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Anime Credits - Please Twins OP and ED

Friday, April 11, 2008 – 9:24 am

Please Twins, Onegai Twins, whatever you want to call it. Sure, it’s a bit older, but I’ve always liked it’s credit sequences:

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Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #38

Saturday, August 18, 2007 – 6:54 pm

Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode 38Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #38 is now online! In this podcast, I re-review the manga series Onegai Twins.

This week’s Podcast Stats:
Time: 15:57
Download Size: 10.9 MB

This week’s opening theme:
“Tori no Uta” by Lia
Opening theme to Air

This week’s ending theme:
“Second Flight” by KOTOKO & Hiromi Sato
Opening theme to Please Twins!

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Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #28

Saturday, June 9, 2007 – 6:07 pm

Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode 28Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #28 is now online! In this podcast, I re-review the anime series Please Twins!

This week’s Podcast Stats:
Time: 23:34
Download Size: 16.2MB

This week’s opening theme:
“IT’S” by Kotani Kinya
Second opening theme to Tsubasa Chronicle

This week’s ending theme:
“Asu e no Namida” by Mami Kawada
Ending theme to Please Twins!

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Manga Review: Onegai Twins - Score: 80%

Thursday, January 18, 2007 – 1:39 pm

The Essentials

Onegai TwinsName: Onegai Twins, Please Twins
Genre:: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Tankoubon: 1
Serialized In: Dengeki Daioh
Released: 2005
Based on: Please Twins anime
Story: Please!
Art: Akikan
Published By (Japan): Media Works
Published By (US): DrMaster

Scores

Story: 8/10 (x 3 = 24 pts)
Art: 8/10 (x 3 = 24 pts)
Gut Score: 8/10 (x 4 = 32 pts)

Total: 80/100 (80%)

Review

The Onegai Twins manga is, as noted above, an adaptation of the 13-episode anime series. Onegai Twins is about three teenagers: Maiku, Karen, and Miina, who all find their way to a house that they saw on TV during a national news story two in the past - a house that each of them have a picture of, behind two children - a boy and a girl - playing in an inflatable pool. The boy, Maiku, gets to the house first, gets a part time job, and starts renting it. However, soon after that, both girls show up on his doorstep, both claiming to be his twin sister. It’s impossible for them to tell which one is Maiku’s real sister from the photo, and Maiku doesn’t want to just throw out a potential sibling, so the three live together until the mystery can be resolved. However, this creates an awkward situation where relationships start to form, yet no one is quite sure who is the sibling and who isn’t.

The fact that this single-volume manga tries to push material from 13 episodes of the anime into about 200 pages is quite an ambitious feet, and yet, amazingly, it works pretty well considering. This is mostly complished by putting in things from the first 4 or 5 episodes, then skipping most of the filler in between and going straight to the conclusion. While one might miss out on all the sub-stories that make the anime funny, the manga is still able to keep it’s coherency while not feeling too rushed. The art is also pretty good as well, with it basically looking like the anime in manga form.

The manga also changes some things, such as whose point of view a scene is seen from to give the manga some freshness. However, the biggest difference is how the conclusion plays out and, in a way, gives the manga’s ending even more finality than the ending in the anime, as it goes more in depth into the circumstances behind the trio’s abandonment.

I’m not sure if the differences in the manga are big enough to warrant reading it if you’ve already seen the anime, but it is a single volume and quick read, so you won’t cost one much if one does choose to check it out. In any case, the manga may be a good, quick read for someone to get introduced to the series if they haven’t seen the anime yet.

First Read: August 2006
Do I Own: Yes
Do I Recommend: Indifferent

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Anime Review: Please Twins! - Score: 86%

Sunday, December 3, 2006 – 10:19 pm

The Essentials

Please Twins!Name: Please Twins, Onegai Twins
Genre:: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Episodes: 12 TV, 1 OVA
Released: July 15, 2003 - October 14, 2003 (TV), April 23, 2004 (OVA)
Based On: Please Teacher anime
Director: Yasunori Ide
Produced By: Bandai Visual
US Distribution By: Bandai

