The upcoming anime season is a few days ahead.

Here is the summer 2010 anime list (very preliminar).

Since this is a very early version, it will change along, so probably more animes will be added.

Theatre Brook – Uragiri no Yuuyake
(Durarara!! Opening Theme)
Release Date 2010/02/24

Tracklist:
01 – Uragiri no Yuuyake
02 – Mirai wo Ima
03 – Uragiri no Yuuyake -TV Size Opening Ver.-
04 – Uragiri no Yuuyake -TV Size Long Ver.-
05 – Uragiri no Yuuyake -Karaoke Mix-

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Nipponmedia.net is proud to present its 2009 anime awards.
Many of the forum members have always thought it would be nice to do some kind of award or questionnaire for our favorite shows.
Finally V4sh took the initiative to compile together a series of questions to make our first NM awards.
This are the results of our own nipponmedia.net community questions and answers. Many nominees, but a few only selected as winners.
Remember you may not agree with some of this results, but this are just the winners by getting the most votes from our members.
Now I leave you with our anime awards.

-Best show of the year
Eden of the East

-Worst show of the year
K-On!

-Most surprising show of the year
Saki

-Most disappointing show of the year
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Season 2

-Best OP of the year
Fripside – Only my Railgun (To aru kagaku no Railgun OP1)
Yui – Again (FMA OP1)

-Best ED of the year
School Food Punishment – Futuristic Imagination (Eden of the East)

-Best OST of the year
Darker than Black Ryuusei no Gemini

-Best single moment
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Mustang vs Lust Battle

-The Kamina award for outstanding achievement in the field of EPIC
Saki

-Best comedy
Nyan Koi!

-Best action
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

-Best romance
Kimi ni Todoke

-Best mecha
Rideback

-Best sports anime
Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger

-Best scifi
Needless

-Best fantasy
Spice & Wolf II

-Best long running anime
One Piece (This turned out to be the most one sided category of the entire awards. One Piece simply dominated it)

-Award for generic high school anime
Sora no manimani

-”Special” achievement award
Eden of the East

-Most convoluted theme of the year
Canaan

-Best animation
Eden of the East

-Most under-rated anime
Eden of the East

-Most over-rated anime
K-On!

-Best male character
Hei (Darker than Black Ryuusei no Gemini)

-Best female character
Horo

-The “…because thats how physics works…” award
Needless

-Most irritating character
Osugi Satoshi (Eden of the East)

-Best voice actor
Keiji Fujiwara

-Best voice actress
Haruka Tomatsu

-OVA of the year
Hellsing

-Feature length anime of the year
Neon Genesis Evengelion

-Jake’s award for most ecchi anime
Needless

-MOE MOE KYUN! award
K-On!

-Most awesome character not on the main cast
Taxi Driver (Canaan)

-Strike Witches award for most tactical deployment of pantsu
Needless

Clearly the big winner of 2009 is Eden Of The East.

These are the results. Personally I want to thank the NM community, The mods, V4sh and everyone who made this possible and make the website possible.
If you want to be part of an amazing community, friendly, full of free downloads and Japan media fans like you.
Join us today @ nipponmedia.net

[03.02.2010] SCANDAL – Shunkan Sentimental – Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood ED4 Single
Thanks V4sh for this! Be sure to thank him too! This single roooocks!

Tracklist:
01. Shunkan Sentimental
02. Hoshi no Furu Yoru ni
03. Yumemiru Koro wo Sugite mo
04. Shunkan Sentimental (Instrumental)

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*NOTICE* If you get an error by clicking download it just means you need more posts in the forum in order to access that area.

Tsukihime (月姫, lit. Lunar Princess) is a japanese visual novel. One with an extreme large fan base. It was created by Type-Moon. Its an erogame, meaning it has sexual content in it. Is a romantic/mystery/thriller kind of visual novel. The truth is that I’ve just played around 2 hours of the visual novel.

This review is for the Tsukihime ANIME.
This is a long article so Click More to see the full review.

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Finished ookiku furikabutte

pretty much watched it in two days lol

25 eps and a special.

I really liked it. Its about baseball.

Although other anime like cross game (which I like a lot too) are about baseball. Cross game is more like slice of life oriented.

I feel furikabutte is more baseball oriented.

They cover a full game. In like 10 episodes.

So if you are into baseball you will definitely like this one. You will see a lot of famous plays (like double plays or squeeze plays) and a lot of technical baseball terms. Again, even though the anime is very enjoyable, if you know a bit of baseball of have seen a few games in your life you will enjoyed even more.

I’m not a baseball fan myself but I have seen many, many games. I’m not a fan but I don’t dislike it. And I found the anime very interesting. From a sport perspective and from outside baseball centric subjects too.

Now to the other stuff in the anime.

I have a like/hate relationship with the main character ren mihashi. He is kind of a really annoying character, but at the same time fun and kind of “cute”.

Hes the very innocent kind. He’s in high school and pretty much didn’t had any friends since he was in elementary. So you can tell he have social issues.

But after a while you meet his mom and shes kind of weird too… so I don’t know whats the reason of his weirdness anymore. The anime is about who’s mihashi. He’s the pitcher, but who is he? His part, his experiences before. A kid that loves baseball so much, but because he had a horrible experience in junior high he is in a deep mental depression and feels he is the worst and will just hurt everyone (which is a typical character in anime if u ask me, the insecure type).

But still, he loves to pitch and he wouldn’t give the mount to anyone else. Whats is catchy about this pitcher and anime is that after you see his character you would expect he’s some kind of pitching machine with 160km/ph fastballs. But no! Here’s the trick! He pitches incredibly slow! But he has a pro control of the ball and divides the strike zone in 9 pieces. Meaning he can pitch to 9 different places and it will still be strike! Besides that his amazing control of the ball.

The anime is centered in mihashi, but with a lot of other players in the spotlight too.

After testing mihashi the catcher Abe Takaya he immediately notice mihashi is not normal. Instantly he diecides to use Mihashi to win games. The TakayaXMihashi relation is very important in ookiku furikabutte. Abe is a very serious kid with a very logical way of thinking. He thinks everything in dept and the reacts. At first he thinks Mihashi will serve him to get to koshien or bigger goals. But as time passes he realizes what a catcher is about. And that’s taking care and developing the pitcher. After he realizes the hardships that mihashi has gone through and get to know him a bit better his motive changes completely. What he wants is to show a world of win and laughs to mihashi. He wants him to win and he wants everyone to recognize mihashi as he and his team have.

The last character I will talk you about is Hajima. He is the 4^th batter of the team. You may think 4^th batters have to be big guys who give home runs but again, this anime got another catch. Hajima is a small kid incapable of delivering a home run. But he got an incredible sight and flawless batting style. He can bat almost any kind of pitch. He is the most fun character for me. He is the kind of dumb/cool/relaxed character. He just want to face strong opponents and think about getting to koshien and doing good. But at the same time eh is a great friend and a extremely happy person. He’s really dumb too! Lol. He just have air in his head, but he just say everything with 100% confidence even though hes just being silly. That and more makes him my favorite character.

Overall, this is a great anime. The animation is very good. Is not Bones but is quite good. I never felt like it was some kind of frame this and frame that series. Everything was very fluid. The drawings are good. The music is good.  The second OP theme is very good in my opinion. All the others are good too, but that one was just very nice. The series is full of comedy, friendship, hard work ethics and of course baseball.

I recommend this series. Give it a try!

http://myanimelist.net/anime/2159/Ookiku_Furikabutte

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Windup!

PS. Second season coming in april 2010!