takashichea (Level 21)

Overview

Purpose: Inspired by an idea about what poster student that represent our club at school, I wonder what you guys and gals think who represent us, or when you think about Anime Vice, who do you think of.

Back in the old days, I used to hear the names Gia and John Martone echoing throughout the website. A lot of people remember them and say that Anime Vice isn't the same without them. I don't know them, but their incarnations rest with us in the present people we have here representing us.

Anime Vice moves like the river of life. People come and go on this site, and other people are like rocks in the river and will remain here for all time.

The Faces of Anime Vice

I will try to be neutral here. This is just my opinion.

The Big Five

• Ethan - (President) - for being there for the people
• Tom Pinchuk - for his Watch and Learn and various news articles
• Sotyfan16 - for his beginner guides and Dunce Cap episodes
• Godlen - for his weekly reports on manga chapters such as Bleach, One Piece, and Naruto
• FoxxFireArt - for his wiki updates, news articles, and community spotlight pages

Community Members

• Superevil225 - for her podcast and witty blogs
• Dochaus - for his blogs on incoming new anime and podcast.
• Penguindust - for his deep comments and blogs that cover multiple franchises in wide genres
• AgentJ - for his weekly blogs such as HOTD and Angel Beats and lists
• ZombiePie (contrarian) - for his sarcasm, drunk blogs, and disapproval of dark anime fetishes
• MadPierrot - for his very informative blogs that cover the culture of Japan and anime
• BigHeart711 - for his amiable personality
• ShadowKnight508 - for being there to greet new people and helping others
• Newten - for being there for the people and writing articles that titillate us.
• Sora the Key - for proving pictures from various anime or comic cons and posting Anime Round Table Discussions.

There were a lot of people out there that represent us, and I need to keep this list brief. Sorry about that. Please feel free to comment.

Thanks for stopping by.

Go Anime Vice!

Purpose:

I'm testing the list's features to see it works or not. This is for my team who's working so hard on these franchises. I had writer's block (please see blog) in August, so I used summer school and wiki editing to put off beginner guides.

New Goals

Now, I have to finish at least two guides before October. Why October? I can't tell you why!

The guides are in reverse order. Shaman King's draft is more complete than the others. I spent too much time on that series, and I think Sket Dance is the easiest one to write about, but I need to funny for that one.

Skills I need to master:

Being Neutral, Funny, and Concise. Due to my wiki editor's roles, I have too much information, so I need to trim it down for the beginner guides.

How do I do that?

I wrote some weekly articles on Beelzebub and Blue Exorcist.

1. Blue Exorcist
2. Beelzebub

Bad News: I have the fall semester already started, so I bit the bullet when I failed to do it during the summer. I'm such a scaredy cat, but the beginner guides need to be good. Can't rush it. Going to get someone to proof read it (Preferably, someone who has not watch these franchises).

3. Sket Dance

Beginner Guide: Sket Dance

Unlike Rave Master and Shaman King, I haven't start this one since my team just formed in late August. It's worth a shot for my team. I just to write better. Wiki editing is different from writing beginner guides.

I'm happy with three characters.

	1. Bossun He's the leader in the Sket Dan club. <br> Powers: Concentration mode is where he puts on his goggles to figure out the solution to their requests' problems.
	2. Hime Onizuka She's the powerhouse in the Sket Dan club. <br> Powers: Don't be fool by her pretty appearance. Her field hockey stick, Cyclone, can dish a lot of damage such as bringing the down the roof.
	3. Kazuyoshi Usui He's the brains in the Sket Dan club. <br> Powers: Even though he uses a laptop to speak, he can gather information quickly and helps his team with his gizmos such as a homing device.

2. Rave Master

Beginner Guide: Rave Master Characters

I figure it is more easier to stick a list in a PM. Will finish draft in one week since I promised others that I finished before August in a blog.

I won't fail them now. I just need to finish the verdict and analysis for manga and anime.

	1. Haru Glory A teenage boy who becomes the 2nd generation Rave Master, and before leaving Garage Island, he promises his sister that he will come back home after defeating Demon Card and helping Plue to get all the Five Rave stones.
	2. Elie A mysterious girl who has amnesia and a past relating to the Rave stones.
	3. Hamrio Musica A Silver Claimer and a thief whose family is massacred by a psychopath seeks the Silver Ray to honor his teacher's will.
	4. Plue A carrot nosed dog who helps Haru track down the Rave Stones.

1. Shaman King

Beginner Guide: Shaman King Characters

This is one I struggled with the most. I got too much characters, so I paired them in twos for the shamans and their spirits. Now, I have 10 rows.

What I finished: Characters, Story, and Introduction.

Need to finished: Verdict, Terminology, Conclusion, and perfecting hook.

