[Happeh]

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Issue #55
If no one happy, is it really a victory?
- Kuroko Tetsuya (Kuroko No Basket)

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Happy Birthday, Risa Taneda!
Happy Birthday to the beautiful Risa Taneda! Taneda turned 26 on July 12th. She received many different tweets from various different people including author manga author Komata Mikami. Some may know her from the anime Yuyushiki,where she voiced Yukari Hinata, as well as Strike the Blood where she voiced Yukina Himeragi. You can take a look at some of the characters she played as here.

Kill La Kill Dakimakura and T-Shirt Coming to Comiket!
Broccoli has announced that they will be releasing a Kill La Kill Dakimakura and T-shirt at the Summer's Comiket 86 doujinshi mega-event. If attending, you will be able to purchase a Kill La Kill full-print t-shirt, which will also include two side Ryuko/Satsuki dakimakura. The dakimakura will have Matoi Ryuko on the front and Kiryuuin Satsuki on the back, both dressed in their Kamui. Who isn't excited for that? You can view the images for the shirt and the dakimakura here.

New Series -Zankyou no Terror
From the creators of Cowboy Bebop, director Shinichiro Watanabe, has created yet another series. In Zankyou no Terror, there are two boys: Touji Hisami and Arata Kokonoe. Furthermore, the two appear to be terrorists who destroy Tokyo in different type of ways than you may have heard before. The first episode focuses not on their motives, but on the relationship and actions between the two. This can assist the viewers watching Zankyou no Terror by aiding them towards what Touji and Arata will be getting themselves into in the near future. In terms of presentation, Zankyou no Terror has beautiful body and animation movement. (Non-biased description)

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[Updates] Anime Minecraft Server [Its happening] by NickChan
The anime section is soon to get its own MC server!

Favorite Anime Soundtrack? by Hackur
What is your favourite anime soundtrack and why? Share all your favourite songs!

WE WENT TO METROCON! by Black Hole
ITT: Black Hole takes pictures of lots of hot cosplayer girls.

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[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/No_Game_No_Life_Vol._1.jpg[/img]

Title - No Game No Life (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ)
Genre(s) - Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Supernatural
Studio(s) - Madhouse
Episodes - 12
Episode Length - 23 min. per episode
Rating - R+ - Mild Nudity
Airing Date - Apr 9, 2014 to Jun 25, 2014
Airing Status - Finished Airing
On Crunchyroll? - Yes

Synopsis

The story of No Game, No Life centers around Sora and Shiro, a brother and sister whose reputations as brilliant NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) hikikomori (shut-in) gamers have spawned urban legends all over the Internet. These two gamers even consider the real world as just another "crappy game." One day, they are summoned by a boy named "God" to an alternate world. There, God has prohibited war and declared this to be a world where "everything is decided by games"—even national borders. Humanity has been driven back into one remaining city by the other races. Will Sora and Shiro, the good-for-nothing brother and sister, become the "Saviors of Humanity" on this alternate world? "Well, let's start playing."

Characters


Sora
Abandoned by his parents, Sora is a brilliant NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) hikikomori (shut-in) gamer along with his stepsister, Shiro. He does not take life very seriously and is pretty much a good for nothing gamer. One day, he and his sister are called into an alternate world and they have to become Saviors of Humanity!


Shiro
Shiro is described as a genius in logic and problems, but has difficulty understanding emotions or behavior, relying on Sora to help her defeat human opponents such as Tet in their chess match. She also rarely shows much emotion at all on her face and, despite her genius intellect, speaks in short terse sentences. Shiro is extremely close to her brother, to the point of needing him by her side at all times to be comfortable. She is also shown to have a dry and somewhat twisted sense of humour, and displays signs of jealousy if Sora pays serious attention to other girls, showing she has a brother complex.


Stephanie "Steph" Dora
Stephanie is expressive and emotional, to the point where she cannot hide her emotions during a poker game. She loved her grandfather dearly and is angered when people call her grandfather a fool. She fell in love with Sora due to the pledges forcing her to, and she often has violent outbursts to try to break free of it. She loves her kingdom and the world and believes in the potential of Imanity.

