For a short time, from November 18th to December 17th, Daisuki will be Streaming Mobile Suit Gundam the Origin for free, in honor of the release of the 4th part of this series in Japan. Thanks to Otaku USA for the heads up on that one.
They are Steampunk music at its finest, and Abney Park has a new album called Under The Floor, Over The Wall which goes on sale today. The first track is Your Escape, the second is No Way Out, both from the new album.
Studio Ghibli has done amazing animations over the years, and in this fan made video from Kojer called Studio Ghibli in Real Life we get to see just that. If you have done any work with video editing and compositing you will recognize just how masterful this creation is, but anyone without those skill sets who loves Ghibli will want to live in the world where this kind of thing can happen. Thanks to Otaku USA for the heads up on this one!
The new track from ONE OK ROCK is called Taking Off, and it is every bit as good as you would expect. You can grab it now at Amazon, iTunes, and all the other usual places. Then because one is never enough with this band Last Dance and the live montage of Cry out.
I have enjoyed Tessa Violet’s music since she released I’ll Be Your Star Trek Girl quite a few years ago under the stage name Meekakitty. She continues to put out excellent new music under her own name these days, and I wanted to share a few of her recent tracks. The first song is Dream, posted online this September. She wrote the music and lyrics as well as edited the video, Isaac White directed the video and created all the video effects for it. The second track is Haze and was just posted yesterday, the third is Not Over You posted on October 14th and possibly my favorite of the bunch. All three of these and two other tracks are on her forthcoming EP Halloway, and if you go for the physical copy the first 1,000 of them will be signed.
Flip Flappers is the most visually interesting anime of the new season, as well as being more than a little surreal. It compares favorably with Gurren-Lagann, FLCL (pronounced Fooly Cooly), and Paprika, at least so far. We will have to see if the story can grow as amazing as the visuals, like the other three I mentioned did. There are only three episodes posted so far, so if you like the first one you can binge your way through it in just over an hour.