| 6:23am | Spring 2009 Anime Impressions – Sengoku Basara | | | | I had no intentions in watching this show but it got subbed by someone I like (his Soul Eater subs where the best, too bad he couldn’t finish them) so I figured Sengoku Basara was worth a watch.Rating: episode 1 – 9/12 A- Anticipation Level: medium Set in feudal Japan, the first episode featured... | | |
| 4:51am | Spring 2009 Anime Impressions – Asura Cryin’ | | | | There are a few shows this season that their first episode really confused me because I was left wondering what exactly I watched. Asura Cryin’ is one of these titles. A couple more episodes will probably give me a better idea if this is a winner or not but I’m not going to wait since this inability... |
| 4:35am | Spring 2009 Anime Impressions – Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood | | | | The 800 pound gorilla of the spring season is the new Full Metal Alchemist series. In a recent poll on Anime News Network (ANN), something like 45% (5% was the runner-up) of respondents where most looking forward to this show out of the spring 2009 season. Frequent readers probably could guess that... | | |
| 2:46am | Spring 2009 Anime Impressions – Saki | | | | The first of my spring 2009 anime impressions covers one of Gonzo’s new shows. As you probably know, Gonzo is struggling for their survival and they’re betting the house on their spring shows. Will this inspire Gonzo to create great anime or will they stick to what got them in trouble in the first... | | |
| 6:05am | (Bi)Weekly Anime Review | | | | Frequent readers of The Null Set might have noticed a recent lull in posts. There’s two primary reasons why and I thought I’d mention them before continuing. The first is that I recently started reading the books that the tv series The Dresden Files (an urban fantasy series) is based on and I had... | | |
| 12:42am | Top Seven Anime of the Winter 2009 Season | | | | About two weeks ago, I started penciling in the picks for the previous three parts as well coming up with the top shows of the season. In the time between the preliminary picks and the final picks there was a few shows that went all out to make me reconsider them. Changing my picks was most apparent... | | |
| 7:14am | Top Picks – Winter 2009 Anime, Part 3: VMA Awards | | | | Time to shine the spotlight on those components that can elevate an anime from good to memorable. That’s not to say that perfection is required from the voice actors, music, and the animation to make a show memorable but it certainly helps. For example, if I say the words Paranoia Agent, what’s... | | |
| 6:24pm | Screenshot Check: Chrome Shelled Regios or I Found Waldo | | | | I don’t know if this’ll be a regular feature here but I just had share this screenshot; it’s from the latest episode of Chrome Shelled Regios. The reason I felt compelled to pause my viewing and take this screenshot was because I found the student council president’s swimsuit... |
| 6:44am | Top Picks – Winter 2009 Anime, Part 2: Genre Awards | | | | The first part looked at the characters within the show and now this group of awards (minus one misfit) looks at the series as a whole. I used many of the same categories from the 2008 best awards but I trimmed a few because there was not enough competition. For example, the category of best slice-of-life... | | |
| 6:25am | Top Picks – Winter 2009 Anime, Part 1: Cast and Character Awards | | | | If I was giving an award for best hair cut, the guy on the left would win.The winter season, as conventional wisdom goes, is one of the weaker seasons for new anime. Oftentimes this generalization has some truth to it but this time a combination of sequels to good shows and a handful of new hits made... | | |
| 11:37pm | Weekly Anime Review (Mar 9 – Mar 15) | | | | This week’s review is getting done much later then I wanted and there’s a few reasons for that but the primary reason is that the ending to Clannad gave my brain a bunch of things to chew on and I couldn’t get in the right mood to write this column. The ending adds greatly onto a post I’ve been... | | |
| 9:11pm | First Flowers of Spring | | | | I’m in a really good mood right now, I happened to look outside my window today and saw these three crocuses already blooming. I think of crocuses as the special forces flower of spring, asked to establish the first foothold of spring against the forces of winter. It’s a tough job and... | | |
| 1:11am | Weekly Anime Review (Mar 2 – Mar 8) | | | | This was a good week of anime watching. Many of the shows are inching towards their conclusions and others are transitioning from introducing the series to getting to the central story of the series. Also this week, I watched one of the most bewildering scenes I have ever seen in an anime – I’m... | | |
| 12:44am | [Anime Investigative Reports] Ibuki Ikaruga vs. Haruka Minami | | | | Watching anime would leave people with the opinion that parents routinely leave the care of their children to the oldest sibling. Currently there’s two different anime, Minami-ke and Asu no Yoichi, that feature the eldest sister as the head of the household while still attending high school. While... | | |
| 7:30am | Spring 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | Just within the last few days, winter’s frigid fingers have finally loosened their grip around where I live. We had been experiencing high temperatures well below freezing and that’s not conducive to getting in the spring mindset. Yesterday we got into the 50’s and today our high was 65˚F (18˚C);... | | |
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