This accidentally fell out of her pocket when I bumped into her. Took me four goes.
Sunday, October 05
Credits Where Credits' Due
I've chucked some anime opening and closing sequences up on Youtube. I plan to put my whole collection up there. And to enlarge my collection significantly, now that I can get stuff out of mkv and mp4 files.*
* It works, though not as cleanly as for avi files. With an avi, I can snip out the video without any recompression, as long as I start with a keyframe. With an mkv, I have to uncompress and recompress, which always loses quality. But since I'm uploading to YouTube which is going to re-encode and screw the quality anyway, that doesn't matter all that much.
I've chucked some anime opening and closing sequences up on Youtube. I plan to put my whole collection up there. And to enlarge my collection significantly, now that I can get stuff out of mkv and mp4 files.*
* It works, though not as cleanly as for avi files. With an avi, I can snip out the video without any recompression, as long as I start with a keyframe. With an mkv, I have to uncompress and recompress, which always loses quality. But since I'm uploading to YouTube which is going to re-encode and screw the quality anyway, that doesn't matter all that much.
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Friday, October 03
Ryoko's Case File
ffzzzzzzip!
Taptap. IS THIS THI -
Oops
Is this thing on? Good.
Kind of died last month. After running around like mad all of August (pointlessly, as it turned out) I was trying to catch up with stuff at home and in life and mu.nu and mee.nu and another project I'm juggling while at the same time the project at my day job was launching and things got a bit crazy and then I got sick and stayed in bed for a week watching Mythbusters.
Which is awesome.
Mythbusters, that is, not staying in bed sick.
But today I'm here to talk about a startling new phenomenon: Sexy adult women in anime.*
Specifically, Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo (warning - site plays background music) or Ryoko's Case File.
I like the music (opening, closing, and incidental); I like the character designs; I like the characters. And I can't actually recall a police officer questioning a suspect quite that way in anime before.
The only problem is that the show feels a bit loose - the pacing doesn't feel quite right either in the slow moments or the dramatic scenes. That might just be me, and I might well adjust after a couple more episodes. It's only a 13-parter (12 of which are already fansubbed) so it's not likely to drag, in any case.
I'll grab (or steal) some screen shots for you later. Or hey, I can just throw up a quick YouTube clip.
...
.........
If I want it to be distorted and subtitled in Spanish.
And the fansubs are all mkv, and the raws all mp4, so I can't even snip it out using VirtualDub. Bah.
Update: Oh, hang on, apparently there's an mp4 plug-in for VirtualDub. Nothing for mkv, though, so I'll need to grab a raw first.
Update updated: It seems there's a DirectShow plugin that will handle mkv (at least in theory). I'll give that a whirl.
Update: I'll be frogswoggled. That worked perfectly. Hang on a tick...
* Sexy adult women in anime whose breasts aren't larger than their heads, even.
ffzzzzzzip!
Taptap. IS THIS THI -
Oops
Is this thing on? Good.
Kind of died last month. After running around like mad all of August (pointlessly, as it turned out) I was trying to catch up with stuff at home and in life and mu.nu and mee.nu and another project I'm juggling while at the same time the project at my day job was launching and things got a bit crazy and then I got sick and stayed in bed for a week watching Mythbusters.
Which is awesome.
Mythbusters, that is, not staying in bed sick.
But today I'm here to talk about a startling new phenomenon: Sexy adult women in anime.*
Specifically, Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo (warning - site plays background music) or Ryoko's Case File.
I like the music (opening, closing, and incidental); I like the character designs; I like the characters. And I can't actually recall a police officer questioning a suspect quite that way in anime before.
The only problem is that the show feels a bit loose - the pacing doesn't feel quite right either in the slow moments or the dramatic scenes. That might just be me, and I might well adjust after a couple more episodes. It's only a 13-parter (12 of which are already fansubbed) so it's not likely to drag, in any case.
I'll grab (or steal) some screen shots for you later. Or hey, I can just throw up a quick YouTube clip.
...
.........
If I want it to be distorted and subtitled in Spanish.
And the fansubs are all mkv, and the raws all mp4, so I can't even snip it out using VirtualDub. Bah.
