<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229</id><updated>2011-12-31T08:00:57.920+01:00</updated><category term='iphone apps'/><category term='hentai'/><category term='anime'/><category term='project steel'/><category term='manga'/><category term='talk'/><category term='life action movies'/><title type='text'>iPhone Ready</title><subtitle type='html'>Reviews, screenshots and video previews of anime series available for the iphone/ipod touch, including torrent links.

IN COLOR !!!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>72</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8497245247980117963</id><published>2009-05-20T04:31:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T08:38:54.430+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kaze no Stigma(Eng Sub)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=23344"&gt;Download Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/ShOlbD-lj1I/AAAAAAAAADY/J2EocOnymFg/s1600-h/AS-Kaze-No-Stigma.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/ShOlbD-lj1I/AAAAAAAAADY/J2EocOnymFg/s400/AS-Kaze-No-Stigma.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337791867707035474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kazuma Kannagi was considered useless within his family because he could not use Enjutsu, the power to control flames. When he was defeated by Ayano Kannagi, one of his relatives, in a bout to decide who the wielder of Enraiha, a sword that was wielded by the family heir, he was banished from the family. Four years later, he returns, now a master of Fuujustu, the power to control wind, with a new name: Kazuma Yagami. Soon after his return, he is reunited with Ayano and his younger brother, Ren, who is also gifted in Enjutsu. Soon, however, Kannagi family members are killed and the murder weapon is revealed to be Fuujutsu. Now Kazuma has to fight his family to prove that he is not the murderer.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Enjoy,&lt;br /&gt;Daniel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8497245247980117963?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8497245247980117963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8497245247980117963' title='43 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8497245247980117963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8497245247980117963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/05/kaze-no-stigmaeng-sub.html' title='Kaze no Stigma(Eng Sub)'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/ShOlbD-lj1I/AAAAAAAAADY/J2EocOnymFg/s72-c/AS-Kaze-No-Stigma.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>43</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-621006455062216545</id><published>2009-05-19T06:46:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T06:52:55.957+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Wiped out entire hard drive...</title><content type='html'>Hey guys,&lt;br /&gt;Real bad news...  I accidentally wiped out my entire hard drive trying to install Linux on my already tri-booted computer(never tried Linux...  Always wanted too...  Not wanting to so much now :( )&lt;br /&gt;So, I can only release Kaze no Stigma because (lucklily) I left it on my iPod touch...  Sorry guys, hope to get KnS out by tonight.&lt;br /&gt;-Daniel&lt;br /&gt;P.S Been reinstalling my system and ect. for a few days :(, this was actually written on my pod...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-621006455062216545?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/621006455062216545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=621006455062216545' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/621006455062216545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/621006455062216545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/05/wiped-out-entire-hard-drive.html' title='Wiped out entire hard drive...'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-4114144560291377723</id><published>2009-05-05T00:13:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T00:17:44.583+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I'm not releasing, and when I will be.</title><content type='html'>Hey guys,&lt;br /&gt;You may have noticed I haven't been releasing or seeding anything, and this is because my computer is not remaining on or with me, I am still converting for myself, but I am not releasing.  When my computer is stable(no it's not broken, just not remaining on :) ) and I can resume seeding I will release the following series that I have converted already:&lt;br /&gt;Kaze no Stigma&lt;br /&gt;Zero no Tsukaima(Season 1 and 2, no 3)&lt;br /&gt;Last Exile&lt;br /&gt;These are all on my hard drive, and I can't release them until I have the appropriate time to do so, check back in the next week or so and all three will probably be released.&lt;br /&gt;-Daniel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-4114144560291377723?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/4114144560291377723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=4114144560291377723' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4114144560291377723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4114144560291377723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-im-not-releasing-and-when-i-will-be.html' title='Why I&apos;m not releasing, and when I will be.'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8616027115975957346</id><published>2009-04-14T01:16:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T00:54:12.073+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Erementar Gerad(Elemental Gelade) (Eng Sub)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21822"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SePHV2rK2EI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UtV5hgea-RI/s1600-h/14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SePHV2rK2EI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UtV5hgea-RI/s400/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324318362749818946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"The tale of &lt;i&gt;Elemental Gelade&lt;/i&gt; is set in the world of Guardia where beings called Edel Raids co-exist with humans. Edel Raids have the ability to fuse with a human and become a living weapon. The story focuses on the adventures of a young sky pirate named Coud Van Giruet, an Edel Raid named Reverie Metherlance, and three guardians of an Edel Raid protection organization called Arc Aile named Cisqua, Rowen, and Kuea. Reverie Metherlance is set on journeying to the legendary land of gold called Eden Garden, but it turns out that she is a powerful and rare Edel Raid which leads to many villains attempting to kidnap her for themselves."&lt;br /&gt;Once again guys, sorry about the bad torrents, hopefully this one will work properly.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy,&lt;br /&gt;Daniel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8616027115975957346?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8616027115975957346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8616027115975957346' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8616027115975957346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8616027115975957346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/download-here-from-wikipedia-tale-of.html' title='Erementar Gerad(Elemental Gelade) (Eng Sub)'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SePHV2rK2EI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UtV5hgea-RI/s72-c/14.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-6836959785446655848</id><published>2009-04-14T01:12:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T00:54:00.534+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Elemental Gelade(Eng Dub)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21823"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SePHV2rK2EI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UtV5hgea-RI/s1600-h/14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SePHV2rK2EI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UtV5hgea-RI/s400/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324318362749818946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"The tale of &lt;i&gt;Elemental Gelade&lt;/i&gt; is set in the world of Guardia where beings called Edel Raids co-exist with humans. Edel Raids have the ability to fuse with a human and become a living weapon. The story focuses on the adventures of a young sky pirate named Coud Van Giruet, an Edel Raid named Reverie Metherlance, and three guardians of an Edel Raid protection organization called Arc Aile named Cisqua, Rowen, and Kuea. Reverie Metherlance is set on journeying to the legendary land of gold called Eden Garden, but it turns out that she is a powerful and rare Edel Raid which leads to many villains attempting to kidnap her for themselves."&lt;br /&gt;Once again guys, sorry about the bad torrents, hopefully this one will work properly.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy,&lt;br /&gt;Daniel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6836959785446655848?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6836959785446655848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6836959785446655848' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6836959785446655848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6836959785446655848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/elemental-geladeeng-dub.html' title='Elemental Gelade(Eng Dub)'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SePHV2rK2EI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UtV5hgea-RI/s72-c/14.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-1934261104910095949</id><published>2009-04-13T04:56:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T07:03:13.997+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Why some of the torrents aren't finishing</title><content type='html'>A lot of the torrents don't seem to be finishing(the peers don't get the whole thing), and there is a perfectly logic reason for this, I know there is one because there's one for everything, but I am as confused as you, shortly I will have all new torrents for you, and you will just have to pick the folder where you put the previous files, so be patient, I'm sorry, I will also upload the new one's on anirena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21780"&gt;D.N Angel Subbed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21776"&gt;D.N Angel Dubbed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21775"&gt;Eureka Seven Dubbed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21779"&gt;Fullmetal Alchemist Dubbed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Daniel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-1934261104910095949?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/1934261104910095949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=1934261104910095949' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/1934261104910095949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/1934261104910095949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-some-of-torrents-arent-finishing.html' title='Why some of the torrents aren&apos;t finishing'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8012664000061950913</id><published>2009-04-12T23:46:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-12T23:48:47.912+02:00</updated><title type='text'>D.N Angel, why I'm not seeding</title><content type='html'>Hey guys,&lt;br /&gt;I was seeding D.N Angel for a while, and I stopped it for a few minutes so I could download something, and when I started it, it claimed it couldn't find the files...  It started checking for them and finding nothing.  I went into the folder, they were all there, played a few of them, they worked.  I downloaded a new torrent client, same thing there.  I seeded about 9 gbs, so I'm hoping you'll can finish it, but If I don't see a seed by tomorrow night, I will make new torrents for them.&lt;br /&gt;-Daniel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8012664000061950913?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8012664000061950913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8012664000061950913' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8012664000061950913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8012664000061950913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/dn-angel-why-im-not-seeding.html' title='D.N Angel, why I&apos;m not seeding'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-3873283179466002286</id><published>2009-04-11T12:38:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T12:43:11.212+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Anonymous Comments disabled</title><content type='html'>Since spammers have managed to circumvent the captcha-protection of the anonymous comments (thats the stuff with the letters) I decided to allow comments for registered users only for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I rather like anonymous comments but having to delete scores of comments reminding me on how easy it is to buy gold for World of Warcraft gets tedious very fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;-DirtyFinger&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-3873283179466002286?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/3873283179466002286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=3873283179466002286' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3873283179466002286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3873283179466002286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/anonymous-comments-disabled.html' title='Anonymous Comments disabled'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8002471705879505984</id><published>2009-04-10T04:26:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T05:29:20.866+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>D.N Angel 1-26 (Eng Dub)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21776"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sd0aWeLtKII/AAAAAAAAACw/AJ8ILi0pN08/s1600-h/dnangel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sd0aWeLtKII/AAAAAAAAACw/AJ8ILi0pN08/s400/dnangel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322439307983399042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hey Guys,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sorry about the repost in English Dub, but I had to get the most out of those bloody MKV's :)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Daisuke Niwa is a 14-year-old boy who has a special genetic ability: whenever he sees or thinks about his crush, Risa Harada, he turns into the infamous phantom thief Dark. Satoshi Hiwatari is a student at the same school as Daisuke and the Harada twins, as well as the Commander of the police force who is heading the investigation on Dark. He is also member of the Hikari family, a clan of artists which has opposed the Niwa family of thieves for centuries."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Sorry for the short description, it's better than it sounds though. Though I find Daisuke to be a really whiny person... And his name sounds like "Daisuki"(I actually think they pun on this a few times... But I can't remember, I watched this show a long time ago), which means "like" :)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MMsDvf-0Ouw&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MMsDvf-0Ouw&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Daniel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;P.S.  This is an action romance, so the first part of the first episode is pretty dull for people who don't like romance much.&lt;br /&gt;Edit:  Haha, I just realized, this show's name is a double pun, the main characters name is Daisuke Niwa, or D.N, Daisuke Niwa, Angel, so not only is it referring to his D.N.A, but it's also referring to his name :).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8002471705879505984?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8002471705879505984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8002471705879505984' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8002471705879505984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8002471705879505984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/dn-angel-1-26-eng-dub.html' title='D.N Angel 1-26 (Eng Dub)'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sd0aWeLtKII/AAAAAAAAACw/AJ8ILi0pN08/s72-c/dnangel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8016878755061439835</id><published>2009-04-08T23:39:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T05:29:03.145+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>D.N Angel 1-26 (Eng Sub)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21780"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sd0aWeLtKII/AAAAAAAAACw/AJ8ILi0pN08/s1600-h/dnangel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sd0aWeLtKII/AAAAAAAAACw/AJ8ILi0pN08/s400/dnangel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322439307983399042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Daisuke Niwa is a 14-year-old boy who has a special genetic ability: whenever he sees or thinks about his crush, Risa Harada, he turns into the infamous phantom thief Dark. Satoshi Hiwatari is a student at the same school as Daisuke and the Harada twins, as well as the Commander of the police force who is heading the investigation on Dark. He is also member of the Hikari family, a clan of artists which has opposed the Niwa family of thieves for centuries."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Sorry for the short description, it's better than it sounds though.  Though I find Daisuke to be a really whiny person...  And his name sounds like "Daisuki"(I actually think they pun on this a few times...  But I can't remember, I watched this show a long time ago), which means "like" :)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xA_5yE-EqTc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xA_5yE-EqTc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Daniel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8016878755061439835?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8016878755061439835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8016878755061439835' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8016878755061439835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8016878755061439835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/download-here-from-wikipedia-daisuke.html' title='D.N Angel 1-26 (Eng Sub)'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sd0aWeLtKII/AAAAAAAAACw/AJ8ILi0pN08/s72-c/dnangel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-3428422505780021344</id><published>2009-04-08T01:05:00.016+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T04:55:20.203+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iphone apps'/><title type='text'>Encoding for iPhone, OGM's and MKV's</title><content type='html'>Well, a while ago DirtyFinger posted a tutorial on how to encode hardcoded videos for iPhone, I am coming to the rescue for the most annoying thing on earth, softcoded videos...  I try to avoid these whenever possible because, though they are perfect for watching on your computer, they are HORRIBLE for iPhone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;Edit:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;Hey Guys, I have just realized something, the reason I though Mediacoder was unreliable for MKV's was wrong, just don't use built in subtitles, this is much quicker, and much easier.  Demux the file like below, but only demux the subs, then in mediacoder, in subtitles, select your file, DON'T try to use the built in ones, its more trouble than its worth, this requires much less time and effort, and the next series to come out will show this method :) , I am still downloading, but they were MKV's so I played around with mediacoder and mkv's some, and found the best way to do it(in my opinion).  Oh, you still need to select audio of course, just make sure its the right one by hitting "Play".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first step is to get this software, I assume you already have MediaCoder iPhone edition.&lt;br /&gt;WinFF&lt;br /&gt;MKVExtractGUI and/or OGMDemuxer&lt;br /&gt;And MKVtoolnix.&lt;br /&gt;WinFF is on &lt;a href="http://winff.org/"&gt;http://winff.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MKVExtracterGUI and MKVtoolnix are &lt;a href="http://www.matroska.org/downloads/windows.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, under editors.&lt;br /&gt;OGMDemuxer is &lt;a href="http://www.videohelp.com/download/OGMDemuxer-21r2.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and it will demux all the files by dragging them onto the executable of OGMDemuxer, from there, you can follow the tutorial, skipping the Extraction process.&lt;br /&gt;Now, download all these things, and make sure MKVExtractorGUI is in the same folder as MKVtoolnix.&lt;br /&gt;MKV's:&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, open up MKVExtractorGUI and import your MKV file.&lt;br /&gt;Now select all the video and audio streams and the subtitles(srt or ssa most likely).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///D:/Users/Daniel/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdveBz0wFGI/AAAAAAAAACA/wNlSM4XOWtE/s1600-h/img1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 384px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdveBz0wFGI/AAAAAAAAACA/wNlSM4XOWtE/s400/img1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322091507341071458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now hit extract.  This will take a few seconds, or longer if its an anime movie or something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdvem0xK9vI/AAAAAAAAACI/cqpVAr2aMS8/s1600-h/img2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 398px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdvem0xK9vI/AAAAAAAAACI/cqpVAr2aMS8/s400/img2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322092143249651442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You should have at least a video, audio and subtitle files, and a text file for the chapters, I have english audio, japanese audio, video and two subtitle tracks.&lt;br /&gt;Now you want to open up MKVMergeGUI, which came with MKVToolNix.&lt;br /&gt;Select the audio and video files you want, in my case, the japanese.&lt;br /&gt;Oh, the video should be AVI and the audio should be OGG.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;SKIP THIS NOW, FOLLOW THE NEW INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdvfdAWz9bI/AAAAAAAAACQ/WR04DXvtWAQ/s1600-h/img3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdvfdAWz9bI/AAAAAAAAACQ/WR04DXvtWAQ/s400/img3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322093074073253298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Now hit start muxing, you should now have one MKV with japanese audio and video.  Your thinking, what about the subs, DON'T SELECT THEM!  THIS COMES LATER.  Now open winff and select your Japanese audio and video mkv.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdvi00kUJYI/AAAAAAAAACY/00QkT6OGGWU/s1600-h/img4.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdvi00kUJYI/AAAAAAAAACY/00QkT6OGGWU/s400/img4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322096781760406914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(I almost forgot to mention, if you skip this step, and encode straight with mediacoder, the audio and video will be misaligned,  So don't get any ideas :) !)&lt;br /&gt;Convert it to iTunes and iPod, though other hardcoded formats will most likely work as well(and faster maybe...  I should try it.  Edit:  I tried it with mpg(in WinFF, NTSC DVD Fast(LQ) ), no it's not low quality, its just low for TV not for iPhone :) )&lt;br /&gt;Once that's done(it will take a while), open that file in mediacoder(Mines an MP4 because I already converted it, yours will be an mv4 though).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdvjz-ZidpI/AAAAAAAAACo/3gN0ySpzUyc/s1600-h/img5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 371px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdvjz-ZidpI/AAAAAAAAACo/3gN0ySpzUyc/s400/img5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322097866731320978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now you want to goto the bottom, select "Subtitle" and pick your SRT or SSA(maybe .sub even) file, select your font and size, do any resize or cropping, and convert it(Again) to ipod.   When it's done you should have one hardcoded MP4 file ready for iPhone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Edit:&lt;br /&gt;Hey guys, this way is the most reliable, I've found that it almost always works, but you can do something similar in mediacoder to, I will explain this later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a more efficient, but less reliable way to do it, I've found it doesn't work nearly as often(Though sometimes videos just won't work, this is normal, search for a different version or give up :) ).&lt;br /&gt;First, we need to find out about your video and audio, right click the name of your video(in mediacoder) and hit "Details of selected file".  Now there should be a window open, if your scroll down you will see different video, audio and subtitle id's(under each's respective section).  Make note of these.  Now under the "Audio" button in the bottom window, select the id you want, then play the video to make sure it's right.  under subtitles, enter the subtitle id, and so on.  I suggest checking every time, and doing it for each video, because if its by different groups, the ID's can be different.&lt;br /&gt;Here's what a normal MKV would look like under the "Details for Selected File" window, I highlighted the ID's.&lt;br /&gt;"General&lt;br /&gt;Complete name                    : D:\Users\Daniel\Desktop\[V-A]_D.N.ANGEL_-_01_[3AFD2F98].mkv&lt;br /&gt;Format                           : Matroska&lt;br /&gt;File size                        : 213 MiB&lt;br /&gt;Duration                         : 23mn 22s&lt;br /&gt;Overall bit rate                 : 1 272 Kbps&lt;br /&gt;Encoded date                     : UTC 2009-04-09 20:08:16&lt;br /&gt;Writing application              : mkvmerge v2.6.0 ('Kelly watch the Stars') built on Mar 24 2009 15:23:17&lt;br /&gt;Writing library                  : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"&gt;ID                               : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual&lt;br /&gt;Format profile                   : Streaming Video@L1&lt;br /&gt;Format settings, BVOP            : Yes&lt;br /&gt;Format settings, QPel            : No&lt;br /&gt;Format settings, GMC             : 3 warppoints&lt;br /&gt;Format settings, Matrix          : Default&lt;br /&gt;Codec ID                         : XVID&lt;br /&gt;Codec ID/Hint                    : XviD&lt;br /&gt;Duration                         : 23mn 21s&lt;br /&gt;Bit rate                         : 954 Kbps&lt;br /&gt;Width                            : 640 pixels&lt;br /&gt;Height                           : 480 pixels&lt;br /&gt;Display aspect ratio             : 4/3&lt;br /&gt;Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps&lt;br /&gt;Resolution                       : 24 bits&lt;br /&gt;Colorimetry                      : 4:2:0&lt;br /&gt;Scan type                        : Progressive&lt;br /&gt;Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.129&lt;br /&gt;Writing library                  : XviD 1.0.2 (UTC 2004-08-29)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;Audio #1&lt;/span&gt;     (Under Audio it will start at zero, so this would actually be ID:0)&lt;br /&gt;ID                               : 3  (In audio, this doesn't matter for some reason...)&lt;br /&gt;Format                           : Vorbis&lt;br /&gt;Format settings, Floor           : 1&lt;br /&gt;Codec ID                         : A_VORBIS&lt;br /&gt;Duration                         : 23mn 22s&lt;br /&gt;Bit rate mode                    : Constant&lt;br /&gt;Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps&lt;br /&gt;Channel(s)                       : 2 channels&lt;br /&gt;Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz&lt;br /&gt;Writing library                  : libVorbis 1.0 (UTC 2002-07-17)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;Audio #2&lt;/span&gt;  (Under Audio it will start at zero, so this would actually be ID:1)&lt;br /&gt;ID                               : 4  (This doesn't matter for some reason...)&lt;br /&gt;Format                           : Vorbis&lt;br /&gt;Format settings, Floor           : 1&lt;br /&gt;Codec ID                         : A_VORBIS&lt;br /&gt;Duration                         : 23mn 22s&lt;br /&gt;Bit rate mode                    : Constant&lt;br /&gt;Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps&lt;br /&gt;Channel(s)                       : 2 channels&lt;br /&gt;Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz&lt;br /&gt;Writing library                  : libVorbis 1.0 (UTC 2002-07-17)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Text&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;ID                               : 2&lt;/span&gt;  (I'd be careful with subs though, they can screw with you sometimes...  It's usually better to ignore the subs included and use a demuxed sub file, even if you use this method.)&lt;br /&gt;Format                           : UTF-8&lt;br /&gt;Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8&lt;br /&gt;Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text"&lt;br /&gt;Hope it works for you,&lt;br /&gt;Daniel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-3428422505780021344?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/3428422505780021344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=3428422505780021344' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3428422505780021344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3428422505780021344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/encoding-for-iphone-ogms-and-mkvs.html' title='Encoding for iPhone, OGM&apos;s and MKV&apos;s'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdveBz0wFGI/AAAAAAAAACA/wNlSM4XOWtE/s72-c/img1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-274068589871139737</id><published>2009-04-07T22:22:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T12:13:54.159+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Karin 1-24(Full Show) (Eng Sub)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21204"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdu32-3wGlI/AAAAAAAAAB4/oES5XZxPzls/s1600-h/index.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdu32-3wGlI/AAAAAAAAAB4/oES5XZxPzls/s320/index.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322049539886029394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The story revolves around the main character, Karin, the middle child in a family of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire" title="Vampire"&gt;vampires&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt; who immigrated to Japan two centuries earlier. However, Karin is different from the rest of the family in that she produces blood instead of feeding on it; because of this, she has to inject blood by biting someone or else she suffers exaggerated nosebleeds. Because of her unusual condition, Karin lives her life just as an ordinary teenage girl would, despite being considered something of a freak by her family. She is able to venture outside during the day and attend high school, and follows the sleep pattern of normal humans. However, the general peacefulness of her life is disrupted with the arrival of a new transfer student, Kenta Usui.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Any time she goes near him her blood increases. At first she tries to avoid him but it doesn't work since they are in the same class and work in the same restaurant. Kenta begins to think that there is something fishy about Karin and eventually he learns her secret. Karin's elder brother Ren tries to erase his memory but Anju, Karin's younger sister, stops him from doing so. She also convinces their parents Henry and Calera to make Kenta their ally, because he can help Karin during the daylight. Karin and Kenta become friends. Kenta helps Karin clean up the mess made by her nosebleeds and Karin prepares him a lunch box (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento" title="Bento" class="mw-redirect"&gt;bento&lt;/a&gt;) every day.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;As the story progresses, Kenta and Karin's attachment to one another grows, and so do their problems. First, Karin's grandmother, Elda, breaks free from her coffin (which Calera had sealed her into) and starts wrecking everyone's lives. Except for her bust size, hair length, and hair color, she looks identical to Karin, and uses this resemblance to go unnoticed in Karin's school.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;She attempts to drink Kenta's blood because she believes humans and vampires cannot coexist. Eventually, she gives up and returns to her casket. Soon after, a new girl begins working in the same restaurant that Karin and Usui work in who is later revealed to be a half-human/half-vampire hybrid.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In the anime adaptation, an additional character, Winner Sinclair, is added to the series. Winner is a vampire hunter who falls in love with Karin, while Karin's best friend, Maki Tokito, falls in love with him."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xf80ra7vH6E&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xf80ra7vH6E&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-274068589871139737?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/274068589871139737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=274068589871139737' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/274068589871139737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/274068589871139737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/karineng-sub.html' title='Karin 1-24(Full Show) (Eng Sub)'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdu32-3wGlI/AAAAAAAAAB4/oES5XZxPzls/s72-c/index.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-2698544321394283069</id><published>2009-04-07T05:30:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T04:55:36.042+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Putting anime "TV Shows" Category of iTunes and iPhone</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:180%;" &gt;Putting Anime(Or other videos) under the “TV &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Show” category on your iTunes, iPhone or iPod&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Well, I wrote this a while ago, but the images don't work because I wrote it in word, but I keep being lazy and not replacing the images in here, and I finally decided, "Daniel get off you lazy :beep: and fix that tutorial!" So I did, here you go!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;Hey, I’m going to show you how to put Anime, or other videos of course,&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;into the “TV Show” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Category in your iPhone and iTunes, this is really useful if you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;have a lot of Anime and your sick of scrolling t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;hrough that LONG list of thirteen episode shows to find the episode your want, this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt; is how it will turn out in an iPhone:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrJyXdoXnI/AAAAAAAAABI/4POWgtN6_IU/s1600-h/image002.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrJyXdoXnI/AAAAAAAAABI/4POWgtN6_IU/s320/image002.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321787776820600434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;!--[if gte vml 1]&gt;&lt;v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"&gt;  &lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;  &lt;v:formulas&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;  &lt;/v:formulas&gt;  &lt;v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"&gt;  &lt;o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"&gt; &lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:467.25pt;height:340.5pt;visibility:visible'"&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata src="file:///D:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png" title="iPhone Screen"&gt; &lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !vml]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="file:///D:/Users/Daniel/Desktop/Putting%20Anime%20in%20TV%20Shows_files/image001.