| 5:28pm | Off to Japan (and a three week hiatus)… |  | | | At 1:30 am tonight (technically tomorrow), I’ll be catching a nighttime flight to Japan and arriving in Osaka for a 3-week, all expenses paid cultural/travel program The program is called the Rainbow Student Exchange Program and it’s sponsored by the non-profit Ashinaga organization and... |
| 7:19pm | Kyoukai no Rinne first impressions | | | | Kyoukai no Rinne is the newest manga series by the famous manga-ka Rumiko Takahashi. The first chapter of Rinne came out less than a year after Takahashi finally finished her longest running series, Inuyasha So far I’ve read 11 chapters of Rinne and I can say that it definitely has much of Takahashi’s... | | |
| 6:29pm | Spice and Wolf review | | | | I was a little late with watching Spice and Wolf, but better late than never for this excellent series Spice and Wolf has been on my “to-watch” list for quite some time, so I told myself I would watch it before the second season came out. And, since the second season started airing a few... | | |
| 5:01pm | Haruhi season 2 episode 5: Endless Eight (part 4) | | | | We have been trolled once again Yes, despite how much we all desired it, this was not the final part of “Endless Eight.” This episode followed the same pattern as parts 2 and 3, with Kyon and the others finding out about the endless summer, but in the end Kyon is unable to come up with... |
| 3:18am | Natsu no Arashi review | | | | I finished watching Natsu no Arashi last night, the first series I’ve completed using Crunchyroll’s simulcasting I enjoyed Jin Kobayashi’s other series, School Rumble, so I decided to give Natsu no Arashi a try. The first episode is a stand-alone filler episode, with the characters... | | |
| 5:01pm | Haruhi season 2 episode 4: Endless Eight (part 3) | | | | The third part of Endless Eightand it’s still not the final part After just about everyone expected “Endless Eight” to end this week, the way part 3 ended today, it’s pretty certain that we will be seeing part 4 next week. “Endless Eight” part 3 that aired today... |
| 7:53pm | AnimeYume.com’s 7th anniversary! | | | | Today my domain name and main web site, AnimeYume.com, turns seven years old Even though the blog here is only about 2 and a half years old, I’ve been working on my regular anime fan site, Anime Yume, for seven years now. Yup, it was seven years ago today, June 30th, 2002, my sophomore year... |
| 6:57pm | The String Concert of Haruhi Suzumiya | | | | Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou (The String Concert of Haruhi Suzumiya) was a concert held in Tokyo this past April 29th featuring the Tokyo Philharmonic playing music from the Haruhi TV series. The CD of the concert tracks was just released last week The majority of the concert was comprised of the Tokyo... | | |
| 11:27pm | K-ON! review | | | | The most popular anime series of the spring 2009 season comes to an end, at least for now For series like K-ON!, especially ones by KyoAni such as Haruhi, Lucky Star, and the Visual Art’s/Key series, you either like this slice-of-life genre with its moe character archetypes or you don’t.... | | |
| 6:50am | Haruhi season 2 episode 3: Endless Eight (part 2) | | | | Although “Endless Eight” was originally expected to be only one episode long, it’s now clear that it’s probably going to be three In my review of Haruhi S2 episode 2, I was surprised that KyoAni decided to spend that whole episode dealing with just the filler part of “Endless... |
| 2:10am | Underrated series of 2009: Kemono no Souja Erin | | | | Kemono no Souja Erin (Beast Harpist Erin) first began airing on NHK in January of this year and is scheduled for a 50 episode run. The series is based on novels by Seirei no Moribito creator Nahoko Uehashi, with animation by Production I.G. Personally, after seeing only 17 out of 50 episodes so far,... | | |
| 4:17am | Cel vs digital: does animation style affect overall quality? | | | | (Left) Lina from Slayers Next, 1995; (Right) Lina from Slayers Revolution, 2008 Ever since all anime switched from cel animation to digital animation back in the early 2000s, there has been some debate among fans about whether story/character quality has decreased even though animation techniques have... | | |
| 8:52pm | Eden of the East review | | | | Although it was one of the shortest anime TV series to air recently, I feel it’s definitely one of the best The story/plot of Eden of the East (a.k.a. Higashi no Eden) is one that’s not only creative, but it also makes a worthwhile commentary about the current political and economic status... | | |
| 5:52pm | Haruhi season 2 episode 2: Endless Eight (part 1?) | | | | I just finished watching the new Haruhi episode via live stream and, I’m sure most of us will agree, it ended quite contrary to what was expected Before I get to the actual ending of the episode, I’ll first review the rest of it. KyoAni did a great job with including all of the summer... |
| 3:21am | Nostalgic upload: English Pokemon CDs | | | | Back in the day, I used to collect everything Pokemon, including the English music CDs that were released in 1999 through 2001. Recently, I grew nostalgic for these old songs and, realizing that it’s hard to come across the CDs nowadays, I decided to upload the 6 English Pokemon CDs that I have... | | |
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