♣ Anime spring 2013 - final watch.

Anime musim semi uda lama diputer di tv. Beberapa judul uda mulai masuk ke bagian serunya. Yang pada bikin daftar anime musim semi yang mau ditonton, uda komentar ini itu. Ada yang suka, kecewa, bilang mau lanjut liat, ada yg berhenti.

Kalo aku? Aku masih liat tiga anime.
1. Suisei no Gargantia
Diiming-imingi nama Gen Urobutchi, aku langsung positif mau liat ini. Waktu pas liat, aku takut. Entah gimana, aku dapet kesan aku ga bakal suka. Soalnya sebelumnya aku liat posternya dulu langsung komentar, "Pipinya chubby". :P Tapi ternyata enggak (chubby, khayalan aja kayaknya). Setelah liat, aku suka. Walau aku rada kecewa karena aku agak expect anime ini nguras emosi macem Psycho-Pass.

Kenapa masih nonton? Karakternya, Led, mirip Heero Yuy. Tentara, militer, perilakunya stoic, ada kesan anti-sosial (dikit, kalo Heero kan parah). Juga karena aku nunggu kejutan plot dari Urobutchi.

So far rating: 3.5/5

2. Red Data Girl
Anime ini yang paling biasa dari keseluruhan anime musim semi yang aku liat. Temanya paling umum. School life, future slight romance (?), supernatural, sama damsel in distress.

Aku suka liat anime school life. Menurutku genre ini paling gampang diterima ceritanya. Ga begitu suka sama yang pake supernatural sih, tapi kalo olahannya oke ya ditonton juga. Damsel in distress.. ga suka juga. Apalagi kalo si cewek kesannya lemah banget. Sukanya tuh macem Sakura Haruno dari Naruto Shippuden. :D

Kenapa masih nonton? Ada karakter yang penampilannya 11-12 sama Heero Yuy (lagi). Makin lama makin cakep rasanya kalo diliat. :P Tapi sayang, namanya sering lupa sesering aku coba inget nama dia.

So far rating: 2.5/5

3. Aku no Hana
Selama liat anime ini, perasaan sama pikiranku jadi ga tentu. Banyak komentar (kesan) yang muncul. (1) Aku ga suka desain karakternya. Aku belum pernah liat desain karakter kayak di anime ini. Aku ga tau desain karakter seperti ini pernah dipake di anime lain ato belum. Buat mataku, ini aneh. (2) Nakamura ngeri. Aku bersyukur ga ketemu orang macem dia waktu masih sekolah. (3) Lagu endingnya juga ngeri, well, kalo itu bisa disebut lagu sih. Unik sebenernya. Jadi inget lagu I Just Wanna Say I Love You punya Melly Goeslaw. Tapi kalo punya Melly Goeslaw kesannya lebih lucu, imut, orang yang denger bisa seneng; kalo endingnya Aku no Hana ini kesannya meneror.

Kenapa masih nonton? Sederhana. Karena aku ga baca manganya, aku nonton ini jadi full of surprise. Aku penasaran endingnya.

So far rating: 4/5

Anyway..
anime spring 2013 belum selesai, tapi aku uda pengen liat anime summer 2013. Aku bisa prediksi, paling enggak, ada satu anime school life yang aku pilih. :D

Kalo kamu masih nonton anime musim semi 2013 yang mana?

Image via AnimexMusic, Crunchyroll, Dao's subarashii blog.

♣ Anime Spring 2013.

RDG: Red Data Girl

Daftar Anime Spring 2013 uda keluar sejak februari. Aku uda pilih beberapa anime yang mau aku tonton.

1. Gakkatsu!
Setelah Psycho-Pass tamat kemarin, aku nonton Naruto SD. Beda banget kan sama PP. Alasan aku pillih Naruto SD itu karena PP uda nguras emosi banget. Aku capek kalo habis PP terus liat anime yang berat yang bikin aku "masuk" ke anime itu. Setelah nonton beberapa episode, ternyata aku suka. Aku sampai ngakak kalo liat ini. Karena alasan ini juga makanya aku pilih Gakkatsu. Walau uda season dua, tapi aku pikir anime ini bisa ditonton sendiri tanpa liat season satunya.

2. Red Data Girl
Alasan masukin list-ku bisa dibilang subyektif. Aku liat salah satu artwork-nya dan lansung tertarik sama karakter utama cowoknya. Sejak liat Gundam Wing, karakter yang stoic begini dengan penampilan rambut warna gelap, muka galak, .. jadi daya tarik tersendiri di mataku. Aku uda liat episode 1, prediksi karakteristiknya ga mengecewakanku.

