Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts

Sunday, June 27, 2010

This time they turned me into a newt...I got better

Hiya now I don't have time to do a post today so here's a fanfic I made hope you enjoy!!!


*authors note, this is my very first fanfic, and I'm more of drawer than a writer, so constructive criticism would be appreciated*

Chapter 1: Last Midnight Tear

The sun was setting in The Hidden Leaf Village casting shadows over the entire village. There was only so many minutes of sunlight left, half of the sky had even gone dark and a few stars had begun to shine. There was going to be a full moon though so it might be exceptionally bright out if there weren't too many clouds. Hinata was panting heavily and she was sweating and exhausted but determined to keep training till she collapsed, so she focused her chakara. She was in one of the villages forests' and she was in this little area with tall, bright red flowers, trees surrounding the area.

Focus, She thought. She felt a burst of energy and activated her byakugan.

"Eight Trigrams, Protective 64 Palms!" She cried. She spun in place and started to cut the flowers at a precise level, eyes closed (though that did not matter with her byakugan activated) she heard the distinct slitch, slitch, slitch as she cut the flowers in the quiet night. She stopped and then spun around and open her eyes. She saw someone, about 10 yards away and she took an offensive pose.

"Who's there?" Hinata shouted, piercing the air.

"Good eyes," came a firm, but feminine voice "I was hoping I could do a surprise attack in the night but no avail with your byakugan activated eh?" she approached Hinata and she was about 2 yards away. Hinata deactivated her byakugan to preserve chakara but maintained her stance.
"Who are you?" Hinata said, she was worried this person said she had the intention of attacking her and she was low on chakara, she had been training for a few hours now.

"Oh, ehem, forgive me how rude, my name is Akane," She glanced around at the red flowers "appropriate name eh?" (Akane means brilliant red in japanese) she took a step towards Hinata. Hinata finally got a good look at her since she stepped into the moonlight. She had striking blue hair and calm green eyes, a decent sized chest, thin, but clearly muscular arms, and good legs. She was wearing a small necklace with a symbol that said water, a short sleeved dark purple shirt with a weird symbol on it, a black skirt, and a armband with the Village Hidden in the Sand symbol. Her shoes were sneaker like and good for combat. Most of the would be bare skin on her arm was covered with pouches clearly loaded with kunai, shuriken, and other ninja tools.

However Hinata only had an instance to observe all this because just a fractionth of a second after she said stepped towards her she whipped a shuriken at her. Hinata dodged it at the last second.

"Pleased to meet you." Akane said, grinning madly.

"What are you doing?" Hinata said fearfully.

"Getting my revenge!" Akane said angrily.

Akane charged at her with a kunai Hinata spun in place. Hinata activated her byakugan and took a stance.

"Gentle Fi--"
"Oh no you don't!!!" Akane spat out. She cut made a deep cut in Hinata thighs but sill made her cry out in pain, regardless she stayed focused. She found it in her strength to ignore the serious wound. She charged at Akane, who had her back to Hinata and pulled back to strike her. Akane spun out of the way just in time and stood in the perfect spot to strike Hinata in her head, however Hinata dodged it and instead got nicked on the shoulder blades.

"How did you..?" Hinata asked, gripping her shoulder. Akane grinned and in the shadows ran her fingers through her hair.

"You really don't see it?" She had to step into the moonlight again for Hinata to notice it, she gasped in surprise. Her veins were popped out just like with a byakugan.



*END of chapter one. I do have a few things planned for this story Akane will get her own back story (here's a tease the Uchiha clan will also get involved) and unique fighting style and there will be a (hopefully if my writing skills improve and whatnot) epic battle.*


Thursday, June 17, 2010

Hey, this time I really died and it took me 5 days to respawn.

Once again I apologise for my absence, this will hopefully be the last time I do this since Summer Vacation is now officially begun for me.


