Japanese Title: メトロポリス (Metoroporisu)
Year: 2001
Publisher: TEZUKA Osamu, MADHOUSE
Genre: Science Fiction, Robot, Drama
Duration: ~ 102 minutes
Price: €9.99 (~$12)
Links: Official page, ANN, AnimeNFO, Allcinema, AniDB, Official Trailer (youtube), Stream full (Veoh)

Metropolis is a heavily industrialized futuristic world with giant cloud scrapers rising above the horizon. An huge city with it’s deep secrets. The duke, because of the lost of his daughter secretly build a robot. A super artificial intelligent robot girl who’s supposed to sit the throne. Once she does in a yet shaped Ziggurat a new era will start, so the duke proclaims.

Alike the deceased daughter of the duke, the robot’s name is Tina. No one is supposed to know she’s a robot neither the duke has build her. He probably want to introduce her as his long lost daughter.

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A year ago I found the anime movie Paprika which was just an insane good anime. Seeming happy parade, a lot of fantasy and animation quality sprouted. Smooth skin, animation and CG’s made Paprika a beautiful and weird anime. Still it’s NOT hard to follow, any case far easier the Cossette and Lain.  A movie which is typical set for anime’s, no toon nor real life movie could equal it.

I didn’t think I will ever make an review of Paprika, but I think I am need of a filler-post. So, we’re now talking about the OST first, later on the filler, somewhere in the weekend along a couple of related links.

The first two tracks are probably, the most famous songs of the movie. A festival song which do overrun you with happiness and a parade feeling. Without watching the anime, you probably suggest  it’s an happy parade with celebrating weird folks. To people who have watched the anime, we all know, it’s nothing like an happy parade at all.

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A few weeks ago I probably bought my last W.I.T.C.H. magazines. The numbers 61 up to 74 are ordered (a week ago) and last Saturday delivered. I have mentioned earlier on the Netherlands, the subscrition on dutch magazines is dropped. I told you need to look for Toymanila an Ebay Store for all your W.I.T.C.H. desires.

Later on they cancelled their dolls import and now it sadly does seem the magazine #74 is their last magazine. Also the homepage W.I.T.C.H. Magazine Philippines has been aborted and it’s domain is currently for sale. Please do note, Disney did NOT stop making W.I.T.C.H. *just yet*! W.I.T.C.H. is still in development, but I have NO clue where to purchase any issue now. We may ask a group of fans located at this forum. Wikipedia has proof of their development up to magazine #91.

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Original this is an photo of Super Rats at HappySoda.com

Photo by Super Rats from HappySoda.com

Super Rats, the man behind HappySoda finally publishes his work (photoshoot) in a book. His book ‘HappySoda v1 Figure Book by Super Rats‘ is available* at lulu, which has very reasonable and flat flee shipping to Europe. Lulu, to my surprise, does have a supreme local (read translated) site in Dutch (in my case). I’ve haven’t found a misspelling neither are the sentences awkward. Amazing, since the Netherlands is just a tiny dot on the world globe. It truly is worth a bookmark as either HappySoda site is.

You can download the full book, 960i PDF version as example of ALL the pages in the book. For this open minded idea only, I support Super Rats. Well, I just like his reviews, style and comment. Well, ok, I won’t give you the download link since I think you should browse HappySoda’s page. So, browse his site and you might want to purchase that book as well. HappySoda official announcement at HappySoda Figure Doujin 1.

Oh, if you didn’t figure it out by now. I purchased the book! I will be waving with it shortly, taking the book to my friends to show :P.

*~ Sales ended at October 29, 2008 ~

you are too late. However, you gotta hope for the another release. You won’t find this release any longer. You still may read the excellent Dancing Queen Review. It contains several shots of the pages along a false printed page. Well those stuff happens and I think Dancing Queen realises all too well, respect.

The download permission system of hirvine.com is one of the reasons to literay ’spam’ my inbox. The worst is the bug exists. About nearly a year ago it occured and finally I located the bug. Well, ok I did not intensively searched for it. I thought it was a Internet Explorer thingy since Firefox/Safari and Opera users didn’t had much bug reports.

