Negima: Another World OAD2 PV

In case anyone totally missed it, like me, I believe a ktkr is necessary.

Vol.28 + OAD2: November 17th 2009
Vol.29 + Drama CD: February 17th 2010
Vol.30 + OAD3: May 2010

(My blog entries really are all over the place these days, huh.)

Loquacious Summations : Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising

Not quite an “infantry simulator” like the original, but engaging nonetheless.

Bakemonogatari Vol.1 – Hitagi Crab

SHAFT is known for, er, activite artistique d’inutile (?) in all their anime as far as I know, which works in their favour this time as the Bakemonogatari series is based around dialogue spanning pages and pages (I remember one particular expositional monologue was exactly one whole page speech-bubble’d). Yes, the entire anime is more or less the cast ‘going through the motions’ needlessly artistically – as it is simply interpreting the text itself, it fits very well, so much so that watching Bakemonogatari really feels quite similar to reading it. Well, except with your eyes and ears instead.

Loquacious Summations: Red Faction Guerrilla

Mason Demolitions, land-clearing solutions.

Negima! Another World OAD 1 subs

Sept. 23rd: Didn’t notice, but a fansub came out.

Sept. 23rd (again): Since more-easily-manageable fansubs are now out, I won’t be fixing this file. You can still grab it if you want QUALITY translation and Teutonic esoterica exactness.

Mediafire.

A simple hackjob .ass file to merge with a raw for people who can’t wait for a proper release – this one, since that’s what I timed it to.

Not exactly an expert here, so it’s not perfectly timed – mainly because AegiSub couldn’t load the video for whatever reason, and I had to time it on sound alone. Only the OP has romaji, and I didn’t bother translating it.

Questions/complaints/etc. can go in this post’s comments.

(Some caps below.)

Negima! Another World – OAD 1

Sept. 19th: If you can’t wait for a proper release, there’s a DDL sub file here.

Keeping initial impressions short (80+ screencaps ahead):

• Animation and art in the first half was rougher than expected, especially the opening sequence, but serviceable. Apparently they saved up all the budget for the fight scene, which takes the entire latter half of the episode.
• The story is incredibly telescoped, again, in the first half, which is unfortunate. The second half sets up the basis of the main Magic World plot, ending right at the Forced Displacement Magic.
• Soundtrack is a fairly high point as usual…
• …though the voice work remains much the same as Ala Alba – much to be desired, though the core cast at least were acceptable. Hopefully this will improve in OAD2.

Intellectually-Gifted Appreciation Day

「元気があればなんでも　①・②・⑨！」

バーか　バーか
バーか　バーか　
バーか　バぁ～かじゃ（じゃじゃじゃ）ないか
(ad nauseum)