the tournament.

I am rooting for Hanyuu, Fate Testarossa (Can she win once please?), Nagisa Furukawa, Kotomi Ichinose, the Aria girls and Chiaki Minami (she have the strongest chances compared to Haruka who is not loli).

If you want more regular covers of the tournament, you can check Kurogane’s animeblog.

Sorry guys, I’ll leave you to your mecha musume. Seriously, it fucking creep me out. As for the Alternative WWII settings, my eyes got caught by a movie that seems to be a collaboration between japanese and russians. It goes by the title “First Squad“. And from the look of the trailer, it looks to be effing awesome.

All I can hope for them is to cross my fingers and pray for it to be awesome. Russians knows their Eastern Front well enough to butcher it at a minimum level.

If you want more information, you can go to the Molot Entertainment website, or visit the author’s livejournal if you can read Vodka runes.

I thank Fuu from Orochinagi.com to have shown me this.

Well, it’s from the PS2 game. Here Miyuki is cosplaying Nanoha and Ayano is Fate.

I have seen it on the Asuki boards, but knowing that there are people too scared of this board, I felt like posting them here.

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Prayers had been answered. Here to hope that Doumu get to animate it. I welcome back our GAR Fish Hugger.

When the majority are drooling over fanservice or sophisticated storylines, there are sometime a little gem making its way in internet and gain a little following.

Detroit Metal City is one of these gems. At first glance, it seems to be a music band anime like “Beck”, but upon viewing, all these expectations are shattered. The viewer will get to sit through a short episode of gag anime, dealing with the Death Metal.

Actually, Death Metal is one of the ingredients of this comedy. From the Death Metal, Detroit Metal City, the band, have the music, the theme. From the Black Metal, D.M.C gets the hatred for humankind and the hate-loaded lyrics, and lack of respect for everything the common man hold as dear. The other ingredient of this gag anime is the sheer contrast between Johannes Krauser II, the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, and Soichi Negishi, the man behind the ghoulish paint.
Anyone who had been familiar with the early Norwegian Black Metal scene may remember the stories of people who had actually gotten to know the man behind Euronymous, a rather nice guy who would tell you about his passion in music (read the book “Lord of Chaos” to know more about Euronymous and Mayhem). This is the kind of contrast you will see in Detroit Metal City, only taken to the extreme. If Euronymous was actually a rather nice guy, off-stage, Negishi is like totally white as snow, have a love for Swedish pop (always the Scandinavians), and have the aspiration to raise to the top as a sugary sappy soapy pop artist.

But things had not gone as planned and he somehow ended up in that band, performing on stage as the feared Krauser, said to be a homicidal maniac and remorseless rapist. Negishi had a hard time to leave the band. Moreover, his on-stage persona have taken a toll on his social life, where he tries to be normal, but always find himself in situations where his on-stage persona take over and get the better, for the fans, or the worse, for his love interest, of him.

And the show had not other pretentions than showing Negishi trying to be Negishi, but turning Krauser the instant the situation get too much for him to handle as Negishi. The music store or the police scene are the prime examples of these awkward but hilarious situations. The harder he struggles, the more entertained the fans, and the viewers of the anime are.

Technical-wise, the style is fitting. There are hardly any full screen scene but it does serve the theme of the anime. The same could be said about the animation that gives this rough feeling from the musical genre.

The format is of the short kind, like Cromartie highschool, in one way, it does it justice and prevent the viewer to be tired from the gags. Something that could have happened if it was stretched over 20 minutes.

Detroit Metal City is a little gem in this rather monotonous, imo, summer. It gives food to the people missing comedy format a la Cromartie and may introduce people to the world of Death and Black Metal genre.
Detroit Metal City is a hilarious take on the music anime genre with a slice of Mister Hyde and Doctor Jekyll on and off stage.

So I know more about it. It’s not just two OAVs. It is also going to be a 13 episodes series. I am hoping that this release will get younger people to know about the first man to have ever had a gun instead of his arm. Sorry Megaman fanboys, but Cobra was first!

August 29th seems to be an eternity for the old man I am.

Cruel Angel Thesis, Stone Ocean version

nicovideo link

And something I dont know, but godamn, the animation is good

nicovideo link

This was the original

Gintama version

D-Gray Man version

Baccano version

One Piece version

There are also a Gundam 00 for those who are interested, and a Minami-ke version (sadly, it seems that the Minami-ke version is off-synch, sound-wise)