Anime Winter Season 2008/2009

With the end of the year ending, the start of a new anime season is nearing. Here's an image I found with thumbnails and descriptions. Not many titles that I heard of before except the second seasons of Druaga and Shikabane Hime and third of Minami Ke. Furthermore an interesting OVAs like Higurashi. Not many must watch titles atm. Probably gonna check the first ep of most of them before deciding what to watch. Anyone got some recommendations?

New Suzumiya Haruhi figure

A new Haruhi figure set has been announced by the folks at MaxFactory. It consists of the convert version of the 3 main female characters. The Haruhi figure will be released in March 2009. The release dates of other figures are not known yet. I'm glad the sculptor did not just copy the pose entirely from the original image. The dynamic pose looks good and the expression look well captured on the pictures. Also love the details like haruhi holding the guitar pick and the highly detailed clothing. If the price wasn't too high for my budget I get one... :(

More images and information at GoodSmile and Mikatan

Gunpla Project Update

Last week there was another plamo session where I and some comrades worked on our plamo. This time I finished the build of my MG Strike E IWSP. I added the weapons and had my first experience with putty. One of the aiming thingies on the IWSP's guns broke off and got lost. So I fabricated a new one with putty. Now it looks like a yellow blob grew on the IWSP. I still need to file/sand it down ._. Still need to putty more misses and seams.

I also took some pics using the dslr with macrolens of a comrade. The pics look much nicer than what my digicam produces.

Clannad Underwear

There is all kind of merchandise. Things like mugs, calendars or more extreme dakimakura(bodypillows). Also clothing is printed with your favourite character. But now they did printed underwear with Clannad characters. Yes... underwear with dango print. (Not a clannad girl, what were you thinking?) I guess it's merchandise for them extreme fanboys or girls. Or (fan)boys that want to attract fangirls.

image via konachan
link via zepy

waki miko reimu~

I played some Dance Dance Revolution with some Touhou songs a couple of days ago and ever since a song has been stuck in my head. Usually songs don't stick for long but this is a persistent one. As it has been stuck for a while now I might as well write something about it.
The evil song is called "Tsukiyo Wo Kakusanai Teido No Nouryoku?"(月夜を隠さない程度の能力？) by IOSYS, a group well known by their remixes of Touhou music. For people that are interested in the original: it is a remix from "少女綺想曲　〜 Dream Battle", a BGM track in the eighth Touhou game: Imperishable Night. It is the theme song for Hakurei Reimu, the miko you see in the picture. The original song is quite nice but the remix added some vocals(waki miko reimu~) which are repeated frequently causing it to loop in my head ._.

As I'm enjoying it in my head already I guess I'll share the joy~ (waki miko reimu)*

image via moe.imouto.org

Saimoe 2008

The semi-finals went as predicted. The Hiiragi won and the Final would be a match between the twin sisters. Tsukasa won from Hinagiku with 1137 vs 1096 where Kagami clearly won from Nagisa with 1122 vs 922.

Kagami was too strong for her sister and easily won with 1037 vs 976. Kagami got less votes than the semi finals and she won either way. It would have been more interesting if it would be Kagami vs Hinagiku. Anyways Hiiragi Kagami is the winner of Saimoe 2008 so here's a pic.



(sidenote: Kagami lost from Yuki in the international Saimoe 2008. The finals will be between Fate and Yuki... bleh. Clearly the Japanese have better taste than the international pplz.)

Anime Backgrounds

As some already know, the setting and backgrounds of anime are sometimes based on real places. A well known one is Lucky Star. There they used the town Washimiya as setting. The shrines the Hiiragi sisters work at is an actual shrine there. This has led to large amount of fans and even the voice actors to visit the town and shrine.
Now I found a site where many of such anime/game are listed with pictures for comparison. Check it here. It seems more anime/games have real-life settings that I thought. It looks like the type moon and key games all have real-life settings. I guess the artists like some places so much they put it in the game/anime. For Haruhi, the area where the writer of the novel studied in his university times was used. Some way to pay tribute to the original author I guess. So anyone feel like visiting the area of your favorite anime/game when you're in Japan?

link via dannychoo.com