Tails' Opinion
NGNL is does a great job of establishing the character base and personalities of the MCs in the first episode. As for the rest of the series, its really good. Plain and simple, the story is just plain good. The plot is really unique, the progression is fast enough to make you want to watch every episode but it is not rushed. That's one of the hardest things to do is have a good balance of pacing, while keeping on track and having good progression. NGNL has that.
I give the story a 10/10

Next, are the characters. The characters are the driving force behind the show. The characters having the personalities they have really keep it going. Unfortunately, there is one thing I didn't like. And that was that Sora and Shiro's actions are very repetitive. The OP'ness of them rival the MC from Kaze no Stigma or Kirito from SAO, or the MC from Log Horizon. Unfortunately, like I said, their actions and decisions are however, a bit repetitive.

I give the characters a 9/10.

Finally, the art. I have about one quip with the art here and there, I feel it could be better but it is fantastic. There are some times that I didnt feel it but its personal opinion. Overall, I love the way the animate the background and other things like the backs of cards and especially how the draw the eyes. It blows me away I love it so much. Those little things really steal me for it. But like I said, there are little times with little things I don't like.
So for the art, I give it a 9/10.

Overall, I think NGNL is an absolutely outstanding anime. I really like just about everything about the show from its characters, to the story. Plus the concept is absolutely fantastic.

Programmargorp's Opinion
Today’s review comes from a LN by Kamiya Yu (who also write Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi, in which the anime adaption was terrible at best). With animation by Madhouse, which did the animation behind a few god tier shows such as Texhnolyze and some other high key shows such as Chobits, Btooom, Redline, Mahouka, etc. The star of this week’s review is No Game No Life, A.K.A Riding the Hype Train Spring 2014.

Following the exploits (god I love that word) of Blank (A.K.A Sora and Shiro) as they are sent to an alternative universe and continue on their conquest to conquer the world. I am to complete this section without spoiling anything, so I’ll just drop my personal opinion on it. The story of No Game No Life is nowhere near god tier; it suffered from too many pacing issues and contains zero depth beyond what you see. The pacing and depth I can look past for a show aimed at mainstream audiences, however what I cannot look past is the fact that there’s really nothing new about the story. That said, the story is better than average.
Story wise, I rate this a 6/10.

Just like the story, the characters no doubt also appears in modern works quite often. We have the OP Main character Sora, OP Main imouto Sora (who coincidentally is a brocon as well; who would have guessed?), useless character Stephanie, OP Magic character Jibril. All of these characters pretty much fit into standard arch types that appear in just about every other shounen/mainstream work. To be perfectly honest, I would go as far as to say that these characters received pretty much no development personality wise beyond the arch type they’re designed to fit into.
Character wise, I rate this a 3/10.

Now, with NGNL we pretty much have a typical series done by Studio Madhouse, from the same people that bought you High School of the Dead, Redline and Btooom!, animation wise this series is top notch. Couple that with the extremely colourful palette they chose to drop on top of the series (which IMO, fits quite well). Art wise quality is top notch, linework is decently done and I don’t see many corners being cut as obviously as Shingeki no Deus Ex in terms of reused cels and scenes.
Art wise, I rate this a 9/10.

Now, this week I decided to start adding a fourth category to my reviews, namely Enjoyment. In terms of No Game No Life, it works quite well in landing in the strike zone of its chosen target audience; more than once I found myself genuinely enjoying this show as I was watching it, despite its mediocre story and pretty much undeveloped characters.
In terms of enjoyment, I rate this a 9/10

Overall, No Game No Life is an example of a series which is extremely good to watch when you simply turn off your brain and watch it just for the sake of watching it. It fits in its chosen niche quite well and overall is enjoyable despite all the flaws with it.

Tails' Rating 9/10

Programmargorp's Rating 7/10

Like this review? Want to read my other reviews? Here they are!: Spoiler (Click to View)
Log Horizon
AnoHana
Another
Yumekui Merry
Sword Art Online
Trigun
Shuffle!
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru
Nobunagun
Mahou Sensou
Inu X Boku SS
Beyond the Boundary
Oreshura
Dance in the Vampire Bund
RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne
My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering With My School Romantic Comedy
Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C
Ga-Rei: Zero
Corpse Princess
Gunslinger Girl (Both Seasons)
Mysterious Girlfriend X
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou
Problem Children are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?
This is a link leading to AA Weekly in which I reviewed Battle Girls - Time Paradox

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Title - Tokyo Ghoul ( 東京喰種 )
Genre(s) - Action, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Supernatural, Psychological
Demographic - Seinen
Author(s) - Ishida Sui (Story & Art)
Serialization - Young Jump
Published - Sep 8, 2011 to Still Running
Status - Publishing
Chapters Scanlated - 73 (As of 07.07.14)

Synopsis

Strange murders are happening in Tokyo. Due to liquid evidence at the scene, the police conclude the attacks are the results of 'eater' type ghouls. College buddies Kaneki and Hide come up with the idea that ghouls are imitating humans so that's why they haven't ever seen one. Little did they know that their theory may very well become reality.

