Character Battle II Semifinal 1 !!

Yeah, finally the semifinal !! Vote for your favorite character now !!

Character Battle II Match Statistics

This is the result so far. 4 girls fighting in the semifinal to step closer to the queen's throne ! Featuring Tenshi vs Kanzaki and Hitagi vs Ikaros !

Anime Winter 2011 Chart !!

Next season anime is announced !! There's this Lovecraft anime, Beelzebub, and even Wolverine -_-...

Character Battle II Elimination Round 4 Announcement !!!

Hereby, the admin announces that Character Battle II Elimination Round 4 has ended in 16th of December 2010.

Da result:

Ikaros: 10 (66%)

Akaba Chizuru: 5 (33%)

Therefore, the winner is...Ikaros !! The angeloid fly high and beat Chizuru by a large gap, especially during the early stage of the battle ! What a surprise, considering Chizuru who got higher votes during the preliminary round ! Congrats to Ikaros !!



Well, not much to say -_-, she never smiles. Enjoy the feathery win !

Character Battle II Elimination Round 4 !!!

Vote for your favorite character now !!!

Character Battle II Elimination Round 3 Announcement !!!

Hereby, the admin announces that Character Battle II Elimination Round 3 has ended in 28th of November 2010.

Da result:

Senjogahara Hitagi: 15 (65%)

Himari: 8 (34%)

Theferore, the winner is......Senjogahara Hitagi !!! Once again, ruling over the match by about 2 times enemy's votes !! Good work by Himari there too, as the early stage domination is somehow reduced, but still can't make it. Congrats to Hitagi who won gloriously !!




Grab all those stationaries, and the enemy is done for...Let's not forget the deadly stapler attack...

Character Battle II Elimination Round 3 !!!

Vote for your favorite character now !!!

Character Battle II Elimination Round 2 Announcement !!!

Hereby, the admin announces that Character Battle II Elimination Round 2 has ended in 2nd of November 2010.

Da result:

Kanzaki Kaori: 8 (53%)

Kirishima Shoko: 7 (46%)

Therefore, the winner is........Kanzaki Kaori !!! What a splendid battle with just 1 vote difference, and amazingly, Kanzaki who has lower vote in the preliminary won this battle against Kirishima !! Nice effort by Kirishima to catch up after being left behind during the early phase, but still can't make it. Anyway, Congrats to Kanzaki Kaori !!



Almost run out of Kanzaki's image lol. Once again pierce through the enemy with Nanasen !!

Character Battle II Elimination Round 2 !!

Vote for your favorite character now !!

Character Battle II Elimination Round I Announcement !!

Hereby, the admin announces that Character battle II Elimination Round I has ended in 17th of October, 2010.

Da result:

Tachibana Kanade AKA Tenshi: 16 (66%)

Ayame Ikaruga: 8 (33%)

Therefore, the winner of Elimination Round I is......Tachibana Kanade !!! Wow, I haven't seen so many votes before, and it was a damn cool battle ! At first, both have the potentials to win the battle, and their votes race one with another. However, Ayame is not enough to stop the moe angel Tachibana Kanade ! Her votes keep on rocketing after few days and still up until now, dominating the battle completely!!

Nice battle, congratulations, Kanade !!!

Special picture of Kanade !! Moe mode: ON ! Wearing Nekomimi and meow !! (reminds me of Azunyan :p)

Fall Anime 2010 Chart

Interesting fall animes are released ! Already out: Iron Man, Sora no Otoshimono Forte (one of my favorites sequel :p), MM!, Tegami Bachi Reverse, Star Driver, Super Robot Taisen OG: Inspector, and Bakuman ! And the most awaited one that's still not out yet: Toaru Majutsu no Index Season 2 !! Yeah, let's feast on these !!

International Saimoe 2010 Result

The result of this year International Saimoe League:
Akiyama Mio is now the bearer of the heavenly tiara !!



Well it's not really surpising though, although Misaka Mikoto give a very hard effort to crawl up to the final after some defeat. And, Shana is once again so close to the tiara, but didn't manage to get it. Anyway, congrats to Akiyama Mio !

Character Battle II Elimination Round 1

Vote now for your favorite character !!!

Character Battle II Elimination Round Match Diagram

After doing random picks to settle the pair to be matched, this is the match diagram:



Rule: the loser will be eliminated directly, and there will be only one winner.
Without further ado, let's begin the match !!!

