I’ve already passed to the other side, but for some our western audience that haven’t, here’s to a better next year and let’s forget about the 00’s – at least for me, it was a shitty decade with too much turmoil.

But Anine Diet also started in this decade! As well as many good things, so here’s to a better 2010 and a even better decade for Anime Diet!

With that, I bid you good night. Have a nice rest of 2009 and if you have already passed to the other side, have a great first day in 2010! I will (or die trying)!

Below are some good reading looking back at the 00’s:

NyanNyan’s Year 2009 Review, Kurogane’s Year 2009 review pt.1, pt.2, AC’s Top 20 Anime of the Decade.

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Only a few minutes before 2010 rolls around on the East Coast and a few hours before Midwest and a few more for West Coast! If you are not spending time with anyone or not many people and still have a little bit ear time, this episode is for you!

It’s 10:55 in length so it’s rather long. You’ve been warned!

This Episode: Ray talks about Canaan’s plots, Gundam 00 and the real thing to focus on for men for that show, Scientific Railgun (great animation with the rain scene) and Kimi no Todoke. Ray is being his clumsy, fast-talking self, of course.

(Just recorded this 1 hour 20 minutes ago…Busy, busy…)

HAPPY 2010 from Anime Diet to YOU!

 

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Suguru’s look back at 2009

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All right, teen people and the younger and older folks, here’s one thing that Uncle Ray really likes only because he lived through the 80’s. Behold, it’s Bubblegum Crisis OP live!

Shit, I didn’t even know about this show in 1988 as a kid, and yet, years later, when I picked up on Amazon as a cheap selection, I was FUCKING HOOKED. I was in the middle of my marathon of missing the 80’s and everything about the OAV really grabbed me! I really love the rocking part of the soundtrack!

For our Japanese readers, this was part of the anime that you never learned about. It has the same chara designer as Dirty Pair, but this was the high-budget production OAV that never finished. This was the pefect tribute to “Blade Runner”! So if you can find this in your local stores, Japanese fans, I highly suggest you check it out!

Anyway, see the live video below!

and THIS ONE!

It’s the 80’s Japan that I longed for!

I used the Anime version because it much clearer…

The unclear live version…

Look, of course I know I’m just being a fucking idiot and an old fart, and these people look terrible for today’s age. But it was a glorious age for many of us, nonetherless. It was a time that things didn’t fuck up every 5 minutes and life didn’t change every 3 days to to 3 months! It’s called “stability” and people used to enjoy this luxury!

It’s 10:05 PM on Thursday, December 31, Taipei Time and I hope 2009 as well as the era of 00’s go back to the hell hole it crawled out of! Enjoy what’s left of it and here’s a better 2010 and beyond!

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Whoa…I think I’m a little disoriented!

Seeing the title and then watching all the stereotypical fan service elements, including the inevitable fall, the breast grabbing, the panties (yes!!!!!), I thought I was back in old fashioned Otaku heaven!

And I was! As shitty as it is being by myself spending the last remaining hours of 2009 and on the verge of turning 33, I honestly enjoyed the fast-paced and yet taming episode! After all, you’re at a school full of daughters of high class that faint easily, not to mention are defenseless against normal, horny and ronery guys, and then you have the evil Tomomi, played by Kawasumi Ayako playing the evil Ono Kanoko and the foxy girl in Kanokon, and you have a great comedy waiting to please your appetite for some ecchi and some inevitable situation!

Hey, life is good, or at least, you must brainwash yourself into thinking that way to avoid feeling like shit at any moment. And for our hero, life is good, although he’s treated like a pervert right on episode one.

So, if you haven’t watched one, sit back and enjoy. Will I watch 2? Who knows!

Oh and don’t forge the strippin’ Goto Yuko character!

RP’s Impression.

Oishii Anime’s Impression.

Anime3000’s Thought

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I need you to clear out your desk by 12:00am. Don't make me break out the fire extinguisher.

