If you’ve been waiting for a week for this, so do I. And half of it was in hell. The other half? I was pretty much satisfied… (Audience: ???)
(*Note: Bolded titles are for your selective viewing pleasure. Or selective reviews depending on my viewpoint.)
ANIME
Seitokai Yakuindomo (last week’s one, actually): (Or more accurately, latest viewable unless you’re Japanese, ok?) The team went to the beach again, and brings back many memories. Really. Looking forward to more… unethical jokes, as with the Manga too.
Samurai Flamenco: It’s back after a week’s rest (I think), and even the alien thing is settled? And I agree with many on the RC website; “What else is there to talk about now that it’s ended?” Or “I wished it had ended on this episode” kind of comments. I don’t know. Guess I’ll have to watch to find out. See? It’s marketing.
Nagi no Asukara: Manaka-chan is back, and she seems like she always is, lively and cheerful. But what does it all mean? Until the end of the episode, where Tsumugu comes to the group showing a familiar mark which Manaka has experienced before: a curse from Uroko-sama. Hmm is he nearby? And is he going to confront or persuade them to do anything? Getting interesting till the end already, huh…
Golden Time: I swear I almost forgot Kouko knows about Banri’s relationship with Linda, seriously. But with that said, apparently the old Banri is coming back to haunt him, which really looks like Kokoro Connect already, in my opinion. The random thing. Hope it does not turn out to be a supernatural ending. Really, I hope. Those who read the novel please don’t tell me what happens, ok?
SHOWS
The MythBusters investigate the possibility of a killing ping-pong ball. Well the most they could is to get a flesh wound on pork by super-speeding the ball to 1.4x the speed of sound. Yesh, worth watching. And also, nice making of an ice cannon. Preferred if the Russians could just keep a proper cannon somewhere; The ice balls would be infinite ammo to them you know…
MANGA
Nagasarete Airantou: The author signals the end of an arc, which means we maybe up to something after this chapter full of indirect harem. Haha. Let’s see if the author intends a conclusion anytime soon. Soon, I guess.
BLEACH: Rukia successfully stops As Nodt, like, freezing kind of stop, which means she can proceed to troll the heck out of us readers. Kubo, you… On the other hand, Yachiru and Isane are confronted by a Sternritter it seems. It SEEMS because we can’t really see him, because he vanishes before anyone can. Guess it’s a good time for Isane Yachiru to fight, I think…
KLASSIC NOTE
Well it’s been an explosive week of SIX releases and new songs to listen, so let’s take it in parts, like the above sections. In order.
Ajikan Album “Feedback File 2”: A good compilation of many side songs and B-side songs they’ve done in the few years back, including from the infamous NANO-MUGEN COMPILATION unique of their style. I’m already stuck in another one. Overall like the many NANO-MUGEN songs inside, and the new song, “Rolling Stone”. It’s fresh, I guess…
FLOW Single “Ai Ai AI ni Utarete Bye Bye Bye”: This is credit from Anime “Samurai Flamenco” as it’s second opening song, and I guess it’s pretty well done. The idea of baseball pitching and hitting the guys in the PV is also reasonably intriguing. After that I didn’t bother to listen as their style is not under my alley.
Kana-chan Album “25”: The title means a lot in this case. It’s Kana-chan’s day in the month (Happy Birthday again, Kana-chan), and it has the same number of tracks as stated in the title too. Meaning that listening to all of them or even giving half the whole album a chance is not going to be easy. So I have one, on each disc. It’s two, so yeah, it’s one on each disc. One was the song from the single last December, and one I picked because it sounds lively and more like her “Young Oh! Oh!”. Not giving this album much praise because due to the fact that it’s a composer-biased album. Really, most of the songs are written by the same goddamn (sorry) person. And it’s bad. Intentionally bad for it to happen. In many ways.
sphere 5th Anniversary Single “Eternal Tours”: A pretty ‘safe’ album for the group, I guess. But good, nonetheless. I even gave the B-side “Sincerely” a serious listen, even though it is available in four versions each member writing a different version of the lyrics for the first half minute of the song, and that even if I liked both songs (which I did) there’s no Regular Edition to buy on. The last time was miwa’s single last year. B**ch. Never mind, see if I can get a hold of it on their next single coming April. Quick, isn’t it?
Satou Satomi’s Debut Single “Mirai Night”: Since the A-side should be familiar, at least to my ears, I’ll talk about the B-side. You know I read this interview (it’s translated in Chinese only goddammit) about her feelings for her debut, and it seems that she wants to do a music career of her in a band, which says why her debut was later than many voice actors in Japan. And that she hasn’t reached a pro stage to play the guitar yet, so it’s the live I’ll be looking forward too. And the B-side is a good song to do so, and I like it. Yesh, it’s in the order list already as I’m writing.
Yes if you have been (at least) counting the bolded sections, it’s one more missing. Instead of getting the Oreskaband Best Album on the end of the month, this is what I got:
Horie Yui’s Single “The World’s End”: Yep it’s the theme songs for Anime “Golden Time”, if you guys have been looking forward to it. Less for it on me as it should only be out 2 weeks later, this was both a shock and… not a good time to review. But listening to the two 5-minute songs (there’s a reason why 5-minute songs are that worth mentioning) repeatedly I cannot seem to give a good view of these songs. And that the expected Ending Song is actually faring worse than the A-side. Hope the PV will make everything better, and my pre-order in a better light. Really, this is one of those 4-star singles in my shelf. And she’s not winning Yanagi Nagi. Not any bit.
AND YOU THOUGHT I’M DONE???
Audioleaf: If you guys went to this place full of Japanese words, and even tried to click on a play button on any of the artists, you’ll find some treasure. Like I did. I got bored yesterday and instantly picked up two songs from two different artists. “tic tac case” got mentioned at a local song talent show hosted by convenience store “LAWSON”, and so did the song I managed to only listen a preview of also appeared on YouTube. It’s called “Latitude”, and it’s got plenty of rock in it. Good, solid rock. Definitely worth a listen. Sounds like tacica or Ajikan when they get moody. “pretaporter” actually has one of the most interesting beginnings as a band I’ve seen so far: through watching an Anime in January just last year. Half a year later they got their first mini-album, with a bunch of PVs online. I swear this creative rock band will make you think twice before saying why you don’t get to see a beautiful maiden or handsome hunks. Really, appearances do not matter here, people. Listened to their song “Denjirenji”, which actually turns out to mean, a microwave.
That’s all. Too lazy to do up Klassic Note reviews for now, guess I will once I get the new blog site and Klassic Note site revamped. Yep, plans have been made, but nothing’s on the table yet until I get things done, ok? Cya guys next time, where… freedom meets an empty pool of songs. No songs releases next week man, damn…
[P.S.: Take a look on my media library, I guess?]
