Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 2000% review

I’m glad to see that otome games are slowly getting a place in the English market. Also, there are more and more anime adaptions, like Uta Pri. And now, we even got a second season!

I must say, it’s one of the best adaptions I’ve ever seen<3 It’s even better than the first season, and it has lots of fanservice. It continues in the same style as the first season, every episode covering 1 guy. Also, Cecil joins them, yay!  Oh, and now that they’re going to become professionals, they have some hawt guys teach them- Mikaze Ai, Camus, Kotobuki Reiji and Kurosaki Ranmaru. The graphics are colourful, detailed and the music is great, as always. I hope they’ll focus more on one character and develop some romance.

I watched the first episodes and can’t wait for the next one, they’re definitely worth watching! The first episode starts in force, with a new song by STARISH, called “Maji Love 2000%”, so if you liked their first one, you’ll surely love it.

On another note, I just finished Amnesia (the anime) and now Haruka seems to have such an interesting personality, maybe because the nameless protagonist in Amnesia was very passive (well, of course she was, since she lost her memory).

All in all, Uta Pri Maji Love 2000% has everything it needs- bishies, graphics, music, *ahem* fanservice and likeable characters.

If you want to know more about the first season, I have a post

And now, here’s just a glimpse at this anime’s awesomeness~

Happy Birthday Sunny-chan~!!!

Happy birthday! I wish you a great year, full of happiness, many accomplishments and good health!

Gangnam Style Vocaloid Version~

Heey~ sorry again for not posting for such a long time, but I had a damn lot of homework =.= I found this video on YouTube-  it’s Gangnam Style Vocaloid Version! I thought it was pretty cute and I wanted to share it with you^^

2012 overview- anime, manga, games

First of all, I want to wish you a happy new year!

Well, this year was a good one. There have been some anime adaptions that I was looking forward to watch, like Btooom! and Code:Breaker. Also, this year we got the new PS Vita console, which is just too awesome.

And now a little overview for 2012~

~Notable anime that aired in 2012~

~Btooom! – is definitely one of my favourites this year. It has everything a good anime should have- likeable characters, a good storyline, nice graphics and  some plot twists here and there. And most important there isn’t even a second when you get bored. The main character, a NEET who is in top ten world players on the online game Btooom! is thrown on an island and forced to play the game in real life. If you like survival animes, this one’s for you. Also, if you liked Mirai Nikki, you’ll like Btooom! too.

~Chuunibyou demo koi ga shitai – it’s been a while since I had so much fun watching a comedy. This is one of those stories where you can emphasize with the characters because you’ve been through similar situations. The anime is about a guy who had ”eighth grader syndrome”(he thought he had super powers and such) enters high school and meets Rika, a girl who still has the ”syndrome”. The story isn’t only comedy, it gets serious at the end and is more deep than you think at first. I found it really cute and enjoyable.

~Another – one of the best horror animes i’ve ever seen. You can find a review here

~Inu x Boku SS – I don’t know if this one’s shonen or shoujo, but I think anyone can enjoy it. It’s about youkai who live together in a luxurious mansion, using the Secret Service- personal bodyguards who are, of course also youkai. The protagonist is Ririchiyo, a tsundere who doesn’t get along with people and her SS is Miketsukami, a fox youkai who does anything she says. It’s a cute love story, but it also has lots of action. If you like the anime, I suggest you read the manga too.

~Tasogare Otome x Amnesia – I cried a lot at the last episode T-T. You can read the review here

~Kuroko no Basket – it’s the best sports anime I’ve seen so far and I like how it doesn’t require to know how to play to enjoy it. I love how it makes you so curious who’ll win the match. Also, here’s the review.

~Hyouka – it’s a detective story, but not some exaggerated story. The protagonist doesn’t solve murder cases, or other serious things. He just solves everyday mysteries, like stolen objects, or what someone was thinking, or finding out who wrote a letter. Things like that. But the beauty of this anime consists in making any small thing look like an important matter. Also, the characters have some interesting personalities, like Oreki who ”conserves energy” (reminds me of myself :)) ), or Chitanda who is very curious.

~Kore wa Zombie desu ka? – I can’t believe I actually enjoyed this anime :)) .First, I thought it would be just another storyless harem. Well, it IS a storyless harem, but it’s an awesome comedy. The main character is a guy who is killed and becomes a zombie and somehow he gets to live with 3 girls- a loli with a chainsaw, a necromancer and a ninja. This anime is epic, really 😀

~Code:Breaker – it’s a great shonen which has a lot of potential, and the manga has 200+ chapters, too bad it ended at episode 13 (I’m hoping for a season 2…). Well, there are those people with special powers, and 6 of them work for the government – the code:breakers. Their job is to kill those who are evil. There’s lots of action and cute characters.

