Anime site updates: January 9, 2013

Senran Kagura

According to the scriptwriter's twitter, in addition to a drama CD, it looks like Senran Kagura will have OVA specials. At least, the first volume will have one, which definitely sounds like Katsu-neechan will give her fondling hands a work out have a hands-on with measurements :D I believe there will be more than just one special though as each volume comes out.
(sources: Tokyo Anime news, Amazon BD listing, main site)

Vivid Red Operation

If you haven't yet, don't forget to check out the smattering of production art for Vivid Red butt Operation. I like original works, and I like it even better when the production staff isn't afraid to share a whole ton of stuff :)

Heads up:
-Pixiv has a Windows Store app for those interested.

Girls Und Panzer eps 1-10

I love girls, and I love pantsu I mean 'panzer'. And when the two ride together, it puts a smile on my face.

-mangatron, December 2012

I love weaponized girls. Be it Strike Witches, female knights, sword girls and mecha pilots, I just have a thing for them. And Girls Und Panzer took this to a new level by weaponizing the girls with one of my favorite military weapons: the tank. While I'm not getting into the obvious of how I came to like girls :P, my love for the tank started when I was a kid growing up in Germany. This was during the time when the American presence was strong in Germany, and in my hometown it was like a base at every turn. I so happened to live right across a motor pool, and if you don't know, a motor pool is basically a huge garage for military vehicles. I got to see almost every US Military vehicle possible, including the tank. The first time I saw that tank rumbling on the street, the sound it made as the treads were crushing the street beneath it, it was a sound I will never forget. And I'll never forget the first time I tried to climb a tank (M60), it was hilarious, as I thought the opposite of what Brody said in that Indiana Jones Last Crusade movie, and I thought "How does one get on this thing?" And I tried to climb the side of the tank (from the treads up), and I just couldn't do it. How embarrassed was I when I realized you are normally supposed to climb from the front XD, what I was thinking at the time was like a mountain climber, climbing via the most accessible stack of footholds (I had a big laugh when the loli twintail pres couldn't climb up). I truly enjoyed my childhood in Germany, highlighted by my once in a lifetime visit to the awesome US base Grafenwoehr. Thank you for the memories 3rd Armored Division!

Mipo-chan raises her cute butt as she climbs the PzIV via the front of the tank

And I've always associated tanks with males, the thought of girls having a ride never did cross my mind until I got into Anime, and why not, girls as mecha pilots is a great idea, so why not let them drive a tank. But tanks were laughing stocks in Anime, always mankind's first line of defense that always proved useless, and it wasn't girls driving them. It wasn't until one of my top anime arrived when I finally realized a Girl + Tank would really work.

Muv-Luv marathon

I wish it didn't take my malfunctioning hard drive to watch this series, but without access to that drive, I was incredibly ...bored. Lucky for me most of the episodes were converted for my phone to watch myself to sleep, which oddly enough I still didn't get a chance to watch because I later imposed a curfew to keep my health in check. No headaches since July? I'll buy that for a dollar :)

The mangatron is getting married!

Houki, my love.

I will follow you to the ends of the earth. Even the Mariana Trenches.

I will love you from the top of my heart to the bottom of my heart.

I will hold you, and caress you. As long as you leg scissor me, that is.

No matter how many times you beat me with your wooden sword, I will
never hate you for it. Just don't hit my sweets.

When we're fighting an enemy, I will take a bullet for you with my
Tabane-wedding gift custom built I.S., even if it kills me.

We WILL have kids. If we have a boy, I will not name him Ichika. If we
have a girl, I will name her Shirley. You know, after the 501st
Squadron girl, not... never mind.

In sickness, and in health, for queen and country.

Houki. Will you marry me?

Leaked audio recording of the mangatron's proposal:
http://www.4shared.com/audio/EVCEuALA/Mangatrons_marriage_to_Houki1.html

Oh bugger, I'm in for it now lol...

Please do not ask about the diamond ring. And I know there's only 1 Mariana Trench, but I kinda wanted to cover the others, while name dropping the most well known one. That and... I'm tired of re-takes :P Oh, and can anyone guess the hilariousness of Houki's reply? Just basic Japanese skill is needed there to see the sad conclusion to my one-sided love XD

RE: the controversy, Dog Days ep 13 TRUE Ending ver

That my friends, is the true ending of Dog Days. End of discussion,
wrap it like a mummy, shove it into a sarcophagus, throw it in the
museum, turn out the lights because what's done is done, so Becky FTW!
Heil Becky, oh user of the twintails, how I long to pet your tails the
way Naoya did to Lotte in Astarotte's Toy episode 12 XD

Young Justice Episode 10

Some of the new changes to my blogging, due to the retirement of my personal blog I'll be posting about things like this too, not just Anime and Manga. 

