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SHINJIRARERUKA KONO PAWAAAAAAAAA

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I made mention previously that Pretty Cure is getting its own special crossover movie, combining the Precure girls from every series so far. What I didn’t know is that there was already a Nintendo DS game establishing the concept. Better still, it actually got its own custom opening.

I’m glad to see the concept of the Epic Crossover extending beyond the realm of Manly Men Anime, and Manly Men Anime FIghting Manly Men Video Games, and into the territory of magical girls with the ability to roundhouse kick you down the Grand Canyon.

You smell that? That’s progress. Though there is some precedent for it.

Also I keep rewinding the video just to see Cure Bloom make that Bruce Lee face.

0:57 in.

Additional Note: The song is actually sung by all four women who’ve performed Precure OP/EDs. Damn that’s some good fan-appeal.

MA HOE SHOW JOE

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I’ve decided to start using the power of Youtube to document Non-Japanese Magical Girl Openings. It’s normally something that’s very much identified with anime and manga, but the idea of a girl using magical powers to change herself is arguably as old as story-telling. Could you perhaps consider Cinderella a Mahou Shoujo?

Anyway, the list.

Of course, suggestions for additional shows are more than welcome. And when I say non-Japanese, I don’t just mean European/American cartoons.

Zambot 3 is looking amazing and oh man why don’t I have this game

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I normally don’t like to make Youtube-only posts but look at this! Look!

Video 1

Video 2

The animations in SRWZ are the best the series has ever seen. What I particularly like is that they’re going away from using too many shots where they just traced over a screenshot from the series.

And Keiko has seriously never looked better.

Ogi Ogi Douga

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While doing a search on Nico Nico Douga the other day, I noticed that my Ogiue and Tohoku-ben video had been uploaded to the site, albeit from an older version, titled as 【ニコニコ動画】荻上の東北弁

Good job, mysterious uploader, though I wish there was a way to give you the updated version.

Let us start… from the Beginning: Complete Genshiken 2 Ogiue Tohoku-Ben collection

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What’s old is new again.

Put the all-character splash image at the end of openings to bed

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They appear to be some unusual obligation, and more often than not I feel like they make openings worse than they could have been if they had only ended the video prior to it. The number of shows that I could describe in this regard are probably more than I can count.

As an example of an opening which ends on a NOT-Splash Image and ends up being better for it, I present Rose of Versailles:

You are already working

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Inaugural post for Ogiue Maniax

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I’m SDShamshel. I talk about anime.

Here’s a video of Ogiue and her Tohoku-ben.

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