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;So that’s the output you’ll get, so open up iTunes and go into the Movies categ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;ory, where I assume your anime is:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKV99uJjI/AAAAAAAAABQ/pyBtqeRdp8k/s1600-h/image003.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKV99uJjI/AAAAAAAAABQ/pyBtqeRdp8k/s320/image003.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321788388451165746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;!--[if gte vml 1]&gt;&lt;v:shape id="Picture_x0020_4" spid="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:467.25pt;"&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata src="file:///D:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.png" title=""&gt; &lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !vml]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="file:///D:/Users/Daniel/Desktop/Putting%20Anime%20in%20TV%20Shows_files/image002.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;As you may have noticed, I’m using FMA, and Windows 7 Beta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Now your going to select the season or show you want to organize:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKWC5GyDI/AAAAAAAAABY/yA0st1UU5UI/s1600-h/image005.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKWC5GyDI/AAAAAAAAABY/yA0st1UU5UI/s320/image005.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321788389773985842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Right Click, and hit Get Info:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKWTtp9UI/AAAAAAAAABg/VZtqhuCKIUU/s1600-h/image007.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKWTtp9UI/AAAAAAAAABg/VZtqhuCKIUU/s320/image007.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321788394289362242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Just hit yes to this:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKWTc5JJI/AAAAAAAAABo/4YVhjvp_0mk/s1600-h/image009.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKWTc5JJI/AAAAAAAAABo/4YVhjvp_0mk/s320/image009.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321788394219054226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;And then you should have this window:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKWvHM3EI/AAAAAAAAABw/-h2o3AyB_JY/s1600-h/image011.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrKWvHM3EI/AAAAAAAAABw/-h2o3AyB_JY/s320/image011.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321788401644264514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;First goto the “Video” tab:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SeKoiNC210I/AAAAAAAAAC4/DQjtWZKIlSc/s1600-h/image013.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SeKoiNC210I/AAAAAAAAAC4/DQjtWZKIlSc/s400/image013.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324003015076009794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;And fill in your shows info, including season number if you’re using seasons(and if your obsessive, episode numbers too&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; )&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Now, goto the “Options” tab and select the “Media Kind” dropdown box, and select TV Shows, now hit ok:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SeKow66mDDI/AAAAAAAAADA/yIqLgnNiqhs/s1600-h/image015.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SeKow66mDDI/AAAAAAAAADA/yIqLgnNiqhs/s400/image015.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324003267907554354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This is what your TV show library should look like:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SeKo8Ps42RI/AAAAAAAAADI/IgSWUGkEJHU/s1600-h/image018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SeKo8Ps42RI/AAAAAAAAADI/IgSWUGkEJHU/s400/image018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324003462465771794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;As you can see, we know have season 1 and two in here, along with a bunch of other shows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Thanks for reading,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Daniel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-2698544321394283069?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/2698544321394283069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=2698544321394283069' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2698544321394283069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2698544321394283069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/putting-anime-tv-shows-category-of.html' title='Putting anime &quot;TV Shows&quot; Category of iTunes and iPhone'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdrJyXdoXnI/AAAAAAAAABI/4POWgtN6_IU/s72-c/image002.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-5751663407240079621</id><published>2009-04-07T01:15:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T01:14:50.539+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='project steel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Project Steel, New FMA, iPhone Ready</title><content type='html'>Hello, usually we upload full anime's, but I will continue to edit this blog post with new iPhone ready FMA(Manga Version) episodes.  So remember to check this post.  If your on the go, they will also be on veoh(though they may be removed), which has a iphone mobile site.  These will come out shortly after the torrents, because it takes longer to upload.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21553"&gt;Torrent:FMA Brotherhood - 01&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/anime/watch/v18165290ktfsPNpX"&gt;Veoh:FMA (Manga Version) - 01&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21774"&gt;Torrent:FMA Brotherhood - 02&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another way to see the Veoh's is to search FMA iPhone Ready on the veoh iphone website.&lt;br /&gt;-Daniel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-5751663407240079621?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/5751663407240079621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=5751663407240079621' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5751663407240079621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5751663407240079621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/project-steel-new-fma-iphone-ready.html' title='Project Steel, New FMA, iPhone Ready'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-6872856475109233684</id><published>2009-04-06T04:24:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T07:04:10.993+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Eureka Seven 1-50 (Eng Dub)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21775"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"  &gt;Download Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdlooOKQhEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/TJ00f4yDuwA/s1600-h/eureka7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdlooOKQhEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/TJ00f4yDuwA/s320/eureka7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321399474920129602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Hey Guys,&lt;br /&gt;Seeing this is my first post I thought I should warn you that I like English Dubbs, and I am mostly converting these animes for myself and then giving them to you,  so expect to see a decent amount of English Dubbs in the future.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Eureka Seven consists of fifty episodes which aired from April 17, 2005, to April 2, 2006, on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and Tokyo Broadcasting System networks. Almost all of the show's episodes are named after real songs, composed by both Japanese and foreign artists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; The series centers around Renton Thurston, the fourteen-year-old son of Adroc Thurston, a military researcher who died saving the world. He lives what he considers a boring life with his grandfather in a boring town. He loves lifting, a sport similar to surfing but with trapar, a substance abundant throughout the air, as the medium. He dreams of joining the renegade group Gekkostate, led by his idol Holland, a legendary lifter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; An opportunity to do so practically falls into his lap when a large mechanical robot, called the Nirvash typeZERO, and Eureka, its pilot and a member of Gekkostate, crash into Renton's room. Renton's grandfather orders him to deliver a special part to the Nirvash called the "Amita Drive", which releases the immense power dormant within the typeZERO called the "Seven Swell Phenomenon". Afterwards, Renton is invited to join Gekkostate, where he quickly discovers that the behind-the-scenes life of Gekkostate is hardly as glamorous or as interesting as printed in the glossy pages of their magazine, ray=out. Only one thing makes it all worthwhile for him: the presence of Eureka, the mysterious pilot of the Nirvash. Renton, Eureka, and the Gekkostate embark on an adventure that will shape their future as well as the world's."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e2ukR8STRAM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e2ukR8STRAM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Daniel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6872856475109233684?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6872856475109233684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6872856475109233684' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6872856475109233684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6872856475109233684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/eureka-seveneng-dub.html' title='Eureka Seven 1-50 (Eng Dub)'/><author><name>Daniel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/Sdls6rQS8-I/AAAAAAAAAAg/72MO-W32Ap0/S220/Avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VHSDHzoFFIc/SdlooOKQhEI/AAAAAAAAAAU/TJ00f4yDuwA/s72-c/eureka7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8463532700884484670</id><published>2009-04-06T04:01:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T12:13:54.159+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Fullmetal Alchemist 1-51(Eng Dub)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21224"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/Sdljba2bqkI/AAAAAAAAAbo/NXI7OfOiLT8/s1600-h/fullalchemist_11_1024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/Sdljba2bqkI/AAAAAAAAAbo/NXI7OfOiLT8/s400/fullalchemist_11_1024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321393757430196802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Straight from wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elric" title="Edward Elric"&gt;Edward&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Elric" title="Alphonse Elric"&gt;Alphonse Elric&lt;/a&gt; are two alchemist brothers who search for the legendary &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_Stone" title="Philosopher's Stone" class="mw-redirect"&gt;Philosopher's Stone&lt;/a&gt;, a powerful object which would allow them to recover their bodies (which were lost in an attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy). Born in the village of Resembool from the country of Amestris &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;(&lt;span class="t_nihongo_kanji"&gt;&lt;span lang="ja"&gt;アメストリス&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="t_nihongo_comma" style="display: none;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_romaji"&gt;Amesutorisu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_help noprint"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Japanese" title="Help:Japanese"&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="padding: 0pt 0.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:80;"  &gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;, the two brothers lived there with their parents. Their father, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenheim_%28Fullmetal_Alchemist%29" title="Hohenheim (Fullmetal Alchemist)"&gt;Hohenheim&lt;/a&gt;, left home for unknown reasons and years later, their mother, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist_characters#Trisha_Elric" title="List of Fullmetal Alchemist characters"&gt;Trisha Elric&lt;/a&gt;, died of a terminal illness leaving the Elric brothers alone. After their mother's death, Edward becomes determined to bring her back through the use of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy" title="Alchemy"&gt;alchemy&lt;/a&gt;, an advanced science in which objects can be created from raw materials. They researched Human Transmutation, a forbidden art in which one attempts to create or modify a human being. However, this attempt failed, ultimately resulting in the loss of Edward's left leg and right arm and Alphonse's entire body. In a desperate effort to save his brother, Edward sacrificed his right arm to affix his brother's soul to a suit of armor. Some days later, an alchemist named &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Mustang" title="Roy Mustang"&gt;Roy Mustang&lt;/a&gt; visits the Elric brothers, and he tells Edward to become a member of the State Military of the country to find a way to recover their bodies. After that, Edward's left leg and right arm are fitted with two sets of automail, a type of advanced &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthesis" title="Prosthesis"&gt;prosthetic limb&lt;/a&gt;, created for him by his close family friends &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winry_Rockbell" title="Winry Rockbell"&gt;Winry Rockbell&lt;/a&gt; and her grandmother Pinako.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Edward sets out to become a State Alchemist &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;(&lt;span class="t_nihongo_kanji"&gt;&lt;span lang="ja"&gt;国家錬金術師&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="t_nihongo_comma" style="display: none;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_romaji"&gt;Kokka Renkinjutsushi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_help noprint"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Japanese" title="Help:Japanese"&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="padding: 0pt 0.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:80;"  &gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;, an alchemist employed by the State Military of Amestris, which infamously annihilated much of the neighboring country of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist_characters#Ishbal" title="List of Fullmetal Alchemist characters"&gt;Ishbal&lt;/a&gt;'s population in the past decade. Becoming a State Alchemist enables Edward to use the extensive resources available to State Alchemists, but it also turns him into what they call a "dog of the military". His more friendly relationship with Roy Mustang however, whom he reports to and who recruited him, allows the brothers freedom to search for the Philosopher's Stone as part of Edward's research, as each State Alchemist is expected to independently research new things which may be of a use to the State Military of Amestris. The brothers set off in search of the Philosopher's Stone as a means to restore their bodies. Throughout their journey, they meet many antagonists, including those who are willing to do anything to obtain the Philosopher's Stone; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scar_%28Fullmetal_Alchemist%29" title="Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist)"&gt;Scar&lt;/a&gt;, one of the few surviving Ishbalans, who seeks vengeance on the State Alchemists for the destruction of his race; and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist_characters#Homunculi" title="List of Fullmetal Alchemist characters"&gt;homunculi&lt;/a&gt;, a group of human-like creatures who carry pieces of the Philosopher's Stone inside themselves, and from it derive the ability to survive almost any harm.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;As the story progresses, Edward and Alphonse discover the vast expansion of Amestris was the result of the homunculi, who created and secretly control the State Military. The homunculi and much of the high-ranking military officers are commanded from behind the curtains by the creator of the homunculi, a man simply known as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_%28Fullmetal_Alchemist%29" title="Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)"&gt;Father&lt;/a&gt;, who gained immortality by using a copy of Hohenheim as his new body centuries before the series' timeline. He plans to use Amestris as a gigantic transmutation circle and turn the entire country into a Philosopher's Stone. When Edward and Alphonse discover Father's plans, they set out to defeat him along with other members of the State Military.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i7thQRvR6oo&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i7thQRvR6oo&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8463532700884484670?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8463532700884484670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8463532700884484670' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8463532700884484670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8463532700884484670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/04/fullmetal-alchemist-1-51eng-dub.html' title='Fullmetal Alchemist 1-51(Eng Dub)'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/Sdljba2bqkI/AAAAAAAAAbo/NXI7OfOiLT8/s72-c/fullalchemist_11_1024.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-6839707136377868538</id><published>2009-03-31T15:15:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T12:13:54.160+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Neon Genesis Evangelion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21223"&gt;Download Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wpshrine.com/uploads/subb/wpshrine_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_1_1280x800.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 539px; height: 336px;" src="http://wpshrine.com/uploads/subb/wpshrine_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_1_1280x800.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wikipedia Says:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The story of Evangelion primarily begins in 2000 with the "Second Impact", a global cataclysm which almost completely destroyed Antarctica and led to the deaths of half the human population of Earth. The Impact is believed by the public at large and even most of Nerv to have been the impact of a meteorite landing in Antarctica, causing devastating tsunamis and a change in the Earth's axial tilt (leading to global climate change) and subsequent geopolitical unrest, nuclear war (such as the nuking of Tokyo), and general economic distress. Later, Second Impact is revealed to be the result of contact with and experimentation on the first of what are collectively dubbed the Angels: Adam. The experiments were sponsored by the mysterious organization Seele, and carried out by the research organization Gehirn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; In the year 2010, Gehirn had accomplished a number of its scientific and engineering goals and corporately changed into the paramilitary organization Nerv which is headquartered in Tokyo-3, a militarized civilian city located on one of the last dry sections of Japan; Nerv's central mission is to locate the remaining Angels predicted by Seele, and to destroy them. However, Nerv has its own secret agenda, as directed by its Machiavellian commander Gendo Ikari: the Human Instrumentality Project, which, according to Gendo in episode 25, is the task of uniting all human minds into one global spiritual entity. Associated with Nerv is the Marduk Institute, which has the task of selecting the pilots for the Evas, the most capable being children conceived after the Second Impact (14 year olds). The institute consists of Commander Ikari, and Nerv's chief scientist Ritsuko Akagi; supporting the two are 108 companies which are all revealed to be ghost companies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; As the first episode opens in the year 2015, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by the third Angel. Conventional weapons prove ineffective, largely due to its projected force field called an AT Field. Nerv takes command of the battles, and is able to intercept and defeat the Angels using the Evangelions (Evas), biomechanical mecha previously developed in secret by Gehirn inside the underground Geofront; the Geofront is located underground and underneath Tokyo-3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/32VPf9hGqVo&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/32VPf9hGqVo&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6839707136377868538?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6839707136377868538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6839707136377868538' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6839707136377868538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6839707136377868538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/03/neon-genesis-evangelion.html' title='Neon Genesis Evangelion'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-5464992347037874983</id><published>2009-03-29T14:37:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T12:13:54.160+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Shakugan no Shana Season I + II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21218"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;Download Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKhiEZJOpYI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/dLDU9tR07Gs/s1600-h/shakugan-no-shana_005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKhiEZJOpYI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/dLDU9tR07Gs/s400/shakugan-no-shana_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235542394426795394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I released Season 1 some time ago but I never got around to do season 2 ... or watch it for that matter.&lt;br /&gt;All those suffereing from Shana deficiencies can thank Daniel for providing us with a new batch of episodes. Those who don't want the first season simply mark these episodes as do-not-download in your favorite torrent client.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Straight from wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Yuji Sakai, a high school student, expected his very normal life to last forever. However, this expectation is quickly shattered one day while on his way home.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The world suddenly freezes in time, leaving Yuji to watch in horror as blue flames engulf the people around him. Soon a monster resembling a large doll appears and begins sucking the flames into its mouth, until it notices Yuji. Surprised with Yuji's insusceptibility to the time-stop (fuzetsu), it jumps with glee.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Just as the monster prepares to consume Yuji, a sword-wielding girl in black attire with flaming red eyes and hair appears, swiftly and confidently destroys the monster, before noticing Yuji moving freely. The girl calls herself a "Flame Haze" who hunts the "Denizens of the Crimson Realm" and the "Rinne" they send to do their bidding. When Yuji notices a blue flame in his chest, the Flame Haze tells him that the "real" Yuji died some time ago, and that he is a "Torch", a temporary replacement for erased humans. Torches take on the forms of those erased persons, but after a period of time, they will vanish from existence and the memories of the living. Unfazed by his apparent death, Yuji befriends the strange girl and names her "Shana" after her sword. The reason Yuji was able to move in the fuzetsu is that he is not a normal Torch, but instead a special kind called a "Mystes": he has a treasure inside him, known as a "Hougu", a device possessing special abilities of sorts, and an extremely powerful and valuable one at that. The hougo inside Yuji allows him to remain in existence rather than fading away like other torches. Shana resolves to protect Yuji from the Denizens, who would use the treasure to disrupt the balance of the world, and Yuji decides to join Shana in her fight.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Shana's fight is actually a long-standing struggle between the Lords and Denizens of Guze. The Denizens steal Power of Existence, the energy that forms the basis of the world, from living people and utilize it for their own selfish ambitions. Some Lords inhabit humans creating Flame Hazes in an attempt to retain balance by hunting renegades from Guze. Flame Hazes create Torches in place of the consumed to save the world the disruption of many existences being lost at once, allowing the Torches to gradually burn out over the course of time."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jcThZ5Wv0zk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jcThZ5Wv0zk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-5464992347037874983?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/5464992347037874983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=5464992347037874983' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5464992347037874983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5464992347037874983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/03/shakugan-no-shana-season-i-ii.html' title='Shakugan no Shana Season I + II'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKhiEZJOpYI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/dLDU9tR07Gs/s72-c/shakugan-no-shana_005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-2721443269014209383</id><published>2009-03-28T16:40:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T12:13:54.160+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Setone Hanayome</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=21205"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://oyogenai.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/kznh.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 406px;" src="http://oyogenai.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/kznh.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Hi,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thanks to a fellow iPhone user called Daniel we have new stuff to fill the most advanced gadget of the decade with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Straight rip from Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seto_no_Hanayome"&gt;Seto no Hanayome's&lt;/a&gt; story revolves around a young teenage boy named Nagasumi Michishio. One day during his summer vacation, Nagasumi was saved from drowning by a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid" title="Mermaid"&gt;mermaid&lt;/a&gt;, Sun Seto, in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Sea" title="Inland Sea"&gt;Seto Inland Sea&lt;/a&gt;. However, under mermaid law, if a mermaid's identity as a mermaid has been revealed, either the mermaid who was involved or the human who saw the mermaid are to be executed. In an attempt to save both Nagasumi and Sun's lives, Sun's family, which is apparently the head of its own mob, reluctantly decides that the two are to be married.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gōzaburō, Sun's father, however, is enraged about his daughter running off and getting married, especially to a human whom he deems inferior. Between Gōzaburō's attempts on his life and the madcap antics of a whole slew of antagonists — including the daughter of a rival mobster and a rich male transfer student with an attraction for Sun — Nagasumi is not enjoying a very smooth transition into his new lifestyle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And here is what Daniel has to say about it:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"A fourteen year old boy named Nagasumi goes to Setouchi on summer vacation, while at the beach, he almosts drowns but is saved by a mermaid. Later, this same mermaid comes to his Grandma's house, where he is staying, and tells him to "Take responsibility for his actions." And "Gangsters" carry him and his family away, and take them underwater, where San's, the mermaid who saved him, father tells him that if a mermaid reveals their identity to a human, both the mermaid and human must die, but there is a loophole, if the human was family, neither would have to die. So they get engaged.&lt;br /&gt;This show is very stupid, but funny. It is slightly perverted, though no actual nudity is shown. This show, stupid though it sounds, is actually very funny, mostly because throughout the show an uncountable amount of people(well, mostly merman), are trying to kill Nagasumi. Don't try to take this show seriously, and it is a very good comedy."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Update]: The old torrent has been replaced by a nice, regular Anirena torrent. Thanks Daniel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a name="Characters" id="Characters"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P6gsozWixew&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P6gsozWixew&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-2721443269014209383?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/2721443269014209383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=2721443269014209383' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2721443269014209383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2721443269014209383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2009/03/setone-hanayome.html' title='Setone Hanayome'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-4753719253740831537</id><published>2008-12-09T15:54:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T12:14:39.945+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>Poll &amp; Stuff</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anime 124 votes (55%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hentai - 75 votes (33%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;TV-Shows - 13 votes (5%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Porn - 9 votes (4%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Movies - 3 votes (1%)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, the poll results are quite clear: You want Anime, big surprise. Many want hentai, which isn't that surprising either. Although .... can someone tell me how you can, er, enjoy hentai on the iphone ? Do you have a stand for your device or do you just tolerate the shaky pictures ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway, looks like I can release the occasional naughtyness in order to satisfy one third of my customers. Although - since hentai is technically also anime I could provide full satisfation by &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;only &lt;/span&gt;releasing hentai from now on. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nah, just kidding. Mainly anime, maybe hentai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-4753719253740831537?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/4753719253740831537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=4753719253740831537' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4753719253740831537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4753719253740831537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/12/poll-stuff_09.html' title='Poll &amp; Stuff'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-6997234623899726602</id><published>2008-12-07T10:16:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T15:53:00.529+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Lucky Star</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=17180"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/STuWxOjRyRI/AAAAAAAAAag/nDg1fRlM-lI/s1600-h/grab02316zi8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/STuWxOjRyRI/AAAAAAAAAag/nDg1fRlM-lI/s400/grab02316zi8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276977160858487058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lucky Star's story portrays the lives of several girls attending a Japanese high school named Ryōō with a very loose sense of humor. The setting is mainly based on the city of Kasukabe in Saitama Prefecture. The main character is Konata Izumi, an athletic and intelligent girl who, despite these attributes, is not in a sports club and has to resort to all-nighter cramming for tests. Her laziness at school is due to her love for anime and video games and lack of interest in anything else. The serialization began with the four main characters in their first year of high school: Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, Tsukasa Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara. As the story progresses, they move on to their second and third years. However, the anime starts the story with them beginning their second year. The storyline usually includes numerous references to popular past and present manga and anime series.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lYqe_VLVl9Y&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lYqe_VLVl9Y&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6997234623899726602?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6997234623899726602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6997234623899726602' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6997234623899726602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6997234623899726602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/12/lucky-star.html' title='Lucky Star'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/STuWxOjRyRI/AAAAAAAAAag/nDg1fRlM-lI/s72-c/grab02316zi8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-268002217351571427</id><published>2008-12-04T21:17:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T15:53:00.530+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Azumanga Daioh</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=17079"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-weight: bold;font-size:24px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SThAOBb9FDI/AAAAAAAAAaY/bGTolK4XKsg/s1600-h/azumanga_2_1280.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SThAOBb9FDI/AAAAAAAAAaY/bGTolK4XKsg/s400/azumanga_2_1280.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276037573112566834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Azumanga Daioh chronicles everyday life in an unnamed Japanese high school in Tokyo, following the trials and triumphs of six girls: reserved Sakaki's obsession with cute animals, Chiyo's struggle to fit in with girls five years older, Osaka's spacey nature and skewed perspective on the world, Yomi's aggravation at an annoying best friend, Tomo, whose energy is rivaled only by her lack of sense, and Kagura's efforts in sports and school. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-kn2ogbiOuk&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-kn2ogbiOuk&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The story covers three years of tests, culture festivals, and athletic events at school, after-school life at the nearby shopping district, at Chiyo's large house, vacations spent at Chiyo's summer home on the beach and at Magical Land, a theme park. It is generally realistic in tone, marked by occasional bursts of surrealism and absurdity, such as Osaka's bizarre imaginings, Chiyo's ponytails being "unscrewed", and an episode featuring the characters' New Year's dreams.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bZGPQ6eJRZ4&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bZGPQ6eJRZ4&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sounds boring ? Well, it ain't. It's extremely funny, although not stupid-funny. It's more weird-but-innocent-funny. All the fun lies in the characters, including the teachers (notably Yukari, Minamo "Nyamo" and Kimura). The humor used here is quite hard to describe, so just check out the numerous short clips which show off the general mood and style of this series very well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D55mR_sBS4I&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D55mR_sBS4I&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since the manga original got released as what western media would call "funnies" (like Garfield, Blondie, Dilbert, etc.) each episode is a collection of several short stories. So don't expect an elaborate epic storyline (or any story at all for that matter).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, this series is a classic. And it's highly recommended.