JAM Project to cover Lucky Star OP

To be released on 2007-12-26:
Lucky Star Mottake Sailor Fuku Re-Mix002 by JAM Project.

Fun! You can hear a clip of it in this CM!

Catalogue No: LACM-4445
Price: 1,200 yen

Anime Buses

Well, I was reading a forum thread about some anime decals seen on cars at comiket, and that's interesting, I guess, but I then got to looking for full professional jobs - fully painted bus advertisements.

I found more than I'd seen before and they're kinda cool so I thought I'd preserve the links here.

There are lots on http://zbzbm.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kikaku/moebus/

Chiyo-chan and many other Azumanga Daioh buses

Gunslinger Girl bus

various anime and manga advertised on this bus... 2x2=Shinobuden, Azumanga & Yotsuba to, Onegai Twins etc

DearS

Fushigiboshi no Futago Hime

Lucky Star bus #1

Lucky Star bus #2

Lucky Star bus #3

Sister Princess bus

Futakoi bus

Dragon Ball Z bus

Precure Splash*Star (argh! my eyes!)

the Rozen Maiden Shinku Liner ^_^

and....

the Pokemon Jet

and the Ultraman train!! (ok they're not buses)

recently watched anime

Over the last few days I've watched...

* The first 4 episodes of Busou Renkin.
* The first episode of Venus Versus Virus
* The 2nd and 3rd episodes of Lucky Star

Busou Renkin... I wanted to watch just because I'd heard the OP theme sung by Fukuyama Yoshiki and I really like it, and the soundtrack's by Tanaka Kouhei. After the first episode, my boyfriend, who really likes other shonen shows, was dying of genericness. But I gave it up to 4 episodes before giving up. It's like almost watching about 5 other shows... notably Bleach, but with Alchemy added... I don't think I'll bother watching any more...

Venus Versus Virus... is very Noir before the opening, then continues in a monster-hunting girls-with-guns kind of way. Seems alright, but then I watched it straight after despairing over Busou Renkin. There's also something about it that reminds me of Rozen Maiden for no discernable reason. And the end credits use a still image that reminds me of the artwork in Gunslinger Girl. I think I'll watch more of this. ^_^

Lucky Star... this got funnier after the 1st episode, like I hoped it would. It's still not hilarious, but I like it. It's like watching an anime with me as the main character. ^_^

For some reason, they've gotten rid of the director after 4 episodes. I'm not sure exactly why; perhaps the 4th episode is really bad? I heard "performance issues", so.. ratings, I guess?

Surely Lucky Star's 4th episode was not as bad as Gurren Lagan's 4th episode... where fan objections about it got so bad that it led to one of Gainax's company directors (the one who created Princess Maker) engaging in a flame war against the Japanese BBS 2ch and ungracefully resigning from his post... O_O

EDIT: There's a Venus Versus Virus flash game on the official site. ^_^

I need to stop watching anime and thinking of it in terms of other anime. It's something I've picked up from somewhere... >_<

various unorganised things

Not much happening here... I've been playing Cooking Mama for NDS, which is addictive and almost educational (but the recipes are a little misleading)... watched the 1st episode of Lucky Star, which would be better if it was funny; it's about as entertaining as... listening to any average group of teenagers bantering... >_< and the best bit about the first episode was a terrible (intentionally so) karaoke rendition of Uchuu Tetsujin Kyodain in the ending credits. Well, the OP is catchy, too. I expect they intend the dance to catch on like it did with Haruhi last year. I like the GUNPLA version, but then, I always do. ^_^

I just found a Sakamoto Eizo fan site: http://www.shoutimpact.com/

I've been watching his old live performances as the lead singer of ANTHEM on youtube recently... I still haven't watched the ANTHEM and ANIMETAL DVDs I got for my birthday... -_-;

I also noticed a live performance of X Japan doing Endless Rain and, well, I've really loved that song for years... but I have to say... it was better in my mind when it was simply a beautiful tender ballad and in my mind they didn't look all SUPER BIG HAIR METAL; it's so hard to take it seriously... I mean, when they're doing the whole metal thing, it's ok that it's silly; that works... the ballad is just 100 times wronger...