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Archive for August, 2009

Happy Birthday, Miku!

お誕生日おめでとうミク! That’s right, on this day, two years ago, Hatsune Miku was first released. So, happy birthday Miku! May you gain even more popularity before your third birthday!

Planetes

WOOHOOO!! Garbagemennnn…Innn….SPAAACE!!! And there you have the basic setting for Planetes, brought to you courtesy of Nip, Tuck, and Thelma. The year is 2075. It has been over a century since mankind first ventured out into space, and in that time, we have established permanent bases on the Moon, and we have set foot on […]

Blast Assist

TF2: Blast Assist So beautiful… The sounds of the Crockets are like music…

Black★Rock Shooter Anime

In what is one of the most epic pieces of news in the history of news: Black★Rock Shooter is to receive its own anime. For those who don’t know, B★RS is an original character created by huke. Ryo, the guy who wrote Love is War, made a song based on the character, using Miku as […]

Haruhi Suzumiya

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is… different than I was expecting. At first glance, I thought it was going to be some high school drama kind of thing. But what do I find upon watching it? A quasi-science fiction story! I totally did not expect that. The story follows Haruhi Suzumiya, a first-year high school […]

Russian Polkka

Lucky☆Star Dance with Loituma’s music!! Sheesh, is there anything this song CAN’T do? Finnish, Japanese, and now Russian? And you get the Lucky Star Dance as an added bonus.

Kanon

Kanon tells the story of Yuichi Aizawa, a young man who has forgotten much of his childhood past. It is based on a visual novel of the same name. (Remember those?) There have been two anime adaptions made, done by different studios: one aired in 2002, the other in 2006. I will be talking about […]

Shaddap Yo Face

Shaddap You Face Whassa matta you? You gotta no respect for classic songs? Samuel L. Jackson’ll shaddap yo face. Samuel L Jackson does Joe Dolce

Code Geass

And now, the second anime in my series: Code Geass. At its heart, Code Geass is about giant robots fighting each other. There, I bet you’re interested already. :D Code Geass is set in an alternate universe, where three superpowers control the world: the Holy Britannian Empire, the Euro Universe, and the Chinese Federation. Britannia […]

Gogol Rush

Gogol Rush But why is the RED Demoman trying to push the BLU bombkart? *gasp* THAT DEMOMAN’S A BLOODY SPY!