The story revolves around Kakazu Kio, an ordinary high school freshman living in Okinawa. A girl with cat ears appears before him during a memorial service for one of his family ancestors. The girl calls herself Eris and claims she is an alien. Before long, fanatical alien worshipers and a mysterious government agency are in hot pursuit of Eris, but Kio’s childhood friend Manami — who wants to follow in her father’s footsteps in the CIA — captures Eris. Kio finds himself having to protect Eris from everyone. [ANN]

CAG Impressions: 

   Another big-tit Neko Girl!   But she’s cute!

 Alien worshippers, secret agencies, a dang alien neko girl (wait… BIG CHESTED nEkO gIrL), and a four-eyed just your ordinary high school boy in the middle of it all… ha!  Can this be the makings of a good series?  I guess I’ll have to wait and see. 

Asobi ni Iku yo! really took me by surprise.  I thought it was going to be all ecchi-like with the girl next door who’s been in love with the boy like forever and a day and would be full blown jealous of kitty girl.  Nah… she’s [Manami-chan] is involved in one of the agencies that wants to capture kitty girl.   Didn’t see that coming; but then again, didn’t read the manga, so…

And from there, the story takes off where Eris stays with Kio.  Throughout the episode we are introduced to three key players who are out to capture Eris.

  Minami-chan, his next door neighbor who has all this spy gadgets.

  Hitokasu Sensei, who is part of another organization.

   Futaba-chan, who under first impression is a quiet shy school girl that likes Kio, but in reality, the girl is deadly!

Even though the first episode took me by surprise because it was not what I expected, I’m willing to check out more of this series.  Would I recommend it, yea… I would.  Got all this intrigue and espionage and a cute neko girl that made me laugh!

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Rating:  8.5/10.

I know, I know, such a short review and it’s probably on the vague side.  Gomen; but for the time being, this is the best ya gonna get out of me.  Will try to write a more detailed post after seeing a couple of more episodes.

That’s it in a nutshell.

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After weeks of working non-stop to slave to the “Food gotta be brought, bills gotta be paid” rat-race, I decided to to get off the Ferris Wheel and to all that got their hand out for some dough, here’s what I’m giving them:

Screw you… I’m taking a breather!

LOL long as I’m breathing air, there’s gonna be a bill to be paid…

Anyhoo, now that’s out of my system, I’m claiming this weekend to myself, Anime, Manga and WEBBING!!!!!

I not even going to cry the blues about being behind in this, or being behind in that… I’m just gonna move forward!    So far, after taking my other site [Tha Bakapedia]  out of Hiatus, my Minion and I have been adding some pages on the Summer 2010 Releases.  LOL… we have bypass the Spring releases for the moment.  Those pages will go up as well, plus other webbing crap that I oh-so-love to do.  Ha!

Well, I have to say thus far there are only two series of the summer’s releases that I’m gravitating to: High School of the Dead and Shiki.  I liked the first episode of HS of the Dead.  Now I’m waiting patiently for Shiki to debut!   

So this weekend, I’m going to get re-acquainted with my old friend, my Coffee IV, and get some webbing done and some “first lookies” done!

So excited… of course that was just a facetious-me statement.  Ha!

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A mysterious, lethal disease is on the loose worldwide, resulting in a catastrophic death rate of humanity, and the increasing rise of attacks, caused by the living dead.

In Japan, several high school students and a school nurse have banded together to escape Fujimi High School shortly after it was attacked by zombies. The group now attempts to figure who or what was responsible for this plague, and in the meantime, attempt to survive the present apocalypse.

The story is initially narrated through the eyes of Takashi Komuro, one of the students who had survived in the initial outbreak.

CAG Impressions:

Following closely to the Manga, this first episode gave you a bit of gore, skin munching, action and oh yeah… bouncing boobs and panty shots!

With the Summer 2010 Releases well on its way to premiering series we waited months to make their debut, High School of the Dead was not a let down. 

I sat back and enjoyed this first episode Spring of the Dead.  It started off with a narration from Takashi-kun who’s at  ground zero of the outbreak along with his fellow classmates, Hisashi-kun and Rei-chan.  This first episode is kinda like their story…

Rei-chan made a promise to Takash-kun when they were kids that she would marry him when they grew up.  The fairy tale died out and as teenagers, she is dating Hisashi-kun.  Feeling down about it, Takeshi is outside standing on the open stairwell, where he witnessed the “first” killing of a teacher that was bitten by an undead.