Character Battle II Elimination Round

YEAH !!! Finally we have ended the long preliminary round and reached the main event, the Elimination Round !! From the arduous preliminary, we have these 8 finalist :

Ikaros (Sora no Otoshimono)

Senjogahara Hitagi (Bakemonogatari)

Kirishima Shouko (Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu)

Himari (Omamori Himari)

Ikaruga Ayame (Asu no Yoichi)

Chizuru Akaba (Seitokai Ichizon)

Tachibana Kanade AKA Tenshi (Angel Beats!)

Kanzaki Kaori (Toaru Majutsu no Index)

Who will be the ultimate winner who will bear the title Queen of Character Battle II !? Let's lift up the curtain !!

Character Battle II 8th Preliminary Announcement !!

Hereby, the Admin announce that Character Battle II 8th preliminary has ended in 22nd of September 2010.

Da result:
Index Librorum Prohibitum: 1 (10%)
Misaka Mikoto: 3 (30%)
Shirai Kuroko: 1 (10%)
Himegami Aisa: 0 (0%)
Kazakiri Hyoka: 0 (0%)
Tsukuyomi Komoe: 1 (10%)
Kanzaki Kaori: 4 (40%)
Sherry Cromwell: 0 (0%)
Sasha Kruezhev: 0 (0%)

Therefore, the winner of Character Battle II 8th preliminary is.......Kanzaki Kaori !! Going through dead heat with the infamous railgun, Misaka Mikoto who blast through her way in ISML, Kanzaki slice through the path to the throne of victory ! What a result ! A wonderful victory by leaving all "the under-aged" with 1 point gain ! Congratulations to Kanzaki !!



How much did it cost ? Nanasen-en (7000 yen literally). That is quite a bad joke if you ask her too much about it...Anyway, another gift to the voter, Nanasen.

International Saimoe League reaching climax !! Vote now !!

Double Elimination period has started !! Vote now at http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/ for the loser's bracket today!!

Following is the result of the winner's bracket 1 conducted on 7 September 2010. I find this very interesting, especially the ratio of vote in different countries. What're you waiting for, check it out !

Journey to the West reupload

Due to the admin's change of environment, the Journey to the West Manga is re-uploaded to mediafire. Actually, Journey to the West Reload is more cool, but yeah, this is the link to Journey to the West Re-Uploaded:

Indonesian version (highly recommended for Indonesian readers for more fun):
http://www.mediafire.com/?gd7gxvlx5873boj

English/ International version:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ak1cak3ydbw3c28

Enjoy!

Character Battle II 7th Preliminary Announcement !!

Hereby, the admin announce that the 7th preliminary of Character Battle II has ended in the 30th of August 2010.

Da result:

Yuri Nakamura: 3 (17%)

Tachibana Kanade AKA Tenshi: 7 (41%)

Shiina: 2 (11%)

Yusa: 0 (0%)

Iwasawa: 0 (0%)

Hisako: 0 (0%)

Irie: 0 (0%)

Sekine: 0 (0%)

Yui: 5 (29%)

Therefore, the winner is.....Tachibana Kanade AKA Tenshi !!!! Yeah, this is one heck of a battle !! This is how Character Battle should be, a lot of participants !! At first, Yui overwhelmed Kanade's vote, then Kanade gave a very hard counter to emerge as the winning angel, whereas Yuri is totally left behind ! Congratulations to Kanade who enters the world just for saying thanks to Otonashi, your wings have brought you to victory !!

For all who vote for Kanade, this is a give for you - Hand Sonic. Enjoy the stabbing. lol.

Just for Fun - Anime Character Periodic Table

This is a periodic table for you who can't remember the sequences manually, but have no problem in remembering Anime characters. Try this out on your chemistry lesson !!

Character Battle 6th Preliminary Announcement !!

Hereby, the admin announce that the sixth preliminary of Character Battle II has ended in the 13th of July 2010.

Da result:

Sakurano Kurimu: 1 (14%)

Chizuru Akaba: 7 (71%)

Shiina Mafuyu: 1 (14%)

Shiina Minatsu: 0 (0%)

And sooo....the winner is.....Chizuru Akaba !!!! She's dominating the battle by giving only one vote chance for Sakurano & Mafuyu ! As expected from Chizuru Akaba, with the best body proportion among the seitokai, charisma, special ability and fearful aura !! With this result, she will send chill to the spine of her opponent ! Congrats, Chizuru !!



