| 10:13pm | Amusing Japan videos |  | | | For want of a better post to write today, here are some cute, funny, and/or disturbing Japan videos that I’ve come across on YouTube over the yearsSilent LibraryThis a Japanese game show where a group of people sit in a library and perform random uncomfortable and often downright painful actions... |
| 1:53am | My 100 favorite anime characters (10 – 1) | | | | We’ve finally reached the last installment of my 100 favorite character countdown that I started almost a month ago. After a lot of second guessing, image/video searching, and brain-wracking, it’s finally done. I had a lot of fun with these posts despite them being a bit repetitive at times.... |
| 1:53am | My 100 favorite anime characters (10 – 1) | | | | We’ve finally reached the last installment of my 100 favorite character countdown that I started almost a month ago. After a lot of second guessing, image/video searching, and brain-wracking, it’s finally done. I had a lot of fun with these posts despite them being a bit repetitive at times.... |
| 8:56pm | The strangeness and ambiguity of love in anime | | | | From what I’ve observed in the many anime titles I’ve watched over the years, the concept of love, especially compared to most Western TV shows and movies, is much more ambiguous, and sometimes downright strangeUnfortunately I can no longer find the original source, but someone once made... |
| 8:33pm | My 100 favorite anime characters (20 – 11) | | | | Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 20 to 11. Almost at the end20. Misuzu Kamio (from Air)Seiyuu: Tomoko KawakamiMisuzu’s tragic fate of being stuck in a cycle of endless pain and grief without ever being able to get close to someone, is one of the... |
| 3:35am | Mainichi Anime Yume’s 3rd year anniversary | | | | I don’t know where my mind was a month ago but I had completely forgotten that Mainichi Anime Yume’s anniversary is October 1st. So yeah, here’s the month late post celebrating MAY’s 3rd year anniversaryIt was three years (and a month) ago in 2006 when I finally decided to start... |
| 9:36pm | My 100 favorite anime characters (30 – 21) | | | | Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 30 to 2130. Monkey D. Luffy (from One Piece)Seiyuu: Mayumi TanakaLuffy is my favorite main shonen hero. He’s carefree, optimistic, and fun-loving, but he also knows very well when it’s time to be serious and... |
| 8:00pm | Haruhi Suzumiya English version novels review | | | | Yen Press and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers released the official English version of the first Haruhi Suzumiya light novel, “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya,” in April of this year. Volume 2, “The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya,” recently came out earlier this month. I’ve... |
| 10:00pm | My 100 favorite anime characters (40 – 31) | | | | Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 40 to 3140. Misato Katsuragi (from Neon Genesis Evangelion)Seiyuu: Kotono MitsuishiAlthough far from perfect, Misato is probably the most decent and overall “human” character on Evangelion. Unlike many of the... |
| 7:49pm | Nine recent and remarkable AMVs | | | | I always like to keep track of the most highly-rated AMVs. A little over a year ago I wrote a post featuring fifteen AMVs that I thought were the best. Since then, I’ve come across a few more, mostly excellent 2009 releases, that I feel deserve some praise tooResonant Discord by ChiikaboomFeatured... |
| 2:30am | My 100 favorite anime characters (50 – 41) | | | | I’ve reached the halfway mark on the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters. Here are characters 50 to 41. I just noticed that out of the ten characters on today’s list, six of them are not human XD (and two of those six are wolves). Not sure how that happened50. Kiba (from Wolf’s... |
| 7:56pm | Fairy Tail first impressions | | | | Two episodes into Fairy Tail and I definitely feel it has potential, but like other shonen series, it’s going to take time to really tellI haven’t picked up a new shonen series in a long time. But since I’ve liked all the ones I’ve watched, and Fairy Tail is greatly inspired by... |
| 7:31pm | Aoi Bungaku first impressions | | | | I’ve read two out of the six novels that Aoi Bungaku will adapt into anime episodes; No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai and Kokoro by Natsume Souseki. The series starts with No Longer Human so I thought I’d offer my initial impressions after watching the first episodeI read No Longer Human about... |
| 3:00am | My 100 favorite anime characters (60 – 51) | | | | Nearing the halfway mark on the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 60 to 51. Still second guessing myself a bit but that will get better as I approach the final half of the list60. Renton Thurston (from Eureka 7)Seiyuu: Yuko SanpeiOne thing that makes Eureka 7 such a fantastic... |
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