Kurogane’s Anime Blog

Finished Kane’s Wrath. God damn, I really lose myself when I play all this games. Stupid Nod missions throw tons of surprises at you.

Especially hate the Temple Prime mission, because I wasted time building up my initial base, only to be stolen by AI and forced to go commando. Not to mention the game crashed at the mission completion. Then the final Nod mission was WTF too, because there’s only 6 mins to capture the final mission objective… but a MARV and a whole fucking base to take out before that…. 2 hours of base building gone down the drain. DAMN YOU EA. Not to mention the stupid Nod campaign ended with more cliffhangers, yet again. Someone, really, please kill EA’s story writers.

On the plus side, it’s pretty fun to play Nod now, and I’m pretty particular to the Black Hand faction. PuriFIRErs are fucking awesome when upgraded. It’s truly a sight to see when a group of 10 Purifiers march in to a fully garrisoned city, and clean it all out in under 3 minutes, with only 2-3 casualties. Flame on, baybeh.

Nod’s new artillery rocks too, and it works way better than Beam Cannons. The new upgrades are fun too, especially Particle beam upgrades. They make base defending really cheap, using Shredder walls. Hell, they work even better than PEW PEW PEW LAZERS.

Haven’t tried the GDI or Scrin factions yet… maybe tomorrow. Also need to try out the Global Conquest mode.

And before I forget, it’s Ayako Kawasumi and Megumi Hayashibara’s birthday today (totally forgot the day, lol). I wish them both another wonderful year (and more roles too).

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Wow, I don’t know what to say. Either life is seriously imitating art or someone’s been watching too much anime and has nothing better to do in their free time. I love how they actually printed out both perspectives of the problem as well.

Sorry for the hasty cut and paste. Don’t know how to actually combine both the top and bottom properly.

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LOL. I totally missed this, even when I had the hard copy right under my nose. I can’t believe I only knew about this from a Singaporean (for the record, you guys are the most self-centered cold bastards in the world).

Suddenly, I feel like following back Aunt Thelma’s column. I used to read it regularly… but it got too repetitive. I just gotta love “her” answer. “Put it on Youtube!” LOL.

おたんじょうびおめでとう,のとさま！Happy Birthday, Noto-sama!

Yes, today’s the birthday of Noto-sama, my favourite seiyuu, just 5 days after mine, heh. Isn’t she cute there, with the dangos, XD.

Here’s to hoping for another glorious year with her :).

Yes, they’ve did it again. Last year, it was legendary veteran Tohru Furuya, this year, it’s Masakazu Morita, known mainly for his roles as Kurosaki Ichigo and Tidus. I’m so proud of those guys and somewhat regret at the same time I’m not directly involved with them anymore.

I sure hope they’ll finally manage to invite one of my favourites the next GACC :D.

More info at the official site: http://whatisgacc.com/

From Hashihime.

Male １ Fukuyama Jun　２２１８ votes ２　Sugita Tomokazu　１１１６ ３　Houshi Souichirou　９２１ ４　Miyano Mamoru　８４６ ５　Sakurai Takahiro　７７５ ６　Ono Daisuke　６４６ ７　Seki Tomokazu　６１９ ８　Wakamoto Norio　５２６ ９　Kamiya Hiroshi　４９３ １０　Yoshino Hiroyuki　４７７

Female １　Horie Yui　２４８９　 ２　Hirano Aya　２２７６ ３　Mizuki Nana　２２０２ ４　Tamura Yukari　２０８５　 ５　Kugimiya Rie　１２５４ ６　Nakahara Mai　７１５　 ７　Chihara Minori　６４２ ８　Noto Mamiko　６１５ ９　Hayashibara Megumi　５５３ １０　Nonaka Ai　５２７

While I can only recognise 6 out of 10 of the males, the female list is pretty much familiar names to me. Bearing in mind that this is a reader’s choice survey, it’s not surprising that Horie Yui a.k.a Hocchan is on the top, considering her wide exposure lately. Hirano Aya and Mizuki Nana are pretty much the same, just probably that Hocchan has some true seiyuu’ing background which gives her a more legitimate backing.

Up-and-coming artists
１　Inoue Marina　１０２９
２　Miyano Mamoru　７８５
３　Chihara Minori　７０７
４　Ono Daisuke　５７１
５　Fujita Saki　４９８　
６　Yonaga Tsubasa　４５６
７　Nakamura Yuuichi　４２２
８　Kobayashi Yuu　２８４
９　Katou Emiri　２３５
１０　Shiraishi Minoru　２２３

I’ll partially disagree with hashihime here and say that Inoue Marina has done an admirable job in Minami-ke as Kana, who is basically the “boke” or funnyperson of the whole series, and her voicing of Kana really did bring her out to life. There’s something rather magical about her voice, really.

I’m surprised to see Ono Daisuke in this list though, considering that he’s been around for quite a while, but I guess it’s only recently his name has started to catch the attention of the fans. The rest of the list aren’t well known to me, except for Minorin (of course), Katou Emiri and Shiraishi Minoru (whom probably has quite a name for himself already).

…there are a number of female seiyuu not on the list that I would rate higher than anyone on it: Paku Romi, Kuwashima Houko, Kawasumi Ayako, Kobayashi Sanae, Yajima Akiko. I’d put Sawashiro Miyuki and Yukino Satsuki in there somewhere, too. And where the heck is the marvelous Koshimizu Ami?

Seconded, hashihime, seconded.

おたんじょびおめでとう! Wishing her a happy birthday and many more ahead!

For Nana-chan fans, remember to watch Tokyo Marble Chocolate :).

1. Seirei no Moribito
2. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
3. Lucky Star
4. Seto no Hanayome
5. ef -a tale of memories
6. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
7. Potemayo
8. Baccano!
9. Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!
10. Minami-ke
11. Dennou Coil
12. Hitohira
13. Nodame Cantabile
14. sola
15. Code GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion.

This list was seriously delayed because I decided to write a blurb for each title, which got too long after I ran out of suitable adjectives for all of them. Suffice to say, I greatly enjoyed all the titles in the list, each in their own way.

Honestly though, I’m surprised I didn’t see much accolades for Seirei, which clinched top spot for being a solid watch from start till finish. Well, it wasn’t an attention-grabber as much as Gurren Lagaan and Lucky Star I guess.

For the record, I managed to watch 50 titles in 2007, completed 33, didn’t finish 7 of them, and the rest are shows from Fall 2007 that are still running.

Well, that was quite a long delay between my first post and this one. Guess I just got caught up with many things in between.

Anyways, in this edition, I’ll be giving out a bunch of raspberries to those who deserved it this year. First, let’s kick it off with the…

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