Akane Maniax!
Posted by Skrud at Monday, November 29th 2004 at 6:35pm
I haven’t blogged about anime in a while. So I’m overdue. You may have read about Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien before when I blogged about it. You may also know that it is one of my all time favourite anime series: dramatic, depressing and entertaining all at once. I was also on the verge of total insanity waiting for the last episode to come out. The series kept me unbelievably hooked despite the romantic/tragic subject matter. And before you go all calling me a girl and stuff, KimiNozo is based on an H-Game. A really popular H-Game that has had novels and spin-offs and all-ages non-sexual versions produced, but that’s besides the point. It’s main target is definitely the male audience. (By the way, the fact that my computer’s hostname is “mitsuki” is because she is named after a character in this show.) In fact my main motivation for wanting to learn Japanese to a workable level was to play through the KimiNozo and Akane Maniax games.The genre is closer to Seinen than anything else. Either way I highly recommend it… but back to the point…
There has a been a spinoff series in the making, based off the spinoff game, Akane Maniax. Why a spinoff game? Well Akane is one character in the original KimiNozo series that became unbelievably popular for no real reason. She’s not a main character, she’s just everyone’s favourite character. She’s totally awesome, and her popularity reached the point where an entire spinoff game was made. To my great joy the spinoff game was made into a spinoff series, which was released in Japan on DVD starting this week. And the fansub came out today (by the great and wonderful people of Lunar Fansubs whose subs of KimiNozo are still my favourite). And the theme song is done by Kuribayashi Minami, who happens to be my favourite JPop singer…
So needless to say I had sshed into my computer at home to have BitTorrent grab the first episode of the OAV so that I could watch it as soon as I get home. Oh yeah. :)
