There’s Never Enough Touhou Doujin Anime

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With a staff of only 3 people (1 character designer, 1 animator and 1 music composer), the doujin circle Kinema Kan is planning to bring the world of Touhou to life, with no less than an animated film on DVD. Feel the power of an independent circle. Here’s the magnificient trailer:

Everything looks absolutely polished, in a very mainstream anime way rather than the usual indepedent artsy type. The song is great and very Touhou-like, and even the background art is vivid and lively. Epic!

The DVD will be out on the March 14th Reitaisai, a super big event dedicated solely to the Touhou universe. One guy creates a game world of his own, and people follow through with animation and exclusive events. Powerful is a game creator today.

Cosplay Culture on Channel News Asia

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Just when I talked about the image of Otaku in Japan, out comes a video I got to know of recently on YouTube.

Channel News Asia goes out to the field of otaku cosplayers and finds out about the difficulties of maintaining their “weird” interest in a conservative Japanese society.

They sang the School Rumble theme song :) Here are the rest of the parts:

Part 2: Click here.
Part 3: Click here.
Part 4: Click here.
Part 5: Click here.

Hey, I thought my cousins and I held exclusive rights to the mustache joke!

konata moustache

The Otaku’s Image in Japan

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So if you’re dating an otaku, are you worth any less?

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AAA: Best OP Sequence of 2009

Best Opening of 2009

I felt sorry for the remaining five, so I’m changing this post to Top 10 OPs of 2009!

More OPs, more fun, amirite?

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Touhou Bad Apple PV made it to CNN!

touhoumadnessWe all should know the power of Zun by now. He created a game universe called Touhou (wiki here) all by himself: programmed, composed music, drew the art, wrote the script, everything.

The power of fans fueled his work to a tremendous amount of doujin fan videos and illustrations that are aplenty on the Internet. Some fans created a PV called Bad Apple, which became a big hit in NicoNicoDouga and YouTube. I even made a post about it.

It was the number one most viewed video in YouTube for weeks upon its release. Then someone got nuts and printed the whole thing to make a stop-motion video. That video became popular too.

And very recently CNN picked up on it.

I know I told you many times, but I’m gonna say it again: Never underestimate the power of fans!

The stop motion video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240Vq6tIxio. The camera angles follow the video to the tee, amazing! Someone sure had a lot of time in his hands.

New ED For Hidamari Sketch Hoshimittsu

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After waiting for 4 episodes, the real ED is finally here!

Shaft-san, otsukaresama deshita!

Love the part where things light up and the 4 are in the center of the flying Sakura petals, all this with the chorus kicking in. It shows the 4 characters giving new life to their 2 new junior residents.

I love Hidamari Sketch EDs, and this one’s no different. It’s in Shaft style, yet it’s not as radical as their other works and not too moe-fied either. Though not as good as the previous ED (which won 4th place in AAA’08), it still has the same style and Marble’s music is still great.

God I love this show. Please don’t let it end.

Hard Disk Died + KyoAni/Shaft Anime OPED Remix

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I wasn’t the only one who got worn out after a week of hard work.

Yes, my great luck with computers has finally run out. My hard disk died out on me two days ago, bad sectors and all. It’s been rendered as completely unreadable. Luckily I backed up my work files, but all my photos (AAAAAAARGH) and my blog files are lost in the partition vacuum.

Downloaded all sorts of recovery software but just like the goblin jumper cables they don’t seem to work. Will send it to a data recovery center tomorrow or day after.

Meanwhile, I’m on my new hard disk so I have to start over. Starting with software. So don’t be surprised if the next posts on the anime awards do not follow the usual graphic format.

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However, not all hope is lost! In-between trying to revive my hard drive and panicking for my digital life, I surfed through NicoNicoDouga on my mom’s netbook and found some cool vids :) It’s an entertaining Dame remix of Shaft and Kyoani anime OPs and EDs! By the way, in English “da-me” means useless, just like my hard disk =_=

They should make more remix videos like this!

(Daitai) Shaft Studios OPED Remix (i.e. a great 11-min artsy feast for your eyes):

Well look at that, it’s my favourite anime studio, Shaft! To be exact, it’s the remix of works by Shinbou Akiyuki till April 2009 (no Bakemonogatari for you), who’s the director for most Shaft series. The video includes his pre-Shaft productions as well. Was really hit in nostalgia by Starship Girl Yamamoto Yoko!

Couldn’t find the non-Nico-comments version though, gomen.

KyoAni remix (i.e. a wonderful rendition of fluid animation, all in one go):

Complete with Full Metal Panic, Key shows and oh, who could forget Haruhi and Lucky Star. It’s the latest DameMixx creation and includes shows until December 2009, so it’s pretty updated. Btw, my favourite KyoAni show is Air :)

Just a little hint, a few of the above are gonna make to my Top 5 opening ;) Look forward to my next post!

Here’s to this hard disk not being another da-me one.

My First Japanese Game Design Proposal

In Japanese!

You haven’t lived life till you write a game design proposal in Japanese! more >>

AAA: Best Ending Sequence of 2009

Best Ending Sequence goes to...

Time to get the Ahbonk.net Anime Awards show on the road!

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Let the AAA’09 Awards Begin!

That's a lot of anime

It’s that time of the year again! Top 5 ending, opening, moments, characters and anime shows by me in the next coming weeks! 2009 was quite a weak year for anime (for me anyways), but it had a few shiny gems planted here and there.

Took a while to montage the above pic! Can you name all the 35 anime I watched in 2009 in the above picture? If you can’t, leave it to figure.fm. I uploaded the pic and nearly all were identified in under an hour :O http://www.figure.fm/post/en/6863/Challenge+Tag+that+2009+Anime.html

今年もやる!ahbonk.netアニメ賞2009、スタート!
なんかバナーを作りたいと思って、上のモンタージュになった。なかなかいい感じと思う!
バナーのとおりに、観た2009年のアニメは全部35つで、去年超忙しかったwww
ところで、その中、いくつ知ってるかな?

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