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/37mPoKQijj8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/37mPoKQijj8&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VY8L_apFieE&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VY8L_apFieE&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wYcu6o1stlc&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wYcu6o1stlc&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And just in case you wonder where my avatar comes from:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cSz-aIue1Og&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cSz-aIue1Og&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-268002217351571427?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/268002217351571427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=268002217351571427' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/268002217351571427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/268002217351571427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/12/azumanga-daioh.html' title='Azumanga Daioh'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SThAOBb9FDI/AAAAAAAAAaY/bGTolK4XKsg/s72-c/azumanga_2_1280.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-6512583626506463543</id><published>2008-11-19T12:32:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T15:53:00.530+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Gankutsuou - The Count of Monte Christo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=16530"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SSP_RYxxMXI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/vJAlGkltXpk/s1600-h/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Gankutsuou_Nasiki_101269.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SSP_RYxxMXI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/vJAlGkltXpk/s400/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Gankutsuou_Nasiki_101269.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270336663127667058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is basicaly a science fiction interpretation of the classic novel "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo"&gt;The Count of Monte Christo&lt;/a&gt;". Those of you who never heard of that story and are old enough to grow pubes are hereby ordered to get your basic education up to speed. Watching this anime won't substitute for reading (or watching) the original, although you are guaranteed to enjoy it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SSP_qc4LGUI/AAAAAAAAAaA/5_BKIzotqE0/s1600-h/gankutsuou4005cs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SSP_qc4LGUI/AAAAAAAAAaA/5_BKIzotqE0/s400/gankutsuou4005cs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270337093725002050" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For those that know the original (or one of the many movies) I can offer a real treat: An anime with a familiar theme in a far removed setting with plenty of differences that distinguishes itself from the original, so that it stays exciting to the end.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The setting is the year 5053 (as oppposed to 1800) and humanity has spread out among the stars and advanced technology to a point where size and appearances don't matter anymore. This results in a visual style reminiscent to the year 1800, although there is never any doubt that everything is high tech. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SSQA_gMakyI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/_grRfjuInVk/s1600-h/snapshot20070305222347lr0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SSQA_gMakyI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/_grRfjuInVk/s400/snapshot20070305222347lr0.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270338554904089378" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The art style is rather unique as you can see by the screenshots. It doesn't take long to get used to it, though. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The story itself is following the general theme of the original: Elaborate Revenge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But as opposed to the original, the count - which was pictured much more sympathetic there - is more enigmatic and sinister ... and less of a protagonist than expected, since most of the story is told out of the eyes of young Albert de Morcerf, who is immedeatly fascinated by the Count, not knowing that his meeting with him as planned long ago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Safe for all ages.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PS:&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt; I wouldn't mind hearing from you in the comments section what you think of this series. This goes for every release, of course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ju8COT6uC7w&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ju8COT6uC7w&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;PPS: By the way, the first aria you get to hear in the above episode (you might have heard it in the movie 5th element, too), is the &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Mad scene" Il dolce suono &lt;/span&gt;from&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Donicettis &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lucia di Lammermoor. &lt;/span&gt;Just in case anyone enjoys this kind of music.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6512583626506463543?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6512583626506463543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6512583626506463543' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6512583626506463543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6512583626506463543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/11/gankutsuou-count-of-monte-christo.html' title='Gankutsuou - The Count of Monte Christo'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SSP_RYxxMXI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/vJAlGkltXpk/s72-c/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Gankutsuou_Nasiki_101269.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-1418869060305882422</id><published>2008-11-01T21:22:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T15:53:00.530+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Monster</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=15982"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5TBEyaRI/AAAAAAAAAUo/T4NcPv0msI4/s1600-h/cover.jpg"&gt; &lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 269px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5TBEyaRI/AAAAAAAAAUo/T4NcPv0msI4/s400/cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263785800846436626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Description from AnimeNfo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dr. Tenma is a Japanese brain surgeon working in Germany. He has it all: incredible medical skills, a great job, and a beautiful fiancée who also happens to be the daughter of the hospital's director.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One day he is ordered to forgo operating on a critically injured man in favor of a more illustrious patient. Disillusioned by the hospital's politics, he decides from then on that he will do what he thinks is right, regardless of politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5TOhtTnI/AAAAAAAAAUw/-mdOZ3mAXqI/s1600-h/johan-liebert.jpg"&gt; &lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5TOhtTnI/AAAAAAAAAUw/-mdOZ3mAXqI/s400/johan-liebert.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263785804457397874" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some time later, a young boy and his twin sister are brought in. The boy has a bullet in his head and requires an operation that Dr. Tenma knows only he is capable of performing successfully. Just as Dr. Tenma is about to begin the procedure, the mayor is rushed into the hospital and the director instructs Dr. Tenma to leave the boy to operate on the critically ill mayor. Dr. Tenma decides that he will do what is right and go ahead with the boy's operation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; The young boy's operation ends in success but the surgeons operating on the politician fail. As a result, Dr. Tenma is passed over for a promotion and his fiancée calls off their engagement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5TTJoOSI/AAAAAAAAAU4/3dvKWrULknE/s1600-h/kenzo-tenma-sniper.jpg"&gt; &lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5TTJoOSI/AAAAAAAAAU4/3dvKWrULknE/s400/kenzo-tenma-sniper.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263785805698578722" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Soon after this incident, strange murders begin to occur, all of which benefit Dr. Tenma greatly. As a result, he becomes the prime suspect although the police have no evidence against him. It seems that the boy whose life he saved is heavily involved in it somehow and that there is much more to him than meets the eye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-----&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5T0DUsZI/AAAAAAAAAVA/Y-EX3AZGR5Q/s1600-h/monster2.jpg"&gt; &lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5T0DUsZI/AAAAAAAAAVA/Y-EX3AZGR5Q/s400/monster2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263785814530503058" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;I admit, the description sounds pretty boring. So boring in fact that I postponed watching it for months, despite the glowing reviews this series received from all over. And once I started watching I was caught in the flow of suspense and mystery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5UV-B19I/AAAAAAAAAVI/fRso846euP4/s1600-h/monster+runge.jpg"&gt; &lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5UV-B19I/AAAAAAAAAVI/fRso846euP4/s400/monster+runge.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263785823635101650" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you want to prove to someone that anime are not just children cartoons (without resorting to a demonstration of tentacle sex to prove your point), then grab monster. If you want to watch a series that constantly keeps you awake and eager to follow the story to it's conclusion then start downloading now. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No disappointment possible.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G-TS98SHm08&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G-TS98SHm08&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-1418869060305882422?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/1418869060305882422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=1418869060305882422' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/1418869060305882422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/1418869060305882422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/11/monster.html' title='Monster'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQy5TBEyaRI/AAAAAAAAAUo/T4NcPv0msI4/s72-c/cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8532379632992365661</id><published>2008-10-23T17:11:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T15:53:00.531+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Nailin' Paylin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.empornium.us/details.php?cat=6&amp;amp;id=264598"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;empornium account needed (free)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;--- &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4463268/Who_s_nailin_paylin_-_Sarah_Palin_XXX[iFap_iPhoneReady]"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;open tracker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hello Folks,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Warning: This is going to be pornographic. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Definetly&lt;/span&gt; not workplace safe. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQCVCmxJk7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/r-7kr_4MBL0/s1600-h/sarah-palin-vogue-magazine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQCVCmxJk7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/r-7kr_4MBL0/s400/sarah-palin-vogue-magazine.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260368236767712178" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 395px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Americans might have noticed that several people apply for the CEO of Coprorate America ... and one party features a quite pretty woman - a downright MILF !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;While people may not uniformly believe that Mrs. Sarah Palin will lead (or rather vice-lead) the USA to a new golden age, there's no doubt that her looks have generated many pant-tents around the bible belt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So I thought I'd do the patriotic thing and promote the latest campaign ad by the independend Hustler party: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Who's nailin' Paylin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The already infamous porn of the century: Sarah Palin shows how diplomacy will be under her regime - you betcha ! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As I understand it the whole movie is not yet done (but will be before the election, hehehe). What you see here is the first scene, which you might call "I can see russians in my house". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Uncensored and converted for iPhone usage. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Download it ! View it while commuting ! Show it to your friends ! Show it to your mum ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;--- &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm John McCain and I approve this movie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TUx0LP90EeQ&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TUx0LP90EeQ&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8532379632992365661?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8532379632992365661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8532379632992365661' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8532379632992365661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8532379632992365661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/10/nailin-paylin.html' title='Nailin&apos; Paylin'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SQCVCmxJk7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/r-7kr_4MBL0/s72-c/sarah-palin-vogue-magazine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-4275313860899796716</id><published>2008-10-20T15:34:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T15:53:00.532+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Now and then, here and there</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyMOC5rxNI/AAAAAAAAATw/m22MktvFN-Q/s1600-h/NowandThenHereandThere1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=15508"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyKHoUm4qI/AAAAAAAAATI/R3DkeV3cbRM/s1600-h/now%26then.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyKHoUm4qI/AAAAAAAAATI/R3DkeV3cbRM/s400/now%26then.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259230328549466786" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;-----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Synopsis taken from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=325"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;THEM Anime Reviews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Matsutani Shuzo is your typical, hyperactive Japanese schoolboy. He's hopelessly cheerful, plays kendo, and has a crush on the captain's sister. Nothing really bothers him; everyday is just the next play in a larger game. Then on his way home from school one afternoon, he spots a girl watching the sunset from the top of some factory smokestacks near his home; smokestacks he is famous in the neighborhood for climbing when none of the other children were able. This strange girl with liquid blue eyes tells him her name is Lalaru, but says little else as she watches the setting sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyMOC5rxNI/AAAAAAAAATw/m22MktvFN-Q/s400/NowandThenHereandThere1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259232637786768594" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then out of nowhere, several large machines, piloted by strangers in military uniforms, appear around the stacks and attack Lalaru. Shu attempts to save her and in the process is sucked back into the future with the soldiers to a bleak, sand blasted wasteland ruled by the remnants of a long dead war machine. Now as a prisoner and conscript of the battleship "Hellywood", Shu must face hard realities as he struggles with his new situation and tries to find a way for he and his fellow prisoners to escape the mad rule of King Hamado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyKOcDH6yI/AAAAAAAAATY/0AZ4WR9Zir0/s1600-h/now%26thenchildren.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyKOcDH6yI/AAAAAAAAATY/0AZ4WR9Zir0/s400/now%26thenchildren.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259230445513992994" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;While this story sounds like your typical action adventure this show is everything but. It shows a dystopian future where nearly everything was destroyed in a pointless war and where the last remnants of the military continue the fight without regard for those they were presumed to be fighting for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyKU4j_v2I/AAAAAAAAATo/Os2uVjJWOJE/s1600-h/NowandThenHereandThere7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyKU4j_v2I/AAAAAAAAATo/Os2uVjJWOJE/s400/NowandThenHereandThere7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259230556247277410" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In this show you'll see children forced into military servitude, taken from their slaughtered families, torture, murder and rape - done against and by children. Despite it's rather plain and round visual style it's actually a very cruel and brutal show ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It shows how bad humanity can get and has been (in fact, parallels to WW2 japan are abundant, although the anime pales in comparison to the actual cruelties commited by japan against it's victims).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyKKzifyAI/AAAAAAAAATQ/JU5zrldob64/s400/now%26then+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259230383100119042" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, if you expect some kind of final fantasy anime - forget it. It's rather like a japanese version of Apocalypse Now. But despite my warnings this is a very good show and highly recommended. Don't let the childish art or the first episode fool you ... this is stuff for (young) adults and the rest of the series takes a decidedly different and uglier tone from episode 2 onward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-cCOmJb185Y&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-cCOmJb185Y&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-4275313860899796716?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/4275313860899796716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=4275313860899796716' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4275313860899796716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4275313860899796716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/10/now-and-then-here-and-there.html' title='Now and then, here and there'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SPyKHoUm4qI/AAAAAAAAATI/R3DkeV3cbRM/s72-c/now%26then.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-5195798576069212309</id><published>2008-10-04T13:44:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T15:35:33.942+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Blood+</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=14817"&gt;Download Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 113px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Blood%2B_logo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blood+&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;(&lt;span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja"&gt;BLOOD+ (ブラッドプラス)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_comma" style="display: none;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_romaji"&gt;Buraddo Purasu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, pronounced "Blood Plus")&lt;/span&gt; is an anime series produced by Production I.G and Aniplex and directed by Junichi Fujisaku. The series premiered in Japan on Sony's anime satellite channel, Animax, as well as on terrestrial networks such as MBS, TBS, and &lt;span class="mw-redirect"&gt;RKB&lt;/span&gt; on October 8, 2005. The final episode aired on September 23, 2006. &lt;i&gt;Blood+&lt;/i&gt; is licensed for international distribution in several regions through Sony Picture's international arm, Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/683/1/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Blood+&lt;/i&gt; was inspired by the 2000 anime film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a title="Blood: The Last Vampire"&gt;Blood: The Last Vampire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;; however, there are only a few allusions and basic elements from the film. Fujisaku has been involved with both works, including acting as the director for &lt;i&gt;Blood+&lt;/i&gt; and writing the novelization of &lt;i&gt;Blood: The Last Vampire&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Under the care of her adoptive family, Saya Otonashi has been living the life of an &lt;span class="mw-redirect"&gt;anemic&lt;/span&gt; and amnesiac, but otherwise ordinary schoolgirl. Saya’s happy life is shattered when she is attacked by a chiropteran, learning that she is the only one who can defeat them.&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/683/1/33.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Armed with her katana, Saya embarks on a journey with her family, allies, and her chevalier, Hagi, to rid the world of chiropteran and rediscover her identity. The course of the journey reveals the background history of the chiropterans and Saya's very deep past, which extends into the mid-19th century.&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/683/1/56.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The series is initially set in present day (September 2005) &lt;span class="mw-redirect"&gt;Oki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-redirect"&gt;nawa City&lt;/span&gt; (Koza), on &lt;span class="mw-redirect"&gt;Okinawa&lt;/span&gt; Island, near the US Kadena Air Base. In the course of the series, Saya visits locations across the world, fighting enemy chiropteran and searching for her origins.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f72_RWPns-c&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f72_RWPns-c&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Note:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Drag the folder you downloaded to iTunes. It will not be in the movie section - it will show in the TV show section instead.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://img66.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20433956yv3.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2756/20433956yv3.th.jpg" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go Edit ---&gt; Preferences and tick show TV Shows, then press ok.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&amp;amp;files=img66/2756/20433956yv3.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&amp;amp;files=img66/2756/20433956yv3.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&amp;amp;files=img66/2756/20433956yv3.jpg"&gt;Description was taken from &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%2B"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-5195798576069212309?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/5195798576069212309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=5195798576069212309' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5195798576069212309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5195798576069212309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/10/blood.html' title='Blood+'/><author><name>lonfar</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09421233245468028896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-7272727253065874386</id><published>2008-09-28T23:03:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T15:45:11.901+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Serial Experiments Lain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=14624"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_yre-_fbI/AAAAAAAAASo/LxhE61hE-1w/s1600-h/Lain5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_yre-_fbI/AAAAAAAAASo/LxhE61hE-1w/s400/Lain5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251182519402855858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You wanted mindfuck - you get mindfuck. If you do not understand what Lain is about the first time you see it: don't worry. You really have to constantly watch for clues and think about what you have seen or else you won't be able to make any sense out of it - and thus won't be able to enjoy it, because you won't be served cool action scenes to distract you from thinking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is - by the way - one of the first animes I have ever seen consciously (seeing Heidi or Captain Future as a kid doesn't count) and thus got a rather warped impression of what anime is about. ^_^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Following are a short plot description and a more elaborate - er - elaboration taken from IMDB and wikipedia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enjoy !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PS: Safe for all ages but if your kids understand and like Lain then start worrying.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A week after Chisa committed suicide, her classmates begin to receive emails from her. Hearing rumors fly at school, a quiet withdrawn girl named Lain goes home that day, turns on her dusty Navi computer for the first time and has a conversation with the dead girl. Chisa's message reads that she killed herself because she didn't need her body anymore, and she now exists in The Wired. When Lain asks why someone would do something like that she gets a response: "Because God is here". --- &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/plotsummary"&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_y-86O6WI/AAAAAAAAASw/3nYa5tePp9Q/s1600-h/se_lain_002.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_y-86O6WI/AAAAAAAAASw/3nYa5tePp9Q/s400/se_lain_002.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251182853853473122" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Serial Experiments Lain deals directly with the definition of reality, which makes its complex plot difficult to summarize. The story is primarily based on the assumption that everything flows from human thought, memory, and consciousness. Therefore, events on screen can be considered hallucinations of Lain, of other protagonists, or of Lain fabricating the hallucinations of others.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_zHUtHR-I/AAAAAAAAAS4/92RsPpDxlaY/s1600-h/lain_016.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_zHUtHR-I/AAAAAAAAAS4/92RsPpDxlaY/s400/lain_016.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251182997679851490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Story misdirection is central to the plotline;  even the offscreen voices or narrations' information cannot be considered truthful. The series consists of a cross-reflection of philosophical themes instead of the traditional linear events depiction: episodes are called "layers".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Serial Experiments Lain describes "the Wired" as the sum of human communication networks, created with the telegraph and telephone services, and expanded with the Internet and subsequent networks. The anime assumes that the Wired could be linked to a system that enables unconscious communication between people and machines without physical interface. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_zPUZ_8SI/AAAAAAAAATA/dNkakgSzRhQ/s1600-h/se_lain_035.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_zPUZ_8SI/AAAAAAAAATA/dNkakgSzRhQ/s400/se_lain_035.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251183135038632226" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The storyline introduces such a system with the Schumann resonance, a property of the Earth's magnetic field that theoretically allows for unhindered long distance communications. If such a link was created, the network would become equivalent to Reality as the general consensus of all perceptions and knowledge (see consensus reality). The thin line between what is real and what is possible would then begin to blur.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;--- &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_experiments_lain"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/puARhRd1G2o&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/puARhRd1G2o&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-7272727253065874386?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/7272727253065874386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=7272727253065874386' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7272727253065874386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7272727253065874386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/serial-experiments-lain.html' title='Serial Experiments Lain'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN_yre-_fbI/AAAAAAAAASo/LxhE61hE-1w/s72-c/Lain5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-5783494925580743837</id><published>2008-09-28T13:43:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T15:45:18.397+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>Poll results &amp; aftermath</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like I already supected in &lt;a href="http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/fun-with-site-statistics.html"&gt;Fun with site statistics&lt;/a&gt; the hentai faction won the day (although I ended the vote prematurately).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Poll results:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hentai (35%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mindfuck (25%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Comedy (14%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Serious thematics (10%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Slice-of-life (7%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Action (3%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Romance (3%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And indeed, the top iPhoneReady downloads have a new entry:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=5622"&gt;Seirei no Moribito / Guardian of the Sacred Spirit 1-26 [A-Kraze][iphone ready]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Added: 2008-04-08 20:46:58&lt;br /&gt;Completed: 1247&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=5358"&gt;Emma - A Victorian Romance (Season 1+2 &amp;amp; OST) [iphone ready]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Added: 2008-03-29 22:23:54&lt;br /&gt;Completed: 1168&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=14529"&gt;Women at Work 1+2 (Gattsu) [iPhoneReady][iFap Hentai]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Added: 2008-09-26 17:42:01&lt;br /&gt;Completed: 1093&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Given that Gattsu is online for less than 3 days we can safely assume that hentai will dominate the download behaviour of the common iPhone user (and those that couldn't figure out that [iPhoneReady] means the release was converted to low-resolution iphone quality). Also note the soft-hearted romantics among you, who leeched Emma to #2.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway, we have the mindfuckers as runner-up, which speaks for the willingness to stimulate your brain beyond the nether reaches of your pants. So the next release will be of exactly that strange genre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stay tuned !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-5783494925580743837?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/5783494925580743837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=5783494925580743837' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5783494925580743837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5783494925580743837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/poll-results-aftermath.html' title='Poll results &amp; aftermath'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-6274643951682809396</id><published>2008-09-26T17:53:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T13:18:20.193+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hentai'/><title type='text'>Women at Work - The Gattsu [iFap Ready]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=details&amp;amp;id=14529"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-large;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN0DyhpCTJI/AAAAAAAAARo/dbkNCSkC8t8/s1600-h/gattsu2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN0DyhpCTJI/AAAAAAAAARo/dbkNCSkC8t8/s400/gattsu2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250356907142696082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weeeeell, polls are showing hentai in the lead, followed by mindfuck. &lt;div&gt;It's tempting to deliver both in one go but I'm not that great a fan of the really sick stuff. So I'll treat you to something that might put you off in a completely different way. ^_^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enjoy the non-futanari bodybuilder amazon. You'll forgive me for not posting a youtube video preview or writing an elaborate review.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN0gqmv1hUI/AAAAAAAAASg/SJ4aBGvfT68/s1600-h/gattsuep1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN0gqmv1hUI/AAAAAAAAASg/SJ4aBGvfT68/s400/gattsuep1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250388656911648066" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN0gkZlk_cI/AAAAAAAAASY/O15plXZMJHQ/s1600-h/gattsuep2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN0gkZlk_cI/AAAAAAAAASY/O15plXZMJHQ/s400/gattsuep2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250388550299745730" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PS: I won't be too surprised if the amount of traffic triples after that ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PPS: Opps, forgot to place the keywords: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;hentai anime porn hot muscle babes uncensored pron fuck sex duct-tape hamster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PPPS: Don't watch while commuting. Not workplace safe (at least in those work environments I know).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6274643951682809396?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6274643951682809396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6274643951682809396' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6274643951682809396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6274643951682809396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/women-at-work-gattsu-ifap-ready.html' title='Women at Work - The Gattsu [iFap Ready]'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SN0DyhpCTJI/AAAAAAAAARo/dbkNCSkC8t8/s72-c/gattsu2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-2332580307629074795</id><published>2008-09-21T14:46:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T13:17:36.583+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>Help seeding</title><content type='html'>Some of the old releases lack seeders and need charitable people who are willing to spend some time and bandwidth for your fellow iphone fans.&lt;div&gt;Of course, that people could be me, but I sometimes don't even have the original files, nor can I keep every single release online. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So please help out by keeping the torrents alive if possible by checking this list for zero-see-torrents: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?sort=0&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;group=422&amp;amp;language=0&amp;amp;codec=0"&gt;Seed Status&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Update: &lt;/span&gt;oops, wrong link. Try again now. