IOSYS – ANIME HOUSE PROJECT 神曲 selection vol.1

IOSYS in my blog? It’s more likely than you think. Well this isn’t a touhou album so I guess it’s okay. I mean, IOSYS never really grabs my attention (okay, PV songs aside) so I don’t normally give the album a listen when they first come out. That being said, this is pretty old. But my new policy is to review even older stuff! And it was only released tihs year so what am I saying…? Anywho, it’s new to me! Plus, the next IOSYS album in the series comes out this month. But unless this one turns out to be stellar (and it’s not from what I’ve already heard) I won’t be picking it up due to the painfully generic tracklist.

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miko+Resurrection – Sorairo Days

Bricks were shat. (I used much, much more obscene language in my surprise tweet, really) I mean I’m always up for a Sorairo Days remix but when I heard the vocals, my jaw dropped. I mean this video was uploaded in August (around the time of the Albatrosicks review here on Loli Salad) so it’s nothing new. But I hadn’t even heard IOSYS had done an anime album! You can bet there will be a review of this album in the near future. It doesn’t sound great but it’s miko. MIKO. I’m actually reminded of the early Exit Trance stuff (which the new instalment should be out soon, right? I hope I’m not behind…) but that Sorairo Days was good. Meh. Exit Trance never had miko (or ARM for that matter, since he produced this remix)! So I’ll give this darned album a shot! Look forward to it~

EDIT: they have Katagiri Rekka doing a version of Tori no Uta? I think I foamed at the mouth a little. In a good way! Next you’ll be telling me REDALiCE helps out too!

Umineko no Naku Koro ni: First Impressions

I’m a little late but since I originally didn’t want to do this I guess this is better than nothing. I guess I knew I’d do it but it won’t be something consistent. It comes out on Wed, doesn’t it? That doesn’t work well on my schedule so if I did try to write something- y’know what, I’ll just get on with it. If you are new with the anime and have not played the VN, mega spoilers within this post. You won’t be warned again. Kihihihi, said it in red! Said it in red- *beaten by Rosa*

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Yukkurizer

Another useless website for you? (The NicoNico ones weren’t too useless) Well this one is. I don’t know what the point is or what you could do with this.

Also, if you get the error: エラー: 申し訳ありませんが，画像が大きすぎるようです(;_;) that means your image is too large! Just resize it or find a smaller, okay? I got that error a bit, figured it might help to share what it meant.

Useless, but maybe worthy a few tries. Website is here.

Precure Dub: “Do not know if want?”

Okay. Well. Saturday cartoons, right? Precure would be perfect. Hell, watching it I agreed it’s the perfect thing to have been dubbed. If it was marketed like Sailor Moon was they could have done great stuff. I’d buy some Precure merch if I saw it somewhere. Sure. Precure (original) is nostalgia for me. I was just downloading some of the OP themes last night (I don’t care what you guys say, that shit is classic). But I was surprised to see this was on this morning. I’ve been meaning to catch the dub for awhile. But it’s on friday night and I’m usually too busy too watch.

It’s done pretty good for a dub. Hell, I can safely say it’s better than if 4kids would have continued with it. Hell, they kept the lesbian subtext. Although that is series-specific so I don’t think they could have taken that out really. Even so, it was portrayed in such a way that you could perceive it as such. Any who, even though they changed the names they are still very similar (I guess) to the original Nagisa and Honoka. So I can’t even complain. Seriously, Honoka and Hannah? They sound close right? Closer than Usagi and Serena or Ichigo and freaking Zoey. So I guess there wasn’t much localization. They changed some food around and I saw some street signs in japanese and stuff. But, please keep in mind, I’ve only seen one episode.