Major Japanese Cast

Maiku Kamishiro: Daisuke Namikawa
Miina Miyafuji: Mai Nakahara
Karen Onodera: Ai Shimizu
Kousei Shimazaki: Kenichi Suzumura
Tsubaki Oribe: Michiko Neya
Ichigo Morino: Yukari Tamura
Mizuho Kazami: Kikuko Inoue
Marie: Tomoko Kaneda
Haruko Shidou: Ryoko Shintani
Matagu Shidou: Hiroaki Miura

Major English Cast

Maiku Kamishiro: Johnny Yong Bosch
Miina Miyafuji: Kari Wahlgren
Karen Onodera: Lara Jill Miller
Kousei Shimazaki: Crispin Freeman
Tsubaki Oribe: Jessica Straus
Ichigo Morino: Julie Anne Taylor
Mizuho Kazami: Bridget Hoffman
Marie: Sandy Fox
Haruko Shidou: Therese Nguyen
Matagu Shidou: Tony Schnur

Scores

Animation: 8/10 (x 4 = 32 pts)
Story: 8/10 (x 4 = 32 pts)
Music: 9/10 (x 4 = 36 pts)
Coherency/Story Arc: 9/10 (x 2 = 18 pts)
English Dubs: 9/10 (x 1 = 9 pts)
Gut Score: 9/10 (x 5 = 45 pts)

Total: 172/200 (86%)

Review

This is a series that is a sequal to, though mostly independent of, the series Please Teacher. This series is about a boy, Maiku, who rents a house that he saw on TV and that he has a picture of with himself and an unknown girl when he they were small. Soon after he moves there, two girls arrive at the house saying that they are his sister. The problem is that all three of them have a copy of a photograph with only two people in it.

One of the girls is Maiku’s sister and the other is not. But which? The three living together creates doubt and tension in all three of them that results in both drama and laughs. To add to it, Maiku’s sempai seems to have the hots for him, as well as his seemingly-gay classmate, leading to the two girls trying to stave of possible rivals to Maiku in the case that they aren’t his sister, while being fully aware that they could be his sister.

There is fanservice, but I wouldn’t call it blatant (as in, not consisting of huge bouncing boobs), though it does include “nippleness” nudity.

This is a pretty good anime with above average, though not great, animation, story, story, and music. This ranks among those anime thare are unique enough to be very enjoyable.

First Watched: April 2006
Do I Own: Yes
Do I Recommend: Yes

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One Year

Sunday, August 6, 2006 – 6:30 pm

On August 6, 2005, I popped Volume 1 of DNA2 into my DVD player. That disk was the first one I watched after starting renting from Blockbuster online, and is the first time that I voluntarily chose to watch an anime series while realizing that it was an anime series. It was, by most accounts, the start of my anime viewing.

So, how far have I gotten in 1 year? I’ve rated 17 anime series or movies (of course, this site has only been up for the last 6 of those 12 months). I’ve completed 14 others, and I’m currently watching 9 more.

If my counting is correct, in the past year I have watched 503 anime episodes or movies for a total of something around 200 to 215 hours of shows (or between 8 and 9 days).

I own 9 anime series and part of another as well as 2 movies:

- Ah! My Goddess: The Movie
- Ai Yori Aoshi / Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi
- Angelic Layer
- Cardcaptor Sakura - Clow Book (Season 1)
- Chobits
- DNA2
- Fruits Basket
- Koi Kaze
- The Place Promised in our Early Days
- Please! Twins
- Last Exile
- The World of Narue

There are also several shows on my to-get list:

Not finished, but I know I’ll buy it
Cardcaptor Sakura - Sakura Book
I”s Pure

It’s either still too expensive or I just haven’t gotten around to buying it
Howl’s Moving Castle
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away

Licenced but not released
Rumbling Hearts (Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien)

Not licenced yet
I”s Pure
Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

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Anime Left to Review - Part II

Friday, July 28, 2006 – 1:56 pm

Back on March 19th, I made a list of anime I had left to review. Lets look at that list:

  • Ai Yori Aoshi
  • Castle in the Sky
  • Chobits
  • DearS
  • Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventures
  • Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien
  • Koi Kaze
  • Love Hina
  • Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind
  • Onegai Twins
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Video Girl Ai
  • World of Narue, The

Well…i’ve done well. I’ve reviewed…well…Chobits and Dual! it looks like (though I have reviewed some others that I have watched since then). Here is my now updated list:

  • Ai Yori Aoshi
  • Akane Maniax
  • Castle in the Sky
  • DearS
  • Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien
  • Koi Kaze
  • Love Hina
  • Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • Onegai Twins
  • Porco Rosso
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Spirited Away
  • Video Girl Ai
  • World of Narue, The

Soo…take off the two I did, and add two new anime (Porco Rosso and Evangelion) and two I had forgotten about before (Spirited Away, Akane Maniax) with I”s Pure and the rest of Cardcaptor Sakura coming around the corner (assuming I’m not forgetting anything). And, as I said in a previous post, I own four of these series. Not much of an excuse there to not review them lol.

