All my posts are mixed bags these days, aren't they?

So it seems they released finished shots of the S-Strain figures. Sara and Lottie look pretty good, I think, although I wonder what it is that Lottie's standing on. Mercurion spillage? As for Sara, I like her base, but I kinda miss the trial wooden base for some reason. Either way, they look pretty cool. Danny's already posted some shots, so I won't. It also seems that these two won't be the only ones out, just the first batch, but I think I want one of them anyway. Now which one...

In other news, know any potential voice actors? I play around in fandubs from time to time, but I've got some really serious friends that want to go professional. I bring this up because it seems that the Japanese are getting in on the AVA scene. The link? Victor Entertainment's holding auditions for the heroine of a new series. I wonder if maybe the American companies should start doing that for their licensing announcement marketing, instead of ripping off the Haruhi thing before it gets old.

Getting back to less than three news items per day. Means more coverage for the ones you do take!

Licensing rambles

Woo, I seem to be the first to catch this. I knew there was an upside to waking up early in the morning. According to conflicting sources, Higurashi's English title is either "When They Cry" or "When They Cry - Higurashi". At least those names have been used on official artwork before. I don't mind it either way (it doesn't sound ridiculous, at least). Then again, Higurashi freaked me out so I don't really know if I'll buy it anyway...

In other licensing news, it seems that Bandai has licensed Freedom. I liked the first volume of that, so one more thing to add to the list of things I want... oh, and about Geneon again, even though they haven't even released the first season of Rozen Maiden yet, they've already picked up Rozen Maiden Träumend along with it. I guess they have faith, don't they?

Still no word on the other apparent licenses...

School computer go!

The Ouran game.

So apparently the thing about the Ouran dating sim is true. Sounds fun. It's coming out April 19th, everybody. As for Kamichama Karin, its premiere date was announced too-- April 6. Wonder if they picked Good Friday on purpose.

Sorry for the short entry. Come on, the only other news today is that nutjob that thinks all telepaths should die starting with Mint "I'm not real, okay?" Blancmanche.

Which makes Michiru and Kaoru angry.

Geneon's mystery license is not Ouran.

It's Higurashi. Which begs the question... just whose is the mystery Ouran rumour?

Edit: Rumour has it that Geneon's also got Nanoha, Maria-sama ga Miteru and Saiunkoku Monogatari. We'll have to wait and see...

Yes, I realize that I'm a complete hypocrite for posting this.

Aimless Haruhi rantage and other things.

So the Tales of Symphonia The Animation trailer, which you've probably already seen, was pretty cool. I couldn't complain, anyway. And now my friends are fangirling it, so all is good.

What I do want to complain about is the Haruhi DVD order. I don't want to have to buy expensive special editions just to see the series in the order it was meant to be seen, but I guess Bandai is doing all they can, considering their contract. Maybe if everyone gets the special, this won't happen again and the next time something out of the ordinary happens in anime, the sellers will let it stay that way. (I might complain, but the absolute truth is that I wanted to buy the special editions anyway. But why do the DVD episodes have to be in chronological order?)

Speaking of Haruhi, they need to mass produce that Day of Sagittarius Haruhi figure. Because it simply looks awesome. That or the bikini Haruhi with the Super Soaker, but I'd feel strange with that one...

So Geneon's holding another licence guess contest. This is really getting old. Who wants to bet what it is? I don't get in a lather about licenses, unless it's a series I like. Personally, I think somebody should put AIR on primetime mainstream television, but that's about it. (It wouldn't even have any competition. What else is on TV in summer besides reruns? Canadian Idol?)

Feel the power of the 5-yen coin.

Well, there you go.

Remember that Women's Studies midterm? The marks took ages to come back, but they're finally here. And...

90%.

No extra notes about the crossed-out GAR paragraph, though, which would have been highly amusing. Still, this calls for bothering you all to wave it in your face. Now return to your previously scheduled day.

For those that complained about Noel's presence in the last entry

Freedom to Read and Compare

Geez, guys, lay off Akiko. This past Kanon episode has caused the blogosphere to form two camps: those that believe that the crash was emotive and point to the real-life crash that everyone seemed to instantly find, and those that laughed at the crash because Akiko was crushed and "disappeared". I am planted firmly in the former camp and think the latter is just trying to get attention for contrariness, for the record, but honestly, this is getting out of hand. I'm almost missing the Nayuki conspiracy theories.

So I couldn't take it anymore and checked out the back covers of a few of the Galaxy Angel manga I'm missing (I never seem to get the right ones so I'm stuck on number four). Let me say that it's very apt that the anime was a parody of adaptation decay. If you don't want to be spoiled, skip to the next paragraph, but apparently Chitose comes in early, Eonia stays around through Moonlit Lovers and beats out the Val-Fasq conspiracy (which, I guess, is probably for the best because they cut out the entire Eternal Lovers arc), Chitose actually turns evil, and who knows what else. Am I buying it? Course I am! Especially since I heard the newly released GAII manga does the characters a lot of justice. A few of my friends that hated Rico on principle now love her to bits, so it can't be that bad.

Happy Freedom to Read Week! In celebration, read something that was banned for a stupid reason.