Random Musings - The Hot Sheets May 22

Filed under Anime News, CODE GEASS, Kanokon, Miscellaneous, Random Musings by Omni | 58 comments

  • It’s with great reluctance that I’ve had to make the decision to drop Kyouran Kazoku Nikki. It’s absolutely nothing against the series - which I’ve enjoyed quite a bit - but rather due to my new job keeping me from being able to spare the time. Unfortunately, I had to cut something, and this was it.
  • I put up the current Kanokon poll because of the news yesterday that streaming site GyaO will no longer be showing Kanokon due to ethical regulations. You’d think that they’d have gotten a clue after the hardcore spanking in episode three, but maybe it was the practically exposed breasts in episode seven that led to this. Or perhaps whatever is in the hot springs for episode eight is even more outrageous than anything else so far. Either way, some are speculating that this has to do with Kanokon being #1 a couple of weeks ago on GyaO’s rankings for both the elementary school boys and girls demographics.
  • In CODE GEASS news, episode nine has reportedly been delayed a week. Episode eight will still air this weekend, but episode nine will NOT be airing on June 1st as it had originally been scheduled. Instead there will be some sort of emergency filler show. I haven’t found an official reason, but others have speculated that it’s because of the Chinese earthquake tragedy, and that’d make sense since episode nine involves the Chinese Federation.
  • Finally, and perhaps the most important item in this post: I am currently seeking an editorialist for Random Curiosity. Ideally, such a person would be able to present opinion on the news topic of the day (such as the Kanokon and Geass items mentioned above) or on whatever other current topics they think are relevant to the anime community/industry/etc. This does not require any Japanese language ability, but it does require good English and good writing ability. If you’re interested, please send me an email and include two sample writings, the first addressing the question of “Should anime adaptations strictly follow the manga?” and, the other is any topic of your choice. You could talk about ankles for all I care - the more creative the better, as long as there’s some relation to anime/manga/culture.

    • Image at left courtesy of ism on pixiv (account needed to access). It has nothing to do with anything in this post, but I’m a sucker for good art.

     

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    1. nyan-nyan at 6:57 am on May 22nd, 2008

      Dopping all these shows might leave RC a little empty, huh? :/

    2. nyan-nyan at 6:57 am on May 22nd, 2008

      My bad: Dropping

      XD

    3. phatmlrd at 7:06 am on May 22nd, 2008

      Aw c’mon, drop Bleach instead.

    4. padfoot135 at 7:06 am on May 22nd, 2008

      We Respect your decision for ever single anime blogging. You are doing this for us and even wasting ur spare time for this… i hope ur blog will stay on forever =P.. and if i was famillair wif japanese abit more i would loved to help you with some anime blogs.. but currently my level of japanese understanding is just understanding what they said.. soo yea.. >.<”

    5. quixotic at 7:18 am on May 22nd, 2008

      lol kanokon was the epitome of axe-able.

      thanks for the general updates Omni and best of luck with your new job.

      and as always, thankyou for continuing to keep this blog alive.

      xoxo =]

    6. KokWeng at 7:48 am on May 22nd, 2008

      We don’t mind if you drop or take more anime for blogging , just thx for blogging those anime ^^
      hope dun drop macross xD

    7. Yukiruchan at 7:52 am on May 22nd, 2008

      Good luck on your new job & thanks for all your blogging efforts, Omni!^_^

      I can’t wait for Macross F to air!!
      ahh..off topic. Not actually, it’s because of that picture of Alto..

      Last time in Geass we had to wait an extra week for episode 9 too, for the 8.5 episode. For now, I’m glad that it’s still only a weeks wait. I do hope this doesn’t push Turn 25’s air date to who knows when though.

    8. Ansem at 8:19 am on May 22nd, 2008

      ;_; KKN is gone now? BAAAWWWWWWWWW

      Well I guess it was fun

    9. Tokkan at 8:25 am on May 22nd, 2008

      Turn 25 could very well end up a double episode with Turn 24.

    10. Myssa Rei at 8:53 am on May 22nd, 2008

      A pity for Kyouran Kazoku, as aside from Aroduc from Tenka Seiha only Omni was blogging the show with any regularity, but real life takes precedence over hobbies. Kind of wish for another show to have taken the hit though, but in the end it’s the blog-owner’s decision.

    11. miden at 9:44 am on May 22nd, 2008

      lol dam. too ba u dropped nikki =[! really liekd it. oh weells, anyways gl on ur new job ^=^

    12. KNG at 10:14 am on May 22nd, 2008

      The delay in episode 9 of Code Geass R2 reminds me of the premere of Full Metal Panic was delayed due to 9/11 or the the delay of the final episode of School Days.

      I hope this episode of Code Geass isnt delayed due the episode containing similar incidents to world events. Plus Zero already used a seismic quake to his advantage in episode 10 so im probably the producers would use different tactics for the storyline.

    13. Will at 10:22 am on May 22nd, 2008

      You should drop Macross Frontier as well……

    14. Veronica at 10:40 am on May 22nd, 2008

      Good luck at work, hope it goes well, and again thank you for blogging efforts. Thanks to you and your summaries, I am able to understand better the raws.

    15. Nawk at 11:03 am on May 22nd, 2008

      Best of luck at your new job, and speaking of ankles, i suppose theres no more news of jaalin? really missed that guy…

    16. claudius at 11:08 am on May 22nd, 2008

      NICE BOAT

    17. Res at 11:24 am on May 22nd, 2008

      so, the delay in ep09 of geass is definitely confirmed?

    18. mutio at 11:50 am on May 22nd, 2008

      I didn’t know Kanokon is THIS perverted. I do know bit of the manga (what has been scanlated so far). But SO extreme - I can understand GyaO (whatever that is..) to stop broadcasting it. A pity you have to drop Kyouran (about the reasons we don’t talk as they are fully understandable) but it can’t be helped. Wonder why they delayed Geass episode 9, the Chinese thing seems logical to me though. Japan and China - that’s a hot relation in every aspect, putting oil in the fire wouldn’t be wise..

    19. Syaoran Li at 12:18 pm on May 22nd, 2008

      Damn it!
      I can understand the reason why episode nine will be delayed, but what big difference would do anyway; I mean, it would be understandable if episode 7 were delayed last week since the EQ was on May 12, but June 1th is far apart from that day, and only seven days of difference from June 8th is just absurd. Well, I’ll take it like an excuse to make another recap episode for all those idiots who couldn’t watch the show until now.
      Anyway, for me is good news, because June 1st is my birthday, so I can go out without worries.

    20. Kabitzin at 12:22 pm on May 22nd, 2008

      Grats on the new job and wow to adding someone to write editorials. RC is powering up again!

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