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Sunday, May 19, 2024

THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls (2015)

Fun and cute anime about idols. I never finished the 2011 anime but, this one I did. I got to say the reason for writing this post is not to talk about this anime at length or dump a bunch of screenshots like I usually do with these posts, the main reason is that I really really liked a scene in the third episode in addition to the song used. The main girls are selected as backup dancers for an already established idol, they are quite anxious but, their fears quickly fade as soon as they enter the stage with a dazzling song.

Episode#3 TOKIMEKIエスカレート Performance.

I ushered to look for the song as it became my earworm for a solid week. The song is called TOKIMEKI Escalate or (TOKIMEKIエスカレート ) meaning something like: Exciting Escalate.

TOKIMEKIエスカレート

In addition to that I also found the song that plays at the end of episode 12 to be weirdly soothing and melancholic even, titled: Nation Blue.

Nation Blue

That is all I wanted to share, take care and let that smile shine!

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Last edit on 6/5/2024 - Nation Blue video on YouTube was taken down.

Saturday, May 11, 2024

The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (2023)

Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken

One of the cutest romance animes I've seen to date. With a fully fledged chad MC to boot. Watching this I kept going "IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME ! ! !". I won't discuss further, If you like cute romance just watch this show and scroll no further.

Screenshot dumping shall begin:

Cuteness Rating: 9.5/10.

Overall Rating: 10/10.

Sunday, May 5, 2024

Homestuck (2009)

It all started when I was shown a post on Tumblr about some Minecraft mod called Minestuck, a mod about a fictional game called Sburb from a webcomic called Homestuck. Since my exposure, I fell into this weird once-in-a-lifetime rabbit hole and I'm as confused about it now as when I first started googling it, just WHAT IS IT!?

You could jump into it with no explanations here, if you don't care enough then you could read about it more in-depth on these pages:

From what I could gather, it's a webcomic, where a boy in 2009 is playing a fictional game (that determines the fate of Earth) with his friends and aliens called Trolls. While I know I got details in the previous sentence wrong, it's not really what fascinated me.

I'm more fascinated about how I didn't read or hear about it in the first place! I'm more interested in finding out about deferent cultures and fandoms on the internet as a whole but, this particular one is interesting in a sense that I still don't really know what is it about, I've read the first couple panels but since I'm lazy and pretty much lost interest quickly I skipped ahead. Good lord there are more than 8000 panels in this thing! from pictures to gifs and full blown animations and music! When I say music I mean something like.. a lot of music.

They did get a videogame from a Kickstarter a while back dubbed Hiveswap and it is on Steam.

Personally the whole thing is not for me but, I wanted to document it for my sake, just to remember that something as huge as this can be simply obscured and hidden from everyone else who wasn't there to bear witness to it's inception and followed it's fandom while it was ongoing.

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

T-Zone - Don't Let Me... (1996)

On the old YouTube and got this cute animation in my recommended feed:

Don't let me go by sira0xff

And in a true professional fashion, the song was credited in the video description, thankfully it was uploaded to YouTube also:

T-Zone - Don't Let Me... (Original Edit)

T-Zone - Don't Let Me Go (Factory Team Mix)

An Italodance style song released in 1996. Included in the That's Eurobeat Now Vol. 3 compilation!

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YouTube - Don't let me go by sira0xff (Animation)

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Arte (2020)

Arte is an anime about a girl born into nobility in Florence during the Renaissance era of the 16th century. She doesn't care about anything other than art, to the point that when she was confronted by her mother (who burned her sketches) and told her to stop pursuing art, she decided that she will leave the life of the noble woman and live her life as she sees fit.

This anime showed a number of cities and places in Italy with beautiful architecture, from Florence...

Florence Cathedral

To Venice...

St Mark's Basilica and its bell tower.

And Murano islands in Venice.

I was able to learn about the real-life equivalent to some of the characters depicted in this anime, like:

Lavinia Fontana, named Arte in the anime and is credited to be the first female painter.
Veronica Franco, who has the same name in the anime.
Ubertino of Casale, also has the same name in the anime.

I also learnt that one of the styles that emerged in painting during the Renaissance was called a Mannerist Art. Then was replaced by the Baroque style.

The Anime had a lot of emotional, fun and cute scenes too!

Angelo's sisters are too CUTE!

In the end this was a beautiful anime about the struggles of a woman in a male dominant field, which I enjoyed very much.

Cuteness Rating: 7/10.

Overall Rating: 10/10.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Gekai Elise (2024)

Ending the season on a high note.

Adapted from the manhwa, Gekai Elise is such a cute anime about Elise, a surgeon/doctor living and working hard to save lives to atone for her past misdeeds. Bright character who's very knowledgeable about medicine and has an undying love for strawberry shortcakes! A true role model.

Also enjoyed the Childe princess character and her interactions with Elise.

Rays of sunshine and rainbows envelope me whenever they meet, such a good duo.

I'm refraining to mention anything about the medical stuff, which I enjoyed but, would rather you to venture out of your way and watch it. With that I have to add, the cover art for the manhwa is freaking cute!

One more thing, the opening song goes hard. With 2000-2010 anime opening vibes, it's a banger.

As a bonus, the lyrics might have hit me in the feels a little too hard.

Cuteness Rating: 8.5/10.

Overall Rating: 10/10.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Miama's Theme - flutter of birds ~Toritachi no Habataki~ Perfect Arrange Album (2001)

My recent cool find is this song from a 2001 Visual Novel titled Flutter of Birds: Toritachi no Habataki. I liked the song and the game cover, they're both beautiful and give me a weird sense of melancholy, while remaining cute.

Miama's Theme - flutter of birds ~Toritachi no Habataki~ Perfect Arrange Album (2001)

I found it from this amazing Twitter account: @melonc0la in this post. Truly thankful for them for sharing beautiful art and music. I have since then uploaded it to YouTube, because I couldn't find it on there.

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