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Megami Magazine Vol. 108

Nopy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:14:40 +0000

After nearly a month of waiting, I finally got vol. 108 of Megami Magazine. This volume contains a lot of Clannad After Story and mostly posters of older series. Since I had some free time today I decided to scan the posters in to see how they turned out.

More Nanoha is always good. Still waiting for the movie though.

Toradora was an awesome story, if you haven’t seen it I suggest you do so soon, you don’t know what you’re missing.

Queen’s Blade looks like an ero anime disguised as a regular anime…

I’ve never seen Da Capo or Da Capo II so I don’t know who this maid girl is, but she’s so cute ^.^

At this point I stopped scanning the posters. My scanner could only fit half a poster at a time so it took a while to scan each one and sticking the two halves together was a bit annoying too.

I think Ushio looks too much like a boy. They should have drawn her more like the girl that’s always with that robot.

Seeing Nagisa in those clothes somehow reminds me of Card Captor Sakura, all she’s missing is a wand and some Clow Cards.

One big happy family. It’s so hard to believe that Sanae is actually a grandmother, she looks so young.

The K-ON craze (or Mio craze) is really getting out of hand. I’m sure there will be more of these posters to come in the next few volumes of Megami Magazine.

Is it just me, or is Nodoka not wearing any panties?

I wish they had a poster of Mikoto and Kuroko instead of these three. Oh well, Mikoto is getting her own anime so I’m happy.

Overall, I didn’t think the posters in this volume were that spectacular. The only two that I really liked was the Da Capo II one and the one with Nagisa in that white dress.

Although the posters lacked content from the new season, at least the main part of the magazine had some nice full-page ads and screenshots of some new anime.

After watching the first episode of Hatsukoi Limited, I decided to read the manga, which turned out pretty good. It’s not as loaded with fanservice as Lilim Kiss or Ighigo 100% (same author), but in my opinion the story was much better.

Everyone probably already knows this, but the K-ON opening and ending songs were released on April 22.

I just thought I’d point out something here: the girl on the far left seems to be missing a vital piece of clothing.

I watched the first episode of Tayutama, the character designs are really nice, but it looks like another harem anime and I’ve gotten sick of harem anime now.

Phantom, on the other hand looks to have a lot of potential. Hopefully it doesn’t suck as much as people said the OVA did.

I didn’t know about this until I saw this page, but there’s a Toradora game coming out for the PSP. Now if only I had a PSP and knew how to read Japanese :(

Up till now, every Megami Magazine that I’ve gotten has come with a large double-sided poster, but that’s not the case this time. Instead of inserting a large poster along with this volume, Megami Magazine included a little booklet on Clannad After Story.

There were a lot of nice pictures on the cover so I thought there would be larger version inside the booklet, but I was wrong.

Most of the booklet was like what you see above. There was also four pages with the characters in different outfits which is a bit better, but not as good as having a poster.

After looking through the booklet, I was rather diappointed in it. If you’re a big Clannad fan, then this volume of Megami Magazine would be worth getting, but just keep in mind that this one doesn’t come with a large poster.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 107

Nopy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:29:20 +0000

This volume of Megami Magazine features the girls of Toradora on the front cover (yay!) As you can probably tell from my other posts, Toradora is one of my favourite series so I was really happy to see Ami, Minori and Taiga on the cover ^.^

There were a lot of good posters this time around as you can see:

I found Fuuko to be a bit annoying, but her conversations with Tomoya were hilarious.

Index’s battle costume is awesome. Too bad they didn’t have Mikoto or Kuroko dress up as well.

I think the goth-loli fashion looks weird in real life, but it looks really nice in anime.

It’s nice to see that Nanoha still makes some appearances in Megami Magazine every once in a while. I’m still waiting for the movie to come out.

I’ve heard of a root beer float, but I’ve never seen whipped cream on melon soda, much less with a naked girl on top. Akikan sure does provide a lot of strange fanservice.

That’s a scary dog sitting on the girl o.o

Rin sure knows how to tease people, but at least Kuro seems to be enjoying herself.

This is my favourite poster in this volume. I like how the three of them have their hair tied up in ponytails, and although I have a bunch of Toradora posters already, more is always better.

