Kurogane’s Anime Blog

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And there you have it guys. It’s been a fun 2 and a half years with Animeblogger.net, but it seems the site has grown so well that our dearest webmaster, Maestro isn’t able to support everything by himself.

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Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs Lockon! May you both weather both FLAG’s and Thrones together and live until the world is finally rid of warfare!

BTW, Hallelujah and Setsuna were the bridesmaid and best man respectively.

Red Exia = 300% Speed.

Oh god, Exia gets powered up, hax way. Turns out that ‘ol Aeolia didn’t unlock the full capacity of the GN drives, and after Corner tries to kill him, he unleashes the power of the Trans-Am system, with some nice timing right in the middle of the fight between Setsuna and Ali al-Sarshes.

With the Trans-Am system, Setsuna’s Exia turns red and his speed gets boosted up 3 times! Which translates to easy pwnage of Ali, even with his hijacked Gundam Zwei. But. BUT. He has to let the fella get away. Like, d00d, just finish the damn job there, man!

Anyways, poor Thrones, and they’ve finally reached the end of their line, with Micheal and Johann killed in action. Nena somehow still survives, proving that any character that owns a Haro will never die in combat, and I actually don’t mind it. The bigger question now is what will she do? Will she join CB or will she go berserk and hunt down Ali solo?

Bye bye, Eins and Zwei.

I’ve decided to post about both episodes together, since I’m really kinda late.

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To the people on that Friday night/Saturday morning when Masakazu Morita-san came in for a surprise visit to the GACC committees, I sincerely apologize for hijacking myself in some of your group photos.

I was pretty caught up in the flow of things that night, being surprised and all, so I didn’t realize that it was inappropriate for me to be inside some of your group pictures. For that, I have nothing but myself and only myself to blame.

However, I would also like to say here that I am not a particularly socially sensitive person, and I admit that I am an dumbass at noticing social cues which are pretty obvious, so I would’ve appreciated it if someone could’ve pointed out my mistakes to me before hand. I am not a person who is afraid to admit my own wrongdoings, but I am a person who really hates to be kept in the dark and forced to accept punishment without any knowledge of the reason.

Again, I apologize sincerely for the incident, and I shall endeavor to not repeat the same mistake again, to the utmost of my abilities. I dearly hope for everyone who I have hurt their feelings will accept this sincere apology of mine.

Comments will be closed as this is not an incident that concerns my regular blog readers, but I felt that using my blog as the platform is the best way to reach out to all the people that I have offended as I do not have all their personal contacts.

hitomi’s insert songs are surprisingly very fitting with the doujin. This part of the doujin fits in well with “Stories”, while “Innocent Days” and “paradiso” are perfect accompaniments to RE-TAKE AFTER.

Wow, this season of Shana is definitely shaping up to be pretty epic.

The fight against Sabrac continues, and Yuji theorizes that Sabrac’s actually the whole city itself, and the form that Wilhelmina’s been fighting is only part of it. He proceeds to lay out a plan for Margery and Shana to execute, and with Wilhelmina’s secret trump card, the Unrestricted Method to counter Stigma made by Johann, Margery lays out the trap, while Shana and Wilhelmina deal with Sabrac.

Shana retreats in the middle of the fight, to conserve energy, while Margery finishes up the trap, just in time to take over from the tired-out Wilhelmina. Sabrac is lured in the trap, which is basically Margery lifting a whole portion of the city upwards, cutting Sabrac’s links off, and Shana deals the final blow, in a pretty epic manner.

The plan works and Sabrac is finally vanquished, and peace returns back to Misaki city. Yoshida and Shana’s relationship with Yuji is back to normal, and for the first time in a while, we get to hear Shana’s trademark “Urusai, urusai, urusai!” line.

Really awesome action scenes this time around again, and they even inserted JOINT in at the final moments of the battle. This episode is what we all really are looking out for in the Shana franchise. Girls with fiery swords kicking up massive whoopass, yeah!

However, it’s not all smooth sailing, and I must say the repeat of what happened last season where Shana tries but hesitates to say her feelings to Yuji strikes me off as a bit cheesy, and so was the ending portion of this episode, with everyone in a happy situation. Considering the series is going to reach an end soon, it feels kinda… weird.

What’s more, next episode preview seems to hint that the show will head back in to the romance drama angle…. not exactly the part I like about the series the most.

Just like Jeff Lawson, with each episode of CLANNAD nowadays, I find myself liking Nagisa more and more, and she truly has grown much as a character, endearing herself in my heart. I think the biggest strength of CLANNAD now is how KyoAni has tackled Nagisa as a character, and as Jeff says, she’s the first Key primary heroine to really feel like the primary heroine.

Another thing that I have to mention out, is how Yukine and Sunohara have both noticed Tomoya’s feelings and hesitation, and they both, in their own ways, are trying to help those two together. Sunohara especially, who might be a fool most of the time, but he still can be pretty sharp. He’s definitely got my vote as my wingman, if I ever have a chance to befriend him, heh heh.

Akio also reveals a traumatic incident in Nagisa’s past, where she almost lost her life. I truly admire both Akio and Sanae as parents, for giving up their careers for their only daughter. It truly takes a lot of love to do so, and even more so to hide the fact in order not to burden their daughter with it.

In any case… another 6 2 more episodes to go before the show wraps up, and I hope KyoAni will not disappoint us all. A box of tissues have already been prepared by my side, and it’d be nice if I didn’t waste it. ;)

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Ouch, Lawrence, ouch.

Remember aspiring merchants, do no engage in marginal trade unless you have really good and reliable information.

I found this awesome MAD of Studio Kimigabuchi’s RE-TAKE a.k.a The Best Evangelion Doujin Ever®. I have to say, the work on this MAD is astoundingly awesome and I especially love the good combination of song in the second half… Asuka T_T.

For those who don’t know, the first song is “Inner Universe” by Origa, the Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex OP, and the second song is “innocent days” by hitomi from Code Geass.