Finally arrived! (will make a proper review post when I’m not lazy lawl)

Have you voted for your moeblob yet?

Good :
Less Kamijyo Touma; less exposition, more time for action.
Or fanservice.
More coins railgunning.
(Obligatory) More biri-biri yuri.
More Magic SCIENCE.
More fanservice.

Bad :
I dont like Kuroko’s voice.
No Himegami Aisa; no more one-liners. ;_;
No MISAKA Legion Zerg rush (there never was one to begin with lol)

Another Digression Post…
Yet another post quite unrelated to anime…well then again, I’m only following a few series currently namely, Bakemonogatari, Spice & Wolf II. Anyway, I’ve been playing Touhoumon while listen to some of the C76 Touhou Albums. While still “patiently” waiting for GSC’s Saber Lily Avalon figurine which has conveniently been delayed again it seems.

They even redesigned the character avatar - cool.

Excerpt:

According to Touhoumon ~Gensokyo~: Long time ago, Patchouli Knowledge grew tired of Marisa Kirisame coming and stealing her books. Therefore, she made some puppets with decent intelligence and power to keep the library safe. (She doesn’t believe in Hong Meiling at all) Unfortunately, one of the manuals has been stolen by Marisa and the thief herself made a lot of puppet for pilfering. When they came, Patchouli impatiently blew both armies of puppet and a part of the library away, included the remaining manuals. After the incident, puppets have been producing with a large amount and people got used to them. Time passes and they are now served like pets to everyone.

If your reaction to the above story is “What’s with that ridiculous storyline!?” , then obviously you’ve never played the actual Touhou Project. Or being part of the Touhou fandom.

Weeks ago, I was taking snapshots of the OP to make an Eden banner, when I realized that despite the effort to actually have accurate English being spoken on the series… they have forgotten to do some spell check!

Case in point: it appears that they’ve misspelled ‘remorse’.

Considering how it is much more effort is required, it is understandable that light novels are less translated as compared to the other mediums in anime. Naturally, the ones that do get translated are mostly the ones who already have been adapted into anime to get the popularity, such as Suzumiya Haruhi or ToraDora!. Nevertheless, I’ll go for a somewhat less known light novel: Tricksters, by Quzumi Shiki.

Yeah, I know about toning things down for TV, but seriously, this is pathetic. I would have thought that Studio DEEN used the same technique in Higurashi for Umineko: the use of lighting effects and camera angles to create gore-discretion shots, such as shadows to prevent seeing the actual scene clearly (like what they’ve done in Higurashi, might I emphasis). To think that they resort to such cheap method – mosaic of all things! Seriously I’m already quite tolerant about censorship bars in hentai.

So… my Impression so far:

Although so far Umineko wasn’t as thrilling as I expected, I did like the idea of the tea-house sequence at the end of Bad End 1.

Also,

this totally isn’t what it looks like:

Based on the trailers, advertisement posters and later on, the Opening Theme, the initial impression is that Canaan felt somewhat unlike a TYPE-Moon production.