This girl was also in the previous volume. I looked up the title and she’s from an eroge called “Tayutama – Kiss on My Diety” which is being aired as an anime this spring. The plot seems kinda dumb, but the character designs are nice, so there’s probably going to be more posters to come.

Queen’s Blade will also be airing this spring, but it seems more like an excuse to show off scantily clad women fighting with swords.

If anyone knows where I can find the wallpaper for the Hayate no Gotoku image above, I’d appreciate it if you left a comment here pointing the way :)

There were several pages in this volume that featured the main female cast of Toradora. I liked the little chart they have at the top left beside Minori and Taiga that shows everyone’s relationship with each other.

Ami and Minori get their own pages here. With the way things turned out in episode 24, I wonder if anything will happen between the two of them ;)

Clannad After Story turned out to have a happy ending, which is good since everyone is happy now, but I thought it basically turned the last part of the series into filler since it’s actually a “what if” scenario.

Myself;Yourself Sorezore no Finale is being released on April 30 for the PS2. Nowadays it seems that the only games that come out for the PS2 are dating games.

After watching a few episodes of Haruhi-chan and Churuya-san, I’d have to say Haruhi-chan is better. The animation in Haruhi-chan is more detailed (they don’t have dots for eyes) and it’s actually funny, unlike Churuya-san which just makes no sense at all.

There are a lot of risque figures that are/will be available. Sometimes I wonder what the girlfriends of the guys that collect more revealing figures think about them (if these girlfriends even exist).

Here’s some more anime merchandise in the form of posters, DVDs and alarm clocks.

This is the first time I’ve heard of Chaos (character operating system). At first I thought it was some kind of program that turned your operating system on your computer to some anime theme, but it turns out to be some special cards for some game.

Weib Scharz is also now selling Lucky Star cards.

The large poster that came with this volume seems to be bunny themed.

On one side are the girls from Kannagi in bunny costumes.

On the other side are Minori and Taiga from Toradora in bunny costumes. It’s too bad they’re missing Ami in this poster, she’s my favourite character :(

This volume of Megami Magazine is my favourite so far, mainly because it has more Toradora stuff. But besides Toradora, I didn’t think there were many bland posters this time around and there was some variety of shows both old, current, and upcoming.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 106

Nopy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:31:46 +0000

I had so much paper build up on my desk during the last couple of weeks that my copy of Megami Magazine volume 106 got lost in all of it. This volume features Nagi and Zange on the cover and includes part 2 of the book-in-book section for Kannagi. There were some nice posters this time, but I don’t know where half of them are from, I guess I’m really falling behind on my anime.

Mmm, melon soda sure seems tempting. Has anyone else noticed how suggestive this Akikan poster is, a pop can in a very enviable position and a banana gun?

The ever fashionable Ami shows off her adorable Minori and Taiga purse straps.

It’s like they’re ranking Kaori, Mikoto, and Index here from top to bottom. Poor Index is at the bottom, but she doesn’t seem to mind.

Is it just me, or is Kuro missing some vital clothing?

Nanami really likes those gero frog things.

I’ve never heard of this anime. Is this girl’s cat ears and tail actually ears and a tail, or is that just her hair shaped strangely? Also, what are those strange things trying to strip her?

Out of the pull-out posters in this volume, I liked the Toradora one best since Ami is my favourite character. I also liked the one with the semi-cat-girl even though I’ve never seen the anime she’s from. My third favourite would be the Akikan poster for obvious reasons :)

Fans of Akikan and Asu no Yoichi will be pleased to hear that the first dvds will be coming out on April 15, and March 25 respectively.

There was quite a bit of info on Kannagi, all in Japanese though.

I really liked the cover of the Kannagi book-in-book, really nice art.

Within the book-in-book were a lot of screenshots from the anime along with information on all the characters.

The back cover also had some nice artwork.

As you may or may not know, the 3rd season of Zero no Tsukaima was censored during the tv broadcasts to help increase sales of the dvds which aren’t censored. The last volume came out on January 23, and the box set will be coming out soon on March 6.

One of the things I like about Megami Magazine is that you find things that you wouldn’t normally find anywhere else, like this Kemeko DX fighting game for the DS. Now i just need to figure out how I’m going to get a hold of a copy of this game.

