Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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Filed Under: Sora no Woto
I laughed at their reactions on their faces...
Some Les Yay! Moments going around here including some serious stuff.
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
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Filed Under: Uncategorized
Well, yes, it’s another game that is terribly addictive. This is a remake of the Pokemon Gold and Silver games that came out nearly 10 years ago on the Gameboy Color. I remembered playing this on the Gameboy Color and well, nostalgia will hit again once I start playing this remake on my Nintendo DSi.
Alot have changed during the last 10 years with game mechanics and also the capabilities the Nintendo system had. Back in 2000 with the Gameboy Color, it could only show a certain amount of colors and there was no wireless features except the IR censor on the top of the system, but now with the Nintendo DS or the DSi, alot of change, thus more features were added.
Inside the box reveals instructions for the PokeWalker, which allows you to send a Pokemon over for something and use it without needing a DS and well, the game that comes in a separate package from the box.
Inside the game package is obviously the game and instruction manuals. So that is pretty much it. Anyways, if you are interested in my progress, I will write entries over at my Sideblog, Shiori’s Diary with some screenshots. For now, I’m just going to get started with the game, so I will post a little later. :p
Anyways, what do you think about the remakes?
Also, I will still continue to blog about Anime despite playing this game…
Well, things come full circle…
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
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Filed Under: Sora no Woto
Another cute moment...
It’s Valentines Day and Kobato wants a Valentines Day party…
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
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Filed Under: Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
A while back in June 2009, I wrote a lengthy editorial on how fanservice can ruin the overall story of an anime. Well, this becomes a reality with Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu.
I have watch both seasons and the first season was far better besides a few panty shots is that they focused on the over lining purpose of the story. Yuuto and Haruka sweet romance and also her Otaku interest. However, the second season lost it’s purpose completely. Like Kimagure said on Melative, “sweetness replaced by pointless fanservice.” The second season of Nogizaka Haruka just proved what I have said in my editorial I wrote in June of 2009 that adding lots of fanservice makes the over lining story alot worse than it would without the fanservice. All I got from this is more pantyshots, boob groping and other stuff that shouldn’t be in the anime. If I want to watch a fanservice-oriented anime, I would of watched titles like Ladies vs Butlers, Kampfer or even Chu-Bra! I bet one minute that 90% of the fanservice seen in the second season is not in the Nogizaka Haruka light novels (yes, the Anime is adapted from the light novel…)
The problem with the route they taken is that it’s completely unnecessary and the story can do better without it, besides the other flaws besides fanservice. I felt that Diomedea is trying to use fanservice to try to attract more audience to the show, at the same time, alienating its viewers who liked the first season and be constantly let down by every episode. If there is ever a third season, Diomedea better shape up and not add the fanservice and bring it back to what the story is intended to be in the first place because viewers aren’t going to take this excessive, overdone and redundant fanservice and panty shots anymore. There are already enough fanservice laden titles out there already, Nogizaka Haruka is a series that doesn’t need to go down that path too. We already have other anime that does that.
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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Filed Under: Sora no Woto
I never got this excited about last night's dinner.
Mostly a Klaus/Kureha focused Episode…
Although he didn't see something coming.
Christmas Eve comes and Fujimoto started acting strange…
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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Even owls want in at this...
Preview posts always had problems for not giving enough information or resorting to “chartfag” charts that become outdated when a stream of new information comes in, giving the readers not enough info on when the series will start, how long, what genre and so on. This leads people writing preview posts without enough information and just making noise for the sake of it.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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Filed Under: Sora no Woto
When you really need to go, drastic actions are needed.
You wished there was such thing as a cell phone or cordless phone, so you don’t have to stay in the same room all day… Continue reading »
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
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With the last article, I decided to write a response to the author of “The Golden Waste” as he seems to be ranting about people not buying licensed anime for some reasons. Everyone should be buying licensed anime if they like the show and/or want to support the studio, there is no way around with that. However, the money that comes from both the Japanese and licensed Anime sales of DVDs is very small for the Animation Studios. We can argue or rant about dub versus sub-only releases, Crunchyroll and licensing companies as much we want, but it doesn’t change the fact that how much corporate greed comes from the Japanese Anime Industry causing the animation studios be left with peanuts in comparison with the American Music Industry.