UPDATE: I decided to add a page listing Anime and Manga to be rated.

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My tastes in anime: 2003 and 2004 US releases

Thursday, March 16, 2006 – 1:39 pm

I went back and looked at when the anime that I have purchased, or in the process of buying, were first released in the US to see if they were relatively spread out or bunched together.

Well, it appears they are bunched together. The anime I purchased, at least in their original releases, totaled 45 DVDs, here is the list:

Ai Yori Aoshi (8)
Angelic Layer (7) [I bought the 5-disc re-release]
Chobits (6) [I bought the 8-disc thinpack release]
DNA2 (5)
Fruits Basket (4)
Koi Kaze (3)
Last Exile (7)
Please Twins (4)
World of Narue (1 - they dont sell the 4 DVDs individually)

= 45 discs

So, how many of those were released, by year?

2002 - 1
2003 - 21
2004 - 17
2005 - 6

Also, as many as 4 series were being released at the same time, with Fruits Basket, DNA2, Ai Yori Aoshi, and Chobits all being released at the same time between March 2003 and May 2003; as well as on October 14, 2003, when 2 series ended and one series began, thus having DNA2, Ai Yori Aoshi, Chobits, and Angelic Layer briefly being released at the same time.

The biggest individual day? October 14, 2003, which saw the release of DNA2 #5 (and the box set), Ai Yori Aoshi #5 (also ending the release of the first season), and Angelic Layer #1.

The only other month which saw 3 releases was November 2003, with Chobits #5 (11th), Last Exile #1 (18th), and Angelic Layer #2 (25th).

I suppose the most “modern” anime I’ve been watching are Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, which is scheduled to begin it’s US release in October 2006, and I”s Pure, which isn’t even licensed yet.

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Finally got package 1 of 3 from ebay

Saturday, March 11, 2006 – 1:35 pm

Since I really don’t have very much to talk about dealing with anime today, I’d just like to say that, after my initial experience buying anime from ebay, which was excellent, recently it seems to have gotten worse. I don’t know if the mail is slow or what, but I’ve purchased 3 anime things off of ebay, all shipping either Monday or Tuesday. I (finally) got the first one today (via media mail, which I guess the other ones may be being sent too).

This one is the Fruits Basket set, being the 5th complete anime series I have in hand (DNA2, Chobits, Angelic Layer, Onegai Twins - in that order). The next shipment includes the Murata boxset of Last Exile, which are in thinpack packages, and the World of Narue collection. The final shipment has volumes 2 and 3 of Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi.

I blew my chance to buy the Ai Yori Aoshi first season set. There were two items on ebay, one with a starting bid of $15 and one with a starting bid of $30. The two other times I’ve seen them on ebay, they went for something like $70, so I put an opening bid on the $15 one for $50 thinking “no way either will go for less than that.”

Well, at first I thought I was going to get a break. Going into the last day, the one I was bidding on was at $26 and the $30 had one bid. The $30 (which ended first) ended up going for that, so I was like “yeah!” Nope. Bidding on mine started going up dramatically. I was sitting there like “why didn’t you bid on the other one like that?”

Mine ended up going for like, $64, which was a little more than I was in the mood to pay, considering the same thing sold for less than half that just a couple hours earlier. So i learned my lesson: even if I think something will go for a lot, unless its the only thing there, don’t bid a lot on the first bid (and even if it is alone, there is a chance a new one may pop up). Unfortunately I haven’t seen the set (other thank cheap HK knockoffs) on there since.

One item I just bought yesterday was Koi Kaze volume 1. Again, it is rare to see the whole set on there, but one will occasionally see someone selling a particular volume for cheap, and I got this one for $7.99 including shipping, which, considering my thought was about $10 to $12 per DVD in that set, isn’t a bad deal.

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