Chizuru Akaba from the fandisc's cover, listening to the music, hell yeah ! Not many of her good pics in the net, and this is one of the best, I think...Anyway, your smile is often scary...

Character Battle 5th Preliminary Announcement !!

Hereby, the Admin announce that the fifth preliminary of Character Battle II has ended in the 20th of July 2010.

Da result:

Himari: 7 (58%)

Rinko Kuzaki: 0 (0%)

Shizuku: 2 (16%)

Lizlet l. Chelsie: 1 (8%)

Jinguji Kuesu: 1 (8%)

Kaya: 0 (0%)

Ageha: 0 (0%)

Sasa: 1 (8%)

Therefore, the winner of Character Battle II 5th preliminary is....Himari !!! Slashing through her way, she defeated all of the demon hunters and the ayakashis with absolute differences of votes, even with Shizuku, that only collected 2 votes ! What a splendid victory, and credits goes to the fan-services (lol) ! Congrats, Himari !!

Another hard moment to find a good, elligible Himari picture in the net, so I think this is, well, "good" enough. Nice pose ! Especially the next picture cut...(drool*)

Just for Fun - Look-Alikes in Anime 2

Another posting about anime characters look-alikes. Enjoy !



Hairstyle and face (especially the eyes) : confirmed. Only difference in personality. If so, Touma would be best like Otonashi Yuzuru and Araragi Koyomi who always involved themselves in others' problems.



I've been wondering and now I see that their hairstyle and color almost look-alike. Even their white suit give them another point of similarities. They are different in occupation. Izzard is an alchemist while Kasal is a doctor.



I don't know why, but they're almost similar at first glance !! Their hairstyle and color and even the uniform complete with the inner T-shirt color they're wearing are almost the same !! Is there some agreement with Watsuki-sensei about this character Takashi ???



Not just their almost-the-same hairstyle, color, face and height, but they also have quite the same personality, that is acting childish, except the one at the right is not a child anymore...



Since the first time I watched Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, some things bug me. One of them is the similarities between the character Yoko and Rebecca, both having almost same hairstyle and hair color, not to mention that both like to dress themselves in an exposing way and use firearms as their weapons.



Hairstyle and hair color: confirmed. Weapon is also sword, except Cassandra also uses shield. Both of them are warriors that are still related to European history. The only difference other than clothing is the bust size. Saber is flat while Cassandra's not.



Just find an interesting one here. When I saw Kurozuma in Railgun, suddenly I remember about someone, and that is this guy, Killer from Shadow Hearts From the New World. Not only their hairstyle and hair color that almost look similar, but they also wear black jacket, having fearful aura and charisma. Too add, both of them are expert in battle.

Admin's Anime Review: Toaru Kagaku no Railgun - A Certain Scientific Railgun

Title: Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
Studio: J.C. Staff
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Science-fiction
Original Run: October 3, 2009 - March 20, 2010.
Episodes: 24
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Original Character Design: Kiyotaka Haimura
Number One Theme Song: Opening Theme "Only My Railgun" by fripSide

Admin's Score:
Story: 90
Character Development: 90
Artwork: 90
Songs: 88
Animation/ Battle Depiction: 90



Toaru Kagaku no Railgun main protagonists (left to right): Misaka Mikoto, Shirai Kuroko, Uiharu Kazari, and Saten Ruiko.



Toaru Kagaku no Railgun is a spinoff of the series Toaru Majutsu no Index. 5 volumes of manga have been published by Dengeki Daioh, illustrated by Motoi Fukuyama.

Synopsis
This is Toaru Majutsu no Index's side story that took place in the same Academy City, except that the story tells about the life events of Misaka Mikoto and her friends before the events in the original novel happened. Misaka Mikoto, AKA the Railgun AKA the Ace of Tokiwadai facing conflicts that involved Academy City. With her friend in Judgment, Shirai Kuroko and her new 2 friends, Uiharu Kazari and Saten Ruiko, they often involved themselves in threats that endanger Academy City and its citizens. The story's mainly can be dissected into several parts that connect with each other:
1. Introduction and Daily life of Misaka Mikoto and her friends
2. Level Upper Arc
3. Skillout Arc
4. Poltergeist Arc

Strength:
Nice artwork and background as usual, never degrade a bit from its predecessor: Toaru Majutsu no Index. The graphic is always cool and the battles' becoming more thrilling this time (especially the last battle with the giant robot, it's like the transformers !, the depiction of high-tech vehicles , the use of theme song to enhance the effect ), giving more suspense to the story. Nice original idea, plot, and complications development (one conflict happens after another and well-planned), spicing up the story and giving more curiosity and interests to the audience, and the characters are well depicted here with each of their own personality. The addition of more espers and organizations also colors the anime even more.

