More Animedia Scans to share

DO NOT UPLOAD THEM ANYWHERE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. I WILL BITE YOU IF I FIND THEM!!

Ahem, just a little notice.

Anyways, I was quite excited to flip through the new animedia issues I had recently got over my SMASH weekend. I just had to share some of the pages. This one is from the July issue. August's cover was posted up under 'Sacred 7 - Animedia'.

K-on. Was on teh back of the cover.

Hetalia Axis powers - For my friends who are a huge fan of this series.

Code Geass is still sure popular. Can't wait for the Gaiden series to come out.

The magazine was celebrating the half-way mark of the year and it came with this extra booklet that contained the magazine's history. I was pretty amazed to see what the covers were like in 1996.

I think the cover needs a bit more....designing???

Alright, covers for 2010.

If you look closely, there may be a sort of funny distortion in some of the scans. This was because I used a 'Stich-assist' ,in the program that my scanner came with, allowing me to stick two scans to create an image. Animedia pages are not A4 so... yeah. I hope you enjoy these ones. I'll try uploading a bigger file version onto Zerochan, since Minitokyo is picky with the quality of scans.

Anyways enjoy.

Vocaloid! - Piko + Love is War & Magnet

I wasn't expecting to jump back into Vocaloid any time soon but the Piko part of Piko + Love is War will explain!

I'll start with Piko!

I've been listening to a song called "Wasurenagausa" by Piko. The song sounded really good so I decided to do a search on the artist. I first checked out the PV to the song, which was kinda boring. But when I looked over the comments on the song, they mentioned "he" which then got me all kinda confused when the voice and the figure singing in the clip was feminine. But as I took a closer look, especially around the chest (I AM NOT A PERV, I SWEAR), my jaw dropped.

NO WAY!

The week before, my best friend had sent me a video on a popular Visual Kei artist who dressed himself in gothic lolita dresses.

Name of artist is Kaya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kznQfo5q_Mk&p=2D9A461FC480B7E0

Having found out that 'her' voice was 'his', was rather unforseen. But anyone one could easily make that mistake if it was a first time at listening to the artist.
Piko songs such as 'Sakurane' and 'Story' also have a feminine voice but I'll let the gender thing pass as Piko's songs are really really good!

Anyways....

What's with Vocaloid then? 

Good point!

Notice the image on the blog I posted on Vocaloid?

I recall seeing a tag on that image titled 'Love is War', which I thought was just the theme of the pic. But its deeper than that! It also relates to the song 'Love is War', which is sung by various characters of Vocaloid and I think Hatsune Miku was the first to sing it, seeing how popular she is.

This theme of 'Love is War' is depicted as having black monochrome shades + one or very few bright colours along with a planes, air craft and metal structures in the background along with a microphone (in some such as those in the Video clip to the characters singing 'Love is War').

http://www.zerochan.net/235032

(Durarara)

http://www.zerochan.net/340113

(Vocaloid - Len Kagamine)

http://www.zerochan.net/211884

(Bleach)

 It's very very similar to "Magnet", which is also a song and a design theme but it features a pair (regardless of gender) of characters wearing headphones with butterfly wings.

http://www.zerochan.net/77999

(Vocaloid - Kaito x Kaito)

http://www.zerochan.net/73403

(Katekyo Hitman Reborn - Hibari Kyoya x Ten years later Hibari Kyoya)

http://www.zerochan.net/163234

(Hakuoki - Saito Hajime x Saito Hajime)

 Example video of 'Magnet', which is also sung by various Vocaloid characters. This version is Kaito.

Here are some of those videos with different characters singing 'Love is War'.

Hatsune Miku - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWpi5a4vAdI
Kaito - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPT-T9mV-Ik
Meiko - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72DNXf85niA
Luka Megurine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4gMnqu76E
Len Kagamine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythRQVnKan0
Len + Rin Kagamine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Us2nzSt13k
Gakupo Kamui - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7kJDuksqtc
Gumi Megpoid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIcf4rtEBmw
Gumi + Gakupo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thss6wcDf8I
SF-A2 Miki - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ApXJt74_4
Sonika - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjg-yIJoSxg
Akita Neru - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSfIuzGJWtg
Yowane Haku - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzTlfFeYA44
All - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPZxe7DnUuM

...and there plenty more on youtube....*Panting*

What about Piko + Love is war?

Oh yeah....

I just happend to find out that, besides the suprise with Piko's gender, that Piko and his voice is part of the Vocaloid 2 series and is the version that is apperently the fairly recent one released in December last year (2010). The character's name is Piko Utatane. The image on the pakaging definately reflects up the character's voice! :) Exciting!

After finding out that Piko was part of Vocaloid, I sorta did a search on that and I checked out this video first, which featured 'Love is War' sung by Piko.

Piko  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoaOa20oez4

You'll find that Piko uses his 'masculine' voice in this song.

Then there is this one which is done by Piko Utatane, which sounds sorta less masculine.

Piko Utatane - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZfvxySfho

Upon listening to 'Love is War', I really liked the song, which then led me to discover the theme of 'Love is War' along with 'Magnet'. I also felt like sharing this new piece of info I found on Vocaloid, despite the fact I'm sorta just getting into Vocaloid, making me a newbe.

The part about Piko being part of the Vocaloid series is thanks to a fact from my best friend.

I think thats one reason as to why I did up this blog....hmmm...?

Lots of info but I hope it was of help or use.

Thanks for reading.