Sparrow’s Hotel artstyle change

In case someone got as confused as me when watching episode 7 and wanted to know more about it.

The credits for episodes 1-6 (copypasted from the official site)

監督：中村哲治 / Director: Nakamura Tetsuji
キャラクターデザイン：草刈大介 / Character designer: Kusakari Daisuke
音響監督：大室正勝
制作プロダクション：ドリームクリエイション
音響制作：ダックスプロダクション
主題歌制作：cosmic record
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主題歌『Welcome to Sparrow’s Hotel』歌 佐藤小百合(cv 茅原実里)＆塩川環(cv 長嶋はるか)
作詞 kato.yoshihal (Electro.muster)　作曲 Taihi (Electro.muster)　編曲Taihi (Electro.muster)
Sound prduce by Taishi(Electro.muster)　主題歌制作：cosmic record
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アニメーション制作：HOTLINE
製作著作：武闘派フロント係

The official site haven’t updated the cast list for episode 7 onwards. So I read the credits myself during the end of episode 7. The new character designer and director of the show is いまざき いつき/ Imazaki Itsuki. If I read it right, as my reading comprehension of Kanji is still very bad, the production company (Dream Company), seiyuus, and everything else are still the same.

Both designs have their own appeals to me. I liked the one from episodes 1-6 as it reminds me of anime from 2000 or so. The design from episode 7 onwards feels much more like today’s usual chara design. Mainly, Satou is much more cute looking. In any case I’m still laughing watching the show so it’s not a change in the visuals that will make me stop watching.

Randomly saw this chart the other day

Bimbogami ga!! & References

I love this manga, it’s one of my favorite shonen manga, as in I like it just as much as Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Hokuto no Ken or City Hunter. I like it that much. It does everything it does perfectly, it has romance, great characters and it’s hilarious as hell. The manga is finally getting published here and I will buy it as soon as I’m not broke anymore. I love Bimbogami Ga so much and yet I’m not planning to watch the anime. I don’t feel like watching it. Besides the lack of time and other things, the reason I’m about to talk about now is the fact that from the bits I’ve seen of it, there’s way more parodies than in the manga. The panel on top is from volume 12′s afterword, and it seems to confirm my assumptions.

I like parodies and references when they contribute to the plot, and if they’re actually funny. If you don’t get the reference, the scene should be funny, and if you do get the reference, the scene should be even funnier. This is my definition of a good reference or parody. I don’t like the act of putting references just for the act of doing it.
I like it when they contribute a minimum to the plot, and stays in the show’s continuity. Like, if a character says a line that was used in a popular show, you could turn that scene into a parody by drawing the character in the same style as the character who said the line originally. (This happens a lot in the manga.) I’m not good with explaining things like these but a really good example of a show/manga with good continuity and parodies is Seto no Hanayome. If you’ve read or seen that you should easily get what I mean. An example of references I don’t like are the ones in Nyaruko.

SRW Masoukishin 3: Pride of Justice announced + 1st PV released!!

TERADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I am so hyped as f*ck right now. I’m so preordering it even if I haven’t finished 2 yet.

Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live – 05

In this episode we finally get a proper introduction for Kamihama Kouji, the hipster guy who sings on roofs. He’s grown to dislike anything Prism Show-related after a guy he knows called Hiro used one of his songs for his own Prism Show debut, without revealing that Kouji was the song’s author, stealing all the credit. Naru managed to open back his heart with her Ugly Duck fairytale that had a nice dose of Prism Radiance. Romantically, I’m not sure whether he’ll end up with her or Ito. It’s a good idea the staff had to not make it obvious. Needless to say, I broke down in tears of laughter seeing this scene. I hope there’s more cameos like that.

Naru’s parents got more screentime this week and it’s thanks to them she managed to persuade Kouji to write her song. Her dad Ryuunosuke is voiced by Chiba Susumu, who did JUN in the previous seasons. Her mom Shion is voiced by Yuzuki Ryouka.

Beru yet again showed another side of her personality in the scene she and her friends appeared. This time though, her Chaos Frame went down. I do not like how she looks down on Kouji for “giving up” on his dreams. Especially the tone of voice she used. Tomatsu Haruka did a really good job making me think: “wow, what a bitch.”

(gif from 2chan, thanks to Erasu on /foolz/ for posting it)

As of Naru’s prism show, I loved her dance, especially the side-sliding with both feet thing. I can’t help but think she did her own version of La Dance Des Canards, would be pretty funny if that’s what the staff had in mind, the episode did feature the Ugly Duck’s fairytale after all. However I didn’t like the song, too idol-ish for me. Maybe I’ll like it after listening to it a few more times. I never ended up liking Cosmos’ and P&P’s songs in Dear My Future though. As for Sprouts’s Mirage JET, I still loop it from time to time, it’s easily my favorite song in Dear My Future.

I’ll probably won’t post about next week’s episode, I have midterms. That’s also why I posted this week’s so early. We’re getting Ito’s song next week. If you have money remember to order the character song CD.

Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live – 04

Naru did this week’s Prism Show, though it got hijacked by Rinne. She may have done the same jumps as in episode 1, my heart totally skipped a beat when she slid on the rainbow walkway she created herself. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I also loved how she counted her jumps just like Amuro would count the zakus he’d shot down.

The other scenes catching my attention is how Beru is again confronted with Naru’s aloofness, but managed to keep her composure. The most obvious route Beru can follow would be snapping and turn into the rival that’s angry because a girl who doesn’t know anything can rival with her without any hard work. I really hope this doesn’t happen as I’ve seen enough of that already. It would be really nice to see her keep her calm at all times like she did this episode and never go down the path of the jealous girl.

And then there was Wakana, who seems to hate An. She only reacted from hearing her name, not seeing An’s face. From the fact that it’s a sport show and that An is the captain of the Prism Show club of her school, I think Wakana must have met An’s team (she didn’t personally meet An) at some kind of tournament and ended up loosing. She then heard the team she lost to was lead by Fukuhara An, and now holds a grudge against her. It’s also pretty funny how Wakana calls Naru the “chuugakusei tenchou/ middle-schooler manager” while she’s a chuugakusei herself.

We’ll get a new song next episode.

More than 430 people killed as a building collapses in Bangladesh’s capital city Dacca

As you probably know if you watch the news, the building was housing a clothing factory, clothes that are mainly exported to EU after their manufacture, and sold dozen times their manufacturing price.  The companies who were subcontracting the factory will go unpunished like always. They’ll give 80 € as “indemnity” to the families of the victims  and only after asking them tons of things justifying the person who deceased in their family was working at the factory. The thing I find the most sickening is that the media will talk about it for a while and then everyone will forget about it and keep buying Mango clothes, and this kind of slavery will keep existing while no one does something about it.