	1. Yoh Asakura He is a slacker who only wants to listen his music and stare at the sky. Dream: To get the easy life <br> Race: Japanese <br> Spirit Ally: Amidamaru is a samurai whose nickname is the fiend.
	2. Ren Tao Due to his family's reputation, he trains relentlessly. Dream: To restore the honor of the Tao Family, but his goals change about ending the cycle of vengeance and hatred after fighting Yoh. <br> Race: Chinese <br> Spirit Ally: Bason is a warlord.
	3. Manta Oyamada He is Yoh's friend who accompanies him during his battles in the Shaman King fight. Race: Japanese <br>
	4. Anna Kyouyama She is Yoh's fiancee who shares the same goals as Yoh as the shaman queen. Race: Japanese <br>
	5. Bokuto no Ryu Bokuto no Ryu and his punks seek hangouts to find their place in society. Dream: To find his happy place. <br> Race: Japanese <br> Spirit Ally: Tokagero is a bandit who was killed by Amidamaru.
	6. Horohoro From Hokkaido, Horohoro works hard to reach his and his sister's dream. Dream: To build a vast field of Butterbur to save the Koropokku from extinction. <br> Race: Japanese - Ainu <br> Spirit Ally: Kororo is a Koropokkuru.
	7. Johann Faust VIII A doctor who lost his wife to an intruder. <br> Dream: To restore his beloved wife, Eliza, back to life. <br> Race: German <br> Spirit Alley: Eliza is his wife and partner.
	8. Lyserg Diethel A dowser who aspires to be the best detective like his parents. <br> Dream: To avenge his parent's death by killing Hao Asakura. <br> Race: British <br> Spirit Ally: Morphine is a spirit handed down from the dowsing generation.
	9. Chocolove McDonell A former gang member whose life is changed by a Brazilian man named Olona. Dream: To save the world with laughter by becoming the best comedian. Race: African American <br> Spirit Ally: Mic the Jaguar is Olona's former partner.

Hot When Their Crazy Pompadours are Down

During wiki editing with my team, I noticed three characters who looked bad ass but not handsome. Later on in the series, their hair goes down, and suddenly, they are quite handsome according to the female characters in their respective franchises.

Beware of Mild spoilers!

Shaman King

Bokuto No Ryu

He has a crazy pompadour that goes through radical changes when someone cuts his pompadour. First, his pompadour has a heart tip, then it splits into a V-shaped, and it finally returns to a normal pompadour.

Ryu's hair is only down in the manga, volume 14.

Beelzebub

Tatsuya Himekawa

His pompadour is like Ryu, but it is shorter, gray, and looks like a duck's butt according to Kanzaki. During the Volleyball practice and games, Yuka and Ryoko accidentally unleash his hidden, handsome potential.

Himekawa's hair is down in Beelzebub 32. I don't have the chapters. (Sorry)

Gosick

Grevil De Blois

Grevil's pompadour reminds me of a blonde unicorn, but Victorique states that it looks like a drill. You can only see his hair down in his flashback and near the end of the Gosick series.

Please see Gosick episode 11.

People Who I Want to See and Future Thread: Afro!

If you want to add someone who has not let their pompadour down, feel free to add. We'll see if they are gorgeous or not.

Afro people

I haven't seen much of them except Bobo-bo, Afro Samurai, and Love Aikawa. I have no idea if it is the same with the Pompadour people. Who knows? If I see a pattern with afros, I'll definitely post a blog about it.

Afterword

** If you have any hot guys whose pompadours fit these conditions, please feel free to add some. I put it on this post as a commemoration to crazy pompadours on the Crazy Anime Hair concept page.

It was an original forum thread

2-25-12 - I created the Pompadour page because Daniel had some nice silhouette images for Crazy Anime hair and unreal hair colro.

Overview

Before I go to school, I just had to report about my team's work, my solo work on Shaman King, Anime Vice's Streamline Initiative, and crazy ideas for blogs.

Table of Contents

1. Team Work!
2. Partnership
3. Solo Work
4. Stream line Initiative
5. Crazy Blog Ideas
6. Beginner Guides

Team Work!

Team Gosick Project (Anime) is Postponed Until Winter 2011

Members: Auron570, Halberdierv2, Takashichea

My teammates and I are students (most of us are college students) who are very busy. Auron570 and Halberdierv2 already told me about taking a break from wiki editing. It's my fault for starting in July instead of June, but I had a previous project, Rave Master, with Fire_Star. Plus, I think the concept team is adding to much pressure on them.

Status:

• Most of the episodes have a short plot summary. I think 17 is the only one that doesn't have a plot summary.
• Episodes that have big plot: 1-10, 16, and 18-24.
• Every episode has voices, images, characters, credits, objects, and locations.
• FoxxFireArt added the manga and two light novel series.
• It's unlikely that the team will work on the manga and light novel portion.