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-2332580307629074795?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/2332580307629074795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=2332580307629074795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2332580307629074795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2332580307629074795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/help-seeding.html' title='Help seeding'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-6806283742277627573</id><published>2008-09-21T03:54:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T13:17:36.583+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>Fun with site statistics</title><content type='html'>I felt lonely and unapreceated, so I went and searched for myself. With google.&lt;div&gt;Because I wanted to see how awesome my blog is (yeah, I know, you want the torrents, not my wisdom), I subscribed to the google analytics service, mainly to check out google analytics but also to see how popular my site is: not very.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway, there are still some funny facts:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;google-search for "iphone ready" lists me as #54. I guess I have to be grateful even for that, since apparently even Tom Cruise is iphone ready. XENU, DELIVER US FROM EVIL !!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;google-search for "iphone ready anime" get's me the #1 spot, yay!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;google-search for "iphone anime" dumps me at #18, right behind lots of anime wallpaper sites. Hmpf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;google-search for "iComics" lists me as #1. I wonder what the iComics author thinks about that. The iComics guide is the most popular page, too, according to google analytics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;google-analytics says that you spend an average 1:02 minutes on my blog each visit. I'll have to check how long it takes to read the crap I write, but it sounds about right. But apparently no one bothers to view the embedded youtube vids, eh ?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;google-analytics says that you read fastest when visiting me on sundays. You manage reading in about half the time you usually need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Country ranking:&lt;br /&gt;1. USA&lt;br /&gt;2. Canada&lt;br /&gt;3. Germany (we are so polyglot)&lt;br /&gt;4. Great Britain&lt;br /&gt;5. Japan (enjoying the english subs, eh ?)&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Number 1 means of finding my blog: google. The most popular search term is &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; "iComics", "iphone ready" or even "iphone anime" btw... no, it's "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;iphone hentai&lt;/span&gt;" !&lt;br /&gt;So, can I triple my site popularity by releasing iphone anime porn, can't I? I guess i'll have to try in a scientific experiment how comfortable it is watching iPorn one-handed.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The estimated advertising worth of my blog is 0.00$ . I'll have to start the iPorn thingy ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Cheers! ^_^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6806283742277627573?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6806283742277627573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6806283742277627573' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6806283742277627573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6806283742277627573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/fun-with-site-statistics.html' title='Fun with site statistics'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-5129119353374604479</id><published>2008-09-21T01:56:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T13:18:09.491+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Berserk</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=download&amp;amp;id=14327"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-size:18px;"&gt;Download Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-weight: bold;font-size:48px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-weight: normal; font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNWODqVHo3I/AAAAAAAAARA/wRtRWnu9Yps/s1600-h/berserk_001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNWODqVHo3I/AAAAAAAAARA/wRtRWnu9Yps/s400/berserk_001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248257134323802994" style="text-align: center;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNWSQ0DWHaI/AAAAAAAAARQ/9dMhK8AqPLE/s1600-h/berserk13-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNWSQ0DWHaI/AAAAAAAAARQ/9dMhK8AqPLE/s320/berserk13-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248261758318419362" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Description taken from wikipedia: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;erserk (ベルセルク Beruseruku?) is a long-running dark fantasy manga by mangaka Kentarō Miura.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Berserk\'s setting is inspired by medieval Europe. It centers around the life of Guts, an orphaned mercenary warrior, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the Band of the Hawk (鷹の団 Taka no Dan?). As he ages, Guts changes from a solitary boy to a man who realizes the value of comradeship. The story contains elements of both fantasy and horror, as it explores both the best and worst of human nature. Both the manga and anime are noted for their heavy violence."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Oh boy, wiki got that last part right. Remember the second iPhoneReady release, Claymore ? This is it's daddy. If you know what &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukake"&gt;Bukake&lt;/a&gt; is (follow link at own risk) then just imagine swapping out the naughty parts with blood'n'guts. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The manga is still ongoing and boy, it's even more violent than the anime. I heard the author had to take some serious sessions with a psychiatrist because of his - er - let's say negative view on life in general. Since his negative views &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;his subsequent cure reflect in his works it's somewhat interesting to know. However, even in his better, improved mood the manga shows a dystopian reflection of hell on earth. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNWVaZMfaeI/AAAAAAAAARY/wXsNB2dWs2M/s1600-h/berserk-blood.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNWVaZMfaeI/AAAAAAAAARY/wXsNB2dWs2M/s320/berserk-blood.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248265221442595298" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Anyway, what you get is monsters, sword fights, death, destruction, death, killings, murders, massacres, blodshed, war, death, more massacres, demons, evil gods and death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Safe for all ages, provided you're living in a country constantly at war with someone or another.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Enjoy !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qUPL765l_go&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qUPL765l_go&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-5129119353374604479?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/5129119353374604479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=5129119353374604479' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5129119353374604479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5129119353374604479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/berserk.html' title='Berserk'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNWODqVHo3I/AAAAAAAAARA/wRtRWnu9Yps/s72-c/berserk_001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-1313637734062546428</id><published>2008-09-18T23:18:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T13:17:41.285+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>Download link not working ?</title><content type='html'>If you try to follow the "Download here" links right now, you'll land nowhere.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Don't Panic !!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anirena.com is undergoing a major site overhaul and the old download-links are invalid. And the new ones don't work like they should, but that's going to change soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you really really need one of the older torrents right now, just try to search for it at &lt;a href="http://www.tokyotosho.com/"&gt;http://www.tokyotosho.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Update: &lt;/span&gt;The tokyotosho links were not working for a short time. This problem has been fixed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-1313637734062546428?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/1313637734062546428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=1313637734062546428' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/1313637734062546428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/1313637734062546428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/download-link-not-working.html' title='Download link not working ?'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-2537880561500308075</id><published>2008-09-17T15:56:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T13:18:09.491+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Air Master</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=download&amp;amp;id=14211"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEOgtBdHOI/AAAAAAAAAQY/Hv3ctPCXI4E/s1600-h/Air.Master_150833.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEOgtBdHOI/AAAAAAAAAQY/Hv3ctPCXI4E/s400/Air.Master_150833.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246990995867639010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Air Master is your typical schoolgirl-martial-artist-fights-while-showing-off-panties anime. Our heroine Maki - called Air Master because of her aerial fighting style (incluenced by her past as elite gymnast - no kidding) - is distinguished by her read hair and her outstanding size (body size - not chest size, although that one is impressive, too). She towers over the midget japanese like a - er - european in asia. Sorry midgets. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEWhefa4AI/AAAAAAAAAQw/kB1jJ5kzKR0/s1600-h/AirMaster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEWhefa4AI/AAAAAAAAAQw/kB1jJ5kzKR0/s400/AirMaster.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246999805239681026" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;She befriends a couple of high school girls that include a midget among midgets that annoys viewers by screaming, crying and being annoying in general - and girl best described as a pair of tits on legs who immediatly falls in love with Maki (although she is - of course - not the only one. Her other one-sided love interests range from bland to weird to creepy). They follow Maki around when she fights it out with various streetfighters in the city. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEWYGtMhrI/AAAAAAAAAQo/pu8mG4aZfZM/s1600-h/airmaster+julietta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEWYGtMhrI/AAAAAAAAAQo/pu8mG4aZfZM/s400/airmaster+julietta.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246999644236187314" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;So much for the setup and the basic character cast, which isn't much to look at. Consequently this series received lots of bad reviews, strangely quite often by the same reviewers that rather fancy brutal, misogynic Panties-R-Us series like Ikki Tousen. True, Air Master is not a particulary intelligent series, but once you detach yourself enough from reality and expectations of intellectual stimuli, you'll be rewarded with strong and fluid action, cool choreographed martial art battles, and funny situational comedy that wouldn't be possible in any other series than Air Master.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEWuWq_0KI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/UGtspR38Q8U/s1600-h/air113tipl6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEWuWq_0KI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/UGtspR38Q8U/s400/air113tipl6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247000026479055010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEWYGtMhrI/AAAAAAAAAQo/pu8mG4aZfZM/s1600-h/airmaster+julietta.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;And regarding the showing-panties part: These are not the point of this series at all. They just tend to show up when you do those strange moves while wearing those stupid school girl outfits. Personally I dislike series that think the pinacle of humor is a well-lifted skirt followed by an exaggerated reaction. And no scene in this anime feels like it has been created solely to bless us with this kind of standard japanese humor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Anyway, this series is fun, full of action and has undeserved bad ratings. Enjoy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qMiE440quMM&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qMiE440quMM&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-2537880561500308075?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/2537880561500308075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=2537880561500308075' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2537880561500308075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2537880561500308075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/air-master.html' title='Air Master'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SNEOgtBdHOI/AAAAAAAAAQY/Hv3ctPCXI4E/s72-c/Air.Master_150833.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-7245884556312931511</id><published>2008-09-07T21:22:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T23:13:21.537+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iphone apps'/><title type='text'>Video encoding for the iPhone</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Since people have asked repeatedly AND I finally got off my lazy ass I decided to give a short little tutorial on video encoding &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;light&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I won't suffer you to learn &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEncoder"&gt;MEncoder&lt;/a&gt;, even though this tool might be your last resort in case standard methods won't do. No, the software of my choice is the popular &lt;a href="http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/"&gt;MediaCoder&lt;/a&gt;, which conveniently also has a special iPhone Edition. You can just get the standard version and make iPhone movies, too, but trust me when I say that you don't want to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So, before you do anything else: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/mirrors.htm?file=MediaCoder-iPhone-0.6.1.4180.exe"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/mirrors.htm?file=MediaCoder-iPhone-0.6.1.4180.exe"&gt;Download MediaCoder iPhone/iPod Touch Edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/mirrors.htm?file=MediaCoder-iPhone-0.6.1.4180.exe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMRBKitnr4I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/t5p5F-KSexs/s200/mediacoder.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243387515538747266" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You might also want to install the latest &lt;a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/firefox/"&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; browser since some advanced settings (which you probably won't need) rely on the Gecko engine that comes with it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Install and start and you will see this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMQq_zqadpI/AAAAAAAAAOY/lPcAN3ASR6Y/s1600-h/01+mediacoder+interface.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMQq_zqadpI/AAAAAAAAAOY/lPcAN3ASR6Y/s400/01+mediacoder+interface.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243363141854328466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The user interface is pretty much intuitive and the part that will give you occasional problems lies withing the source files you wish to encode. But more of that later. Find some videos and drag them into the work are and you're ready to go. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are several possible kinds of source files which each provide you with a different problem. I'll start with some easy ones and will add others at a later time. For now, let's start with:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:18px;"&gt;AVI videos with hardcoded subtitles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The avi-format is a simple container that usually contains a video and audio stream and nothing else. Subtitles are inseperable from the video stream, which is why it's called hardcoded. This is a problem if the video resolution does not match your display resolutions (480x320).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is nearly always the case, so you have to both resize the video and crop the parts you don't want. Happily the encoding software does the resize job automatically. The job left to do is choosing the target resolution and the cropping.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMQ4qUCAEII/AAAAAAAAAPI/d-M8Dv0kQGw/s320/02+crop+button.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243378165748863106" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;You'll mostly encounter videos that are far wider than what your iphone can display (after resizing), so snipping the sides is tempting. Howeverm the problem with hardcoded subtitles is that you can't crop the sides of the video because you'll very likely eliminate some parts of the subs. In that case I usually change the target resolution to 576x320, which allows you to zoom between fullscreen and "cinematic borders" on the fly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Press the &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;crop&lt;/span&gt; button and select &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manual Cropping. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMQ6MhOMGYI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/-D7gkgbAzK0/s1600-h/03+easy+cropper.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMQ6MhOMGYI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/-D7gkgbAzK0/s400/03+easy+cropper.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243379852916824450" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Using the left mouse button you can drag the running movie inside the frame until you are satisfied with the placement. You'll figure it out faster than I'll figure out how to explain to you how to figure it out. The border represents your ipod screen dimension, btw., so choosing a different target resolution in the main window will give you a larger window. Use the forward/backward buttons to navigate the playing movie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Small note: This is pretty damn comfortable. You don't want to know how awkward this part can - all too often - get. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Press done when you are done.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Beneath all those buttons you see a couple of select-boxes. You can play with them if you want or just leave them on default, wich should usually suffice. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Press the &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;start-&lt;/span&gt;button and wait for it to process your movie. After a short while it will finish (ok, it's a long while). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Congratulations! Your first self-encoded iphone video.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In case you have several movies you wish to convert: Make sure you select all videos BEFORE you start the cropping-tool. Or else only one item in the list will get cropped as wanted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMQ9aZvu8UI/AAAAAAAAAPY/kDxUoRkJico/s1600-h/04+select.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMQ9aZvu8UI/AAAAAAAAAPY/kDxUoRkJico/s400/04+select.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243383389963088194" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, that's it for today. I'll write something about the more advanced containers with multiple streams (mkv, ogm) later, although I'm sure you will figure that out by yourself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the way: You'll encounter numerous releases that simply won't encode like you want to. There are some workarounds for that (some involving MEncoder) but this is stuff for headaches. And some videos just won't work, no matter what you do. So don't get too worked up if that happens - it seems to be the norm. ^_^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-7245884556312931511?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/7245884556312931511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=7245884556312931511' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7245884556312931511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7245884556312931511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/09/video-encoding-for-iphone.html' title='Video encoding for the iPhone'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SMRBKitnr4I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/t5p5F-KSexs/s72-c/mediacoder.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-717452835172200581</id><published>2008-08-17T19:22:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T23:09:54.995+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Shakugan no Shana Season 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=11974"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKhiEZJOpYI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/dLDU9tR07Gs/s1600-h/shakugan-no-shana_005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKhiEZJOpYI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/dLDU9tR07Gs/s400/shakugan-no-shana_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235542394426795394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the last release met rather underwhelming approval so I guess you want more anime shit.&lt;br /&gt;Ah, don't worry, this series is not &lt;a href="http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/combat-butler-hayate.html"&gt;THAT &lt;/a&gt;bad but don't expect a story worth talking about either.&lt;br /&gt;The authors/anime producers are apparently aware of that fact and blessed us with two bonus episodes &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Shakugan no Shanatan 1+2"&lt;/span&gt;  where they poke fun at their own series. After watching the series (or at least a few episodes) you'll appreciate&lt;small&gt; &lt;/small&gt;them too, i think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, take this premade synopsis because I'm too lazy to write one myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Description from AnimeNFO&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;He had thought his normal days would last forever, until they were ended abruptly by an encounter with a girl with red hair and eyes. He named her Shana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not long after he enters high school, Sakai Yuji's normal days come to an end. He sees something bizarre on his way home: people are frozen in a strange fire, and a monster that looks like a large doll is attacking them. Just when he's about to be killed, a girl in a dark cloak wielding a large sword appears, and slices the monster in half. Although Yuji survives the strange encounter, the girl informs him of a desolate truth: "You don't 'exist' anymore."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She calls herself a Flame Haze who hunts "Kuze no Tomogara"; intruders from another world. She explains to him that he is a "Torch", a substitute of Yuji whose "existence" has already been devoured. She also told him that he is a special Torch, "Mystis", which contains a precious item in it. When he looks at his chest, he sees within himself a faint flame, just as she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is in this way that his eternal struggle alongside the girl begins.&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jcThZ5Wv0zk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jcThZ5Wv0zk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-717452835172200581?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/717452835172200581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=717452835172200581' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/717452835172200581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/717452835172200581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/08/shakugan-no-shana-season-1.html' title='Shakugan no Shana Season 1'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKhiEZJOpYI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/dLDU9tR07Gs/s72-c/shakugan-no-shana_005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-4509697615016312634</id><published>2008-08-11T13:57:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T13:18:51.974+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life action movies'/><title type='text'>Star Wreck - In the Pirkinning</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4338548"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKAp0XcFVcI/AAAAAAAAAN4/Fi6tmjLkaow/s1600-h/star_wreck.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKAp0XcFVcI/AAAAAAAAAN4/Fi6tmjLkaow/s400/star_wreck.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233228746626258370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This movie is an internet legend and shouldn't require much explaination.  In short it's a Star Trek meets Babylon 5 parody. It oviously ain't an anime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The storyline goes something like this: Captain Pirk along with his subordinates - the Plingon Dwarf and the Android Info - is stranded in earth's past and decides to conquer the world. Who cares about time paradoxons if you live a shitty life in finnland when you could be traveling the universe anyway!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKAv59h3-5I/AAAAAAAAAOI/U9V8DHmOHfg/s1600-h/bridge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKAv59h3-5I/AAAAAAAAAOI/U9V8DHmOHfg/s400/bridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233235439820209042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Star Wreck has a pretty long tradition but this movie was the first one that included professional CGI and human actors (you might enjoy the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wreck"&gt;wiki entry &lt;/a&gt;for more info).  And it's a feast for the eyes watching the spaceships of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 universe blasting each other apart. The story is pretty funny too, including many insider jokes (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dwarf: Tactical is still missing a chair&lt;/span&gt;!) and gags and puns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was so popular, it was even dubbed to - japanese. Yes that's right, there's a japanese version out there, although I chose to release the original finnish version with english subtitles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKAvzqOQQII/AAAAAAAAAOA/oajq6-2P6Ms/s1600-h/star_wreck_b1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKAvzqOQQII/AAAAAAAAAOA/oajq6-2P6Ms/s400/star_wreck_b1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233235331558424706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want different subtitles or the japanese version then simply pay the creators' homepage a visit and download everything there: &lt;a href="http://www.starwreck.com/"&gt;www.starwreck.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you're hooked you can even check out their older works, although they look quite less professional but are still quite funny. Also keep an eye out for their latest project, &lt;a href="http://www.ironsky.net/site/"&gt;Iron Sky&lt;/a&gt;, where nazis went to the moon in 1945 ... and are now coming back. Might take a while till they finish, though ... it took them 7 years to shot their last movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you don't mind the change from anime to finnish fan-made movies. I personally think it's more than worth it. Enjoy !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R79JuYdG5KY&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R79JuYdG5KY&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-4509697615016312634?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/4509697615016312634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=4509697615016312634' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4509697615016312634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4509697615016312634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/08/star-wreck-in-pirkinning.html' title='Star Wreck - In the Pirkinning'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SKAp0XcFVcI/AAAAAAAAAN4/Fi6tmjLkaow/s72-c/star_wreck.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-256887321418390058</id><published>2008-08-06T01:24:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T23:09:54.995+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>School Rumble Season 2 + OVAs</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=11183"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJjhyOBRgDI/AAAAAAAAANw/cuwDgHxUYH4/s1600-h/school-rumble-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJjhyOBRgDI/AAAAAAAAANw/cuwDgHxUYH4/s400/school-rumble-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231179220063977522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Description taken from &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6375"&gt;Animenewsnetwork&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuing right where &lt;a href="http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/08/school-rumble-season-1.html"&gt;season 1&lt;/a&gt; left off: Harima still likes Tenma but still runs into obstacles everytime he tries to confess his love to her. To complicate the situation, Class 2-D challenges class 2-C once again and there's a rumor floating around that Harima and Yakumo are dating as the school prepares for the cultural festival.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video preview below is from the OVA. Hot Springs ... you probably know what that means even before watching the preview.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hJdNDlP5RcE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hJdNDlP5RcE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-256887321418390058?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/256887321418390058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=256887321418390058' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/256887321418390058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/256887321418390058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/08/school-rumble-season-2-ovas.html' title='School Rumble Season 2 + OVAs'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJjhyOBRgDI/AAAAAAAAANw/cuwDgHxUYH4/s72-c/school-rumble-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-7335196347048058754</id><published>2008-08-03T12:01:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T23:09:54.995+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Gintama</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?returnto=%2Fg.php%3Fg%3D422&amp;amp;id=11011"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJWD3-TBxWI/AAAAAAAAANo/zu9Y_PLJXwI/s1600-h/3gintama.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJWD3-TBxWI/AAAAAAAAANo/zu9Y_PLJXwI/s400/3gintama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230231539899549026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This torrent contains episodes 1-49 (of way over 100). That would be Season 1+2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Description taken from &lt;a href="http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3663,hooghb,gintama.html"&gt;animenfo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;End of Edo period, aliens called "Amanto" began to invade the Earth, and the war between the Earth and Amanto broke out. During the war, many samurai lost their lives. However, the Earth was no match for the overwhelming weapons of Amand, and they surrendered to Amando. The government became a puppet of Amando, and Amandos had their own way in Edo city. On the other hand, the government banned the samurai from carrying swords.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The story takes place around a samuri and their buddies who live in this hard time for samurai, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're about to visit a braincell-free environment.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/suGOTwtMUiI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/suGOTwtMUiI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-7335196347048058754?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/7335196347048058754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=7335196347048058754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7335196347048058754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7335196347048058754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/08/gintama.html' title='Gintama'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJWD3-TBxWI/AAAAAAAAANo/zu9Y_PLJXwI/s72-c/3gintama.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-9088003036916379643</id><published>2008-08-02T19:23:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T23:09:54.995+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>School Rumble Season 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=10952"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJSYQeXvSiI/AAAAAAAAANg/WkM946sbo3s/s1600-h/school-rumble-wall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJSYQeXvSiI/AAAAAAAAANg/WkM946sbo3s/s400/school-rumble-wall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229972476081949218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Description taken from &lt;a href="http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,1486,wohzmg,school_rumble.html"&gt;AnimeNfo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tsukamoto Tenma is a second grader in high school who, like other girls her age, falls in love. However, she could not bring herself to confess her love to her classmate Karasumaru. She discovers that Karasumaru will transfer out next year and, with the help of her friends and her little sister Yakumo, tries to confess her love. Tenma also uses unorthodox methods such as disguising herself as a nurse or shooting arrows with a love letter attached to express her feelings for him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;On the other hand, Harima Kenji, a delinquent, has feelings for Tenma. Unfortunately, Tenma's preoccupation with Karasumara ensures that she doesn't notice Harima's affection, much to Harima's dismay. To make matters worse, one day, he sees Tenma and Karasumaru having lunch together. This causes him to skip school and embark on a journey of enlightenment. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YMe8bW16ook&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YMe8bW16ook&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-9088003036916379643?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/9088003036916379643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=9088003036916379643' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/9088003036916379643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/9088003036916379643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/08/school-rumble-season-1.html' title='School Rumble Season 1'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SJSYQeXvSiI/AAAAAAAAANg/WkM946sbo3s/s72-c/school-rumble-wall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-801776526141592980</id><published>2008-07-16T23:49:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T23:09:54.996+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Full Metal Panic</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Full Metal Panic Season 1, Fumoffu, Second Raid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=9946"&gt;Download Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SH5z96W5h8I/AAAAAAAAANY/4-648KfSPAY/s1600-h/AS-Full-Metal-Panic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SH5z96W5h8I/AAAAAAAAANY/4-648KfSPAY/s400/AS-Full-Metal-Panic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223740125270869954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing I thought after reading the title was "Full Metal Jacket Anime". But nothing could be further from the truth. On one hand, you have heavy mecha action and special ops missions with plenty of casualties and no punches pulled. On the other hand we have a high-school comedy. Kinda like a paramilitary Inu Yasha or the result of mixing Black Lagoon with Great Teacher Onizuka.