Category For Fun

Sep 19 2011

Sternbild Friend Rice Event Complete Gallery

A huge THANK YOU, and again THANK YOU!

ありがとう！そして、ありがとう！

We received photos from over 300 people from all around the world, and many people sent several. We’re so happy that Japanese fans sent photos too.

We would also like to thank everyone for the messages and thanks to us two. Reading about how much fun everyone had while cooking made us really happy, and it was all of you who turned this event into a great success!

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世界中のファンたちからいただいた写真の数は300枚を超えました。欧米のファンたちはもちろん、日本人の方からも写真をいただいたことは光栄だと感じております。

様々な方から「ありがとう」というメッセージをメールやツイッターでいただいたことも心の底から感謝しております。皆さんの料理の経験の話を読むたびに大変感動していきました。このイベントが大成功になったことは、参加してくださった皆さんのご協力と努力のおかげです。

Friend Rice Event Photo Gallery

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Please note: We are keeping all the emails with event submissions until September 30th, just incase there are any miscredited pictures or missing comments. After that they will be deleted. No personal information or email addresses will be shared with a third party. Please contact us via email mail[at]thisissternbild.com or on Twitter @ThisIsSternbild if you have any issues or concerns. If your issue is with any of the gallery photos, please include the number it has in the gallery.

Sep 11 2011

Sternbild Friend Rice Event

↓↓↓ 日本人のタイバニファンも参加できます！ ↓↓↓
英語を喋ることができなくてもいいですよ。

So, Aki and I were talking about making fried rice next week (I think she’s never eaten fried rice before, the horror!) and I said I would put pictures of Kotetsu and Barnaby on my screens and set the table and offer them my fried rice. And I’d take a picture of it and post it because I’m a derp like that.

And then we thought that why not get more people to join?

To join the Sternbild Friend Rice Event for the final episode, go and be a true Hero in the kitchen and cook your own fried rice (you can practise first if needed), bake Samantha’s cake, make some tea the way Yuri likes it, get some Pepsi (Nex if you can, whatever they sell where you live if you can’t – I’m stuck with Pepsi Max), or cook up whatever other creative Tiger & Bunny related food you can think of. And then just take a photo of your meal with your favourite T&B character(s)! (In this style.)

You can send us pictures any time during the next week, but because I know some people won’t cook until for the final episode you have until Monday September 19th 12:00 CET (noon) to email us the photos to ThisIsSternbild[at]gmail.com. You can also take part via Twitter, event hashtag is #friendrice and you can tweet your pictures to @ThisIsSternbild. Feel free to include a short comment or description if you want.

We hope we’ll get a lot of pictures! We can’t friend rice the staff & cast of Tiger & Bunny in person, so this is our way of telling all of them how much we love the show. We’re collecting all the pictures into a post here at This is Sternbild and we’ll pass the link to it to executive producer Ozaki.

Next week, on This is Sternbild: The Friend Rice Event. See ya!

Don’t have a picture to use? Don’t worry, we have some here! If a character is missing, leave a comment below and we will try to add him/her!

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日本人のタイバニファンも参加できます！
英語を喋ることができなくてもいいですよ。

この例のように写真を撮って下さい。

ルールは簡単です：タイバニと関係がある食べ物を作って（チャーハン、サマンサーの作ったケーキ、何でもいいですよ）、その食べ物を好きなキャラクターと一緒に食べながら写真を撮って、ツイッター@ThisIsSternbildへ(タグは#friendrice)か以下のメールアドレスに送ってください！写真と一緒にコメントを送ってもいいですよ。

ThisIsSternbild★gmail.com
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締め切りは９月１９日（月）。  皆さんからいただいた写真をこのブログに載せて、月曜日に尾崎さんにリンクを送る予定です。
何か質問があったら、コメントで尋ねてください(ツイッターでもいいですよ)。
あきというThisIsSternbildのメンバーが出来るだけ早く日本語で答えます。

Aug 27 2011

For Fun: The Recipe

Hello! I’m derpchan, the member of Sternbild who has more time to kill this Superhero Saturday. Tiger & Bunny airs 20 minutes later than usually, and it may be even further delayed due to sports. So in the mean time, I thought I’d post this thing me and Aki discussed earlier this week.

