| 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... |
| 3:43am | My 100 favorite anime characters (70 – 61) | | | | Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters in commemoration of my ten years as a fan, here are characters 70 to 61. As I’m doing these lists, I still find myself second guessing on the order, even after I’ve completed them. I could probably spend a long time contemplating... |
| 10:10pm | Taiga wins Saimoe 2009 | | | | I missed my chance at celebrating Kagami’s win last year, but now I will celebrate this year with a galore of Taiga pictures———A lthough Nagi (Kannagi) was my first choice for Saimoe 2009, Taiga was my second. Very exciting turnout this year. I was really expecting Saki or K-ON!... |
| 8:47pm | Teaching an anime class to elementary school kids | | | | By a stroke of luck during my job hunt about a month ago, I came across an available position that combines my two favorite subjects; Japanese and animeThe position is being an after-school enrichment teacher via the Los Angeles YMCA. Each week I go to a few local elementary schools and give lessons... |
| 9:42pm | My 100 favorite anime characters (80 – 71) | | | | Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 80 to 7180. Miu Matsuoka (from Ichigo Mashimaro)Seiyuu: Fumiko OrikasaAlmost all the humor in Ichigo Mashimaro comes from Miu’s mischief. Her little pranks and jokes, and the affect they have on the other characters,... |
| 2:08am | Your “inner child” and indulgence in fantasy | | | | I wasn’t sure how to start this relatively personal post. I figured the below quote would be a good way (and yes, I will relate it to anime)“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but |
| 11:07pm | Nostalgia: Rewatching Digimon Adventure in Japanese | | | | Back when I first became an anime fan about 10 years ago, I didn’t have cable TV or high-speed Internet, so I was stuck with watching mostly Americanized “kiddy” anime on local channels. Thinking back, many of these series were pretty dispensable. However, Digimon was one of my early... |
| 10:11pm | The new Full Metal Alchemist anime so far… | | | | I have never read the Full Metal Alchemist manga, but I did watch the original anime series that came out in 2003/04 and loved it. I heard that around the middle of the first series, the story took a completely different route than the ongoing manga. So now, about five years later, we finally have... |
| 2:18am | My fall season ‘09 picks | | | | The majority of the fall 2009 anime series are going to start airing in a few weeks, so I figured now’s a good time to decide which ones I’m interested in Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini (Comet of Gemini) I watched the first season of Darker than Black a couple of years ago, but... | | |
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