Whatever happens, I hope the author doesn't get pressured to changes his mind.
Whatever happens, I hope the author doesn't get pressured to changes his mind.
Last edited by Everon; Mon, 12-08-2008 at 08:28 PM.
The author is actually a chick. But it says the manga is suspended indefinitely, meaning no hope of coming back? I'd doubt it was health.
Her vision. Takenashi Eri is a side artist for TYPE-MOON doujins. Not officially part of the staff, but she contributes to their work.Originally Posted by Everon
Just a correction that may cast a different tone on the situation. Not that female mangaka can't write shonen, but I think it puts her work more in line with seinen or josei. Though she works on doujins and yuri, she's not particularly focused on ecchi or moe. It's not like Akamatsu Ken, Fujishima Kosuke, or...I can't even think of a third author where [virginal purity] is a particular requirement to be attracted to the heroines. Personally, I read a lot more series where the heroine has a past.
EDIT: animus beat me to it.
I've got tears in my eyes...from laughing
the ending theme managed to crack me up completely! Nagi is really a weird goddess
that was a good episode. (not the best though)
Zange-chan was really cuteand Tsugumi made my head bounce from left to right (for some reason she started doing it and I had to do it too).
Oh and the Lucky Star characters showed up too, I wonder how much I'd like the anime if the characters were drawn that way. ^^
edit: lol I just read that the director from Kannagi was the doing the first 4 episode of Lucky Star and got kicked out after that.. that makes this scene pretty interesting. hidden critique?
Last edited by KrayZ33; Mon, 12-08-2008 at 07:44 AM.
Well, we already had a cameo about that in a previous episode.I've got tears in my eyes...from laughing
the ending theme managed to crack me up completely! Nagi is really a weird goddess
that was a good episode. (not the best though)
Zange-chan was really cute
Oh and the Lucky Star characters showed up too, I wonder how much I'd like the anime if the characters were drawn that way. ^^
edit: lol I just read that the director from Kannagi was the doing the first 4 episode of Lucky Star and got kicked out after that.. that makes this scene pretty interesting. hidden critique?
I haven't seen that one yet, but will in the hours to come (4 to 6 hours from now I guess)
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Quite an episode. I'm beginning to think all these pushy girls are really starting to turn Jin gay. It seems like Daitetsu is the only person Jin is looking at anymore...
Neat episode. Lovin' the reference. I like how much Jin admires Daitetsu's natural talents. Can't blame him, that guy's good at almost everything.
I am training in the shadows.
Currently playing: All of your games, probably.
I liked the, "Because her eyes will open," line at the end the best. Characters like Shino always open their eyes in a dramatic fashion for some reason or another...and then do something awesome. I was wondering when they would have her do it. Plus because her seiyuu is Mai Nakahara, we also get what I took as a nice reference to Higurashi.
Tsugumi really got shot down in this episode.
Hmm, I wonder how much differently it would be if Hakua had done it and sung a nursery song. Nagi's song was horrible, but Zange's was so much worse.
As the title of the episode stated, Takako owned this episode though. That was so gross.
I can always count on Kannagi to entertain. This episode was awesome and I can't wait for next weeks. Most anything else I'd say about it has already been said so I'll leave it at that.
Bit of a filler episode. I don't think their voices are suited to singing, but it could be a nationality preference.
I imagine I missed a bunch of inside jokes. Is there a history with these songs, that I'm just oblivious about?
A lot of the "horrible" singers this episode (Tsugumi, Nagi, Zange) are actually fairly skilled at it. Haruka Tomatsu (Nagi) sings the OP and ED obviously, but she had a ton of insert and character songs between her other roles in To-Love-Ru and Kyouran Kazoku Nikki. Kana Hanazawa (Zange) isn't quite as skilled as Haruka Tomatsu, but she has also done quite a few OP/EDs or insert songs. Miyuki Sawashiro (Tsugumi) has been around for a lot longer than the other two, and she's been singing OP/EDs pretty much since she started. Haruka Tomastu is probably the best among the three, but they are a lot better singers than they showed here.
I think it shows a lot more skill for them to sing as horribly as they did in this episode. I mean, Zange hits a flat on nearly every note. Miyuki Sawashiro makes it look like Tsugumi can't hit high notes, even though we know her high-pitched shrieks of exclaimation go higher than that. Haruka Tomatsu has a huge vocal range, and Nagi's song...well, was self explanatory.
Maybe there's some old adage, but it takes a lot of skill to do something proficiently, but even more to make it look like you can't.
As for the boys (other than Daitetsu) and Takako, they made it look like a realistic karaoke party. Lots of people kind of suck at singing. While Takako's overcompensation for her old lady attitude and appearance was the funniest part, I think there was a lot of realism in this little venture.
Last edited by Ryllharu; Mon, 12-08-2008 at 09:04 PM.
Whoops, I probably should be more specific. When Takako and Akiba were singing, the other characters commented how good they were. That surprised me a little, since I didn't think they sang that well.
I can tell the other characters are faking the screeches and flats. And Haruka actually didn't sing bad, she just chose a ridiculous song.
Just finished watching all episodes up to 10. How did i miss this show?!?
So damn funny.
Though it did change over time, imo. At the beginning it was more like a typical anime show, focusing on the character´s story. Now it feels a lot like Zetsubou Sensei, in that it has so many "random" funny scenes. Akiba is the greatest :P
I like Takako a lot, for some reason, maybe because she's a sex pervert in her head at least and her ways of thinking match.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Hmm, on a slightly comedic side, this episode was kind of serious. I have to agree with Jin that her motives for doing something are unreasonable because she doesn't know why she's doing it in the first place, other than they are "bad impurities." Unknown identity, unknown lifestyle, and having an unknown relationship can be kind of scary to think about...
I am training in the shadows.
Currently playing: All of your games, probably.
Certainly a surprisingly serious episode suddenly. Though realistically thinking Jin had to snap at some point, even if in anime, especially comedies, such snapping may not ever actually happen. Jin's uncertainty was also nicely demonstrated by how he suddenly told everything to Hakua's dad.
Phone Stalking was fun, then the serious tone.
I guess the message here is that once incarnated, a deity or strong spirit loses some information, pretty much like soul and human beings.
There's something else to discuss, Zange-chan has 2 clear identities, the deity and the girl living together in the girl's body.
For Nagi, we a different situation, after all she embodies a wooden statue created from the tree she was living in as a deity. A tree doesn't have a personality as we understand for a human, so that's maybe why we do not have that split personality show up... eventhough we've had instances when we've seen her personality change drastically and be more of god.
So back to the host, I wonder if the mischievious Nagi is the tree. What do you think of the idea? And the other one is the deity, a patient, soft and warm personality Jin met when he was young and he carved in that same tree she was living in... the same accepting the dead cats. As she's been presented, she'd be the one to step back and remain silent for the host to have all the fun and benefit from a once in a lifetime experience, knowing she as a god as eternity to experience many things.
The other idea I got was about being posessed... You could say that Zange and that tree got posessed... so are those deities the exact same impurities Nagi is exterminating? Isn't that why she turns black were she's touched by one?
I guess we'll know.
Last edited by David75; Tue, 12-16-2008 at 02:55 PM.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
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