The long awaited “Black Rock Shooter OVA” finally came and it did not disappoint. The waiting was worth it and we were lead into a different universe where friendships sometimes turn into something wonderful or can be just be lethal.  So far the story has not revealed to us why everything is happening or at least explaining what is the reason for the Black Rock Shooter to exist.  But what we were left with was an introduction to the friendship between Yumi and Moto and the Yuu.

Yumi is the classical rich school girl that is spoiled by her parents and has always been moving around the world and never stays that long in one place.

Moto like sports and is an “ace player” on the basketball team. She befriends Yumi during the first day of school and they become good friends.

Yuu is the manager of the basketball team where Yumi plays and becomes close friend to Moto as they enter the second year, because they are in the same classroom.

Anyways, without going into spoiling the episode for all of you some complications happen and Yumi is missing and Moto feels like she is responsible for what happened.  She messages Yumi tirelessly and then she gets an empty text message with just Yumi’s name as the sender and Moto rushes to where she thinks she is. This is where it gets interesting and we learn a bit about the whole ordeal of the “Black Rock Shooter” that we had been bombarded since the opening of the Anime.

Black Rock Shooter OVA leaves us with many questions and I am sure answers will come in future episodes and understand why things happened in the first place. Whatever the reason is, it is surely fun to watch the fights take place in a futuristic setting and with some awesome weapons crashing against each other. I personally wanted to watch more fights and a little more action, but I guess we will see much more of that in future episodes.

Here are a few Screeshots from Black Rock Shooter OVA Episode 1

Taiga is Emma 2.0

First I would like to say that it is an usual approach I took to do this reaction paper and instead of watching the straight up versions of Emma or that relate to the novel in a direct way I took another way around it and investigated some new stuff that is coming out that is scary similar to that of Emma’s novel.  I guess this matchmaking and stuff that happens around it has always been part in some way of how modern society works. Anime is often seen as something that is shallow and just meant for kids and that it cannot be deep enough to portray mature and concrete actions. Anyways, I could go on for hours talking about it and would not serve that much the purpose of the paper and honestly I think Anime is just another medium to express an idea and to portray a deep story; just like a movie or a novel tries to do.  With that say let’s get on with what this reaction paper is about; I will be focusing on Jane Austen’s Emma and Toradora! . Just like Emma, Taiga is the main character in Toradora! And she faces many of the many challenges that Emma encounters during the novel.  They also have similar life styles and their quest for perfection always gets them in trouble.

Taiga Aisaka is the matchmaker in Toradora! And she is always in her constant quest to match Ryu Takasu with Minori.  Ryu Takasu is her best friend and confidant that is always for her no matter what and her partner in her many pranks.  When Ryu tells Taiga that he likes Minori she goes all out to make the match work and along the way she makes many unsuccessful attempts to get them together, but she fails every time.  Taiga tells Ryu that she likes the class president, Yusaka Kitamura, and they make the promise that they will help each other out but they fail once again.  Just as Emma, went to many failures of trying to make matches for her friends.

The way Taiga and Emma connect to each other is interesting, since they both fail at the matchmaking business and even if their hearts are in the right place they still fail to bring together two completely different people together I would say.  We can see how Emma pushes too hard for Harriet and Mr.  Elton. Mr. Elton likes Emma and she is incompletely ignorant of this, and when she goes too far she is hit in the face when he confesses to her.  It is similar to Taiga and Ryu, when Ryu during Christmas Eve tells Taiga that he loves her, but she just ignores him because she thinks she has stolen him away from Minori.

2010 Summer Anime Lineup. Just a selection of a few terror Animes we think going to be good. They bring to the table both something new and something good quality we expect from a terror Anime. We will forward watching this awesome Animes.

Here is the list of the Animes that appear on the video:

Summer 2010 anime list:
Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu – July 2, 2010
Nurarihyon no Mago – July 6, 2010
Shiki – July 9, 2010
Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin – July 6. 2010
Kuro Shitsuji Season 2 – July 2, 2010

All rights for the trailers belong to the Anime producers and right holders.

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Yes! Precure 5 GoGo! (TV) – Nozomi Yumehara Protects the Park!!

There have been a few times when I have gone into the wild “otaku” side of things and today was that day. I began as usual trolling for some fun Anime related stories or something that Anime fans in Japan use to do. Anyways, as I trolled one website: suiseisekisuisui that is like a 4Chan site where people post unanimously.

Anyways,  I stumbled into this amazing post: Suiseikeisuisui – Nozomi Protects the Park!! I was instantly dragged into the story that I was able to get sorta with Google Translation built in Chrome… I love it… anyways,  I decided to give it a good and put the “story” into action. I am totally newbie when it comes to editing… so I spent like 12 hours just to finish the draft of it.

The Video did not come alright… anyways will continue editing it… but here is the story at least in pics, and at the end the draft of the video…

I’m Yumehara!

We are happy to bring some of the Anime Episodes on crunchyroll.com to test this out this week we will be posting a few episodes from Durarara.  First, it is so awesome for Anime to be available and with such great quality that it makes me just so happy.  On the other side of things the streams are only available for people living within the United States, due to copyright restrictions and some other legal stuff that I don’t understand.  We hope that in the future Anime becomes freely available like this around the world in a legal way that benefits both the Anime producers and the fans.

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Andrew pointed in his post: Andrew Funimation rants that he was pissed because NAVARRE Corporation might cut FUNIMATION off, here is one of his statements:

Now I don’t know if you are outraged by this or not but in all honesty, I am F******* P***** off by this. Now as most of you guys know, Funimation is one of the most popular anime distribution companies that has survived the tough times of the recession. Personally, I am absolutely upset by what Navarre is doing. This has to be one of the biggest mistakes that a huge corporation like Navarre could make. Navarre has plans to release more details during their end of the fiscal year conference call this Friday.

I don’t know about you guys, but honestly FUNIMATION can go to hell and they deserve it for their lousy dubs and subs and greedy practices. Maybe Andrew is a vivid fan of dubs or something that see that if Funimation was go off business was going to destroy their world of Anime. I am sure if FUNIMATION goes there are many companies that can be doing a much better job with Anime and giving it the respect it deserves with quality dubs and subs if necessary.

FUNIMATION has disrespected Anime with shitty dubs and subs that both violate the spirit of Anime and the Japanese culture in general. We watch Anime because we want to experience how it was meant to be when it was first conceived by the original writers and the directors.

People like Andrew really makes me question why he defines himself among the “otaku” if he is so fanboy as to defend Funinimation? I do not want to get into any stereotypes, but seriously to be an otaku or to refer to them you need to do all us a favor Andrew do not defend a bad company such Funimation. A real otaku cares for authenticity and the real deal, not shitty dubs or subs that censor and sometimes change the original intent that an Anime was supposed to portray.

Tokyo Girls’ Style

Tokyo Girls’ Style debuted on May 3. 2010 at the ending of Hana Kappa with the theme song “Onnaji Kimochi” which has been a huge success in Japan. Their style is “contagious” and their dancing style has been a huge success on YouTube and around the world. I will keep an eye on them and how they progress

Their debut song and video:

YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TokyoGirlsStyle

Twitter: http://twitter.com/TokyoGirlsStyle