~some sequels this year : Natsume Yuujinchou season 4, Kimi to Boku 2, Hakuoki Reimeiroku (um, this is a prequel 😀 )

~other great anime this year that I’ve been too lazy to do a small review: Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, Hiiro no Kakera, Arcana Famiglia, Sword Art Online, K, Zetsuen no Tempest, Say ”I love you”, and almost every winter season anime.

~notable things in 2012~

~First of all, I’m happy to see some interest in the otome gaming industry, and hopefully, we’ll even get some English game releases. There’s an English otome game called Dandelion,

made by a korean company, and hopefully they’ll release more otome games. Also, Aksys Games will release Hakuouki Bakumatsu Musouroku in English, which isn’t an otome game, but at least it’s from the same series as the Hakuouki otome games.

~Another thing is that this year there have been some otome games anime adaptions, like Hiiro no Kakera and Arcana Famiglia. Maybe this will make more companies release English otome games  :3

~The PS Vita hand-held console was released this year, and I have to tell you that it impressed me. And so, Sony is still my favourite console producer. And there are already many good games for it, like Persona 4 Golden, Shinobido 2, Dinasty Warriors Next, Gravity Rush, Ragnarok Odyssey and many more.

~Many of my favourite manga have been finally released in English, like Watashi ni xx Shinasai and some of Tokyopop’s titles have been re-released, like 07-Ghost and Loveless.

~things I’m looking forward to in 2013~

~Well, there are some sequels I can’t wait to watch, like Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Uta no Prince-sama, Kuroko no Basket, and of course, Hetalia!

~Animes that I’m looking forward to watch : Amnesia, Maoyu, Hakkenden, Cuticle Detective Inaba and many more.

~MMOs this year: the long-awaited Ragnarok Online 2!! also, Blade&Soul and Phantasy Star 2 (I hope I’ll have enough time T-T)

Well, that’s it for 2012’s overview and I hope you liked it!

Please continue to support me this year too!

**~Merry Christmas~**

I wish you all a merry Christmas and happy holidays~!!! :3

By the way, I got Persona 4 Golden as Christmas present<3 . Ahh, I couldn’t believe I actually found it in a store. I usually have to buy games online because I can’t find the ones I like in the stores =.=  .Lucky~~ And now, the long-awaited winter holiday is here! Finally, I have enough time for games and anime<3<3<3

I hope you’ll have an awesome Christmas!

p.s. I’ll try to write more this holiday >.<

Nijikon 2012

Hi! I haven’t posted anything in a loo~ng while and I’m sorry =.= I had a lot of homework and couldn’t find the right time to write. By the way, my first mark at physics this year is a 10/10 🙂

So, I know it’s a bit late, but Nijikon was on 3-4 November. As always, I was there on the first day. :3 I arrived there around 11:00. And this year was the first time we went in a larger group- we were 6 people (in the other years we were only 2). Of course, one of them was Sunny-chan, who made a good part of the photos this year.

The first thing we checked out was the manga stand, since the mangas run out pretty fast. Like, one moment I see Death Note, the next 5 minutes there aren’t any Death Note volumes left 😀 . Luckily, I managed to buy Kuroshitsuji vol.4, Loveless vol.9, Dengeki Daisy vol.2 and Vampire Knight vol.3. There were also some yaoi mangas but I resisted buying some^^ We made lots of photos with cosplayers and it was a lot of fun! We also watched the AMVs, which were great (and convinced me to continue watching K-ON). After going from stand to stand, we got hungry, so we bought hot-dogs. Then, the cosplay contest began, which was a little too short. At least this time we stayed on the seats, not on the floor. I forgot to mention that I bought a pair of neko ears :3 Then, we participated in the drawing contest. Of course, I didn’t win, but it was just for fun. I bought a poster with Izaya (Durarara!!) and one with Alois and Claude (Kuroshitsuji). And, since I said that every time I go to a convention I must buy at least one figure, I found a really cute Hatsune Miku figure. Ah, it was epic when I bought it! The box was big and it wasn’t cheap, and the sellers were wondering if someone would even buy it. And then, I saw it and I asked the price- they began to laugh that the moment they put it on sale, it was bought. There was a host club, but it was a huge crowd so if you wanted to go in, you would’ve waited hours, so we gave up. Ah, my dream to go to a host club or a butler cafe…

All in all, it was cool and we had a lot of fun. And now, the photos~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

aochan005 1st anniversary!!!

Today, 27th September, aochan005.wordpress.com has 1 year! That’s right, it’s the first anniversary!

First of all, I want to thank everyone who made time to read my posts! Domo arigato gozaimasu! I am really grateful for this. You’re the ones who made it possible to reach the first anniversary.

