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Jul 3 2011

What happens in Sternbild, stays in Sternbild

Hello! This is derpchan, the member of This is Sternbild who thinks saturdays are the best days ever! Episode 14 post coming tomorrow, after I’m done with work and stuff. In the mean time, I’ll let you in on what normally goes on with us bloggers on saturdays (aka. Tiger&Bunny days).

We’re both European, so Tiger&Bunny airs in the evening for us. I often make a long blog post to pass time (but not today, I had other things to keep me busy). We discuss what went on in the previous episodes and toss around theories to pass the time if we both happen to be around. We usually watch the episode as soon as possible after the first airing ends, once it’s available at one of our usual haunts. And then we talk some more. Tonight we spent some 4-5 hours dissecting the episode. Yes we are that passionate.

By the way, the new OP and ED songs are very nice! I’m happy to find that I like both of them again, just like with the first set. It’s pretty rare that I like both OP and ED of a series at the same time.

Tomorrow, on This is Sternbild: episode 14 post. See ya!

Jun 28 2011

More episode titles revealed

Hello! This is derpchan, the member of This is Sternbild who can’t stop blogging! More episode titles were posted today.

16話「Truth lies at the bottom of a well.-真実は井戸の底にある-」

17話「Blood is thicker than water.-血は水よりも濃い-」

18話「lgnorance is bliss.-知らぬが仏-」

No speculation from me at this stage. I’ll watch at least episode 14 first to see where things are going. See ya!

Jun 21 2011

Haven’t I seen her before?

We’ve seen most of the episodes several times by now, but I still didn’t notice this girl until she was pointed out to me. She’s been dubbed Scarf-tan, Scarf Girl and Miss Waldo and she’s always where things happen, but is she just a terribly unlucky girl or maybe a Hero TV employee? She’s not the only background character that’s appeared more than once, for example the drunken man at the bar in episode 4 appears again in another episode among the crowd of spectators.

As far as photobombing goes, she’s a lot more inconspicuous than Origami Cyclone in the background. I wasn’t able to spot her in episodes 2, 3, 4, 6 (added in BD) and 23, but she’s been in all the others.

Personally, I think she’s a running gag and a jab at some TV series always using the same extras. Although her design is pretty plain it’s more detailed than most of the background characters we see at the crowd scenes so reusing her is definitely intentional. I will laugh if it turns out that she has an own character page in the upcoming official books. (In fact, I’m secretly hoping for that to happen!) Update: She did get a page in Official Hero Book!

Oh and if you’ve spotted her in the episodes I couldn’t find her in, do drop a comment!
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Jun 13 2011

It’s over 900!

GO NEXT!

There’s a Tiger&Bunny only doujin event in Tokyo on July 18th. So far the T&B doujins we’ve seen haven’t been anything special, but because I have great hopes for this event I’ve been keeping an eye on the site for a few weeks now.

About a week ago they announced that because there was so much interest from the artists wanting to take part, the event was moving to a bigger venue with space for over 900 circles. At the time I thought that it felt like total overkill. I mean, when the sign ups for the event closed there were only 9 episodes out. How many books could there be? And today, the circle list went up.

At the same time our jaws hit the floor.

There are 974 circles taking part. That’s a completely mindblowing number for a series that hasn’t even reached its halfway mark. If we do a little math here… I pulled 10 random doujins from my bookshelf and measured them (for science, of course). On average a doujin is about 3,5mm thick, give or take a bit. If each circle releases at least one book (and some already have more than one out!) and they’re piled up, that pile would be 3,4m high. (That’s 11’15” for you non-metric people.)

I have no idea where to start compiling our shopping list for the event.

Aki_the_geek: …. you’d have to spend the whole day browsing the circles’ sites
Aki_the_geek: if you spend one minute per site that’s like 16 hours
Aki_the_geek: mother of-
derpchan: insanity
Aki_the_geek: WHAT IS THIS
Aki_the_geek: I DON’T EVEN

In general the amount of new fan art that flows into Pixiv each day is indescribable. Right now the count on the tag says 28,190 illustrations. A Pixiv index page shows 20 artworks, so that’s over 1,400 pages of just Tiger&Bunny art. And there’s another 4600+ non-illustrated stories listed under the tag, too. I don’t remember any other fandom I’ve been part of that had such an explosive start.

We think it’s actually… kinda awesome. Can’t get enough of this stuff. (Also, this is more math than I’ve done in months.)

Uh, we’d love to get recs for artists we should check out before the event… If there’s someone out there who isn’t as overwhelmed by the list as we are.