Two new dating sims are featured in the PC games section: Flyable Heart and Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai – Under The Innocent Sky. The illustrations for the second one were done by Aoi Nishimata, the illustrator for the Shuffle! characters.

The back cover of the magazine features To Heart 2 and Utawarerumono.

This time, the large poster that comes with every copy of Megami Magazine features Nagisa from Clannad in her waitresss uniform.

The reverse side has Asuka and Rei from Evangelion.

There was also a bonus item this time, a double-sided Kannagi pencil board.

It was called a pencil board, but I prefer to think of it as a useless (though pretty) thin piece of plastic. This “pencil board” is too flimsy to actually use as a pencil board, and it doesn’t work too well as a mousepad either. I guess you can’t really expect any quality from a free item from a magazine.

I thought the quality of this volume was above average. There were some very nice pull-out posters and the extra Kannagi stuff was a treat (even though I don’t watch Kannagi). I also had a tough time deciding which side of the large poster to show on my wall. In the end I decided to go with the Evangelion side.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 105

Nopy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:35:19 +0000

I know this is really late, but I just didn’t have enough time to go through volume 105 of Megami Magazine until now.

This issue features the main character from Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo on the cover. I watched the first episode of this anime and it just seemed a bit too weird for me.

The posters this time had a good mix of just-finished and currently airing series.

I never understood why Kannagi was so popular. It seems to be getting quite a few posters in Megami Magazine, and this volume has a book-in-book thing featuring Kannagi.

I have to say that Toradora is one of the better love comedies that I’ve seen. It’s good to see that Taiga and Ami are getting along now, and I hope the ending turns out well.

White Album is another one of those eroge (erotic games) that have been adapted into an anime. Going from eroge -> anime is pretty common nowadays, but I don’t think the stories are very good. I guess the main reason for making an anime out of an eroge is to please the game’s fans by animating the characters and making more money.

I haven’t seen Asu no Yoichi, but from what I’ve heard it sounds a bit like Love Hina. The shredding of clothes in this poster just makes it look like Love Hina even more.

Kotomi and Tomoyo seem so excited about the snow.

I wonder how that little yellow thing in Sora wo Kakeru works. I was so surprised when it flew out of the head of a maid.

What is that girl holding o.o

“You can’t ask someone to do something you’re not willing to do yourself” is why I think both the painter and model are naked in this poster.

That alien must be really happy.

After finishing Macademi Wasshoi, I realized that there was absolutely no plot in the series except at the end when they tried to put something together and failed miserably.

Those things on that coco*natts fan look kinda scary.

As always, Megami Magazine always has the latest info on upcoming anime releases. The Toaru Majutsu no Index volume 1 blu-rays and dvds were released on Jan. 23, and the second volume will be released on Feb. 25.

There has been a lot of criticism on the animation quality of Minami-ke Okaeri, but as long as it’s watchable I think it’s ok.

Ami always has the best swimsuits :)

The first episode of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei will finally be released on Feb. 25, everyone mark your calendars :D

This is a page from the Kannagi book-in-book that is featured in this volume of Megami Magazine. It’s nice to see anime characters in different costumes since most older anime and even some current ones keep their characters in the same clothes throughout the series.

Chaos;Head Noah for the Xbox 360 comes out soon in Japan. The screenshots here make it look like a tempting game to get, but if the ending is anything like the anime, then it’s not worth getting. You can read about my Chaos;Head ramblings here.

More dvd releases, this time for Jigoku Shoujo. I thought all of the sending to hell in Jigoku Shoujo was pretty good until it got really repetitive.

All of the Weib Schwarz advertisements in Megami Magazine are so nice, it makes me want to buy their cards.

Of course, the back of the magazine reminds us once again that Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei will be available on Feb. 25.

The big poster that came with this volume features Code Geass R2 on one side with Lelouch’s harem (minus Sumeragi for some unknown reason) in swimsuits by the pool, and it seems like they’re undressing CC.

The other side features the good and bad characters (if you can classify them that way) from Nanoha Strikers. I think they should’ve made Nanoha’s pose more aggressive; it looks like she was just surprised by something.

I thought volume 105 was a good volume. All of the pages with blu-ray and dvd release dates were accompanied by a nice full-page image and now I finally have a Code Geass poster to put on my wall.

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