腐男好介绍 - 《LOVE STAGE！！》

终于来到第二个腐男好介绍了！刻刻
这个星期要介绍的作品是耽美作品中有名的一部，那就是影木荣贵原著和藏王大志作画的《LOVE STAGE！！》
两位老师在耽美和百合界里算是有名堂的，而且之前也有合作过。

故事讲述泉水（いずみ），小时候被明星父母逼代替女花童和男花童龙马（りょうま）一起拍广告。
十年后，因为拍摄广告受创成了宅男的泉水，又再次被逼和已经成为名人，而且深深爱着当年女花童的龙马拍摄婚纱广告。
这样的姻缘把两个人套在了一起。

虽然目前只有25话，不过《LOVE STAGE！！》在去年的夏季（2014）被改编成动画，一共10集+1集OVA。
而且影木荣贵老师也有出番外小说《BACK STAGE！！》讲述泉水哥哥，圣湖和玲的故事，去年正式改编成漫画目前有2话。
受（濑名泉水）： 代永翼
攻（一条龙马）： 江口拓也
攻（濑名圣湖）： DAIGO
受（相乐玲）： 平川大辅

这里要说哦，DAIGO是影木老师的真实弟弟，而且圣湖一角也是DAIGO给予灵感的（搜搜看，就会看到对比照的啦!)。
由于是歌手不是声优，所以各位要原谅DAIGO的演出哦！（虽然一开始时我很想揍他，过后发现他原来现实说话也是那样的。。。）

《LOVE STAGE！！》目前在角川书店的「CIEL」杂志上连载，每两个月更新一次。

#throwback anime - Free! Iwatobi Swim Club & Free! Eternal Summer!

This week's #throwback anime features Free! Iwatobi Swim Club and Free! Eternal Summer, a production of Kyoto Animation.

Free! Iwatobi Swim Club (Season 1) was released in summer 2013, while Free! Eternal Summer (Season 2) premiered in summer 2014. The franchise enjoyed relative popularity that expanded to multiple media such as radio shows, manga, light novels, drama CDs, multiple character songs CDs and other merchandises.

*This is only the character songs CDs for season 1!
The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. The first season story focus on the formation of the club and the eventual match with their rival school. The first season is more lighthearted with jokes, gags(especially on the male leads girly names), fan service and occasional shipping of the male leads (to please target audience group), but it does prepare the viewers a basic understanding of each character and their own struggles in growing up and apart.

In the second season, Haruka and co. is now in their third year and facing decisions regarding their future. The second season takes a more serious theme of making a decision for yourself and growing up to a young adult. It also explore some sports related themes such as injury and age in the sports world (only a little). It still keeps the occasional fan services but are more toned down.

Opening songs for both season is sung by OLDCODEX a JRock band with lead vocalist Tatsuhisa Suzuki (VA for Tachibana Makoto), while ending song is performed by the male leads VA band called "Style Five".

Cast includes:
Nobunaga Shimazaki
Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Tsubasa Yonaga
Daisuke Hirakawa
Mamoru Miyano
Here's a picture of them doing funny poses!

Overall it is an enjoyable boy's love sports anime. Hehe

Let’s watch Dragon Nest: Warrior’s Dawn

So this movie came out recently in SEA(Philippines to be precise), and I thought “let’s give this a try!”.

Dragon Nest is a MMORPG release back in 2010, I played the game for some time between my shift from Eden Eternal to Aura Kingdom back in 2014. It was instanced-base grinding, meaning there’s literally no mobs on the open field. Quest were quite easy and have a good story to run though with memorable NPCs. We also get some CG storytelling after completion of major quest. But like all MMORPG, it gets bored after reaching a certain level and grinding seems to take forever (Yes I quit the game).

Production of the film is by a Chinese-American film company, with most of the crew being Chinese. Animation is in its own league, pleasing to the eyes and voice acting was okay I guess. The main character Lambert has a quirky and childish style to it that brings out the charm of his character.

