Showing posts with label moe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moe. Show all posts

Friday, September 24, 2010

Seitokais are hot and cool

The anime titled Seitokai Yakuindomo



Best Student Council (Gokujo Seitokai)




Seitokai no Ichizon



As most otakus watched, the term "Seitokai" or "Student Council" is probably the most interesting topic because not only a "seitokai" or a "student council" has the most interesting stuff, but also something hot, something bold, something humorous, and something...something. Something I would rather bite my lips out of their student council's reactions.

In some animes, a character who is a "seitokaichou" or "student council president" is sometimes a bigger rave among otakus everywhere. Like for instance,

Misaki Ayuzawa from Maid-sama



or even my favorite, Hinagiku Katsura from Hayate the Combat Butler



See what I mean?! I guess seitokais are hot and cool in a different kind of perspective. (Laugh) Who knows if some absent-minded male gets a shot at a nearby all-female student council, the result might be typical for otakus like us. (Laugh) You just got lucky to meet with those super-hot seitokais.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Right megane-shoujo, wrong megane-shoujo

A certain question comes up in my mind saying that hey, am I getting used to some megane-shoujo (glasses girl) I frequently, or rarely, saw on animes?

My answer comes up on my mind saying, what about it? Well, maybe...

The only megane-shoujos come up in my mind are those I saw on various anime shows. For instance,

Haruna Saotome from Mahou-Sensei Negima (consider it right)


Subaru from Maid-sama (eh?)

Mii Konori from To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (Hmmm...)


Saki Kijima from Hayate the Combat Butler (Tee-hee, her cute side always gets us)


Aoi Nogami from Zettai Karen Children (ooooh)


and wait there were others, but I guess its too plenty to explain it.

Well, anyway, they're cute, funny, cool, weird, and everything. Well, why didn't I think about these types of anime girls dealing with?

My favorites were Saki Kijima and Aoi Nogami. Tee-hee, what do you think? They're really look like themselves, but they're different. Saki was Wataru Tachibana's maid while Aoi Nogami was the teleporter of the crime-fighting trio, The Children.

Sometimes, these moe-worthy girls hiding their deepest secrets...

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Busou Shinki or Loveplus?

Cuteness is in the eye of a Japanese otaku. In the hands of the troops from Konami, the words "Buso Shinki" and "Loveplus" seems to be differ depending on which Konami fan decide on those two. Could an otaku choose a "take-everywhere virtual girlfriend" or figures with movable parts most Konami fans love especially the PSP game where they show who's Busou Shinki is the boss?

CASE ONE:
Konami's not all things Metal Gear, DDR, Silent Hill, and Castlevania. These troops also specialize in all things "moe" and cute, especially animes with their own Konami-branded games, goods, and others.

About Busou Shinki, these were the figures that were cute and customizable. It uses MMS (Multi Movable System) to move the figure's parts freely as the customer wishes to do with it. It debuted since fall 2006 with the introduction of the very first two Busou Shinki figures, Arnval and Strarf, following with different Busou Shinki variants in the following years.

The Busou Shinki shock in Japan is not just the success of these figures, but also online (http://www.shinki-net.konami.jp/) and now on the PSP video game Busou Shinki Battle Masters. From the net to the PSP game, most Busou Shinki enthusiasts in Japan can customize their Busou Shinki the way they want, and pit them to battles. Reputation is the key in the eyes of the Busou Shinki owner and his/her Busou Shinki, and the only way to gain reputation is to win battles. If they win battles, the Busou Shinki will gain experience based on their performance. A key reminder is its respect, if his/her Busou Shinki wins more, it will respect more on the owner. Talk about a part-dating sim, part fighting-game....


CASE 2:
Since its debut from fall 2009, Loveplus is a real-time dating sim game that pits lonely male Japanese players to choose either Manaka Takane, Rinko Kobayakawa, or Nene Anegasaki. What the player do to the selected virtual girlfriend is spend time together any way a player wants.

