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Nanatsuiro Drops To Be Animated Based on the bishoujo hentai videogame title by UNiSONSHIFT BLOSSOM, Nanatsuiro Drops will be adapted to anime TV series form for broadcast sometime in 2007. The game was released in Japan on April 21st, 2006. Noiji Ito, illustrator of the Suzumiya Haruhi and Shakugan no SHANA novels created characters for the game. Confirmed staff include: Original Idea: @Peace, Original Character Concepts: Noiji Ito, Director: Yamamoto Takashi (Final Approach), Series Composition: Shimada Mitsuru (Koi suru Tenshi Angelique), Character Design: Ibe Yukiko (Final Approach), Animation Studio: Studio Barcelona (Dai Mahou Touge), Production: Nanatsuiro Drops Production Committee. Official Website: www.nanatsuiro.com Additionally, a new PS2 game has also been announced based on the series. Titled, Nanatsuiro Drops Pure!!, Noiji Ito will provide art and designs to accompany the entirely new story.”

   A second TV anime season for “Higurashi no Naku Koro ni” (Ryuu Kishi 07), a multimedia project that originated as a doujin sound novel, has been announced. The first season was broadcast from April to September of this year.

* For related items, see Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

-Story Synopsis-

A.D. 2079, A mysterious mechanical cellar cluster begins “Human Being Sweep Operation”. After two years’ war, the human beings are outnumbered by the cluster, and they finally decide to use the ultimate weapon. Sacrificing their continent, they manage to eliminate the enemy. However it causes most of the continents to split, Antarctica disappears and 50% of the world slips under the sea.

Three years later, the enemy cluster that is supposed to have been destroyed is found by the Midway. To identify them, an aircraft carrier, The Koryu, leaves a Japanese port secretly. The Koryu carries three fighters designed by scientists of the Japanese Navy. They are Aviation Exoskeleton Sky Divers, Reijin, Fujin, and Raijin. The pilots of these fighters are three young girls called Sky Girls, Sakurano Otoha, Sonomiya Kren, and Ichijo Eika.

It’s time to fly into the air carrying the future and dreams of the human beings.

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In all honesty, I was not expecting much, but this OVA actually turned out pretty good. I pity that it is only an OVA. For something so wonderfully animated and detailed I was expecting a larger project investment.

Anyways, as they say, pictures are better than words, so here is a short summary in pictures.

I will not lie, the girls look loli, but that is also why this OVA is good. Loli’s + Mechs + Explosions = Win.

That is one cool MP3 player, but then again, we aren’t looking at the MP3 player now are we?

Yeaaah..low cut bikini’s ftw? I am not complaining.

So, apparently, the girls need to wear this suit that looks pretty retarded and is quite revealing. In all practical sense, the suit probably serves no purpose in being so revealing.  The girls will be flying up in the air, won’t they be freaking cold flying around in clothes like that?  Oh wait, then again this anime is under the ecchi genre, nothing has to make sense.

This OVA had it’s fair share of panty shots.

Before the girls can get plugged/loaded into the mechs they gotta be covered in nanoskins (or something close to that).  It supposedly protects them from harm while fighting.  With so much awesome technology at their disposal, you would think they’d research a better way to protect the pilot?

And yet again, like ALL anime with mechs, all mechs have a time limit.  Apparently the nanoskins disintegrate after 18~20 minutes of use.  I mean come on, wtf?  You got a mech with huge amounts of missiles and extensive firepower, why not remove a laser cannon or two and add some shields?

Yeah, if only I could give her a hand.

The big monster bad guy, that plans to destroy all of mankind.  Shooting projectiles, Macross style.

Apparently Otoha (the girl in the picture) is some uber pro at the sword.  Yeah, she’s kicking some ass.

Horray!~  They kill the big bad monster thing!

So the episode ends, and they are once again in their low cut bikini’s.  What starts well, ends well.