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key scenario is that of an about 17 year old seargent of a paramilitary counter-terrorist force. He was originally a child-soldier who survived his battle-filled "childhood" in the battlefields of Afghanistan (not against the heroic US soldiers, of course - against the oh-so-evil communists!) and has now some - let's say - social deficits. Nevertheless Sousuke get's appointed the job of undercover agent in a japanese high-school in order to protect a girl with special abilities (although she doesn't know she has them. They are pretty subtle anyway). Kaname Chidori grudgingly puts up with the strange behaviour of her new classmate (such as bringing live grenades to school or blowing up footlockers, "just to be safe").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, to sum the whole series up in one phrase: Rambo Junior goes to school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any boy, I got cramps laughing. If you miss that series then you really - er - missed something. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex&amp;amp;Violence: &lt;/span&gt;No sex, but sexy. The onsen &amp;amp; swimsuit scenes, as well as panty jokes. Adult - hmm - situations in the second raid, but nothing to be ashamed of watching in the train. But rejoice, plenty of violence. And like mentioned earlier, you get an equal amount of comic violence and real one. Plenty of dead soldiers - friend and foe - and bloodshed. It's not a splatterfest like Claymore but it's violence alright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion: &lt;/span&gt;A&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Must See.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aq83riBU1qo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aq83riBU1qo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-801776526141592980?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/801776526141592980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=801776526141592980' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/801776526141592980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/801776526141592980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/07/full-metal-panic.html' title='Full Metal Panic'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SH5z96W5h8I/AAAAAAAAANY/4-648KfSPAY/s72-c/AS-Full-Metal-Panic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-605434175071243601</id><published>2008-06-26T20:37:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-26T21:44:26.521+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manga'/><title type='text'>The Dirty Pair</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8672"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4261998/The_Dirty_Pair_-_Books_1_to_7_%5Biphone_ready%5D"&gt;or here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPp4EdqGEI/AAAAAAAAAMo/zaFH7ymglv4/s1600-h/DIRTY+PAIR+START+THE+VIOLENCE+COVER.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPp4EdqGEI/AAAAAAAAAMo/zaFH7ymglv4/s400/DIRTY+PAIR+START+THE+VIOLENCE+COVER.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216269942905247810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPqCi0Z-zI/AAAAAAAAAMw/xOIe7Eaupm4/s1600-h/Dirty+Pair+Book+3+-+A+Plague+Of+Angels+1-00fc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPqCi0Z-zI/AAAAAAAAAMw/xOIe7Eaupm4/s200/Dirty+Pair+Book+3+-+A+Plague+Of+Angels+1-00fc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216270122852416306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yuri and Kei are the two members of a "trouble consultant" team codenamed &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lovely Angels &lt;/span&gt;in earth's far future. Trouble consultants are some kind of agents whose job it is to eliminate threats to humanity. Or catch'n'kill terrorists and such.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lovely Angels&lt;/span&gt; are pretty competent in their job. However, most of their missions end up with tremendous casualties along their way through no fault of their own. Don't think collapsed buildings - think nuked cities, space stations, planets, solar systems. This - along with their working attire - earned them the name &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Dirty Pair&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPqMbDIp8I/AAAAAAAAAM4/xGjaw9FoIFo/s1600-h/run+from+the+future+%231+-+00.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPqMbDIp8I/AAAAAAAAAM4/xGjaw9FoIFo/s200/run+from+the+future+%231+-+00.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216270292565403586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Dirty Pair are the archetypes of anime-chicks with guns. The whole series flows over with action in a strange utopian/dytopian high-tech setting. Every technological advance - no matter how ethically deplorable - has been made and commercialized. Cyborgs, AIs, The Matrix, Mutants, Bio-Engineering, Genetic Modifications, Personality Transfers and weapons in all forms and sizes inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Pair"&gt;original series&lt;/a&gt; is pretty old and started out as a light novel (i.e. trash), became an anime and then a manga ... or rather a comic. The main guy responsible for this comic is the american Adam Warren, so this can't technically be called a manga despite the japanese drawing style. You even have to read from left to right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPq4PKJA4I/AAAAAAAAANA/nYz81dvnZcE/s1600-h/Dirty+Pair+Fatal+But+Not+Serious+n1-c01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPq4PKJA4I/AAAAAAAAANA/nYz81dvnZcE/s320/Dirty+Pair+Fatal+But+Not+Serious+n1-c01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216271045287805826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But no matter who dunnit - this series is great fun and utterly chaotic. You probably won't get more chicks'n'guns per square inch than in Dirty Pair for a very long time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPrCxpRm8I/AAAAAAAAANI/Rwx2HK7hiWM/s1600-h/sexy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPrCxpRm8I/AAAAAAAAANI/Rwx2HK7hiWM/s200/sexy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216271226343889858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex&amp;amp;Crime:&lt;/span&gt; Lots ! Ok, they don't do sex (publicly), but they know exactly how they are showing of their assets. ^_^&lt;br /&gt;Nah, the violence displayed is ... well ... much, but not the kind of nightmare inducing violence you sometimes see in other mainstream mangas (I recall a couple of very disturbing Berserk panels). And the utter disregard for human casualties is strangely undisturbing - probably because you never have to bother with the aftermath of all the carnage.&lt;br /&gt;Imagine &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasticman"&gt;Plastic Man&lt;/a&gt; on a mission to recover a nuclear suitcase-bomb from terrorists. The mission succeeds although two passenger planes fly into the twin towers and the last panel shows a grinning plastic man flying away from the collapsing buildings while saying "Doh! Well, could've been worse.".&lt;br /&gt;Well, you get the idea. If you can laugh to that then you'll love the Dirty Pair.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-605434175071243601?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/605434175071243601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=605434175071243601' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/605434175071243601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/605434175071243601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/dirty-pair.html' title='The Dirty Pair'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SGPp4EdqGEI/AAAAAAAAAMo/zaFH7ymglv4/s72-c/DIRTY+PAIR+START+THE+VIOLENCE+COVER.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8212618285860697458</id><published>2008-06-25T23:53:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-26T00:51:38.179+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manga'/><title type='text'>The Ultimates</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Etbui2020/ULTIMATES_V2issue1coverB.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8612"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8612"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Etbui2020/ULTIMATES_V2issue1coverB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://home.comcast.net/%7Etbui2020/ULTIMATES_V2issue1coverB.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;US-Comics for a change. And this one is awesome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You probably read a few classic superhero comics at one time or another. Superman/Spiderman and shit like that. Some probably ditched this kiddy stuff and switched to some advanced forms of graphical novels, like Sin City, V or Preacher. Or the no-nonsense brutal reenvisioning of the superhero genre, like Planetary, The Authority or the relaunch of the Squadron Supreme with the almighty Hyperion. Definetly not the Justice League.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now imagine that the new generation of authors responsible for the new, realistic and cynical tone of the best comics america has to offer - what if those authors gang up and take over Marvel Comics shitty Avengers series. Enter The Ultimates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You get nazis, aliens, nazi aliens, superpowered domestic violence, heroes killing brand name villans, heroes killing innocents, cannibalism, a black Nick Fury (and boy, this guy is hardcore), torture, a god out of a mental institute, a naked giant man and his  10-foot dong, politics, intrigue and a captain america that knows how to use guns and grenades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.bayimg.com/hajnfaabm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://image.bayimg.com/hajnfaabm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And most important: A believable and great story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ultimate relaunch of the Marvel Universe is probably the best thing Marvel ever did. And now you get it on the iphone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The images were scaled down to a width of 480, which makes the text readably - not as readable as the larger manga text bubbles, but readable enough. I had to compromise a bit to ensure that the images load fast in the Comic Viewer. It's not optimal but it's enough, i think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you haven't installed the Comic Book viewer program yet then you can find a guide for that &lt;a href="http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/icomics-iphone-manga-reader.html"&gt;if you follow this link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you'll enjoy it. I did so much that I bought every single Ultimate hardcover I could find. Well worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-DF&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8212618285860697458?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8212618285860697458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8212618285860697458' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8212618285860697458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8212618285860697458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/ultimates.html' title='The Ultimates'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-7253699601300885928</id><published>2008-06-21T21:46:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-26T21:44:04.335+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>modern art</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.dumpr.net/static/a8/8d7646d6a5c0625b_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dumpr.net/"&gt;www.dumpr.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-7253699601300885928?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/7253699601300885928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=7253699601300885928' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7253699601300885928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7253699601300885928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/modern-art.html' title='modern art'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-7753412918605634094</id><published>2008-06-19T13:32:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T13:41:37.354+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>Exporting Contacts from iPhone/iPod Touch to PC</title><content type='html'>I just received my new iPod Touch 16gb. My old one actually suffered a weird hardware malfunction that prevented it from starting up again.&lt;br /&gt;Apple was kind enough to deliver a new one, even though my old one had some tiny dents in it's case (very very tiny, but apple is notorious for refusing to replace defective hardware on the basis, that they might be defective).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I got a new one (complete with the new applications) and lost all contacts and bookmarks, which I assumed they'd been backed up by itunes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, does anyone know of a way to comfortably export or synchronize iphone/ipod contacts ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm using Windows Vista, btw. I'd prefer to use Ubuntu, but iPods don't take well to Linux.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-7753412918605634094?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/7753412918605634094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=7753412918605634094' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7753412918605634094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7753412918605634094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/exporting-contacts-from-iphoneipod.html' title='Exporting Contacts from iPhone/iPod Touch to PC'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-3937179556816608982</id><published>2008-06-18T00:15:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T13:40:57.430+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Black Lagoon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8245"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhGfxoH2mI/AAAAAAAAALo/aGxueWTMxtE/s1600-h/blacklagoonet8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhGfxoH2mI/AAAAAAAAALo/aGxueWTMxtE/s400/blacklagoonet8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212994080392862306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Original release by KAA (Kick Ass Anime, i believe)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhGuLDYimI/AAAAAAAAALw/TvutroIPWTA/s1600-h/026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhGuLDYimI/AAAAAAAAALw/TvutroIPWTA/s200/026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212994327736257122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Meet the latest anime star: Revy, the chinese gun-chick (or Levy, depending on how oul japanese fliends decide to distlibute celtain lettels).&lt;br /&gt;Revy is part of the Lagoon Company and provides the muscle (and bullets) for the team. She is not a people person - to best describe her in friendly terms I'd still have to use words like "psyochpathic", "manic" and "killer". It would be unfair to call her a serial killer, though ... she's at best a massmurderer.&lt;br /&gt;And rejoice, she's one of the "good" guys (koff, koff).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;good&lt;/span&gt; guys include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rock - a japanese sarariman, who joined the company after he got abducted by said company and sacrificed and nearly killed by his then employer.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dutch - a huge african american, leader of the Lagoon company and owner of the well armed torpedo boat&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benny - the american technical expert of the team. Doesn't usually participate in fights but doesn't let the abundant killing bother him anymore (spending any length of time with Revy probably does that).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhG4Uvvr3I/AAAAAAAAAL4/QxPYcK4NkFo/s1600-h/black_lagoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhG4Uvvr3I/AAAAAAAAAL4/QxPYcK4NkFo/s320/black_lagoon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212994502136934258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the action (of which you'll get plenty) takes place in Roanapur, a fictional city somewhere in thailand. Since the Lagoon company is basically a mercenary outfit and Roanapur is rife with corruption and a gathering place of crime syndicates from every country, they don't really lack employment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the major power players in Roanapur include &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hotel Moscow&lt;/span&gt;, part of the russian mafia led by a scarred female ex-army officer called Balalaika, the chinese &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Triad&lt;/span&gt;, led by non other than the slim brother of Cow Yun-Fat and the most original one, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Church of Violence&lt;/span&gt; led by mother Yolanda. If you need any weapon short of intercontinental ballistic missiles, ask the lord for guidance and give the church their tithe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhHy17fKjI/AAAAAAAAAMY/HxA-V2SPwuE/s1600-h/rebyeda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhHy17fKjI/AAAAAAAAAMY/HxA-V2SPwuE/s320/rebyeda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212995507476965938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are lots of original characters in this series - and nearly everyone has more than enough traits that would make them a danger to society in any civilized country, but they all find their home in Roanapur and enjoy their drinks together before and after missions, murders and firefights (sometimes against each other).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhHJl7Ik4I/AAAAAAAAAMA/zT3dk_0mgek/s1600-h/01zy9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhHJl7Ik4I/AAAAAAAAAMA/zT3dk_0mgek/s320/01zy9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212994798805881730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This series has everything  you could wish for in an action oriented anime. The art is really good with detailed and slightly exagerated drawn characters and even more exagerated gun fights. If they ever make a game out of this, then it'll look like "Lara Croft in Far Cry".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhIC5NhczI/AAAAAAAAAMg/eW6fJAKzaBY/s1600-h/revy2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhIC5NhczI/AAAAAAAAAMg/eW6fJAKzaBY/s200/revy2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212995783235826482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; Killing without mercy is pretty common with Black Lagoon. Life is worth nothing more than what you are willing to pay for it. And sex ? Well, the girls are absolutely sexy and Miss Balalaika is known to personally edit hard core porn movies if duty demands it. And I'd like to recommend everyone the &lt;a href="http://isohunt.com/download/28195554/azasuke.torrent"&gt;Black Lagoon Hentai Artwork&lt;/a&gt; from Azasuke Wind. But apart from that I haven't spotted anything more &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"offensive"&lt;/span&gt; than one lone panty-shot. And an attempted rape very late in the series. But considering the pants Revy wears you have your offensive stuff pretty much everywhere. ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Awesome action, iconic characters, fast paced story arcs and a sprawling dystopian town in the south-east asian sea ... what's not to like ? Recommended!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jcp68gVJndg&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jcp68gVJndg&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-3937179556816608982?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/3937179556816608982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=3937179556816608982' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3937179556816608982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3937179556816608982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/black-lagoon.html' title='Black Lagoon'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFhGfxoH2mI/AAAAAAAAALo/aGxueWTMxtE/s72-c/blacklagoonet8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-5605860828074480268</id><published>2008-06-17T16:32:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T11:23:57.908+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Perfect Blue</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8234"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFfW-3OMuhI/AAAAAAAAALI/4Bmz7RvXXPY/s1600-h/perfectblue.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFfW-3OMuhI/AAAAAAAAALI/4Bmz7RvXXPY/s400/perfectblue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212871469168376338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;no idea who released that one ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perfect Blue is a classic psycho thriller.&lt;br /&gt;The story centers about the idol Mima, who left her band to pursuit an acting career. This - however - doesn't sit too well with some of her fans and subsequent attacks add to her growing doubts if she made the right choice. A stalker, stress at work and a website that knows every single private detail about her further attack her shaken psyche to the point where she starts getting delusions. Then the killing starts ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFfXUllEAhI/AAAAAAAAALQ/0jyMbXhvMiA/s1600-h/8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFfXUllEAhI/AAAAAAAAALQ/0jyMbXhvMiA/s320/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212871842389557778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The anime is a real masterpiece. Not the art, which is solid. Not the sound either. It's the story and the solid directing which takes Mima on a psycho-ride to perdition - and drags you along in the front seat. While the whole scenario is less than spectacular - I mean, who cares about second class idols trying to make a career in second class japanese TV-Dramas - the execution is brilliant and captivating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFfXclYzyZI/AAAAAAAAALY/hSP5JExlths/s1600-h/070611anime_perfectblue2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFfXclYzyZI/AAAAAAAAALY/hSP5JExlths/s200/070611anime_perfectblue2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212871979777116562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; I included this section not in consideration of some peculiar american morals - I just figured that most iphone users don't want to risk getting caught staring at a pair of humongous anime tits by colleagues, seniors, family or other &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"moral" &lt;/span&gt;figures. And while this movie belongs in the adult category (on account of kids probably not being able to understand this movie anyway), sex has nearly no relevance here. Apart from one staged rape scene for the TV-Drama Mima is playing in. It is rather - hmm - explicit but we are not talking &lt;a href="http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,794,tpbnwl,mezzo_forte.html"&gt;Mezzoforte&lt;/a&gt;, so relax. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion: &lt;/span&gt;Great movie. If you dislike thrillers generally, then you'll hardly appreceate this one either. But everyone else should give this one a try. I keep thinking "Silence of the lambs" when thinking of "Perfect Blue" in terms of supense and atmosphere, even though they are not similar at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NNGQAxE_x2o&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NNGQAxE_x2o&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;PS: Don't let the ghastly dubs of the youtube video fool you: This release is in japanese with english subtitles.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-5605860828074480268?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/5605860828074480268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=5605860828074480268' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5605860828074480268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5605860828074480268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/perfect-blue.html' title='Perfect Blue'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFfW-3OMuhI/AAAAAAAAALI/4Bmz7RvXXPY/s72-c/perfectblue.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-3218207606293344550</id><published>2008-06-16T13:04:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T13:28:53.591+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Spice and Wolf 7 &amp; Hayate no Gotoku 47-52</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8177"&gt;Spice and Wolf 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8174"&gt;Hayate no Gotoku 47-52&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry for the last incomplete releases. Today I'd like to deliver the missing pieces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of Spice &amp;amp; Wolf I simply forgot that the seventh episode wasn't aired and thus not released in order. Anyway, it's a filler episode so if the guys at bss wouldn't have labeled them correctly no one would have noticed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hayate episodes were missing because i mentally closed the chapter of Combat Butlers due to my slight aversion to this series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, here's the rest for those that enjoy this series and it's wacky humor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-3218207606293344550?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/3218207606293344550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=3218207606293344550' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3218207606293344550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3218207606293344550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/spice-and-wolf-7-hayate-no-gotoku-47-52.html' title='Spice and Wolf 7 &amp; Hayate no Gotoku 47-52'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8983566290749962026</id><published>2008-06-12T21:45:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T19:51:22.210+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Combat Butler Hayate</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8019"&gt;Episodes 1-46&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8174"&gt;Episodes 47-52&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFF9bn1CNAI/AAAAAAAAAKo/UGXSrwV0pXI/s1600-h/509555683_88967dda4a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFF9bn1CNAI/AAAAAAAAAKo/UGXSrwV0pXI/s400/509555683_88967dda4a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211084157345739778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Original release by SS-Eclipse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This show is simple, brainless nerd fun ... for those that find this kind of stuff funny. Which I don't. Sorry fanboys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Short short synopsis: A debt ridden boy gets sold by his parents to the yakuza as organ donor. He avoids this fate by a weird twist of fate which places him in the employ of an incredibly rich small girl. As a butler he is both servant and bodyguard to the child, as well as her secret love interest also he is too thick to realize that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFGCurofqVI/AAAAAAAAAK4/M7237vLn1S8/s1600-h/nagi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFGCurofqVI/AAAAAAAAAK4/M7237vLn1S8/s320/nagi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211089982342539602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He then is routinely pitted against assassins, giant robots, wild animals, assassins, weirdos, other butlers and more assassins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since that's obviously not stupid enough you are constantly graced by jibes and references to other animes. I didn't understand a single one. This might have to do with the annoying beep over every possible mention of an established (and better) brand name. Imagine watching a TV show where not just every utterance of "shit" or "fuck" gets censored but every single product name, too. Beeeeeeep !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nah, this series is pure bullshit and I can't wait till i get this seeded and off my precious harddrive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFGBoTST-8I/AAAAAAAAAKw/28rDa6kXk5A/s1600-h/Hayate_no_Gotoku_ep33_00.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFGBoTST-8I/AAAAAAAAAKw/28rDa6kXk5A/s320/Hayate_no_Gotoku_ep33_00.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211088773216205762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; Cartoonish violence, no sex. I think. Had to avoid watching the complete show to preserve my sanity. But the show didn't look like the main characters would get some action anytime soon. Oh wait - I just remembered that Hayate is repeatedly forced to wear girls clothes to the joy of the maid of the house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Avoid like hell. Unless you like this kind of shit, of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_YevvwQPZQ&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_YevvwQPZQ&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8983566290749962026?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8983566290749962026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8983566290749962026' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8983566290749962026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8983566290749962026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/combat-butler-hayate.html' title='Combat Butler Hayate'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SFF9bn1CNAI/AAAAAAAAAKo/UGXSrwV0pXI/s72-c/509555683_88967dda4a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-619044754467690563</id><published>2008-06-11T12:44:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T19:02:48.563+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Gilgamesh</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=7970"&gt;Download Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE-uZRZTLOI/AAAAAAAAAKY/Zen-53_2mUQ/s1600-h/vol1boxartl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE-uZRZTLOI/AAAAAAAAAKY/Zen-53_2mUQ/s400/vol1boxartl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210575043080432866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Original release by Shinsen-Subs, Rumbel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This anime is fucked up strange. And boy, it's depressing. A fuckload of Weltschmerz in armageddonland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, you're going to leech it no matter what I say, so let me just say that you don't want to watch it when I start spoiling the story. I didn't understand it anyway - especially not the end - so no worries there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, have a look at some of the sad streaks of misery that make up part of the (evil) cast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE-wAkhsLZI/AAAAAAAAAKg/14h_2Ktc8ZQ/s1600-h/The_Gilgamesh.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE-wAkhsLZI/AAAAAAAAAKg/14h_2Ktc8ZQ/s320/The_Gilgamesh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210576817742425490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And regarding &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; Plenty of violence, although both parties try to avoid hurting innocents, which is a bit strange since one side tries to destroy the whole world. And sex is implied unless you believe in immaculate conception. We also have a crossdresser. Harmless in that regard, but not for kids anyway unless you want them to commit suicide out of depression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Weeeeeell ... i've seen better. Unusual art, pale coloration, faces devoid of feelings. Weird story (think End of Evangelion) and an unsatisfying conclusion. I'm seeding it so I can finally delete that stuff from my harddrive. Enjoy! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.veoh.com/veohplayer.swf?permalinkId=v6377902pS3y5q3G&amp;amp;id=anonymous&amp;amp;player=videodetailsembedded&amp;amp;videoAutoPlay=0" allowfullscreen="true" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="410" height="341"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-619044754467690563?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/619044754467690563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=619044754467690563' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/619044754467690563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/619044754467690563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/gilgamesh.html' title='Gilgamesh'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE-uZRZTLOI/AAAAAAAAAKY/Zen-53_2mUQ/s72-c/vol1boxartl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-5700267402216618100</id><published>2008-06-10T11:58:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T19:52:35.799+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Spice and Wolf</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?returnto=%2Fmytorrents.php&amp;amp;id=7934"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Episodes 1-6 8-13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=8177"&gt;Episode 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5ReNowgrI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/eH8jRzcYxSM/s1600-h/1100054588spicelh2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5ReNowgrI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/eH8jRzcYxSM/s400/1100054588spicelh2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210191398412780210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Original release by BSS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;Spice and Wolf has one of the ever-so-popular catgirls inside and thus is guaranteed to draw all kinds of fans from the furry fancrowd. The minor detail that it's in fact a wolfgirl can be neglected as well as the pretty fox-tail she has.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, one would think that the stage is set for either a fantasy might &amp;amp; magic werewolf battle flick or a juicy harem anime. But it ain't so - in fact it's completely different from anything you'd expect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5fnd3HKNI/AAAAAAAAAKA/XalB1H3uNy0/s1600-h/03SpiceWolfTAILFEELSOGOOD.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5fnd3HKNI/AAAAAAAAAKA/XalB1H3uNy0/s320/03SpiceWolfTAILFEELSOGOOD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210206950549563602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe you should start by listening to the opening song, a beautiful and melancholical piece which perfectly sums up the mood of the whole anime. This song actually deserves a blog entry of it's own, but I'm a bit lazy right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.themusichutch.com/mp3player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="file=http://www.themusichutch.com/play.xml.php%3Fsongid%3D33277&amp;amp;showdigits=true&amp;amp;autostart=false&amp;amp;showeq=true&amp;amp;displayheight=40&amp;amp;callback=statistics.php&amp;amp;linkfromdisplay=true&amp;amp;backcolor=0xffffcc" border="0" width="320" height="85"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, back to the topic: The anime.