**Please see Gosick Recognition Blog.

*By the way, Fire_Star and I finished the Rave Master's anime part and its characters last July 2011. We decided to stop after that since there are 30 volumes in the manga portion. It was too much work.

**Please see Rave Master Recognition Blog and 99% Anime Project Completed Blog.

Sket Dance Project by Team W.I.K.I Nation (August 18, 2011 - Ongoing)

Members: Annabanana, Piface314, Hibaru, and Takashichea

It's the same situation with the Gosick project. It's all right as long we watch each other's back and take turns and dividing up the work.

• How we work:

1. We split the episodes by threes, so most of us are finishing our roles.
2. One person adds the new characters
3. One person works on the volumes
4. All of us work on the characters

• Status:

Legend: P = Plot and SP = Short Plot

1. Episodes:

• Annabanana - 7SP&P, 8P&SP,
• Dochaus - 2SP, 5P (To give credit)
• Hibaru - 1SP, 3SP, 4P&SP, 6P, 7P
• Piface314 - 9SP, 10SP,
• Takashichea - 2P, 3P, 5SP&P, 12-14SP&P

*Another wiki editor, Anbumakura, added episodes 6-16. (To give credit)

2. Characters: See Character Vitae List

3. Volumes:

• Piface314, Annabanana, and Taka worked on main page. (Gia added it)
• Volumes 1-15 were added and all have table of contents with Japanese characters.
• Volumes 1-5 have plot summaries and all of necessary components.

**Please see Sket Dance Wiki Project Blog.

Fairy Tail (Anime Only) - Started since Oct. 2010***

^Members: Annabanana, Newten, and Takashichea (Team created since July 2011)

• Anna and I are taking turns on the plot summaries.
• Newten is also supporting us on the images and giving advice. His Weekly Fairy Tail articles are making a big impact on Anime Vice and are attracting more people to watch it.
• For the characters, it's getting done slowly, but most of the characters were done in the Great Fairy Tail Gold Rush Week when Ethan set up a lot of bounty tasks. In addition, FoxxFireArt also set up bounty tasks that dealt with adding credit for the Funimation voices to the character and episode pages.

***I put down Oct. 2010 because it was the month Anna and I worked on Fairy Tail independently. We met each other with the help of Obscurefan around December 2010.

^Fairy Tail has a bigger team than that. I put down the active members for this semester. If you want to see the whole team, please see the Fairy Tail Recognition Blog, Bounty Hunter Blog, and FoxxFireArt's Community Spotlights.

• FoxxFireArt's News - 1 and 2.

Team Beelzebub (Anime Only) - July 2011 and a trio was born on Aug. 2011

Members: Annabanana, ShadowKnight508, and Takashichea

Mainly, we are focused on the anime and its characters. Annabanana did work on this series alone until July 2011 where I took over in her absence. Then, along the way, ShadowKnight508 joined in, and Anna return home in August 2011.

Partnership

Interestingly, I'm partners with Annabanana on many anime/ or manga projects that are listed above.

Blue Exorcist (Anime Only)

The only project that Anna and I are alone on this project.

See Blue Exorcist Recognition Blog.

Solo Work

Shaman King (February 2011 - Ongoing)

I decided to work on this among the empty pages of my favorite series. During the time, I was disillusioned and wanted to give up. I kept going at a slower pace because I mainly focused working on Fairy Tail with Annabanana and in June, with Fire_Star on Rave Master.

Status:

I finished about 43 episodes for the anime and started working volumes 10 to 32. I finished reading series since September 5, 2011. So far, I haved added full plot summaries on volumes 9 to 25. All volumes have table of contents with its characters and other stuff. Volumes 1-8 don't have table of contents, and volumes 1-10 need to be formatted.

Please see Shaman King Historian Project.

Streamline Initiative

August 30, 2011

I was struggling to shorten/ summarize story arcs for Eleanor Merced and FoxxFireArt's bounty task on Naruto. Naruto's work was the hardest one so far. I couldn't rewrite it without sacrificing information. With FoxxFireArt's advice, I guess I have to delete and rewrite.

*From that point, I contact many wiki editors about condensing their story arcs and stop writing detailed story arcs for the characters.

I know I need to fix Haru Glory, Elie, Hamrio Musica, and many Fairy Tail characters.

Crazy Blog Ideas

Playstation Nation made me realize I spent too much time wiki editing and not enough on school

• Archive - Inspired by Giant Bomb's Archive (History of the Bomb: A Community Project thread) and my recognition blogs for Fairy Tail, Rave Master, Blue Exorcist, and Gosick. Cover some history with wiki editors on this site.

