Dusk Maiden of Amnesia: Pitch It

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Dusk Maiden of Amnesia: Pitch It

A rather playful/horny ghost babe haunts a middle school in general and a "lucky" young man in particular. Hi-jinks abound throughout though about a third of the way through we find another ghost is also haunting the school. Hints along the way make you see the grand revelation a mile away: It turns out to be the "negative" other half of the ghost babe who happens to be royally ticked off over a tragically grave injustice (A la Hell Girl.) that caused her death in the first place. The two "halves" eventually merge and we then have some filler episodes and an OVA.

What's aggravating is this story could have been done in a single film instead of stretching it out to a thirteen episode show.

Kind of reminds me of the film, The Legend of Hell House, wherein it's revealed all the ghosts in the house are actually one hostile (VERY!) spirit impersonating separate entities. See this instead of Dusk.

What also made this next to unwatchable was Brittney Karbowskis' (English dub.) excruciatingly bubbly delivery of the Momoe character. I had to fight myself from skipping over the scenes involving her.

Now, I really LIKE Ms. Karbowski. Her Yuri Nakamura in Angel Beats and Yukina Sonogi in Night Raid 1931 are excellent (When I heard Luci Christian, who's great at voicing "bad" girls, wasn't going to be Nakamura in Angel beats I was disappointed ... That is until I heard Ms. Karbowski.). I guess when they told her they wanted bubbly/happy, she did too good a job.

If you must see this one, "youtube" it first and save yourself some bucks.


Wikipedia article on Dusk Maiden of Amnesia here.


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Girls und Panzer ... FINALLY!

Anglerfish team, the shows' principle characters, sitting atop the turret of their
 Panzer 4. L-R: Mako Reizei, Saori Takebe, Commander Miho Nishizumi,
Yukari Akiyama, and Hana Isuzu.

Girls und Panzer ... FINALLY!

by

Jay Agan


My Christmas present to myself FINALLY arrived on the day after: The Uninvited, a ghost story from 1944 starring Ray Milland, and the anime series Girls und Panzer. And something of a mixed bag it is.

Particularly Girls und Panzer. I had been waiting over a year to have this one in my hot little hands. I was initially attracted to this series as I'm something of a history buff and was always into the vehicles of World War II. The silly premise of "Tankery" (Tinkery, tankery, tock, the Maus ran up the clock ... Good Grief! Call it Sensha-do or Panzerfahren. Anything but THAT!) as part of a schools' athletic program screams ANIME(!) all the way. Having watched the show (Twice!) on Crunchyroll and viewed clips on You Tube countless times, I was ready for Sentai Filmworks to come out with the English dub here.

I'm somewhat disappointed with the English dub. Except for some of the minor characters, I didn't think the voices matched the characters well (Though I thought Hilary Haag, Yui in Angel Beats, was pretty good as Katyusha.). The "old pros" in the cast, (Monica Rial, Brittney Karbowski, Luci Christian, Tiffany Grant etc.) were definitely under used.

Riko "Erwin" Matsumoto: One of the series'
more interesting character designs

In Angel Beats, Sentai avoided substituting the original Japanese singing (Girldemo performances and the graduation song.) with English renditions. Here they didn't. The Anko dance singing in episode 9, sounded half hearted and clumsy as did the "snow march". The substitution of the Pravda girls singing the Katyusha in episode 8 with some kind of Russian "folk polka" music (I guess some copyright issues or something were involved.) didn't help the show either.

Being an old white guy who speaks English, I'm usually all for English dubs. In this case though, the original Japanese is far superior and I'll watch it in that in the future.

All in all I'm glad I now have this series on my shelf. Due to the "poor" English dub, I'm even gladder I got this at a reduced price through Deep Discount DVD (By way of Amazon.).


Article (only) copyright © 12-27-13 Jay Agan

Page 3, Chapter 3 from the manga. The characters seem out of scale. Should be
twice the size they are. Makes the Panzer 4 look like an absolute monster!

Wikipedia review of The Uninvited here.

Wikipedia article of Ray Milland here.

Wikipedia review of Girls und Panzer here.

