It's here!

Poor Kogasa, she finally ended up surprising some people! Although it looks like she'll end up with a cold at that rate, guess she didn't think that far through.

Umineko episode 1 is out, and it is glorious! I'm actually quite impressed with Studio Deen, they seem to be even better then when they started working on Higurashi Rei. Umineko's going to be an interesting ride for me, since I've been expecting the anime since '07, I've tried my hardest to avoid the literal landfill of spoilers (and it's worked...mostly XD) And now my brain gets to explode, hooray! I'll actually be reading the manga too, what little there is translated. Unfortunately by the looks of the number of chapters, the anime will be past that point in 2 weeks tops, and I'll just have to sit on my arse and wait for whatever group wants to work on it to release more. Of course, I know I shouldn't get my hopes up too high, the Watanagashi-hen manga is still only at 8/12 chapters translated. >_>;

While I'll avoid spoilers for now, I was dead on when I assumed Battler and Maria would be my favorite characters starting off. George and Kanon are a bit different than my perception of them, but good different. No comment on the adults yet, though other than our crazy geezer, I don't think many of them will have a large role.

The opening theme was amazing, and I was in love with it within the first five notes, haha. It's called 'Katayoku no Tori' or 'One Winged Bird' sung by Shikata Akiko, the same singer behind the amazing opening for the Umineko games I posted a couple weeks ago. Katayoku no Tori isn't quite as good as the Umineko game OP, but it's still damn good, and it can only get better in a month and a half when the single comes out in a month and a half.



Now brace yourself for the Ending theme. :3



I'll be honest, I absolutely hated when I heard it at the end of the episode, not the music or the mood, those were excellent. I just couldn't stomach the singer. It took me a few listens, but I actually like it quite a bit now, it's just so much different than what I'm used to that I was taken aback. After all, it's not supposed to be a calm, or a cutesy song, it's meant to show Kinzo's, aka the crazy old guy, madness as he opens forth whatever the hell is gonna come in the next however many episodes this will be. In terms of 'When They Cry' ED's, I rank this 2nd only to the awesome that is Why or Why Not from the first season of Higurashi. It's titled 'La Divina Tragedia: Makyoku' or 'The Divine Tragedy: Demonic Song', sung by Jimang, and the single is set to come out a month after Katayoku no Tori.

In other news, it seems no one with the Idolm@ster U.N.Owen was her? video has the ability to both upload a good quality video and not get their account banned. (I've favorited like 3 that have been banned now, wtf) So I'll put a link to the NicoNico original here and in the original post. If anyone needs help setting up a NicoNico account to browse their extensive awesome, lemme know. :3

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7126531