Weakness:
May be boring in some part, especially the normal life dialogue, even not enhanced with potential comedy, unlike Index.

Screenshot:


Misaka Mikoto's disappointment as Saten Ruiko got the last Gekota bonus strap from the crepes. She is lucky, because Ruiko gave it to her then. Mikoto's taste a bit childish and one of her favorite character that is emphasized in this anime is the frog Gekota.



Photo from the modelling event in the swimsuit company. Warm friendship of girls is nicely depicted here by cooking kare together, and of course, satisfying fans of these girls. I wonder how Misaka will react if she knew Touma saw her wearing childish swimsuit in the end of this episode.



Toaru Majutsu no Index's main character's reappearance, now with more details that he loves to stick his nose into others' problems. He was helping Kiyama Harumi, one of the scientists that made an experiment on crystallized espers essence and desperately wanted to revive the children she used as a guinea pigs back then. I wonder how Touma would solve Misaka's conflict if he was involved in the story. Looking forward to Touma-Misaka combination !

Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun setting compared to the real world !

The comparison between anime graphic and real world in Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun.



The location of setting in the real world is Tama city in Kanagawa, check it out !



Anime these days...using CG for background...no wonder it's so good. The city perfectly matches as the high-tech Academy City, except it doesn't have windmill or janitor robots...



Settings for Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, still in the same city.

Admin's Anime Review: Toaru Majutsu no Index - A Certain Magical Index of Prohibited Books

Title: Toaru Majutsu no Index
Studio: J.C. Staff
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Science-fiction
Original Run: October 4, 2008 - March 19, 2009.
Episodes: 24
Director: Hiroshi Nishikiori
Original Character Design: Kazuma Kamachi and Kiyotaka Haimura
Number One Theme Song: Opening Theme "PSI Missing" by Mami Kawada

Admin's Score:
Story: 90
Character Development: 90
Artwork: 90
Songs: 90
Animation/ Battle Depiction: 90



Toaru Majutsu no Index's all stars (left to right, front to back): Shirai Kuroko, Kamijyo Touma, Index Librarum Prohibitum, MISAKA Sisters, Misaka Mikoto, Accelerator, Tsuchimikado, Stiyl Magnus, Kanzaki Kaori, and Himegami Aisa.



Toaru Majutsu no Index is originally a series of light novel written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura. The series is published by ASCII Media Works under Dengeki Bunko imprint. A manga began serialization in May 2007.

Synopsis
The story took place in Academy City, a technologically advanced city located in western Tokyo, in which superhuman students are studied and reside there. Kamijyo Touma, a high-schooler in Academy City is a level 0 esper, meaning that he holds no esper power. He, however, possessed a mysterious power called Imagine Breaker in his right hand, a power that neglects all other powers with a touch. But, it doesn't neglect only espers and magic powers, but also his luck, resulting in him experiencing unfortunate events in his daily life. One day, he found a nun on his apartment's railing, starving. She turned out to be Index Librorum Prohibitum, a junior nun from English Purist Church, Necessarius. Despite her childish acts and high appetite, she got a hold of 103,000 forbidden magical books in her head, resulting from her ability of Perfect Memorization. Touma's encounter with Index was the beginning of another Touma's misfortune, as magicians from Necessarius was looking for Index to secure the 103,000 grimmoires. Together, they faced massive amount of battles and conflicts. When science and magic cross path, the tale begins !!

Strength:
Great original idea and basic concept of the story, and it is well refined by the story development that brings suspense to the audience. The unique thought of Touma and his ability of problem solving spice up the story and most of the battles, making it more interesting. Almost flawless artwork and very detailed, well-made background, perfectly depicting the Academy City. Nice battle depiction supported by the use of theme song, like in eps 23.

Weakness:
Some illogical scene like Touma's running almost too long to reach Index in only a small room, and Kanzaki spitting out the details of her origin while fighting against God-powered angel.

Screenshot:



The first time Touma met with Index. Touma gave the starving Index a hotdog he tripped over and suddenly, Index chomped up all of them , including Touma's hand. After this too, Index's tendency to bite Touma has not going down, even increasing...