Crunchyroll anime streaming website here.

Sentai Filmworks website here.

Wikipedia article on Hilary Haag here.

Wikipedia article on Monica Rial here.

Wikipedia article on Brittney Karbowski here.

Wikipedia article on Luci Christian here.

Wikipedia article on Tiffany Grant here.

Wikipedia article on Angel Beats here.

Deep Discount DVD website here.

Amazon.com website here.

The "switched out" Katyusha Girls und Panzer segment here.

Same as above but "full" version with extra footage here.

The Japanese dub "snow march" here.

Japanese Snow March here.

Girls und Panzerlied fanfiction story by C V Ford here.

Girls und Panzer "That Stupid Dance!" fanfiction story by C V Ford here.

C V Fords' profile page with list of stories on fanfiction.net here.

Two of my Girls und Panzer blog articles: 1, 2.


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Interesting Search Words #8

Interesting Search Words #8

Goodies from last week "sent in" by baddies from last week in  their search for strangeness.

1. ayn rand cartoon dying baby - Now I know she may have been a dreadful human being, but COME ON! Evil to be found here.

Credit: Miniver Cheevy/Jonathon Korman
http://miniver.blogspot.com/

2. i wanna leave this planet - You & me both!

3. mikuru asahina sad - So, what else is new? link

4. bad anime children - Pick & choose. Pick & choose.

5. demotivational red heads the other white meat - I always found them to be quite motivational. Tastey too!

6. depravity hentai anime - Obvious & redundant.

7. Brittney Karbowski hentai - She's actually a real person & she doesn't do porn. link

Neither does she.
Credit: Key Animation

8. asuka eva girls in curls - There once was a little girl ..... with a curl ..... in the middle of her forehead. When she was good ..... she was very very good. When she was bad ..... she was SADISTIC! link

9. what is hentai - You must be new to the internet.

"Hentai? Oh! ..... So that's what it is."
What has been seen cannot be unseen.

10. captain kyon - Yes! It's ..... The Adventures of CAPTAAAAAAAIN KYON! The only normal guy in the room. More on him here.

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Angel Beats English Dub: First Impressions or What I Got This Week




Iwasawa & the moron. Of course I mean that in a nice way but you knew that. Right?
Credit: P. A. Works

                            
                Angel Beats English Dub: First Impressions or What I Got This Week

                                                                  by

                                                                      Jay Agan

      My birthday present to myself came earlier than expected. I placed the order at Amazon Friday night. "ETA" 8-4 to 8-6. Came 8-3. No way was I going to pay an extra fifteen bucks to get it 8-1. I waited months for the release, I could wait a few more days.

      Opened the package (snail mail) & there they were. Angel Beats & Kiss Me Deadly. The one I waited for & Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer. Mickey Spillane & anime, what a combo! Va va voom, Mikey! Pow!

      When I read of the English dub casting I had misgivings. Luci Christian as Iwasawa? I immediately thought of the "bad girls" Ms. Christian VOed in the past. Kaname Chidori /Mikura Suzuki/Miss Yukari as the driven musician? No Way! I thought the part of Yuri to be more fitting. My concern lessened as I viewed the eighth ep of Kinos' Journey: "Land of Wizards-Potentials of Magic" wherin she voiced Nimya, the aviatrix. And you know what? She did Iwasawa more than well!

      Brittney Karbowsky, by the way, does an excellent job as Yuri, the girl gunning for God.

      I at first thought Hilary Haag as Yui to be a little too intense, but as the character is that way to begin with, hey, how else could one play the irritating, hyper, too cute to live (She is dead after all.), lovable dipwad?

      Months ago, I You Tubed the series in the original Japanese. I got the impression the show was rather somber with comedic elements here & there. I was a little surprised when I read reviews saying it was more a comedy than I thought. Now watching it in English, I see what they mean. Comedy, at least in my case, is easier heard in ones' own language.

                                           Article copyright © 8-4-2011 Jay Agan

Angel Beats: Not A Haruhi Clone here.

Angel Beats Episode 4.5 here.

Angel Beats Redux here.

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