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FUCK

i was typing up this LOOONG ass review on this episode, but then my power shut off and the article didn’t save D: FUCK. now i have to type it again. aw shit, whatever, i’m just gonna bullet stuff and be brief cuz i don’t feel like typing it up again…

• slow subs are slow. ureshii needs to pick it up D:
• FINALLY more questions have been answered! This was a very cute episode on my side. How Kaiba got his name, the picture of Neiro, etc. May I add that Kaiba was incredibly adorable in this episode? Kaiba and Neiro getting drunk was just so adorable, I had a feeling they’d have sex but apparently not -_-;
• Warp doesn’t appear to have any evil in him o_o; warp/kaiba and neiro’s love for each other is almost unconditional.  AND WARP DIDN’T KILL NEIRO o_o what a weird twist! The gun(>_>?) was only pointed at her for protection.
• In attempt to escape from the palace, Warp uses his remaining powers to protect Neiro, and the hole in his stomach grows larger which infers that whenever he uses his powers the hole gets bigger…
• There are still so many questions that are unanswered. Such as why Kaiba was falling from the sky, and where his first hole came from. I can’t wait until the last two episodes cuz I know they’ll reveal everything and be none the less epic.

Episode Score: 8.7/10

Ok, you can kill me now for taking over half a year to get off my ass and finish the rest of this anime

After watching just this episode, I’m so glad I’m picking this anime back up. Gash Bell, by far, is THE MOST UNDER RATED, UNDER APPRECIATED, AND UNDER ESTIMATED ANIME. I’m being like… completely and utterly honest. There’s a REASON this is an award wining shonen series! This anime has been like… my favorite series since…forever xD

Anyways, on to the episode. I’ve been wanting to watch this episode for over a year now, but you know… 1) Anime Destiny is slow and 2) I’m really lazy. Ted is introduced, and already, he’s listed as my FAVORITE Gash Bell character! Ted and Jiru are on the rode, flat broke. To search for a place to crash for the night, Ted wanders the forest and runs into Gash bell who was playing in his secret hide out. In attempt to kick Gash out of his secret hide out, they end up having a strength compitition. Gash appears to be the stronger one, but in the end they both crash and came to the decision that they shouldn’t fight against each other using spells.

It’s late at night, and Ted asks Gash if he’s heard of a demon named Cherish. They both go into a deep talk about family, having someone important to you, etc… After this conversation, Ted accepts Gash as someone important to him. Gash lets Ted and Jiro stay over for the night :D

Suddenly, there is a disturbance in the city. A demon who is targeting Gash proposes a challenge. The demon is searching for Baou users to destroy, so Gash accepts the challenge. Apparently, he gets his ass whopped and guess what? Ted comes to save the day! And the episode ends there q_q…

This episode wasn’t amazing, but the humor really changed my mood xD Ted’s personality is VERY appealing, I always love those bad assed kids :3 I’ll probably marathon the rest of *what is subbed* for Gash Bell throughout the week, and I’ll only blog the super amazing episodes. 

I highly recommend this anime for shounen lovers :< don’t be deceived by the crappy english dub, or by the fact that the show comes off as a kids show >_>;; this series is more action packed, deeper, tear jerking, and more ORIGINAL than any anime I’ve EVER seen. Which is why Gash Bell gets #2 on my favorite anime list, right after One Piece (and one piece is nearly impossible to stand up against, lol).

Overall Episode Score: 8.5/10

Alright… so this episode revolved around Chris and Kinnosuke… 

The thing is, with those two, it just seemed like at first Chris had a "silly" crush on Kinnosuke just for the humor but *apparently* she’s deeply in love with him, and there’s some drama going on between the two. With that in mind, it was kind of hard for me to relate to the "deepness" of their relationship and all the shouting and crying that was going on. 

It was also a funny twist that Irie’s mother thought that Kotoko was pregnant, even though she just had a bad stomach. It would have been a really interesting twist to the plot and gave the anime something to make a story out of, but apparently Kotoko isn’t pregnant and it was kind of unessecary to make a scene like that.

Sometimes I feel like this anime should have been 13 episodes so that Kotoko and Irie’s struggling relationship wouldn’t be such a long drag. It should have ended right when Kotoko and Irie got married, because now it seems like the rest of the series is a long filler. 

This series is diclining to a big disapointment for me, and if this keeps up, my score for this anime will drop. The drama in episode 14 was amazing, but that’s all there was :< 

Episode Score: 7/10

Oh yeah! If anyone is interested, I made a music video for this anime!
Song: "Untouched" by The Veronicas
Featuring: Irie x Kotoko from Itazura na Kiss

 

I SAW THE ENGLISH DUB FOR GURREN LAGANN LAST NIGHT XD

lol, i’ve been like…waiting and waiting for this day to come and now I finally hear their English voices xD 

Ok! So i guess in this post, I’ll just review the voices and the translation.

Oh, and speaking of the translation.

WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM KIIIIIIIICK!!!!!

LOL that part cracked me up xD you gotta watch the episode to get it.

Also, Simon’s name is pronounced See-mon. I wish they’d pronouce it SHI-MON. q_q…. But at least it’s not like…Sai-mon >_>;; 

And instead of aniki, it’s BRO. HEY BRO.

