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Following Prince of Tennis in the schedule was this other hit show from the pages of Shonen Jump. The tale of a young boy learning the game of Go from the ghost of a Heian era Go instructor to the Emperor.
I wrote about it here.
Here’s an old BBC report on the boom caused by the manga and anime:
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Well I’ve not done one of these for a while. So long in fact, that I’m not sure anyone still uses the word blogroll any more.
Fixing the Movie Business … It’s slightly Askew Friend of the Awesome Engine, Anthony Askew’s new film blog. Why not go and suggest him a better name for his blog and tell him to start using tags and categories!
COLONY DROP – Anime review site, who did a fine job of upsetting some pseudo-intellectual Haruhi fans recently.
Subatomic Brainfreeze – Dave from Colony Drop’s site. His Shin Mazinger reviews are why I don’t feel the need to write any.
Oh Word is updating again, though now as Rafi Kam’s blog. Still great though.
Roasted Peanuts – chronological discussion of Peanuts strips.
Hip-Hop Connection – the new online version of HHC, with blog and digital downloads. The PDF version of the magazine understands the needs of digital magazine layout in way I don’t think I’ve seen before.
Jun 13, 2009 Comments Off
In my continuing effort to create single idea tumblr’s that I never get round to updating, I have a new one.
DYNAMIC SIDEBURNS – a blog about the characters from Go Nagai/Dynamic Productions who have a certain, similar, look. It might reappear as a proper post some day. But in the meantime a tumblr’s a good place to dump ideas.
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For those of you keeping track, here are my other tumblrs.
BELL DEM SLAGS
animngland
LOLcosplay
TO WHACK ARMOUR TYPE ZERO
The Noun Who Verbed
Apr 14, 2009 Comments Off
Friend of Brack, Grace (the artist formerly known as baggypantsu) has a new blog – blog log og, which has introduced me to this Google Friend Connect thingy. I have no idea how it works, but the idea seems to be to attach the old Livejournal “friends” concept across a variety of platforms (my site being wordpress powered, Grace’s blogger powered). So if you want to be my internet friend, I have added the widget to the sidebar of the site for you to do so.
And for all those people reading this on my livejournal repost, here’s another reason to abandon that sinking ship and get a proper blog! GET YOUR BLOG ON!
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I’ve been rounding up OP clips for future “overload” posts, and I’ve been struck by Studio Comet’s run on high school comedies in the 80s (and one post-Dragon Quest one in the 90s). I’ve seen High School Kimengumi, and enjoyed it. These other shows definitely have a similar “look” despite coming from manga by different authors.
High School Kimengumi (1986)
Tsuide Ni Tonchinkan (1987)
Following Kimengumi was this show based on Koichi Endo’s gag manga. There’s some shots in this first opening that look a lot like Kimengumi, but the surreal, rainbow crop dusting from the flying cowboy hat is the sort of whimsy I can get behind.
But the big similarity is the continued use of the 52-strong Onyanko Club members and off-shoot groups for the theme tunes.
Meimon! Dai San Yakyūbu (1988)
That’s a great opening, the best of bunch by my reckoning. I have no idea what on earth this show’s about, as it appears to have slipped down the back of anglophone fandom’s collective sofa.
Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai (1992)
This ran for two years, and yet I can find next to nothing in English about it. And naturally it’s the one I’m most interested in watching on the strength of it’s opening credits…
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