Tasunke's Random Ramblings

So, I was up late last night watching new anime, and happened to stumble across an episode of Haruhi. After the episode was a short trailer announcing 「涼宮ハルヒの消失」, or “The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.” Apparently this arc will be shown in the form of a movie. It looks to be released in spring of 2010. Youtube trailer after the jump.
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Okay, I just had to post this one. Drachea Rannak is an artist I recently stumbled upon who does superb art, and has a large series of non-canon Senshi he’s drawn, mostly crossovers (characters from other media as senshi), which can be quite amusing and cute. ^_^

This one pokes fun at the Mary Sue concept, which apparently has been talked about alot lately. (I was just in a discussion about it the other night on IRC, for instance.) For those who don’t feel like clicking on the Wikipedia link, a Mary Sue character is one that is over idealized and lacks any sort of significant character flaws that would make them interesting.

You can see a larger-sized version of the image on deviantART.

So, I just finished watching the first episode of the new CLAMP manga-based anime series, Kobato.
In short, it’s very cute. ;) The titular character is a cute girl with long brown hair. I didn’t understand enough to know exactly why she’s there, but I think it has something to do with trying to make people happy. Spoilers/episode synopsis after the jump.
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So, this is the first of two posts specifically on the types of cosplay used to power up your Charadolls for the water gun shooting game. This one is about キャラコスプレ, Character Cosplay. As you can see from the image to the left, there’s three characters. Nagisa Furukawa from Clannad, Lisianthus from Shuffle!, and Otome Asakura from Da Capo II. Translation of this information post starts after the jump.
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