Dog and Scissors – 1

[HorribleSubs] Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou - 01 [720p].mkv_snapshot_16.17_[2013.07.07_13.30.21]Lol. It sure has been a long time last I blogged written anything.

I don’t even know how to write anything anymore :S

Anyway, this is second series I started this season with, and looked kinda good. Not sure what’s going on yet and I don’t read the synopsis either but looks like fun. By fun I mean both fun and fun. Yep.

On AKB0048

[EveTaku] AKB0048 - 26 END (1280x720 x264-Hi10P AAC)[00480048].mkv_snapshot_19.31_[2013.04.08_00.27.38]So, AKB0048 ended last week. I don’t even follow AKB48 but I think this went pretty good. The ending was quite epic. Over the top but still entertaining. One of best type of entertainment, IMO.

In the end, it is pretty much beyond expectation. Despite the funny voice acting at times, the songs are good because, well, that’s what they’re good at. The story was quite intriguing as well and I did look forward to it every week in the end. As expected from Satelight, I guess?

Should’ve bought their stuff during ACE last week 🙁

 

On AFAID 2012

So, uh, in the end, I decided to go to this AFAID despite my current state. Due to that I got laziness fee of 100k IDR for buying two days worth of standing concert tickets (which includes stage and exhibition tickets). On the brighter side, there’s almost no queue for this type of ticket which, from what others told me, saved me two hours of queuing.

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This Sengoku Collection

A lightweight series which cover one or more generals (female version, obviously) from Sengoku period who have been thrown into modern time. Basically yet another moefied historical figures anime.

What’s mind-blowing is the fact that it will be a 2-cours (26 episodes according to Wikipedia) anime. Like, how is it even possible? (perhaps because it’s produced by Brain’s Base?)

Its first opening theme (and ending) is awesome (read: fun) though.

Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger

A metaseries on Super Sentai. In short, they opened tvtropes and jammed as many tropes as they can into the series.

Head over to Over-Time to grab the releases (currently 2 episodes). Don’t forget to read the notes, too! I wish more fansubbers do this for reference-heavy series.

I’m pretty sure “Nijiyome” there is abbreviation of “nijigen yome” (2D waifu).

Supipara demo movie

Demo movie for Supipara – minori’s latest game/series is out. No high quality video in sight though. And the animation isn’t by Shinkai – just like eden (and I suspect we’ll get no more minori/Shinkai combo) but still pretty enough so it’s okay.

As expected, there’s no male in sight. The game is all-ages though so we won’t get some actual yuri action either 🙁

[ Link to video ]

Accel World

I wonder what they are...

One of the hyped series for this season, spring 2012. Looks quite good. With Sunrise as production studio, I can safely expect stable animation over the series. No clear indication on how long this will be though considering the amount of its LN, I guess half-assed ending should be expected.

And yes, Black Snow Princess (aka Kuroyukihime) makes up 90+% of reason I’m watching this as of currently :>

Tinkle Artbook GET

Finally ;_;

The overall cost went through the roof because I forgot to calculate the handling fee. The total is 6000 JPY + 217k IDR (about 1mil IDR). Should’ve bought three of them to reduce shipping fee overhead.

Well, not too bad as this is my first amazon.jp purchase. Perhaps I should try using alternative store with cheaper shipping cost sometime later. Or next year once my life settles down again.

 

On Winter 2012

All right, I’ve finished most of Winter 2012 (I count the start of year from Winter by the way). And, um, I’m not sure where to start so I guess I’ll make it point by point for each series.

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Inu x Boku SS

Best part of the show

Another nice series ended. david production sure has lots of money to burn in making different endings on various episodes.

Anyway, it ended quite nicely. The premise was simple and mostly solved by the end of this series. Another series done well by david production – too bad they aren’t doing anything (or at least as the main production team) for this (next) season. Oh well, hopefully we’ll get more interesting series from them sometime in the future.

Shakugan no Shana

So long, Shana ;_;

The first series I mostly download by myself. On weekly basis. Checking the tracker on release day back when there’s no Google Reader and TokyoTosho (or perhaps there were but I didn’t use them at the time).

I got to know Kugimin and learned term “tsundere”. Also light novels. Also Itou Noizi. Also system administration (guess how it’s related).

First season was a blast. Second season was pretty much content-less and the series of OVA didn’t add anything meaningful. Despite of them, the third – final – series certainly didn’t disappoint. Lots of things I liked on first series are back except Shana’s tsundere-ness thanks to her being much more honest than ever. Not that I hate it.

Also, great job, Eclipse (point-blank, anyone?). May the time come when I can buy the entire series’ Blu-Ray (or DVD?) – hopefully in R2.

moebooru again

Last week I posted about my random project which involves modernizing moebooru without doing complete rewrite (see this for yet another complete rewrite attempt).

Let’s revisit the plan:

  • Upgrade to Ruby 1.9: done, need testing.
  • Update all plugins: mostly done, can use some trimming.
  • Update anything deprecated: nope
  • Migrate to Bundler: done, not sure how to test.
  • Use RMagick instead of custom ruby-gd plugin: nope
  • Use RMagick instead of calling jhead binary: nope
  • And more!: I hope you didn’t expect me to do more while there are incomplete items above.

Sure looks good. Need more testing though. There’s also one part which I totally had no idea why should be changed when upgrading to 1.9. Just grep for FIXME to see which it is and hopefully fix it up for me (or explain what it does).

As usual, having completed the work for today, live demo is up and open for everyone to break (…if there’s anyone, that is).

[ Live Demo | Repository ]

An Attempt to Update moebooru Engine

If you didn’t know, the current moebooru running on oreno.imouto is using ancient version of many things. It also uses a custom lighty module (mod_zipfile) which doesn’t seem to be available anywhere.

I’ve updated it with latest Rails 2.x and made it compatible with nginx. Mostly. You can see it running here.

The plans:

  • Upgrade to Ruby 1.9.
  • Update all plugins.
  • Update anything deprecated.
  • Migrate to Bundler.
  • Use RMagick instead of custom ruby-gd plugin.
  • Use RMagick instead of calling jhead binary.
  • And more!

We’ll see if I can actually finish this one. Grab the source here. Yeah, I’m using Mercurial for a Rails project.