Secret Santa Post: Thoughts on Princess Tutu

Quoth the Raven: “In the name of love, What more in the name of love…”

Or something like that.

Princess Tutu was an interesting watch for me. Though it was one of the titles I filed into the back of my mind as “stuff that I should probably watch” for years, it took outside intervention in the form of the Reverse Thieves’ Secret Santa Project for me to do so. When watching it, I was initially disoriented with the storybook setting where the fantastic and realistic combined, though it was an interesting premise. And it was hard for me to get into it at the start, especially with how Ahiru is portrayed as someone who isn’t good at stuff/only just a duck. I did think that her motive of becoming a magical girl was better focused than other shows with that motif. But what I did get at the start of the show was that Drosselmeyer was a creepy bastard, and that remained as such throughout the entire run, so hey.

The one in charge and he knows it.

TheBigN’s (Sorta) 2000-2004 Anime Retrospective

I can say that I’ve been a fan of anime since I realized that animation from Japan existed with the advent of Toonami around 1996. However, I feel like I only started being “serious” about this hobby around the time I started college in 2003 (you know, with a computer, an anime club, and greater avenues to access anime more than just what the TV said). So I can’t say that I’ve “been around” even as much as some of my fellow anime bloggers (or even my co-writers, I believe) regarding diving into the hobby, much less all of the fans out there who’ve been around for decades.

But that doesn’t matter in many aspects, since we all watch different series and we all have different responses to those series regardless. This post is more of a timeline for series throughout each of these ten years that have grabbed me in some way based on the long ANN list of titles that omo had been so kind to link in one of his posts. Though I’ve completed 350+ titles, and though I tend to like a lot of what I see, this post is not going to be that long. Okay, at least 2 posts worth.

By メネル. Pixiv link: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=4286120

If You’re Looking For My Secret Santa Entry…

My apologies, but you’re going to have to wait a bit before the post comes out.  I’ll be writing about Princess Tutu, for those of you wondering. Again, sorry for the delay, and please check out the other blogs participating in this fun project.

-TheBigN

Regardless, this guy will probably always creep me out.

The TV Show

Found this link from a friend. Surprised that more people haven’t linked to this yet:

An independent animation music video by Kousuke Sugimoto, who according to his Youtube channel is a self-taught animator.  This is pretty good stuff in regards to that, as well as this work he posted earlier:

The music for both of these works were done by Takayuki Manabe. I hope to see more things from both him and Sugimoto to come.

By TheBigN

I was hoping this would be a more “productive” post behind this…

By TheBigN

So, I had another post about the rest of Otakon at least partly written some weeks ago about the rest of my time there (you know, stuff like enjoying MELL’s Q&A and Yamakan’s second Q&A, EPIC KARAOKE throughout [at least on the end of those of us participating], seeing omo give his confession to Zange-chan, the FUNimation panel, bagpipes, seeing the Dealer’s Room after closing time and helping Hen Da Ne take down their wares, etc.). But then my main computer tanked, OSes were reinstalled, and all that good information, as well as 3 months of other stuffs, is gone to the electronic ether where all deleted files go. This also explains some of why I’ll probably be late with my Secret Santa entry for Reverse Thieves. And I always told myself to not write one of these “why I haven’t been writing in a while” filler posts. I’m a little ashamed at this.

But on to the real point of this post. If you’ve read my posts on Katsucon and Otakon for this year, you noticed that I had some pictures of cosplay that I’d taken for both of these. And I was planning on releasing more photos for later posts, like the said Otakon one, that have ended up not being made or have been purged. Instead, I’ve just put those cosplay pictures that I’ve taken con-wise onto a flickr account, and should be planning to add some more pictures of much more other stuff down the road. I’ve had the account up for a while, but it’s been incomplete to about now. Still, it’s kind of interesting to see that very few people have already found the place, and apparently some characters are focused on more than others.

As always, if any person looking at this is one of the people cosplaying and wants me to take down their picture, I will comply quickly. No problems. And there will be something of more substance than this post coming up soon, for those of you still reading.

It says something that this was one of the most seen pics in that short time, but hey. Bridget is awesome

Bakemonoguitarists

With apologies to the artist who styles themself as “Kondou Mu”, who did the adaptation of Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! image to Bakemonogatari.

I Can Explode With Sunshine Now

By TheBigN

Now I knew about Hidamari Sketch × ☆☆☆ when it came out, and I’m eagerly waiting for it to debut soon, which makes it good that I currently have the x365 specials to tide me over, and the fourth volume of the manga coming out soon. But hearing that the show has been licensed in the US puts a lot more pep into my step. Of course I’ll be buying it when it comes out this January (who do you think I am?), so now I’ll just be waiting with bated breath a little more. Thanks, ADV Fil- errr…  Sentai Filmworks! errr… Section 9 23!

Now I’m  thinking this might be one reason why a certain someone started blogging again(suuuuure…). Maybe I should finish up those x365 posts soon. 

And this is not that bad, though it might leave bad memories for some.

Wasshoi! \o/

Cut Out A Slice and Put A Spin On It

By TheBigN

So, following Stripey’s lead, I’ll list my top 5 favorite anime at this moment:

1. Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight
2. Haibane Renmei
3. Kino’s Journey
4. Aria The Origination
5. Hidamari Sketch

I find it’s more fun to find out what others think compared to my own opinion  in cases like these (un”my”ased opinion and all that), so if you care, what do you think this list says about me? What do you think this list doesn’t say about me that would still be true, if this question makes sense?

Miyako's Journey