lunatic’s blog V2

While the OST is as good as ever (with one of the unreleased RED GARDEN tracks + new song, which I suspect will piss many people off again ;)), animation is good, GONZO HAS PUT SO MANY UGLY CG MECHAS INTO THIS RED GARDEN SPIN OFF ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY. You can watch the new (3rd) promo video on the official site if you haven’t already. Also a RED GARDEN & DEAD GIRLS comparisions site is available here.

CGtastic. Shame on you GONTZO. SHAME.

Release date: 2007.8.8.

The new Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei opening has awesome art & style & animation, but while fanservice is cool and all… There’s more after the jump~

All this waiting and it doesn’t even end - cliffhanger + see you in season 2. EPIC pay-off for a 3 months wait, lol.

DO NOT READ IF YOU DONT WANT SPOILERS. Villeta shoots Ougi. Suzaku gets trapped by Lulu’s maid and is VERY EMO about Zero not fighting fair. Orenji doesnt move an inch over 15 minutes of the episode. Darlton pierces through Cornellias mecha, his mecha explodes. Nina moves out with her mecha. VV comes to pick Nunnaly up.

As a side note, the animation was pretty disappointing and the emo art was almost higurashi LOL quality.

07.10.11 update: Salburg opened a full website with tracklistings & samples for the Hymmnos Concert discs here.

07.09.09 update: now with covers. 『謳う丘～HarmonicsFRELIA～』 is the opening. ^^

07.08.28 update: 2nd hymmnos CD on the same day. ^^

The first hymmnos disc for Ar Tonelico II has been announced, with Shimotsuki, Shikata and Mitose mentioned in the announcement - all I have to say is… HURRAY again, LoL. xD October 24, 2007 is so far away though… :/

「 焔～ホムラ 」 ～Ar_tonelico2 hymmnos concert Side.紅～   Akiko Shikata, Haruka Shimotsuki, Noriko Mitose 2007.10.24 : KDSD-10029

「 澪～ミオ 」 ～Ar_tonelico2 hymmnos concert Side.蒼～   Akiko Shikata, Yuko Ishibashi 2007.10.24 : HUCD-10032

2007.09.09 update: tracklisting available here. OP title: 「謳う丘～Harmonics FRELIA～」 (yep, same title as first game OP which had 2 versions - ～Harmonics EOLIA～ and ～EXEC_HARVESTASYA/.～), ED title: 「EXEC_with.METHOD_METAFALICA/.」.

A double disc for Ar Tonelico II has been announced and it seems to be a BGM&vocal album. With all of the first game singers (Shimotsuki, Shikata, Mitose and Ishibashi) mentioned in the announcement all I have to say is… HURRAY. October 10, 2007.

It seems that Shikata does the OP song and Shimotsuki does the ED with her.

「 アルトネリコⅡ 世界に響く少女たちの創造詩 」 Ar Tonelico II Sekai ni Hibiku Shoujotachi no Metafalica   Akiko Shikata, Haruka Shimotsuki, Noriko Mitose, Yuko Ishibashi 2007.10.10 : KDSD-10027-28

Just noticed it got announced. Sept 21, 2007 release. Can’t wait.

「 精霊の守り人 」 音楽篇2 Seirei no Moribito Music Vol.2   Kenji Kawai 2007.09.21 : GNCA-1127

The official tieLeaf site has updated with a new splash image announcing a new release for summer 2007 (C72), titled 「Lip-Aura　～その手が象る世界～」. tieLeaf is a collaborative book+CD project between different artists - Haruka Shimotsuki being my main interest obviously. This would be their 2nd release. Can’t wait more details. :)

07.08.11 update: I was expecting more. The CD part of Lip-Aura consists of only 2 songs and their instrumentals. Thankfully the songs seem very nice from the samples.

「 Lip-Aura ～その手が象る世界～ 」   tieLeaf 2007.08.17 : MLCD-0008

Official lyrics for El Cazador ep14 insert by Emily Bindiger are missing the bridge lyrics. Help, please?

Disappointed they didn’t include YUUKA’s “el cazador” lyrics either. :/ There’s more after the jump~

I enjoy CODE-E so far - sure it’s nothing more than an enjoyable slice of life animu, but I enjo… wait… let me start again.

I want to enjoy this show but FOR FUCKS SAKE - the male lead art is of Gift ~eternal rainbow~ quality. Those who have seen 2 episodes of that should know it means it is random C-R-A-P head size&shape + random face. Some evidence below. There’s more after the jump~