My Opinion

With the anime adaptation of Tokyo Ghoul already underway, I thought it might be a mighty fine idea to do a highlight of the manga to bring it even more up to attention. Tokyo Ghoul has an interesting premise, solid and realistic characters, and amazing art. It does, however, suffer from some noticeable flaws, although fatal or insignificant all comes down to personal preference. It starts off slow, steadily working its way through emotional conflicts involving the psychology of "ghouls," humans who must eat other humans, highly reminiscent of the psychology dealt with in the anime Shiki for those of you who have seen it. Boring some of you may say, I thought it was brilliant. It soon picks up pace though, and the world of Ghouls is carefully revealed to you.

So what is there to complain about you ask? Simple. In latter chapters you may notice that the manga starts to be more action-oriented, and while this did throw me off personally I imagine not many of you will complain. It still retains a similar amount of psychological conflict and emotional realism, but it becomes harder to sympathize with some characters, making them less relatable to those who care about that aspect of the manga. It didn't affect me just as much as I've heard it's affected others and I'm still really enjoying this piece, but I feel it's slowly starting to go downhill. The art, on the other hand, I have a lot to talk about. The art of this manga is a prime example of why I don't like ratings, as for convenience purposes it can be pretty damn bad at parts. Those parts however, in my opinion, are some of the best of the manga and really help to make it truly unique. During scenes of immense tension, and I'm not expanding on that as you'll know what I'm talking about if you start reading it, the author takes a very sketchy, grotesque route to drawing which magnificently compliments the content of the scene. For convenience purposes this switch in artstyles pales, but for atmospheric purposes it's a masterpiece. This is one thing that will be lost in adaptation, and above all my opinion is that black and white fits this series way better than animated colors could ever do.

Still, if you like well-paced psychological thrillers in a dark contemporary fantasy setting with lots of gore and hints of realism, I highly recommend this piece. Anime or manga, whichever you prefer, don't let this one go over your head. It's well worth your time.

My Rating 7.5/10

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*On Holiday*

[Happeh]

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Dragon.
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Anima.: Welcome to the 55th edition of the AA Weekly News! Today we have the user Dragon. here with us today. Is there anything you would like to say before we begin? Any shout-outs you'd like to give?
Dragon.: Not really. Thanks for having me. :)

Anima.: A user by the name of Gladly has recently made a new thread regarding a Fall anime chart for 2014. Do you find yourself wanting to watch any of the anime being included?
Dragon.: I've been looking forward to Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso being released since its anime adaptation announcement, and the Fate/Stay Night remake is on my to watch list. I'm liking the lineup so far. Shows that I've taken interest in include Girlfriend Beta, Amagi Brilliant Park, Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu, Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai, and Denki-Gai no Honya-san. I can't wait for them to come out.

Anima.: I haven't heard of the Fate/Stay Night remake. Sounds interesting. What else do you do in your free time besides watch anime. Do you play any sports?
Dragon.: Yeah. I am in Track and do martial arts.

Anima.: I tried martial arts when I was younger; didn't go too well, lol. Do you plan on going professional in any of those sports?
Dragon.: Probably not. I don't think I'm good enough in either of them. lol. What martial art did you do?

Anima.: Awe, don't put yourself down like that! I used to do Tae Kwon Do. I notice the Anime Search engine in your signature. Is this your site?
Dragon.: Haha. :P
Yes, it is. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to updating it recently.

Anima.: It's a really nice site. I really liked the Guilty Grown theme. That Inori is a babe, am I right? Do you have any other plans regarding your site?
Dragon.: Thanks. Pink hair for the win ^_^. I'd like to extend its functionality to include a genre search in the future. If you have any suggestions, let me know, I'd be glad to hear them.

Anima.: You see that readers? Hopefully the members of AA can leave their feedback, too. I see you posted on Happeh's Gun Gale Online thread. What's your current thoughts on the anime?
Dragon.: I hope that one day (within my lifetime) we will have the technology that is in SAO. It's scary to think how this technology might be used and abused though (Zexceed's death/murder).
The premise of GGO didn't turn out to be as boring as I thought it would be. It appears to be turning into a "Sherlock Holmes" type show. I don't mind it, but it's just a complete change in direction from the "knight in shining armor" act and the "fight to survive" act.
I'm loving its soundtrack. The background music and ending music is pretty sub-par with SAO's first and second season. I wonder how the opening will sound though.

