we're finally notdotq anymore

Sorry guys. I feel lame about not posting lately.

I do intend to post about Kanon 4, and I do intend to continue blogging Kanon. Until my current wave of emo washes away, I don’t think I’ll be posting very frequently.

La neige tombait doucement quand Yuuichi est venu courant de l’école. Il cherchait la fille qu’il a vu par la fenêtre, la fille qu’il a vu marcher toute seule dehors.

Il n’y avait pas de trace de la fille quand il s’est plongé dans la blanc rigide.

Maintenant, c’est lui qui est tout seul.

Il regarde partout, mais il ne voit que les arbres et la couverture tranquille de la neige. Silencieusement, elle prend un pas, puis un autre.

Soudainement, la fille sort de derri√®re l’arbre le plus proche de Yuuichi, tenant un fendoir immense. Les yeux de Yuuichi s’élargissent, et, à ce moment, un grand bruit s’échappe des arbres.

Well, I launched the Kanon 2006 Tracker approximately one week ago today. It’s averaged 200 raw hits/day, so either you dorks are refreshing incessantly or it’s simply getting a lot of traffic. Let’s get down to business, shall we?

In two episodes, there have been around 44 instances of the phrase “uguu~” uttered. I say around 44 because one of the 18 in Episode 01 was said by Yuuichi (which might not count according to some) and twenty of the 26 in Episode 02 are a rough estimation of the value of the “guuguuguuguuguuguu…” train that derails when Ayu runs into the tree. Fourty-four- that’s four times eleven, eleven being the number of times Misuzu managed to say “gao” in all 12 episodes of AIR. (Episode 13 doesn’t count because it’s wtfrecap)

Let’s do some more math.

44 “uguu~”s/2 episodes = 22 “uguu~”s/episode.
11 “gao”s/12 episodes = rounded up (let’s be generous), 1 gao/episode.
Kanon = 24 important episodes
AIR = 12 important episodes

Trends say that for each of AIR’s “gao”s, there will be twenty-two “uguu~”s in Kanon, supposing the shows are of equal length. This means that it’s expected for there to be 242 “uguu~”s in HALF of Kanon. I’m banking on FOUR-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR instances of “uguu~”. Boys, that’s a shitload of moe.

On to less mathy stuff.

In two weeks, the predicted five fansubbing groups leapt into the fray, releasing a total of… who knows how many LQ/HQ versions, and who cares? Across two episodes, we have six raws and eight fansubs released so far.

We have fourty-nine bloggers who’ve written about/are blogging Kanon.

And we have one winner who recognized the tracker on a separate site!

Finally, unless ANO’s series cloud is muchly flawed, this will be the 93rd entry regarding Kanon registered on the ANO aggregator. And that’s just ONE AGGREGATOR. Kanon is fucking huge, man. It would be rocking the ABSE if Corydorf were still around…

Hah, bet I got your attention with that title. Well, it’s not quite SP 2.

Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru is about a guy who isn’t much of a manly man. In fact, he’s so little of a manly man that without any non-temporary changes, his best friend turns him into a girl. Yes, folks. His voice is naturally high and feminine, and his eyes naturally the size of 3/4 of his head, and… well, you get the idea. It’s pretty ridic.

But what’s really interesting is the fact that it was 100% unoriginal. I mean at least Strawberry Panic had the Etoile thing.

Let’s examine the list of things that Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru takes from other shows.

It has the “Gokigenyou” of Maria-sama ga Miteru and Kannazuki no Miko.
It has the character designs of Da Capo (seriously, the characters. look. the. same.)
It has the all-girls-school dormitory of Strawberry Panic.
It has the nun-headmistress of Maria-sama ga Miteru and Strawberry Panic.
It has the girly-boy-turned-girl of Kasimasi.
It has the stupidity of Strawberry Panic.
It has the “grandfather’s will” of Hanaukyo Maid Tai.
It has the childhood friend of… oh fuck it, I’m not listing all of them.
It has the bad yuri jokes of Mai-HiME.
It has the Engrish-ridden OP of Kasimasi.
It has the chibi-ridden ED of Azumanga Daioh.
It has the “onee-sama” of Maria-sama ga Miteru and Strawberry Panic.

Between all of these, there’s simply nothing original in the first episode. I bet the seiyuu are all vets from previous crappy yuri anime, too.

Originally, I was under the impression that Kanon ep 2 sucked because Ayu only says “uguu~” six times (compared to a stellar eighteen in ep 1) but, while rewatching the episode, I realized that she goes “ugugu” like twenty times when she runs into the tree.

Count changed, episode’s status raised.

ATTENTION! LA CONFITURE EST DANGEREUSE!

Je crois que l’épisode dernière était juste un peu meilleure que celle de cette semaine. Peut-être j’ai aimé la dernière plus à cause de la nouveauté d’une traduction de Kanon après Kyoto Animation. Mais ne desésperez-vous pas; l’épisode était encore trè belle!

Je dois le dire; le truc avec la confiture était un peu ridicule. Apparemment, DrmChsr0 est obsédé avec la confiture d’Akiko. Moi, je ne vois pas ce qu’il vois dans la plaisanterie.

La qualité de la production continue à être très belle. Les filles continuent à être très mignonnes.

Mais mê si la série est belle, j’ai maille à partir.

OÙ EST LA TRISTESSE?!

Donne-moi mes filles tristes dans la neige, maintenant! Si non je me tuerai.

NAYUKI, LE PRÉSIDENT DE L’ÉQUIPE DE L’ATHLÉTISME

KITAGAWA EST AUSSI TRÉS MIGNON…

LE CHEMIN QU’IL PREND DÉTERMINE LAQUELLE DES FILLES IL FINIRA AVEC

LE VISAGE DE KYON.

ALLEZ-Y, INU-SAN!

Je crois que j’écriverai encore quand il y aura une version sous-titrée.

I got lazy.