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Episode 04: Torrent
Ao Haru Ride – 04
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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Aikatsu announcements and stuff
(The contents of this post were written by Akatsukin, who apparently prefers his name be rendered in red.)
Many things happened in the last few days. First…
Aikatsu! – 92
I wonder if coffins are actually comfortable
Hey, hey. I thought of the best Brynhildr pun just now. Too bad I didn’t think of it when it was relevant.
And on an unrelated note, why does Wikipedia seem to prefer the two-word version of compound words for article titles? There’s photo shoot, punch line, and burn down chart. Photoshoot, punchline, and burndown chart are way more natural to me.
What, you want the pun? After the break. Because spoilers.
Ao Haru Ride – 03
Colors
Ya’ll [Etoce: Sick apostrophe placement, bro] missed a sick AT Field reference because I decided to be “serious” and stuff [Etoce: ’cause I would’ve totally let it slide…].
Episode 03: Torrent | Magnet (for that one lazy guy)
Aikatsu! – 91
onegai KISS de me wo samashite hoshii no // shiroi hitsugi kara tsuredasu you ni
I’m like 75% okay with the selections.
Some amount of non-negative thanks to Yuyu for something or other.
Akatsukin notes: We finally find out the name of the guy who announces everything. His name is 徳井十九 (tokui tohku), pronounced the same as 得意トーク, which translated means “skilled at talking/announcing/commentating”. Now if only that Arai Satomi announcer would come back…
Thoughts on Mizuki after the break.
Ao Haru Ride – 02
The Role of the Support Character
I have like 5 very good topics ready to talk about but none have been written.
Aikatsu! – 90
There was a Yurika scene in the episode I wanted to make a gif of but I can’t find it
Looks like I’m back on Aikatsu. Been since episode 75. Yurika is the best. Aoi is like, above average. So this was pretty nice.
Enjoy the product of Aka-chan’s “I can’t lose” karaoke effects.
The v2 is because we somehow missed a line. And EinsamerWanderer, I think I remembered to use quotes this time!
Episode 90: Torrent v2 | Magnet | Patch
Ao Haru Ride – 01
This is the shoujoest shoujo
Yes, Mezashite [Etoce: doesn’t our name have an exclamation point?] is doing the straight romance with drama series of the summer season, Ao Haru Ride (also known as Blue Spring Ride [Etoce: and Blaue Frühlingsfahrt]). What you may or may not know about the strange sounding title is that while it’s written in katakana, if you stick the two equivalent kanji together you get 青春 (seishun), which means youth or adolescence. The Ride part is written as ライド, so it means “ride” in English. Therefore, put it all together and you get “Ride of Adolescence” [Etoce: also the title of a Vocaloid song]. I always found it kind of romantic that it’s written as basically immature springtime, which is likely also why you sometimes hear the phrase “springtime of youth”. Japanese is both fun and difficult [Etoce: the default hypothesis for language difficulty held by most linguists is that all languages are equally difficult]. Also, releases will hopefully be faster from now on. You know how the first week always is.
