Season 2 aka Knight of the Twin Moons is a 12 episode season that picks up right where Season 1 left off. With Loise and the boy from another world (Modern day Japan) , Saito.
Agnes, royal guard captain probably gets most of the character development in this season. I guess the initial concept of Familiar of Zero aka Zero no Tsukaima drew me in back in 2007 but I wanted more. The steady development of the main relationship, an evolution of Saito's ability. Just something.
The use of WW II fighter was really stretching it for me. Teenage boy knows how to make repairs to the war plane after it was just in a rough landing. Fixed it with metal and items found in a Medieval world. Sort of reminds me of "Army of Darkness" to be fair to FOZ. One was about a making a chainsaw and "boomstick" usuable while the other is about a flying hunk of metal...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Tuesday, February 02, 2016
Started watching Dagashi Kashi
It is an Anime that started airing last month and so far only four episodes are out/simulcast. The show is about a boy that wants to become a manga artist but his father wants him to carry on the family business of running a countryside snack shop. The shop also sells model kits.
The main protagonist's name is a pun of Coconuts.
Oh and the show follows the trope of one of the parents not being with the family for one reason or another. The dad is as big of a goofball as the dad from Bleach. So many Gundam parody sequences in just two episodes.
Only seen the first two episodes so far and it is really a nonsense show. My only real takeaway so far is that I like to eat Japanese snacks (like potato chip flavors unique to Japan,Konpeito, Pocky, Ramune and so on.) This show has gotten me interested in trying more stuff. In the first episode alone, I had to look up that snack featured there. Umaibo?
I think that Funimation and Japancrate (japanese snack subscription service) should do a cross-promotion for the show. How or what I don't know but it would make sense and since it's being simulcast via English Subs, do it now while it's timely.
The main protagonist's name is a pun of Coconuts.
Oh and the show follows the trope of one of the parents not being with the family for one reason or another. The dad is as big of a goofball as the dad from Bleach. So many Gundam parody sequences in just two episodes.
Only seen the first two episodes so far and it is really a nonsense show. My only real takeaway so far is that I like to eat Japanese snacks (like potato chip flavors unique to Japan,Konpeito, Pocky, Ramune and so on.) This show has gotten me interested in trying more stuff. In the first episode alone, I had to look up that snack featured there. Umaibo?
I think that Funimation and Japancrate (japanese snack subscription service) should do a cross-promotion for the show. How or what I don't know but it would make sense and since it's being simulcast via English Subs, do it now while it's timely.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Starting off 2016 with a Final Fantasy Record Keeper event
Final Fantasy Record Keeper is a mobile game (for Android and iOS) that does away with the Story and exploration of Final Fantasy and focuses a great deal on the turn-based from From Final Fantasy 1 up to 10. It is a collaboration between Square-Enix and DeNA. Free to download a play and so far the only pay system is to get more chances to get rare items.
Battle is setup like older games , You pick up to 5 characters to be in you battle party. Each character on the team gets a weapon, armor, an accessory and two assignable abilities. You choose actions via touching the commands at the bottom of the screen. What makes this more interesting than the actual main games is that Record Keeper allows you mix you battle party with both Heroes and Villains. Even bad guys have limit (Soul) break skills.
Around New Years 2016, A New Event called Defying Fate started up where you could recruit all of Final Fantasy X characters available so far (Tidus, Yuna, Wakka, Lulu and so on) The New character being Rikku, the thief.
Battle is setup like older games , You pick up to 5 characters to be in you battle party. Each character on the team gets a weapon, armor, an accessory and two assignable abilities. You choose actions via touching the commands at the bottom of the screen. What makes this more interesting than the actual main games is that Record Keeper allows you mix you battle party with both Heroes and Villains. Even bad guys have limit (Soul) break skills.
Around New Years 2016, A New Event called Defying Fate started up where you could recruit all of Final Fantasy X characters available so far (Tidus, Yuna, Wakka, Lulu and so on) The New character being Rikku, the thief.
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Currently Watching - Chivalry of a Failed Knight
One of the few 2015 Anime that I watched this year was Chivalry of A Failed Knight (The Worst One)
A total of 12 episodes and the series follows the usual Shonen/Action Tournament Anime. Follows the life and battles of Kurogane Ikki. He is indeed the titular "Failed Knight"/ The Worst One because among all the students in the school with Sword-magic, he can't enchant his sword with magic. be it elemental or otherwise. The school gives him a student rating of F (the best being an A-rank).
Most of the usual RPG elementals tropes are here (Fire, Water, Lightning).
The art direction for the last two episodes goes really out there as it takes a Grey, Black, and white with hints of red, blue, and yellow in select objects or characters. The actual picture quality of show goes into a "Grindhouse" mode where you can see more noise and pop in the picture like it was and old film. Something odd to be sure and really got my attention...
A total of 12 episodes and the series follows the usual Shonen/Action Tournament Anime. Follows the life and battles of Kurogane Ikki. He is indeed the titular "Failed Knight"/ The Worst One because among all the students in the school with Sword-magic, he can't enchant his sword with magic. be it elemental or otherwise. The school gives him a student rating of F (the best being an A-rank).
Most of the usual RPG elementals tropes are here (Fire, Water, Lightning).
The art direction for the last two episodes goes really out there as it takes a Grey, Black, and white with hints of red, blue, and yellow in select objects or characters. The actual picture quality of show goes into a "Grindhouse" mode where you can see more noise and pop in the picture like it was and old film. Something odd to be sure and really got my attention...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
J-list asks about the oldest Anime title you have ever seen
Anime then and now. So, what's the oldest anime you've watched?
Posted by J-List on Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Took me a few minutes to think of an answer and the oldest Anime I've ever seen is either a few episodes from the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, or Lupin The Third series that originally aired back in the early 1970s. I am going off of Anime News Network's date info.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
The Samurai Pizza Cats are now on Crunchy Roll!
Three cats that operate a Delivery service and hero business to stop The Big Cheese. Probably one of the few English dubs that give a pass to no matter how much it changed from the original Japanese script. Mainly due to the fact that the characters in the show are anthropomorphic cats and other animals that talk like humans and the three protagonists don battle armor and launch out of a cannon.
I haven't watched the show since 2000 so the heavy pop culture references might make this an odd watch for younger Anime fans. You can find the show on Crunchyroll's site at the time of this post, the first 18 episodes of the show are viewable for free, while the rest of the episodes are locked away for paid Premium CR users. Thanks Crunchyroll and Discotek Media for making this happen.
I haven't watched the show since 2000 so the heavy pop culture references might make this an odd watch for younger Anime fans. You can find the show on Crunchyroll's site at the time of this post, the first 18 episodes of the show are viewable for free, while the rest of the episodes are locked away for paid Premium CR users. Thanks Crunchyroll and Discotek Media for making this happen.
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