GSC promotion video

This video is sort of a promotion video for Good Smile Company, the most awesome team in the world. The video was uploaded on You Tube in July this summer. I just happened to come over it while visiting GSC's website. I thought I would mention it because the song is great and there are lot of fun figures to see in the video. Can't believe it runs over 5 minutes!

For those who don't know, Good Smile Company is a company that is specialized on making figures and toys from popular anime and manga in Japan. They even have their own Good Smile cafe and Good Smile racing team!

Angel Beats! Generator

Here is a fun site I just came over. It's a site that generates a logo with the same style as the one from Angel Beats, the animation. Just type the text you want and click the button to the right.

This service is free, but unfortunately, the resolution is really small so you can't use it for much.

Thanks to Nerd@Akihabara

Generator: link

Recommended anime: Mirai Nikki

Mirai Nikki, also known as Future Diary, is an ongoing anime directed by Naoto Hosoda and written by Katsuhiko Takayama. The first episode was released the 10th October.

Genre: Thriller, supernatural, horror

Yukiteru Amano is an outsider who never interacts with other people and spends most of his day writing a diary on his cell phone with his only companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. Soon Yukiteru finds out that Deus is not a just his imagination but real when Deus makes him a participant in a survival battle among eleven others. Within this game, the contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future. Within the next 90 days, the contestants must try to kill each other and survive until there is only one alive who becomes the new God of Time and Space.

Finally this is not another highschool-drama and I am happy about that. This anime seems like a real deal with a thoughtful plot and theme. The art is also fantastic and can not be complained on.

I am not sure if I'm too fond of the protagonist. Yukiteru seems like a powerless, scared and dumb child. I would rather prefer the more intelligent and tough bad-guy-hero type like Light from Death Note (Not that he's the good-guy). As a contrast, Yuno Gasai is an interesting, mysterious and tough girl who really freaks me out!

Anyway, this is an anime I strongly recommend and is definitely on my watching-list.

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Shinobu Oshino by Good Smile Company

A new 1/8 scale figure of Shinobu Oshino by Good Smile Company will be released March next year.

Shinobu is such a sweet and innocent-looking vampire from Bakemonogatari and I would love to see more of her in the anime.

The figure is gorgeous and Shinobu looks really cute, especially with the donut in her mouth. The details of the figure are great such as the glasses, stapler and Shinobu's hair, but I would prefer a figure without all of the donouts.

Price: 7800 yen

10 violent animes

If you are bloodthirsty and looking for violent and controversial animes, or if you are simply just tired of boring highschool dramas, you should check out this list. I have listed 10 of the most violent animes I've watched until now. It's not that I'm deeply in love with the horror genre, but most of these actually have a great story to tell.

Highschool of the Dead

Absolutely horrifying zombie-adventure, but very entertaining fight-scenes. This is also one one of the most ecchi animes I've seen and it's quite nasty.

Blood-C

Very interesting setting and mindtwisting plot, but way too much blood: I would rather call it "blood-sea".

Ga-Rei Zero

This anime has a great fighting-scenes but is still quite emotional and touching.

Chrono Crusade

Exorcism-action-drama.

Kore wa Zombie desu ka?

Quite a violent harem, but extremely funny.

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi

Vampire-fantasy.

Death Note

Death Note is a true mindtwister which really can makes your brain going. There is violence, but you should certainly not watch it for that reason alone or else you will get disappointed.

Steins;Gate

Just as Death Note, there is lots of dialogue and details to hold on to. The plot is very exiting and the anime is one you sooner or later should have on your watched-animes list.

Nurarihyon no Mago

Exiting clan-action. It's a anime more isolated from the west and bases much more on the Japanese cultures, religions and myths.

Vampire Knight

Typical vampire-rommance-lovestory.

Recommended: Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, also known as "I Don't Have Many Friends", is a recently begun series directed by Hisashi Saitō and written by Tatsuhiko Urahata.

Hasegawa Kodaka is a recent transfer student to St. Chronica's Academy which is a Catholic high school. Just as earlier, he finds it difficult to make friends because of his blond hair and fierce-looking eyes which make him look like a dangerous "yankee" to his prejudiced schoolmates. One day, he accidentally comes across the equally solitary and very abrasive Yozora Mikazuki while she converses with her imaginary friend Tomo. Together, to improve their situation, they form a club in order to make friends and and gather social skills.

I don't really have any specific comments about the plot. If you are looking for something different than a cliche' highschool-social-problem-ideal-drama-series, this anime is probably not the one. The plot seems okay, but it's not very innovative.

The only real potensial I see in this anime is rather the style of art. The character designs are great and vivid, though I would prefer the manga. Sena Kashiwazaki with her butterfly hair-clip is super cute :)

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Yay :)