How to cook up a success, Tiger & Bunny style

Step 1: A studio that doesn’t believe in your project and just wants you to fail.

Sounds harsh but that’s the reality Tiger & Bunny had to deal with. Ozaki hinted in the Tiger & Bunny panel from Otakon that it had been really hard to get the project off the ground. Despite this, the care and planning that’s gone into creating Tiger & Bunny is extensive, from the environments to character designs. There was a huge merchandise void at first because who would make merchandise for a show that’s not expected to sell at all? Same trend is in the BD/DVD sales that are lower than they could be because the print amounts can’t meet the demand.

As a result of the studio’s uncaring attitude and lack of interest in controlling the production, you can witness Sunrise’s animation D-team’s work in most episodes, from the occasional derps to all out QUALITY gym. And a whole bunch of rookie animators can now add the biggest surprise hit of the year (possibly even the decade) to their resume. And the reason they can do that is because of…

Step 2: A director who is a total BOSS.

In my opinion, getting Keiichi Satou to direct Tiger & Bunny was one of the key factors to why it succeeded. He wasn’t really that big of a name, though he’s been on the industry for years. His most notable work before Tiger & Bunny is probably Karas which he created and directed. It was far from mainstream (the first half is actually pretty cryptic) so that shows he’s not afraid of taking risks. I don’t think he’ll be known as “that Karas guy” anymore, though. Why Satou was so important to Tiger & Bunny making it big was that he allowed that team of rookies a lot of creativity. Many of the “random product placement” items that you can spot in the series were put there by the animators. Also, Satou was the person who wanted to hire…

Step 3: A screenwriter who has never done anime before.

Masafumi Nishida was Satou’s choice for screenwriter. Nishida explains in an interview that Satou specifically wanted “drama-style dialogue” for Tiger & Bunny. Nishida was an incredible and brave choice for the show, and he’s also the reason why Ivan photo-bombs, why Keith is the King of Moe, why Nathan is everyone’s big sister and… In short, he created all the quirks the entire cast of characters has. Because the characters turned out so life-like and genuine, it’s given a prime chance to test their limits to…

Step 4: An enthusiastic voice cast.

Tiger & Bunny has several well-known voice actors among the cast. Reading the interviews you can feel just how excited they’re about their roles. Especially Masakazu Morita who plays Barnaby sounds like a total fanboy whenever he talks about his role – and for a good reason because it’s really different from his previous works. Kenjiro Tsuda seems to get into his role as Nathan even a bit too much at times. And then there’s of course the real life Keith Goodman, Go Inoue. The voice cast is about as adorable as the characters they play.

In short: You’re doing it right.

Productions take a long time, so it’ll probably be a few years before we see if Tiger & Bunny’s success has left any impact and gotten other series trying to do something unconventional to succeed. It’d be great to see more unusual protagonists like Kotetsu. But Tiger & Bunny just sort of happened so duplicating the formula doesn’t automatically guarantee success.

In the mean time, I’m just going to continue spending my euros on merchandise. (Maybe some pennies will even reach Mr. Satou so he can eat more ramen.) （*´∀｀）

Aug 22 2011

Kenjiro Tsuda’s Haterumade Radio from Ustream

Left to right: Yuuki Fujiwara, Masakazu Morita, Kenjiro Tsuda.

Nathan/Fire Emblem’s VA Kenjiro Tsuda‘s Haterumade Radio had a special broadcast “Tiger & Bunny episode 20 was interesting!” on Ustream after Tiger & Bunny episode 20 finished airing, hosted by Kenjiro Tsuda and Yuuki Fujiwara with Masakazu Morita (Barnaby’s VA) as guest. The recording with video included is now available on Hibiki Radio. No registration is needed to listen/watch.

The show is pretty long (over an hour runtime) and I haven’t watched it all yet, but it’s quite amusing even though they talk so fast at times I can’t keep up with it. (I can’t be the only one amused by Morita’s hairstyle, right?)