Graduation M

Posted On November 2, 2007

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For Nakamoto, Arai, Shimura, Katoh and Takagi, graduation from the Seiryu Academy for boys can’t arrive soon enough! With preparations being made for the end of the year festivities, the gang is presented with an opportunity they can’t refuse from President Kusanagi himself — to perform in a special play for all the students! The only catch? The title of the play to be performed by these three manly men is… Little Women?!

So much bishunen! I was expecting for some yaoi stuff and love-dovey but there was none!!! Waahhhh!









Golden Boy OAV

Posted On October 31, 2007

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Golden Boy (ゴールデンボーイ, Gōruden Bōi?) is a manga series by Tatsuya Egawa about a 25-year-old freeter, pervert, and “travelling student” named Kintaro Oe (大江錦太郎 Ōe Kintarō). The manga was originally serialized in Shueisha’s Super Jump starting in 1992, with the first collected volume released the following year. Parts of the manga were adapted into a six episode OVA series produced by Shueisha and KSS in 1995, which was subsequently released through ADV Films in North America. ADV’s license of the series expired in 2006, however, and in July 2007, Media Blasters acquired the license to it, though it’s not-yet confirmed if the dub will be kept or not.

Kintaro, despite having met the requirements for a degree, left Tokyo University without graduating. Golden Boy depicts his living the life of a free spirit, roaming Japan from town to town, job to job. During his travels, Kintaro meets several women whose lives he dramatically changes, despite poor first impressions. He constantly observes and studies the people and events around him, recording his findings in a notebook he carries on his belt.

The Golden Boy OVA has been positively received by English-language reviewers, but it is widely known for its mature content: while the OVA is not strictly a hentai animation, it does feature instances of partial female nudity, orgasms, and female masturbation. In contrast, the manga becomes almost pornographic starting in the second volume
OVA
Adapted by Shueisha and KSS into an animated OVA, Golden Boy was first released in Japan on VHS and later on laserdisc. Kintaro is voiced by Mitsuo Iwata (and Doug Smith in English). The closing theme is “Study A Go! Go!” by Golden Girls. ADV, its North American distributor, first released the series on six video tapes (English-subtitled and -dubbed versions were sold separately), but its was later released on two DVDs, later being reissued as part of ADV’s Essential Anime line. The six episodes (which adapt the first volume of the manga) are as follows:[4]


Kintaro acting out his fetish in “Computer Studies.”"Computer Studies” 
Kintaro obtains a janitorial job at an all-woman software firm led by the Ferrari-driving, skimpily-clad Madame President (voiced by Hiromi Tsuru and Tiffany Grant). An electrical accident jeopardizes the firm’s future, allowing Kintaro to put his newly acquired programming skills to the test.
“Temptation of the Maiden” 
Working as a campaign staffer for a mayoral candidate, Kintaro is assigned to tutor his boss’ attractive teenaged daughter, Naoko Katsuda (voiced by Yuko Minaguchi and Allison Keith), who wants more from him than help with her math homework.
“Danger! The Virgin’s First Love” 
A car accident has left the owner of a soba restaurant temporarily handicapped, and Kintaro is helping out and learning the trade. The owner’s daughter, Noriko (voiced by Yuri Shiratori and Kim Sevier) has a well-heeled boyfriend, but a series of events leads Kintaro to doubt his sincerity.
“Swimming in the Sea of Love” 
Kintaro has challenged the local swimming coach (and former Olympic athlete) to a race, but he first needs to learn how to swim. While training, however, his situation with the coach, Ayuko Haramizu (voiced by Kikuko Inoue and Sue Ulu) is compromised.




“Balls to the Wall” 
Kintaro becomes a servant in a traditional-style mansion of a wealthy family, but is quickly dismissed. He then challenges the daughter Reiko Tarayama (voiced by Sakiko Tamagawa and Laura Chapman), who has a fetish for her motorcycle, to a race.


“Animation is Fun!” 
Chie (voiced by Mika Kanai and Yvonne Aguirre) is a cel-painter at the animation studio where Kintaro works as an errand-boy. Production difficulties ensue, and Kintaro must rely on old friends to pull things through. An animated rendition of Tatsuya Egawa, voiced by the author himself, makes a cameo appearance in this episode.

Sakura Taisen: Ouka Kenran

Posted On April 30, 2006

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Sakura Wars, also known as Sakura Taisen, is a popular series of video games, manga, and anime created by Sega. The title is literally translated as "Cherry Blossom Great War", but it can also be translated more loosely as "The Great War Among the Cherry Blossoms", sakura being the Japanese word for "cherry blossom".

The first OAV mainly tackles the background of each main character and how the team was recruited and formed. It was set in the Taisho Era just after the first demon war. A prologue to the anime series, the story concebtrates more on Sakura the heroine and jumps off later to the other characters - Sumire, Kanna, Iris, Koran, Maria, and Ogami.

The story is just fine though kinda slow-paced and there's a part a bit confusing. That was when in the OAV, Maria suggested to Ayame that they should have a captain but in the anime series it was the opposite. She was actually angry and offended when she found out that Ayame and their manager had to choose a guy to do the job. Hmmm.. Anyway, it seems like most of the time, the OAV differs from the anime series itself (think of Tenchi Muyo). With regards to character design and animation, it's quite good. It adopted the way movies were made in early 90's, there are some scenes in black and white and no words spoken but the lines were flashed in the screen. The ED song is also nice sung by Ai Orikasa (Ayame, aka Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo)

I’ll/CKBC (OAV)

Posted On April 30, 2006

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Plot:

Hiiragi Hitonari is a freshman high school student who, despite his talent for basketball, decides to abandon sports clubs due to the pressure put on him by them. Once he arrives at Kouzu High, however, he meets the only other basketball player who has ever caught his eye on the courts, Akane Tachibana and decides to join the team. The first match of the season is an exhibition game against the league's strongest team, Hyamazaki — the team that Hiiragi's father coaches and in which his older brother plays for. Hiiragi ends up playing in the second half of the game, and they seem to not be working well together on the court, losing the game, until unintentionally one of the senior players on the team challenges them to beat him. They join forces, inspiring the team to victory. Thus starts the story of a group of teenagers working to reach the top, fighting tooth and nail the entire way.
The story revolves around basketball with a guy Hiiragi Hitonari,  quitting basketball for he is usually compared to his talented dad and brother and another, Akane Tachibana who is inspired to play basketball with his rival Hiiragi.This OAV is adopted from a seven volume manga so expect that the ending was somewhat hastened; the producers just tried to bring the elements into the screen and the plot is not well-developed. But nevertheless, almost all characters were introduced (but without much depth), the artwork is really nice and the dubbing is just fine.