| 1:33am | What I marathoned because I had too much free time #1: Lamune | | | | If you’ve been watching the trends in aniblogging recently, the “what I was forced to watch” category of post recently shot up in popularity (sorted by author) by a whopping 100%, going from just one author (JP) in this genre, to two authors (JP and Hinano), overnight (last night,... | | |
| 1:21pm | T-That’s Impossible: A Retrospect on Saimoe 2008, Round 3 | | | | Analysis\ up when I get the chance, but since I’ll be away from the computer for a bit, I’ve got to push this post out the door: G3-2 Results: Show ▼ Tsukasa (Lucky Star) defeats Nagi (Hayate) 1080-889 H3-1 Results: Show ▼ Noe (true tears) defeats Suzu (Nagasarete Airantou) 972-555... | | |
| 4:34pm | Clash of the Ideals: Saimoe ‘08 [3GH-1] results and [3GH-2] preview | | | | Nagi vs. Tsukasa. Nagi vs. Tsukasa. Nagi vs. Tsukasa. The last match in Round 3 is the first major challenge for two beacons of moe for two shows that have shown exceptional support for their top characters. Who will emerge victor, and how hard will the world shake with the battle of these two and... | | |
| 5:18pm | Enough of That Already: Saimoe ‘08 [3EF-2] results and [3GH-1] preview | | | | Can I still dramatize Minami-ke? I can still dramatize Minami-ke. The third round has been a rough mix of incredible blowouts and intense battles; we’ve seen all four Clannad girls annihilate the competition in varying amounts. We’ve seen Nanoha and Shana go toe-to-toe for 23 hours in one... | | |
| 5:48pm | Duel of the Dark Horses: Saimoe ‘08 [3EF-1] results and [3EF-2] preview | | | | Things are looking bad for the Minami-ke ticket that could seemingly do no wrong one round ago. Now, faced with hate votes, strategic votes, and worst of all, Key characters (and I only use worst in the ‘garners ridiculous amount of votes’ sense), two of their girls got crushed pretty roughly,... | | |
| 2:30pm | Name Brand Battle: Saimoe ‘08 [3CD-2] results and [3EF-1] preview | | | | Have you had enough KyoAni yet? Even the most hardened of fanboys might admit that yesterday’s match was a bit overwhelming in Overly Popular Characters, and only one girl was unlucky enough to stand up to them The unexpected popularity of Minami-ke gave their core trio strong showings in the... | | |
| 9:54pm | When Touhou meets Golgo 13: Cirno 9 - a tale of boredom … | | | | After playing one too many rounds of the 1999 arcade game Golgo 13, the idea was simply irresistable to me, especially since I was looking for a quick and easy game idea to code into existence. (Download Cirno 9 - The Strongest - Vista-compatible version here) As usual, said idea was neither quick... | | |
| 6:18pm | Kana vs. KyoAni: Saimoe ‘08 [3CD-1] results and [3CD-2] preview | | | | And yet another climactic round comes to pass. SaiMoe is very much a tournament of dreams, not because to outsiders it seems like a bunch of people verbally fapping to imaginary characters, but because it really is an example where sometimes, anything seems possible. We’ve seen the legendary... | | |
| 6:39pm | “Can you believe in it?” Saimoe ‘08 [3AB-2] results and [3CD-1] preview | | | | The matches continue to be a close fight, and this time, it was the clash of Hanyuu and San that proved to be a nailbiter, especially for Higurashi fans that got burnt once before. But on the flip side, Seto no Hanayome fans bet all their stakes on this round, with both their characters fighting in... | | |
| 2:26pm | Bamboo Beatdown Brewing? Saimoe ‘08 [3AB-1] results and [3AB-2] preview | | | | And no one stopped to tell me that I got the match preview backwards, flipping B3-2 with A3-2? In any case, a great fight yesterday; I often found myself checking the interim standings for how close the Haruka vs. Fuuko results were, and if you look at the graph of the votes you find that over the... | | |
| 7:10am | DEFCON 3: Saimoe ‘08 [3-A] Preview | | | | And the third round of SaiMoe 2008 is go - with the field of 288 girls pared down to 36, a character has to be either very moe, very popular, or very lucky to get this far, with the action only increasing in intensity from here. It’s a bit too early to declare it all-out war, despite my allusion... | | |
| 5:27am | Prepare for War: An infodump on SaiMoe 2008 as it enters round 3 | | | | The tension continues to grow as we move out of the second round and into the third, where this is no longer child’s play, a domination of the popular over the obscure, but now, as the 4chan SaiMoe ads infamous put it, moe is “serious f’ing business”. Certainly we’ve seen... | | |
| 5:18am | [Rapidfire] Weeaboo Wardrobe: Too many iron-ons, too little sanity | | | | The life of the anime fan is a strange one. While many times I’ve advocated being proud of one’s fandom and not hiding your otaku secret from the public like it’s a badge of shame (unless, of course, you are a cute Mamiko Noto-voiced girl in an average-ish romance show), the way in... | | |
| 5:43am | An Otaku Love Affair: Haruka Nogizaka’s Secret, reviewed | | | | So I understand Code Geass ended recently. Code Geass being what it is - a mysterious force that I haven’t experienced that supposedly mixes trainwrecks, pizza, and ingredient X and comes out with massive popularity - concluded on a rather open-ended note, leaving discussion of the final outcome... | | |
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