Anima.: Yeah, that would be so cool! I, myself, have watched the first episode too. If you were the creators of SAO: GGO, what would you add or remove?
Dragon.: I would probably have removed the excess harem that was going on in the first season of SAO. That was ridiculous. Am I the only one who thinks that the female-to-male ratio in that game is a bit high? No offense to AA's readers. I know women play first person shooters and various other games, but realistically, the amount that do are just a minority in the member base of these games. There aren't as many as SAO's first season portrayed there to be.

Anima.: I actually liked the harem, but that was just me. All the girls were so kawaii in the first season. Anyways, that's all the time we have. Is there anything else you would like to say before we end this interview?
Dragon.: Thanks for having me :)


Bleeding
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Anima.: Next up, we have the user Bleeding. Would you like to give any shout-outs or tell the readers anything before we start the interview?
Bleeding: Well I have only been around for the last couple of months on Hackforums so I really don't know all that many people. Regardless, greetings fellow AA section

Anima.: You met me! Well, actually the opposite, I met you. Could you tell AA more about yourself? What do you like to do offline and online?
Bleeding: Yes I did, it must have been fate or something.
Well I'm 20 years old and I'm a third year CS student at UNC Chapel Hill. During the summer I work a full time internship with this major electric company which pays pretty well so I'm not complaining. That's pretty much my offline life, if can even call it that lol. Now onto my online life, I joined HF a few years ago to try and buy GT's but recently came back because a friend of mine had asked me to. Now, I enjoy posting in the AA section because I find the users in this section to be not only quite entertaining, but also genuinely friendly (sometimes).

Anima.: Wow, that's amazing. I hope everything goes well when school comes back around. It must be very time consuming, huh?
Bleeding: Thanks! It can be at times but I do my best to procrastinate and make it even harder. Hopefully in the end it will pay off though

Anima.: I hope so too. Currently on HF there are three groups being sold: Infamous, Zero, and FBN. Do you think any member of the AA forums will purchase a group and turn it into an anime related one?
Bleeding: As much as I would like to see that happen, I doubt it will. All three are being sold for an outrageous amount and I'm not sure if anyone from this section has that kind of money

Anima.: Who knows, someone might partner up with another member and snag a group. Hypothetically speaking, if you were the one to purchase a group, what would you make it into?
Bleeding: Well since groups for almost everything already exist, I feel like making into an anime exclusive group would be a step in the right direction

Anima.: That was a trick question, of course. Everyone knows that an anime group would be the correct response! Other than the AA section, do you find yourself posting anywhere else? The Lounge, perhaps?
Bleeding: Very funny, huehue. I guess if not in AA, I regurely post in the Education Nation section, the Sports Lounge, and the Gamer's Lounge

Anima.: I'm an avid gamer myself. Why didn't you tell me you like to game! What games do you normally play?
Bleeding: You never asked :3 I normally play COD pm xbox but I'm a huge fan of RPG's. I also enjoy playing games on Steam such as Garry's Mod and DayZ

Anima.: Cool, we should play sometime. Welp, that wraps up this edition! Thanks for taking your time to chat with me. Would you like to say anything before we go?
Bleeding: Sounds good, just let me know your username or whatever.
No problem! Thanks for taking the time to interview me and I really enjoyed it. I hope I didn't bore you too much and I look forward to reading the next issue of AA Weekly!

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Fan Submission by Bleeding


Happeh's Submission:


Kings~ Submission:


Submit your own Music Video of the Week and be featured in next weeks issue by clicking here!

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Note: This weeks loli of the week contains spoilers for Date A Live

Kotori Itsuka. Our loli of the week. I'm pretty sure everyone here knows who this is, even if you are not a Date A Live fan. Standing at 145cm at the age of 14, Kotori is an extremely short, short tempered loli. For all you perverts that are curious, her three sizes are 72-53-74. For those of you who are making Kotori a waifu candidate, her blood type is AB. She has crimson red twin tails, matching her eyes. Kotori has a small face, with a small and slender figure. Petite, right? Yum.

Kotori's appearance is that of a generic school girl. She wears a white long sleeve shirt that has a black outline around the collar. She is also wearing a black tie. For her summer uniform, she wears a white sailor/school uniform with blue lines. She is often seen wearing a red or blue skirt. Also, One word. Panty hose.

