| 4:00pm | Introducing the Fiction Kitchen: Anime Diet’s Creative Writing Sideblog |  | | | A number of us at Anime Diet are also creative writers of some sort. I’ve been doing it all my life, practically, and the recent National Novel Writing Month has rekindled my love of telling fantasy stories. With that in mind, I’m pleased to unveil a semi-official side blog: The Fiction... |
| 6:37am | Feelgood Anime as (Mild) Therapy: Kimi ni Todoke, Kobato, and Nyan Koi | | | | I finally caught up with a few current season shows today, and it probably tells you a lot when I tell you which ones they were: Kimi ni Todoke, Kobato., and Nyan Koi. These were the sort of shows I needed to watch at this point in my life. Let me explain. Kimi ni Todoke as the Best Kind of Wish Fulfillment... |
| 7:43pm | 5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Miss Gurren Lagaan On Hulu! | | | | Earlier this weekend, while doing my rare rounds of looking for more tv goodness in the ever fruitful lands of Huluville, I ran into a title that equates clearly to the recent acquisition of another geek classic, Edgar Wright’s SPACED. The late 90s-early 2000s TV series featuring none other than... |
| 7:23am | Nyan Koi! Episode 6 – Twins? Twins! | | | | snapshot20091117231118snapshot 20091117231142snapshot20091117 231158snapshot20091117231224sn apshot20091117231244snapshot20 091117231311snapshot2009111723 1331snapshot20091117231409snap shot20091117231450snapshot2009 1117231516snapshot200911172315 29snapshot20091117231604 Well, episode 6 really wasn’t... |
| 8:00pm | The Sacred Blacksmith ep 07 – Questions | | | | vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h29m57s18 5vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h30m42s1 15vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h31m01s 53vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h31m26s 41vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h31m35s 138vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h34m30 s255vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h34m4 3s218vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h35m 22s86vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h35m 56s193 Why are there the... |
| 8:00pm | The Sacred Blacksmith ep 07 – Questions | | | | vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h29m57s18 5vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h30m42s1 15vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h31m01s 53vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h31m26s 41vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h31m35s 138vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h34m30 s255vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h34m4 3s218vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h35m 22s86vlcsnap-2009-11-15-23h35m 56s193 Why are there the... |
| 4:07pm | My! As I live and breath! Mr. Satan! | | | | Yes, I’m sure many of you have seen it from Sankaku Complex, but boy, one of our writers had a teary moment and as someone who used to live DBZ in his teenager days, this was almost a mystical experience as much I when I heard that music for crossin the street when the light is green in Japan... |
| 2:44pm | Queen’s Blade s2 08 – really, it’s more worth than its looks. | | | | vlcsnap-2009-11-15-22h28m43s22 vlcsnap-2009-11-15-22h29m21s15 5vlcsnap-2009-11-15-22h29m45s0 vlcsnap-2009-11-15-22h30m07s0v lcsnap-2009-11-15-22h30m15s191 vlcsnap-2009-11-15-22h30m23s0v lcsnap-2009-11-15-22h30m27s0vl csnap-2009-11-15-22h30m31s99vl csnap-2009-11-15-22h30m38s182v lcsnap-2009-11-15-22h30m47s0vl... |
| 5:00pm | PMX 2009 Twitter Digest – Day 2 (Saturday) | | | | See day 1’s digest here. The Nabeshin videos will take just a little longer to edit. ;)I am standing across the hall from Nabeshin. The fan panel is supposed to start soon but Uchusentai is overtime. –posted at 06:00:30 In his Afro glory: Nabeshin. http://yfrog.com/9edv8j –posted at... |
| 7:46am | PMX 2009 Twitter Digest – Day 1 (Friday) | | | | The first of many PMX posts to come! Day 2’s digest is forthcoming, as well as some exclusive video of famous director Nabeshin and many exclusive photos. Stay tuned! Day 1, FridayInside the concert which is about to start at PMX! Several artists are playing. –posted at 13:06:41We have a... |
| 4:54am | Nyan Koi! – Episode 5 – Commence Love Rectangle | | | | snapshot20091109195206snapshot 20091109195330snapshot20091109 195634snapshot20091109200011sn apshot20091109200259snapshot20 091109200807 This would have been a review of Episodes 5 and 6, however I wasn’t able to view Episode 6 in time. My apologies. If you recall from my last article, I really... |
| 1:42am | Briding The Gap: Cross Game & The Art Of Touch | | | | With a look of intense focus, and the control of a precision-based machine, the pitcher eyes the figure facing him from across the diamond. The eyes across send a look, an equally piercing gaze as if the moment at hand was the potential last. Like a razor across the open field while the roaring crowd... |
| 4:00pm | Queen’s Blade S2 07 – silly mixed with poignant | | | | If your best friend is simply way too naive, so much so that it may cost his or her life, what would you do? Yeah, it’s true. Maybe you should let it go. Let him or her suffer the consequences. After all, it’s not your life. But it’s life or death. It is really life or death. You... |
| 2:49am | Bridging The Gap Reviews: Evangelion 2.0 | | | | Two Point Zero Sum And so two years fly by, delivering Evangelion 2.0 to the polarized masses. Is it the final nail in an enduring cultural milestone’s coffin? Could these new films in fact be anime’s equivalent of the Star Wars prequels? Or perhaps even the heralding of a more complete version... |
| 2:00pm | Shitsuraken: A Tired Argument | | | | Shitsuraken is metafiction. However, rather than metafiction that cleverly employs existing genre tropes to make an argument, it is metafiction that simply arrives back at the starting point. Both visually and narratively, it borrows heavily from classics such as Revolutionary Girl Utena and Sailor... |
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