| 8:52am | Final Thoughts and Ramblings: Kaiji | | | | Twenty-two year old Itou Kaiji is a bit of a loser- an unemployed bum, he amuses himself by slashing tyres and stealing the emblems from cars. All that changes, however, when his friend defaults on a loan and the yakuza come to collect from the guarantor- namely Kaiji himself. With no other way of paying... | | |
| 12:29pm | Tuesday Rumble: May 6th | | | | Busou Renkin the gameStill missing Busou Renkin? On the off-chance that you actually are, why not imagine a world where the series has its own RPG? In the style of Star Ocean, all battles are fought in real-time, with trigger buttons used to unleash special attacks from a player’s Busou Renkin. Whether... | | |
| 8:00am | Weekly Round-Up: May 2nd | | | | Reviewed this week: Amatsuki 1-2, Chi’s Sweet Home 13, Himitsu 2, Kaiba 2, Kurenai 4, Real Drive 2, Wagaya no Oinari-sama 3, xxxHOLiC Kei 4, Zoku SZS 12..and in manga: HxH 275-8, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 13-20ANIMECURRENT SERIES RANKINGSZoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (3) – the state of modern... | | |
| 8:00am | Minami-ke Okawari: when second helpings don’t taste as good | | | | In its first season, Minami-ke could pretty much do no wrong for me; it may have seemed like just another anime about schoolgirls and their everyday lives, but it hit all the right notes in terms of delivery. With that in mind, I was looking forward to thirteen more episodes of the same- except that... | | |
| 10:46am | Weekly Round-Up: April 25th | | | | Reviewed this week: Allison and Lillia 3, Chi’s Sweet Home 9-12, Himitsu 1, Itazura na Kiss 2-3, Kaiba 1, Kaiji 26, Kurenai 3, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 2, Mnemosyne 3, Real Drive 1, Shion no Ou 19, Soul Eater 1-2, Wagaya no Oinari-sama 2, xxxHOLiC Kei 2-3, Zoku SZS 11…and in manga: Chi’s Sweet Home... | | |
| 10:19am | Aria the Origination: ramblings of a self-confessed fangirl | | | | Anyone who’s ever been anywhere near this blog must surely know that I love Aria- or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I adore it. The manga and the first two seasons of the anime were greater than I ever dared imagine, transporting me to the calm, gentle world of Neo Venezia, a place where... | | |
| 12:42pm | Weekly Round-Up: April 18th | | | | Reviewed this week: Allison and Lillia 1-2, Amatsuki 1, Chi’s Sweet Home 7-8, Crystal Blaze 1, Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino 6, Kurenai 2, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 1, Tower of Druaga 2, Wagaya no Oinari-sama 1, Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 10…and in manga: Akagi 10-11,Chi’s Sweet Home 1, Doujin Work... | | |
| 3:59pm | Final Thoughts: Mokke | | | | This cat was my favourite part of the series.Shizuru and Mizuki Hibara are a pair of sisters with a rather unique family condition- Shizuru can see monsters and spirits from the other side, whilst Mizuki is highly susceptible to being possessed by them. With their parents disinterested in the supernatural,... | | |
| 3:17pm | Final Thoughts: Shigofumi | | | | Fumika is a mail carrier, but not your average one- the mail she delivers is no ordinary correspondence. Instead, her duty is to deliver Shigofumi, the last letters of the recently deceased to members of living. Together with her companion and talking staff Kanaka, Fumika steadfastly carries out her... | | |
| 3:17pm | Final Thoughts: Shigofumi | | | | Fumika is a mail carrier, but not your average one- the mail she delivers is no ordinary correspondence. Instead, her duty is to deliver Shigofumi, the last letters of the recently deceased to members of living. Together with her companion and talking staff Kanaka, Fumika steadfastly carries out her... | | |
| 4:08pm | Weekly Round-Up: April 13th | | | | Oh, it’s only tear gas, is it? That’s okay then.Reviewed this week: Blassreiter 1, Chi’s Sweet Home 5-6, Itazura no Kiss 1, Kaiji 25, Kurenai 1, Tower of Druaga 1, xxxHOLiC Kei 1, Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 8-9…and in manga: .hack//Alcor 1-5. .hack//Link 2, Elfen Lied 84, REC bonus... | | |
| 3:08pm | Final Thoughts: Spice and Wolf | | | | Lawrence Craft is a travelling merchant who has dedicated his life to turning a profit through trading goods across the country. Even so, no matter how good an entrepreneur you are, it can be a lonely life, which is why Lawrence doesn’t complain too much when gains a rather unique travelling companion... | | |
| 8:00am | Final Thoughts: Clannad | | | | Get up, go to school, go home- day in, day out, this is the sum of Okazaki Tomoya’s existence, a dull routine broken only by the occasional practical joke. But when he meets Furukawa Nagisa, a senior who has to repeat a year due to illness, everything slowly changes. Despite the hurdles in her... | | |
| 10:57am | Tuesday Rumble: April 8th | | | | The world of lost save data- where does it go?Way back in the days of .hack//SIGN, Bear wondered if the game worlds where you lose and switch off the power actually continue somewhere, and now we must wonder the same of lost save data- do those gaming realities still exist somewhere? Are there existences... |
| 11:34am | Final Thoughts: Saiunkoku Monogatari II | | | | Last time we time we saw Shuurei and her friends, they were in the process of putting the Sa province to rights, but of course, their troubles are far from over. First, there’s the outbreak of a deadly plague and the emergence of the mystical Hyou family to deal with, but after that, there are even... | | |
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