Things go downhill pretty fast from that one bite.  Once bitten, that person too will turn into an undead.  The chain of reaction spread like wildfire and soon the trio are faced with undead fellow classmates and teachers.  The strategy, is to stay alive by any means necessary… and that includes bashing the undead upside the head in order to kill them.

Falls in line like a good old fashion zombie move – in order to kill it, bash it in tha head, and have brain matter spew everywhere.  Then ya know it’s dead for sure!   

Unfortunately, while trying to reach the roof of the building, they are confronted by a teacher.  Rei fends him off, but due to the sheer strength of it, Hisashi comes to her aid and is bitten by it on the arm.  After being scolded by a angry-frightened Rei to come and help, Takeshi overcomes his shock and manages to bash the head in of the undead Teacher. 

The three reaches the rooftop and barricade the stairwell.  Hisashi is turning into an undead.  He wanted Takeshi to help him by throwing him over the railing; he wanted to die as himself.  The Hisashi that they know.  Rei is screaming no and due to the hesitation of the two, Hisashi dies.  Rei in shock, believes that Hisashi will not turn into one of the undead because he was… special.  Takeshi knew better than that.  He was going to turn just like everyone else. 

Takeshi kills the undead Hisashi and Rei tells him he did because he was jealous.  Not wanting to hear those hurtful words, Takeshi decided that it was best to beat the crap out of the undead at the barricade then to stay by Rei.  Fearing that he would be killed, a frantic Rei runs after Takeshi and apologizes and begs him not to leave her side.  The two hugs and that’s the end of the episode.

Like I said, it was a good first episode.  It has something for everyone!  Can’t get any well-rounded than that.   

Best Comedic Scene:  The Two BFFs

Two BFFs frolicking merrily, instead of haul-assing their way to safety!  LOL  How quickly BFFs can turn on one another.  Because when one of them gets snagged, the other was like let go Bitch!  Ha!  What a riot.  But in the end, she got-gotten too.  The end of the BFFs.  What hoot.

Best Dramatic Scene:  Hisashi trying to hold on to his humanity before dying and turning into an undead.

And lastly,

The Faces of Sorrow:

Yep… this is one series that I will definitely be watching, and I highly recommend it.

Rating: 9.5/10

That’s it in a nutshell.  Because I have limited time this season, I’ll probably just be doing “First Lookies” on series I plan on watching… then again, who knows? May get more outta meh! 

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Heya folks!  Been a hot minute or two… probably more (but who’s counting?) since I’ve made a post.  Anyhoo… was reading this post from a site I frequent and the owner of it posted this link:

Japanese, U.S. Manga Publishers Unite To Fight Scanlations

So apparently, Japanese and Manga Publishers are threatening legal action against 30 scanlation sites, and although no names have been named yet, it seems Mangafox.com and OneManga.com, two sites that host scanlations are two of their biggest targets.  The publishers are even submitting reports of scan sites to the FBI.

The article states that sales in the US have dropped from $210 million in 2007 to $140 million in 2009…

Well, I’ll be following this just to see how things are played out.  Although I have alot to say on this subject, I’ll leave it for another post… just got in from work and I’m on the tired side.  Working extra hours so I can have some spending money and pay some long overdue bills.  Have to go see the Parents in a couple of months.. 

Anyhoo, until next post.

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How the heck have ya been?  No I haven’t gone off and disappear into some far wasteland.  Been in the “Reel World” working my tail off because ya know…

Food gotta be brought… bills gotta be paid! 

And I’m not moving back home dammit!

So anyhoo… been downloading some episodes, doing some webbing stuff here and there and preparing all these screenies for when Tha Bakapedia comes out of Hiatus mode.  Photo storage gotta be paid in order to house future screenies.  Working on it! 

So…

That’s been the latest happenings of me. 

What about you?

Wha’cha been up?
Wha’cha watching?
Wha’cha reading?
How’s life treatin’ ya?

Dead tired right now and I’m creating a silly post.  Please don’t sue me!

And this concludes this small general post.

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Be  back to posting and reviewing the “First Lookies” episodes later in the week since, I’m off on Fridays!

This concluses this QuickPress post.

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Gotta poke fun at myself once in a while.  LOL!!!  Welcome to another “Blah… blah… blah… post! 