Okay 2000 – 2009, It’s time to pack it in, you’ve had your fun. Get out. Seriously. We need your locker for the new guy. No hard feelings. We all knew this day was going to come. And sure, I know we had ourselves more than a fair share of great times. That Suzumiya-san sure was awesome wasn’t she? Several years of Naruto & Bleach were more than I could ever have wanted out of a decade of anime on big money. What’s better than a couple hundred filler episodes? Hundreds more, right? And how about all of those uber pretty shows that delivered the service, and none of the charm? I could have gone another year with more moe heavy works, and hijinks bordering on pedophilia on novacaine doused with hallucinogens in aerosol form. Hell, I’ll miss those too.

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Ye Ole Anime Diet on Oct 11, 2007, the first time we were web archived.

The Contemporary and sleek Anime Diet as of December 30, 2009

I guess I was being melancholy and contemplative in recent days as it finally struck me in that we have been reaching out and finding people responding. That what I do actually matter, for once.

With that, I bid you good night from Taipei Time. I’ve been trying to go to sleep early these days. But anyway,

Seig Diet!

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I’ve gotta say, when I saw Azusa on K-On, I was hooked.

She’s cute, easily embarassed but somehow even more moe than Mio. I also really liked the episode when she insisted on people practicing but ended up having the most fun and that tan with the tan line was hawt!

I guess my oji-san complex is on, eh?

In any event, found these below:

Yes, I know it’s Ranka (Nakajima Ai) singing, but it’s still cool!

Wow…that was an amazing piece of fan creation. I was quite surprised that it even has a mini-plot!

This time, the entire K-On band is involved. More Ranka singing, though.

I really like this for my Azunyan fix!

Great for spacing out at work…

Mizuwhirl’s thought on K-On (a second season is coming)

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Well, I almost forgot but I really like Hinagiku and Ito Shizuka! Cute character, cute actress. Both are great! So I thought I get some gems off youtube. See below:

I miss you, too.

This rocks!

Forget Asuka, get Hinagiku, hai hai!

Perfect portrayal of Hinagiku

Enjoy and have a nice rest of 2009!

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Without dressing this one up and wanting to show my appreciation, here are the comments こなちゃん
made to Cosplay picture post

Thank you for reading my comments!!!!
The Latest Information.
{2ch In japan time 30/12 13:12→ pm 1:12}
Real Time! Nanoha has a high popularity
a long line of people.
http://sports2.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/comiket/1262144889/147-
This sites will not able to be seen
when Response is over 1000.

(all Japanese reader)”

“「新着レスの表示」when　 click,
a new response can be seen.
They are in spot.”

“They seem to be having lunch.
Some people having a rest in MacDonald?
Toho[東方] many many fans.
They are often tired by a long line of people.”

UPDATE:

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You know Comiket is the holiest event for Otaku, right? Well, thanks to こなちゃん, our most loyal Japanese reader, we have fresh and exclusive pictures of 3 beautiful and hard working cosplayers from the event! Check them out!

First, his awesome comment in the best English he could manage:

A beautiful woman!
Cosplay’s tips･･
“cosplay”! That reminds me.
Comic Marcket have been held in my country!(
28~30/12 I’m sorry it’s Japan time.)
Today is the end of Comic Marcket 77
in my country in 2009. (The time that I’m writing in this is 30/12 1:07 at darkness)
Cosplay’s graphics are open in various sites.

Second, if you can read 2-chan well, it’s now updating in real time. Unfortunately, our Japanese correspondent in CA is probably asleep…

[2ch]2ちゃんねる real time
{http://tsushima.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/news/1262082196/}

OK, now the links to the pics!

Graphics↓
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http://www.pachinkovista.com/SNS/images/userImg/f00b6379b82a515a9478b6e58b783de9/f7e9521d9240669bde56eae311023c6e.jpg

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Finally, こなちゃん, thank you very much and we really appreciate your experience at Comiket and your links! どうも　ありがとございました。

UPDATE: Mainichi’s Comiket 77 pics, alerted by Deb Aoki, on Zone Otaku, Day 3 Pics on Moe Passion

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