| 4:03am | Kimagure Orange Road TV & OVA Review | | | | There are no spoilers in this review, since it's intended for those who are interested in picking up this series. For my thoughts on the ending, check my "impressions" threads. This review covers the TV series and the OVA packages, and is written before I begin the final movies, |
| 10:04am | Kimagure Orange Road Third/Final Impressions (30-48) | | | | I'll go over my thoughts on the final third of this series in this post - but a full review will be written soon. Like all my "impressions" posts, this contains spoilers for the episodes I list above (in this case, until the ending), but my review will have |
| 2:04am | Madoka’s Theme Music | | | | Here is an mp3 of "Madoka's Theme" from Kimagure Orange Road. This is from the OST, not by me, so I did not mark it with the site URL. It is carried by a saxophone solo, but after a few phrases, it is joined by strings which gently |
| 9:34am | Kimagure Orange Road, Second Impressions (EP 7-30) | | | | In my "first impressions" post, I mentioned that there are essentially two directions that a "love triangle" can take. The first is a shallow, soap-opera-ish melodramatic path, which is the most common one. The second one is the path of "Honey and Clover" took with Takemoto, Morita and |
| 9:03am | “Portal” Review | | | | I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but modern video games just don't interest me. I don't feel compelled to spend the relative less free time I have playing these things. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the "old days", but going into different areas shooting/fighting things |
| 8:04am | Kimagure Orange Road First Impressions | | | | Although I am still very much in a slightly obsessed mode (with Maison Ikkoku), I've decided to begin watching Kimagure Orange Road. This series is not nearly as long as Maison Ikkoku, which means it will be slightly better for my schedule, but compared to modern anime series it |
| 5:03am | Review: Gake no Ue no Ponyo ( Ponyo on a Cliff ) | | | | I wonder if Miyazaki will once again "retire" like he did after Spirited Away. At this point, "retiring" seems to be code for "I will wait a little while and then make another movie", so that would probably be a good thing.Almost all the reviews I have read about |
| 8:34pm | Anime title meanings: “Mimi o Sumaseba”, and “Maison Ikkoku” | | | | When I first started watching anime and other Japanese materials, the language itself was completely lost on me and I relied mostly on translations and subtitles, as most other fans do. Ever since I've started learning Japanese, however, I've found it really satisfying to be able to get a |
| 8:03am | Favourite Episodes of Maison Ikkoku | | | | I thought I'd go through and list some of my favourite episoides and moments from this very, very long series. Most of them are moments of real character development, which is done wonderfully in this series. Of course, there are also some which are just enjoyable to see.Episode 8 - |
| 9:36pm | (Sticky Post) Maison Ikkoku Orchestral Soundtrack Project ( Remake ) | | | | I've decided that I will extend what I did with an earlier piece of music from Maison Ikkoku ( A Bell Rings at Dawn ) to other pieces from the Maison Ikkoku soundtrack. This will basically culminate in an album of sorts, an orchestral album of Maison Ikkoku orchestral |
| 7:35pm | Orchestral Recording of Maison Ikkoku BGM | | | | This mp3 is of my orchestral arrangement of " Akatsuki ni Kane wa Naru " ( A Bell Rings at Dawn ) , which is a part of the musical score ( background music ) from Maison Ikkoku. It's most prominent use it at the end of episode 93. |
| 10:34pm | Maison Ikkoku Review (What makes a “good” anime?) | | | | (Spoiler Free) Let me begin this review by saying that at the time I first started watching this series, I was beginning to sorely miss watching anime altogether. It's true that with classes starting, much of the time I may have at one point spent watching anime was now |
| 2:03am | Nodame Cantabile (01) (Episode by Episode) | | | | I really enjoyed "Nodame Cantabile" when it first aired - I watched both the live action version as well as the anime version and I guess the combination of a light-hearted comedy/love story and classical music setting was something that worked for me. Well, maybe that's an understatement.I haven't... | | |
| 10:04am | Maison Ikkoku Sheet Music & Music Review | | | | I'll start off this post with a link and video. When I really enjoy a film or series, and I also happen to enjoy the music and/or identify it strongly with the work in question, I typically feel compelled to write sheet music for it. Maison Ikkoku is |
| 8:33am | Maison Ikkoku (77-96)(END) | | | | I will soon write a full review of the series (and its music). This post is more or less just my reaction to finishing the series and my thoughts on certain parts of it. It will contain slight spoilers. My full review, however, will not contain spoilers. |
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