Wedding Peach’s Multiple Serializations

March 4, 2010 in Manga by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 1 comment

In an attempt to get some use of my Anime Network subscription, I recently started watching Wedding Peach and noticed the above list of magazines in the opening credits.

I had heard of Chao (actually Ciao), a shoujo magazine targeted at young girls – its current series include Gokujo!! Mecha Mote Iincho (the 2nd season of the Mecha Mote anime debuts in April) and Kirarin Revolution ended last June. However, I was unsure about the others until I did some research.

In addition to the original Wedding Peach manga serialization in Ciao, there were variations that ran in the “Journal of Learning” series of publications (小学館の学習雑誌) aimed at grade school students. The Third Grader version was the same as the original but the rest had different illustrators/authors: the Study Kindergarten and First Grader versions were done by Konomichi Ayumi, the Second Grader version by Fujii Midori, and the Fourth Grader version by Tachibana Mami.

I was unable to find a Sprout magazine – there is a manga called Sprout by Atsuko Nanba – and Kindergarten (幼稚園) seems like it’d be similiar to Study Kindergarten (学習幼稚園) except with maybe less of a focus of writing. Wedding Peach ran in the former from May 1995 to April 1996.

(My main source was this section of the Wedding Peach article on Wikipedia Japan. Please correct me if I misinterpreted parts of it.)

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Nigorimasen Podcast Ep. 7: Because Otaku Have No Need For Love

January 26, 2010 in Podcast by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

I mentioned these relatively late in the podcast.

The podcast is back for 2010! The first new episode in ten months is a interview-focused conversation with Evan Minto (@VamptVo), editor-in-chief/webmaster of Ani-Gamers. It started off as an interview (and stayed that way in many parts) but it lost structure toward the end, though that looseness was fun as well.

I intended to post this over the weekend – I had said Thursday/Friday during the recording – but then my main computer began to have trouble booting up. Thankfully, I had finished the core editing and was able to upload it using my backup computer. It’s not as completely polished as I would like but it should be good enough to listen to.

 
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SHOW NOTES:

[00:13] Music: “Harlem Clip” by Gustav Ruppke

[00:47] Introducing Evan. I stumble while trying to explain why I asked him on.

[02:46] I ask about Genericon (Feb. 12th-14th) and Evan’s studies at RPI. He’s double majoring in Computer Science and in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication (EMAC).

[08:59] We then talked about the equipment used for recording the Ani-Gamers podcast…

- Samson COU1 microphone [Amazon]
- Zoom H2 [Amazon]

[13:20] … the editing process…

[17:34] … accepting promos…

[20:45] … breaking into the anime/manga/otaku podcast community…

[23:07] … and show notes.

- Ani-Gamers #24 about Sword and the Stranger
- Debut episode of The Speakeasy, the Reverse Thieves’ new monthly podcast

[28:00] The final focused topic was the Ani-Gamers website and its contributors.

[29:41] I find out how long the posting queue is.

[32:00] I move onto the contributors, who choose their own subjects to write about on the website.

- Elliot’s review of Excel Saga manga vol. 1-20
- Collection of Ani-Gamers’ 2009 Staff Picks

[35:05] Our discussion slides into the subject of review copies: I betray my meekness in asking for them, Evan states his policy of recommending his reviewers give away their review copies and buy their own afterward.

- That Cartoon Network show I couldn’t remember was Storm Hawks.
- I did remember about Lux-Pain, which I need to return to and finish.
- These two reviews of King of RPGs vol. 1 came from the same physical copy.

[52:05] False ending (or “bonus” content?), where we briefly talk again about promos and then other podcasts.

- The Geekbox (it’s about geek stuff including games, film, TV & comics)
- Fast Karate (listened to this episode – it was pretty good)

[59:05] Music: “Kyoto Melody” by Orquestra Popular De Paio Pires

Omake: dub sample from Wild Cardz

(The music in this podcast was used under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.)

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Newtype Suggests Related Works for Kadokawa Adaptations

January 18, 2010 in Anime by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

Kadokawa is a large Japanese publisher so it’s not surprising that there are many anime adaptations based on its properties. On Newtype’s website, a monthly special tied to its January 2010 issue focuses on adaptations being released this year with accompanying trailers and provides three related works (関連作品) for each title that you can watch through Bandai Channel, a point-based video streaming service. (Newtype is a Kadokawa publication, by the way.)

The feature doesn’t say how these are related to each other so I tried to figure out the connections using the “compare this anime” feature in ANN’s encyclopedia.
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Predictions & Resolutions: 2K10 Edition

January 11, 2010 in Commentary by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 4 comments

Y’know, Year of the Tiger? (pixiv link)

It’s become a habit of mine to be tardy with the annual predictions post so I won’t make excuses and will just move on to judge how well I did with predictions and how poorly I followed through on some resolutions. (You can see last year’s post for the reasonings behind those.) I also made some guesses about the year ahead and some different goals to work toward because I can’t get myself to break this cycle – it’s become too much of a tradition.
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New Look for a New Year

January 9, 2010 in Site Related by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

grabbed from Google cache

The black and orange scheme the blog has had since its last visual overhaul began feeling stale at least six months ago (can’t recall exactly when). Deciding to switch from Mandigo to something else – in this case, Tarski – was partly prompted by a Twitter conversation about pseudonyms, spawned by a MangaBlog post about making your site more user-friendly.

Yes, this is the same theme SDS uses but I’m continuing to rock a right sidebar and orange color scheme like always. The back-end tweaking is mostly done, although I managed to knock the alignment off-center while increasing the width (I’ll try to fix this ASAP – it looks fine on a 1024×768 setup) and the Google search box wasn’t working so I reverted to the standard search widget.

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