{"id":199,"date":"2016-06-28T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innocenceseekers.net\/wordpress\/?p=199"},"modified":"2016-07-07T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:35:21","slug":"first-general-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innocenceseekers.net\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/28\/first-general-post\/","title":{"rendered":"First general post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post will be my first general post, which will detail what I have been doing, and the plans I have for the near future. This includes things such as <em>Innocence Seekers<\/em> and my side projects, but also things unrelated to them, such as anime and manga.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><em>Innocence Seekers<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>So far, I am working on three different entries of <em>Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose<\/em>. At the moment, I&#8217;m currently working out what will happen in the third chapter of <em>Innocence Seekers: Akari of the Light<\/em>. My plan is to have the first part of the chapter focus on Inori, before Akari and the others meet up with her. For <em>Innocence Seekers: Mimori Flower Club<\/em>, I&#8217;ve already posted the synopsis of the first episode on the wiki. Hopefully I&#8217;ll write it up and post the episode proper on it soon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve begun planning for <em>Innocence Seekers: April Light<\/em>. I&#8217;ve chosen the name based on the name of one of the main characters, Uzuki, and on the title of <em>Innocence Seekers: Akari of the Light<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innocenceseekers.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/05\/innocence-seekers-yume-ni-aruku-and-the-new-project\/\">Earlier<\/a> I mentioned that I hadn&#8217;t decided who the protagonist should be. I&#8217;ve since decided it will be Uzuki who will be the protagonist. The other main characters are, as I mentioned earlier, Louise and Himawari (Erika&#8217;s sister, not the other Himawari). In an entry of <em>Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose<\/em> which I had worked on earlier but cancelled, I had a mysterious girl named Lyra as one of my characters. While she did not have much influence on the plot in that entry, she will have an important role in <em>Innocence Seekers: April Light<\/em>. In this case, she is befriended by Himawari after an incident in Haralni.<br \/>\nThe following characters I&#8217;ve planned to appear in <em>Innocence Seekers: April Light<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uzuki Miyana (\u5bae\u5948 \u536f\u6708) \u2013 star sign: Taurus<\/li>\n<li>Louise (\u30eb\u30a4\u30fc\u30ba) \u2013 star sign: Gemini<\/li>\n<li>Himawari (\u3072\u307e\u308f\u308a) \u2013 star sign: Aries<\/li>\n<li>Wakaba Harumi (\u6625\u6d77 \u82e5\u8449) \u2013 star sign: Scorpio<\/li>\n<li>Aoi Higasa (\u65e5\u5098 \u3042\u304a\u3044) \u2013 star sign: Virgo<\/li>\n<li>Benio Shinokura (\u7be0\u5009 \u7d05\u7dd2)<\/li>\n<li>Lyra (\u30e9\u30a4\u30e9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><em>Yume ni Aruku<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>So far, I haven&#8217;t made much progress on <em>Yume ni Aruku<\/em>. However, I may post the synopsis of the first episode on the wiki in the near future. I may also elaborate on the friendship between Shion, Yae and Tomoe, and its implications in the plot.<\/p>\n<h2><em>From the Scattered Petals, to the Blooming Flower<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Before I begin talking about what I&#8217;ve done with <em>From the Scattered Petals, to the Blooming Flower<\/em>, I&#8217;ll explain the title itself. The title, which in Japanese is <em>Chitta hanabira yori, saku hana made<\/em> (\u6563\u3063\u305f\u82b1\u3073\u3089\u3088\u308a\u3001\u54b2\u304f\u82b1\u307e\u3067), is supposed to represent the cycle of hope and despair (through the metaphor of a new flower blooming in place of the old one, which had died), and is representative of Teru&#8217;s belief that one can change the world for the better, regardless of its current state. For convenience, the title can be shortened to <em>Chitasaku<\/em> (\u3061\u305f\u3055\u304f), and this is what I will use as the tag for this project.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been working on this for a fair bit lately, although much of that is creating scenes for later segments of the story. However, I will mention the nature of the apocalyptic event which will strike in the first episode. The monsters which appeared out of nowhere that fateful day were sent by a being who wanted humanity eliminated (I haven&#8217;t decided why, though). The girls, all ten of them, then received the ability to use magic from another being as a response to this. I made it so that Mitsuki knew a fair bit about what will happen, as well as the preparations Mikura Elementary School and other institutions made in preparation for this event.<\/p>\n<h2>Anime and Manga<\/h2>\n<p>This section will detail some of the anime and manga I&#8217;ve watched or will watch in the near future. I mentioned in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innocenceseekers.net\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/16\/off-topic-post-anime-i-watched-and-am-watching-fourth-post\/\">earlier post<\/a> what I plan to watch. Now that the Spring 2016 season has finished, I will give my impressions on some of the anime I&#8217;ve watched.