I realised that I have not made a single post in this blog throughout January. Minus the resolutions for 2008 post which was meant for the whole year round, I had written nothing else regarding animes. Well, I could come up with some excuse, but now that I think of it, the excuse that I'm probably going to be using is "I'm too busy with life". Predictable, eh? I'd just feel ashamed of myself if I were to use that lame excuse again considering that I've used it many times last year. And so, no more excuses. It's better to look forward to the future than and work hard to look behind at the past and be disturbed by it.

The awards of the last two months had failed to take place due to me having some unavoidable activities on the dates of the awards, and therefore, I'm including both the two month's potential winners into this month's awards. Although there are three months, but there'll only be one winner for each award based on their exposure and viewer's acceptance. Clannad, Midori Days and Nodame Cantabile would be the main contenders in this awards. Here it goes:

( Best Male Character: Sawamura Seiji (Midori no Hibi) )
( Best Female Character: Ibuki Fuko (Clannad) )
Best Villian: None
Best Non-Human Character: None
( Best OP: Allegro Cantabile Sound by Suemitsu & The Suemith (Nodame Cantabile) )
( Best ED: Dango Daikazoku by Chata (Clannad) )
( Best Quote: Under the cut )
( Best Scene: Under the cut )
( Best Seiyuu: Mai Nakahara )

There goes our Health Minister, being forced to tender his resignation due to a sex scandal - he was videotaped having sex with a "personal friend" of his, but that's off topic. School's starting for me tomorrow so I won't be able to be active online anymore, but that's off topic again. Nevermind.

Oh and yeah, Happy New Year 2008 to all readers of Yamaki's Anime Blog.

What I am supposed to do right now, is to think of a few resolutions for the year 2008, hoping that I can actually achieve them by the end of the year, and that means that I have around 365 days to complete whatever that I have added into the resolutions.
Oh and by the way,I was in camp the last week so I had to cancel the Remedial Anime Awards for December 2007. Let's hope that nothing would happen to me when it comes to the last Saturday of this month so the January 2008 awards can take place.

Welcome to the NHK or NHK ni Yokoso is definitely one weird manga. Weird indeed. However so, it gives you the feeling of happiness and satisfaction after reading it. Personally I've just read all 40 chapters of the mangas online and I'm definitely satisfied. I'm not really sure what gave me this satisfaction, perhaps it was seeing that all of the characters in the series are all so pitiable in a sense compared to myself, or perhaps the story isn't as predictable as I've first thought and expected. Everything may go upside down at the very last minute, just because everyone's telling lies - big fat lies that everyone so helplessly fall into even though it's very obvious. Maybe that's what human beings are in the first place.

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(I know it's a bit early but who cares?)

Merry Christmas to all of the readers of Yamaki's Anime Blog!


P.S. Feel free to use the above video for next year's Saimoe. Fuko definitely deserve a place in the tournament.

Like I promised, here's the anime music video (AMV) which I have made. Sorry I couldn't release it on time, it was a public holiday for my country to celebrate Hari Raya Qurban and so my father was at home so I couldn't go online.

The title of this AMV is My Angel. It was named after the title of the song I've used in the AMV, "Tian Shi" which means "Angel" in English. I knew that sola hadn't had anything to do with angels at all, but I felt that it would be good nevertheless. Like my previous AMVs, I've created this one using Windows Movie Maker as well.

I've focused on Yorito, Matsuri and Takashi while maintaining a minimal appearance of Mana in this music video. Scenes of conflicts and skirmish between Takashi and Matsuri were used during the chorus while for the others, scenes between Yorito and Matsuri being together are used. The whole AMV will have the feeling of Matsuri helplessly trying to escape from Takashi who's hunting for her as Yorito tried his best to help. However so, Matsuri didn't want Yorito to get too involved, so she tried her best to "leave" Yorito for his own good. The ending part shows Matsuri and Yorito on a boat together, laughing happily as they watch birds fly by the sky.

Scenes that are used in the AMV are mainly from episode 2 and 3 of the anime so the amount of spoilers are minimal, even if there are any at all. Therefore, you people don't have to worry of getting spoiled!

If you want, you can download the AMV over here. I'll only upload the song if there's any special request.

Thanks for watching! (if you have watched, that's it.) :D