The voices were okay. Honoka… Hannah… sounded a little limp while Nagisa… Natalie… spoke like… well… a preteen girl. Trying to say a million things a minute. Also, I found a time when her lips weren’t moving and she spoke. I found that endearing though. Because a small company, probably not having dubbed much before, has picked this up. I’ll be fine with any fault. Just rememmber. 4kids didn’t touch it. Although Mepple’s voice was so gosh darn annoying I wanted to punch the little brat. If I watched the series religiously though, it probably wouldn’t bother me. I mostly ignored him at the end.

But what made me had to write this? The bad guy, said: “Come to daddy.” Come. To daddy. To a loli. Well, I’ll tell you. I ROFL’D. And you know what else? You know what made this awesome? When they were doing their “in the name of the moon” speech Danzen! Futari wa Precure! played! Granted it was an instrumental, but my head did a 360 so fast towards the TV I almost broke my neck. It made this already great dub even better. It would have been better if they used it as the OP. But I knew better than to expect that. You know what I did get for an OP? The kind of song sung by a person who I can imagine on an album cover sitting in a random chair, having a smoke and drinking some whiskey. It did not summon up Precure at all. It was pretty slow, drab and dreary. Where as Futari wa Precure? It’s bursting with energy. I can’t help but sing along whenever I hear it. But I can let the OP slide. Because they did throw refrence to the original and it wasn’t as craptastic as (ugh) ‘Mew Mew Power’s’ op (although that was, and believe me I hate to admit this, pretty catchy). And you know what else? While I thought the transformation had been altered, I thought wrong. Because they show both loli’s bare chests for atleast 5 or 8 seconds while they transform. That was enough pedobait to sustain me. They didn’t cover their bare chests. Yesssssssssss. With that pedo line and everything could the dubbing company really be aware of the genre? I haven’t heard responses from any other people so I don’t know if the general animu community recieved the dub as well as I but damn. I think I really want to watch more. Granted there are lots of childish puns and omgboytrouble going around. But I can’t help but feel the dubbers learned from 4kids. And for that, I salute them.

So in the end, did I enjoy myself watching Pretty Cure? Well, of course! As I watched this I thought ‘This is the sort of thing that I fantasised about as a child’. If this had been on, let alone created, it would have just been perfect. They didn’t shove corny jokes or puns too much down or throats (I only could think of one off the top of my head and that was in the preview for the next episode) and I think were aware who might be a secondary audience, fans of the show.

The Good:
“Come to daddy!”, loli chests, Danzen! Futari wa Precure! refrence, ‘good’ renaming, kept the angsty ED animation

The Bad:
voice acting lacks in some parts, opening song is atrocious

The Ugly:
Mepple’s voice: what is this I don’t even

tl;dr? Fang is gay for the precure dub and hopes the following seasons gets covered.

200th Post!

Enjoy some genderswapped Umineko throught this post~
curtosy of one of the greatest fanartists evar,  Suzushiro Kurumi. (who will in time get a FA post, when I get the chance. I have a few artists I want to spam this blog with) Rather old images but…
I just discovered them and they are just cute~ :3

Anyways! This is Loli Salad’s 200th post. Which is kinda sad, right? I mean some blogs get like 200 posts in two months. but those blogs… like… blog anime episodes. Bah, I could never do that, right? Hahaha. Maybe when Umineko comes out… I’ll try! That’ll be a new years resolution, mmmkay? (Isn’t it to late for that?)

Well! In a few months it shall be our two year anniversary. Won’t that be awesome?! I know! It seems like yesterday I was just thinking about how I hadn’t posted anything in awhile after creating LS… (oh, well that happened anyways just now but it’s because I didn’t know how to present this well enough!)

So, here is my other new goal! We shall try to get 100 posts before that previously mentioned anniversary! It’s a few months so it should be easy, right? Hahaha, I hope so! I’ll need some support from the readers here~ (the few, the loved :’3)

There will be lots of video and picture spam and from here on out, riiight? Also, if I can ever figure out how to finish making stepfiles on vista I’ll be posting those here, although they’ll probably have their own page. Haha, here’s hoping. So, let’s get started! Thanks for this far everyone! I’ll do my best from here on out! :D