Anime: Binchou-tan

How fun it looks like to be as young as those in this anime. This is one of the cute short anime's which has only 12 episodes, but each of them are only 12 min long.
The first two episodes does only contain a few dialogs, from the storyteller. This story is about a little girl, binchoutan, who is living alone in the forest, and have to go down into town everyday searching for new small work, to gain a little money or some food.

Do not ask me why she put a log on her head ^^"


This anime shows the beginning of new friendship, and follows the main person throughout nearly a whole year. The first episodes shows a Spring-theme, and is the most idyllic moments in the whole anime.
The main difference between this anime and other anime's is the drawing-technique.
The focus is on making the characters look like small chibi, with big eyes, not a lot of details in clothing or hair which immediately makes them even cuter

I will add up a short introduction clip from the two first episodes:

I do not own the video, it's from youtube

Manga: Love Hina

A picture of the first volume
It's been a while since I read Love Hina, but it's one of my complete manga-series :)
To tell a little about the story; The main character is a boy named Urashima Keitarou, he's not very good at school and some would call him a loser. The story's main point is about Keitarou's childhood girlfriend who moved away when both were very young and still in kindergarten (I think).
They made a special promise to both get into the best school in Tokyo, Todai (Tokyo University)

This is the one and only Keitarou!

But as I have already told, Keitarou is not the smartest guy, and the first time he appears (Other than the intro), we get to know that Keita (I will short down his name from now on) had failed the entrance exam to Todai, the 3rd time in a row, and is nearly giving up. Well to make a long story short, without spoiling too much, he remembers that his grandma owns a hotel and decides to go there. What he didn't knew was that the hotel has been made into a girl's dorm which make things a liiiitle different than what he had in mind.. ~ 

Hotel Hinata (grandma's hotel)

Anyway, that's just a little summary of the first pages of book nr. 1. Personally Love Hina is one of the first series that I ever bought and personally I love this one. It got humor and great moments. On top of that, you'll really feel sorry for Keita throughout the book. It's not too long too long either
The Manga is 12 books
The anime is 24 eps + Some OVA and extra side-stories 


After my opinion this is not a manga you'll grow tired of and I'll definitely give it a high grade I would even give it  a 6/6 :D

A little extra: For the boys (and girls too) there are alot of fanservice in this manga (:

 

Just a reminder, you should spend 1.5 hour on the OVA too

"Love Hina Again", to get the real end :3
You'll not regret it ^^

Anime: Nyanpire

Today I'm going to tell you about a very short series called Nyanpire!
Nyanpire got only 12 episodes, and each episode last for about 4 and a half minute.

The name Nyanpire is taken from the word Nyan and Vampire, which basically means a cat-vampire. The whole thing starts with a poor cat whom is so hungry that it nearly dies. A Vampire gives the cat some of his blood, when he does that the cat turns into a vampire cat :D

Throughout the anime, Nyanpire meets and gets new friends. It only took me under 1 hour to finish this.

This anime was made the summer of 2011, so it's a pretty new series.
Because I love cats and the super cute voice of Nyanpire I'll give this a 5/6

The ending song show some random Japanese maids dancing and singing... kinda weird.. Better if they actually made something with the cats from the series x)

Anime: Naruto!

I guess that most otaku's, either they are hardcore-fans or have just gotten interested in anime, manga and that sort of thing know about Naruto.
The reason for this is of course that Naruto has one of the longest stories together with Bleach and one piece.

For those who despite this, doesn't know much of Naruto, i'm going to try to simplify the story (ofc without too many spoilers x) )


First of all, the main city where the story is taking place: Konoha, who is the "hidden leaf village". The world in Naruto is parted up in different villages such as Konoha, or the hidden sand, water and so on... not very important right now xD

Here is a map that would explain it a bit easier:

 

Konoha is the village in the middle 

The story begins with a monster appearing in the village, this monster goes by the name "Demon Fox" or "Nine-tails". The Nine-tails started to attack the village and many people died. To save the rest of the village the Hokage* seals the monster inside of a little newborn boy. 

This is when the sealing takes place

Hokage is the highest rank in the city, the leader of the village. 

