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Your Favourite Themes that Have to Exist in Anime

Great anime needs awesome storyline and/or animation graphics. No doubt that without them, an anime would be 100% crap. But, it seems that with quite a large number of anime possessing these 2 traits. Hence, there is intensive competition within the anime industry, with anime series to outshine each other in the various aspects. However, how successful an anime (note: I dont use the word ‘awesome’) is would have to be dependent on it’s viewers.

Hence an additional trait has to be included. It happens to be the classification of anime.

The classification of anime can be divided into 3 main parts. The genre, the target audience and the theme. The genres are similar to the ones that exist within mainstream movies/dramas, with common genres such as ‘Action’, ‘Drama’ and ‘Romance’. For the target audience, the sex and age group of the audience is considered. Common classifications include ‘Shonen’, ‘Shoujo’ and ‘Seinen’. And finally, themes. As stated in this post’s title, this is what I will be writing about in detail.

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Personal Domain

As mentioned in the last post on my previous blog, Furu Anime Panikku has shifted over here.

And to celebrate the obtaining of my very own domain, I present to you a wallpaper I have done.

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Please forgive my rather noob skills in Photoshop.

Now, time for me to start off with PHP.

Freedom Project : No Freedom

I watched Freedom a few weeks ago, but it was only until now that I have gotten down to writing a post on it. A few other animebloggers have written about it too.

Unlike the rest who have written rather lengthy posts on Freedom, covering everything from the animation art to the entire storyline, I have decided to state some opinions on a few parts of the anime instead. Therefore, I suggest you check out the other posts too, as I will only be covering some specific parts. 2 parts to be exact.

First, the part where the children, upon reaching a certain age, undergo a ceremony named “Freedom”. This is just basically tagging them with a silver stupid looking wristband so that the “Government” of Eden can track every single one of them. The Irony. I am totally unable to imagine living in a world where my every single movement is being monitored and tracked. Then again, it might be happening already, but it might be just that no one manages to notice. Probably not the tracking part, but the monitoring part is highly possible. Hopefully, all the spy cameras are kept to the streets and only to the streets.


Takeru is pissed off. “GIMME MY FREEDOM !!!

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So you have the Laughing Man T-Shirt… But what about the Jacket?

It’s offical. Cospa is releasing this uber cool laughing man jacket. The stated release date would be sometime in Feb 2008, and the jacket would cost 6090 yen with tax included.

Currently, there is only M,L and XL, and you can start preordering now. Anyway, I doubt I would be getting this as I already have my TDD-1 windbreaker already. I don’t wear jackets very often, just only when it’s freezing cold in 3 hour lessons. Hence, I don’t see the need for me to get another to keep me warm.

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