Thanks to Borf, who is also the producer of the MORPG Sagramore game, I could fix the bug. Oh yes! It’s MORPG, since it’s not a Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. You oughta browse Borf’s site. The game is free2play and you do NOT need to install anything!). Full credits to Borf for the download permission system fix. Webpages, programs, games Borf is always there. This fix will be upped during the next weekend. Do only continue reading if you want to know more techincal details of the bug.

* The image above is Nia from Tengen Lagan Gamen Gurren. I will write a short review about this someday.

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America is all about freedom, Europe, my country the Netherlands loves this freedom and we find it particular strange to be over watched all the time. We all know China do block a lot space, msn, blog and social websites because those opinions written might damage their culture. Now (17 October 2008) Beijing announces every Internet café user is required to make a picture.

The times - “All visitors to Internet cafés in Beijing are to be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new control on the public use of cyberspace.” 70 percent votes against this and 25% thinks children in particular benefits of this measure. Austrian is busy too.

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Brushing the hair of another and childish Rozen Maiden makes Tomo dizzy. She’s unaware why, but it doesn’t looks like her Rozen Maiden knows either. The little doll named Hinaichigo loves the girls stuff and hates it when Tomoe has to go to school each day, to be alone. Before Hinaichigo goes sleeping in her case she makes an promise she and Tomoe gets to play when nightfall.

Shinku prefers quiet environment but… Nori let her taste all kinds of food, while Jun is scolding her to get out his room. Irritated Shinku orders a cup of tea which Nori’s instantly accepts and runs off. In spite of the broken window in Jun’s room Shinku orders Jun to close it. Dazzled Jun shouts he’s unable ’cause of the previous attacker who broke the glass. Shinku shakers her head, he conclude instantly without thinking. For now, Jun have to watch her.

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Totally Spies Season 2 Episode 1 “Startstruck” is one of the good totally spies episodes which is wrongly named in the torrent pack ‘Totally Spies Season 1-4′ at Isohunt as ‘Season 1 Episode 20 A Spy is Born I’. Thanks Do Deer for the notification.

This time the Hollywood actors are acting too great for their own good. The leading role is being kidnapped without trace, which makes the last part a Totally Spies case at least for the girls.  Jerry does not mind such feeble assault but perhaps the fans (the Spies) do. So, like always, Jerry spots them and call them over in again an obscure way to his office. Now their great mission starts, being undercover in Hollywood and finding their supreme actor.

While Clover is wondering how she get in the business and make relations here and there, Sam and Alex explores the crime scene. They find a donut and an high intensive burned floor! What did happen? Does Clover really intend to be in the spotlights that eagerly?

Totally Spies is seen on Cartoon Network. More information and links in the Toon District - Totally Spies.

Updated at 8 October 2008 12:58 GMT+1
Renamed permalink and text Season 1 Episode 20 to Season 2 Episode 20 and thanked Do Deer for his remark (see comment).

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is one of my favorite anime series. Being around the third? anime I ever watched. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha has 3 seasons worth to watch. In short Magical Girl is a typically Magical Girl genre. A girl finds a magic creature, obtain magic powers, transforms, somehow her magical skill is great and becomes a fully fledge magician. All seasons hold child abuse. Please remark in the last season StrikerS people get seriously hurt! For information I refer you to the blog post.

Also StrikerS, takes Nanoha to the grown up world. Having a job at the time-space administration bureau. So finally the relation!

The PVC is Nanoha Takamachi in StrikerS wearing the time-space administration bureau uniform. Nanoha looks great and the uniform looks alike the anime. Though I don’t love her pose, I can’t imagine Nanoha will ever take this pose. I bought the figure to complete my collection. But sssshhh! Don’t tell mom! Read on for a full fledge review.

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Couldn’t leave out this great wallpaper I found, enjoy it. Besides the wallpaper I figured out I left W.I.T.C.H. episodes as it was almost a year back. So the next episode is 21 Escape From Cavigor. Cavigor is an huge prison in the desert*.

Caleb’s father and the rebels had been caught. Jailed up their lives are at stake. They need to be freed as soon as possible. Using the new powers of the heart our W.I.T.C.H.es makes a sneaky entry. Get glimp at the Toon District -W.I.T.C.H..

* In the comics the prison was inside the city. From this point on the anime totally differs from the comics. Please read a the summary of Escape From Cavigor for more information.