The 4th Hokage with the 1th the 3th and the 2th

The little baby was who this series is named after: Naruto Usumaki. To make a long story short. The Naruto series is about Naruto's life and his dream to become a well known ninja and a Hokage. We follow him from the age of 10-12 ( I think >.<), when he first start at the academy to learn how to become a ninja. This is also the place where he meets Sasuke Uchiha, who is the strongest boy on this age (At least he is allways the best on tests and such) and Sakura Haruno. Soon this three get on the same team, team 7 with their captain Hatake Kakashi

This is an ongoing series witch at this moment: 

The anime got: 220 (first season) + 233 (2th sesong, the shippuden) = 453 Episodes

Movies: 14.

Manga: 56 Volums/Books  or 560 chapters 

Game: Osu!

Wow I can't believe that I haven't written about this game before O.o

It's quite the simple game really. It's a music game, where you follow the rhythm. The game is divided in three, one main-game and two others. First of all it's a free game. To start the game you have to download it from here, and download beatmaps (songs) manually. The music genres are mostly techno, anime music or music from games. It's a time limit when you are downloading the songs, so that the server won't explode, it depends from 4 or 5 songs in a short time. When you reach the time limit you have to wait 500 seconds before downloading anymore.

When you start the game, this is what you will see:

You will now get a popup whitch want you to log in, of course you can play in offline mode, but then again, your scores will not be saved, and it will only take a few minutes to make a user

The first main game is called "osu! Standard" and can be found under the first button "PLAY" this is how the game would look like when you play (random song)

As you see, the score is shown in the upper right side.
Now to the playing: You can see the crazy cat faces right? That's a slider, the same as the orange one.
The thing is that you have to use your mouse to click and drag it as the slider shows, so in short words, this is a clicking game that follows the music. The single circles are the same, only that you don't have to follow a path :) 

Usually a game has the difficulity: Easy, normal, hard and insane.
This type of game is kind of hard, and you should set up your mouse sensitivity to be able to play it (can be found in options) 

Important key: z and x, witch are mainly the same as clicking down the mouse button but lot simpler to use when there are alot of circles to click on

Anyway, over to the game-form I play: Catch the beat! :D (Can be found under "special")

This time you use the keyboard to play, (arrows). As you see, it fall fruits down from the screen that you must catch. This is a much simpler game than the Osu! Standard-game, but still a lot of fun.
Important key: The shift-button, Gives you extra speed

The last game is the Japanese Taiko-drum! 

Witch looks like this: 

This time you only use the letters, zxcv, where z nad v are the blue and x and c are the red ones
Personally I don't like this kind of game, it's really too difficult, at least if you try it on hard or even normal

This is at least some kind of review of this game =)
It's all for free, no extra payment or anything at all, the only time you can spend money on osu is if you are donating money
By donating money you can download dirrectly from the game and doesn't have to go through the webpage, but other than this, it's nothing special from being a supporter or not 

Chocobo in FF X1V (14)

Hello,
This time I'm going to tell you guys about the new update in FF 14 game that is about the chocobo! Who doesn't love Chocobo? The good news is that datadadaaam! You can own your own Chocobooo :D or if you are a poor player in FF it's possible to rent one with Gill

I don't know much about this game, but it's for Playstation 3 and is a MMORPG. The update will be out 30th September.
Read more HERE =)

Anime: Gantz

Ah, long time since I updated my blog, and the Japan pictures are up on facebook. Maybe I'll add them up next month or next year...But today's blog is about an anime I have seen recently called GANTZ 

Gantz is a anime about mainly two boys Kei and Katou, who had been childhood friends but when one of them moved away, their friendship also ended. They meet again on the subway were a drunk and really fat guy had fallen down on the railway. Katou is a person who don't want anyone to be hurt or die so he jumps down and tries to pull the drunk man up, but he is too heavy, at this point Katou recognize Kei and he is kind of forced to go down and help him. It all ends with that the drunk guy is pulled up from the railway but Kei and Katou is trying to run away from the train that comes closer and closer. Unfortunately the train is a express train and won't stop on this station. The two boys are getting killed by the train... THE END : D

No. J/K or they did get driven over by the train but, that was also the start of their life as a piece in a sick alien-hunting game, with their life on the line.
Personally GONZO (The studio that had made this) made a really good anime..if you like lots of killings and blood. They have some scenes that could be a little too much and too disgusting but this is an anime that can make you some kind of addicted since you want to know what would happen later on

It's not a very long anime, although it has 26 eps which is about 8 hours (:
But I guess I have to warn you guys about that this is a ecchi rated anime, who has I think 17 legal age , but ofc that is understandable.

8 out of 10