2015 November 23ʳᵈ. ~Intro to Vocaloid!~

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Hiya, people. Hola. Halo. Apparently, this blog's had a few views in Chile, as well as Australia and Indonesia. Just... Thanks for being here. Really.

C–I–A

今日

Well, today's a succinct post for succinct material!

I'll be trying to explain the Vocaloid... Stuff... from the most factual standpoint I can.
Next week I'll be talking about a certain song pertaining to this in particular: Kaizoku F no Shouzou.

The singers of Kaizoku F no Shouzou—Left-to-right: Megurine Luka, MEIKO, Kagamine Rin & Len, and KAITO.

Now, I suppose, would be a good time to also explain what a Vocaloid is.
VOCALOID is a series of computer software products developed by Yamaha Corporation—a Japanese company—intended to synthesize a Japanese singing voice with user inputs.
They were wildly successful (most well known is Hatsune Miku), and sound fantastic (in my opinion). On top of that, after purchasing a license to one (and hiring a few musicians for a backing track), anyone can become a music producer!

A limited list of (well-known) official "Vocaloids," as the characters are called, is as follows:

• IA (Pronounced Ee-aah)
• Hatsune Miku
• Kasane Teto
• Kagamine Len & Kagamine Rin (Kind of one character)
• KAITO
• MEIKO
• Megurine Luka
• Gumi
• Kamui Gakupo
• OLIVER.

And, with that out of the way, I hope to see you again next week for another installment of...

Random Stuff With This Random Person! Until then! Bye!

2015 November 20ᵗʰ. Ratings!

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Are you mature? Am I mature? Abatteur de jours?

Which one are you?

今日

There are quite a few things that I've not been able to show on this blog because I felt it was not age-appropriate. I recall, that back at the first post on this blog, I had mentioned that this was intended for “Teenage+” audiences, which had been at the time entirely logical in my head. However, now that I have been adding content to this blog for some time, I have encountered a problem:
The initiates of the “Teenage+” demographic and the upper echelons are disparate. There are many, many great anime and other things* that I have been unable to review or talk about, since they would not allow for people of age, say, thirteen. However, I am just about ready to throw away this policy and head for a new one entirely; intended for slightly more mature audiences (since you actual readers are definitely mature enough for that).
What I have in mind is just much less limiting in what I can do on here, and I am sure it will be appreciated in the long run in terms of this blog's quality of writing as well as content.

Latching onto their pitiful souls…
Embedding in their eyes…

Thus, I enact this new rating of my content. No longer Parental-Guidance-13! It is now... Something more.

*There is, also, another thing that I have always been interested in exploring for the content of this blog. It is not a very common thing and may require a large grouping together... But I was wondering about (Vocaloid) song reviews. I've always liked (strange) Japanese music, although most people have not tried to find any interesting songs, and brush it off. There has been a hint of this in what was the first Anime Review post, as well—Wherein I had made suggestions to an anime, although strongly suggested listening to—and researching—the songs behind it—what I had truly disported.
The two images shown in the body of this post are from some songs that I was highly, highly interested in talking about. The first is of Calne Ca from the incredibly horrifying and somewhat inappropriate music video of Bacterial Contamination (細菌汚染);
The second is a short clip from Outer Science, a part of the Kagerou Project series of songs with an incredibly in-depth and confusing story—One character dies twice, is forced to kill his best friend, and then has to do it all over again...
Alas, it is time for me to go. Have a good day, and see you all next time.
Ostensibly.
I won't actually see you.
I'm not that close with the NSA.

2015 November 13ᵗʰ. Gintama!

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Hey there. Nisemono here again with another one of those newfangled "Impressions."

Kids these days and their impressions,
(Back in my day we had to live the anime before we wrote of it!)

今日

This was so, so strange.

Gintama, I can't even. Seriously odd.

So odd, in fact, that that first 3 lines became of this became a haiku.

But back to some facts:
From what I know, this anime is known as Gintama, it was first aired in 2006, and it is very highly recommended.

What I gathered from what I watched:

 That is to say, nothing whatsoever.

What is going on? Who are these people? Just a general "Why?"

It's just... Seriously?
This anime has 10440 5-star and some 400 four-star on Crunchyroll, what am I missing?

Is this some kind of massive inside joke that I'm not getting? Oh gosh, please help me.

I mean come on

I just
I don't understand

So please, please help me understand this. Watch it and leave a comment/reply to this post.

So, here it is on Crunchyroll.

You can also find it here on Kissanime, and on Animehaven.

2015 November 6ᵗʰ. Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon!

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Hello again, we're back this time for another installment of Impressions With NnoAnime! Woohoo!

I like this post type. How about you?

今日

    Today, the anime I've watched for you strange, strange people is "Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon."
This is, as the extent of my research has shown, an anime based on a light novel. The anime came out just this October (2015), and has not yet even finished its first season at this point.
The general reaction to this show has been mixed, because of its copious amounts of fanservice.

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition.

Moving on to how I felt about it, it was quite, quite alright. Of course, there was quite a bit of fanservice (which did get old), but in general the show was quite humorous—both on purpose and sometimes as an unintentional byproduct of its absurdity. And of course, again, it has combat.
Not only combat, but the best kind of combat.
Sword combat.
...Kind of
As of the first episode, the (seemingly) main character does not get to strike at any being with his sword, although he does end up slicing through several bullets in self-defence. And it is totally awe-inspiring.

Another thing I quite like about this anime is its protagonist, as he is not dissimilar to me; a sword-wielding long-haired innocent.

…Although that last point could be challenged.

Just a bit longer, darker hair, and voila!

One thing I expect may happen, from my limited viewing of this anime, is that Ōtori may end up having a dramatic internal struggle regarding her platoon by the end of the season. Anyhow, the show should be formidable to all of its viewers (as long as you are sufficiently mature).

It's got action, humour, fanservice (if you're into that sort of thing), and fabulous, fabulous characters.

I hereby formally, aggressively suggest that you take this show onto your list of anime to watch at some point. It is alright with me.

And so, you can find the show here, on Crunchyroll.

You can also find it here, on Animehaven; and here, on Kissanime.