Alive Manga Writer Dies: We begin today on a rather sad note. The writer of the often praised manga series Alive,
passed away due to liver cancer. I did read some of the series but not all of it, and from what I read it seemed pretty good! What seems even worse is that Tadashi Kawashima, has been on his sickbed for months and finished the series whilst on his sickbed. This man had such a passion for Manga that he even began another series as he approached his deathbed with liver cancer. I say we all have a brief moment of silence for a fellow otaku. . . You could do even more good by checking out the Alive series as well.

Black Butler still on the Rise: The new anime/manga series Black Butler appears to be on the rise. Almost unknown a few months ago it is quickly becoming a popular series and major clothing companies have taken notice. The afaimed "emo store" Hot Topic is introducing a line of Black Butler clothing. Not like costumes you understand, just apparel with the Black Butler logo. All that appears to be available so far though is just a shirt (varying in sizes) with the main character on the front. I havn't seen or read the Black Butler series yet, but maybe now I should check it out.

One Piece Jeans: Sticking to the topic of clothes in Japan it appears they released a series of jeans with "I'm going to be king of the pirates" on the buttocks. The jeans also comes with the Luffy emblem on the jeans as well as a few other trademarked One Piece symbols. I have to say, this is more good news for us otaku's considering most merchandise we want is only available online and anime clothing seems to be becoming more the norm for some stores at least. Hopefully they'll import some of the clothing to America.

The Top Selling Manga in Japan This Week



#1 Series Kimi ni Todoke Volume #11 Copies Sold 473,058
#2 Series One Piece Volume #58 Copies Sold 379,876
#3 Series Worst Volume #24 Copies Sold 175,012
#4 Series D-Gray Man Volume #20 Copies Sold 141,141
#5 Series Bleach Volume #45 Copies Sold 137,785


Anime Character of the Day: Konata Izumi from Lucky Star
Konata quote: "Those are called moe points!"

Thursday, June 3, 2010

I'm not dead just tired!

I apologize for being absent, I have finals and it's been exhausting! To apologize formally I will a have a super special awesome mega chocolaty fudge coated extended edition of my blog.

Bleach On Crunchyroll!!!: Crunchyroll just announced that it will stimucast Bleach on it's website. It will start with the latest (Japanese) episode, #274 and it will stimucast it on June 8, 2010. It will also stimucast episodes 266-273 on June, 15. It will be available in HD for premium members a mere hour after it airs on Tokyo T.V. and it will be available in SD a week after for regular members. It will be available in English subtitles in so many countries you basically have to be in South Africa not to see it...oh wait...it's available there as well.

Top Selling Manga (for Japan)
From November 23, 2009 to May 23 2010
1. One Piece Volume #57 Sold: 2,305,594
2. One Piece Volume #56 Sold: 2,276,013
3. Full Metal Alchemist Volume#25 Sold: 1,251,949
4. Nodame Cantabile Volume #23 Sold: 1,223,488
5. Full Metal Alchemist #25 Sold: 1,208,345
6. Naruto Volume #49 Sold: 1,152,551
7. Naruto Volume #50 Sold: 1,119,029
8. Naruto Volume #51 Sold: 952,072
9. Kimi no Todoke Voume #10 Sold: 939,831
10. Hunter X Hunter Volume #27 Sold: 918,059


Borders losing mo' money: Borders a major book store and media outlet reports a 15 percent quarter sales lost, a net loss of about 64 million dollars. They closed 6 domestic stores, however on the bright side there is about a 6 percent increase in international store sales. It a darn shame for me because my "local" Borders has a huge ass Manga section and if it were to close down, I would have to drive to a different state next time I wanted some Manga.

Awesome People to Produce Awesome Cartoon: Remember Thundercats? Probably not but, like Transformers it's making an epic comeback. Thundercats a cartoon from the 80's appears to be going to be animated/produced by 4 degrees Celsius studio. To give you an idea of just how spectacular this new series is going to be, these guys animated/produced, Ben 10, Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Teen Titans, and even Avatar: the Last Airbender. If you hated any of these and argue they aren't real animes I have this flimsy response: could you do any better?

