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

Sorry for the weird title but I've been wanting to do this for a long time already. I had thought that I'm not going to be able to blog about sola anymore that the last episode, episode 13 was aired three months ago and I had done an article about my final thoughts about it.

However, it seems that it's not really the end, quite yet.

Last week, Doremi fan-subbing group released an OAV which they had labeled as episode 14 of sola. Out of curiosity I downloaded the 236MB video (it was ripped off DVD, I heard), only to find out that it was an episode full of fanservice - in other words, impossibilities to the original 12 episodes.

Yorito's alive and he still has his grudges towards Takeshi. This means that the event in this episode took place in between the first few episodes before Matsuri met Aono. Even in this episode Aono was left out.


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Some anime fans celebrate Moe Day on the 10th of October every year. Why? Well, if you tear the word "萌"(moe) apart, you'll get "十月十日" which is 10 of October in both Chinese and Japanese kanji, and there goes Moe Day. Not many anime fans are aware of the fact!

The Saimoe Tournament is still on-going and I can see that almost all of the characters that I had openly supported had been eliminated!
- Nayuki was eliminated by Konata,
- Shouko was eliminated by Momoko (Sumomomomomo),
- Ayu was defeated by Elulu (Utawarerumono) by a slim 39 votes majority
- Mai was defeated by Louise (Zero no Tsukaima) by some 2(!!) votes majority,
- Mana was defeated by Ayane (Nagasarete Airantou),
- Karada was eliminated by Gretel (Otogi Jushi Akazuki),
- Shiori was eliminated by Rena (Higurashi no Naku koro ni) while
- Vita (Nanoha StrikerS) eliminated both Aono and Matsuri.



There you go Mai. Louise won the second round by a very slim margin of 2 votes.

For now, all of the candidates for Asatte no Houkou and sola have been eliminated, while only one Kanon character remains in the list - Sayuri.

I now stand on the fence as an observer of the competition as I no longer have anyone to vote for. At least those characters who are still in the list deserves are popular enough. Let's hope Sayuri is moe enough to defeat her next opponent to qualify for the quarter finals - there should at least be one Kanon character in the quarters.


Last but not least, I dedicate this Moe Day greetings to everyone out there reading this! May all of you have a Happy Moe Day!


P.S. Why tomato soup? Well, it has something to do with my sola fetish, lol. Go watch sola and you'll know more about it. :P

This wasn’t the ending that I was expecting. Not in my wildest dreams. The least that I could say is that it was quite a happy ending.

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I never expected that after the second semester of the schooling day started, my schedule would become much tighter - in fact, a lot tighter than I have thought. From doing last minute studies for tests, rushing to finish up unfinished homeworks so that hopefully I can hand them in on time, and to keep up with my prefect as well as librarian duties, it’s not easy to manage everything just like that while maintaining my relationship with those around me. Well, I couldn’t hold my temper and had exploded like a volcano earlier this week in school, mind you. Stress all the way.

Now, I bring you all a good news and a bad news.

First of all, the good news. I’ve finally finished watching two of the animes that I have been watching, and they are .hack//ROOTS and Honey & Clover (first season). However, I won’t be able to download anymore animes unless if I were to burn them into a DVD since my computer is still out of space. Earlier last week, a classmate of mine gave me a disc in exchange of the Negima episodes I gave him.

And then it is the bad news. *takes in deep breath* - I’m not going to do Kanon related episode summaries any longer. Kanon is one of the few anime titles which I have chosen to do episode summaries on. Slowly, I realise that, doing episode summaries isn’t going to attract readers at all as readers prefer to directly watch the anime instead of reading an amateur blogger’s episode article. Lately, I’ve been losing the motivation to write. My English writing skills are rusting. I don’t seem to be able to write creatively anymore and all that I write are simple sentences. To top it all, there seemed to be an article for each of the episodes of the second season remake in Wikipedia and that I was utterly surprised that even such episodes deserve articles in Wikipedia! But later, I found out that, Juhachi, the person who had wrote all of the plot summaries himself, had decided to remove them and redirect all episode articles back to “List of Kanon Episodes”. Still, I’m not changing the decision that I’ve made. There are countless anime blogs out that had done a much better job in doing episode reviews of Kanon and there’s no need for Wikipedia or this blog to have such articles. Maybe I might change my mind in the far future when I have nothing else to do, but that’s not in my plan right now.

That’s it for the announcement. Now, let’s go into the awards. Oh and yeah, I have a confession to make - I have been rewatching Full Moon this month since I have nothing else to watch. So, some awards go to them. And that also explains the Youtube above. :P

( Best Male Character: Haseo (.hack//Roots) )
( Best Female Character: Ishizuki Mana (Sola) )
Best Non-Human Character: None
( Best OP: Colorless Wind - Aira Yuhki )
( Best ED: Eternal Snow – Changin’ My Life (Full Moon wo Sagashite) )
( Best Scene: Under the cut )
Best Quote: none
Best Seiyuu: None