Your First Anime Convention: Cosplay

You have what you need, now for the fun part.

Cosplaying is both fun for the cosplayer and the con-goers. You see some great prop making, fantastic costumes, and ,generally, everyone is more than willing to pose for a photo.

If you yourself decide to cosplay, that doesn’t mean it has to be a character from an anime. This is a convention with the central idea being about anime, but, games, books, anime, etc tend to have the same fans. Cosplay as Snake from Metal Gear Solid, Master Chief from Halo, Ness from Earthbound/Mother 2, or just go with an anime character. There is a very large amount of characters that at least some people will recognize, and even if no one knows who you are, it is still just fun to dress up in a way that you might not normally. Hell, just make up your own character if you feel like it.

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Sub or Dub- Which is better?

So, I always see a lot of people on forums, Reddit, news comments, etc. arguing about subs and dubs. It always ends up being people insulting each other without actually giving a valid reason for why they like one over the other.

I myself prefer subs, but that doesn’t mean I hate dubs. In fact, there are a few dubs that I absolutely love and will watch over the subbed version of the show. Those in that group include stuff like Full Metal Panic, Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, and Ghost in the Shell. But, this post isn’t about finding which anime has a good dub, it is about deciding once and for all which is better.

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Your First Anime Convention: What You Need To Bring

So, your first anime convention is coming up soon. Do you believe you are prepared for it? If not, you should probably read this post as it will help you quite a bit.

Just hit the link below to read on

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Starting a let’s play series of videos soon

Well, I have finally decided what one of my video series will be. I’m going to do a lets play series which will be kind of a mix of a long review, commentary, and general gameplay. Been wanting to do this for a while, and I am really excited to start.

The first game I will be doing will most likely be Super Metroid. It is my favorite game of all time, and it is one that I want everyone to know about. I will start recording tomorrow, and since it isn’t that long, I should have all segments up pretty fast.

From there, I will pick random games off my shelf and play those. Some I may or may not finish depending on the type of game. Some I may not even play past 10 minutes. But, it should be a fun thing none the less, especially considering that I have a couple hundred games to choose from over plenty of console generations. Sadly though, for NES and SNES games, I will have to use my Wii instead of the actual system since I still don’t have a proper way to capture over composite cables. Sucks mostly because I absolutely love the SNES controller, especially with Super Metroid since it is the best one for those times when you need fast reflexes.

So, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. This will also be accompanied by more first impression post about the anime and games I play. More opinion post about many things that are relevant to my life and interest, and maybe even a guest post or 2 from some friends of mine. One of them has already offered to do some game related post, I just need to create an account for him.

And once again, thanks for stopping by.

Review: Majikoi ~ Oh! Samurai Girls

Majikoi ~ Oh! Samurai Girls is another anime based on another eroge starring a guy surrounded by a bunch of girls that are in love with him.

It does have one different from the typical eroge to anime adaptation though, the protagonist isn’t a coward and knows exactly who he wants from the start and doesn’t hide it.

Though, even the protagonist couldn’t save it from being kinda stupid in the end. Each of the girl’s (except Momoyo and Miyako)  reasons for liking him are nonsensical at best. You have the foreign exchange student who I honestly couldn’t even find any reason at all other than being friends with him, the awkward shy girl (who I also think is a psychopath) who he talked to and that was enough for her, and Momoyo’s sister Kazuko who I almost believe only likes Yamato simply because her sister does.

Same stereotypical harem anime characters, just all of them happen to know some form of martial arts or other fighting style. Which, really adds nothing since when the main story starts, they do barely anything. The main story also feels forced since it starts almost halfway through. Robot chick wants to destroy Japan, Yamato and the gang won’t let that happen.

What is even worse is the ending. It felt rushed and had little to no explanation as to just wtf happened. But once again, I’m sure that it may be better explained in the eroge, but even then, it probably wouldn’t be that much better.

Animation wise, it was standard. Don’t expect anything along the lines of Fate/Zero, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Bakemonogatari, or Clannad. Fight scenes consist of about 10 frames for the most part since a lot of times they resort to swinging at each other a lot. When they use one of their special moves, there is a good chance that is the only one you will ever see, and a lot of the people know the same Kawakami fighting style.

Backdrops mostly consisted of the dorm and the same river area. Had plenty of colors, but had an almost washed out look. Nothing was too detailed either, but I didn’t expect it to be either.

Overall, while enjoyable, it definitely isn’t going to go down as anything great or as a must watch. Yamato was one of the main reasons for even watching this since he was a likable character. Miyako did have some funny scenes though, which was surprising. But even then, the funniest scenes always came from Yamato.

Worthy of a rent/stream for most, not exactly something I would buy blindly, but I could see myself buying it on sale once it does come out on DVD later this year.

luckily, you can watch it for free with ads or with a premium account on Crunchyroll right now, so you can easily watch it.

WTF Did Erik Watch This Week: Feb. 26th – Mar. 3rd

This week I pretty much just watched a lot of the simulcast on Crunchyroll along with Majikoi Oh! Samurai Girls and Akane Iro Ni Somaru Saka. All of which were quite enjoyable, especially Majikoi considering I went in expecting a big pile of shit. But, instead of focusing on that right now, lets start with the first episode I watched this week, Zero no Tsukaima F. Also, this may contain spoilers. I will try not to post any major spoilers, but I can’t guarantee anything.

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Kurokami BluRay/DVDs Officially Out Of Print In US

Kurokami on BluRay and DVD has officially gone out of print in the US according to Bandai. This happens just 2 months after Bandai stated they will not be licensing any new anime, but would continue to reprint the stuff they currently have licensed so long as there was still a demand for it.

In the newest newsletter from RACS, Robert said this.

Oh well, moving on, Bandai sent us a note this week to let us know that the Kurokami DVD’s and BD’s are now out of print. The BD’s are already out of stock at Bandai and they will not be making anymore of either, so this one too is now on ‘stock on hand’ status, though we will try to keep them in stock as long as possible through secondary sources.

So, you will still be able to get it from RACS for right now, and they will be trying to keep stock on hand for as long as possible, but it would be best not to wait for too much longer.

Hopefully this doesn’t happen with any more of Bandai’s last licenses since they are already more or less fading away in the US anime industry. Hopefully they can figure things out and eventually make a come back, but at this time, I doubt they will.

Source: Anime Corner Updates – March 2nd, 2012

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I’m your average 20 year old anime fan who pretty much watches every genre. I have been watching anime for years and have been gaming since I first figured out what a controller was for. I actually used to do a blog on WordPress.com. It’s still up, but I haven’t posted on it in quite some time and figured that it would be better just to move to an actual web host and start all over. This time I hope to do better and post more often than I did on that one, especially since I am in college now instead of high school like I was when I started the old one.

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