| 5:12am | Weekly Anime Review (Feb 23 – Mar 1) | | | | Isn't it funny how fate works sometimes.There’s two changes to this week’s anime review that I need to mention before going on. The first is something I mentioned last week, I’ve tweaked my grading scale. What happened, if you didn’t already read, is that I’m throwing out the pluses which... | | |
| 8:16am | Shock of the Season - Asu no Yoichi is a Pretty Good Show | | | | When I say pretty good, I mean just that. It’s been an entertaining show that’s kept my attention well beyond what the generic harem-esque premise should have been capable of. Now, I’m not saying that it deserves to be ranked up with the excellent shows of the season like Toradora but it’s definitely... | | |
| 8:58am | The 5 Personal Most Influential (non-anime) Animation Shows | | | | Awhile back I posted my top 10 influential anime shows. I was happy with the final list but something nagged me about it and I couldn’t quite pinpoint what it was until just recently. I mentioned maybe putting up my most influential non-anime animation shows but didn’t really see the importance... | | |
| 6:24pm | Shikabane-Hime: Aka Series Review | | | | Shikabane-Hime: Aka or (Corpse Princess: Red) is the latest series from the venerable animation studio Gainax. That fact alone guaranteed big exposure but doomed it in the eyes of many anime fans because is wasn’t the second coming of Gurren Lagann. As much as I love Gurren Lagann and hope Gainax... | | |
| 7:59am | Someday’s Dreamers Season 2 Series Review | | | | This delightful slice-of-life show is a “sequel” but the only thing it shares with the first season is the general world setting – I don’t believe there’s even any cameos of the first season cast. Therefore calling this the second season is a bit of a misnomer and shouldn’t stop a potential... | | |
| 11:56pm | Updating My Grading Scale and Seeking Feedback About the New Layout | | | | When I came up with my grading scale, I was attempting to strike a good balance between having a system that accurately reflected the different levels of quality and a system that was overly complex. After a year of using this scale, I’m better able to recognize differences in quality and score accordingly.... | | |
| 8:49am | Earl and Fairy Series Review | | | | Confession time before I continue. I love to watch shows that take place in other time periods and one of my favorite time periods is 19th century England. I don’t really know why but it leads to watching shows that probably wouldn’t be nearly as interesting if they took place today. For example,... | | |
| 8:24am | Weekly Anime Review (Feb 16 – Feb 22) | | | | Looking over my scores this week; I realized something, we’re already halfway through the winter season. It won’t be long before spring is upon us, both in anime and in weather. In my neck of the woods, spring is getting ready to start: a few of our crocuses have already broken dormancy, I killed... | | |
| 3:19pm | Wishing Everyone A Merry Christmas in February | | | | You probably didn’t know today is “Christmas in February” because it’s a holiday my family made up 11 years ago. It started when we decided to have a Christmas-style dinner and serve up the rest of the Christmas cookies that were left over from Christmas and had been sitting... |
| 7:29am | Chaos;Head Series Review | | | | I am not a huge fan of the horror genre, especially when it attempts to gross the viewer out. I do enjoy seeing when the characters of a series or movie have their minds messed with, which probably explains why I think The Ring is my favorite horror movie. I figured I’d give Chaos;Head a chance since... | | |
| 6:47am | Kannagi Series Review | | | | For most anime that’s based off of something, I am unaware of the original source material beforehand. In Kannagi’s case, I had read the first 10 chapters of the manga before I knew it was going to be made into an anime. So will this help or hinder my enjoyment of the series or will it be a moot... | | |
| 8:34am | Kurozuka Series Review | | | | In the rush at the end of the fall season and the start of the winter season, I just couldn’t find the time to write up several series reviews of shows I had finished. In this time before I start getting the spring preview ready and working on the winter season awards, I’m going try to get to some... | | |
| 7:59pm | Weekly Anime Review (Feb 9 – Feb 15) | | | | I’m sorry for the relatively short weekly review, I’m not really feeling up to writing right now. I’m not about to quit my blog or anything like that, I had a death in the family. Since my weekly anime review is weekly, I still wanted to write it but this will probably be the only thing I write... | | |
| 8:29am | A New Wallpaper and a New Banner & Poll | | | | Over the weekend, I decided to look for photoshop tutorials that would increase my relatively lackluster abilities. I found several that were helpful and as a result, I ended up with a new banner and a desktop wallpaper. I also learned several very handy commands that I didn’t know photoshop... | | |
| 7:16pm | [SF] 2008 Yearly Review of Asimov’s + My Picks for the Reader’s Choice Award | | | | I had planned on reviewing every edition of Asimov’s this year but it turned out that I only got to the January edition. So, what I’ll do is give a quick review of the year before moving onto my Reader’s Choice Award ballot. There are 3 different length categories: (NA) - novella, (NT) - novelette,... | | |
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