| 10:34pm | Natsume Yuujinchou Review | | | | Take a moment and picture yourself seated where the boy in this image is, staring upwards as clouds gently pass by peacefully in the wide blue sky, occasional breezes of warm air ruffle your hair, gentle sounds of birds and insects surround you, and memories slowly begin to drift through |
| 3:03pm | Quick thoughts on Touch live action movie | | | | Fans of Touch shouldn't really expect anything from this film other than the novelty of seeing live-action versions of the characters. After all, the anime was 101 episodes. This film is a few hours. There was absolutely no possibility of cramming in all that gradual development into such a short... |
| 4:07pm | Ookiku Furikabutte (Big Windup!) Review | | | | Ookiku Furikabutte is one of the best anime I have ever seen for a very simple reason - it picks one specific subject and genre and then delivers a finely crafted story which exposes all the best possible aspects of this genre in one concise and captivating package. In this | | |
| 8:07am | Seirei no Moribito Review | | | | Seirei no Moribito tells the story of a female bodyguard named Balsa who, after rescuing a young Prince (Chagum) from drowning, is requested by the Empress to take him into hiding to save him from assassination by the Emperor. The reason the Emperor is planning this assassination is because the | | |
| 8:06pm | Ookiku Furikabutte - First Impressions | | | | If you had told me one month ago that I would have watched four anime involving baseball within the span of a month, I would have called you insane. I've always thought that I could never be interested in sports anime. Even when I started watching Cross Game, I thought | | |
| 4:07am | Cross Game - 20 | | | | Can this anime get any more charming? Episode 20 was a goldmine of litte moments of humour and fun between the characters. Everyone in this story has such great chemistry with each other, all of their interactions no matter how small remain captivating. Some of the moments between Kou and |
| 10:44pm | Touch Sequel Movies Review (Miss Lonely Yesterday and Cross Roads) | | | | (The review of the Touch television series, an anime I highly reccomend, can be found here. This review assumes you've seen the TV series - or, at least, up to the halfway point.)Years after the Touch anime ended, two followup sequel movies were released, Miss Lonely Yesterday, and then Crossroads. ... |
| 6:05am | Touch (TV) Review - Highly Reccomended | | | | (No spoilers - unlike many Touch reviews) Whereas Maison Ikkoku beautifully portrayed the process of becoming an adult, Touch is one of the most rewarding coming of age stories. I had occasionally heard excellent things about Touch for the past few years, but only finally sat down to watch it |
| 2:00am | Cross Game - 19 | | | | Great fodder for screen captures in this episode. Kou visits the Tsukashima grandparents' home, a place he used to visit fairly frequently with Wakaba and her family. This was the first time he's gone there since that summer. As you can expect, there are a lot of memories that come |
| 6:41am | Kare Kano Review (His and Her Circumstances) | | | | Kare Kano was one of the first anime that I was exposed to, back when I myself was in high school, and thus my review is going to have the inevitable nostalgic baggage. It is basically a high school romance comedy, but it stands out for a variety of reasons. |
| 6:39am | PlanetES Review | | | | Before I go into detail, I should mention that Planetes, like Haibane Renmei, is one of those series that starts slow. A significant portion of it is also episodic in nature rather than having a continuous and suspenseful plot - until about 2/3rds of the way through. But, like Haibane, |
| 8:42am | Cross Game 18 | | | | A lot of people are calling this a filler episode. I think the main plot of the (not very likable) manager auditioning for a part in a baseball film is from the original manga, while the subplot about Aoba's rival is made up for the anime. However, this being Cross |
| 8:41am | Taishou Yakyuu Musume - First Impressions | | | | I watched the first two episodes. This series has the best score (background music) I have heard this year, even better than Cross Game. It uses a primarily orchestral palette of sounds, but often with pentatonic melodies (naturally evocative of traditional Japanese music). Very fitting as a backdrop... |
| 10:05pm | Night of Summer Side - Kimagure Orange Road | | | | is actually a pretty good OP. I think my at-times lack of enthusiasm for Kimagure Orange Road (I watched it right after Maison Ikkoku, after all) may have colored my initial reaction to the song. The fact that it is accompanied by an almost seizure-inducing stream of visuals in the |
| 5:45pm | Pronounciations in Dubs | | | | Why do people get so angry about pronunciations of Japanese names in dubs? The purpose of dubbing is to localize a film for an audience that isn't familiar with the original language so that they can still enjoy the story on its own merit. People like me and most other |
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