 I gotta say, Wendy looks cute. It's really just one of those rare cases where I got this hot feeling in my heart for a girl like her. Can I hope for more school life in my superhero cartoon? :D



Still, it's getting kinda hard to keep up with this style of directing for Young Justice, where during the action they cut into slice of life, then back to action. Not the first time, but it's going to take some getting used to, as I understand the creators are taking this series seriously with character development and how seriously connected all the episodes are in terms of continuity. I mean, the last great DC series I got into was Justice League and JLU, which kept it's episodic roots but had some continuity among them. Still though, I love Young Justice, although episode 10 strangely lacked Robin and Kid Flash >__>

But, as usual, the best part:

For a moment there, I thought I was watching Anime lol

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RE: the controversy, Hoshizora he Kakaru Hashi ep 10

There's no need to explain this, right? That's just how bad I felt for
Madoka, rule #1 for guys is you never make a girl cry... even if she
made the mistake of saying "friends" instead of "lovers" when they
made the childhood promise. *runs*

I met Misaka in Manila.ph, and I caved.

You know, during my escapades to repair my laptop, I came across an interesting banner somewhere in Manila (Ermita I think):

Darn power lines. This country sure could modernize...

Look, it's Misaka and her gang! A better view:

Again the darn power lines are in the way. Note the Jeepney on the extreme left, showing how low my hired ride was. 

I suggest you look at the establishment beside it (on the right). I hope there are girls in there with skirts, because I would like to walk in there with a portable fan running full blast and see some panchira. Yeah, right. Ahem, anyways, having seen Misaka, I find it ironic (I don't believe in coincidence) that the Index Season II arc at the time was the one where Misaka goes on about the penalty game, which featured appearances of some Misaka sisters and the tiny Misaka Misaka. I felt so strongly of the sisters, that I went and got my own goggles:

 I could mod a pinhole camera from dealextreme.com into there...

...or maybe some Splinter Cell thermal imaging and night vision...

Sure they aren't like what the sisters use, but I remembered the color green, which happens to be my favorite color, so now I think of the sisters everytime I don these goggles as I work on repairs that fling a piece of metal at my precious eyes, says mangatron with a content tone of voice. Did I just level up to the next level of weirdness in my Anime/Manga hobby? By the way, the pictures are from a camera phone. A modded fixed focus lens, I modified it for manual focus, being possibly the first manual focus smartphone out there (yes, the lens are adjustable without a heavy case mod). The reason why I chose this camera option is because there is no way my Touch Pro would have captured it clearly, and as you can see, before I left the house I set it to a level close to infinity zoom, and despite the low tech (old phone, people), I think it came out rather nicely considering I was in a moving vehicle and my left hand was used because of the injury on my right wrist. Not bad at all, says mangatron with a satisfied tone of voice.

Of course, it made me laugh [seeing Misaka in Manila]. Now, I know Project Railgun doesn't sponsor a karaoke place out here, but the part I laughed about, was that misuse of copyrighted material isn't new in this country. Because, Tony Stark has a stake in this country and he wants you to work those abs:

Sure thing Tony.

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An interview with the mangatron about Teruya Eiko

With my recent uncontrollable Teruya Eiko love I've been throwing around, I thought I'd explain a few things as to why the sudden interest in said girl.

I'll interview myself in extreme fashion :P

Q: So why the interest in a girl all of a sudden that you knew nothing about?
A: She has a number of likable points, main ones being a ponytail, green hair, stockings, miniskirt, nice deadly legs, and a forward attitude.

Q: Let's go one by one. Why the ponytail?
A: It's been known in the anime and gaming world that the Full Metal Panic Fumoffu episode 03 that features the pontail fetish guy was my favorite of that series (at its air date, it was known as episode 03 due to a couple of unaired episodes and the resulting un-uniformed naming scheme). The reason why that was my favorite was the blend of comedy and action, but even more so, it was the first known time that I got to see Tokiwa in a different hairstyle (ponytail). The reason why that left an impression on me is because I'm into twin tails, Tokiwa being one of them, and to see her in a ponytail, not only did it surprise me, but that led me to think, maybe it wasn't the ponytail or the twin tails, but rather when a girl ties her hair up it rather puts a smile on my face. (I'm from Germany, and it was there that I saw so little tied hair that when a crush of mine back in 3rd grade put on a ponytail, I was about to confess on the spot)

