| 7:10pm | Major (7-14) | | | | We join Goro a few years after the first six episodes. He's now nine years old and playing in the Little League team that showed interest in him as a five-year-old. Speaking of which, doesn't the coach remind you of Hank Hill?Anyways, along with the leap forward in time, the |
| 12:24am | Major (1-6) : Standalone? | | | | I've heard all sorts of bad things about Major, a series that many people seem to think epitomizes the worst aspects of shonen sports. And who knows, maybe further along the series will indeed take a downturn, but after watching the first six episodes, I must say that even if |
| 12:23am | Top Ten Anime List | | | | I figured it was time to write a post like this, and link to it from the front page for the benefit of the one or two people who care (of course, it will be updated in the future if necessary). And if you think you have an anime |
| 4:13pm | Banner of the Stars II & III Review | | | | Banner of the Stars IIThis installment of the Stars franchise brings us the third arc in the story of Jinto and Lafiel. The story revolves around a captured planet which serves as a housing site for prisoners. It is currently in a state of anarchy, with multiple people from different |
| 8:04pm | Banner of the Stars (I) Review | | | | Banner of the Stars continues the story established in Crest of the Stars, with Jinto and Lafiel both being members of an attack vessel (Lafiel is the Captain). The story begins with them finishing their training and eventually being assigned to a very dangerous mission which involves protecting a... |
| 12:23am | Crest of the Stars Review | | | | Crest of the Stars is an anime series adapted from the beginning of a series of sci-fi novels written by Morioka Hiroyuki. Although I am not really a fan of science fiction as a genre, Planetes convinced me to give any setting or genre a chance, and I was told |
| 10:51pm | Tokyo Godfathers Review | | | | Three homeless street wanderers - a former deadbeat dad, a gruff-voiced transgendered "woman", and a runaway teenager - come across a crying baby in a dumpster. They argue over what do with it at first, but eventually settle on tracking down the parents who abandoned her. They set off on |
| 12:23am | Tokyo Magnitude 9 - Yuuki? | | | | There's been a reasonable amount of controversy on the Animesuki board, as well as Japanese blogs, about the eighth episode of Tokyo Magnitude. When noticing some not-so-subtle clues, it seems as if Yuuki didn't make it through his surgery, and Mirai hasergone insane and thinks he's alive and talking... | | |
| 6:06pm | Last Exile Review | | | | Last Exile takes place in a fictional world which resembles ninteeth century Europe except for the fact that complex flying ships exist and are used as a primary methods of transportation and warfare. We're introduced to our two young characters, Claus and Lavie, as amateur couriers who fly a vanship... |
| 12:23am | School Days Review | | | | Curiosity got the better of me and I watched this series entirely to see "what the big deal was", since it was such a controversial topic. Since I've read various things about the series in blogs and such, I already knew the basic aspects of it including what sort of | | |
| 9:17am | Favourite Episodes of Natsume Yuujinchou | | | | Since Natsume is an episodic series, this post can also be thought of as "five favourite individual stories from Natsume Yuujinchou". Naturally, they are from those stories adapted in seasons 1 and 2 (I say this hoping that there will be future seasons). Of them, I think there is one |
| 12:38pm | Natsume Yuujinchou Soundtrack Review | | | | Technically this a review of Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou's soundtrack, but much of the music is the same, and the soundtrack to the sequel actually contains many pieces from the first season that weren't included in the original score.The music, much like the series itself, is for the most part, gentle ... |
| 12:38pm | Piano no Mori Review | | | | Piano no Mori (Piano forest) is a pleasant anime film which revolves around a young, poor and talented young boy named Kai. The story is told through the perspective of a new student, Amamiya Shuuhei, who is from successful musical family and has been learning piano all his life. One |
| 4:54pm | Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou Review | | | | Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou is the sequel to the original 13-episode series, but it's really more of a simple continuation. The manga is ongoing and the first series adapted the story up to a certain point, and this sequel goes on adapting more material. However, the manga isn't complete, so the |
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