I cAn haZ mOar mangas?: Finally Viz Media plans ANOTHER North American Manga release of a series called Mardock Scramble. The series is described as (and I'm quoting someone on this) "A young prostitute named Balled...now a cyborg...chases down a variety of insane villains..." I'm not shortening the quote to put down the series or altering it to make it look stupid, quite literally that's what it said. Although I must admit a crime fighting prostitute cyborg, is still not half as crazy as other Manga or Animes I've seen...speaking of.

Incest? Oh your step-siblings...: In conclusion today there seems to be a plan of a Direct release of an anime called KissXSis which follows the "forbidden love" of a brother and his two step-sisters. They DVD which ships Friday will be episode the 5th episode but ironically call #4 since the pilot was called episode #0. It will also be bundled with the first print of volume #7 of the manga. My only issue is if having step-siblings in the same house be boyfriend and girlfriend was O.K. in Twilight, then I don't see how they make a big deal of it in this series. Then again, I'm the one who watched the entire Honey and Clover series.

Anime Character of the Day: Edward Elric
Edward Quote: "I am not an ordinary Alchemist"

Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day Quikie

*It's Memorial Day were I am so this will be a quick 2 article rather than 3 or 4

New Stitch Anime: A new anime will premiere in Japan that is a sequel of sorts to the cartoon Lilo and Stitch were they move to ANOTHER fictional town in Japan and they actually age about a year. In addition she will go to a new school, the series premieres July 6, however since I never saw the original series(s) most likely I will not give a crap if it airs in America.

Shave Yourself For Monkey D. Luffy?: Schick a shaving cream/razor company in Japan have started promoting One Piece shaving cream cans. Because of the popularity among male teens and males in their twenties they promoted their oh so many shaving cream cans to them. In addition they included in a limited number of cans holder cans, replacement blades, and accessory straps. Participants in the game could receive a towel or a Hawaiian shirt.

Anime Character of the Day: Rock Lee
Rock Lee Quote: "The Hidden Leaf Lotus will bloom twice."

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Cheerio My Good Man, How About Some Anime and Tea?

U.K. Anime?: A handful of animes were just licensed but not but Adult Swim or 4Kids (thank god) but by Beez entertainment which is a branch of Bandai established in the U.K. It is said that Beez will release Durarara!! (yep those two exclamation points are totally necessary...right?), Vampire Knight, Eden of the East, Mobile Suit Gudam 00, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation. In addition it has licensed Baccano! aniume series and has added Outlaw Star to its anime line up. It's good news because countries like the U.K. and the U.S.A. often get screwed in a bad place with sharp objects when it comes to releases and translations.

Fanime Convention Across the Pond: Continuing with our U.K. theme it is confirmed that co-owner of anime studio Gainax (Hiroyuki Yagami) will be having a "more refined" Fanime convention as opposed to Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. It is said the Project is suppose to be set in the early 1900's England which just leaves me flat out confused. Personally I'll stick to the conventions that feature Narutards like me, as well as Yoko and Misa cosplayers.

Tourism Targeted at Otaku's: Since I love repeating things I'll say it again, the city of Kobe is beginning to target tourism at Oatku's to go to Japan, why they need to do that I haven't a clue. The city of Kobe started airing 4 minutes clips on YouTube promoting tourism. The clip follows a young college student wondering aimlessly around they city and a chicken appears to guide her (I really wish I was making that up) with English subtitles it follows her and the chicken around the city. The short is insanely entertaining and made me want to watch Naruto The Abridged Series for some reason. However if I ever were to visit Kobe all I'm going to be thinking of is giant chickens in Kimonos.

Anime Character of the Day: Yoko from Gurren Lagann
Yoko quote: "What's this little furry thing hiding out in my cleavage?"

