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Hunter x Hunter Remake (2011)

Thoughts and insights on Hunter x Hunter Remake (2011)
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Yay! For this season’s line up of anime series.  Its been a while since I’ve had interest in recently released anime.  This Fall, Hunter x Hunter’s remake is in the anime line up! I don’t remember the exact age I was when I was watching this on national TV, what Im sure about is that I was in the elementary when I started to watch it. It was the biggest anime released in that year, and all my schoolmates were all talking about it. The best I can remember of this anime is the part where there was a big storm ( I cant remember a lot of the episodes), and I can remember that because upper classmen and classmates were talking about it on the bus during one of our biggest field trips. Usually everyone was just in their seats, talking about whatever, sleeping, eating snacks, but during that time everyone were enthusiastically talking about the big storm over at Hunter x Hunter.

During the early days of Janime (watch anime online), when it was just on its alpha stage, one of the first anime that was requested by its users was Hunter x Hunter. I didn’t rewatch this anime, and I didn’t really watch most of the episodes (its hard to watch your favorite shows when you have an elder sister and a mom watching the dramatic shows on the other channel) so I don’t really know the storyline, or at least I forgot what the storyline was, and I was intrigued by how people want to watch this old anime again.  On my 1^st year in college, during the second semester, Hunter x Hunter was aired again in the same channel. I did not know until we visited my classmate’s dorm because its time slot was between 8am and 10am, and that was the year I started waking up at around 10:30am to 12pm.  So as we hang out in my classmate’s dorm on a regular basis due to projects and stuff, I found out that most of my friends like this anime, and even though they have watched it many times, they still want to watch it.

Last season, me and my friend smiley found out that there is going to be a remake of the series and it will be aired in October. This made him excited and told me that he was going to watch it again. He convinced me to watch it too, since the animation is going to be better and it will follow the storyline of the manga. Earlier, I watched the first episode of the series and shared it to my friends. My friends were so excited and decided to watch it. I was disappointed with the animation because although the resolution is way much better now, I think the colors and the character design did not meet with my expectations. Seeing that Im not an expert in this series, I asked my friend what he thinks is new with the animation… his answer… “Mito’s hair got shinier”.

Im expecting a lot from this series, and I hope it converts me to be a fan.

The Truth:
According to a National Geographic article published October 19,2005, there were at least three cases discovered of dogs being used for shark bait on the island of Réunion.   The island is under French control and lies off the east coast of the African Continent. Click for article

The article said that Reha Hutin, the president of Paris based Foundation 30 Millions d’Amis (the Thirty Million Friends Foundation) sent a film crew to the small volcanic island to document claims that live animals were being used by fishermen to catch sharks. They discovered that stray dogs and cats on the island are viewed as vermin and the foundation plans to finance a sterilization program to reduce the population of strays.

This still video photograph was in the National Geographic article taken by Thirty Million Friends Foundation. This dog managed to escape fishermen before it could be used as live bait and was lucky enough to be found and taken for medical attention. He is shown here as a veterinarian prepares to remove the hook from it’s snout.   The operation was a success and the dog is now at home with its owners.

Click here for petition.

My alarm started to piss me off at 6 in the morning, and it did a good job waking me up. I woke up quarter to 9 am. I decided to arrive at the university by 10am, but then I forgot that I cant take the car with me because its Friday and there might be no available parking slots for me near the University, and so I decided to commute. on my way to the university, I noticed that traffic was not as heavy as I thought it would be, in fact the traffic was light. then when I arrived at my destination, there were a lot of parking space. if only I had taken my car I would not be 30 minutes late.

I felt I was having a good day (not counting the tardiness) since the processing of papers at the university went very smooth. because I finished early, I decided to eat with my mates. We ate at a fast-food restaurant nearby, and then…. DEJA VU! My friends went to the cashier while I stayed at our table, our table has seats for 4 people, my 2 friends will sit on the other side, and I will sit on the opposite side. since there was still space for one more on my side, I decided to lay my stuff in there.

I saw a cute girl with hot aviator sunnies, I was just admiring her from the distance, but to my surprise she started to walk towards me. girl:” Are you on your own?” … mr. stupid “ummm no” … girl:”is that seat taken? *points to the seat with my stuff* … mr. stupid: “*looks left and right* (there are alot of vacant tables) ummm yea… yes, its taken” … girl:”oh ok”

…Vio is now loading…

What have I DONE?!!

I turned my head around and looked at the cashier where my friends were, and they were staring funny at me. STRIKE 2

how pathetic was that?

One of the segments of Gaki no Tsukai is its Batsu Games, or punishment games

“Batsu Games

Perhaps the best known Gaki no Tsukai episodes are those dealing with batsu games, or punishment games, in which one or more of the cast members are subjected to after losing bets, major competition, or physical challenges.

The “No Laughing” Batsu Game itself (broadcast annually during the New Year’s Holiday) was first introduced in 2003. The premise of each “No Laughing”-punishment game is, the losing members of the cast have to endure many compromising, absurd, generally ridiculous situations for a long period of time (up to 24-hours, thus far) but must refrain from laughing at any of them. Whenever someone does laugh, and he is caught by A Watcher, the announcer of the game will declare that person as having just become “out” (アウト or a-u-to in Katakana); immediately afterwards, the appropriate number of “hang-men” will come out to mete the rule breaker’s punishment. (To date, this has been executed via single strikes on the buttocks {or somewhere in that area} with a weapon — one which does not change mid-game.)

To keep the Gaki no Tsukai Guys on their toes, there have been occasions where other conditions besides laughing had been set that could make them out, if fulfilled; also, the “victors” of the prelim-trial (if there are any) can make appearances during games to wreak further mischief and potentially cause even more discomfort to the losers.”

this is one of my favorites.

LOL ‘the Onion’ strikes again. LONDON—Barely a month after marrying 29-year-old Kate Middleton in a royal wedding ceremony watched by an estimated 2 billion people worldwide, Prince William announced Tuesday that he and Middleton have divorced and that the entire marriage was “a tremendous mistake in every possible regard.” “I really don’t know what I was thinking—we’re a terrible match, I don’t love her and never have, and, to be honest, I never really had any interest in being married in the first place,” announced the now unattached Prince William to a dead-silent British press corps. “People thought our wedding was some sort of fairy tale, but I assure you it was all just some ghastly ceremonial farce that got out of hand. I’m just relieved it’s over, frankly. And I’m glad I’ll never have to see that awful woman again.” Prince William then told the assembled reporters, “Well, see you all later,” smiled, and walked back into Buckingham Palace

The Onion = LIES haha

I think my plan to post daily is slowly failing, ive been so busy developing  janime that i dont have the time to think of blog posts. Again here is another blogpost from another blog courtesy of Ramblings of Darkmirage

I am months late to the game, but I found this interesting Japanese-learning website set up by the Japan Foundation called Erin’s Challenge! I can speak Japanese. It has a few dozen short skits with copyable soft-subs in Japanese, kana, romaji and English and a bunch of Flash learning apps. The corny acting is so amusing. The website also comes in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Korean.

The Flash video player it uses to do soft-sub and line-by-line playback makes me wonder if a similar interface might be helpful for anime/drama playback. Everything is soft-subbed these days; maybe it’s time we do something with it.

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