QTV’s Last Serious Anime (and GMA’s News Channel Foray)
Feb 11th
This would be the Last Anime QTV will air......Unless GMA News TV will break Tradition
As of now, I am so riveted by the Tagalog Version of Animax’s Same-week gem, Kaichou-wa Maid Sama!. I could proudly say that after since The Prince of Tennis aired on the same channel, I had never watched an anime this serious and this religious as well.
Why? Because the dub is so fantastic, It was well executed, the humor is well adapted and very much, the voices fit the characters so well, a rarity for an anime on the GMA/QTV Family.
But Maid Sama! will be the last serious anime QTV will air, because by the 28th of the February, QTV will now be known as GMA News TV
A New Year… But A Delayed First Post… #notlikeme
Feb 5th
Sorry guys if I never posted last month.. The Laptop was kinda of Delayed, that’s why I was not able to write my first post for the year. But have no fear! As soon as the new laptop comes, we will be up and running towards our First anniversary of The Notebook and we will be posting like crazy.
But for the meantime, If you want to have some added randomness, Add my new Tumblr account and this will also be launched on April.,,.in time for our 6th year of Blogging.
Click on this link and follow me… It’s still on Test Broadcast… so forgive on all the effin randomness.,
First post will be due within this month, so just wait!
Headin’ Out!
The Notebook Yearender 2: The Top Ten Events That Shaped PH Anime in 2010
Dec 31st
Okay.. For our Second of our three-pronged yearender specials here on The Notebook.. 2010 has been a truly historical year full of surprises and events that we normally tend to think about. There is the Botched Manila Hostage Crisis, The 2010 National Elections, the Truth Commission, The Hubert Webb Release, and some “Major, major” headliners like Venus Raj, Manny Pacquiao, Charice, John Lloyd and Shaina, Kris Aquino and Shalala..(sorry.. I can’t resist putting Shalala’s name)
But 2010 is not just full of events in the national and international scene. 2010 is also a big year for Anime and Philippine TV, So many events and personalities that shaped and defined what we thought about anime. This was a big year for Anime Events, with Ozine churning out at least one event per quarter.. then there were the personalities like Cosplay.ph Head Pablo Bairan, who made us all remember the Tenth year of PH Cosplay via the highly-successful Cosplay Mania X. and there were groups like the redoubtable Anime Pinas Network who stood ground in their rebellion to place Anime on Primetime slots.
Let us look back at the Top Ten Anime-related Events that shaped our consciousness as a Pinoy Anime Otaku.
The Notebook Yearender 1: Ten Things I Expect for 2011
Dec 26th
This post starts our three-pronged Yearender posts. Wow, time really flies and it’s already 5 days to the End of the Year. We have come again on our heels, with our brand, spanking-new blog, a election, a change in government, all the events, and the changes in PH Television.. 2010 was, and is, really, a banner year.
So do we at Zen Otaku Honbu. We were quite low-key in the previous years, and now, with a website to kick-off 2010, plus a record breaking news output and up-to-the-minute updates on our Social Media sites. We became the hottest new kid on the block. We were feisty, yet responsible in bringing to you the latest news from the J-subculture as well as media news from our home country and elsewhere.
And to start our first Yearender on The Notebook. I would like to tell to you what things I really expect in 2011.. Some of them may be realistic, but others, well, I’m not really hoping it may come in 2011, eitherway, This may seem as a prediction or a wishlist (whatever you call it) on what will happen on TV, Anime, and even on my personal life.
Our 2nd yearender special, which is the Ten Events that defined PH Anime in 2010, will be out on 28 Dec and the Last Yearend special, the 2010 In Retrospective, will be out by 30 Dec.
Now. here is my Top Ten Things to Expect in 2011.
December Tenth Special: The Story I Wrote During that Tumultuous Time.
Dec 10th
Today is the Day.. Tenth December 2010.
I have been living for the past 22 Years already, Not too young but not too old as well.. hehe,..
For this year. We depart from usual “Birthday Message” tradition and instead, we are going to give you my first story to be published online. It’s a Short story and its also untitled. I first wrote this story in the middle of my crisis in 2007 and left it undone until I think 2008 or 2009. The story is loosely inspired by the film “Entrapment”‘s opening sequence, though the plot and the characters were really mine. This story is NOT Plagiarized and it is my undoubtedly and could be my very first real short story.
The Time and events relate to the most important day of my life. The Day A Friendship Died.
Ladies and Gentlemen.. My first short story, I give this to you on my 22nd year.