&lt;br /&gt;Horo - the wolf girl - is a kind of god (in the japanese sense of the word) that once wandered south and took up the role of the god of harvest in a small rural community in exchange for  a bit of worshipping and a bit of sacrifice (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; humans. Just a bit of grain). With the rise of the church (christianity is implied) and the erosion of belief the prospect of spending more time in this area didn't look as attractive to her like it did before. Thus she decided to sneak away hitchhiking with a travelling merchant named Lawrence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5hKkX8EBI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/_qjN0TDGzXo/s1600-h/03SpiceWolfCurrency.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5hKkX8EBI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/_qjN0TDGzXo/s320/03SpiceWolfCurrency.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210208653104910354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horo the Wise (as she calls herself) may look like a fifteen year old girl, but behind all her bragging is indeed the experience of centuries, which she occasionally uses to help out Lawrence in his dealings with guild, other merchants and swindlers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is actually the part where the anime gets different than what one would expect, because anything not related to the incentive driving the plot - Horo wants to go home - is about trade, currencies used for trading, trading gold, fraud, medieval politics and trade as well as the influence of the church on trade. You get the general idea. In that regard the anime is incredibly detailed - so detailed in fact, that I didn't understand a word of it even though it gets explained in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;great&lt;/span&gt; detail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main characters are also detailed and very likable. The star of the show is - of course - Horo the wise, who is wise indeed as well as teasing, manipulative, a bit mischievous  and a glutton for apples. She is also completely immodest (which shouldn't surprise anyone since wolves usually don't wear much clothing) and is the cause for giving Lawrence the occasional red ears, which leads us to the next topic:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5g61y52HI/AAAAAAAAAKI/zRcdVJ481WU/s1600-h/wolfandspice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0px 10px 10pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5g61y52HI/AAAAAAAAAKI/zRcdVJ481WU/s200/wolfandspice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210208382903507058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; Well, she wears her nakedness like we wear clothes, so it's not really erotic. At least not intentionally. The violence is rare but when it comes, it's the primal violence of a beast unleashed. After all, Horo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; a wolf and if she absolutely has to fight she fights without wasting a thought about not harming the enemy. Lawrence is a wimp but he can afford it with a 10 foot wolf guarding his back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion: &lt;/span&gt;The focus on medieval trade and everything related to it is certainly a new twist, but it's too specialized for my taste to generate more than a passing interest. The characters make up for this completely and the melancholic tone of the budding romance is captivating enough. Add some insights about medieval european life and a decent dose of treachery and action and you have a highly entertaining anime. Recommended !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jOjCiQB6Nlw&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jOjCiQB6Nlw&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-5700267402216618100?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/5700267402216618100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=5700267402216618100' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5700267402216618100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5700267402216618100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/06/spice-and-wolf.html' title='Spice and Wolf'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SE5ReNowgrI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/eH8jRzcYxSM/s72-c/1100054588spicelh2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8926976312053799447</id><published>2008-05-24T16:21:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T16:37:42.374+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>"Someone shoot Obama, please." - Hillary Clinton,</title><content type='html'>Did anyone follow the battle-for-presidency in the USA ?&lt;br /&gt;It's likely going to be a democrat this time, but which one ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/23/clinton-kennedy-assassina_n_103319.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/23/clinton-kennedy-assassina_n_103319.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now Hillary Clinton pulled another rabbit out of her campaign-strategy hat by saying: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. (Wink, Wink)".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Man,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;if that didn't sound like urging the white racists with guns to "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;hurry up and shot that black uppity bastard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, then I don't know what does.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, this is not a political blog, this is iphone stuff and you'll probably wonder why I didn't release anything recently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, looks like my mainboard has a scorched northbridge and I'm having problems getting the same one back. Sadly I can't just pick any mainboard because I was stupid enough to use the inbuilt nvidia-RAID to stripe two 300gb drives into a big fat 600 stripe. And I need a board (ASUS A8N-SLI deluxe) with the same raid controller or I can kiss my files goodbye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found one on ebay, bought and paid it, but the fucker didn't even answer to numerous emails and ebay-messages.... looks like I'll have to sue my money back and find yet another one.... aaargh ...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8926976312053799447?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8926976312053799447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8926976312053799447' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8926976312053799447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8926976312053799447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/05/someone-shoot-obama-please-hillary.html' title='&quot;Someone shoot Obama, please.&quot; - Hillary Clinton,'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-4283986048893817418</id><published>2008-05-07T12:20:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-08T11:31:03.436+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talk'/><title type='text'>How to eat sushi the japanese way</title><content type='html'>I just went over to a japanese blog about &lt;a href="http://japanesefood-cultuer-history-anime.blogspot.com/"&gt;japanese food/culture/history/anime &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I'll have to take &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/00037989788899247215"&gt;bunbungirl&lt;/a&gt;'s word for it because I don't understand a word since it's in japanese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there is the universal internet-esperanto called youtube and thanks to that i learned a lot about how to correctly eat sushi in japan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ruh0TJJopn8&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ruh0TJJopn8&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;PS: And if you took that movie seriously then I might just have some iphone movies to sell for you ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-4283986048893817418?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/4283986048893817418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=4283986048893817418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4283986048893817418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4283986048893817418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-eat-sushi-japanese-way.html' title='How to eat sushi the japanese way'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-748135773767793231</id><published>2008-05-06T16:02:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T02:20:56.084+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Bamboo Blade</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=6576"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SCBr2JAaZkI/AAAAAAAAAJY/h_VbmgNKGA0/s1600-h/group.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SCBr2JAaZkI/AAAAAAAAAJY/h_VbmgNKGA0/s400/group.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197272547860309570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Original release by Huzzah-Doremi&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Bamboo Blade can be safely tagged with sports and slice-of-life. It's all about Kendo and the cute girls practicing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;One sentence summary (OSS):&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Enthusiastic kendo captain chick and broke laid-back teacher dude gather promising members for their school's kendo-club who develop their personalities and relations while practicing kendo."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn't get any deeper than that, but it's still a pleasant way of spending your time on the train. The girls are cute, their personalities develop adequately, the fighting scenes are ok (it's kendo, which is incredibly boring to watch), the animation and art decent, the humor warm and fitting and each character gets their own slice of screen time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SCBsXpAaZlI/AAAAAAAAAJg/ouXbnuu4vPk/s1600-h/bamboo-blade-01b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SCBsXpAaZlI/AAAAAAAAAJg/ouXbnuu4vPk/s320/bamboo-blade-01b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197273123385927250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The series becomes involutarily funny thanks to the subs, although the subbers can't be blamed for that. But it somehow makes you grin when little girls in kendo gear and bamboo blades are screaming for "men" on the top of their voice. :D&lt;br /&gt;I'll leave you to find out for yourself why they do, but I can assure you that it's not because they are sexually starved or such.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SCBtVpAaZnI/AAAAAAAAAJw/9L1Xvs4TTFA/s1600-h/2145648908_3f92cc57db.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SCBtVpAaZnI/AAAAAAAAAJw/9L1Xvs4TTFA/s200/2145648908_3f92cc57db.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197274188537816690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; Everything is safe. I swear! They might cry for men but they don't really mean it. The only instance where conservative parents might get red ears while explaining things is the behaviour of a girl-stalking girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Nothing special, nothing spectacular. 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Get it now !).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;When assuming that all current leechers will finish their downloads, we get a total of 4664 completed downloads.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;This amounts to 18458,67 GB of data - or over 18 terabytes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's pretty impressive. Imagine a PC filled with 37 500gb harddrives and you can picture the amount of data we are talking about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I'll show you the reason why the inventor of bittorrent has earned his place in bit-heaven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;I'm seeding with 50 kb/s max. This means I need about 5 hours and 30 minutes to upload just 1 GB.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Without bittorrent or similiar p2p techniques you'd have to rely on a traditional fileserver.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you'd want to download 18 TB of data (i.e. 18458,37gb) from a 50 kb/s fileserver, you'd have to leech for 102548,14 hours. That's more than 11 years of constant leeching instead of the elapsed two months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Effective speed advantage:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;   Bittorrent : Fileserver&lt;br /&gt;70 : 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And thats not even considering that I don't &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a)&lt;/span&gt; constantly seed and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;b)&lt;/span&gt; I'm leeching (and thus seeding) other stuff myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the punchline ?&lt;br /&gt;Well, I gave you 11 years worth of downloads (ok, i admit the thousands of downloaders helped a little, too), so the least you can do is seed what you leeched !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you tend to keep the downloaded stuff then please occasionally check the &lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/g.php?g=422"&gt;seeding status&lt;/a&gt; of my torrents and help seeding when you find an active torrent with zero seeds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6842309471104049255?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6842309471104049255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6842309471104049255' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6842309471104049255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6842309471104049255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/number-crunching.html' title='Number crunching'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-4238383688706080969</id><published>2008-04-21T22:33:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T17:20:16.258+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?returnto=%2Fg.php%3Fg%3D422&amp;amp;id=6009"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA0eE0NSV3I/AAAAAAAAAIM/PgnKLH4PVUA/s1600-h/Yawaragold.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA0eE0NSV3I/AAAAAAAAAIM/PgnKLH4PVUA/s400/Yawaragold.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191839013510731634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Original release by &lt;span class="index"&gt;MasterDark, FrothBite, LiveEvil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA0ZDENSV2I/AAAAAAAAAIE/0lB34di5p_w/s1600-h/yawara04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA0ZDENSV2I/AAAAAAAAAIE/0lB34di5p_w/s200/yawara04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191833485887821666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Synopsis &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(taken from &lt;a href="http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=481"&gt;t.h.e.m. anime reviews&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inokuma Yawara is a fairly typical girl. Average looking, easy-going, loves boy bands. You know the type. Unfortunately for her, her grandfather, Inokuma Jigoro, wants her to take up the family tradition of judo, and Yawara just happens to be extremely talented at it. So, despite her protestations, Jigoro sets her up as the rising star of the sport, and Yawara must train for her ultimate goal - the Summer Olympics in Barcelona.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a pretty old series. It looks old and it feels old. Just imagine an anime heroine whose greatest wish is to become a housewife. Very very old. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it has it's charms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5fgJAaZbI/AAAAAAAAAIU/mJ3G1QHhKgw/s1600-h/JudoBigGuy.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5fgJAaZbI/AAAAAAAAAIU/mJ3G1QHhKgw/s200/JudoBigGuy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192192426182862258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is basically a sports anime. Sports anime are usually a big turnoff for me unless it's martial arts. Ok, judo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; counted among martial arts but it's not as spectacular as Kung-Fu, Tae-Kwon-Do, Boxing (check out Hajime no Ippo) or anything else. And let's face it: The heroine doesn't look like your typical martial arts hero. It's a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;typical&lt;/span&gt; small japanese girl you'll never spot in a crowd of modern girl protagonists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if the visuals ain't bad enough, her character is the perfect companion to her unspectacular looks (check the synopsis above). The only thing about her breaking the norms is her talent for judo, which was honed to perfection by her grandfather. She easily throws opponents many times her weight, choke-holds guys with arms larger than her tighs and absentmindedly wins tournaments she didn't even plan on going to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5hQZAaZeI/AAAAAAAAAIo/1JQXAlIOdWM/s1600-h/vlcsnap-226893.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5hQZAaZeI/AAAAAAAAAIo/1JQXAlIOdWM/s320/vlcsnap-226893.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192194354623178210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She does in fact hate judo. This doesn't stop her grandfather from manipulating her and everyone else from into aquiring a rival, making headlines in sports newspapers and going to even more tournaments - all in order to win a gold medal at the olympics to boost is super-sized ego.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And thats the gist of the story. Yawara doesn't want to do judo but her grandfather tricks her into doing it. Yaware quits judo and feels compelled to continue. Then she threatens to quit and relents. Then she really quits and returns. Repeat from start. This pattern follows you throughout the whole series or at least the parts that I watched - but I can make an educated guess for the rest of the episodes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5hc5AaZfI/AAAAAAAAAIw/LxRzeioZfDo/s1600-h/vlcsnap-228778.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5hc5AaZfI/AAAAAAAAAIw/LxRzeioZfDo/s200/vlcsnap-228778.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192194569371543026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Another recurring pattern is her petty rival (which was created by Jigoro, her grandfather) who constantly challenges her in competitions Yaware ain't even interested in, her awkward romances with a womanizer (although she manages to be oblivious to that for the whole series, specials included), her other romance with a sports reporter - a romance both vehemently deny and the constant manipulations by Jigoro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By my estimate the plot is good enough for 26 episodes but they stretched it to a whopping 124. They managed this by &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; doing it the Naruto way (which is recycling 5 minutes of old episodes for flashbacks in every bloody episode). They did it by making tiny little sidestories. Slices of life. Yawara making out, meeting friends, going to highschool, deciding for club activitesm etc. . In short: Soap opera anime style.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5h5JAaZhI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5TbHLxuV9bs/s1600-h/vlcsnap-228343.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5h5JAaZhI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5TbHLxuV9bs/s320/vlcsnap-228343.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192195054702847506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like I said, it has it's charms but it can certainly become boring if you value a more plot driven entertainment. Nevertheless I found myself watching one episode after another on my ipod, even though I had plenty of alternatives. And even now, while I'm writing these lines, I haven't got a clue why I continued watching a visually unappealing, boring, old, repetetive and predictable series to the end. Must be the charm I mentioned before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5g_pAaZcI/AAAAAAAAAIc/vBWxeyzWXpM/s1600-h/Panties.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0px 10px 10pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5g_pAaZcI/AAAAAAAAAIc/vBWxeyzWXpM/s200/Panties.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192194066860369346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; The show opens with a big fat pantyshot. You'll occasionally see Yawara in her underwear. You'll also see her throwing people around, but they either earned it or are sports opponents. This show ain't about sex or violence and you won't get any apart from what I mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Old fashioned sports anime without many merits. Slice-of-life anime, but with so many slices that you'll get the whole pie. Charming, but you have to try for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5hsJAaZgI/AAAAAAAAAI4/fpIPC9DVBHA/s1600-h/Img212015208.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA5hsJAaZgI/AAAAAAAAAI4/fpIPC9DVBHA/s200/Img212015208.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192194831364548098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Small note:&lt;/span&gt; This release has 57 episodes plus two "Special" episodes. The whole series ran over 124 episodes, though, so you might think that you'll miss most of the story. However, from what I've seen from the series it doesn't look like you'll miss too much storywise. What you get is the whole beginning of the series, the early tournaments, the introduction of her main friends / rivals, and a glimpse into Yawara's high school years. You'll also get the conclusion of the series (that's what the special episodes are), so you basically get the whole package.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Trivia: &lt;/span&gt;Yawara has a real life counterpart by the name of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryoko_Tani"&gt;Ryoko Tani&lt;/a&gt;, although Yawara wasn't inspired by her. The manga ran from  1986 to 1993 with the anime in between. 1992 she won olympic silver in Barcelona (although Jigoro wanted the Barcelona gold for Yawara), silver in 1996 Atlanta and gold in every competition she participated in afterwards. She is now and forever stuck with the nickname "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Yawara-Chan&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMA9nyNMr1s&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMA9nyNMr1s&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-4238383688706080969?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/4238383688706080969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=4238383688706080969' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4238383688706080969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4238383688706080969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/yawara-fashionable-judo-girl.html' title='Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SA0eE0NSV3I/AAAAAAAAAIM/PgnKLH4PVUA/s72-c/Yawaragold.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-1213770897982872134</id><published>2008-04-16T21:56:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T13:01:57.426+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manga'/><title type='text'>Ultimate Hentai Kamen [manga]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=5851"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.empornium.us/details.php?cat=30&amp;amp;id=217315"&gt;or here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www1.puretna.com/details.php?id=196303"&gt;or here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZb7l_TMaI/AAAAAAAAAHM/m4Io1y-B2KA/s1600-h/hentai_kamen_v01_cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZb7l_TMaI/AAAAAAAAAHM/m4Io1y-B2KA/s400/hentai_kamen_v01_cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189936699959095714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Volumes 1-6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/icomics-iphone-manga-reader.html"&gt;Don't forget to install iComic first !&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First things first: THIS IS NOT HENTAI. THIS ALSO IS NOT YAOI (google it if you don't know what that means. Afterwards wash your eyes with soap) .&lt;br /&gt;Hmm ... sounds familiar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZi0V_TMdI/AAAAAAAAAHk/N67WPAkI68s/s1600-h/hentai_kamen_v02.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZi0V_TMdI/AAAAAAAAAHk/N67WPAkI68s/s400/hentai_kamen_v02.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189944271986438610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Despite having the word 'hentai' in the title and having a ... unique cover, this manga is really not hentai. You won't find the business end of our hero get stuck in places where you might expect it to be. And you'll also never see his family jewels breathing fresh air, so all you homophobes relax and enjoy this ridiculous parody on the japanese superhero genre (power rangers and stuff).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZkBV_TMeI/AAAAAAAAAHs/bufn6nsPf1M/s1600-h/hentaikamen.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZkBV_TMeI/AAAAAAAAAHs/bufn6nsPf1M/s200/hentaikamen.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189945594836365794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our protagonist Kyousuke is your &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;relatively&lt;/span&gt; normal japanese high school student with karate training. But whenever he does what apparently too many japanese men do - sticking his nose into girls panties - he gains SUPERPOWERS !!!&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, once he wears panties on his face, he becomes the invincible superhero &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hentai Kamen&lt;/span&gt;. Using his superhuman strength and his power over ropes, he effortlessly overpowers his enemies, bondages- er, bonds them and finishes them off with a steel hard attack of his groin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say that most criminals are not exactly happy to fall prey to Hentai Kamen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sums the main characteristics of the manga up pretty well. Sure, there is story around, too, but you won't remember Ultimate Hentai Kamen for it's touching love story or it's diverse and detailed characters (because they ain't) - no, you'll remember it for the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;groin attack of justice &lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZnQl_TMgI/AAAAAAAAAH8/GpEFOosBirw/s1600-h/hentai_kamen_badge2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZnQl_TMgI/AAAAAAAAAH8/GpEFOosBirw/s200/hentai_kamen_badge2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189949155364254210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex&amp;amp;Violence&lt;/span&gt;: What do &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; think ? No hentai, but if you have kids then this manga is the best way to generate unusual behaviour patterns in them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; This is probably the pinnacle of ridiculeness in japanese mangas, so that alone is worth picking this one up. Don't let yourself get caught reading this in public, though. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-1213770897982872134?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/1213770897982872134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=1213770897982872134' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/1213770897982872134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/1213770897982872134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/ultimate-hentai-kamen-manga.html' title='Ultimate Hentai Kamen [manga]'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAZb7l_TMaI/AAAAAAAAAHM/m4Io1y-B2KA/s72-c/hentai_kamen_v01_cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-7252775681930288518</id><published>2008-04-16T16:43:00.013+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T17:34:26.103+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iphone apps'/><title type='text'>iComics - The iPhone Manga Reader Installation Guide</title><content type='html'>Use your iPhone/iPod Touch as portable manga reader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normally you'd expect that it should be a piece of cake. After all, the iphone has an excellent picture viewer and transferring pictures to and from the iPhone is supported by iTunes ... but for some arcane reason all pictures get scaled down - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;optimized &lt;/span&gt;- for out favorite handheld device. Good enough for pictures but it's nearly impossible to read anything these converted manga pages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happily there are other solutions, all requiring you to jailbreak your iphone. The second method I tried was using the browser application as picture viewer. This worked pretty good, but it's too complicated to realize in a hurry: You'd have to install a webserver on your iphone and write a script to generate html-files for each picture of a manga. After copying them to the iphone's site directory I was able to browse the manga at localhost, which worked pretty well in good quality and quite comfortably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, it's simply easier using a dedicated program for just that purpose: &lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/iphonecomic/"&gt;iComic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the following paragraphs I'll steer you through the tedious process of getting that thing to run on your iPhone/iPod touch, which isn't always as unproblematic as one might hope.&lt;br /&gt;I used this method on the following system configuration:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Windows XP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;iTunes 7.6.2.9&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ZiPhoneWin 3.0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Mobile device&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;iPod Touch 16gb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Firmware 1.1.4&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;iComic 0.10&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jailbreak your iPhone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To do this, download the best jailbreaker from ZiPhone at his homepage: &lt;a href="http://www.ziphone.org/"&gt;http://www.ziphone.org/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Don't worry, it's pretty comfortable these days. See a video on CNET with a live jailbreak: &lt;a href="http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-50001833.html"&gt;http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-50001833.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Prepare your jailbroken iPod.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAYaOl_TMWI/AAAAAAAAAGs/prgxGjSvQKQ/s1600-h/installer.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10pt 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAYaOl_TMWI/AAAAAAAAAGs/prgxGjSvQKQ/s200/installer.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189864458609176930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This means installing software using the newly installed installer application. Enable WiFi, Edge or whatever for Internet connection.  Tap on the installer icon. This might take a while, since the installer will scan the net for new programs to install. The first thing we have to do is to enable access to the iPod's file system. If you're afraid of doing so then kiss iComic goodbye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAYmcl_TMXI/AAAAAAAAAG0/2a2cTHUeUj8/s1600-h/tapinstall.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAYmcl_TMXI/AAAAAAAAAG0/2a2cTHUeUj8/s200/tapinstall.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189877893266878834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tap 'Install' on the bottom panel. The software repository is organized in categories and i'll just list the categories and applications you'll need:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;System -&gt; BSD Subsystem&lt;br /&gt;Unix tools for the iPhone. Needed for ssh.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;System -&gt; OpenSSH&lt;br /&gt;Allows remote access&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Network -&gt; Pure-FTPd&lt;br /&gt;If you prefer FTP to ssh, then use this app instead of OpenSSH and BSD. I have both, so no worries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Utilities -&gt; BossPrefs&lt;br /&gt;A system management app. Allows you to enable/disable ssh, ftp and other services. Pretty much a hub for system settings.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;This is pretty much all you need for preparation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Install iComic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAYmq1_TMYI/AAAAAAAAAG8/v-u851qEJmo/s1600-h/tapsource.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAYmq1_TMYI/AAAAAAAAAG8/v-u851qEJmo/s200/tapsource.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189878138080014722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There are several ways to do this but I'll only cover the installer version. If you want to do it manually, &lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/iphonecomic/"&gt;download the latest version&lt;/a&gt; from the author and good luck to you.&lt;br /&gt;Enter the installer again. This time tap on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sources&lt;/span&gt;. Then tap on 'Edit' in the top right corner, followed by 'Add' in the top left.&lt;br /&gt;Enter this string:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;http://hpcgi3.nifty.com/moyashi/ipodtouch/repository.cgi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wait for the update. After that you can install iComic:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Multimedia -&gt; iComic (1.1.3)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Ignore the 1.1.2 version unless you have the 1.1.2 firmware installed. iComic 1.1.3 works with both 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 firmware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Install ssh/ftp file-transfer software &lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Since we provided the iPod with ssh/ftp access, you'll need a program on you PC to actually chuck them over. My recommendation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://winscp.net/eng/download.php"&gt;WinSCP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I don't know any good Mac Programs. Drop me a note and I'll add one.&lt;br /&gt;Download the software and install then start it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Connect to iPod and Transfer files&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Start BossPrefs. You should see a SSH or FTP trigger right from the start. If not, enable it in the 'Config' menu in the upper left. Enable SSH/FTP and WiFi.&lt;br /&gt;Switch to your SSH client (e.g. WinSCP) and create a new connection. Fill in these values:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Host name: [your iPod IP] e.g. 192.168.2.150&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Protocol: SCP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Port: 22&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Username: root&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Password: alpine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;For some reason, I sometimes have problems connecting with a preset password. If you have the same problem, erase the password and just type it manually when prompted. Save and connect.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Enable english language&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use WinSCP to navigate to the installation path of the iComic application:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;/Applications/iComic&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;You'll find a few files and a subfolder named "Japanese.lproj". Rename or remove the "Localizable.strings"-file inside that folder and the iComic application will default to english language. Alternatively you can enter the folder and translate the "Localizable.strings" file to your language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Copy Manga to the correct target folder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Emphasis on &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;correct.