The story takes place during the Black Dragon Raid (50 years ago – pre-game), and is a story of Lambert and his master Barnac, joining with notable characters such as the Geriant, Argenta and other members of the Six Heroes. The premise and execution of the film has an uncanny resemblance to Lord of the Rings, just think of the black dragon as Sauron minus the ring part. We also get a bunch races allying with each other forming a party to slay Sauron black dragon. Yeah, get what I mean? Don’t expect too much and you will be fine I guess. But we do respect their guts of making 3(planned) films based on a MMORPG.

If you want ever want to watch Lord of the Rings: The Animation, do give this a try and maybe you will find yourself downloading the game client while you’re watching the movie. Hehe

That’s all.

*side note, the dragons looks more like griffins than dragons that is more popularly depicted.

#throwback anime - Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun(月刊少女野崎君)

So, part of the newly resurrected blog. I'm going to try to do #throwback anime, it will be a like a review/introduction to the anime that aired a few seasons back, for those that have unfortunately missed out on the series.

For the first #throwback anime we're gonna look at Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. Which was aired on the summer of 2014, if you haven't heard of it yet, its a love comedy of a girl that falls for guy that draws shoujo manga. The series play on the gender role swapping and it is a really fun series to watch. The cast are awesome especially Mikorin (Yes, I'm smitten)

The anime is adapted by Dogakobo studio from a 4-koma webcomic by Izumi Tsubaki.
Notable cast includes:
Nakamura Yuuichi (Gray from Fairy Tail),
Nobuhiko Okamoto (Eiji Niizuma from Bakuman),
Ari Ozawa (first major role),
Mamoru Miyano (A lot of anime lolx)
and other awesome people.
The anime received great reception and had a very good disc sales in Japan. If you're not much of a shoujo manga fan, you should definitely try this one out, although classified as shoujo genre, its definitely a gem in its own.

That's all for now!

下雨了``

KL下雨了~
学校的网速，又说拜拜了。
不过幸好还可以上部落格。
我发现我好久没有写关于动漫的东西了，所以现在哀家来update一下各位~~

去年哀家放大假和第二年第一学期（目前，第二年第二学期了）时看了几部很不错看的动漫～　
Changing channel~ to English~~ LOL

《Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai》

I would award this the tearjerker of the year~ Lovely story with beautiful story~ The ending song is also very beautiful.

《C - The Money of Soul and Possibility Control》
利用未来换取金钱，一个不错看的动漫～

《Digimon Xros Wars》

小时候看到现在～～　无需解释
The current season is not that good, however there was a short cameo of pass leads, which gave me the motivation to continue on the series~ cheers

《Fairy Tail》

另一个长命剧，也是目前我最喜欢的！ Looking forward to the next arc! ^^

《Fate／Zero》
Sequel to Fate Stay/Night, great graphics and plot. The ending of Season 1 was a bummer though!! Epic Suspense T_T

《Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi》
BL, sweet and supple. Not for homophobes. ^^

《Usagi Drop》
A heart-warming anime with simple and clean drawings~

在追着的动漫：

《Ano Natsu de Matteru》
Quite an interesting anime that should be release on the summer instead~ haha

《Another》
I'm thinking horror, but not quite~ its more like JP-anime styled "Final Destination"

《Bakuman S2》
An okay-ish anime, it drags on though, literally.

《Brave 10》
An anime spin off of the Sanada Yukimura Brave 10, quite interesting but can't really get the big picture~

《Daily Lives Of High School Boys》
Gags, and more gags~ could be your weekly dose of laughs~

《Guilty Crown》
Currently the one I adore the most, with great music (by Supercell) and nice graphics and drawings. The plot is also very intense~ Great anime OVERALL~ ^^

《Mirai Nikki》

I'm not a big fan of gory anime, but this one somehow appeal to me~ quite an interesting piece and let us peeks into the dark desires of humans.

《Shakugan no Shana III》
The final installment of Shana, and could be the very best of the three. With epic battle scenes and strong plots that keeps you wanting more~ Must watch~ ^^

That's all.