Q: Ok... so the green hair?
A: Actually, I'm an unspoken Hatsune Miku fan, who, you guessed it, has a number of the above traits that should of had me go crazy over her instead of Teruya Eiko. But the reason why I never really talked about her is because I know so little about her other than what she came from and what she does for a living, that I felt that if I ever wanted to talk about her, I'd have to know something other than her origins.  Thus the similarities between Eiko and Miku, two girls I know little about and yet I have a great opportunity to know more about Eiko non-novel wise. That, and being a student of military doctrine and strategy, I spent a large amount of time surrounded by military hardware and documentation, the intense amount of green stuck on me in which I just ended up liking it over all the other colors. Of course, another girl worthy mention is also one of my favorites: Ryofu Housen, another twin tailed, green haired girl who I also had the pleasure of completing a garage kit of.

Q: Military man, eh? so what about the stockings? Shouldn't that be knee-socks?
A: As you know, I am from Germany, and at the time of my growing up there I do not recall it ever being called knee-socks but rather stockings. It goes back to the early to mid 90's, this Underwear company started this public advertising campaign featuring, well, underwear. It was then that I for the first time saw a ridiculousy large image of a woman wearing nothing but bra, pantsu and those things covering her legs. Of course, I was rather shocked to see this, Germany at the time was run(or the dominant party) by CDU, a rather tame democratic party that I thought would have put a ban on that sort of advertising. It was then that I was looking out for the thing I became to know as Stockings, the wonderful cloth that beautifies the lengths of a woman.

Q: Well, that was rather informative. So the miniskirt?
A: Isn't it obvious? As a lover of the lengths of a girl, the miniskirt is the perfect cloth to cover the lower part of a woman and yet leave the legs to our viewing pleasure. I'd go into detail about an amusing Yahoo article a few years back about "Why guys like miniskirts", but in short: it looks great.

Q: The legs? Or I already know this?
A: Yes, you should know this already. I'm not a entirely big fan of large breasts or flat ones, nor am I a fan of whatever it is that's not legs, but rather the beauty of legs is that they are a part of a girl that can move, and in a large number of positions, can be very exciting to look upon. For breasts, they are stationary and pretty much enjoyable in how you view the target. But for the legs, they are the ones that can look exciting at how they are moved and how you are viewing them, making it a double requirement. Just like breasts, legs can be covered [by underwear-style clothing] to be even more sexier, but breasts, not every girl has them at the large size, whilst every girl as we know has legs, and can look good with a little bit of clothing. This is why I'm known as a lover of girls: I don't like a feature some of them have, but rather a feature they all have. There is of course those unseen/unfelt experiences of a girls legs, which is why I was rather interested what a leg bind like Teruya Eiko's would feel like, but at the same time I know the only way to experience that is with hostile intent, so there goes the big question: to be leg wrapped, or to not be leg wrapped...

Q: Forward attitude? Is this an Eiko thing?
A: Actually, it's probably because she's placed in a series that screams harem but so far isn't, that to see her attacking, close up attitude with dealing with situations that probably has me breathe that sigh of relief of seeing a nice change in a long time. As you might have known I've spent several years earlier recuperating from a nasty combination of food poisoning/stomach flu, and I spent a large part of that away from anime. As we know, anime is where green hair is pretty much the only place possible, as well as stockings, miniskirts, ponytails and twin tails. Upon my return to anime viewing, I didn't really see this at all until now in an anime, finally a green haired, stocking covered, ponytail branding, normal sized breasted, miniskirt wearing girl that appears in a series I'm following, and the only other known girl to join Hatsune Miku with a similar feature set in those 3 long years of my sickness.

And there you have it. I hope you enjoyed this rare peek into the life of a man who likes a particular feature set of a girl, one who isn't afraid to show the extreme thinking process of his mind, one who is so unique, even he doesn't know it :P

I'm the biggest Teruya Eiko fan*

So, over at the Animesuki Forums I've been going head over mind for
the anime series Ichiban Ushiro No Dai Maou, so much so I've been
going nuts.

And now Teruya Eiko has invaded all of my devices. From my Laptop, to
my dumbphone (LG KG800), to my Palm TX, to my Palm Treo750, to my HP
iPAQ hx2415. With this, I should probably be the biggest Eiko fan
outside of Japan. I say, outside of Japan, because, knowing the Otaku
there, there's gotta be at least one out there who has more Teruya
Eiko stuff than I can look at with my own eyes (I've never set eyes on
any of the novels) It should be safe to claim the title since Teruya
Eiko has had little exposure outside of the novel's publishing
grounds, and well,... how many of you would plaster her on this many
devices? lol

I've been going for this "world's first-" kind of thing lately,
haven't I... it all started with that DS mod of mine.