This past Saturday evening was the 2013 Hawaii Eisa Festival, the third year it’s being held and it was a great event. Every year they add something new and in addition to what they had last year, they got the current Eisa champions to perform. 
It seems the army of teruteru bozu worked, the weather was a pleasant Hawaiian evening. The oppressive stillness and humidty of the past days had lifted, in fact by the end of the night it was almost chilly. You might consider this a warm up to the Okinawa Festival, but in many ways I prefer it. It’s a smaller more intimate venue, held in the cool evening, lot less crowded, and focused on eisa performances. The food is a lot more limited, the KCC cafeteria rendition of rafute leaves a lot to be desired, I would skip it. The goya namasu side is pretty good though. The other problem is they are not set up to handle the sudden rush, I jumped in line at 5:45 and didn’t get out with my plate until 6:15, so I ended up missing the opening performances and was rushing eating and attempting to shoot off some pics one handed while balancing the plate of rafute in the other. Not happening. Missed out on getting some andagi too. Continue reading ‘Get Some Culture’
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What, do I have no life that I actually watch all this?! No comment….
Streaming over on Funimation’s site is a few more not bad shows. We talked about Railgun S already and Date A Live. Continue reading ‘Anime Briefs – You’re kidding more, more ’13 Spring anime?!’
Really? There’s more? Yeah, and this isn’t even half of it!
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W – the misadventures involving high-schooler Yasaka Mahiro and his freeloading alien housemates Nyaruko, Kuuko, and Hastur continue in this second TV season. Continue reading ‘Anime Briefs – What, More 2013 Spring Anime?’
There are three things (other than crossover K-pop bands) that will make me change the station when they come on KORL – Fukuyama Masaharu (sorry, Tarepanda-hi!), Dreams Come True, and Kimaguren. Of course it sucks equally when I change to a English-language station and get Jack Johnson or Bruno Mars!
(0)Even more shows I’ve watched, and there are some pretty good ones still!
Aiura: Cute high school girls doing cute things. The little one gets mistaken for an elementary school student, then there’s the wacky one, and the subdued level headed foil.
root – yes, it’s that genre, but it’s only got three girls! Regardless, it’s great fun and well done. Nice art, nice designs, nice animation, an amusing OP that’s obsessed with crabs, and Steve Jobs. It’s too bad that at one minute, it takes up 25% of the episode! Way too short, wraps up a gag and makes you feel like it’s just getting started and then it ends!
risu – it’s amazing how little they get into each episode, but how much that little works. The backgrounds are probably the best of anything I’ve watched this season so far. The character art reminds me of the Ichigo Mashimaro TV animation (not the manga), though I don’t think it’s any of the same people involved. It’s simple and wonderful, like last season’s Yama no Susume but better. Time ot go eat some crab… A-
Continuing the briefs on the new crop of anime, there is some amusement to be had this season.
Is ELT aiming for a comeback? Another of their tracks has made the Oricon rankings. Again, Mochida’s voice is an octave above her traditional range back when they were big. This latest “retro” track would be right at home in a 1980’s Miyazaki film.
(0)The spring anime season is underway, with many shows streaming on their second episodes already so here’s some initial thoughts on them, roughly in the order they showed up. There seems to be a glut of giant robots this time around, whee. There have been a couple quite entertaining shows too though.
OK, I’ve seen something that looks more stupid than wearing one’s sunglasses on the back of the head like Guy Fieri – wearing one’s glasses across the front of the face immediately below the nose! Granted, you either need glasses with extremely long temples, or have a receding lower face more chinless than Rowan Atkinson, or as in the case I witnessed, have the glasses canted crooked so one earpiece is above an ear, and the other just wedged against the opposite cheek! It’s the ‘Tard version of friendly mutton chops.
(0)“Big Boys Cry”. Guess Amuro Namie needs to pay some bills. Amazingly terrible. It’s like maybe five notes. At least that gives her a better chance of actually being able to perform it live without having to hit the pre-recorded playback button.
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