Anime

So this might be something that's only of interest to me. I recently watched this anime called Ore no Imouto wa konna ni kawaii wake ga nai/My little sister can't be this cute, so I thought I'd listen to the Internet radio show for the show. It was kind of interesting, so I thought to transcribe some of it and share it with you guys

Radio show thread

My thoughts on the anime thread

HeartCatch 46 released

The word:
Munashii 空しい 【むなしい】 (adj) vacant, futile, vain, void, empty, ineffective, lifeless, (P)
Thought this would be an interesting word to mention because the kanji for that means sky usually, but it's also used for space/vacuum

So at last volume 3 is released

Version one cuts off at the end

As performed by...

Mizuki Nana, a pretty cute lady in her own rights... and...

Some of these girls? Maybe? I dunno, ABC123 or something. I don't even know if the girls in this video are in this picture. Do you?

And including Queen from Kamen Rider W
 

Thread

In an effort to scale back on stuff, TN is backing out of the Rockman project. Maybe Zokusei will pick it up and continue it elsewhere. Rockman forums

Overall, for this year I really want to scale back on picking up new shows/series and just working on our tremendous backlog of stuff. It frustrates our fans who are waiting for it and it frustrates our staff who aren't able to work on stuff. I guess we'll see if we can keep that up. Persoanlly, if we can get some older series completed, that'd make me super happy

Sorry, no doujin this week. Have some stuff I found while looking for splash material

HeartCatch 45 Maybe we have something else planned for New Year's Eve?

The Word:
Onshitsu 温室 【おんしつ】 (n) greenhouse, (P)
From the kanji for "warm" and "room". Makes sense to me

Doujin one. This one by Zooya. I didn't read the whole thing, just grabbed a few pages that seemed funny

Doujin two. Seems like these were both made by Zooya. I don't really read doujin except to do these mini previews for the front page. No time, wish I had more time since some of these look pretty interesting

HC 22 released

The word:
Amaenbou 甘えん坊 【あまえんぼう】 (adj-na,n) pampered or spoiled child (spoilt)
Combined from Amai/indulgent/soft on/overly optimistic/naive and bou//monk/boy

What a great mashup

Episode 43

Kudou Mayu Music Videos HeartCatch Paradise, Tomorrow Song, Precure All Stars Parts 1-3, and something I found on youtube

The word:
Shintoumekkyaku 心頭滅却 【しんとうめっきゃく】 (n) clearing one's mind of all mundane thoughts
First two kanji are heart and head. The second two together mean to extinguish

Wallpaper from the official site

This week's doujin, Happy Happy Flower Life:
The cover and inside cover
First 4-panel comic of the doujin. The comics basically tell a story of Erika hanging out with Tsubomi for a day.

Credit page

HeartCatch 42 released

Today's word:
Hitasura 只管 【ひたすら】 (adj-na,adv) (uk) nothing but, earnestly, intently, (P)
From the kanji for tada/only, and kan/pipe. Kind of like the metaphor for being railroaded, eh?

Since the series is ending, I'm probably going to just introduce random doujin. This one I just like the drawing of Erika

This one has kind of a funny 4 panel comic and the cover is cute with the depiction of the monsters of the week. Middle pic has the credit/website of the creator as well as a picture of Erika

HC 41 released

The word:

Ai 愛 【あい】 (n,n-suf,vs) love

All you need is ai

If you like this series, why not check out Powerpuff Girls Z? Image from this site

Last three pages for this doujin. It includes a url in the first pic, maybe check out their other stuff?

HC 40 released yesterday

The word:

Ninki 任期 【にんき】 (n) term of office, (P)

Just wanted to note this as sounding the same as ninki/popularity

HeartCatch forums

Remember that you can resume batch torrents

39 released

The word:

Chirakasu 散らかす 【ちらかす】 (v5s) to scatter around, to leave untidy, (P)

Chire... senbonzakura!

Don't you wish all problems could be resolved so simply?

The word:

Yowamushi 弱虫 【よわむし】 (n) coward, weakling, (P)

From the kanji for weak and bug

HeartCatch 37 released

Comment on the news post here

About karaoke: I'm sure you know that the karaoke is formatted so that you can sing along to it. But did you also know that the all-cap parts are words that are written in katanana (the alphabet used for sounds and foreign words) and the double vowels are used to represent long vowel sounds.

The word:

Uchiki 内気 【うちき】 (adj-na,n) bashfulness, shyness, reserve, timidity, (P)

Made of the kanji uchi/inside and ki/mind/spirit

Gather up Precures!

8th Anniversary thread

HeartCatch 36 released

It's kind of fitting that we're releasing a weekly first. Weeklies make up the bulk of our work. They're the easiest to do because there's a clear yet soft deadline to them. Even a daunting 52 episode show isn't too bad if you break it up into just once a week parts. At the same time, it's also a lot of work on the back end to release a Kamen Rider, a Sentai, and whatever else on a weekly basis. A big hand to the weekly staff for their endless grind

8th Anniversary thread

HC 35 released

Let's celebrate being caught up with the HD by continuing to release the SD first. The HD version should be out in a day or two.

Comment on the news post here

The word:

Gekou 下校 【げこう】 (n,vs) coming home from school, end of school day

Made of the kanji Down+School. I can sorta see how they came up with that. If you have trouble remembering that down can be pronounced as ge, remember that phrase from Faiz. "Ge no ge" or "the lowest of the low"