The Brilliant Green Latest single, “Like Yesterday“. This is a band that I personally enjoy a lot. I hope you enjoy it too. Be sure to thank Moechan for this as she posted it in the forums.

Tracklist:
01 LIKE YESTERDAY
02 Spring Gate
03 at light speed (“そのスピードで” english ver.)

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Identity is BoA’s seventh Japanese studio album, released on February 10, 2010, nearly two years since The Face. Thanks to Sazabi for this! Be sure to thank him too.

Tracklist:
01. This Is Who I Am
02. EASY
03. BUMP BUMP! feat. VERBAL(m-flo)
04. LAZER
05. interlude#1
06. is this love
07. まもりたい ～White Wishes～
08. interlude#2
09. ネコラブ
10. THE END そして and・・・ (album ver.)
11. Possibility duet with 三浦大知
12. Fallin’
13. my all

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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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Mai Fukui – Can Can/Promise You

Tracklist:
1- Can Can
2- Promise You
3- Can Can (instrumental)
4- Promise You (instrumental)

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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.
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The story start with this guy named Shiki Tohno which looks very weak and have some memory issues. He cant recall his past very well (boy if I had a quarter every time this was included in an anime huh?). The setting is a high school. He just moved to her old home, where his sister lives alone with two maids. So is a boy that lives with three women and also have two other girl friends at school. I know what you are thinking, harem setting huh? But dont worry, tsukihime doesn’t go that way (the anime at least).

Shiki possesses a mysterious power. He can see the death of things, of everything. But he sees it as lines across the beings and objects. If you cut that line the object or person/animal/plant/whatever simply drops, dismembers and die. Everything in this world has death in it since the moment its born. Shiki can see and cut those lines. He carries a pocket knife with weird engraving (well weird in that world). The engraving are the 3 circles that are used for the sharingan or blue seed. He is very skilled in the use of this knife. The reason of why is Shiki so good at handling this knife and killing things is later revealed in the story. He is the descendant of a demon slaying clan. His clan was terminated by who later becomes his adoptive father. I don’t know if his eye power is something from his clan or it was born in the scene where he sees someone (I supposed his mom) dying in a tree and her blood falls in his eye.

Makihisa Tohno  of the prestigious Tohno family slayed Shiki’s clan. When he discovered the boy that was left from the clan was named the same as his son he took him in his wing and adopted him. He thought shiki would help controlling the Tohno blood. The Tohno clan is something else than human. For some reason most people in the clan die young and they have a hard time suppressing their powers. I think they are something like vampires but not exactly that. I didnt got it very clear from the anime. We see a scene where shiki’s sister Akiha bites one of the maids. But I dont know if she was giving blood or sucking it.

Akiha (shiki’s sister) is the head of the Tohno family. She is a very controlling and old fashioned educated woman. She also seems to have some kind of brother complex in the anime. Although somewhat subtle compared to other animes. She gets sick often, because of her bloodline and her power consists in something like turning her hair in red and the need of biting people. Again I’m not clear on whats her power because of the vague info in the anime.

Shiki has a class mate named Ciel. Ciel is in fact a church avenger or something like that. She follows the tsukihime antagonist. She is immortal and have the power to turn paper into weapons. Ciel is a kind character with a touch of sarcastic behavior and talk.

Besides shiki the protagonist of this anime would be Arcueid. She is a blonde beautiful vampire who comes to the city in search of Roa the main antagonist. She also feels like have a debt to pay and hunt dead apostles, which would be the equivalent term for ghoul in other animes and shows. A ghoul/dead apostle is born by being bitten by a vampire/true ancestor. She starts like a dark kind of hostile person but soons become the sweetest vampire ever.

The last character I want to explain a bit is Roa. Roa is some kind of demon that reincarnates over and over again. He transfer from body to body using people’s bodies as host. Because there is no way to kill him until the mystic eyes of Shiki appear. Since it can end life. Ciel and Arcueid both immortal follow Roa killing what ever host he is in and then doing it again and again forever. A being possesed by Roa cant mantain its sanity and normal thoughts. He becomes fully possessed and wicked.

Now to the story itself.
Roa in his latest incarnation posses shiki (the tohno one) and tries to kill Akiha. But the adopted shiki comes in between them and Roa/shiki kills shiki. Then the tohno father punishes Roa/shiki and hide him in jail in his house. Always recluted because he couldnt kill his own son. Akiha uses her power to give life to her adopted brother shiki. How? I have no Idea. Is not well explained. Akiha feels her demonic brother calling her and frees him. Now free the demon Roa kills akiha’s parents and run. Shiki goes to his adoptive aunt/uncle house to live and is raised there. Then after like 8 years and now in high school he comes back to the main Tohno house to live with his sister.

Tohno begins to have a lot of flashbacks and weird dreams and visions. He is anemic and kind of faint and feel weak often. Once sitting in a bench in the park he looks at a blond woman (who later we know is Arcueid) and just pops and kill her. Yeah a “good” guy just suddenly feel like killing a total random stranger and pretty much dismember her in an instant. Why? Beats me. After this Arcueid revives(no idea how and they dont explain, even though she keep saying you KILLED me) and looks for Shiki to request his help. After she revived by being killed by shiki she lost a lot of her power and need his power to deal with dead apostles and Roa. So they team up and start the ghost buster business. Ciel closely watching by.

