Aug 16 2011

The Saga of Maverick’s Mole from Satou’s Twitter

It’s amusing to follow Keiichi Satou, the director (aka. Kantoku Man) of Tiger & Bunny on Twitter for numerous reasons…

Sunday:

http://twitter.com/#!/satokeiichiree/status/102697510501490688

“If you press Maverick’s mole, it says “Stop that!”

http://twitter.com/#!/satokeiichiree/status/102701812062224384

Then he suspects that those who want to press on Maverick’s mole will find it harder than playing ding-dong-dash – one might even die.

Monday:

He draws it. (The text reads “Stop that!”)

(I admit, I laughed. Maverick makes me rage but this was still kinda funny.)

Aug 15 2011

Speculah: BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

So in the episode 20 post we speculated about Lunatic might be with the “real Ouroboros” – that is, if it even exists. Something kept bothering me about the whole thing, thought… And then I remembered that Lunatic killed that guy with the Ouroboros tattoo in episode 6. That guy – let’s call him Bob for the lack of a better name – was assumed to be with Ouroboros. But what if he wasn’t?

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Aug 15 2011

Tiger & Barnaby’s character song on Hoshizora Sunrise radio on August 21st

http://twitter.com/#!/hoshi_sun/status/102756685269049344

Tiger & Barnaby’s duet will be played during the Hoshizora Sunrise radio show that airs August 21st at 23:00 JST. According to the Twitter update, the song should play around 23:30 JST. You can find instructions how to listen to the radio here.

Tiger & Barnaby’s character song single is coming out on August 24th, more information with samples of the solo songs here.

(I’m looking forward to this!  ✧･ﾟ:*o(≧ω≦)o*:･ﾟ✧ Both Morita and Hirata are pretty good singers so I have great hopes for the duet!)

Aug 14 2011

Episode 20 or could this get any worse?

Things just keep getting worse and worse. And what makes it even worse than that is that there are still five episodes left and we’re not sure if our bodies can take all this.

This episode had some really horribly derpy animation in the beginning, but to be honest I think it just adds to the charm of the series. Tiger & Bunny is even more awesome considering how well it sells compared to many other series with better animation. These guys are doing it right, despite being so constricted by the shoe-lace budget. (And I have no doubt this episode will receive corrections for the BD/DVD release.)

20. Full of courtesy, full of craft.
-口に密あり、腹に剣あり-

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Aug 14 2011

Cast comments from the Official Hero Book

Hi guys, it’s Aki again! To outweigh the amount of suffering the last episode threw into our faces, I bring you the mini-interviews with seiyuus from the Official Hero Book. Warnings: massive seiyuu moe and Morita being a giant Barnaby fanboy tl;dr the usual.

Cut for a massive wall of text. (And you can read more translated interviews here.)

Disclaimer: not a professional translator, doing this for fun, etc. Standard fantranslation rules apply.

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