New Anime Series: Nobunaga The Fool

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First Episode(s) Review for: Nobunaga The Fool
Summary:

I gifted young girl and a brave Nobel lord feel each others presence from across the world, while the young man is involved in a war to determine the fate of Japan, will his love from far away be able to reach him and avert the death of millions….oh and here come the Mecha, Yus!!! 🙂

Animation:

Lovely, really detailed and nice, with lots of shine, one of those anime that you show to people as an introduction to what quality animation looks like

Plot Potential:

I love a good Japanese steam punk battle, this one is totally epic, and wonderful to behold, the plot is growing with lots going on and if it is half as good as the visuals we will be in for a treat

Music:

Good operatic battle music, made me what to call out Guards, Knights, Squires Prepare for battle!!

Reminds me of:

Bits of Fate Stay Night, bits of samurai gun with characters from the Lotus Wars series

Overall:

Conflict, fire, battle, betrayal and love across boundaries, its a sort of Arthurian Legend with knights of the round table from both Europe and Japan all beating the hell out of each other, Its the first epic Anime of the season, bring it on!!

 

 

 

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

New Anime Series: Hozuki no Reitstsu

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First Episode(s) Review for: Hozuki no Reitstsu
Summary:

The bureaucracy of hell is over worked and filled with incompetents, only the second in charge knows what’s going on and can keep control of things, in what is essentially a Japanese Carry on series set in the nether world.

Animation:

Bouncy, colourful with a wide mixture of styles representing the various moods of the different scenes.

Plot Potential:

It’s like an office sitcom, just in hell, there was much laughing from the other house residents

Music:

Upbeat traditional Japanese accompanying music.

Reminds me of:

Its a lot like XxxHolic with the humour from the underworld section of Dragon Ball Z and shades of plot from the Black Butler

Overall:

Gibbering insanity but good fun, with loads of WTF moments

 

 

 

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

Finding Me at IBM Connect 2014

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Right!! I’m just getting on the plane for Connect 2014, and I am on a mission the meet everyone that I know and make a few new friends, if I keep missing you, please find me 🙂

Contacting me

Skype

Twitter

Mobile US Land line redirecting to Skype or UK mobile: (315) 215-3250

Email: Mark@londc.com

Finding me

At My Sessions

Bald, Saturday afternoon

ESPN, Saturday Night (end of the board walk)

Pool party Sunday evening

Great Geek challenge

Sometimes at OpenNTF booth

Find me, tell me your troubles, let me buy you a beer (or even a proper drink)

Collaboration Stack Event

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All the smart Notes/Domino and Connections people I know have multiple arrows to their quiver. All the way from Salesforce though node.js to hard and dark programming and high availability admin on totally none IBM technologies, and while we whisper this knowledge to each other we never really present on it or yell it to the wider world, so when some of these said people introduced the following idea to me, I nearly bit the top off my can of Red Bull in excitement.

Collaboration Stack Community Networking Event

Do you work with collaboration platforms? Meet your peers at an informal, technical get-together. Whilst making valuable new contacts, you can share ideas, debate best practice and explore emerging technologies.

March 21st – London

Somewhere we can talk about all forms of collaboration, from the Biggest project Like IBM’s down to Kickstarter projects based on open source

We are just setting up and searching for more speakers that will present on subjects that leave you stunned and needing a stiff drink.

So if you have something that you have been inching to tell the world about see any member of LDC or The Turtle Partnership

URL: http://cscevent.com

MAIL: event@cscevent.com

TWITTER: csc_event

 

 

New Anime Series: Hamatora

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First Episode(s) Review for: Hamtora
Summary:

A group of down on their luck (cash poor) super powered bounty hunters go about their daily business…..well that’s it really…problems with money, comedy shouting, revealing of super powers…

Animation:

Normal Anime Quality, but they have pushed up the brightness on the primary colours a lot to give it some ‘pop’ makes it look a bit like an American 80’s comic book.

Plot Potential:

At first sight there is nothing new here not even the super powers (though I was surprised to find sound as the primary characters super power as that is normally a bad guy type of power), I suspect we will have to wait a few episodes to see if it improves.

Music:

Nothing leaps out, its suitable for content but that’s it

Reminds me of:

This is totally a Get Backers knock off

Overall:

Its fun, and a pleasant background, but it fells like it is not the work of one persons vision, which I always feel is what sets out the great Anime/Manga, a brief net search revels it to be a constructed anime or “mixed-media project” well lets give it a few episodes.

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!