HD version available at: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/ponyo/

I just hope this song won’t be dubbed:

It’s nice being able to watch anime in the theatres, though it’s probably going to be dubbed.

I just heard yesterday that a few months back, there was another anime movie being released in US screens. It’s titled Sword of the Stranger. Seems to have pretty good ratings. Too bad it wasn’t screened in Canada.

Death Note

Links: Official Website – IMDB

Raito (Light) and L both looked ugly compared to the manga. Well, more for Raito. The only character that looks good is Ryuku because he’s a CG character. Some of the acting are also bad, especially for Raito.

The story is suppose conclude in the 2nd Death Note movie, “Death Note: The Last Name“.

The Prince of Tennis

Links: Official Website – IMDB

Where to begin… There’s so many things wrong about this movie >_< .
The characters mostly appear only for fan-service. Besides Ryoma and Tezuka, the rest of the players don’t have a lot of screen time or character developments. Tezuka’s actor looks cool, no comments on the rest.
The story feels very rushed. The only matches that are covered entirely is Seigaku vs Hyoutei. The movie wasn’t translated, but it was easy to understand.
When you watch Prince of Tennis anime or read the manga and think that all of those tennis stuffs don’t make much sense, the live-action is even more absurd. Looking at those actors playing superhuman CG tennis feel so weird you feel you want to laugh. Yes, me and my friends did laugh a lot watching this movie. Not because it’s comedic, but because some of the stuffs they did are so stupid, it’s funny.

Detective Conan

Links: Official Website – IMDB

Titled as “Detective Conan Drama”; tells the story before the events of the first chapter of Detective Conan manga.
The movie is pretty heavy on dialogs, and without translation, I found myself falling asleep at the beginning of the movie. I only watched the first half an hour of the movie, but my friend watched it till the end, so the following are his comments:

• Most of the acting sucks
• Kogorou Mouri is funny
• The first part of the story is not very interesting, but the second part is good

• Death Note: The entire manga series.
• The Prince of Tennis: Around 80 episodes of the anime and up to volume 30 of the manga.
• Detective Conan: Up to volume 43 of the manga and a few random anime episodes and movies.

My Life in the past year and a half consisted mostly of: school, work, and WoW. But I’m not doing any of those 3 at this moment.

Recently playing:

• Dragon Quest VIII (finished) – lvl 43, 120 hours
• Final Fantasy XII (stalled) – got bored at lvl 30, 44 hours into the game
• Gyakuten Saiban [Phoenix Wright] (finished) – fun game
• Gyakuten Saiban 2 (at 4th case)

Current manga interests:

• One Piece
• Anything by Mitsuru Adachi
• Pluto
• Vagabond
• Tetsuwan Atom

Hope I won’t get too lazy to continue writing. Now, gotta delete 6000+ spams from the blog comments.

Almost dawn, I better sleep now…

Found it while surving some oekaki boards.