• Wiki Nation: Am I addicted to Wiki Editing? - Inspired by reading a book called PlayNation Nation. Differentiate between addiction and possession. Will create an Addiction concept page for this.
• Hot when their Pompadours are Down - Inspired by crazy pompadours.
• Ideas to promote the anime that my teams worked on - I have to get out of comfort zone and write blogs to advertise the franchise and showcase our hard work at the same time. Newten is doing this for Fairy Tail. I need to do it for Blue Exorcist, Sket Dance, and Beelzebub.

Beginner Guides

I still hesitate to finish the guides or even to publish them. I have three guides in the rough draft stage. I'm good at characters and story, but I'm not good at writing hooks, intros, and conclusions (or verdicts) despite the fact I asked for help. I need to publish them before October. Otherwise, I did live up to my first year's work at Anime Vice.

Overview

Purpose: To get people to watch/ or read Sket Dance or Gintama, to reignite wiki passion in both series, and to get some ideas.

Hello guys. I'm Takashichea, a member of Team Wiki Nation and part of other teams on other franchises as well. Recently, due to a request by Piface314, Team Wiki Nation is created to tackle Sket Dance franchise with three partners, Anna, Piface314, and Hibaru. As I watched the show and did research on the web, I noticed Gintama pops out a lot. I learned that Kenta Shinohara was the assistant to Hideaki Sorachi, author of Gintama.

I haven't watch or read Gintama yet, and I have only watched Sket Dance up to episode 15.

Let's brainstorm!

Edit:

Thank Halberdierv2 for this image.

Similarities

Characters

Characters are the important thing in anime and manga. I put this in a separate section.

Sket Dance	Similarities	Gintama
Yusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki	Both are the leader. Both use references to Bleach such as Bankai. Both lost their parents. Both tell people how to live life.	Gintoki Sakata
Hime Onizuka	Both are strong, beautiful women physically as well. Both love to beat their teammates. Both are the only female member on the team.	Kagura
Kazuyoshi "Switch" Usui	Both wear glasses, black hair. Both are handsome without their glasses. Guessing that they are the brains of the team. Both have 1 sibling.	Shinpachi Shimura

Points of Interests

• Both Sket Dan and Gintama have a trio that helps people which are usually odd jobs.
• Both franchises rely on parodies of other franchises such as Shounen series for their humor.
• Both franchises break the 4th wall.

Differences

Characters

Characters are the important thing in anime and manga. I put this in a separate section.

Sket Dance	Differences	Gintama
Yusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki	Bossun is younger than Gintoki. Bossun relies on his slingshot whereas Gintoki relies on his bokuto (similar to a bokken). Bossun has a concentration, artistic, and memorization abilities while Gintoki has excellent swordsmanship. Gintoki is more laidback than Bossun.	Gintoki Sakata
Hime Onizuka	Hime's weapon of choice is her field hockey stick while Kagura's weapon of choice is her parasol. Relationships with the leader: Hime's relationship with Bossun is more of a close friends, and Hime tends to blush sometimes when Bossun compliments her cooking or other things. There is some chemistry between the two. Compared to Kagura, her relationship with Gintoki is said to be a father to daughter relationship. Kagura is more vulgar than Hime because Kagura just picks her nose without any sense of shame.	Kagura
Kazuyoshi "Switch" Usui	Switch communicates by a laptop and speech synthesis software while Shinpachi speaks normally. Switch's sibling is a brother while Shinpachi's sibling is a sister. Switch is smarter than Shinpachi. Shinpachi is the straight man.	Shinpachi Shimura

Total: Bossun to Gintoki = 3, Hime to Kagura = 2, and Switch to Shinpachi = 1. I don't know much about Switch, and Shinpachi's wikia info is vague.

Points of Interests

• Sket Dance is set in a school setting while Gintama is set in a feudal period and futuristic style combo. (sorry guys, I couldn't describe Gintama's setting as well.)

Updates

I will list any changes and suggestions from comments below. I want to see the change and the additions of information.

Changes 9-18-11

Thank Mohsinman99 for his contributions.

• Gintoki is a laidback and a smart guy.
• Shinpachi is a hard worker but not that bright. A straight man.
• Kagura loves to pick fights, insult others, and eats a lot. She''s more vulgar than Hime.

Afterword

I will use these thoughts and comments to write for the similarities to other franchises. I used mostly wikia for Gintama to compare my experiences from watching Sket Dance anime. I have no trouble spoiling myself to Gintama during my quick research, but for Sket Dance, I don't read the wiki or other sources. See example below.

Similarities to other franchises

See Shaman King franchise for an example. I was proud of this work. It's amazing how Zatch bell and Law of Ueki is similar to Shaman King. I could not relate D. Gray Man or Blue Exorcist to Shaman King more than its use of supernatural and demon themes.