Okay, so in the news today, that is to say  the Animenewsnetwork.com news,

FBI Shuts Down Comics Scan Site

Apparently, the FBI has served a warrant to the owner of the comic scan website HTMLcomics.com, shut down the website, and confiscated its servers over alleged criminal copyright infringement.  The site was serving up copies of Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, The Simpsons, Futurama, Avengers, Incredible Hulk, Wolverine, Dilbert, Peanuts, Catwoman, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Hellboy, Star Wars, 300, Predator, The Mask, Iron Man and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Short article, but read it here.

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Making my way down my “First Lookie” list, I only have a few more to go until new releases that I’m interested in comes out.  Like for example, Shiki!!!  Dying to see it.  Can’t wait, can’t wait, can’t wait!

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Have been doing some webbing stuff in regards to being a MangaWhore  [Tihi ] and developments of it all is coming along nicely.  Yay!   Love when things I work on , comes out good.   My manga list has gotten pretty long, and boy-oh-boy am I enjoying being a MangaWhore!  Will be posting the results of what I’m working on, once I have enough content for you to view!

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Bleach chapter 402 was seriously good this week!

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The Spammers are having a field day!  Since I’ve been doing “First Lookies,” the count has gone up! O.O  Spam away… because my Spam Guards are doing their job, quite well!

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Been following the Anime Blog Tournaments and it’s fun!  Check it out… you may just find your blog on it.    My Minion site is part of it!

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So, like I’m waiting for my Minion to get a break from Uni, and come off from vacation after Uni, [Uni=University] so that we can both seriously bring the Bakapedia site back online.  It’s on Hiatus.  Capturing screenies is gonna be a bytch!   because there’s numerous screenies to do.  Already started the process, but it’s slow going because I stop in the middle at times just to watch the episodes! O.O  LOL

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Is anybody else watching Winter Sonata too?  I marathoned episodes 15-18 yesterday morning before I left for work and it’s starting to get really good!  Not to add any spoilers,  it just got me wondering…

Who exactly is Joonsang’s father?!

I’m thinking it’s the Professor (Sang Hyuk’s father).  But I could be wrong since I haven’t seen the live action series/movie.  But there was something about episode 18 that have me feeling that way.  I’m loving the series nonetheless and pretty soon hopefully, I’ll be blogging on it.  Hey, series no  matter when they came out, deserves to be blogged on. 

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Was reading Ghost Talker’s Daydream  and found out it was made into an ova series! o_0  Seen it, and it was pretty good.  

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Let’s see… what else? Oh yea… gotta buy another external hard drive!  Since Manga sites are now pulling their mature content manga scans,  gotta start housing the manga that I’m now reading!  If only licensed manga in the US were popping out like the speed of light… but volumes are being produced at a slow rate.  Hey, they can have all my money, because I love buying books and manga and having them nicely set on my bookshelves in chronological order!   

Makes me feel important.  Ha! 

Ah… parting is such sweet sorrow… because this blah… blah… blah post is coming to an end.    Dramatic… aren’t I?

That’s it in a nutshell.

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With the helps of his friends, Jou escapes to go find his sister Meg at the orphanage after getting a visit from the Director of the Orphanage telling him his sister was going to get an adoptive father.

It’s been a month since the boys were put in the reformatory school.   They all are getting along and are calling each other by nicknames.  Jou [Joe] shares with the group that he had a little sister back at the orphanage where he came from.  Inspector Ichihara came in and told Jou that he had a visitor.  Jou thought it was his sister and was happy.  After Jou is escorted out by Ichihara, Sakuragi [Bro] informs the other boys that the visitor was not his sister; the school did not allow minors to visit.

Jou’s visitor turned out to be the Director of the Orphanage.  Upon seeing her face, he is seize with fear.  At lunch, Mansaku [Cabbage] asked Jou who visited him.  He told him that it was the Director and that she came by to let him know that his sister was going to have an adoptive father.  Ryuji [Uncovered] chimed in and asked which ‘rich man’ was going to be her new father.  Noboru [Turtle] told him to shut up.  Since the news, Jou’s mood has been solemn.  He almost got injured in the woodshop when he wasn’t paying attention to the wood he and Noboru was cutting.  Norboru pushes him back and told him to pay attention.

