| 6:30pm | You need to be watching Dennou Coil | | | | In this so-called modern age, the thousands of miles that separate countries are irrelevant; a shrinking distance covered by mere flickers of electricity. Obviously, our world is merging and cultures are overlapping, yet the distance between you and I remains the same. Though we may have transcended... | | |
| 2:36pm | Autumn in the silent forest | | | | Since I’ve been a bit quiet over the last couple of weeks, I figured I should check in with a small update to let y’all know that I’m still around. If truth be told, I’m feeling fairly apathetic towards the whole blogging thing right now; the end result being that I just can’t... | | |
| 6:45pm | Creepy horror manga? The Enigma of Amigara Fault is the answer | | | | Halloween is fast approaching and it’s time to indulge in some frightful Japanese horror. Sadly, it’s not a genre that translates well to anime and manga, but having recently discovered the abnormal works of manga-ka Junji Ito, there may well be hope for us yet. This time I’m talking... |
| 6:29pm | Hey there Delilah, what’s worth watching? | | | | I must admit, I haven’t approached this autumn season with my usual enthusiasm for all things Japanese animated. Every review I read says it all sucks, I’m confused; has anime suddenly turned bad? So, since I don’t have the will-power to sit through dozens of mediocre first episodes,... |
| 7:43pm | The hyperbole of Mononoke | | | | “Specter; spirit; ghost. Mononoke is a very old word, now rarely used, that describes spirits who actively haunt or pursue a person or place. Though the spirit need not be evil, it does have somewhat of a dangerous connotation.” Though it borders on pretentious, I’ve always wanted to... | | |
| 11:07pm | The end of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann | | | | The internet teaches harsh lessons; one of the most important is to be vigilant for spoilers. Something good was released on Sunday and subsequently, these past few days of surfing the rippling tide of written voices was gradually stifled by spiralling waves of paranoia. Yet as the dark of night finally... | | |
| 7:05pm | Anime fan forever? | | | | In the wake of Ten’s exit from anime blogging, I can’t help but reflect on my own love affair with anime. In a few years time, could I find myself feeling similarly ambivalent, thinking back on this odd fascination as a mere fling? Or rather, am I destined to be forever an otaku? Decades... |
| 9:20pm | I Accept Your Dying Wish! Gurren Lagann 25 | | | | I’ve always found it hard to write about Gurren Lagann. Any attempt at coherent bloggage is foiled simply because I like it too much; it’s just a quivering mass of animated awesome. Yet come every Monday and jaw on the floor after every single episode, I’ve been fighting that nagging... | | |
| 10:58pm | Turn A Gundam and our attraction to self-destruction | | | | As of writing, I’ve managed to sit through 28 episodes of Turn A Gundam; satisfied that I’m just over half way there. I won’t lie - it feels like an achievement because I’ve struggled through the series; at one point I literally had to stop an episode half-way and take an energy... |
| 6:18pm | No. Not even in the face of armageddon. Never compromise. | | | | With September in full swing, we find ourselves on the verge of the 2007 fall season. What? Already? I’m not prepared for any of that new stuff yet; it’s still too early for all these fall previews, autumn can go fuck itself. On the other hand, I’m still hopelessly devoted to a number... | | |
| 6:31pm | Naruto Shippuuden rises from the ashes! A dramatic return to form! | | | | After realizing my disappointment in Naruto Shippuuden, I quit watching and renounced my faith in the old girl; for me, the magic had faded. All at once, it felt too slow, too choppy, too cheap and too predictable; my dreams had been lost - the hero’s comeback never happened. In that time, I enjoyed... | | |
| 12:49am | Is it the Franky or the beans? One Piece 321 | | | | It sounds superficial, but something as stupid as a smile goes a long way; after a tiring week, it’s just a lot easier to relax in front of anime that’s pleasant and funny with happy characters who cheer and smile – that’s a big reason why I love watching One Piece. It’s just so colourful... |
| 11:00pm | Polling Yoko Kanno’s best soundtrack? | | | | I’m a big fan of Yoko Kanno’s music; be it the atmospheric electronica of Macross Plus (1994) or the acoustic style contributed to Wolf’s Rain (2003), it’s hard to ignore the core emotional beauty of her work; a quality that, not matter which musical style she borrows, ensures... | | |
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