| 10:10am | Kaiji 5 - Pierce the Heavens with Your Scissors | | | | Kurae! Final attack, Dai-Zidane Headbutt-o! After escaping from the Ship of Hope, Kaiji will go on to pursue a promising career as a: A. French Soccer Player B. Motivational Speaker C. Hood Ornament Salesman D. Mullet Model You have to love how Andou and Furuhata never fully appreciate Kaiji’s... | | |
| 5:49am | Moyashimon = Squishy Squishy Marshmallows | | | | Moyashimon episode 2. Thanks to Xerox for this week’s Moyashimon equation. It was inspired by her description of the bacteria: “aren’t they just adorable? They’re like tiny, tiny marshmallows, don’t you just feel their squishy plumpness when Sawaki plucks them out of the air?”... | | |
| 9:06am | Full RSS Feeds and Other Housecleaning | | | | That’s right, in addition to all our other benefits, we now offer full RSS feeds. Guff’s busy working on a film, so I’ve taken advantage of the down time to do some Epic housecleaning. As you may have noticed, there have been a number of minor changes across the site. I’ve received... |
| 9:33pm | Anime Blogger Subspecies | | | | As tj_han recently demonstrated, among the subset of otaku known as “anime bloggers” there exist further subgroups which can be used for classification. Unfortunately, his list omitted a number of significant subtypes, which I feel are important to properly identify. The same disclaimer... |
| 9:05am | Kaiji 4 - On the Rocks | | | | The thick plottens! *zawa zawa* Oh, just as an added note, I never, ever want to get into a situation that requires me to lock myself in a toilet with two other men. Especially a pink toilet. If they hadn’t already realized from the whole insurmountable gambling debt thing, this would surely... | | |
| 9:21pm | SaiMoe 2007 - A Tribute to the Fallen | | | | First of all, omedetou Furude Rika on winning SaiMoe 2007! A good showing for Higurashi arimasu desu~! Nipaa~! Even though there are others I would’ve preferred to see come out on top, I don’t think it’s worth wasting time and energy complaining about it. SaiMoe has way too much emo... | | |
| 6:26am | Nyoro~n, DarkMirage, and a Rant on Bad Subbing | | | | DarkMirage’s recent criticism of Nyoro~n’s Gundam 00 translations sparked a flurry of criticism, mostly petty ad hominems telling him to get out of his parent’s basement, but also a few reasonable arguments defending Nyoro~n. After checking out Nyoro~n’s releases myself, I feel... | | |
| 5:00am | Dance Trooper Storms the Shibuya Streets | | | | OK, after seeing Danny Choo’s latest dance performance I couldn’t resist blogging about this. Not only is the song great, the dance moves are hilarious. It even comes complete with free background dancers! Speaking of all the guys who jump in to dance along with Dannymany people have this... |
| 5:29am | Engrish of Great Favorite? Is Mine Too! | | | | That’s right, Ghetto Happy Diningand of course it’s a really posh restaurant. As a nation, Japan is absolutely fascinated with the English language. They give their products English names to make them sound foreign and exotic, they brand them using Roman letters to give them that distinctive... |
| 2:13am | Kaiji 3 - Ron Biatches! | | | | Choki! Finally the first glimpses of Kaiji’s inner demon are revealed And the moment we’ve all been waiting for arrives. Kaiji’s fish takes the bait and he’s taken in…hook, line, and scissors. It was most excellent to finally see Kaiji’s shrewd gambling cunning come... | | |
| 10:20am | The Good, The Bad, and The Moe: The Fall ‘07 Anime Rankings | | | | 30 different shows from the fall season, analyzed and ranked from the bottom up. Two Shows with emo woes and mecha in the sky, Seven pieces of crap that got released too soon, Six moe series, each with one lucky guy, One for the Lolicon in his dark room In the Land of Internets where Shadows lie. One... | | |
| 5:26am | Kaiji 2 - qq Cry More Noob | | | | haha n00b i use t3h l33t sploitz nao all ur c4rd r bel0ng 2 me ;_; lolol rofl pwned kkthxbye!!1 I always love Fukumoto’s storytelling. He manages to create such an intense, gripping atmosphere surrounding games which, on the surface, seem quite trivial and uninteresting. I mean who would imagine... | | |
| 7:09am | Anime Popularity, Google Trends, and Nice Boats | | | | Google has a search comparison tool called Google Trends, which allows you to look up and compare the popularity of certain high volume search queries over time. After reading this article, I was inspired to see if I could find anything cool regarding anime related search terms. Rather than performing... |
| 7:56am | Moyashimon = Mushishi + LocoRoco | | | | In a season overflowing with sequels and generic “been there, done that” plots, Moyashimon’s unique premise and unusual, lighthearted style is a breath of fresh air. Basically it’s Mushishi, but instead of mysterious and sometimes sinister creatures that live in your eyeballs,... | | |
| 11:03pm | Kaiji 1 - Zawa Zawa! | | | | Clannad? Shana? Gundam? Meh, who needs them when you’ve got Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji! Although this show seems to be the red-headed (and pointy nosed) step-child of the fall anime season, here at EW it’s the number one item on our Must-Watch list right now. Read on and perhaps you too... | | |
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