Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been updating regularly. I have been somewhat busy, and I've found myself wrapped up in the Winter Olympics. Oh, the drama! ^_^



So, I really don't have much to talk about. Though, I am still in need of nominations for the OtakuBowl. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go up to the Info box at the top and click on the image for it. The info for the OtakuBowl will come up in the box. Or for some browsers it will come up in a new window.

Anyway, I'm going to post the nominations I have so far. I have made a few of my own revisions based on some investigations I've done into various titles. The resource I use for my information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime. I have found this resource to be very useful considering it covers most anime, manga, and many video game titles. If there is anything I can't find on there, I just use Google to search for information. If anyone disagrees with what I have listed, or if anyone would like to change their listed nominations, let me know. I'll gladly make changes. For now I'm still hoping to get nominations from people who have not nominated yet. If I have a hard time filling any of the categories, I'll ask for more nominations from people who have already nominated.

And thanks a lot guys. I'd like to wrap up the nominations this week if possible and get the competitions going next week.

Here's the list -

---------- OTAKUBOWL NOMINATIONS ----------

ANIME SERIES OLD:
-Trigun (Caprice, oturan ikamuzu, Mamma Vash)
-Rurouni Kenshin (Caprice)
-Gundam Wing (Wolf of Darkstar)
-Fushigi Yugi (Night shade2)
-Cowboy Bebop (devilsadvocate, Mamma Vash)
-Yu Yu Hakusho (Jet 224)
-The Vision of Escaflowne (CosmicSailor)




ANIME SERIES NEW:
-Gungrave (Caprice, Mamma Vash, Yensid)
-Hellsing (Blaized, shadowkitsune98)
-Bleach (Blaized, Dark Cloud)
-Wolf's Rain (Wolf of Darkstar, Yensid)
-Naruto (Night shade2, shadowkitsune98, oturan ikamuzu, Dark Cloud, Somegirl)
-.hack//SIGN (shadowkitsune98) [shadowkitsune nominated in movie category, no movie for .hack//sign, however some OVAs]
-Genshiken (devilsadvocate)
-Inuyasha [originally released in 2000] (RenoTheTurk, oturan ikamuzu, Somegirl)
-Fullmetal Alchemist (RenoTheTurk, oturan ikamuzu, Yensid)
-D.N.Angel (oturan ikamuzu, Yensid)
-Samurai Champloo (Dark Cloud)
-GetBackers (Dark Cloud)
-Hajime no Ippo (aka "Fighting Spirit") (Dark Cloud)
-Paranoia Agent (Mamma Vash)
-Last Exile (CosmicSailor)
-s-CRY-ed (Somegirl)




ANIME/VIDEO GAME MOVIE:
-Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children/Last Order (Caprice, RenoTheTurk) [listed Last Order same as Advent children due to Last Order technically not considered movie, but an add-on to Advent Children]
-Naruto (First movie) (Blaized, Night shade2)
-Howl's Moving Castle (devilsadvocate)
-Patlabor (Mamma Vash)
_Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (Yensid)
-Akira (CosmicSailor)
-Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (aka Cowboy Bebop: The Movie in North America) (CosmicSailor)




MANGA:
-666 Satan (Blaized)
-Death Note (Wolf of Darkstar)
-Hikaru No Go (Wolf of Darkstar)
-DNAngel (Night shade2)
-Fruits Basket (shadowkitsune98)
-Full Moon wo Sagashite (devilsadvocate)
-Godchild (devilsadvocate)
-Black Cat (RenoTheTurk)
-Sokora Refugees (CosmicSailor)




VIDEO GAME:
-The Legend of Dragoon (Caprice)
-Devil May Cry (Blaized)
-Final Fantasy VIII (Wolf of Darkstar)
-Battle for Middle Earth (Night shade2)
-Inuyasha(First) (shadowkitsune98)
-Final Fantasy VII (RenoTheTurk)
-Super Mario Bros. (Somegirl)


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Somegirl, if you read this, your original nominations were for characters. I just assigned the titles instead. If you aren't happy with those, let me know.

shadowkitsune98, you nominated .hack//SIGN under movie category, but as far as I know there is no .hack//SIGN movie. I'm not as familiar with this title, so I just went off of what I read. If I'm wrong, correct me and show me where I can find info on a movie.

Yensid, you nominated 6. I left out Kino's Journey. I apologize, but I am only asking for 5 at this time. And the reason I dropped that one is because it is less popular than the other titles and most likely would be voted out early on in the competition anyway.

Mamma Vash, you nominated Patlabor movies. There are 3 of them. I can only nominate one. If you have a preference for any one of them, let me know. I'd really appreciate it.

KitsuneTsuki, you haven't nominated any yet. Unless you slipped them in there somewhere and I missed it. o_O
Don't count on the Steelers winning this one. I have a very extensive, rigourous eye test for the referees in this thing. No bad calls will be tolerated! =P

RenoTheTurk, you nominated Final Fantasy VII: Last Order under the movie category. I had a tough time with this. At first I wasn't sure what to do with that nomination. Last Order is anime style, but it's not a series. And I didn't really consider it a movie because it only runs 25 minutes. It is one of those OVAs. Which got me wondering what do I do with OVAs? Well, I decided I'd handle them on a case by case situation. In this case, Last Order was released as an add-on to Advent Children. So, I put it with Advent Children. It doesn't really fit into any of these categories on it's own. Perhaps I should've included an OVA category as well. But I didn't so, I'm gonna leave it at that. I hope you understand.

This also brings me to the subject of OVAs. If anyone gives me a title that has OVAs, I will categorize those OVAs off of the title from which they are based. For example, Rurouni Kenshin (OVAs aka Samurai X), since I don't have an OVA category, those OVAs would be based on the series. Perhaps if I do this again next year, I may include an OVA category. But for now, there is no OVA category.

I also found myself wondering if some may have been confused by the movie category. I have it listed as Anime/Video Game Movie. Perhaps you missed the movie part at the end, thinking it to be an anime based on a video game, or a video game based on an anime. This is a movie category. Any movie based on an anime, such as Escaflowne, based on the series The Vision of Escaflowne. Or any movie based on a video game, such as Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Generally, a movie lasts atleast an hour. Otherwise, it would most likely be an OVA.



Well, I think I covered everything I wanted to.

Oh, I almost forgot! I submitted two new fan art yesterday. They are originals I did recently. They just started out as doodles, and turned out well enough to be submitted. So please take a look at them if you have the time, thanks!



Well, that's all for now. Have a great day all. Take care.

Catcha later...


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