While standing on line waiting for the showers, a merchant came in with a supply of food.  Seeing the gates wide open, Jou stares at these opened gates and his thoughts are filled with his sister. Noboru whispers to him that he could let him see his sister.  He bites down on his own arm drawing blood, and screamed that he was bitten by a snake.    While Noboru squirmed and screamed on the ground to distract the guards, Sakuragi pushes Jou forward telling him to go and don’t come back.  Mansaku asked if Joe was going to commit “haring” [the act of escaping] and Sakuragi yells that he saw the snake too.  Each boy began to yell their sighting of the psuedo snake as Jou runs past the opened gates to freedom. 

Later, Ichihara is being chewed out by the Director of the School.  They had a window of 48 hours to retrieve Jou before the Police got involved.   The director demanded that Ichihara find Jou before then.  Ichihara is hopping mad.  Sneaking around, Jou steal some clothes on a clothes line and continue on his way to the orphanage to see his sister.  With Ichihara and two other guards looking for him, Jou hides in an alley and waited for them to pass by.  He has a flashback of him and Meg at the orphanage and the Director walks in an damn nightgown telling Jou don’t keep her waiting.  After the guards cleared the area, Jou continued on his way towards the orphanage.

That bytch!

Back at the school, the boys were given a beating and thrown into solitary refinement.  Ryuji is pissed that he took a beating for someone else.  Sakuragi asked him why did he helped Jou.  He wanted to know why they all helped Jou.  Noboru told them about his family; his mother, father and sister Tae.  His father was a drunk and when he act out, he would take his little sister and leave the house.  One day, after his father had beat him, he left the house alone… on this day, a day in August, an atomic bomb was drop on the village he lived in, and everyone, including his family was killed.  That was why he helped Jou.

Back at the orphanage, the Director was handling the adoption transaction when Jou burst in screaming his sister’s name.  The director goes out to greet him.  Jou told her he was not taking Meg away from him.  With an evil grin on her face, she replied that she was waiting for him.  All of a sudden, two of the guards sprung out nad wrestles Jou to the ground and handcuffed him.  She had already reported him.  Jou asked her how much more do he had to pleasure her before she let him see Meg.

The director acted like she didn’t know what he was talking about.  Jou started spewing out words that she was a pervert who used people for her own pleasure and then got rid of them for money.  Infuriated, she took a flower vase and smashed it on his head.  Meg comes out yelled for them to stop.  She apologized to the director for Jou’s disruption.  At the school, Ichihara informed the boys that Jou was caught.  He went to see his sister and he would returned Jou to their cell room once he finished beating the crap out of him. 

Jou cried out that they needed to stay together until their mother came and picked them up.  She shot back that she had enough of his lies; their mother was not coming back for them.  Their only choice was to be used by others and she had long been prepared for it.  She told him to forget about her before disappearing into her room.  The guards carted Jou out of the orphanage.  He was so distraught.  I wanted to cry too!  T.T   Meg broke down as well.  Such a teary scene.

Jou was taken back the school where he was put in isolation and beaten very badly.

End of episode.

This was a good episode.  Pissed me off and made me wanna cry!  Can’t wait to see the next episode! 

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The protagonist, Yukimura Chizuru, is the daughter of a doctor who works in Edo. The father leaves Edo to work as a volunteer doctor and moves to Kyoto without his daughter. As time passes by, Chizuru starts worrying about losing contact with her father, so she decides to go to Kyoto in search of him. On the way, Chizuru is attacked by few criminals and witnesses a fight between an oni and the Shinsengumi. Taking her into custody and saving her, the Shinsengumi debate on what to do with Chizuru when they discover that she is the daughter of the doctor they are also looking for. So they decide to become Chizuru’s protectors and help her look for her father(the doctor). Lots of events happen while she stays with the Shinsengumi, as they discover mysterious secrets and also fight against the Bakumatsu group. The story is overall romantic with a historical and political background.  [From Hakuouki Official Website]

CAG Impressions:

Another Bishie Boy Harem surrounded by a plain ordinary girl.  Of course with some romance… blah, blah, blah, blah.

Gomen… after watching the first episode [The Snowflake Capital], I wasn’t interested.  Love myself a good Bishie looking male… but – I found myself skipping parts and frankly, I just couldn’t get into it.  There was nothing special or attention grabbing about it.  Perhaps after I look at some more episodes, I’ll have a change of mind and then revise this ‘First Lookie.’

So no review from me. 

A thousand apologies. 

Rating:  7.5 

That’s it in a nutshell.

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The protagonist of this series is a third-year college student, and the story follows him as he looks back at the earlier years of his college life, and his adventures with the members of his club.

