Hobbies - Anime & Manga (Upcoming blog)

I really enjoyed Training with Hinako. It was a great video, featuring a cute girl with nice assets and also She "interacts" with the viewer in an entertaining way.

Sleeping with Hinako is a completely different story. The girl still cute but the interaction is just BORING...For most part of the video, you can check virtually every side of Hinako (I will leave that to your imagination), her sleeping habits, some dream sequences, etc...

Dont blame Me...Thats the title for the post on "What Japan thinks"...Of course, the survey includes boyfriends as well...The real title for the survey is " moments when people realise as they have a dog they don’t need a partner." and was made by Goo Ranking

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Q: At what moments do you realise as you have a dog you don’t need a partner? (Sample size=1,077)

This is the final part of my week-long review of the 5 SOS Brigade characters. This shall be the final analysis of the SOS Brigade members' characteristics, actions, and predictions as to where his/her character will develop. Previously we've featured the rest of the SOS Brigade: Kyon, Haruhi, Yuki, and Mikuru. Since there is a lot of character development that is seen in the novels that have either not been animated or have not been released in a format that can be seen worldwide, I shall be using a spoiler tag that Toonleap has thankfully installed. Today is a great day for me, not that it's the final review, but rather that my favorite brigade member is being analyzed. We are now taking a look at the inner mechanisms of the SOS Brigade Second-in-Command: Itsuki Koizumi!

The first attributes that I think about with Koizumi is sheer intelligence and ability to adapt to situations. Whether it's finding out that he's stuck in an never ending loop or about to fight a giant cave cricket, he's always as cool as a cucumber. When Kyon and Mikuru start to panic and freak in weird situations, Koizumi will remain annoyingly calm and begin to think of a way to solve the solution.

This is the fourth part of my week-long series where I'm analyzing what we know about the SOS Brigade members' personalities, actions, and where I believe their future lies in the series. Previously we've looked at Kyon, Haruhi, and Yuki. Today we take a look at the official Secretary of the SOS Brigade and unofficial mascot: Mikuru Asahina. I want to continue giving thanks to Toonleap for installing a spoiler plugin so that I can mention stories that either have not been animated or will not be seen by anyone outside of Japan until a DVD (and possibly Blu-Ray) release. As such, I ask that if you have not read the novels, please do not click on the spoiler tabs. The books and anime are wonderfully constructed and you will get a greater sense of enjoyment through watching/reading the stories than by being spoiled. Well, that's time that cannot come back, so let's travel with our lovely hostess: Mikuru Asahina!

Mikuru suffers from an intense lack of self-esteem in herself, which I feel is only emphasized because everyone around her has some sense of importance. Haruhi can change the world, Kyon has done so many things to maintain the stability of the world, Yuki can freely manipulate data at a whim, and Koizumi is part of the Shonuen Esper Sentai. Mikuru thought she was meant to come back to the present day and simply watch for strange things around Haruhi Suzumiya, but instead she got captured for a reason she doesn't quite understand.

Sorry for the late post, I was waiting for some information to become available to the public. Currently, the first week of the Haruhi movie's run is over in Japan. According to this news site, the Haruhi movie has raked in 200,000,000 yen in one week's worth of showings and has been seen by nearly 140,000 people in Japan. Keep in mind that only 24 theatres are showing this movie! The movie was ranked in the 6th/7th spot on the weekly rankings with only 2 days worth of showings, and it's still going strong. With another busy weekend, the movie could actually increase its ranking for the second weekend. This is a huge hit in Japan and I'm starting to fear that a DVD/Blu-ray release is going to instantly sell out of stores.

That is the official Disappearence guidebook. If you've been shopping on Amazon Japan for books, you might have seen it. It's only the highest selling book in Entertainment and is 14th overall in all of Japanese books on the site (with only 4 days being in the top 100, meaning it's a huge spike in sales). I'm glad I pre-ordered it a couple days ago because I don't know if/when I'll get a copy. To sum this up, it is truly Haruhi mania in Japan right now. I wish I could be there to experience it.

It seems there are some good news for Akira fans. Apparently, the movie will be directed by some famous brothers...and the movie is not going to be a single shot one...

Warner Bros. is negotiating to reteam with The Book of Eli's Hughes brothers to have them direct a live-action remake of the cult favorite Akira, from a script by Iron Man scribes Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. (Akira is being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's company, Appian Way, along with Andrew Lazar, who’s also currently producing an adaptation of DC Comics’ Jonah Hex for Warners.)

Respecting the source's complexity (or perhaps acquiescing to it), Warners won’t proceed with a single, live-action remake of the film, which trimmed away the last half of the 2,182-page graphic novel in order to weigh in at just over two hours. Instead, we hear that the studio is planning to make Akira in two parts, with the first three volumes of the six-volume manga making up the first film, due out next year.

An official release from the studio is expected later this week.

Source: Vulture / NY Magazine

I still have to watch The Book of Eli but at least, Akira will receive some justice by doing a two part movie of it...Lets just hope it does not plummet at the Box Office.