Producing Anime is very expensive to produce, market, localize and distribute. According to the info in 2007 from the Nikkei BP Anime Business Forum in Japan, it costs $20,000-30,000 dollars on average just to produce one episode. Sure, it’s expensive to produce a longer series like 24 episodes opposed to 12 episodes since it would cost around $480,000 – $720,000 from these estimates. Sounds expensive, right? The studios couldn’t afford to animate this alone, so they have sponsors to help them produce the show.
If you take a look at this chart below, an animator makes less than an Office worker (money is in millions of Yen):
The chart compares the saleries of younger/older works, Animators vs Office Workers salary. As shown, Animation Worker's salaries are alot lower than the office worker. (Source 3)
In another source, this is the actual salary directors were getting per episode:
Television series sound director: 150,000-180,000 yen (US$1,600-US$2,000)
Television series director: 200,000-250,000 yen (US$2,200-US$2,700)
Animation director: About 300,000 yen (US$3,300)
From AnimeNewsNetwork article, Directors Dispute Reports of ‘Poor’ Animator Salaries
On the chart above, animators are paid way under what a normal worker will receive in Japan (1.1 million yen (US$11,600) for an Animator 20 years old and 2.14 million yen (US$22,600) for 30 year old animator, with a average salary of 1 million yen (US$10,500).) or even minimum wage in the United States for example. However, it’s contradictory since although the animators make a decent salary ($26,400-$36,000 for 12 episodes for example). The surprisingly higher salaries that reported in 2009 indicate that studios are actually getting extra funds by distributing using other means such as the internet, which will be discussed later in this article. However, it is of not the studio’s fault because the real greed comes from the middleman, usually the TV studio.
This chart shows how the budget for an Anime Series is allocated. The Animation Studio is left with what is left over. (Source 4)
If we look at this chart , we can see that the studio takes a big cut from the budget ($500k that was put out from the sponsor and other expenses), leaving only 80k for the actual production budget . This leaves hardly anything for the workers. We can see that the TV Studio is guilty for this greed like the Music Labels are with their music that artists puts out and that the people who make the music are in the same situation as these workers, receiving hardly any money from these works. Unless the Anime Industry change from their old ways, the content creators will continue to get shafted while the Anime Industry (Mostly the TV studios) like Scrooge McDuck will take the big sum of the money and swimming in his vaults of money while gouging the Animation Studios and the workers, which gets hardly anything.
Well, of you compare it to doujin work; depending on how successful, they can make more money compared to the typical approach since it cuts the middleman (TV studio) out of the production process. You may not get as much of recognition, but word of mouth and the quality of the work may help it to become successful, and more are turning to that. Another way by the another view by the directors are making more money is that some studios are turning away from TV studios from broadcasting and using the Internet to distribute their works and perhaps later sell DVDs and merchandise based upon their works. The benefit from this is that it completely cuts out the middle man (TV Studio) out of the picture so it results in more money in the studio (shown by the higher wages the animation studio are getting in another view)
In conclusion, the Anime Industry needs to change to survive. With more people looking more carefully at corporate greed after the big bonuses that AIG were giving out to it’s workers for example, this should be a wakeup call for those TV Studios not to take a big sum from the Animation Studios so that the workers will at least have some more money to live with. It’s a sad reality and some wish that people could donate some money to the studios for support, but in reality… there isn’t such thing yet and also make some people who say I won’t buy x Anime because I can get the fansubs for free realize that every penny counts when supporting Anime Studios for the production of the series, so remember that.
Anime business – More on how they operate
One License to Rule Them All – Money in the Field – Possible solutions
You are so mean!
Well, it’s winter and…
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
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Because I was playing games... Not really, but.
Well, yesterday if you haven’t noticed, the blog went down suddenly and I was wondering what happened. Well, the host Notcliche is hosted on, midphase had decided to move the site to a more reliable server. Because of that, my comments that were made in the last two days were lost, but I was able to recover the posts and comments from the last three days. Hopefully, this won’t happen again, but it’s one lesson learn from this. Always make backups of your posts and that Murphy’s law is in full effect, which states that “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”
We know, sh*t happens, but it’s not end of the world. :p
Now excuse me, I have to restore the snapshots on my Sora no Woto Episode 7 post and blog about Kobato Ep 18.
Fanart used in this post is made by そら. (source)
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
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Filed Under: Sora no Woto
Awwww.
Well, there is one thing we know… War is bad…
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