The translation was great, the dialogue matched the personalities of the characters perfectly, especially Lee Ron

Now on to the voices…

Simon (Lowenthal, Yuri): Adult Simon = EXTREMLY SEXY. Young Simon = not so much. I mean, the voice fits Simon and some points more than it doesn’t. And a lot of points, the voice sounds a little too old and teenager-ish. BUT THE COOL PART IS, YURI LOWENTHAL IS GONNA BE AT OTAKON KYAA~! So I’ll definatly meet him and ask for an autograph. The voice of Simon~ Kyaa~

Kamina (Hebert, Kyle): When Kamina is yelling, his voice actor like… delivers it perfectly. However, when Kamina is talking like… casually his voice is a bit too young for him. I wish his voice was just a bit more deeper, cuz it kinda sounds like a sufer dude. But none the less, his voice is very adaptable, it’s not terriable or anyhting like that. And it fits Kamina, so yay :D

Yoko (Ruff, Michelle): I LOVED YOKO’S VOICE. AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING <3 Michelle Ruff has an extremely nice voice. It’s different than how Yoko sounded in the Japanese version, but this voice sounded a LOT better. Props to Yoko’s voice, that’s all I have to say.

Lee Ron (Blum, Steven): Considering the fact that Steven Blum doesn’t really talk like a gay guy, Lee Ron has an amazing voice actor. OMG I JUST LOOKED IT UP, AND STEVEN BLUM DID ONIZUKA-SENSEI LOL WTF. Two completly different character’s and voices! This guy is like freakin amazing!!!

That’s pretty much all the characters I can remember. I’m so siked to hear Virals voice next week!!  For anyone who’s interested in seeing the Gurren Lagann english dub, it comes on the SciFi channel every Monday from 11:00 pm - 12:00 pm. If you wait like…a couple of days, i’m pretty sure someone is gonna upload it on veoh. Ciao-su!

 

"The official Japanese website of the Junjō Romantica anime series has announced that a second season has been green-lit for airing in October in Japan.

OH MY FAKING GAWD. YES YES YES YES YES.
THIS NEWS MADE MY ENTIRE LIFE.
Wow. Now I’m REALLY going to enjoy Fall Season 2008 <333

The reason I’m so happy is cuz people have been telling me there isn’t going to be a second season and/or if there IS a second season, it won’t air til 2009.
Hearing that it’s coming in October is like…KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA$#%@$~~~~~!

Sorry I just had to randomly post this 8D

 

*phew* i FINALLY caught up to the subs xD

jee… it puzzles me why i haven’t dropped this series after almost 40 episodes, let alone why I even bother to blog about it o_o;; I can’t believe I lasted this long without speeding up the episodes…

Anywho, this episode was focused on Tadase. Showing his dramatic past of how he erm..*ahem* crushed a little flower, how he met Kiseki, and an how he admires his grandmother.
Since his grandmother went ill, Tadase feels the urdge to become stronger. Because he feels so weak, Kiseki looks down on him and run away. Out of curiousity, Tadase listens to Hoshino Utau’s CD and well, obviously, gets his egg turned into an X egg. Amu saves him, convinces him he’s not as weak as he thinks and well… he does his own Chara Transformation to Platinum King. I was disappointed with his costume, it doesn’t look all that great D: then again, NONE of the chara change costumes look good. At all. Even pretty cure costumes look better >_>;;

This episode was alright for me. And so far, this series is just "alright". Since there are only 13 episodes left, I might as well finish the rest. 

Overall Episode Score: 7.7/10

Ok. I’m going to be bluntly honest about this series.
I didn’t like it >_>;;

This is more like a opinion-generated critique than a review, and i’m too lazy to make this anything structured.

Let’s cut to the chase. There are a bunch of aspects of this series that led me to dislike this series, and here it is as follows:

1) This part is kind of not the anime’s fault, but I’ve already seen something like this in Windy Tales. Of course, there are HUGE differences such as characters, they follow the EXACT same theme of the sky and I felt like sola is a rip off of windy tales, despite the fact that windy tales is not nearly as popular as sola.
2) The characters. This is kind of where the anime just fell apart for me. For instance, Yorito. I didn’t like him. At all. He lacked personality, and the girls kept going after him for the weakest reasons. I just couldn’t relate to the whole situation at all. There was so much drama going on, and such intense moments that I couldn’t get into because the characters were like… unappealing to me. And they’re killing and sacrficing their lives over him? That’s the part where it was hard to relate to. I also thought that Aono was potrayed very badly. There are times where her personality changes in the end due to "character development", but it just seemed like she was completly out of character for the sake of appealing fan boys >_>;; I also have to add that all of the characters, appearance wise, feel "out of place". As if they were pulled out from different anime series >_>; Mayuko looks like someone pulled out from Rozen Maiden, Matsuri looks like she was pulled off Da Capo, and Aono looks like someone pulled out of Suika or something @_@; It was a pretty bad mix in my opinion, and again, their appearance had no real meaning. I think they would have looked better as regular school girls rather than cliche harem characters…
3) Terrible attempts at humor… do i need to go any deeper?
4) I didn’t like a lot of the flaws and plot holes. How did Takeshi figure out so much about Matsuri, why do the characters act so immature if they’re over 100 years old, etc..

See…the story and plot was REALLY good and had great potential, but what killed it the most for me was the characters -_-;; That was quite possibly the biggest let down. I also have to comment on the pace… the anime came off extremly… dull for a very long time. And I kind of fell asleep through the series and it took me a while to wake up and realize that the series was getting better.

So Sola wasn’t all that great for me, I guess moe harem characters just don’t appeal to me and practically ruin the whole anime. This happens practically all the time when I watch any anime like this :P

Story……………………………………B-
Production (animation/sound)…… B
Characters…………………………… E
Enjoyment……………………………..D 
Overall score: 72/100