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When EVA's dance

I was trying to look for that video of an old dude who spoofed "Fly Me to the Moon" via a spinning Rei Ayanami doll on a fishing line, but I failed. I found this instead.



I am satisfied.

School Rumble 3rd Term goes straight to DVD

I have a feeling this is semi-related to the issue regarding Japanese animation studios voicing their disdain for foreign(western) fan-sub groups. From Darkdiamond.net:

Good news for all School Rumble fans, the never ending school romantic comedy is bound for a 3rd season with all of the original cast and staff. Bad news is it appears this will be a straight to DVD deal.

Kodansha will bundle the DVDs of School Rumble: 3rd Term with volumes 21st and 22nd of the ongoing manga so don’t expect the same quality of previous seasons...

Gah.

Well, I guess either their budget isn't as high as it used to be, or they fear that if they spend to have the third term released on Japanese TV, raws and fan-subs of it will circulate back to Japan thus ending the otaku need to have a permanent re-playable copy of the show. Then they'd kiss bye-bye to extra profits from DVD sales. I guess in this case, DVD sales replaces advertising revenue; DVD sales also doubles as a cheap survey to see how large their loyal (money-spending) fan-base really is.

I feel so random today

To all those who are pissed with SFIV's new look, irregardless of Ryu's penis and all that jazz (why penis why!), here's all I have to tell you:

Also, I want the image below as a poster, or a wall scroll, or on an altar/shrine of some sort. My attempts at searching for a larger image size version was complete and utter failure. I blame the universe rolling a 1.

I feel the same way about Dr. Mario

It may sound like a Rockman tribute at the start, and the engrish may be jarring, but keep watching. There's a punchline in there somewhere.

Oh, and if you want something that's a bit more immediate, then here's Rock Man doing the Rocky Star:

GURU GURU MAWARU!

School Rumble: Third Term. Booyah!

When old school fighting meets non-martial art

Not to be outdone by Street Fighter IV's new Okami inspired "paintbrush 3d" look applied to a 2D plane fighter, SNK announced to the world (via Kotaku) that their old school classic, King of Fighters XII, will be purely handrawn.

It's kinda like GGX anime-level sprites, only with a higher resolution, and an insanely higher frame-rate.

Weekend Manga: Creepy Organs

Death Note Special One-Shot Out

This week's weekly jump included a special one-shot of Death Note. Having said that fortuitous bit of news, can I get a "squee" from all the Death Note fan-people out there?

The issue is a must read for folks as it's a continuation of story. Of course, since it's a one shot, you might be left moist and wanting. Anyhow, I personally like the issue for this super-genius character who has an obsession with Tarot card tower making.

He's fun.

The Boiling Rock gets a deadline.

Good news from TVshowsonDVD.com. According to one of their articles, the third volume of the Season 3 DVD set of Avatar: the Last Airbender will be out by the 6th of May.

This means that "The Boiling Rock: Part 1" and "The Boiling Rock: Part 2" should air on TV before then.

This is basically a confirmation from another source (aside from Amazon.com) of the DVD's release date. Still late, yes, but at least the estimates for the wait for the new episodes is now before mid-May.

Yes, the wait still sucks.

Avatarded

There's this rumor floating around that Episode 14 of Book 3 of Avatar: the Last Airbender, The Boiling Rock Part 1, will air today at around 8:30 pm in Argentina, their time.

This, supposedly from an insider in the production unit that was responsible for dubbing the series into the local language. The "source" claims that the people responsible for dubbing, are actually done with the whole season already. And that they're just waiting for the episodes to air to admire their work.

It's already around 8:44, my time, so I guess we'll all find out in an hour or so. (Accounting for the probable 12 hour difference, and the upload time to the intertubes.)

EDIT: Oh well, it was too good to be true.

Does this count as Porn?

I was looking around for model swords on google -- an activity that most geeks with weapon fixations love to pursue -- when I ran across something that is borderline awesome and something that is borderline pornographic.

Here's what happened.

When I surf, I usually tend to just right-click several items that turn up on Google off the bat, without even reading the description.

The first tab that opened led me to the awesome.

I ran into some company called honestdragonchina that is manufacturing a copy of the sword that Cloud used in Final Fantasy: Advent Children. Yes, we've all seen huge-ass sword remakes before, but what's cool about this one is that it seems to have copied the "assembly" function of the sword/sword-set that Cloud used in the movie.

So after appreciated the craftsmanship involved with such an expensive and complicated shelf display, and mourning over the fact that it's only made of high-grade wood and not some aluminum alloy, I hotkeyed alt-tab, and lo and behold:

Tell me, does this count as porn?

Waiting sucks

Since Nickelodeon is incredibly delayed with their air-schedule of Book III of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Canada's YTV -- our last hope for up-to-date Avatar -- decided to re-run Avatar from the start, we'll probably have to wait until mid March or early April to catch a new episode of Avatar.

The new title is rumored to be "The Boiling Rock" by the way, and it's said to be a two part shindig. Current popular speculation regarding the episode is that it's a "great escape" story, focusing on all the characters that have been captured by the Fire Nation so far. I'm thinking that most people supporting this theory just plain miss Suki. The other theory is that it's a firebendiny-avatary-element-mixing-training episode where Aang learns to bend lava.

Personally, I'm hoping it's a White Lotus episode. We seriously need a big reveal when it comes to that secret organization. I mean, come on, there's been enough teasing about it across so many episodes.

Yes, I like Iroh, the old fart. Sue me.

Anyhow, given the long and tiresome wait, I'm willing to bet that the next volume of Heroes will air earler than the new Avatar episode (NBC did promise march-ish). Who knows?

Damnit, this avatard is going through Avatar withdrawal and he doesn't like it.