| 3:30am | Top Picks – Fall 2008 Anime, Part 2 | | | | Pushing this back a couple of days changed a couple of the winners and caused a few more categories to be added included one award that is my first award named after an anime - The Gurren Lagann Memorial Body-Count Award. I thought it was appropriate and I did make a comment a few weeks ago essentially... | | |
| 8:23am | Weekly Anime Review (Dec. 1 – Dec. 7) | | | | Why do bad guys almost always have white hair?Let’s get this out of the way before I get back to the top picks of the fall season.This was another good week of anime watching. Two shows I didn’t list below but I did want to mention was that I finished up a re-watch of Library War and the first season... | | |
| 7:41am | Top Picks – Fall 2008 Anime, Part 1 | | | | While I still am hesitant to list my top five shows of the season, I realized that I was much more confident when it came to picking my other awards of the season. This first part deals mainly with the characters in the anime and the second part will focus on the entire show in general and the work... | | |
| 8:00am | I Want Yotsuba Anime and It’s Totally Do-able | | | | I was just reading on animenewsnetwork.com about supposed rumors about why there hasn’t been a Yotsuba anime series yet. You can read the entire thing over but what I wanted to comment on was Yotsuba’s creator, Kiyohiko Azuma, statement that a Yotsuba anime would be hard to do since it... | | |
| 8:12am | Weekly Anime Review (Nov 23 – Nov 30) | | | | Before anyone begins to think I can’t add probably, there is a reason why eight days are covered in this weekly anime review - I wanted to shift the start of the week by a day, from Sunday to Monday, and had to add that extra day somewhere. I hope this will improve my ability to write this column.I... | | |
| 5:13am | Anime Investigative Reports – What Do You Want For Christmas? | | | | Continuing this blog’s efforts to give you the news, I sent my intrepid reporters out to find what was topping the Christmas wish-lists this year.There you have it. Remember to keep a look out for the next Anime Investigative Report, you never know what we’ll discover.Posted in anime, anime investigative... |
| 2:51am | Winter 2008 – 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | I figure it’s appropriate to start writing this on Turkey Day. Physically, I’m stuffed and yet I’m trying to figure out a way to have another piece of my Mom’s apple pie – it’s simply impossible to make a better pie crust then hers. Mentally, I’m stuffed from the huge number of great fall... | | |
| 7:23am | Anime Investigative Reports – What Are You Thankful For? | | | | Happy Thanksgiving!Every year on Thanksgiving, about the time my stomach is urgently signaling me to please stop eating, I think to myself that Thanksgiving was one of the most ingenious holidays created. It’s hard not to be thankful when you’re eating turkey with your family, eyeing the apple... |
| 8:27am | Biweekly Anime Review (Nov 9 – Nov 22) | | | | I was hoping to get this out on Monday but I ended up putting up the Christmas tree instead, which can see pics of over at my personal blog.As we’re nearing the midpoint of the season, it’s getting to be that time when I get to look ahead at the next anime season and reflect on the current season.... | | |
| 11:45pm | Clannad Episode 8 – Stay Gold, Ponyboy | | | | Before I begin I wanted to mention that my computer is giving me grief again. Hopefully it’s something simple this time like a faulty power supply, and not something expensive. This means I’m stuck using my circa 2002 laptop to watch anime and write my posts, so while I hope this doesn’t... | | |
| 8:43pm | Why isn’t autumn featured more in anime? + It’s winter now | | | | One of the things that I’ve wondered about the Japanese is: why isn’t autumn featured more in anime? There’s countless examples of cherry blossoms during the spring in anime but there’s almost no emphasis on fall leaves which I think is just as lovely. This year, while watching... |
| 8:11am | Clannad Wallpaper | | | | First off, just a note that because I spent so long writing up my influential anime list, I didn’t get to my weekly anime review post and since today is now thursday, I’m going to just do a bi-weekly one and hopefully post it on Sunday or Monday. So instead of rushing the weekly review... | | |
| 9:08pm | The 10 Most Personal Influential Anime, Part 2 | | | | This half of the list will probably leave more then a few scratching their heads. So let me say again, this is a list of anime that influenced me as an anime watcher and not a list of favorite shows. There where many wonderful shows like Ghost in the Shell or Azumanga Daioh that for reasons like ‘I... | | |
| 3:30pm | The 10 Most Personal Influential Anime, Part 1 | | | | I’ve been seeing various other bloggers doing this lately and I was bored so I thought I’d see what type of list I would create. I knew a few of these titles belonged on this list before I started but I went over every series I have and asked myself if this title influenced me or not. One of the... | | |
| 5:15am | Rant: Gurren Lagann on SciFi Channel and Tokyopop | | | | Don't worry, this isn't a dub-rant. Sci-fi Channel This past Monday the SciFi channel finished up Gurren Lagann by showing the last 3 episodes. I thought the dub was a pretty good dub; some characters like Leeron where better and some like Kamina where worse but overall you can tell they tried.... | | |
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