| 12:35am | Demonic rumbles as claymores get squished in episode 21 | | | | I’m really digging Claymore at the moment and each episode is ending on the kind of gut-wrenching cliff hanger that so tempts me to gorge on manga spoilers. Episode 21 is no different; Ligardes is one of the coolest awakened beings yet – his intimidating part-lion transformation perfectly emphasizes... | | |
| 11:12pm | From rambling to first impressions of Turn A Gundam | | | | Lately, I’ve been running a little low on inspiration. Blogging can be great fun, but it’s hard work when the ideas aren’t flowing as freely. In the last week alone, I’ve scrapped two half-written articles simply because they felt like a chore to write, and after all, dear reader, the last thing... | | |
| 9:47pm | Anime going mainstream, what’s the point? | | | | For whatever reason, I’ve spent the last few years trying to share my passion for anime, hoping to establish new fans, dreaming of a day when I could turn on my TV and find, say, Escaflowne lining up along side The Sopranos. I guess I want more people to understand anime and to know that it has... | | |
| 9:30pm | Harry Potter, nineteen years later ~ all was well | | | | I know this is supposed to be bateszi anime blog, but allow me this one-off transgression from the norm; I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and I promised kauldron26 I’d post up some thoughts. Though this may be obvious to some, I’m warning you right now to expect spoilers... |
| 10:00pm | Please embrace the brilliance of Toward the Terra | | | | A lot of great anime premiered in the 2007 spring season. In fact, there is too much to mention, and for that reason, I suppose many people overlooked Toward the Terra. I struggled through the first four or five episodes and was feeling pretty apathetic about it myself. The truth is that it begins with... | | |
| 2:00pm | Someone said “anime isn’t deep, it’s just entertainment” | | | | (Because I’m such an elitist lamer, I was invited by Owen of Cruel Angel Theses ♪ to take part in this discussion of “anime isn’t deep, it’s just entertainment”. Other enthusiastic contributors include the fine bloggers at Drastic My Anime Blog, Hige Vs. Otaku, That Animeblog, That’s... | | |
| 8:54pm | A movie about Ping Pong, can’t be good, surely? | | | | Table tennis, ping pong, whatever you want to call it, is a specialist sport played mostly by an enthusiastic collection of hardcores, eccentrics and oddballs. Examining the game with unloving eyes, all you may uncover is a baffling blur of squeaking shoes and pumped up grunts. So, amidst this... |
| 4:05pm | By way of episode 15, analyzing the appeal of Gurren Lagann | | | | I watched episode 15 of Gurren Lagann last night. Put simply, it was awesome; the best episode so far, I can't emphasize that enough. I wanted to blog it right there and then, but threw in the towel after two hours worth of typing had produced little more than a couple of paragraphs lined with superficial... | | |
| 11:40pm | One Piece - A nostalgic comment, nearing the end of my adventure | | | | I'm up to episode 301 of One Piece; 15 more and I'll have finally caught up with the current fansubs. It's taken me nearly three years to get this far and now I'm almost there, I have this weird feeling. It's been great knowing that if I'm ever bored with anime, if I ever wanted to watch something that... |
| 12:24am | Lelouch and Light: the era of yuppies with broken dreams | | | | Art imitating life, I'm sure you've heard that one before; the idea that the thoughts and fears of our generation are somehow reflected in the art (and therefore, entertainment) that we create. Life now, at least in developed countries like Japan, North America and the UK, is a lot calmer than it was... |
| 12:27pm | The end of Death Note: a poison, creating wicked hearts | | | | Death Note is a " poison, creating wicked hearts", said the concerned prudes at Chinese schools after some 'corrupted' kids were discovered to be using their home-made murder pages to curse fellow students. This was back in 2005; the first time I'd heard of the now famous Death Note.... | | |
| 10:52pm | The difference between original anime and manga adaptations: soul | | | | FLCL and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Both are produced at everyone's favorite GAINAX, but more importantly, they are original stories (i.e. not based on manga); conceived and animated by the same creative people. Cowboy Bebop's the same, Eureka Seven and even Last Exile too. Casting a net over this spr... | | |
| 10:18pm | Digimon Adventure (Movie 1) - Believe me, it really is that good! | | | | It's brilliant to be in this position. The last thing I expected to be writing about is Digimon, but that's just typical of life; ever twisting, ever unpredictable. So this morning I was reading about Mamoru Hosoda - a rising star of anime who is just now making an international impact with "The... |
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