Friday, May 28, 2010

Anime NEWS

Bestselling Manga of the week (according to the NY Times)
1. Black Butler #2
2. Black Bird #4
3. Pandora Hearts #2
4. Naruto #47
5. Black Butler #1

Graphic Novel Fail and Win: The Twilight Graphic Novel (ohhhh I'm a vampire gonna suck your blood slpslpslpslp and maybe something else...ooooohh! Big snaps for me!!!) is back to number one on the seperate hardcover best seller list, because Twilight fans don't have enough Twilight stuff to put their load on, meanwhile real graphic novels continue to be ma--...this just in there appears to be Maximum Ride graphic novels as well, but this series is actually good.

Heil Crunchyroll!: Crunchyroll is streaming yet another new anime: Lilpri which is basically Yu-Gi-Oh only imagine it being good, and having The Dark Magician Girl as every single character. Yu-Gi-Oh hentai fans, rejoice. The series created by Sega (remember when they created good games?) is based off of the Sega trading card game and the story revolves around three girls, namely Ringo Yukimori, Leila Takashori, Natsuki Sasahara, who can transform into idol princesses.

Rainbow (no homo) Online: Funimation and Nippon Television Network have reached an agree in the online streaming of "Rainbow - Nisha Rokubo no Shichinin" starting June 1, Tuesday one hour after it brodcast is Japan FUNimation will brodcast it online with English subtitles. NTV is one of the top brodcast networks in Japan so them in partnership is sort of like Bleach meets One Piece only not quite as awesome.

Anime Character of the Day: Shugo from .Hack//Legend of the Twilight

Thursday, May 27, 2010

My First Blog

This blog is dedicated to anime and nothing else...except that statement...With that out of the way let's get started.

Naruto Box Set 2: I finally got Naruto shippuden box set 2 and finished watching it and I have to say even though I've already read the manga and know the outcome it's very interesting to see it in action, the battle is interesting if not slightly slow paced, and it's fun to see Sakura ACTUALLY FRICKEN' DO SOMETHING...but that's what any anime hobo would say so I'm going to be a bit more creative. It's fun to see Sakura stand there with a kunai and let someone else (Granny Chio) use her as a puppet to attack. Ergo, SHES STILL JUST STANDING THERE WITH A KUNAI.

Bleach Volume 30: HOORAY FOR: filllleeeeer filling up our story its gonna be a damned long time before we get some ploo-oot-ooot (sing that to the tune of thriller and you'll get the joke). Seriously all that happened is we further established how much Rukia is suffering because of killing Kaien and I suppose dedicating basicaly an entire arc to that backstory wasn't enough. Seriously he's dead and we get how much of an impact Kaien had on Rukia can we move on. To put it quite simply it was a great read, but I felt like nothing happened, just a delay really.

*Bankai: SPOILER ALERT* (the most powerful of Bankai): Chad figures out that his powers are really Hollow meaning?...he was really a Hollow in a past life? I'm not sure they don't explain it erm...he gets killed...almost. Then we transition to Rukia who begins fighting someone, but after going into an enclosed area he pulls off his mask revealing himself to be Kaien :O dun dun duuunnnn! Rukia amazed engages Kaien in a conversation were he briefly explains that he ended up merging with the Hollow after all as part of Aizens experiments, but ended up overtaking the Hollow in his (the Hollows) wounded state. For a brief moment Rukia believes him, but then he tell her to bring the heads of her friends and she comes back to Earth (or Hueco Mundo whatever). They engage briefly in battle and he explains (after Rukia shines light on his face transforming him into a jar with two skulls in it) that in spirit and in body he's technically Kaien. Rukia then gets stabbed unable to attack because it IS Kaien and has a flashback in which explained Kaiens belief that a persons heart is between a friendship. Rukia then kills the Hollow realizing Kaien wouldn't mind. We end on a shot of Ichigo standing off to Ulquiorra Cifer.



Anime Character of the day: Light Yagami from Death Note