Nodame Cantabile

since this will probably be the only winter 2006 anime i'm picking up, i'll give a more detailed write-up...

Nodame Cantabile is a story about a guy, chiaki shinichi, who inspires to be a orchestra conductor. though he's talented in both the piano and violin, he is also very arrogant and offended the piano lecturer in the music university that he's studying in...

as revenge, the lecturer transferred him to the rejects class where he meets the female lead, noda megumi (who insist everyone calls her nodame), a pianist who prides herself on her ears, more than the music score, for her good piano skills...

slowly, indirectly due by nodame, he starts to gather people around him which i'm guessing will start to form his little orchestra... nodame herself, is smitten with him, and almost always hangs around his apartment after school... especially when she only lives next door to him...

i really love all the music that they're playing, though i'm not a classical music person myself... very interesting and funny... in the 1st episode, chiaki had to clean up nodame's super messy and stinking room when the odour actually drifted over to his apartment... and the part where he starts washing her hair because she hasn't washed it in 4 days was hilarious...

all in all, i think this will be a great anime to keep... pity non of the other winter anime seemed to interest me much... oh well...

in other anime news,

saiunkoku monogatari will be ending in 5 week's time... however, the 2nd season will start in the coming spring, so i would still be able to get my saiunkoku fix... i hope the focus will be more on the relationship between ryuuki and shurei in the 2nd season though...

the latest PoT OVA episode 10 & 11 will be coming out this friday... more fuji and gang to look forward to...

Bleach 110

finally finally FINALLY!!!

the stupid bounto filler arc is finished...

as i was watching last week's episode, i finally had the excitement of catching bleach every week all over again...

my 1st thoughts after the episode was,

"shit! all the daddys (ichigo's and ishida's) are coming out!"

and it hit me more than when i was reading the manga...

not to say that i was all surprised and shocked when both dads came out in the manga as shinigami-in-hiding (ichigo's) and quincy extrodinare (ishida's)...

anyway, looking forward to every new episode now...

hohoho... today (wed nite) is episode 111, i'm all excited to see if kurosaki isshin is gonna come out in his shinigami garb...

^_^.``

death note 2 movie

if i thought the 1st movie was terrible, the 2nd one was worse!

omg, thank goodness we din watch it during the weekends or i would have cried for my $9.50...

halfway through the show and i had already rolled my eyes countless times, and wishing for it to end asap... it was much more draggy compared to the 1st movie that i nearly fell asleep towards the end... at least, i knew i was yawning so much i think pple might be irritated with me...

yes, brilliant as Light is with his clever ploy up to the end of the show, i wasn't all that impressed really... i think i was too disgusted by the end of the show to care...

and sorry to sound really singaporean here, but...
"wah lau, wat is his (Light) problem? die also take so long...
要死就快点死，讲这么多话干吗?!"

the only thing commendable about the movie is that both L's and Misa's characters were quite well portrayed... kenichi did a good job as L... i can't say much abt misa, since she juz came out in the anime, but she had the "whinny-ness" of the character right...

anyway, after the movie, i've decided i'm not gonna read the manga... i'll still finish the anime, since i'm quite sure they'll follow through the manga storyline and that'll be the end of death note for me... i might juz die of boredom if i read the whole thing again...

*sighs*

1st post of 2007 and i'm already ranting abt a bloody lousy movie...