They go hunting for like 3 times and kill some major boss and you start noticing how Arcueid start changing with Tohno. Tohno being the usual anime male guy is a moron and don’t notice every girl in the series likes him. After a while Tohno gets hurt(not rare if ur hunting demons) and Arcueid feels the urge of biting him and suppress it. But she has to run away from him because the urge is too strong. Ciel warns her that she will kill her if she hurts Tohno. In a hunting night Roa appears and disrupt shiki. Shiki has become the primary target of Roa or maybe it was always since he got into Tohno Shiki. This messes up shiki completely in the head. He begins to recall his past. His sister Akiha becomes worried and unstable too because she doesn’t want him to remember. Because she doesn’t want him to see her as a monster or because they are not blood related or the violent past or I dont know. She gets weak and depressed over it. She shows more of her brother complex.

So after a while Arcueid start getting more and more into shiki. The truth is that I never feel shiki is really into her until after they are together, which is messed up. They feel they have a strong bond and end up having a sexual intercourse. When shiki loves realized that Arcueid left, he meant too much for her and she left to try to defeat Roa alone. Shiki obviously  panicked and ran to her. So to make this long review short, roa kills her, like she was nothing. Yep, he kills her after Shiki kills her… but she revived but now she wont… wtf?

Roa has the same mystic eyes as shiki, apparently after he stabbed him when they were kids. How? No idea. This makes me doubt the eyes part of the demon slaying clan theory. But again, when have you heard another being acquiring your powers because he stabbed you? Weird.

So shiki defeats Roa. He hesitated a bit in the end but Ciel pushed the knife and did it. She told him “Killing a person is a sin, so I did it not you”. She wanted him to stay “pure”. After this Shiki cries Arcueid’s death. Then he heads back to his house and says hello like if nothing happened. He got over a 12 episodes of an anime life experience in 15 seconds and then the series END.

As you can see towards the end the series get a bit… meh. I mean like you expected to resolved this vague information deficit but It doesn’t.

Let me see how can I explain this…

First of all, the bond between Shiki and Arcueid is almost NONE existent. How and why did she changed like that so fast? Like literally one episode shes the normal kind of bitchy vampire and the next episode she is the sweetest thing on earth. The final two episodes are like if they were a together for a lifetime and no. Shiki never really answered her feeling until like the end. And what feelings? What feelings can she possibly have between such a shallow time they spent together? It just doesn’t make any sense.

Also whats up with not explaining things? Why does Roa/shiki have the mystic eyes too? Because he stabbed shiki? That doesn’t make sense. Whats exactly is Akiha’s power? How the hell Arcueid revived after being killed using the mystic eyes? How come she was killed again using the same power but did die completely? How come she revived but Roa died? Why did Shiki suddenly felt like killing a stranger? What, people just go around thinking oh I would kill that blond?

The series have a very interesting story foundation but the anime fails to deliver it properly. Everything feels rushed. There is a lot going on for just 12 episodes. The character development feels vague and the relations of characters between themselves and others are just as shallow as it gets.

The animation is ok, the voice acting and music is fairly good. Nothing extraordinary but not bad either overall respecting the technical aspect of the series.

I would recommend trying to read/play the Visual Novel game instead of going through this. This is the final advice I will give you respecting tsukihime. The anime fails to deliver… in about most of the aspects. Stick to the visual novel. For the little I have read about the visual novel game, it delivers a lot more information and development than the anime.

Not only that, but there is a free English translation patch made by fans.
You can get it here –> http://mirrormoon.org

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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!

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PS. Second season coming in april 2010!

ikimono-gakari – Shichishoku Konnyaku
Before their rise to fame they had some indie album released. This is their second indie-mini album. This is before they hit big and performed themes for animes such as naruto and bleach.

Tracklist:
1. Manatsu no Elegy (真夏のエレジー; Midsummer Elegy)
2. Karakuri (からくり; Mechanism)
3. Amaashi (あまあし; Passing Showers)
4. Akai Kasa (赤いかさ; Red Umbrella)
5. Yume Dai ~Tooku e~ (夢題～遠くへ～; Dream Theme ~In the Distance~)

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This is a personal favorite. Thanks to Moechan for this addition! Be sure to thank her too!
At first the song was good, as most of Yui songs (maybe I’m a bit biased since I love her music). But as I listened to it more it grew a lot on me and now is a personal favorite and I really recommend it.

Is a good upbeat song. Great mood. Great sound. If your into her high mood songs you will definitely love this one too!

Tracklist :
1. GLORIA
2. Muffler
3. It’s all too much ~YUI Acoustic Version~
4. GLORIA ~Instrumental~

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Flow – Sign
Sign is the latest single by the Band Flow. This song is also featured as the 6th opening theme in the anime series Naruto.

Tracklist:
01. Sign
02. Nowhere ～kun ni okuru ore ra nari no ōen ka ～
03. FLOW×NARUTO – Time machine Special Mix -
04. Sign (Remix)
05. Sign (Instrumental)

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