&lt;/span&gt; Depending on the iComic and firmware version the target folder for comics are at different locations.&lt;br /&gt;For iComic 0.10 (1.1.3) the correct folder is at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;/var/mobile/Media/Comic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;For older versions the path was&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;/var/root/Media/Comic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Create the folder if it doesn't exist yet. Enter the folder and then simply copy zip-archives with pictures into it. You can even organize it by creating subfolders.&lt;br /&gt;Note that all mangas have to be zipped and all pictures inside the zip have to be either &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;jpg,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;png &lt;/span&gt;or &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;gif&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Start iComic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Everything should work fine now.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;iComic&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;has many options to tweak, so look inside and experiment.  Personally, I prefer flipping pages with the "invisible buttons" although I don't know if they are supposed to be invisible or if that's just a bug.&lt;br /&gt;Enable "Button Page Slide" in the settings menu and then you'll be able to navigate like shown in the picture.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAY2eF_TMZI/AAAAAAAAAHE/wv449KI4RhY/s1600-h/icomic.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAY2eF_TMZI/AAAAAAAAAHE/wv449KI4RhY/s400/icomic.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189895511222727058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;That's it.&lt;br /&gt;I'll think about releasing iphone ready mangas but most mangas already are. You just have to stuff the images in a zip and you are done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[update]&lt;br /&gt;I case you encounter difficulties you might want to discuss it in some forums. Try these for help:&lt;br /&gt;* &lt;a href="http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/native-iphone-ipod-touch-app-launches/20955-icomic-manga-reader.html"&gt;http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/native-iphone-ipod-touch-app-launches/20955-icomic-manga-reader.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* &lt;a href="http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23759"&gt;http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23759&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mention my site ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-7252775681930288518?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/7252775681930288518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=7252775681930288518' title='32 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7252775681930288518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7252775681930288518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/icomics-iphone-manga-reader.html' title='iComics - The iPhone Manga Reader Installation Guide'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAYaOl_TMWI/AAAAAAAAAGs/prgxGjSvQKQ/s72-c/installer.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>32</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-2971874997195956747</id><published>2008-04-12T18:20:00.022+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.834+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>The Twelve Kingdoms - Juuni Kokki - 12 Kokuki</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=5712&amp;amp;uploaded=1"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEVo1_TMJI/AAAAAAAAAFM/nscaNvqt6mI/s1600-h/12kingdoms-01_1024_768.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEVo1_TMJI/AAAAAAAAAFM/nscaNvqt6mI/s400/12kingdoms-01_1024_768.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188452037139050642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Original release by Kick Ass Anime [KAA]&lt;br /&gt;--------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEX6F_TMKI/AAAAAAAAAFU/CcT47henjHw/s1600-h/1170487238_12kngdm16gm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEX6F_TMKI/AAAAAAAAAFU/CcT47henjHw/s200/1170487238_12kngdm16gm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188454532515049634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=840"&gt;The Twelve Kingdoms&lt;/a&gt; is another example of the popular schoolgirl-in-another-world genre, like &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=178"&gt;Fushigi Yuugi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=38"&gt;Magic Knight Rayearth&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16"&gt;El Hazard&lt;/a&gt; - just to name a few examples without even trying. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away"&gt;Spirited away&lt;/a&gt; is probably the most recent and well known movie in that category. I suppose the japanese &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;really &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;love&lt;/span&gt; Alice in Wonderland (which was made into an anime by 1983 under the name of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fushigi_no_Kuni_no_Alice"&gt;Fushigi no Kuni no Alice&lt;/a&gt;, by the way).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Twelve Kingdoms is doubtlessly the best of it's genre by far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story starts rather &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ordinary&lt;/span&gt;  - for a given amount of ordinary: Youko Nakajima (the schoolgirl) get's a visit from a strange man in the middle of her classroom, asking her to accept his protection. Shortly after some monster attacks (which &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; rather unusual for modern tokyo), she and some classmates find themselves in another world resembling ancient imperial china. Alone, without resources or guidance, they struggle for survival in a land full of youma (commonly translated as demons, but it's better if you just think of them as &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;youma&lt;/span&gt;), hanjou (were-beasts who are regarded as secend class people), and people wanting to kill them just for being &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Kaikyaku's&lt;/span&gt; - people from another world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEaV1_TMNI/AAAAAAAAAFs/pWdzdf8pkUQ/s1600-h/rakushun_i.gif.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEaV1_TMNI/AAAAAAAAAFs/pWdzdf8pkUQ/s200/rakushun_i.gif.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188457208279675090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The first story - let's call it the Story of Youko - proceeds rather straightforward. Youko explores the world and grows from a terrified crybaby into a frightened girl - which is a greater difference than it sounds like. She learns that the mysterious man who whisked here away was a kirin - a holy '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;beast' &lt;/span&gt;resembling a unicorn&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;and the reason she was brought here and learns to accept her destiny and strifes to fulfill it - which is to become emperor of one of the twelve kingdoms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In later story arcs something quite unusual happens: The story shifts completely away from the main character to explore the life of Taiki, a black kirin, Suzu, another Kaikyaku from Japan 80 years before Youko was even born, and Shoukei, a princess of another kingdom. With the shift of characters, the mood and focus also shifts in a rather dark and oppressive direction, adding more depth to the series than the early schoolgirl episodes might have suggested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEbNF_TMQI/AAAAAAAAAGE/oPUNw1Lc0jY/s1600-h/kingyxh9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEbNF_TMQI/AAAAAAAAAGE/oPUNw1Lc0jY/s320/kingyxh9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188458157467447554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEakl_TMOI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5jGxa06W0lc/s1600-h/12-map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEakl_TMOI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5jGxa06W0lc/s200/12-map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188457461682745570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The whole series is 45 episodes long and the Story of Youko is just one of several stories in the land of the twelve kingdoms - even though it's the longest story arc. And the revisit of her story in a later arc is full of twists, intrigue and action enough for a whole season - and yet it spins all the threads &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; the loose ends of prior storylines together into a finely woven tapestry - minus the Story of  Taiki, which was kindly pointed out to me. See the comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In terms of character growth you'll be hard pressed to find a finer example than that of Youko. You'll see her develop from a timid little girl into a hardened, awe inspiring woman - and you'll stay with her every step of the way. Likewise, many of the supporting cast do a similar transformation - namely Shoukei and Suzu - making the series more believable than any other you can name (ignoring the fact the demons roam the land, some god appointing emperors via flying unicorns who live in castles on mountains higher than the sky, which is actually a flying ocean. And ignoring the layout of the land that looks like it was made with a level editor for Civilization 4).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEe7V_TMVI/AAAAAAAAAGk/B--_qBqgciU/s1600-h/Minitokyo.Anime.Wallpapers.Twelve.Kingdoms_94811.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEe7V_TMVI/AAAAAAAAAGk/B--_qBqgciU/s200/Minitokyo.Anime.Wallpapers.Twelve.Kingdoms_94811.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188462250571280722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The art is decent and the characters are very distinguishable, with detailed and sometimes elaborate clothing. The backgrounds are ok, although they can't compare to the lush scenes found in Serei no Moribito - which is understandable given the age difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The music is perfect. The orchestra merges western classical and traditional chinese instruments and performs pieces of a similar stylistic mix. The result fits the series like a glove and rises well above the status of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;background music&lt;/span&gt;. Even the ending theme - a steady guitar piece - is great, sporting a quite uniquely distorted electic guitar and sung with a full, warm voice. And because the music is so great, I included it in this torrent - iphone ready, of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEdlF_TMTI/AAAAAAAAAGU/rzIh8R8Uxj8/s1600-h/cuties.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEdlF_TMTI/AAAAAAAAAGU/rzIh8R8Uxj8/s200/cuties.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188460768807563570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; violence:&lt;/span&gt; The series starts like a typical action adventure fantasy anime with the usual violence level. It  never comes to a point where violence get's out of hand to appeal to the gore-loving audience, but it becomes a bit disturbing, even if most of the violence takes place in your mind (imagine a small girl walked to it's execution with her seeing scores of people beheaded before her until it's her turn to die). However, those afraid of sex can relax, because despite a good batch of cuties the most flesh you'll see will be from guys with sleeveless shirts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEeGF_TMUI/AAAAAAAAAGc/nCuj1Lvu5BQ/s1600-h/02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEeGF_TMUI/AAAAAAAAAGc/nCuj1Lvu5BQ/s200/02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188461335743246658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion: &lt;/span&gt;This is  the greatest fantasy adventure anime you'll ever watch. The setting is truly original but the action stays down-to-earth inside the fantasy context. The plot is epic and never feels constructed like so many plots do. You'll never get the feeling that someone was just killed so the character is suitably shocked and motivated. It feels like something just happens - and you are there to watch it happen. There is a world out there, and you get to explore it with Youko, Suzu and all the others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PS: &lt;/span&gt;Since the story takes place in another world, you'll stumble upon a whole lot of new words and names that are hard to recognize, so I either recommend taking notes &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(what was a kirin again?)&lt;/span&gt; or have a cheat sheet ready. &lt;a href="http://www.clho.net/anime/anime.php?anime=160#enc"&gt;This site&lt;/a&gt; has many background information and a useful "Encyclopedia" without spoilers. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YsFuyTDsnhw&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YsFuyTDsnhw&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-2971874997195956747?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/2971874997195956747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=2971874997195956747' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2971874997195956747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2971874997195956747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/twelve-kingdoms-juuni-kokki-12-kokuki.html' title='The Twelve Kingdoms - Juuni Kokki - 12 Kokuki'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/SAEVo1_TMJI/AAAAAAAAAFM/nscaNvqt6mI/s72-c/12kingdoms-01_1024_768.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-6546221811631952567</id><published>2008-04-09T01:01:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.834+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Seirei no Moribito - Guardian of the Sacred Spirit</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?returnto=%2Fg.php%3Fg%3D422&amp;amp;id=5622"&gt;Download now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_v62eAe4KI/AAAAAAAAAEM/_LJoniRVXFY/s1600-h/seireinomoribito.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_v62eAe4KI/AAAAAAAAAEM/_LJoniRVXFY/s400/seireinomoribito.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187015209522225314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Original release by Anime-Kraze&lt;br /&gt;-----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zHCuAe4MI/AAAAAAAAAEc/pif0WcXAHBw/s1600-h/Minitokyo.Anime.Wallpapers.Seirei.no.Moribito_309793.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zHCuAe4MI/AAAAAAAAAEc/pif0WcXAHBw/s200/Minitokyo.Anime.Wallpapers.Seirei.no.Moribito_309793.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187239720347689154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Seirei no Moribito takes place in a country resembling ancient korea or china, ruled by an benevolent emperor (as far as ancient emperors go). Balsa - a highly capable spear wielding warrioress - witnessed how the emperor's youngest son fell from a bridge into a raging river and jumped in to save him. Just when it seemed that they would both be crushed by floating debris, a mysterious force surrounds her and the prince, preventing them from being crushed. Whatever this force is, the astrologer-historians of the imperial court determine, that this force comes from a spirit inside the prince and will destroy the empire, unless killed itself. Thus the benevolent emperor orders to have his son killed (but he feels bad about it) while Balsa is hired by the empress to protect his life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zKaeAe4QI/AAAAAAAAAE8/JHWOMBXBoPE/s1600-h/s1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zKaeAe4QI/AAAAAAAAAE8/JHWOMBXBoPE/s200/s1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187243426904465666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is a pseudo-earth fantasy series , although without elves, orcs and similar. It features spirits and shamans and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"the other world"&lt;/span&gt; though, paying homage to asian folklore. Despite the mystical elements, the action moves along pretty realistical lines. The protagonists are human and the combat is within human levels, meaning there are no special moves or other superhuman feats with the exception of some displays of shamanic magic. But despite that, the action scenes are highly captivating due to the smooth animation and convincing choreography.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zKzOAe4RI/AAAAAAAAAFE/HxHTE_mbwuU/s1600-h/s2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zKzOAe4RI/AAAAAAAAAFE/HxHTE_mbwuU/s200/s2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187243852106227986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The characters themselves are detailed, convincing and grow as the story progresses. The character design is a bit unusual for this kind of story, but it's a good thing, really. E.g. Balsa is a beautiful but muscular and battle-scarred woman in her late twenties - as opposed to the usual 16 year old warrior schoolgirls that seem so popular in shonen type animes. Chagum - the young prince - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; used to a spoiled palace life, but he is neither arrogant, demeaning nor imperious - he's rather lost without his mama. Neither are the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"bad guys"&lt;/span&gt; simply evil - but that is nearly a standard feature of many animes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zGdOAe4LI/AAAAAAAAAEU/Bp0xYAmqFQY/s1600-h/47969751.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zGdOAe4LI/AAAAAAAAAEU/Bp0xYAmqFQY/s320/47969751.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187239076102594738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The visual art is beautiful and detailed, making a feast for the eyes at times. Trees inside a forest, little cracks in cliff walls, dust whirled up by galloping horses - you can see the effort the studio made in creating this. The music accompanies the series well but doesn't stand out, producing no memorable songs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zJl-Ae4OI/AAAAAAAAAEs/0pVC1aMVWsI/s1600-h/balsa+nude.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0px 10px 1pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_zJl-Ae4OI/AAAAAAAAAEs/0pVC1aMVWsI/s200/balsa+nude.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187242524961333474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex&amp;amp;Violence:&lt;/span&gt; Pornwise, no sane person should be able to find anything objectionable. There are plenty of battles and even though Balsa takes great efforts to not kill anyone, the same doesn't apply to others. Even so, every battle is firmly embedded in the story and not just inside for the sake of action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Great anime with a captivating story, a couple of plot twists and solid action. It's a bit &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;toned down&lt;/span&gt; when compared to your usual action flicks and it probably appeals more to an elder audience - or a more demanding one. If you prefer romance to panty shots and martial arts to big fucking fireballs, then you have found the right series. Highly recommended !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-HMh8TmRNIM&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-HMh8TmRNIM&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-6546221811631952567?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/6546221811631952567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=6546221811631952567' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6546221811631952567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/6546221811631952567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/seirei-no-moribito.html' title='Seirei no Moribito - Guardian of the Sacred Spirit'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_v62eAe4KI/AAAAAAAAAEM/_LJoniRVXFY/s72-c/seireinomoribito.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-3228501251356509979</id><published>2008-04-06T18:44:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.835+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Vexille 2077</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?returnto=%2Fg.php%3Fg%3D422&amp;amp;id=5573"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;   &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kKguAe4FI/AAAAAAAAADg/1SGh0PLrYE4/s1600-h/vexille01.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kKguAe4FI/AAAAAAAAADg/1SGh0PLrYE4/s400/vexille01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186188003115982930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Original release: Dodgy&lt;br /&gt;-----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kKnOAe4GI/AAAAAAAAADo/pM3oTujSl_M/s1600-h/7318394649.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kKnOAe4GI/AAAAAAAAADo/pM3oTujSl_M/s200/7318394649.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186188114785132642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Vexille 2077 is a CGI science fiction anime of the pessimistic kind. Japan has decided to isolate iself from the world - again - because of disputes over the ethics behind several applications of robotic technology (and probably even more disputes over whale hunting for &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;scientific &lt;/span&gt;research). Because Japan didn't want to let ethics stop them from doing what they want - again - they terminated foreign relations and built electronic countermeasures that prevents all kinds of surveilance, barring even satellites from peeking inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kK0-Ae4HI/AAAAAAAAADw/MdxeLgeHrEU/s1600-h/vexille_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kK0-Ae4HI/AAAAAAAAADw/MdxeLgeHrEU/s200/vexille_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186188351008333938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A hi-tec special-ops called S.W.O.R.D. launches a strike team on behalf of the US government to infiltrate fortress japan because of very well-grounded suspicions, that Japan's secret technologic advances will pose a threat to the world very soon. One of the special agents is a woman named Vexille, which explains the name of the movie - however, no explanation for name of the woman is given, so I'm left to assume that the authors named her for the sound of it, or that the french translation "flag" has a deeper meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kK8OAe4II/AAAAAAAAAD4/cMmdAZa7q2Q/s1600-h/070326_vexille_sub1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kK8OAe4II/AAAAAAAAAD4/cMmdAZa7q2Q/s200/070326_vexille_sub1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186188475562385538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Anyway, the movie starts with solid action, moves on into a dystopian nightmare and finishes with more action and a finale that should give japanese the creeps. The art is an eyecatcher, the robots and battlesuits look really good, the battles are nicely done and show off the advantages of CGI animes. The characters are a bit flat but the story is a new twist to an often told story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kLVuAe4JI/AAAAAAAAAEA/ripVsQr5vAc/s1600-h/4141582751.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kLVuAe4JI/AAAAAAAAAEA/ripVsQr5vAc/s200/4141582751.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186188913649049746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence: &lt;/span&gt;Plenty of violence but no naughtyness I can remember. The total bodycount effectively reaches millions and the background story is fit to cause depressions.  Kinda like Matrix without the funny stuff and the cool characters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion: &lt;/span&gt;Nice  action flick, not more - not less. Entertaining and thrilling and visually astounding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oK6UwzLSQwk&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oK6UwzLSQwk&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-3228501251356509979?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/3228501251356509979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=3228501251356509979' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3228501251356509979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3228501251356509979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/vexille-2077.html' title='Vexille 2077'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_kKguAe4FI/AAAAAAAAADg/1SGh0PLrYE4/s72-c/vexille01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-3841178268580924880</id><published>2008-04-04T23:14:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.835+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Moyashimon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=5548&amp;amp;uploaded=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Download here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fHGuAe4CI/AAAAAAAAADI/3wBJgFzVUgA/s1600-h/moyashimon-1b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fHGuAe4CI/AAAAAAAAADI/3wBJgFzVUgA/s400/moyashimon-1b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185832414183612450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Original release by BSS&lt;br /&gt;-------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fHguAe4DI/AAAAAAAAADQ/24YAItZHzYs/s1600-h/post-318011-1193371749.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fHguAe4DI/AAAAAAAAADQ/24YAItZHzYs/s200/post-318011-1193371749.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185832860860211250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Another campus comedy, only this time it's not about beautiful music but yucky bacteria. Sawaki is a first year student at an agricultural university on the outskirts of Tokyo, who has a unique ability: He can see microbes with his bare eyes. It's not a mutant power great enough to scare Magneto, but it's valuable nonetheless, something his sempai Hasegawa - a hot goth babe (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; loli goth) - readily points out by comparing him to a high-tech electron microscope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of hot babes, there are two more female main characters: Aoi, unofficial "Miss Agriculture" and UFO-believer, and Hazuki, a freshman obsessed with cleanliness who tends to receive amourus treatments  from directions she doesn't expect. Add somophores obsessed with sake-brewing, loli-goth crossdressers and a professor that enjoys fermented food that reeks worse than rotten cadavers (actually, he even eats those) and you're set up for a truly wacky series. It's a shame it's only 11 episodes long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fHseAe4EI/AAAAAAAAADY/SJ88CX83jvk/s1600-h/Moyashimon+-+08+-+Large+04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fHseAe4EI/AAAAAAAAADY/SJ88CX83jvk/s320/Moyashimon+-+08+-+Large+04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185833062723674178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You'll also be confronted with lots of microbes of the talking kind. Don't expect them to look like real microbes, though. The things are constantly used to explain all kinds of biological processes - and I admit these weird lessons tend to stick. But I somehow doubt that these easy-to-understand explanations will be included in the latest batch of teaching materials - although with japanese you never know ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fGQeAe4BI/AAAAAAAAADA/rwvnB5TqcZE/s1600-h/Moyashimon+-+08+-+Large+28.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fGQeAe4BI/AAAAAAAAADA/rwvnB5TqcZE/s200/Moyashimon+-+08+-+Large+28.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185831482175709202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex&amp;amp;Violence&lt;/span&gt;: Implied, but not shown. No pantyshots or other fanservice apart from the aftermath of a bed scene. You'll also get a good share of implied homosexuality, so everyone can get their fill.&lt;br /&gt;No &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;violent &lt;/span&gt;violence - in fact it's even less violent than Nodame Cantabile since no one is beating up girls for laughs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Funny and lighthearted. I really enjoyed it (just like the creator of Nodame Cantabile, since she drew the moyashimon microbes into a panel of her manga to illustrate how contaminated Nodame's room  can get). Recommended if you like it funny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/to0m-5Off8I&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/to0m-5Off8I&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-3841178268580924880?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/3841178268580924880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=3841178268580924880' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3841178268580924880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3841178268580924880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/04/moyashimon.html' title='Moyashimon'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_fHGuAe4CI/AAAAAAAAADI/3wBJgFzVUgA/s72-c/moyashimon-1b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8841220169242220326</id><published>2008-04-02T23:24:00.017+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.835+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Nodame Cantabile</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=5506"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QaEOAe38I/AAAAAAAAACY/Bh7RLzE_fJ8/s1600-h/nodame2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QaEOAe38I/AAAAAAAAACY/Bh7RLzE_fJ8/s400/nodame2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184797730792202178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Original Release by Froth-Bite, Kanjisub&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QcjOAe4AI/AAAAAAAAAC4/AplubpobMTg/s1600-h/sneaky-nodame.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QcjOAe4AI/AAAAAAAAAC4/AplubpobMTg/s200/sneaky-nodame.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184800462391402498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Megumi Noda - "Nodame" - is a gifted but rather unorthodox piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. She plays by ear rather than by the score and her mood influences her music strongly. She is messy to the point that fungi grow in her appartment, sucks at cooking but excels at eating. She also has a unique way of speaking - or rather exclaiming - ranging from "Gyabo" over "Pugya" to "Mukyo" and other noises I don't understand. In short, she's weird, but funny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her love interest, Shinichi Chiaki, is quite the opposite but equally talented. A top student from a rich family, strict, organized, a master on the piano and the violin, but aiming at becoming a conductor. He also lives in the appartment right next to Nodame, allowing the quirky love story to unfold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QZkeAe37I/AAAAAAAAACQ/telCEItx3sg/s1600-h/nodame1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QZkeAe37I/AAAAAAAAACQ/telCEItx3sg/s200/nodame1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184797185331355570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now, the series could have taken the easy way out, concentrating on the romance and letting the setting provide a background for the story. However, the story nearly takes second place to the true star and protagonist of this show: The Music !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes the music plays in the background, sometimes it's performed by the characters and sometimes the music is the center of attention, merely accompanied by animated pictures that enhance the audio experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mentioned the good music that came with the "Victorian Romance - Emma" series and it's true, it has some beautiful songs. But with Nodame we are not talking about Songs ... we are talking about true masterpieces. Classical music that counts among the greatest achievements of mankind, performed by excellent soloists and orchestras and recorded in high quality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QcOeAe3_I/AAAAAAAAACw/QerqLU0-L-E/s1600-h/nodameviolin-soul.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QcOeAe3_I/AAAAAAAAACw/QerqLU0-L-E/s200/nodameviolin-soul.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184800105909116914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yes, I know, many people find classical music boring (unless it's from a Hollywood movie). And it's true that many pieces are not very memorable, unlike modern songs, which usually focus on one single melody. Classical music is at times hard to ... let's say understand. But this series does it's best to provide everything needed to understand and it manages to bind your attention to a single musical piece for an unusual long amount of time by making the music an important part of the story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QbIuAe3-I/AAAAAAAAACo/imw-WFSFDOc/s1600-h/nodame_cantabile_05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QbIuAe3-I/AAAAAAAAACo/imw-WFSFDOc/s200/nodame_cantabile_05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184798907613241314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This anime will make you enjoy classical music even beyond the series. And even if it doesn't, you're still left with a funny story of two young people finding each other - even if one desperately tries to avoid his fate. The main characters are detailed, likable and grow noticeably over the episodes. The same is true for the support cast, although the complete lack of true antagonists creates a rather relaxed atmosphere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QayuAe39I/AAAAAAAAACg/TIkjo-MAC2k/s1600-h/nodame_cantabile_03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R_QayuAe39I/AAAAAAAAACg/TIkjo-MAC2k/s200/nodame_cantabile_03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184798529656119250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex&amp;amp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Violence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; Nothing objectionable apart from the rather ungentlemanly behaviour Chiaki displays towards Nodame. On the other hand, Nodame doesn't act very ladylike either ... she's rather childlike at times and we all know that children need a good spanking. ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Highly valuable from a pedagogical and cultural point of view. Also highly entertaining of you don't mind the lack of giant robots or half-naked swordswomen. If you're undecided, then I strongly recommend you view at least the first episode, because it's a perfect sample of what awaits you for the rest of the season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PS:  &lt;/span&gt;This series probably has the highest amount of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;OSTs&lt;/span&gt; for 23 episodes ever. 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Of course, it's for their (mankinds) own best. And anyone who violates the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;techno taboo&lt;/span&gt; will get more or less severely punished. I honestly haven't found out what exactly on has to do in order to violate the techno taboo: the heroine for exampel drives around in a gigantic tank piloted by an autonomous AI with more firepower than blackwater - and she apparently has no problems getting munition refills. She also has a mechanized battlesuit that could give Iron Man some pointers, so the techno taboo doesn't seem to be there to make humans more peaceful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R-wfruAe33I/AAAAAAAAABw/xUMKoA0PPOs/s1600-h/third09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R-wfruAe33I/AAAAAAAAABw/xUMKoA0PPOs/s200/third09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182552107141488498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Anyway, the story revolves around said heroine who earns her keep by doing jobs that amount to a modern version of monster hunting - or mercenary work, if you will. She built herself quite a reputation due to her - here comes the stereotype - swordmanship.  