True tears up to 8

Going good really liking it so far much better than I had hoped/expected.  Entered the realms of epic just need to stay on the Noe path for the rest of the series.  Now see me hoping this is bad as pretty much whoever I think it is in these is always wrong with the exception of shuffle I nailed that one!

What I am watching

This season is one that had me start several series and drop them lets see what I am still watching!

Shakugan no Shana II:  I am keeping up with this but barely its getting really close to the drop point but the last episode sparked my interest a lil bit.

Hayate no Gotoku:  This one has remained solid in my viewing schedule well as solid as the fansubs are released anyway as they went bye bye for awhile.  I still like it, remains to be funny good characters not much to say.

True Tears: This show I didn’t even plan on watching after the first episode, but I was glad that I usually go to ep 3 as it really picked up past that first episode funny and good slice o life stuff along with a decent romance line and Noe is a great character.

Minami-ke Owari:  Funny, what seems to be pretty good animation except for the walking in the op and end thats just weird there.  Other than that I don’t really have much to say except lol @ makochan.

And for my on and off viewing

Bleach: I watch it bursts of around 4 episodes at a time as it drags some stuff out way too long and I make very good use of the 10 sec skip on my media player.  Also I do not watch any filler episodes so when those come up I will just tell someone to contact me when it comes out of it.

Rosari + Vampire: loved the manga hate the anime just flipping through them in about 5 mins till it gets to some good manga material thats if it doesnt become some kind of anime original thing.

Rosario + Vampire ep 3

I read a good deal of them manga and all I got to say is this anime has totally ruined the source material and I have no idea how the can not even make it to the 5th episode without having a filler episode I doubt I will watch this show any longer as the manga is much, much better. I might come back and watch as it hits a certain part in the plot as I am interested in seeing it animated(thats if they don’t decide to deviate from the story anymore).

Thoughts on two high profile releases

As many people know before even reading my post about it Lucky star got licensed for a US release and Code Geass is going to air in the spring on Adult Swim.  One of these I feel will be accepted well while the other I fear will be accepted poorly and I have no idea what would possess a company to license it.

More after jump kinda of rantish

Minami-ke Okawari

While I don’t know anything about the series itself I believe that this season is deviating from the manga(if there is one). The animation seems to be higher budgeted then it was in the last season and it seems to be a little more fanservicy then the first season. So far after episodes it does still seem to be more of the same though.

More after the jump

Dakimakura? (hug pillow)

Now not creepy in the sense that I think its disgusting but its not something I would go walking around talking about either! So I was wondering if anyone had an recommendations on which one to get as I looked just for a min and was completely floored with the many choices. I sometimes have trouble sleeping at night and my docter actually recommended I get something to grab onto at night for somekind of sleeping/backproblem I had been having when I wakeup he said it should keep my back in a better sleeping position and I won’t end up rolling out of my bed so much. (happens more than you would think I would say 1/3 times I go to sleep I wake up on the floor) Anyway since my doctor said I needed a large pillow or something Ifigured this would be a good time to exercise my weaboo side so anyone have any suggestions just send me message or leave a comment or whatever.

edit: fixed title darn spelling!

Future shutdown of blog

now I am not a person that will keep doing something like this seeing as no one really reads this to my knowledge by the looks of it I get more hits for old stories based on things like “anime swimsuit” among some various others that I wonder how the hell they even relate to my blog at all so this is future notice of shutdown I will try to keep it updated for another week after that I think I will be shutting my site down.

Kaze no stigma ep 11

another Ren centric episode not much really happens except Ren finds resolve to stop the behemoth so no tsuwabaki sacrifices will be needed again. Ren ends up defeating yuuji who became some golem like thing to help protect the Taisai. Ren ends up deafeating him with a little help from Kazuma. Kazuma then flings Ren ahead with his wind to Ayumi since him and ayano are dealing with Kureha. Ren gives her a speech about how its wrong to sacrifice oneself for others as you should find a way to make everyone happy yadda yadda. Anyway it seems like next week will be a battle against the behemoth that is in mt. Fuji that Kureha is drawing power from I am hoping for Ren to get knocked out quickly so Kazuma can take over.

I wont be posting screens for this ep as I didnt care for it much and dont plan on going through it again to take the screens. Next ep I will though most likely unless it dissapoints and if you didnt notice I really dont like Ren as he has that personality type that just pisses me off.

anime torrents and where to get them

seeing as how about 50% of all my hits come from people looking for anime torrents I figured I might as well tell of a few places where to get torrent downloads

Animesuki.com this is my personal favorite as it already filters out shows that have been licensed.

Baka-Updates.com is my alternate site I used when animesuki doesnt update on time but unlike animsuki it doesnt filter licensed series so I recommend you dont download those shows.

The hate!!

Whats wrong with the hate people have for anime companies?  I bring this up since from what I have seen from a few blogs I frequent are doing nothing but flame the hell out of Viz for sending cease and desist letters to fansubbers who were subbing Death Note a highly popular series that has been airing.  Dont get me wrong I know its a pain in the ass when a series gets licensed and its almost over and you just want to see what happens I can completely understand that.  But when you get pissed for people who are just trying to protect something they purchased that is ridiculous.  I know not everyone can afford all the dvds they want of shows they watch in anime form.  But you cant really blame a company for people wanting to make money off of a product they ARE PUTTING OUT.  I mean they took a big step for american anime fans that watch fansubs by putting them on a download over the internet setup.  This is a big deal and yet people are still complaining about how they are just trying to keep people from seeing something and how they are just being asses.  If you really like a show so much you shouldnt mind paying a few bucks for the episode and if you cant afford it?  Well for one I suppose you could re-evaluate your finances but better than that you can ask yourself do you expect to get movies for free?  Not usually unless you do something illegal there.  Some may say(many say) that the Japanese get to see the eps for free so should we.  We get our shows and they get ours if a Japanese person wants to see american shows I am sure they face the same problems you would have except they most likely have a lower chance of getting something like an american tv show subbed. (too my knowledge I really have no idea)

If anything people who have a problem with this keep a low profile about the cease and desist letters all the ruckus caused by them really just shows how much dislike the fanbase has for the company.  With a reaction like this I dont see any reason why a company right after licensing would not send out all their cease and desist letters that day.  I mean is 2!! episodes to buy really that much of a hassle? If things like Legit online downloads become popular we may see a large influx of companies doing that and quickly maybe a few days after the original air date and we can get legal copies of episodes.  Granted even people like myself would even have to cut back on my viewing myself. I could see many things in the future like subscrition services to special online anime sites where we get like unlim downloads for a month/year for so much money or something I mean it works for pron.

PS. legal downloads here http://www.direct2drive.com/Search.aspx?SearchTerm=death%20note

they need a bit to catch up to but they arnt doing too bad

I considered not posting this and just keeping it in my drafts but I have decided I wont be intimidated by what the other blogging community things about my oppinion on the matter.  And no I was not paid to do a post like this before anyone asks since I am sure that will come up nor was I reimbursed I’m sure no company would pick the 1 week old blog with its best day being 15 views with no comments ever as one for that.