Almael

Sounds familiar?

It’s about a guy

who during daylight complains: “It’s hot. I’m burning. I’m gonna turn to ash.”

who gets exited with a nose bleed when smelling a girl’s wallet.

In order to keep him in check a girl is sent to take care of him in case something happens. And that’s a promise.

She’s dedicated and works 24/7… but she’s a country bump. As a result, she got hurt by him, bled and needed to be checked but luckily it was a safe day so the test was negative…

And so begins his ascension to fame. Well, that’s the gits of it.

The show is based on (currently) a nine novel series and an abridged manga based on the anime (not cut as much as the seikai mangas).

The story is slow paced and takes quite a while before it gets interesting, though. The whole first novel is just the intro.

There are 37 adventure chapters so it might become a long show…

The impression is that it’s similary to “To Aru Kagaku no Railgun” only dressed differently and more of a harem type. [Imho “Kyoukai no Kanata” is superior.]

Toshokan Sensou/Library War

Toshokan Sensou The Movie – Kakumei no Tsubasa

Library War: The Wings of Revolution

I finally came around to watch the movie and it’s better than expected.

The movie continues where the show left off.

The war is escalating. Using a faked accident the censorship law has been expanded and to be used to forbid an author from writing.

The Library Defense Force is finally able to take this to the court, but it also mean a do or die situation.

If they lose the constitutional freedom of expression will be practically gone. Once again our protagonists risk their lives for an idea the public doesn’t care.

Sadly, the show and series as a whole has been taken over by recent events. Worse the freedom of speech is being lost without the need of censorship laws.

The recent censorship law passed in Japan this week already censored the news about itself.

Anyway, the movie is unexpectedly well made and has virtually no weakness compared to other movies made for a show. The script and directing made everything look right without looking forceful or trying to bring the audience up to speed on the show. Nothing seems missing or left out or to be desired. The movie wraps up everything in the show, and for all lead and major characters.

Even other characters from the show get an appearance and some role. The movie managed to keep the charm and atmosphere of the show. It has a little less action compared to the show as it addresses the core of the problem instead of fights on the surface. What’s more the BD has over 100 minutes of commentary. I haven’t seen anyone providing this much yet.

It’s a great movie for fans, and perhaps the best one made for a show in this light.

Since it’s a difficult theme and virtually a niche show it may not appeal to everyone, though.

The Kanas/Kanjis should have at least a size of 28×28 preferable more like 32×32 or better.

I usually scan and save as bmp first.

Then I use Irfanview to reduce the colors. Do not reduce colors in one go! It’s best to do it step by step to preserve the structure: e.g. to 65536 to 256 (to 16 (to 2)). You may try and skip a step if it’s possible.

For a reduction to 256 I use the ‘radical image optimization tool’ plugin, it usually gives the best results. File->save for web(plugin)

With Irfanview you can batch every work just make sure of the settings each time, because the last setting might be different. You can save batch scripts, too.

Then save it as bmp or gif then batch convert to png gives the smallest size with best quality. Saving directly to png does not always gives a smaller size due to often bad implementation of the format. PNG can store lower bit colors but people usually program it to store 24 bit so it doesn’t always gives a really smaller size. It’s bothersome when you do some 3D mod and 65552 colors become preferable.

Jpg can get smaller but it blurres everything and may introduce more smeared colors. Well, just saying.