She is later occasionally accompanied by the token mysterious stranger, a lesbian school teacher/part-time merc that fell in love with her and a little kid she knew from way back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"OMG, NOT ONE OF THOSE SERIES" you might think. A series where a skilled swordsman (or rather katanagirl) dodges bullets and is inevitably superior to the average machinegun user. Relax, it's not that bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/794/1/5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/794/1/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In fact this series tries very hard to not fit the genre-mold:&lt;br /&gt;While there is plenty of well made action, it doesn't define the show, meaning it's not about rivalry, the daily monster or the latest special-move or power up. Her companions come and go and come again, since they have their own lifes and ain't just two-dimensional sidekicks. Her ability to cut steel with a sword works only because of &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;spoilerspoilerspoilerspoiler&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;and not because swords are usually decent alternatives to grenade launchers and homing missiles.&lt;/span&gt; She doesn't behave like a schoolgirl on vacation in madmaxland and there is no evil overlord madly laughing while escaping or any such crap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You really get the impression that the author wanted to create a world, populated it with life and observed this world for a while before actually starting to write the story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/794/1/19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/794/1/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On the downside, the author's imagination stopped at making a boring desert with a few towns and the regime of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Third&lt;/span&gt;, who spread the occasional unhappyness. They call themselves like that because of their third eye, by the way. The third eye is located on their forehead and is a kind of USB-port of the future, which allows them to interface with all kinds of computers. But honestly, if my fellow übermenschen had such a power, we'd probably name ourselves something cooler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can recommend this anime. It has all the elements that you expect in a science fiction series, convincing and likable characters,  well executed action and even a small storyline. It has it's funny moments, suspense, and mysteries to discover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/794/1/14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://screenshots.fansub.tv/794/1/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex&amp;amp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Violence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; Moderate violence, a moral lead character and no nudity. Some people might object to the horny lesbian teacher/merc, but even she is more interested in a real relationship than in just getting girls into her bed. And besides, anyone who objects to lesbians belongs to the moon. ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Good action without focusing on violence. Fun without slapstick and romance without schoolgirls. Definetly recommended!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yu44YkqS5DI&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yu44YkqS5DI&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-886496090966802961?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/886496090966802961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=886496090966802961' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/886496090966802961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/886496090966802961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/03/third.html' title='The Third'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R-wdI-Ae30I/AAAAAAAAABY/CYmakNBoDUA/s72-c/the+third.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-4857740942475473502</id><published>2008-03-21T14:01:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.836+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Infinite Ryvius</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=5200"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R-PBveAe3zI/AAAAAAAAABI/cWtyfBKE-No/s1600-h/infinite_ryvius_3_1024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R-PBveAe3zI/AAAAAAAAABI/cWtyfBKE-No/s400/infinite_ryvius_3_1024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180197017659301682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Original release by Anime-Kissaten&lt;br /&gt;IRC: #anime-kissaten@efnet&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.armchairempire.com/images/anime/infinite-ryvius/infinite-ryvius-vital-guarder-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.armchairempire.com/images/anime/infinite-ryvius/infinite-ryvius-vital-guarder-4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Space, the final challenge. And the best place to kill hundreds of innocent kids ... after all, that's what governments and the military is there for, no ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess you see where this is going: This is not a cuddly feelgood experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A whole academy of space-service trainees (pilots, stewardesses, cooks, engineers, navigators, etc.) are absolving their curriculum on a training space-station near a space phenomenon called the 'Geduld'. Then suddenly the station start starting uncontrollably into said phenomenon - which would mean certain death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_wOPkE_AeeiU/RvKtuVaukfI/AAAAAAAAAPE/innuQmv3pZ4/s320/Liebe-delta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_wOPkE_AeeiU/RvKtuVaukfI/AAAAAAAAAPE/innuQmv3pZ4/s320/Liebe-delta.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;They manage to survive, of course, and get to board a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mysterious&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; battleship hidden inside their space station. Ignore the stupidity of that - you've seen worse. Completely without any guidance - all teachers are dead and the only adults still on board are the imprisoned guys who tried to kill them in the first place - the students have to figure out how to pilot the ship and how to survive as a group without clear leadership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Powerstruggle ensues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.armchairempire.com/images/anime/infinite-ryvius/infinite-ryvius-vital-guarder-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.armchairempire.com/images/anime/infinite-ryvius/infinite-ryvius-vital-guarder-3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This series is more or less a study on human behaviour. The kids practically haste within months through social structures that the more civilized societies try to avoid like hell. From anarchy to dictatorship to police-state complemented by forced labor and intersected by several revolutions, the kids situation goes from bad to worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, the rest of the earth military actively tries to kill them for no discernible reason, forcing them to learn how to use the ships' weapons and defense systems at breakneck speed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The series really focuses on the crew as a whole, which can be seen by the individual presentation of nearly all of the about 500 surviving students.  Nearly everyone gets some screentime - be it a major role or just a short cameo appearance. This care for details can be seen in nearly every aspect of the series - from the characters, the (bogus) physics, the weapon systems and their limitations, space navigation, the enemies and the art.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much for plot and quality. But how fun is it to watch ?&lt;br /&gt;Well, so-so. It's moderately exciting, the mysterious parts feel rather weird as opposed to enigmatic, the characters are pretty unlikeable, the action is solid and the atmosphere is rather pessimistic. It's not for everyone. Definetly not for the Naruto crowd, but the Evangelion people might take a shine to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.armchairempire.com/images/anime/infinite-ryvius/infinite-ryvius-vol4-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10pt 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.armchairempire.com/images/anime/infinite-ryvius/infinite-ryvius-vol4-3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex&amp;amp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Violence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; Pornwise I didn't see anything offensive. Thematically yes, there are some exacting topics not necessarily fit for children - like revenge, killing and torture. And even the kids themselves are acting disturbingly cold and cruel at times. But if the watcher is able to read the subtitles then he should be old enough to figure out that torture is bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion&lt;/span&gt;: An excellent anime, but not mainstream enough to be a blockbuster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RIev880Fa5E&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RIev880Fa5E&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-4857740942475473502?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/4857740942475473502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=4857740942475473502' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4857740942475473502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/4857740942475473502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/03/infinite-ryvius.html' title='Infinite Ryvius'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R-PBveAe3zI/AAAAAAAAABI/cWtyfBKE-No/s72-c/infinite_ryvius_3_1024.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-8247625459889666939</id><published>2008-03-16T21:10:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.836+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Tenpou Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Original release: Lunar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=5119&amp;amp;uploaded=1"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9614/ayakashi1024gg5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9614/ayakashi1024gg5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.baloria.com/anime/ayashi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.baloria.com/anime/ayashi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ayakashi Ayashi is your typical samurai monster-of-the-week anime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The location is japan (big surprise) , time is the middle of the 19th century. That was the time when japan was in it's most isolationistic phase, when the greatest crime was being a foreigner (still a social stigma nowadays).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And japan was full of monsters. Or rather gods - you never know with japanese monsters. Anyway, the term used is Yōi which is scribbled like this: &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja"&gt;妖夷&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6734/ayakashiayashi01sy5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6734/ayakashiayashi01sy5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja"&gt;Why do I show you those japanese &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;letters&lt;/span&gt; ? Because one of the yoi-busters has the unique (and uniquely stupid) power of drawing out those scribbles from any living being and transforming them into a goofy looking axe, spear, whatever. This power even gets explained extensively in the series but listening to those explanations is a waste of time unless&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you happened to major in japanese. The feeling of awe manages to abstain when hearing that the "Prickus Dickus" (just an example, ok?) has it's origin in the word "Prick", which was much much earlier written with a character that looked like a spear held by a woman, hence the name transforms into a spear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's a superpower worthy of the X-Men ... ok, maybe not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7366/largeanimepaperscansayarp1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7366/largeanimepaperscansayarp1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So, said dude is a 39 year old bum who once entered the  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;other world &lt;/span&gt;as a child and came back, fearing and longing for it at the same time. By chance he teams up with a group of established yoi-busters: A drag-queen priest, a young tomboy, an aborigine (yeah, japan had aborigines before it was settled by korean emigrants - and even those aborigines came from korea), an aztec girl who somehow came to japan from middle-america and her talking demon horse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest is typical anime action. Average design, average animation, occasional humor, average plot but a pretty detailed depiction of historical japan. The whole setting is a bit xenophobic and i can't help but think that the author agrees a bit with those xenophobic tendencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if you are willing to ignore those hints - after all we ignored the blatant racism found in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'Lord of the Rings'&lt;/span&gt;, too - then you're in for a decent series which contains many historical persons, events and places (minus the monsters).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1567/ayakashiayashi01large20kx1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10pt 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1567/ayakashiayashi01large20kx1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Violence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;Weeell, there are whores inside, but you get the impression that their main job is giggling, drinking and applying tons of makeup. Violence is moderate - mostly monster fights. The scenes where people get hurt are very toned down. No severed limbs and such. The occasional gruesome monster victim, but thats it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G7rU78iSU4E&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G7rU78iSU4E&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-8247625459889666939?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/8247625459889666939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=8247625459889666939' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8247625459889666939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/8247625459889666939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/03/tenpou-ibun-ayakashi-ayashi.html' title='Tenpou Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-2572256083338727741</id><published>2008-03-11T22:13:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.837+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Daphne in the Brilliant Blue</title><content type='html'>Original release by: Blitz, Sirus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=5028"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b2Von2hOI/AAAAAAAAAAM/8ucLxt8hd4I/s1600-h/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Daphne-in-the-Brilliant-Blue_aaronsac_54517.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b2Von2hOI/AAAAAAAAAAM/8ucLxt8hd4I/s400/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Daphne-in-the-Brilliant-Blue_aaronsac_54517.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176595673251218658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b3U4n2hPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/UcmkRXjX0Vc/s1600-h/186843.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b3U4n2hPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/UcmkRXjX0Vc/s200/186843.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176596759877944562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b3uon2hRI/AAAAAAAAAAk/usIO7X2AXtI/s1600-h/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Daphne-in-the-Brilliant-Blue_Suiginto_41646.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b3uon2hRI/AAAAAAAAAAk/usIO7X2AXtI/s200/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Daphne-in-the-Brilliant-Blue_Suiginto_41646.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176597202259576082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;First things first: THIS IS NOT HENTAI (google if you don't know what that means. Afterwards wash your eyes with soap.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technically this is an action series (NOT HENTAI ACTION!) with 5 chicks who work for some kind of head-hunter jack-of-all-trades company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The setting is the earth which just recovered from a world wide Flood that submerged the entire earth, killing billions of people and leaving only a few underwater cities in existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After hundreds years under water, the cities rose to the surface to reclaim the earth ... or rather water, because there's still no land in sight. You don't get an explanation why they didn't float up hundreds of years earlier but hey, if you are going to watch a series with girls in outfits like those, you probably don't care much about science and logic in your daily dose or por-... ahem: THIS IS NOT HENTAI!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b354n2hSI/AAAAAAAAAAs/eRfsJjCTm8E/s1600-h/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Daphne-In-The-Brilliant-Blue_Serika__THISRES__114100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b354n2hSI/AAAAAAAAAAs/eRfsJjCTm8E/s200/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Daphne-In-The-Brilliant-Blue_Serika__THISRES__114100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176597395533104418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Anyway, despite mankind barely having survived the apocalypse, this is a happy-go-lucky kind of series.&lt;br /&gt;One chick (forgot her name) lost her apartment and was saved from homelesnes and other stuff by the leader of the other 4 chicks. In return she has to work for them and wear a hentaiish swimsuit which is too small to even cover pubes - if anime chicks had any.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You get plenty of action, some funny situation and - surprise - NO FANSERVICE. Nothing is able to overfanservice these swimsuits, so they probably didn't bother. There is no connecting story to speak of. In the very last episodes you get to see something which could be called a storyline, but don't expect too much of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b4MYn2hTI/AAAAAAAAAA0/X9w2xALQX7E/s1600-h/186841.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b4MYn2hTI/AAAAAAAAAA0/X9w2xALQX7E/s200/186841.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176597713360684338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Let me be frank: This series is crap. It has it funny moments - I laughed pretty hard at some scenes - but it's just brainless entertainment. Anyway, I'm not ashamed to admit that I watched it to the end ... but then I'm pretty anonymous here, hehehehe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This series is obviously nothing for US-kids. Titties in abundance and some of those girls know what they are good for. Violence is medium. Much shooting, but no killing. Apart from the terrorists (you know, terrorists are everywhere!!!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;-- DF&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  align="center" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JnxFQk2e1t8&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JnxFQk2e1t8&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-2572256083338727741?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/2572256083338727741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=2572256083338727741' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2572256083338727741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2572256083338727741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/03/daphne-in-brilliant-blue.html' title='Daphne in the Brilliant Blue'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R9b2Von2hOI/AAAAAAAAAAM/8ucLxt8hd4I/s72-c/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dscans_Daphne-in-the-Brilliant-Blue_aaronsac_54517.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-2578580442379319225</id><published>2008-03-06T22:58:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.837+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Planetes</title><content type='html'>Original release by:  ANBU&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=4906"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/9/96/Planetes_Anime.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/9/96/Planetes_Anime.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Planetes is a science fiction space anime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know, you're expecting giant robots and big breasted schoolgirl pilots now. Or a fleet of space cruisers, flying around space, explore the unknown regions&lt;br /&gt;of the galaxy, meet alien civilizations and bomb them to kingdom come in the name of peace, democracy and the terranian way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.anime-virtual.de/uploads/ecards/BE_PLANETES_ec2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 154px;" src="http://www.anime-virtual.de/uploads/ecards/BE_PLANETES_ec2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;WRONG!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This series is about the glorious adventures of the ... garbage collection department.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, their job is pretty vital for the future of manned space ... a single screw orbiting earth with several kilometers per second can definetly be called a hazard and removing those hazards is a challenging and important job ... but it's still garbage collection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the near future and mankind managed to build bases on the moon and mining operations on other planets of the solar system with about the technology that is available now. A bit futuristic but very recognizable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, this anime is not for those expecting brainless fun. It treats space and it's dangers realistically and with respect, it considers political and economical development in a time of space exploration and exploitation. It has it's funny moments, some romanctic ones, drama, tragedy, suspense and no fan service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The art is good, animation fluid, the characters are likable and pronounced and grow considerably throughout the series.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.animejump.com/modules/ProdReviews/images2/planetes1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 230px;" src="http://www.animejump.com/modules/ProdReviews/images2/planetes1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It irks me a bit that I can't honestly degrade this series with cynical remarks, but I'll give it my best shot: The show seems average. It's good in every respect, but excels at none. But if that's the worst you can say about a show, you can be assured that you won't waste your time watching this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sum it up: This anime puts the science in fiction and is excellent entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; No sex, few violence. Ok, there are terrorists, but terrorists are everywhere. And when the violence happens, it is not glorified or made to look cool. You fear for the characters lifes - because the show made it very clear that people can die. And even there it's realistic: Sometimes people don't die in accidents or battles. They suffer. And that little part gets omitted too often for my taste ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt; Highly recommended! Fun, excitement and education wrapped in a nice little package.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Klicken Sie hier, um dieses Objekt mit Adblock Plus zu blockieren" class="abp-objtab-038861796566441675 visible ontop" href="http://www.broadcaster.com/video/external/player.swf?clip=pilgarlic_460_1927573880.flv"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.broadcaster.com/video/external/player.swf?clip=pilgarlic_460_1927573880.flv" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-2578580442379319225?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/2578580442379319225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=2578580442379319225' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2578580442379319225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/2578580442379319225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/03/planetes.html' title='Planetes'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-5827719259156800248</id><published>2008-03-04T01:30:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T20:52:41.281+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Kamichu!</title><content type='html'>Kamichu! Episodes 1-16&lt;br /&gt;Original release by Exiled-Destiny&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=4853"&gt;Download Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f322/dragonmeteor/anime-pilgrimage-onomichi/kamichu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f322/dragonmeteor/anime-pilgrimage-onomichi/kamichu.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This anime is cute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is cuter than "Snow Fairy Sugar meets the Teletubbies". It's protagonist is a very young tiny cute girl with an ultra cute voice that became a god.&lt;br /&gt;A tiny cute japanese god, not the mega-god of the west (see 'Spirited away' for reference).&lt;br /&gt;Japanese gods are more like spirits, pests, Gartenzwerge ... whatever. In Japan you apparently can't spit without hitting a god. There's probably even a god of drool around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://livehouse.free.fr/snapshot20060818174821_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://livehouse.free.fr/snapshot20060818174821_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the cute girl became a cute god and has absolutely no idea what a god is supposed to do, which is kinda cute. So she and her friends go on finding out how to best use her godlyness in a cute way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can stop puking you might as well enjoy it, because despite all it's cuteness and clearly WAY underage target audience it's quite an amusing (and cute) watch. Probably because the situation is so absurd and everyone treats it like it's rare but totally reasonable ("You became a god? What of? Can I offer you my prayers? Thanks for blessing me, buhby.".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex &amp;amp; Violence:&lt;/span&gt; No violence apart from a tiny bit of governmental power abuse. Never even suggests violence apart from a catfight (cat fights cat). Safe for all ages.&lt;br /&gt;No sex anywhere. Some swimsuit scenes, but if 10-year old flat girls with full body swimsuits count as suggestive to you, you probably go to the crapper blindfolded. Safe for all ages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS:Some screenshots here: &lt;a href="http://browse.minitokyo.net/1074/kamichu/"&gt;http://browse.minitokyo.net/1074/kamichu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HrIHyw6q0lQ&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HrIHyw6q0lQ&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-5827719259156800248?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/5827719259156800248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=5827719259156800248' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5827719259156800248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/5827719259156800248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/03/kamichu.html' title='Kamichu!'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f322/dragonmeteor/anime-pilgrimage-onomichi/th_kamichu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-3157094209404482386</id><published>2008-02-29T21:52:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.838+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Claymore</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Claymore Episodes 1-26&lt;br /&gt;Original release by Eclipse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=4792&amp;amp;hit=1"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Nervli/AaHikaru/claymorebg1440x900uj8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Nervli/AaHikaru/claymorebg1440x900uj8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Description shamelessly stolen from &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7028"&gt;http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7028&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------&lt;br /&gt;In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organisation that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability to destroy these creatures. Considered a rogue for picking up a stray child &amp;amp; almost losing herself to her youma side by "Awakening", she is constantly assigned rather dangerous missions...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static2.animepaper.net/upload/thumbs/wallpapers/Claymore/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dwallpapers_Claymore_Almighty-Baka%281.33%29__THISRES__55092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://static2.animepaper.net/upload/thumbs/wallpapers/Claymore/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dwallpapers_Claymore_Almighty-Baka%281.33%29__THISRES__55092.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is your basic hack'n'slash anime. Or rather blood'n'guts.&lt;br /&gt;You can also think Dragonballz with chicks and swords, er, claymores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has a cute chick in the lead that aquires an annoying wimp as a sidekick. Mostly they battle your monster of the week (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'they' &lt;/span&gt;being Claire and other claymore chicks, not the useless wimp), but they pick up a storyline somewhere in the middle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not recommended for children due to violence, dismemberment and torture scenes (although US-residents should be fine).&lt;br /&gt;There is no sex in there whatsoever by any sane standard (one monster has nipples, though)  but we can always wait for the next hentai doujin, hur hur hur ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p245/firewalker06/blog%20content/AnimePaperwallpapers_Claymore_Deto1.6_1440x900_60714.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p245/firewalker06/blog%20content/AnimePaperwallpapers_Claymore_Deto1.6_1440x900_60714.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I admit I enjoyed this anime despite everything. It doesn't have a story worth speaking of and barely any character development (apart from power-ups), but the action is nice even though they talk too much crap in the middle of the fights.&lt;br /&gt;If you want intellectual stimulation then go away and watch Southpark or The Simpsons. This is anime. And I like it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ToaUxys_fks&amp;hl=de"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ToaUxys_fks&amp;hl=de" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-3157094209404482386?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/3157094209404482386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=3157094209404482386' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3157094209404482386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/3157094209404482386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/02/claymore.html' title='Claymore'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553351942788821229.post-7268988773849305699</id><published>2008-02-29T20:55:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T11:03:45.839+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anime'/><title type='text'>Banner of the Stars</title><content type='html'>This release contains all episodes of the Banner/Crest of the Stars Saga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tracker.anirena.com/details.php?id=4712&amp;amp;viewcomm=979#comm979"&gt;Download here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_CGjC0tngt04/Rczekd7pTuI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/c0x5HTiIGSM/s1600/crestofthestars-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_CGjC0tngt04/Rczekd7pTuI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/c0x5HTiIGSM/s1600/crestofthestars-5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The series is a mix between military science-fiction and soap opera and is remarkably &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;under-the-top&lt;/span&gt;, meaning that pilots and warriors don't shoot screaming the name of their special moves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://download3.minitokyo.net/full/Minitokyo.Anime.Wallpapers.Banner.of.the.Stars_206787.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://download3.minitokyo.net/full/Minitokyo.Anime.Wallpapers.Banner.of.the.Stars_206787.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Since I'm not in a cynical enough mood for an honest review right now, I'll just steal the description someone else did for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in case you didn't notice: The files have been converted to be viewed on an iphone/ipod touch.&lt;br /&gt;But they play fine with quicktime or VLC too, though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://download3.minitokyo.net/full/Minitokyo.Anime.Wallpapers.Banner.of.the.Stars_206570.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://download3.minitokyo.net/full/Minitokyo.Anime.Wallpapers.Banner.of.the.Stars_206570.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt;Jinto, a young boy, in a far future where humankind has colonized the stars and formed many nations. The most powerful nation being "Humankind Empire Abh".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt; Jinto led a relatively peaceful life as the son of the government president on the remote planet called Martine. Until one day, when they were attacked by the Abh, who takes over his home planet after Jinto's father betrayed them by surrendering to the Abh Empire and handed their world over to the Abh in exchange for a standing in the Abh Empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt; As a result, Jinto became a prince and was soon sent off to study the Abh language and culture to prepare himself for his future as a nobleman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt; Now, 7 years later, Jinto is entering the next phase of his training, and he is about to meet his first Abh, the lovely Lafiel. But Jinto is about to learn that she is more than she appears to be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" &gt; The Abh Empire is then plunged into war and the story continues from there...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0OLpXDjwN8&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0OLpXDjwN8&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5553351942788821229-7268988773849305699?l=iphoneready.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/feeds/7268988773849305699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5553351942788821229&amp;postID=7268988773849305699' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7268988773849305699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5553351942788821229/posts/default/7268988773849305699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iphoneready.blogspot.com/2008/02/banner-of-stars.html' title='Banner of the Stars'/><author><name>DirtyFinger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14432347026122375710</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_AMTB4op3MmY/R92Wr4n2hVI/AAAAAAAAABA/CEz-hyoR2vs/S220/dirtyfinger_avatar.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_CGjC0tngt04/Rczekd7pTuI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/c0x5HTiIGSM/s72-c/crestofthestars-5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