Touma's Oscar-winning acting. Even having his right arm cut off, he still managed to stay calm, and even turn his whole self into the "real Imagine Breaker" for his opponent. This scene made me think that every ordinary human has Imagine Breaker, the power to exceed one's imagination, going beyond. That's why Touma's only level 0, normal human.



Accelerator, the strongest level 5 esper of Academy City, with MISAKA Sister series 20,001, also known as Last Order. Accelerator's involved in Virus Code case involving Last Order and made the story become his for 2 episodes, making Touma grumble about his appearance.

Bonus:
Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan favorite scene !!


I'm impressed they know Nasi Goreng !! Another phenomenal Indonesia's existence in Anime !!!
Watch also Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan for more laughter !!

Admin's Anime Review: Angel Beats !

Title: Angel Beats !
Studio: P.A. Works
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy, Action
Original Run: April 3- June 26, 2010
Episodes: 13
Director: Seiji Kishi
Original Character Design: Na-Ga
Number One Theme Song: Insert Theme eps 10 "Shine Days" by Girls Dead Monster

Admin's Score:
Story: 92
Character Development: 91
Artwork: 91
Songs: 90
Animation/ Battle Depiction: 91



Angel Beats ! main protagonists (from left to right): Irie, Sekine, Takamatsu, Matsushita, T.K., Otonashi Yuzuru, Yuri Nakamura, Hideki Hinata, Noda, Oyama, Fujimaki, Hisako, Takeyama, Shiina, and Yusa.



Angel Beats ! is originally written by Jun Maeda. Both Jun Maeda and the character designer, Na-Ga, are from Key, which produced visual novels like Air, Kanon and Clannad and currently working on media collaboration for Angel Beats !. Two series of Angel Beats ! manga began serialization in Dengeki G's Magazine and two internet radio shows are made to promote Angel Beats !.

Synopsis
Otonashi Yuzuru woke up in an afterlife world after his death. He, however, lost his memories and doesn't realize that he was dead until he met a girl named Yuri, who was fighting against a girl, called Tenshi (angel) with her rifle. Not believing in Yuri, Otonashi ran and approach Tenshi, asking her a question, but he got stabbed in his heart in reply. When he woke up, he found out the world that he was in, which acts like a purgatory for teenagers who was lingered by some conflict in their heart when they was alive, as in dissatisfaction, regrets and such. Taken by their feeling, those teenagers fight against the God, in whom they believed the one that gave them such unfair life in a group called Afterlife Battlefront, led by Yuri. They symbolized Tenshi as the God who they have to fight in order to "stay alive" in the purgatory world. Otonashi joined the battlefront to find his lost memories, and thus, the rebels against God began. But, what await the battlefront was...

Strength:
Amazing original idea, story, developments and plot twists. So far, the story's the best I've ever watched, as it gives a lot of meaning, touching, but don't lose the sense of entertaining with the comedies; therefore, killing boredom while watching, even if it's a slice of life, rather, the slice of life gives a lot of impression on the audience (as in the unique past of the battlefront members, although not all of them are told). Nice theme song, inside, opening and ending. The timing of the song is good, as it helped to create touching scene, not to mention that there's various song in the anime, enhancing the story even more. Great artwork (especially the background and the graphics) and animation (smoothness, battle depiction: good). The way the anime is packed in only 13 episodes even there's so many things untold is good, the ending gives enough satisfaction and curiosity to the audience.

Weakness:
Story: not all of the battlefront members' past are revealed, giving curiosity and maybe dissatisfaction to some particular audience.

Screenshot:



Otonashi, welcome to the Afterlife Battlefront. The time Otonashi joined the battlefront after being crushed up by Noda. By the way, at Yuri's right is Iwasawa, the leader of Girls Dead Monster band.



First encounter with Tenshi AKA Tachibana Kanade at the night Otonashi appeared in the afterlife world. At first sight, she seemed like an emotionless doll, but later she began to reveal her feelings. She stabbed Otonashi not long after this.



That's right. All of them are stupid, that's why Takeyama was recruited. This is the battlefront's headquarter where Yuri always announce the next operation to be done. The screen at Yuri's back is cool, I wonder where they got such sophisticated technology. This part of anime is always interesting, when Yuri announce the operation.

Personally, overall, I think this is the best anime I've ever watched. I highly recommended this anime as one in the list of must-watch-anime !!