Update: Oh, hang on, apparently there's an mp4 plug-in for VirtualDub. Nothing for mkv, though, so I'll need to grab a raw first.
Update updated: It seems there's a DirectShow plugin that will handle mkv (at least in theory). I'll give that a whirl.
Update: I'll be frogswoggled. That worked perfectly. Hang on a tick...
* Sexy adult women in anime whose breasts aren't larger than their heads, even.
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Saturday, August 30
Bipple Bipple Bop...
I've had this song stuck in my head for the last few days, but couldn't work out what it was. Some sort of j-pop, and most likely an anime theme song, but which one (of thousands)?
This one:
Let me tell you, that's an annoying thing to have stuck in your head.
...
You're welcome!
Update: From the days when ADV knew how to make ads:
When my local anime store got my orders in each month, the thing I would be waiting for most eagerly was the new ADV tapes, because they'd have new trailers on them. And the trailers were as you see here, simply the theme song played against a selection of clips from the show.
I bought dozens of ADV titles on this basis.
I've had this song stuck in my head for the last few days, but couldn't work out what it was. Some sort of j-pop, and most likely an anime theme song, but which one (of thousands)?
This one:
Let me tell you, that's an annoying thing to have stuck in your head.
...
You're welcome!
Update: From the days when ADV knew how to make ads:
When my local anime store got my orders in each month, the thing I would be waiting for most eagerly was the new ADV tapes, because they'd have new trailers on them. And the trailers were as you see here, simply the theme song played against a selection of clips from the show.
I bought dozens of ADV titles on this basis.
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Tuesday, June 10
Back Off Man, I'm A Scientist
Read the post below first. Well, I say read, but what I really mean is absorb by osmosis, like a sponge. The ones that live in the ocean, not the cheap supermarket ones.
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All done?
Right.
more...
Read the post below first. Well, I say read, but what I really mean is absorb by osmosis, like a sponge. The ones that live in the ocean, not the cheap supermarket ones.
...
All done?
Right.
more...
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Ievan Dansen
Via Steven and a quick Google, a post entirely stolen from Accidental Anime.
I only discovered Vocaloid myself today. Pure coincidence. The advances in music composition software since I put together my stuff back in '02 have been amazing.
And the mandatory Don't Mix The Memes item from the title:
Yup, that's a computer singing a Finnish folk song in a Japanese accent.
more...
Via Steven and a quick Google, a post entirely stolen from Accidental Anime.
I only discovered Vocaloid myself today. Pure coincidence. The advances in music composition software since I put together my stuff back in '02 have been amazing.
And the mandatory Don't Mix The Memes item from the title:
Yup, that's a computer singing a Finnish folk song in a Japanese accent.
more...
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). Tuesday, June 03
Special Forces Librarians
Toshokan Sensou (Library War) is stupid, but watchable. I haven't been captured by any of the shows of the current season, though Alison to Lillia is definitely one I'll be coming back to when I'm in the right mood.
On the other hand, the current story in Doctor Who, Silence in the Library, cements Steven Moffat (The Empty Child, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink) as one of the best writers for the series, old or new. He won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006 for The Empty Child and again in 2007 for The Girl in the Fireplace, and Blink has been nominated for the 2008 award. And I'll be surprised if Silence in the Library isn't nominated next year.
So it's particularly pleasing to hear that he's been named as the new lead writer and executive producer for Doctor Who's fifth season. Not so pleasing that we have to wait 'til 2010* for that - next year we just get a handful of specials - but it's something to look forward to amidst the dreck.
Um.
Anyway. I have a fix and a cleanup routine for the munu migration, but I don't want to run it now while I'm tired, so I'm leaving that for tomorrow.... Later today. Then tomorrow, they come back to tear up my bathroom again. Bleh to that.
* 2010?! That's like, the future!
Toshokan Sensou (Library War) is stupid, but watchable. I haven't been captured by any of the shows of the current season, though Alison to Lillia is definitely one I'll be coming back to when I'm in the right mood.
