Not quite Ranma 1/2 but just as funny. Ben-to looks at the high cost of living by nearly killing it’s participates .. with humor. Surprising quick wit right down to the next episode preview that is original. Fight Club will never look the same to me after watching Ben-to.
Fate/Zero brings the players of the prior Grail War into perspective and how these events will shape those in the future. A bit disjointed bouncing betwee years and locations as the events of which we already know the resultsfrom FATE/Stay Night. It’s a train wreck that we all will watch knowing it ends badly for all. Still we need to watch these tradegies knowing their offspring are doomed to make the same mistakes. It’s a lesson of History. It’s a lesson we all, as a whole, never learn.
Still Fate/Zero is an amazing prequel to the FATE series. If anything how seeing how things fit together … and fall apart. See what our members thought of Fate/Zero.
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Recieved this via email from AnimeNorth:
Two film festivals in Toronto coming up are showing anime movies.
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REDLINE at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival
The Toronto After Dark Film Festival will be showing the anime film REDLINE this coming Saturday (Oct 22nd) at 4:15 PM at the Toronto Underground Cinema. Tickets will be $13. Details at the link below.
http://torontoafterdark.com/2011/films/redline
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FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST at Reel Asian Film Festival
The Reel Asian Film Festival with be showing “Fullmetal Alchemist: Sacred Star of Milos” on Friday Nov. 11th, at 11:30 PM at the Royal Cinema, 608 College Street. The film will be in Japanese with English subtitles.
You can purchase a ticket for this showing at a 25% discount at the Reel Asian website by using the promotional code CPORG before Nov. 7th.
Thanks David.
I hope Bleach Shingamis will be out in full force this Hollow’een keeping the bad Hollows wrecking the holiday spirit. While Bleach takes places in Japan, what would our Shinigami representive be dressed like?
Still working on slightly the light novel project, though I haven’t written a word yet. Hard to write Science Fiction is more modern day involving current technology rather than most other Science Fiction. I would rather call it Science Fantasy because authors don’t have to pay attention to Science fact.
Current project or an old project revisited, the review wiki Manga List is over 3 years old so I’m revisiting ALL the pages. O_O More a revision of style and revising pages. Some publishers have vanished in those 3 years.
We’ll be helping again this year with digLONDON. Lending our controllers and gear in the games room. Digital Interactive Gaming LONDON is game development conference, not a gaming con. Lots of shirts and suits from all the game companies like Big Blue Bubble, Digital Extremes, etc. If you’re an artists wanting to break into the gaming industry, this might be for you. Runs November 16-17, 2011 http://www.diglondon.ca/
That’s all… wait is that a Hollow scream? Where’s that badge of mine… see ya. 
Not as creepy as it could have been but not bad anime based on video game. Either I have to watch more of this show or at least play the game. Find out what our other members thought of this show Persona 4 the Animation on our Thanksgiving meeting.
What makes a sequel better than it’s original when others fail so miserably? Don’t bother trying to copy the original and strike a new path. Sure the same character types are here from Blood+, girl vampire slayer. It’s all in the delivery of the part. In this case, the lead Saya is so cute and innocent she freaking creepy when it comes down to killing an ‘eldar’. Streets with not a single person or vechile. Not to mention her classmates have that same sugarly personalities except for one loner male. Don’t take my word for it, see what our other members say about the new Blood series, Blood-C.
We had a large group of new people this meeting. While most were lost as we were either in mid arc of some storylines or just ending a series, we had a good time with Super Smash Bros. during break time. Cookies were donated from Woddstock Cosplay Picnic while Kimiko and Corbyn brought pop and chips for all. This take of the Appleseed story the CG graphics were more subduedto not over power the story.. however the plotline needed more drama.
Read what others thought (though not necessary of just Appleseed XIII.
In May, it was announced that Tokyopop would be shuttering it’s doors and literally hundreds of titles would be left without a North American publisher. It’s been a few months and it hasn’t been lost that now many of those books are now drying up at local book stores. As for our manga lists, it means going through to see what is still left on the shelves at Neo Tokyo the Anime Store in London and the Dragon – Comics Games Anime in Guelph. While I have checked up on Neo Tokyo, I can’t verify the Dragon’s stock. It looks like alot of collectors have been grabbing their Tokyopop titles before they’re all gone.
So what is left at Neo Tokyo is various states of volumes and quanity. Anything from a few volumes to one of. Includng BLU Yoai manga.
We’ll be going through the review wiki tightening up the manga lists and making some other changes.
.hack//4 koma, .hack//G.U.+, .hack//another birth, .hack//cell – Novel
+Anima, ARIA, Abenobashi Magical Shopping Arcade, Ai Yori Aoshi, Alichino, Angelic Layer, Arcana, Archlord
BECK, Ba Ku, Battle Club, Battle Royale, Battle Vixens, Beyond the Beyond, Black Knight, Brave Story, Burst Angel, Butterfly
Clamp School Paranormal Investigators, Crazy Love Story, Crescent Moon, Crest of the Stars
D.N.Angel, Dazzle, Deadman Wonderland, DearS, Demon Diary, Demon Sacred, Devil’s Bride, Dragon Head, Dragon Sister!