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Anne Happy<\/em> \u2013 A-<br \/>I liked the concept of the girls having specific misfortunes, but was a bit uneasy on the &#8220;happiness training&#8221; given. At times, I felt the school was being a bit sadistic to the happiness class, and didn&#8217;t even know how to ameliorate the students&#8217; misfortunes. But, then again, the class has Anne Hanakoizumi, whose luck is in the negative (and bad things <em>will<\/em> happen if she loses her good luck charm). The things I liked the most were the interactions between the five main girls, and Timothy (especially the rap).<\/li>\n<li><em>Flying Witch<\/em> \u2013 A+<br \/>This is one of my favourites of the season. I found it enjoyable and relaxing to see Makoto train as a witch while living with her cousins. In some ways it felt like <em>Non Non Biyori<\/em> to me. On a side note, I liked Chinatsu, especially her reactions to the parts of the witch world normal people don&#8217;t usually see during the earlier episodes.<\/li>\n<li><em>High School Fleet<\/em> \u2013 A<br \/>Again an anime which subverted expectations in the first episode. Very few people expected this to be anything other than a &#8220;cute girls doing cute things&#8221; show (the only reason I didn&#8217;t expect this to be a CGDCT show was a tweet somewhere I can&#8217;t remember). I found the naval battles to be somewhat realistic, but I also found the fact that Akeno kept leaving the ship for whatever reason (\u00e0 la Captain Kirk of <em>Star Trek<\/em>) a bit annoying, as you&#8217;re not supposed to do that as a captain. This anime would&#8217;ve scored an A+, or even an S-, if it weren&#8217;t for the mind-controlling rodents (given the only plausible explanation for the phenomenon is nanomachines). Also, many of the characters were underdeveloped; I couldn&#8217;t even keep track of them all.<\/li>\n<li><em>Three Leaves, Three Colors<\/em> \u2013 A<br \/>I quite liked this anime, and I also consider it one of my favourites. The concept is that three girls with wildly different personalities become friends with each other: the former rich girl who still acts like one, the girl with a bottomless stomach, and the girl who appears to be a nice girl but is, in reality, &#8220;demonic&#8221;. The main cast is supplemented by a bunch of other wacky characters (my favourites are the former butler-turned-stalker Yamaji, and the &#8220;angel&#8221; who cooks horrendous-tasting, yet nutritious meals, K\u014d). One thing I noticed was that the anime actually deviated from the manga; for example, in the original manga, Futaba is a transfer student, but in the anime, she&#8217;s already friends with Teru when they befriend Y\u014dko. The parts I didn&#8217;t like, other than Sakura&#8217;s singing, include the fact that Y\u016b has a crush on Y\u014dko despite the age difference (of course, Y\u014dko thinks he&#8217;s not serious), and the fact that Sakura is in love with Y\u016b (although not the fact that she&#8217;s way too overbearing, to the point of chasing him; no wonder he doesn&#8217;t like her). A nice touch in the final episode was adapting the chapter where Sei (Y\u014dko&#8217;s old friend from middle school) and Hiyori (Sei&#8217;s cousin) of <em>Seinaru Megumi<\/em> visit Sonobe&#8217;s shop, while Y\u014dko is working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These aren&#8217;t all the anime I&#8217;ve watched, but simply the ones I&#8217;ll mention here.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago, the <em>Manga Time Kirara<\/em> Festa was held. It featured merchandise for <em>Anne Happy<\/em>, <em>Is the Order a Rabbit?<\/em>, <em>Kiniro Mosaic<\/em>, <em>Magic of Stella<\/em>, <em>New Game!<\/em>, <em>School-Live!<\/em>, <em>Three Leaves, Three Colors<\/em> and <em>Yuyushiki<\/em>, as well as announcements for some of them. These included information on the extra episode of <em>Kiniro Mosaic<\/em>, titled <em>Kiniro Mosaic Pretty Days<\/em>, to premiere on November 12, as well as the voice cast of <em>Magic of Stella<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For the cast of <em>Magic of Stella<\/em>, there are some familiar names in them. For Rie Murakawa (Shiina Murakami), this is her fourth time voicing a character in a <em>Manga Time Kirara<\/em> anime (having voiced Mitsuki Inokuma of <em>Kiniro Mosaic<\/em>, Megumi &#8220;Megu&#8221; Natsu of <em>Is the Order a Rabbit<\/em> and Nao Mashiba of <em>Wakaba*Girl<\/em>). For Ari Ozawa (Ayame Seki), this is her third time (having voiced Kurumi Ebisuzawa of <em>School-Live!<\/em> and Wakaba Kohashi of <em>Wakaba*Girl<\/em>). For Aoi Y\u016bki (Kayo Fujikawa), this is her third time (her most famous role is Madoka Kaname of <em>Puella Magi Madoka Magica<\/em>; she also voiced T\u014dru Ichii of <em>A-Channel<\/em>). The other two voice actresses, Maria Naganawa (Tamaki Honda) and Ry\u014dko Maekawa (Yumine Fuda), are relatively new voice actresses.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the <em>YuruYuri<\/em> manga recently received an official Twitter account. And apparently, the account has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/interest\/2016-06-27\/official-yuruyuri-manga-twitter-account-gets-off-to-shaky-start\/.103632\" target=\"_blank\">tweeting inappropriate messages<\/a>, to the point where fans asked Ichijinsha to intervene (which they did, along with apologies from them, the editor-in-chief of <em>Comic Yuri Hime<\/em>, and Namori herself).<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I wish a happy birthday to Suzuko Mimori, who is now 30 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Edit (7\/7\/2016): I got my notes mixed up. 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