Yen Press revealed several covers of it’s monthly manga magazine Yen+ earlier this month. First issue today at most major bookstores. Now you can own the Soul Eater manga, even though they won’t release individual volumes of it till next year.
Upcoming Soul Eater avatar contest is going to take place within the next week. Look out for more information on how to enter on the forum.
The characters in this Soul Eater opening are drawn much more street smart and at certain parts, more cute like. Pay attention for Chorna’s segment.
There’s also going to be an upcoming new feature to Anime Gerad and various new sub-forums. Stay tuned.
Amano Yukiteru is a boy who doesn’t really have any friends, even in high school. He also made it a habbit to keep notes of his life on his cell and eventually started making friends with an imaginary friend Deus X Makina. She rules everything including space and time. So what does this super powered friend do? Allows him to write what will happen in the future. Mirai Nikki takes the supernatural a step further by having to survive a game that determines the Deus Ex Machina. The game plays where you have to kill using diaries, with personalities and stat like attributes that are based on the personality. One can win by destroying the diary.
The manga is still going and it’s not licensed. The other name this manga goes by is Future Diary. There’s also a side manga called Future Diary: Mosaic which shows everything from other players. Guess just incase people didn’t like the main set of characters.
Follow the link to more Mirai Nikki cosplay.
Chaos Wars is a Playstation 2 game that was released early this June. Of course someone decided to add English voice acting. On a postitive note, the game does have music by Sound Horizon. If video game companies can’t at least catch up to anime dubs, perhaps they should quit. Then again, people will complain that they have to read.
Tokyopop has just announced they cancelled Lagoon Engine. No volumes six and seven. Someone should stick it to them by making the manga crazy popular even though it’ll go unfinished in English.
Lagoon Engine stars two brothers who can’t reveal their real names. They go by Yen and Jin Ragun and their duty is to defeat spirits called maga. Yen is focused, calm, and rational while his brother is implusive and fine with running into a fight that he might not win. To defeat maga they have maga of their own. Yen’s is Koga (of a type able to gather information) and Jin’s is Sora (all power and no brain).
The battles in Lagoon Engine are special. A barrier must first be created to make it so both sides cannot see each other and neither side knows the others name. Once a side guesses or discovers the other sides name they can see them and be able to wipe out their opponent. As the story develops there are people who don’t fight maga, but have other uses for them. Along the way you come across other beings and family members of the Ragun brothers.
Lagoon Engine is worth much for its subtle hints and the many battles. At least DNAngel volume twelve is coming, as it was released in Japan June 16th. Maybe.
Tsubomi is a young girl coming of age and along with it she gets new feelings and changes in her body. Her mom is having another baby, but she’s doesn’t fully know how that happens and why. She has to learn to deal with her growing feeling for Nemoto and when there are other girls around him. Daiki Nemoto is not just someone at school, but also her neighbor and friend of friends. Not like you can avoid him? Ater a while he learns he has feelings for Tsubomi in return.
Hakaba Kitarou is without suprise the annoying bully like character who just happens to be the blonde boy. He’s also only main character in the circle that has a male voice actor. Kitarou is a pervert who’s teasing has made little Kato concerned about staying cute and thin. He’s easy to relate to because many people including myself treat others they like kinda the same way. Always pushing buttons, bringing shocking bits of news, and name calling for attention.
If you’re interested in watching Naisho no Tsubomi, the fansub group Underwater makes it very clear they don’t like VLC player. There’s special coding that covers the whole screen asking why you’re still using it and that it sucks. It’ll show you what’s being said, but it’s not worth it.
Characters are drawn very modern and casual with even some wearing baggy pants. Expectations of Naisho no Tsubomi was that the anime would be too blunt or educational. Mention something perverted though, you get everyone’s attention. Mostly from boys. And there’s several mildly pervert bits to this anime like Tsubomi getting dressed.