3. Aku no Hana
Liat deh tu artwork-nya! Pohon (ato bunga?) di tengah-tengah bangunan. Terus juga pewarnaannya. Anime ini jadi satu-satunya yang ada di list karena aku langsung tertarik sama artwork-nya.

4. Otona Joshi no Anime Time
Diliat dari summary-nya, anime begini jarang aku liat. Makanya aku tertarik juga. Tapi kalo inget PP kemarin, kayaknya aku belum siap. Jangan-jangan bikin stres juga. Tapi yah, siapa tau..

5. Suisei no Gargantia
Suatu hari aku chatting sama temen. Dia bilang, "Ada animenya Urobuchi di Anime Spring 2013, Suisei no Gargantia". Anime ini langsung masuk list-ku. Sebenernya aku ga tertarik sama penggambaran tokohnya (kesan pertama pas liat artwork-nya). Bukan seleraku. Aku jadi inget Ragnarok. Padahal aku ga begitu tau Ragnarok. Tapi since ada Urobuchi di anime ini, I'll definitely watch it.

PS.
Yup! Anime-anime di atas yang uda aku pilih dari daftar Anime Spring 2013. Sejujurnya aku ga merasa bener pake kata "artwork". Sebenernya itu yang ada di daftar anime poster bukan sih?

Image via Crunchyroll.

♣ Choosing movie & anime.

Here are my rules of choosing movie or anime that I'm going to watch.

1. Choose based on the theme or actreess or actor.

It depends on my mood. For example, when I re-watched Gundam Wing and read Final Mission Status, it influenced me to watch military or war or soldier movies. It doesn't have to be 100% exactly like that but the movie has that kind of element. What did I watch? Atonement, The Lucky One, Bourne trilogy, etc. And since I love James McAvoy in Atonement, I watched his other movies such as Penelope, Becoming Jane, Starter for Ten, etc.

2. After that, I'll check the rating.

I'm one of those people who think that considering rating is helpful. Honestly, the reason why I watched Sherlock from BBC was because the rating (It has so many version, doesn't it? But why do I see its rating is high on IMDB?)

3. The last thing I check is the summary.

I personally think that looking for the movie from summary will take so much time. It will help but I don't pay so much attention to it. Most movie whose summary I read, the summary isn't well-written. It's not persuasive enough. 

Those three are points I use for choosing movie that has been released already. If it's not, I usually check the summary and trailer (oh yes, trailer!). The actreess or actor who plays there doesn't matter. The genre doesn't matter. As long as I'm interested to one of those summary or trailer, I (usually) will watch.

Now what about anime? Basically the same. But until this second, I choose anime like this..

1. Poster or artwork.

Seduce my visual first! If the picture is something like Wedding Peach or Sailor Moon (fairy tale, anyone?), you know, pretty and cute girl, I normally don't watch it anymore. My friend asked me, "What's wrong with poster? What does it do?" My theory is it's for promotion, isn't it? Years ago, I found that Harry Potter the 1st and 2nd poster are not better than the rest. If HP were some-times-ago-movie, I wouldn't be interested to watch the 1st and 2nd movie.

2. Rating

3. Summary

That's all. At least those are some criterias that I use. Everybody has different taste or opinion. I realize that some of you may disagree. But yeah, they are mine.

PS. Sailor Moon and Wedding Peach are my chilhood favourite. But if anime nowadays is like that, I don't like it.

Image via Margarita Bloom.

♣ "Clickable" Frozen Teardrop.

It's 5:54 in the morning when I forced myself to write this post.

I've spotted on my blogger Traffic Sources that some of you were here because of Gundam Wing's Frozen Teardrop. I really am sorry. I know you want to get some Frozen Teardrop informations but as I've been written here, all I know is very limited. Frozen Teardrop:

• been published since 2010, (but)
• in a magazine, Gundam ACE, (but)
• in Japanese, (and)
• from I found about Frozen Teardrop approximately this January, I only find Silent Prelude translation on Zeonicscans.
• there's no more translation because Zeonicscans doesn't translate it anymore, FT "completely fucked my childhood" - read here.
• so I said to myself, "let it be!"

BUT!

There's Stargazerlily who has translated and published it through her LiveJournal (just found her LiveJournal this early week and it made my day :) ) So if you a Gundam Wings fans and have heard about Frozen Teardrop and want to read it to decide if it's good or not by yourself like me as many fans say that Frozen Teardrop is not necessary to be made, click this LINK! And indeed, thanks to Stargazerlily for the translation :* Anyway, Stargazerlily, hopefully you're be able to do more translation during your trip to USA so that we who always visit you LiveJournal faithfully can read the continous story of Nocturne of Sorrow V. Thanks.

Oh! If you feel that I shouldn't post this, let me know.