Kotori's personality varies on very simple things, it can change at the skip of a heart beat depending on the situation that presents itself in front of her. Kotori's ribbons are a key factor that plays on her swaying personality. While sporting white ribbions to tie up her twin tails, Kotori is in her imouto mode, a warm, delicate, loving girl who shows effection to her brother in such a way that you'd want to go and hit him several times out of jealousy. While Kotori is sporting black ribbions to tie her tails, she will have a change of personality, launching her head first into Commander Kotori of the Ratatoskr. While in this mode, Kotori becomes a sadistic, bossy Commander who has an extreme Tsundere personality. Even though she is in a mode that will frighten the fragile, Kotori has shown that she can get embaressed and teased down.

Series: Date A Live, デート・ア・ライブ.
MAL: http://myanimelist.net/anime/15583/Date_A_Live

Every week, you can vote on a poll for your next loli of the week. This way we can vote and admire them together as well as seeing who the most popular is between the AA! For next week, you can vote for either:

Saki "Chief" Amano, from Kanamemo.
Shiraume "Ume" Noyamano, from Air Gear.

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The News Team:

• Happeh
  • Headlines/Editor/AA News

• Anima.
  • Headlines/Interviewer

• Sejskaler
  • Graphics

• Tweety.
  • Loli of the Week

• Lonephenom
  • Loli of the Week

• Tails.
  • Series Highlights

• Programmargorp
  • Series Highlights

• Momo Velia Deviluke
  • VN of the Week

• Rakshasa
  • Manga Highlight

• King~
  • Music Video of the Week

• Truthly Godz
  • Proofreader

• Bleeding
  • Interviewer

[crazyycast13]

YEAHHHH FIRST POST GOES TO ME

And what was tweety saying about time traveling and steins gate theories?

[Black Hole]

Ermagerd Happeh, we need an upcoming conventions section. Dat would be so cash.

[tweety]

YEAHHHH FIRST POST GOES TO ME

And what was tweety saying about time traveling and steins gate theories?

That was Sej, I was just copy and pasting random crap so Happeh can post the whole article.

Loving the NGNF review, it's pretty interesting. On another note, is the Manga for Tokyo Ghoul more fruity than the Anime itself? I haven't decided if I will read it or not.

[Happeh]

Ermagerd Happeh, we need an upcoming conventions section. Dat would be so cash.

That would actually be pretty swell. Just need a writer for the section - hint hint.

YEAHHHH FIRST POST GOES TO ME

And what was tweety saying about time traveling and steins gate theories?

YOU SAW NOTHING.

I apologize for my hideous work on the Headlines this week. 😟

Dude, stop worrying, you did an awesome job. 😊

[Sejskaler]

YEAHHHH FIRST POST GOES TO ME

And what was tweety saying about time traveling and steins gate theories?

Are we going to discuss time travel? Because I am on xD

Anyways, good work everyone

[๖ۣۜℤero]

Finished No Game No Life yesterday, the series was awesome, hope their making a second season.

[CCBM]

Another enjoyable read of AA Weekly.
Also, good to see my friend Truthly Godz on the list for the news team.😝
Spoiler (Click to View)But that Loli of the week doe. Wow.

[Angеl]

I apologize for my hideous work on the Headlines this week. 😟

Don't let Happeh lie to you, you did a terrible job.

Glad to see the music video I submitted and my interview up in the issue. Saki is too cute though and great issue as always guys

Anima you actually did a pretty well considering it is you lol :3

[cacnecac]

The review on NGNL was spot on, what a fun series, can't wait for next season. Another good weekly guys.

[Happeh]

By the way, I'm having way more entries than I expected for Music Video of the Week, so I have to be selective in choosing. Sorry if you didn't make it this week, but keep trying and you'll get yourself in an article, I swear!

[Kina]

Happeh pls. I mispelled Programmer's name again. Pls happeh fix it.
FIRST YOU TAKE MY WAIFU NOW MY DIGNITY. HAVE SHAME.

[Chips Ahoy McCoy]

Another enjoyable read (: keep up the good work on these guys.

[Programmargorp]

Happeh pls. I mispelled Programmer's name again. Pls happeh fix it.
FIRST YOU TAKE MY WAIFU NOW MY DIGNITY. HAVE SHAME.

I didn't even notice that.
Either way, people would probably find your review more accurate considering the 3/10 I gave for characters.

@Happeh, great issue as always.

P.S. what is this about time travel I hear?