On the other hand, the current story in Doctor Who, Silence in the Library, cements Steven Moffat (The Empty Child, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink) as one of the best writers for the series, old or new. He won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006 for The Empty Child and again in 2007 for The Girl in the Fireplace, and Blink has been nominated for the 2008 award. And I'll be surprised if Silence in the Library isn't nominated next year.
So it's particularly pleasing to hear that he's been named as the new lead writer and executive producer for Doctor Who's fifth season. Not so pleasing that we have to wait 'til 2010* for that - next year we just get a handful of specials - but it's something to look forward to amidst the dreck.
Um.
Anyway. I have a fix and a cleanup routine for the munu migration, but I don't want to run it now while I'm tired, so I'm leaving that for tomorrow.... Later today. Then tomorrow, they come back to tear up my bathroom again. Bleh to that.
* 2010?! That's like, the future!
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Saturday, April 12
Twisted Genius
Is still genius.
Is still genius.
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Tuesday, April 08
Chi's Sweet Home
Ebichu for three-year-olds.
Update: Linky.
Ebichu for three-year-olds.
Update: Linky.
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Monday, April 07
Spring Is Sprung
Currently downloading episode 1 of ToLOVERU, Kure-nai, Itazura na Kiss, Bus Gamer, and Kanokon. (NSFW once you click on a link, or even if you just leave the page open for a while.)
Eagerly awaiting Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, which begins its run on next Saturday.
Currently downloading episode 1 of ToLOVERU, Kure-nai, Itazura na Kiss, Bus Gamer, and Kanokon. (NSFW once you click on a link, or even if you just leave the page open for a while.)
Eagerly awaiting Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, which begins its run on next Saturday.
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Saturday, March 29
Return to Shigofumi
A Spoiler-free Review
I couldn't sleep the other night - upset stomach, spondylising ankylosis, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, or some such - so I watched some more of Shigofumi, having set it aside after it turned out to get rather darker than I'd expected at the end of the very first episode.
And as it happens, after it gets dark, it gets weird. It's not relentlessly dark, nor is it relentlessly weird, but when it's not one or the other it's usually both. Also, sometimes, stupid; episode 8 nearly went off the rails in that way.
And then I reached episode 11, where a certain someone does a certain something to a certain someone (those who have seen it will know what I mean), and I didn't have episode 12, which you would expect to reveal the outcome of the event of episode 11. And then, last night, it showed up on the other anime torrrent site, and I downloaded it, and just now, I watched it.
Well.
Couple of points:
First, I'd expected Shigofumi to be episodic, but to weave together a cohesive story from the largely unconnected episodes, like Popotan or Azumanga Daioh. And it is, and it isn't, and it does, and it doesn't. Which makes it hard to discuss, really.
Second, as happens from time to time in this business, the ending would have been much stronger if they had left it out entirely. Watch episode 11, let it sit for a week or two, and then watch episode 12. See?
Shigofumi: Well. Um. Yeah. Solid production values. Good costume design. Also, cats.
A Spoiler-free Review
I couldn't sleep the other night - upset stomach, spondylising ankylosis, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, or some such - so I watched some more of Shigofumi, having set it aside after it turned out to get rather darker than I'd expected at the end of the very first episode.
And as it happens, after it gets dark, it gets weird. It's not relentlessly dark, nor is it relentlessly weird, but when it's not one or the other it's usually both. Also, sometimes, stupid; episode 8 nearly went off the rails in that way.
And then I reached episode 11, where a certain someone does a certain something to a certain someone (those who have seen it will know what I mean), and I didn't have episode 12, which you would expect to reveal the outcome of the event of episode 11. And then, last night, it showed up on the other anime torrrent site, and I downloaded it, and just now, I watched it.
Well.
Couple of points:
First, I'd expected Shigofumi to be episodic, but to weave together a cohesive story from the largely unconnected episodes, like Popotan or Azumanga Daioh. And it is, and it isn't, and it does, and it doesn't. Which makes it hard to discuss, really.
Second, as happens from time to time in this business, the ending would have been much stronger if they had left it out entirely. Watch episode 11, let it sit for a week or two, and then watch episode 12. See?
Shigofumi: Well. Um. Yeah. Solid production values. Good costume design. Also, cats.
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