Jumat, 24 Februari 2012

Seeing Spirits with Natsume, Manga Reviews, Rounding it Out with Poyopoyo

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As always, lots of stuff going on around here! Some of you guys out there have noticed that we've got a new site design in the works! Let us know what you think as all your feedback is definitely appreciated! Many of you have noticed too that Madoka has joined our family!! It will air every Wednesday at 10 am PST, so keep your eyes peeled for another new episode this week! Finally, thanks to everyone who tuned into The Live Show's season one finale last week Friday! A new season starts on the first week of March, so stay tuned for more insanity!

The Fourth Installment: Natsume Yujincho

Natsume Yujincho, or, Natsume's Book of Friends, is reminiscent of a time when the common monotony of animation endeavors wasn't simply to create another Naruto, another Evangelion or another Haruhi Suzumiya. It's simplicity manages to keep the viewer engaged with it's very own breed of charming story-telling.

To be outright, there are no overly complicated character relations here, annoying flashbacks or pseudo-intellectual heavy dialog. It doesn't try to be more than it is, without an excessively grandiose plot that is dragged out to the point of tedium, and somehow manages a distinctive lack of the hollow character clichés that one often observes in the anime of our time. The characters are simple, unassuming, deceptively deep and truly enjoyable.

The story follows our "hero" Natsume Takashi, a kind-hearted boy who has the uncanny ability, to see spirits, or "youkai," a trait passed onto him by his grandmother, Natsume Reiko. He soon becomes the owner of his grandmother's "Book of Friends", which contains the names of the demons she sealed after defeating them. Having your name in this book means is if so ever the person in possesion of the book calls your name, you must do their bidding and cannot disobey them.

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Manga Review: Hyakushou Kizoku

Hyakushou Kizoku
Volume 1
By Hiromu Arakawa
Available on JManga

Hyakushou Kizoku (Noble Farmer) is not especially the secret origin story of Fullmetal Alchemist author Hiromu Arakawa. She drew herself as a bespectacled cow in FMA's sidebars, and here, that Arakawa cow-caricature relates a series of opinion laced anecdotes about growing up on a dairy farm in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. While the manga doesn't offer obvious insight into her inspiration for FMA, her enthusiasm for the subject makes it very easy to see where she came up with the agricultural school setting for her latest ongoing manga series, Silver Spoon.

To the extent that we think about the people who create manga, we generally only think of them as manga authors. One Piece fans joke about "Oda's wife," and "Berserk" readers laugh about Kentaro Miura's fascination with "Idolm@aster," but those are more considerations of what's distracting them from making manga than they are curious about the lives of the authors.
Part of this has to be credited to the nature of the manga business. Animators, prose authors, actors and directors may have distinct projects, but mangaka are supposed to stay chained to the desk as long as health permits.

The vision of the manga author sequestered in their apartment, occasionally visited by an editor or colleague is the starting point for Hyakushou Kizoku. In an appropriate parallel that Arakawa (illustrated as a cow) points out to one of her visitors (drawn as a human), life in the manga business is like life on the farm in that neither affords the worker any vacation.

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Rounding It Out with Poyopoyo

Written by M.Harajima

Are you looking for a light-hearted anime that's guaranteed to make you smile? If you enjoyed Chi's Sweet Home – Chi's New Address following the life of Chi and all the mischief, you'll be an immediate fan of Poyopoyo. Moe Sato was strolling along one day when she became so exhausted that she passed out right on Poyo-chan without knowing it was a cat. Upon seeing Poyo-chan for the first time, he's just a big round fur ball. When Moe discovers he's a cat, she brings him home.

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