Directed by Masaaki Yuasa, the creator of Kaiba and Kemonozume.

CAG Impressions:

  WHAT IN THE WORLD?!?!

I felt like I needed to be high in order to comprehend the first episode!  Wow… what… a… ride… GET ME OFF THIS THING!

Now, I for one like the weird, the obtuse,  and/or the insane abstract side of Anime, which is either a short series or an ova and I may get lucky and find an actual full length movie.  But this first episode of Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei made me crave a super stuff joint so that I could sit back and enjoy the ride with the ever-so fast talking dialogue!  AND I DON’T EVEN INDULGED!!!  O.O

I really don’t know what to make of this series.  LOL!!!  I’m at a lost.  I’m not really surprise at the abstract going 50 miles per minute narrator… after all, it’s from the mind of the creator who gave us Kaiba and Kemono zume — which I enjoyed and felt that both series did not get the recognition they deserved.

… how can I begin, rather – where should I begin?  Computer Geek God, wish me luck on this one!

Okay!  So there’s this nameless guy eating ramen noodles at a ramen stand (Cate Ramen) on a windy night.  He meets a so-called God (a god of Matchmaking) of Shimogamo Shrine who knows everything about Nameless.* 

*Note:  It’s so much easier to just called the character nameless… less complications this way.

Anyhoo, the God’s name is Kamotaketsunuminokami.  <— don’t make me type that again.  "=_=  The god basically breaks down Nameless life – the smallest detail to the most embarrassing.  The God wanted to know why Nameless spent the last two years in a timid state.  Nameless blamed it on his Ozu.  The God stated that it would be Kannazuki soon and that he would be traveling to Izumo.

Nameless doesn’t have a clue as to what the God was talking about.  The God stated that when they gather in Izumo, they decide the relationships of man and woman.  The God takes out a book and points to the name Akashi-san; a name that Nameless should know.  He then points to Nameless’ name and Ozu name and asked if he understood.  Nameless still doesn’t have a clue and the God insults him by calling him stupid. As a god of matchmaking, he is prepared to make Akashi with someone: Nameless or Ozu. 

Nameless began to take a surreal journey back into his past.  He talks about his lonely high school days and when he entered college, he had high hopes to make friends and be sociable.  It didn’t happen that way.  In steps Ozu.  The two become friends as well as mischievous partners in crime of breaking couples up.  They called themselves "Black Cupids." 

Nameless eventually become to like Akashi.  He invited her on a date to eat ramen at the Cat Ramen Stand. and visited the God to tell him not to give Askashi to Ozu, but to him instead.  The God told him to meet him  before 8pm on the east side of Kamo-oohashi [bridge].  The two meets up and there’s a large crowd.  The God realized that it was Gozan.  He told Nameless that he had to cross the Kamo-oohasi [bridge].  He goes on to tell him that once he crossed, Akashi will come walking from the other side.  Nameless is to strike up a conversation with her and ask her out on a date.  Nameless flat out refused.  Shy…  The God told him to stop whining and pushes him towards his journey.  Nameless does meet up with Akashi, and he froze up like a robot(?).  She asked if he was there for Gozan and he replied yes and then said good-bye to a ‘question mark-over-her-head Akashi. 

Suddenly Ozu appears dressed as a woman.  He yells out to Nameless not to defy the words of a god, and hurry up down the path to love.  Nameless yelled back that he did not need his help.  Ozu replied that if he didn’t make a serious move, he was going to jump! Nameless yells back what did his love life and Ozu jumping  have to do with with each other.  Ozu didn’t have a clue.  Akashi yells to Ozu  that the river was swollen and if he jumped, he would died.

By the time, the crowd has become irate.  They rushed Ozu and some even try to push him so that he would fall.  Ozu loses his balance and falls in.  Nameless rushes over to the rail and people started questioning were they friends.  Nameless flat out denied it. Well, he got push over too.  End of episode.

Phew!!!!!  Cant believe I got through this First Lookie.  Rough I tell ya… rough!  The one good thing I liked, it had a slamming ED song. 

Would I recommend this?  Yea I would and here’s the reason why: 

There are some who are on a higher plane than I, who would watch this series and understand the complexity of it.  I just can’t do it. 

Rating:  7.5/10  that’s the best I can give it.

Gonna go submerge myself in a cup of coffee-chan now.    

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