This is a premature release of Boku-tachi no BLOG, my new take in anime blogging. As from now on, BrianAndrew will be renamed as Boku-tachi no BLOG (please update link) and my personal blog will be a separate of its own. Also, I am more than happy to announce my new blog team, Team Zero. So say welcome to the other two members of the team (besides myself) - Loba and Max. And yeah, this blog is going to be a team blog.
Team Zero, blast off!
I was checking my mail earlier today when I came upon a mail bearing the title “Inaugural Anime Blog Award”. I was perplexed indeed but equally excited because for a moment, I actually thought that I was nominated for some anime blog award. Nonetheless I know my chances are dead zero. Here’s an excerpt of the invite:
Given the exponential growth of the anime blogosphere, the number of quality blogs with insightful opinions and perspectives are ever increasing. Yet a majority of the blogs out there remain isolated, lacking a sense of community and meaningful interaction. The Anime Blog Awards was created in order to bridge that gap by recognising worthy bloggers and their achievements in various fields.
I greatly applaud this move. Mainly because now, anime bloggers felt more appreciated though they may not necessarily got nominated for it. This award serves the unifying purpose among the anime blogger community as well as awarding those outstanding ones among the lot. I wasted no time to register myself and name my nomination list for those notable anime blogs that I’m currently following.
The initiative began on 19th March 2008 and the works are progressing to the promotional and nomination stages. Though the official date of the Anime Blog Awards (ABA) is 1st April, nominations will be carried out since 20th March and continues until 22nd April. Voting will begin on 25th April until 1st June before the final results are out. There are many nomination categories to choose from, so nominate those anime blogs appropriately to its categories. In order to nominate, you must first register to the blog and give out at least 9 nominations for 9 different categories. It’s a little tedious but the rationale is so that everyone takes this award prizing event seriously, not simply nominate and leave.
Well, I already gave my nominations for ABA. Anime bloggers, please pledge your support to this initiative. Also, remember to vote once the nominations are in. Stay tuned.
As we all know Code Geass is back this year with the sequel Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2. The airing date has been confirmed on April 2008 on its partner channel MBS. Obviously those who follow the story are not happy with the cliffhanger ending because cliffhanger just sucks. Story-wise there won’t be much of a change but if this is Code Geass, then expect more unexpected plot twists that makes everyone beg for more. However judging from the trailer, I am a little worried that Lelouch might have lost his Geass and there will be little attention to CC’s history. If these two were to happen especially the latter, I’m losing my confidence in this sequel already. Nonetheless with season 1 as the benchmark, season 2 definitely worth the anticipation.
Finally, the popular demand for Darker Than Black is getting onto the fansubs to get things working. Although the subbers are anonymous, I must say that I appreciate their job - despite their bad subs (but it’s better than to have none). However from this experience, the lesson ought is to learn Japanese.
I’m making slight changes to the blog - in case you didn’t noticed. This includes a brand new blog statistics. Basically my blog stats would reset back to zero. Just to keep the record straight, I’ll keep the default statistics for another week before I make a total transition to the new blog stats. Another cool feature I’ve added is the statistics map, which tell me and the readers where are the other readers originate from. Don’t worry, this is not CIA. No pin-point location is given. But still, it is a cool feature. Also more initiative buttons were added. Do please check those out - and I’m not doing this as an advertisement.
Another matter is this blog’s new name. I am aware that this blog has gone several changes in its name - from Life’s Never Normal to Chronicles by Brian (err… just 2 changes). However I’m making this final. Presenting BrianAndrew - my personal space on the web. Hopefully when I get my own domain, I would rename it (again) to BrianAndrew.net (unless there are sponsors, I’m taking it all).
Both of the songs - Kakusei Heroism ~The Hero Without A Name~ and Dreams are available for download in the download section.
Expectedly Darker Than Black has released their new second opening and ending theme. The opening song by Antic Cafe is entitled Kakusei Heroism ~The Hero Without A “Name”~ while the ending song by HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR is entitled Dreams. From my point of view, the new opening song is good but not as exciting compared with the first one, HOWLING by abingdon boys school. Some rock music elements are much appropriate to suit the theme songs for Darker Than Black. That is why their second opening track is a letdown. However the new second ending song is much worse disappointment. Just about when I got attached with the first ending song, Tsukiakari by Rie Fu, this second ending song did not gain much of my attention. To sum it all, their new opening and ending theme is less better compared to the previous ones. With this, all I am saying is that the songs are not all bad altogether. It’s just that the songs are a little less exciting by comparison.
I wanted to upload the AMV for the second opening and ending theme for Darker Than Black on YouTube myself but due to some encoding errors, I failed to fulfill that. That is why I am borrowing someone else’s video. Credits to Hadesillo for the video.
Kakusei Heroism ~The Hero Without A “Name”~
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