How did I start this blog? Well, since I don’t know many otaku in real life, I can’t talk much about anime, manga, games… Then, I thought that if I made a blog I could talk about these things as much as I want. First, I was reluctant to start a blog- that meant a lot of time spent on writing and I’m not good at this kind of thing… One of the biggest challenges was to choose what reviews to do, because there are so many good anime and games~

I think I’ve gotten used to writing- if I look back at my older posts, they were shorter and simpler. By the way, my first post wasn’t even about anime, it was about letters. (well, I was watching Tegami Bachi then and that’s probably why I chose that subject).

Thank you again for this great year! I’m really glad I chose to start a blog and I hope you liked, even a little, my reviews. I’ll try my best this year too! Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia – anime review

おはよ！I – I’m not crying!! It’s just that..something got in my eyes…It’s been a while since I saw such a touching anime T-T

The story is about a boy named Niiya Teiichi, whose school has been reconstructed and it has many stairs that lead to nowhere and unused chambers. There’s a ghost story about a girl called Kanoe Yuuko, who died in the school grounds and is buried there. It is said that she’s a ghost who haunts the school and she doesn’t remember who she is or how she died.

One day, Teiichi wanders in the old school building and meets Yuuko. Not everyone can see her- if someone is not aware of her existence, that person can’t see her. So, Teiichi can see her and is able to touch her. He finds her body inside the school and decides to find out how she died. They form a paranormal club, with Yuuko as the president. The other two members are Momoe Okonogi, a girl who can’t see Yuuko, and Kirie Kanoe, who’s a relative of Yuuko and who’s able to see her.

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia is not your average horror anime, it’s much more deeper than that- have you ever thought what it would be like if the protagonist fell in love with a ghost? It would surely be interesting. So this anime portrays this kind of romance, with a beautiful love story, combined with horror elements, resulting an anime that makes you want to see the next episode as fast as possible. Oh- and if you decide to watch it, don’t forget to get a big pack of tissues- you’ll need them T-T. I won’t spoil  you, so I’m not going to give you any details why^^ After all, that’s the fun of mystery animes.

The story is cute, with lots of romance, but without letting you forget that it’s a horror anime. The two main characters develop their personalities along the 12 episodes. I really enjoyed it and I think it was worth watching.

Trickster Online design contest

おはよございます！Sorry for not writing anything in a while, but I was damn busy with my exams. By the way, I got 10/10 at maths and 9.30/10 at language. Now I’m in summer holiday until September so I think I’ll write more.

Now, back to the subject- I’ve been playing Trickster Online for quite a lot of time and there was an equipment design contest inspired by the cute bear-like Poppuri. Sooo, I decided to participate- a few hours before the contest was going to end! Somehow, I managed to finish my designs and submit them in time. And I got 2nd place!!! I was a little surprised, but I’m happy that I won. Here are the designs, I hope you like them!

Kuroko no Basket – anime review

Who thought that I’d enjoy so much a sports anime? Well, since I haven’t seen one in a while, I thought that it would be nice to watch something different. So, I started watching Kuroko no Basket, and is now one of my favourite anime.

Teiko Middle School’s basketball club was famous for having 5 genius players, who were called ”Kiseki no Sedai” (”Generation on Miracles”), the best 5 basketball players in Japan. It was rumoured that there was a 6th member, acknowledged by the Kiseki no Sedai.

Seirin High is a newly founded high school, and the members of the basketball club are trying to recruit more members. Kagami Taiga, a red-haired guy who is very tall applies for the club. Another person applies, but no one notices him- that’s Kuroko Tetsuya, the protagonist, whose presence is never noticed. When the other members find out that he’s from Teiko Middle School, they discover that the ”mysterious 6th” really exists. Even though they’re a new team, they enter the Interhigh for the second time, and work hard to win.

Kuroko Tetsuya is a blue-haired guy who has little presence, which is a useful thing in basketball games. He can use ”misdirection”, making the players from the other team focus on someone else. He is good at passing, and he’s known as the 6th member of Kiseki no Sedai. Kuroko said to Kagami-  ”I am a supporting actor, a shadow. But a shadow will become darker if the light is stronger and it will make the white of the light stand out. As the shadow of the main actor, I will make you, the light, the number one in Japan.”. He has a calm and straightforward personality, contrasting Kagami’s, who is fiery and bashful.

Kagami Taiga is very ambitious and wants to become the number one basketball player in Japan. His dream is to surpass Kiseki no Sedai. Kuroko supports him, being his ”shadow”.

While participating in the Interhigh tournament, they meet a lot of experienced players, and even Kiseki no Sedai members, such as Kise Ryouta (who’s a model and adds the suffix ”-chi” to the names of the persons he acknowledges) and Midorima Shintaro (who is obsessed with the zodiac, and always has lucky items with him).

All the characters have unique personalities and the basketball games are pretty intense. It’s definitely an anime that you must see, even if sports isn’t your favourite genre. I think Kuroko no Basket has everything a great anime must have- pleasant characters, an awesome protagonist, lots of action and good graphics. And of course, lots of cliffhangers.