Ending credit snapshots.

A short but very enjoyable OVA.  Lots of ecchi, explosions, mechs, and girls.  What more could you ask for?

This is touching and very powerful short clip by Dony Permedi.
I cried a little >_<

“Kiwi!” is an animation about a Kiwi – a type of bird that cannot fly, who spends its whole life working towards achieving his dream. The kiwi strived to create the illusion that it was flying over a forest as it soared down through the sky from the top of a cliff. Thus, the kiwi spent what must have been its whole life nailing trees to the side of a cliff. All this, to fulfil its one dream of flying, even though it was technically unable to. There are several powerful messages behind Kiwi, but mainly, it makes you think: no matter how absurd and seemingly out of reach your dreams are, what’s stopping you from achieving them? Kiwi’s had a huge online success, with currently over 1.75 million views and 9000 comments on the online video site ‘YouTube’ in approximately just 3 days. The animation has been recently featured on YouTube and currently ranks in at the #1 favorited video in the arts and animation category of all time. As I’m sure you’ll agree, “Kiwi!” is an inspiration to us all.

His website is at http://www.donysanimation.com/
*sigh* Makes me wonder why I didn’t change my major to digital arts. Maybe it is not too late.

I’ve always been addicted to scrolling shooters, but never found the heart to get my own arcade machine (which costs a bundle), or spend $10 on a single machine just to beat it once. That is not satisfying. 東方 however, is satisfying.

What is 東方?

- The Touhou Project (東方 Project, sometimes Toho or Touhou) is a series of curtain fire scrolling shooters made by Team Shanghai Alice. They are notable for being successful Doujin Soft because of their intricate bullet patterns, their greater focus on characters than most shooter games, and being a one-man project.

The Games:

* TH01　東方靈異伝　～ Highly Responsive to Prayers
* TH02　東方封�*�録　～ Story of Eastern Wonderland
* TH03　東方夢時空　～ Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
* TH04　東方幻想郷　～ Lotus Land Story
* TH05　東方怪綺談　～ Mystic Square
* TH06　東方紅�*�郷　～ Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
* TH07　東方妖々夢　～ Perfect Cherry Blossom
* TH07.5　東方萃夢想　～ Immaterial and Missing Power
* TH08　東方永夜抄　～ Imperishable Night
* TH09　東方花�*塚　～ Phantasmagoria of Flower View
* TH09.5　東方文花帖　～ Shoot the Bullet
* 萌える弾幕STG もえ�*ん Moedan
* Super Marisa Land
* MegaMari
* Touhou Soccer
* MASTER BURNER
* 東方烈華伝 ~ Rift In A Friendship Game
* OHBA�*� 東方幻想連鎖 ~ファンタズマゴリア~
* HiGaST

Taken from HF-東方

Anyways, these games are great to play when you wanna past time. Now if only I could find a active torrent with the OST.

Of all the 東方 games,”th09.5 – Shoot the Bullet” has got to be the most creative scrolling shooter.

You don’t blow anything up, you don’t have massive bombs to use.

I guess this is more of a training game where it teaches you how to dodge.

Bullets in this game do not travel straight. Most of them do not

The point of this game is to dodge, avoid getting killed, and to take pictures.

A successful picture, with you and the enemy included, will wipe out any bullets in the area and your snapshot will be saved to the side. Get a total of 3 or 5 pictures, and you beat the stage. Each time you make a successful picture, the bullet patterns get more crazy, making it harder to dodge.

“th09 – Phantasmagoria of Flower View” Probably my 2nd favorite, but not as challenging as Shoot the Bullet.

Think of Puzzle Fighter or Tetrinet or PuyoPuyo, but instead of putting blocks down you are blowing things up.

Getting your charge bar up is extremely important, as it will allow you to do spell attacks that really screw up the enemy.

yeeeaaahhh….I win~!

Oh well that’s about it.

Thanks Shamen~