Since the Loveplus shock that made this game successful in Japan, the R&D of Konami decided to give Loveplus some minor changes and the Loveplus's facelift, called Loveplus Plus, debuted just in time for the long Japanese summer vacation.

Fast fact: Some Japanese guy tied a knot with the choses Loveplus gal, Nene. Read the scoop: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10404956-71.html

My Comment: Seems the Konami name is not just a "Militaires Sans Frontieres", the R&D of Konami also specializes in all things "moe" and cute, especially the wide success of either the Busou Shinki figures and the Loveplus game. Hope I can find one of those in selected Comic Alley stores...

Monday, January 4, 2010

What is the true meaning of the word "fan service" to you?

Hey readers, you know who this is. As I recalled most of the otakus from all over the world saying the two words spiced it up for something which I can't remember what this is, I don't really know what's the real meaning to the word some of the anime otakus called it "fan service" .
SO WHAT DOES FAN SERVICE MEAN TO YOU ANYWAY?
In people words, the word "fan" is used on people who take affection on everything popular, while the word "service" clearly states, well, um, help. I mean, what you help. Help. That's what service is. Service is what you help or serve to other people.
So what just meant on every kind of anime show that has the "fan service" treatment for otakus? Come on! Am I not the only otaku who know this kind of genre? Does a fan service anime creeps me out?

Uh-huh, an anime with a fan service genre really creeps me out. Oh, the naked stuff, and the "what's under her" stuff? I can't see it, it totally creeps me out to leaving one room to another, thinking it is way too sexy? Fantasizing a female anime character for something for your senses?

Aw, Eww, Ewww! I can't watch those kind of fan services? I mean, this is how fan services in anime shows treated fans like something gross?

No, this isn't fan service, it's uh.....uh.....
(PANTING)

(HYPERVENTILATING)

(STILL HYPERVENTILATING)

(STILL, STILL HYPERVENTILATING)

(STILL, STILL, STILL HYPERVENTILATING)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I CAN'T WATCH!

Just kidding!

Look. From my point of view, unexpected blowing of a female characters' skirts (especially that blonde-haired Akari Kirishima, from the new anime series, Nyan Koi!), gentle teasing, some moments from Fight Ippatsu Juden-chan, Kanokon, and others, wasn't simply more than just fan service, it's like you're relieving an (I'll put something irrelevant for my clarification) episode from Family Guy where Peter, Chris, Stewie and Brian drank the whole ipecac syrup, and vomit altogether! Imagine I was about to vomit and break hives when I saw such nudity as part of the fan service genre.

As always, not all fanservices seem bad. Well, it depends on your pleasure for female anime characters, but not much. It would be a mess.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Tsundere girls! And how I like these...

Tsundere...just what exactly is this? Well, as an all-round otaku (probably), maybe I do know about the true essence of the word tsundere that sometimes I like them, sometimes I don't. Think you can get away from these tsunderes? No freaking way! They're on to your fantasies or just for fun.
Here's a definition of the word "tsundere". In some case, a tsundere is a type of an anime character which fans consider them as a "tough and gentle" character. If I'm right, a tsundere girl can be somewhat a "tough and gentle" person without you knowing it. At first appearance you may not like her for being tough and rude to the main character but after consecutive likings, you may like it for being...whatever you may describe it.
To top things up for grabs here are some of the notable tsunderes I may wanna look about:<

Taiga Aisaka from Toradora

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Haruhi Suzumiya from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

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Asuna Kagurazaka from Mahou Sensei Negima

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Kagami Hiiragi from Lucky Star

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Shana from Shakugan no Shana.



Nagi Sanzenin from Hayate the Combat Butler

and many more tsunderes to mention at this journal....

Although it might seem to be wild at first but they are really formally friendly at later purposes, tsunderes are one big-shot thing that attracts first-timers and fans alike. I, for one theory, to study one tsundere character is to know more about them for fandom. For otakus reading this post, you might consider them in your hate list but sometimes move it to your love list.

TSUNDERE: LOVE OR HATE?

(Only Akiba egoists know to answer this question about the facts of tsundere-ism).