Last week, I won Animax-Asia’s Nodame Cantabile twitter contest and got myself a pair of free tickets to watch Nodame Cantabile – The Final Score: Part 1. Thus, my brother and I made our way down to GV Bishan to watch it. Read More →

(K17: You do understand that I HAD to choose this poster as it was the only one which had Maki Horikita in it…)

(Crossposted verbatim to my other blog.)

It is probably just a coincidence that the (relatively minor side) character who desires Eternal Life so she can stay forever young and beautiful is voiced by Kikuko “Eien ni 17-sai” Inoue.

Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva was kindly brought to Singapore by Encore Films and Golden Village, although I doubt GV actually knows what to do with a movie like this, since it’s being shown in a limited number of theatres… let’s see… (*checks SMS*) Plaza Singapura, Marina Square, Bishan Junction 8, Tampines Mall, Yishun, and VivoCity. Part of the reason I’m posting this is because I want this film to succeed wildly, so this sort of thing will get a wider release next time.

I watched the movie with Kindaichi17 and GFoppy at Bishan. Don’t ask why. Read More →

I had originally planned to watch Animax’s dub of K-On! yesterday but I totally forgot about it and ended up playing FF XIII (“Moms are tough”). However, I did manage to catch the 2nd half of episode two in a repeat telecast this morning (which unfortunately featured only the four main characters so I can’t comment on the rest). Please note that this is the Animax-Asia dub and not the US one (According to what I know, it hasn’t been licensed in the US yet…).

Thoughts: In general I thought the dubbing was pretty good though unremarkable (Maybe its just me since I prefer subs to dubs). Mio’s and Yui’s voice actresses were probably the ones which sounded the best. Ritsu’s and Mugi’s were good but less distinctive as compared to the previous two. No gripes with the script quality so far. In general, not perfect but a pretty good dub all round. I will probably get a better perspective once I get to hear more of Ui, Nodoka and Sawako-sensei as well as Azusa when she is introduced.

A couple of days ago, Matafleur, dkellis, Icy_cs and myself went down to Orchard Cineleisure to catch Mamoru Hosoda’s Summer Wars. And if you don’t already know, that obviously isn’t a screenshot or official poster…
(Image source: Danbooru) Read More →