Butterfly Dreams

Holy f*ck. That’s all I can say without my mind imploding on me. That’s one of the best endings I’ve seen in Gundam history. Gundam 00 is truly stepping up to be one of the best Gundam series ever made. Things I knew would happen happened (Livonze is a total traitor!!!), and the four year time skip just destroyed me– in a good way. I think. The battle between Alejandro and Sestuna was superb, and for a second I thought this was truly the end of the series, but my knowledge of me knowing a Gundam series go 52 episodes, and the final message of “Mission Incomplete” was a indicator that this thing is far from over. I don’t know where to begin without missing anything, so I’ll try and start my thoughts from the beginning of this epic episode.

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With community unity amongst bloggers in the anime blogosphere in mind, the Anime Blog Awards was created in order to bridge that gap by recognizing worthy bloggers and their achievements in various fields ranging from episodic blogs to editorial blogs to blogs that make you laugh the best. Nominations will be until April 22nd with voting going from April 25th to June 1st. Anyone with an anime-centric blog created prior to February 1st, 2008 and a single post made in March 2008 are allowed to nominate, and nomnated blogs must have a minimum of five posts, one of which must be made between March 1st, 2008 to April 1st, 2008.

I’m not sure how effective these awards will be, for history has shown this kind of thing will more or less turn into a popularity vote, ultimately putting blogs and bloggers alike against each other for the spotlight. I’m sure we’re all well aware of which blogs are well known, and the last thing we need is drama to take away from the goal of the awards, for enough has been starting with ABC, which I just recently heard of. If I were to be honest, the ‘new blog spotlight’-esque post that THAT Anime Blog used to do (or is still doing, I haven’t been to the blog in a while) was much more effective in bringing to light anime blogs that weren’t so well known. I hope Impz and the team at THAT will continue that trend.

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This is the first time I’ve ever complied a pre-season list. I never have before because others usually do it before me, or it takes me too long that the season has already started by the time I’m done xDD But I managed to do it for the big anime season coming up, with about 31 titles under the cut, not including some of the really childish series (though I can add it if it’s really wanted) and any OVAs I might’ve missed or something. They appear  in the order as listed on MOON PHASE, and links to trailers are provided where available. The list of who’s subbing what could be found on the 2008 Spring Fansub Wiki.

Compared to the lackluster Winter Season, I’m looking forward to this one, especially with the return of CODE GEASS. Speaking of which, I dub this the season of Fukuyama Jun (who voices Lelouch), since he’s cast in almost every other series this season. What’re your thoughts of the upcoming season and what do you plan to watch?

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