Well it seems I’ve jumped the gun a in relation to Fall Season; after thinking that there would be a torrent of anime starting in September I went to find out exactly when this would all be happening only to find out that October is when it all lands. In fact there’s only three shows starting in September and none of them really interest me, disappointment is an understatement. I’ll still keep to my one-episode goal, I can always talk about the subbers and the studio even if I may not be too interested in the subject material.
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It’s now been more or less a week now since Comiket 76 and things are slowing down as the excitement fades. Releases are down to a trickle on Share, and while there’s still a veritable mountain of stuff I haven’t even touched still on there my download cap is reaching it’s limit (far into deficit, actually) so at this point I more or less just pop on to see if I can spot anything that catches my eye. A fair few things are still missing though with Kraster, O-Life Japan and Cis-Trance among others having not shown up at all, while -en- (which I talked about in an earlier post) has only shown up as a 192kbps rip. One can only hope that in the days and weeks to come that these too will appear.
For now though it’s time to relax a bit and enjoy some of the tunes that I’ve grabbed; with roughly 80 albums though it’ll take a fair while before I’ve heard it all. Hopefully once I’ve found out which ones I like I’ll be able to locate somewhere where I can pick up some legit copies if there are any left, would be great to own them. There won’t be too much time to relax though, as September is just around the corner and that means it’ll be time for the Fall season anime to arrive and go back-to-back with C76 in continuing to squeeze my download cap as I launch into some reviewing. Thank goodness I’ve taken holidays for next month!
Another Comiket has come and gone, with the doors having long closed on C76 by the time I had time to catch a breath and write up a post. From my perspective – all the way across the seas – it started out quietly again, but by evening it was on for all as Share started lighting up, and I’m now at a stage where I’m stuck watching the upload counter creep slowly towards 100%. At which stage I’ll move onto the next file. Rinse, repeat.
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Day 2 is over and as expected some of the most expected releases have hit the internet, bring many cries of joy from the assembled. Touhou 12 – Undefined Fantastic Object and 12.3 – Unthinkable Natural Law are both out along with Scarlet Symphony (Touhouvania), Umineko 5, Shuffle! Navel and a bunch of other big names that slip my mind at the moment. The music side of things has heated up too with CROW’SCLAW, k-waves LAB, HARDCORE TANO*C, Sonic Hybrid Orchestra, UI-70 and [insert SHIT-JIS characters here >:(] all passing through my hands, with stuff from D’va;;;;;;;;5, Diverse System, EXIT TUNES and EXIT TRANCE sighted but on hold until I hit my offpeak download quota (let’s hear it for Australian internets).
Things haven’t been all smooth sailing though with DoujinStyle going down early in the day only to resurface later with a notification that its account had been revoked, a bad sign indeed. My well-layed encoding plans also went out the window – with releases either already in MP3 or in TTA – neither of which I could use Exact Audio Copy for, so after a bit of embarressed head-scratching and a quick run around I threw foobar2000 onto my computer and ripped them that way. All in all though it’s been another set of enlightening experiences.
A side note about UFO: it’s drawn a fair bit of flak over it’s characters from all the people who have seen/played it and I have to agree, they fall short of the level people have come to expect from ZUN, which is dissapointing to see. :(
The first day of Comiket is finally under way and everyone is rumbling in anticipation of the promised goods to come. So far there’s only a handful of legitimate releases on Share hidden amongst a swarm of fakes, which while annoying is to be expected I guess with an event like this. I still can’t help but to feel pumped about the music to come, and the wait gives me time to get my gear in order and write up some more code / polish the code I already have to help when things get busy.
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Glee. It’s that time of the year again – Comiket time – and the internets are sure to light up again with all the goodies that this otaku mecca delivers event after event. On my part Touhou stuff will be dominating my mind, most especially the doujin music that I’ve come to love over the past year to the point where it now dominates my music collection. Beyond that the only other particular thing I will be after is the second episode of the fan-made Touhou anime, can’t wait!
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It’s been about a year and a half since I put this blog up – it was originally meant to be for my trip to Japan last year – and only now am I actually putting some content in it. Originally it was due to a bit of laziness (as well as being in another country and, you know, being preoccupied with touristing) and after that it sort of got left behind when I realised I didn’t actually have anything exciting to talk about. Well, maybe now I’ve decided on what I can do.
Anime, of course! Well, to be more specific I thought I’d do some reviews and such on the current season’s anime and the groups subbing them; mainly it would involve grabbing the first episode of each series/OVA/etc at the start of the season, watching through it, and then reporting back on how it – and how good the sub group – is. Iffy at this stage as to how indepth I’ll go, but for certain there would be a “this season at a glance / for dummies” post that lumps everything into teirs so that those who are unsure as to what’s out there – and more importantly what to actually get – can figure out what’s up fairly quickly.
First cab off the rank will be Fall Season – that’s September / October / November for those of us on the better half of the hemisphere – and after flicking through what’s slated to be released I can’t say I’m really looking forward to it. There’s a fair slab of romance / shoujou type stuff on offer, though a few glimmers of hope in the form of sequels and epics look like they’ll tide me through. I’m trying to be nice and ‘objective’ about things here, as I think it’d be a good idea to not start out the whole blogging gig by slagging genres I don’t give a damn for, even if I, well, actively hate them. Let’s see if I can keep that up when I have to sit through 24 minutes of them :D