Earthian, Eensy Weensy Monster, Element Line, Elemental Gelade
Fate/Stay Night, Foxy Lady, Fruits Basket
GTO – Manga, GTO the Early Years, Game X Rush, Gatcha Gacha, Gerard & Jacques, GetBackers, Girls Bravo, Go with Grace, Good Luck, Good Witch of the West – Manga, Good Witch of the West – Novel, Gorgeous Carat, Gothic Sports, Gravitation, Grenadier, Guardian Hearts
Hakobune Hakusho, Hands Off!, Heavenshield, Hekikai no AiON
I.N.V.U., IC in a Sunflower, Immortal Rain, Initial D, Innocent W
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Kamen Tantei, Kami Kaze, Kamiyadori, Kare Kano, Kedamono Damono, Kill Me, Kiss Me, Kimikiss, King of Thorn, Kyo Kara Maoh!
Lagoon Engine, Lament of the Lamb, Life, Lights Out, Liling-Po, Little Queen, Lives, Love Attack, Love Hina, Love Mode, Love or Money
Mad Love Chase, Magic Knight Rayearth, Magical x Miracle, Mahoromatic, Maria Holic, Mark of the Succubus, Mars – Manga, Me & My Brothers, Menkui!, Mirai Nikki (Future Diary), Missile Happy!, Missing, Momo Tama, My HiME
NOiSE – Manga, NaBi the Prototype, Neck and Neck
Peace Maker Kurogane, Peach Girl, Peach Girl – Sae’s Story, Petshop of Horrors: Tokyo, Phantom Dream, Pita-Ten – Manga, Platinum Garden, Portrait of M & N, President Dad, Priceless, Princess Ai – Rumours from the Other Side, Psychic Power Nanaki
RA-I, Ragnarok, Ratman, Recast, Red Hot Chili Samurai, Rozen Maiden
SGT Frog, STONe, Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, Sakura Taisen, Samurai Champloo, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Seikai Trilogy: Banner of the Stars, Seikai Trilogy: Crest of the Stars, Sengoku Nights, Sequence, Shin Megami Tensei: Kahn, Shinshoku Kiss, Short Sunzen!, Shout Out Loud!, Shrine of the Morning Mist, Silver Diamond, Skyblue ShoreSmuggler, Snow Drop, Sokora Refugees, Someday’s Dreamer, Sorcerer Hunters, Soul Rescue, Speed Grapher, Steady Beat, Stellar Six of Gingacho, Suikoden III
Tactics, Tarot Cafe, Tea for Two, Third, the, Threads of Time, Togainu no Chi, Trinity Blood, Trinity Blood Rage Against the Moon, Tsukuyomi Moon Phase, Twelve Kingdoms
Vampire Doll: Guilt-na-Zan, Vampire Kisses, Vassalord
War Angels, Welcome to the NHK, Wild Adapter, Witch of Artemis
Your & My Secret, Yubisaki Milk Tea
Any anime shows can be watched, few we wish could be ‘un’watched. While Rou Kyo Bu! is not that bad, it’s not great either. Even adults are rendered far younger than they are. There is the ‘moe’ factor with this show but that really gets in the way of the story. Some of the characters have that awkward stereotypical personalities without much real depth or is that really the point? Lower standards really good entertainment? Rou Kyu Bu! might be worth it as a diversion, it doesn’t cut it to remain in most people’s collections.
With our crowd being 50-50 male-female, we reviewed Rou Kyu Bu! See what they thought of it.
bouncyFrom time to time, I get offers from people to help out with the club and the web site. Which ends up meg, they disappear and I end up doing the work. Such is the case of a person who said, you got to have Google Analytics. Fine, a month passes and well the usual happens.
So I end up getting a book on the subject at the library. One of the stats which I knew of before Google had to tell me was ‘Bounce Rate‘. An annoying stat that puts the obvious problem of running a wiki has. It’s great in pulling in web searches but pretty lousey at getting people pass the page they land on. Which in our case, is hundreds of pages.
So how do you get people to click past the first page they find on your wiki?
I’ve started adding additional line which invites people to click further into the wiki. Yes, the image does link to a page. Another bain of wikis is images don’t necessarily link to pages but the image itself. The first part of this code is plain wiki code with simple link.
Check out what else is aired during this [http://www.animelondon.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Anime_Shows_-_Spring_2011 season].
The second part to get an image to act like a button which most people are use to on the web is thus.
[[Image:Spring2011.jpg|link=Anime_Shows_-_Spring_2011]]
It took a little doing to find that code but it works. Giving a visual marker even if it’s not clicked.
For us, the average bounce rate of 77.0% was a bit high. Not all of that was the wiki’s fault but it was a place to start. I put new code in the latest shows like the one above. The daily bounce rate climbed to over 80% but yesterday (Friday) a significate drop to 67.57% from 83.33% prior. While the pages effected were small fraction of the entire wiki, it was a good sign.
It will be interesting if this will turn the tide of new visitors into surfing more and more of the site. A WHOLE lot more work is needed all across with site for that. Still it’s a good sign. Considering now I have to put the line and button on hundreds into existing wiki pages. Maybe I should be trying to learn templates more than Google Analytics. Running a major website is a major pain but a major pay off.
Now if only those who offered their help would actually come through with their promises. That would surprise me more than a really low bounce rates.
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