| 5:11am | What is Anime? (the written definition) |  | | | When I first created AnimeYume.com over five years ago, one of the original pages on the site was a page introducing anime, why it’s popular, and how it’s different from American cartoons. Recently I’ve been looking over that page and I noticed that my writing skills back then were... | | |
| 10:32pm | Fansubs and what the R1 industry needs to do | | | | This has been a pretty hot topic amongst the English speaking anime world lately, especially with the collapse of Geneon and with ADV barely holding on. Now I don’t know much about business, licensing, finance, etc., nor about the inner workings of US anime companies. However, from what I’ve... |
| 5:47am | School Rumble review | | | | I’m a little late watching School Rumble but better late than never I guess *Just to note, this is a review of the first TV season of School Rumble only* School Rumble is one of those comedic, slice-of-life high school series’ that’s never too serious nor too plot-centered (if you... | | |
| 4:45am | 5 Centimeters per Second review | | | | After hearing about and seeing images from 5 Centimeters per Second, I decided to sit down and watch it a few nights ago. And I’m glad I did take an hour out of my time for it because it is absolutely gorgeous First of all, I’m sure just about anyone who’s seen 5Cm/Sec will agree... | | |
| 5:06am | First major summer site update | | | | I spent this entire past weekend working on my first major summer update on the main AnimeYume.com site. And it turned out to be one of the biggest updates I’ve done in quite a while ^_^ First of all I added two new anime sections for Lucky Star and Code Geass. I also added YouTube videos to... | | |
| 6:47pm | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu first impressions | | | | I wasn’t planning on watching this series, but after reading the synopsis it sounded like a fun and unique story so I decided to give it a try After watching the first few minutes of episode 1, I was a bit apprehensive that the series might be too fan service-y for my taste. But as it turns... | | |
| 9:43pm | World Destruction first impressions | | | | World Destruction is the latest series by Production I.G., set for a 13 episode run. So far I’ve seen two episodes, and although I don’t have too much to say about it yet, it piqued my interest right away The main thing I like about it so far is the designs of the characters and setting.... | | |
| 10:54pm | 1,000 piece Haruhi Bunny Girls jigsaw puzzle | | | | *Click the image for a larger version* I bought this puzzle somewhere in the dealer’s hall at AX and I finally finished it today. It was definitely one of the hardest puzzles I’ve ever done, but it came out gorgeous so it was well worth it I honestly had no idea where to start when I first... |
| 2:27am | What is Anime? - the Visual Definition (take two) | | | | Back in December of last year I began working on my first big anime video project. It’s not an AMV but rather it’s a movie-length compilation of 50 different anime openings along with information about each series. My intention was to use the project as a way to introduce non-anime fans... |
| 9:12pm | Slayers Revolution first impressions | | | | After 10 years the long-awaited sequel to the third season of the Slayers anime has finally arrived. Slayers will always hold a special place in my heart not just because it’s a great series’ but because it was one of the first anime I really got into back in the early 2000s. There’s... |
| 10:54pm | Haruhi site down on Tanabata: more thoughts on the new season | | | | We once again get teased by clever Internet tricks This past Monday, July 7th, which is the Tanabata festival in Japan and an extremely important day in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series, the official haruhi.tv site went down and was replaced with a 404 error page. The only thing displayed... | | |
| 2:13am | Anime Expo 2008 coverage and photos | | | | My autographed Lucky Star and Code Geass posters ^^ I got back from AX ‘08 on Sunday and my coverage and photos of it are now posted! =) Even though I didn’t do too much at the con this year and there weren’t any exceptional events, I had a pretty good time and took lots of awesome... | | |
| 4:13am | Off to AX! | | | | Tomorrow I’m heading off for my four-day stay at Anime Expo 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. To avoid the horrendous check-in lines of Day 1, I went to the LACC today, Day 0, to pick up my badge. So now with badge and suitcase in hand, I’m ready to head off early tomorrow morning... |
| 8:58pm | Anime Yume’s 6th year anniversary! | | | | Yup, today my site (animeyume.com) turns 6 years old. I can’t believe it’s been so long! 0_0 Six years ago on June, 30th 2002 I bought a domain name from geocities and started my own anime web site for the first time. Though the blog here is only about a year and a half old, the main AnimeYume.com... |
| 3:01am | The spring ‘08 season so far | | | | Right now I’ve seen about 11 episodes from each of the spring anime shows I’m currently watching. I know some of the spring shows are scheduled to end in the next week or two, but most of the ones I’m watching will continue to run for at least 25 episodes. When the spring season started,... | | |
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