| 8:07am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 0: Introduction and the Anti-Awards | | | | It’s finally time for me to write up my favorites and top picks in anime for 2008. Between waiting for some series to finish, wanting to marathon a couple of missed series, and catching the new season of anime – I didn’t have the room in my writing time to do this until now. I also wanted to be... | | |
| 5:10am | Weekly Anime Review (Jan 12 – Jan 18) | | | | If last week had been a light week of anime, this week was the opposite – as you can see below. And I didn’t include my marathoning of Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and the first two episodes of OVA over a two day period. I decided it was the last of the 2008 shows that I wanted to get to before... | | |
| 9:00am | First Year Anniversary for The Null Set | | | | It was a year ago today that The Null Set got started .It’s been a work-in-progress as I’ve learned (and still learning) the ropes of blogging but it’s really been a source of joy for me in this past year.I really have to thank everyone that has visited, read my posts, left comments, and looked... | | |
| 5:10pm | Winter Anime Impressions – Birdy the Mighty Decode 2 | | | | The first season of Birdy was one of the highlights of the summer. It wasn’t perfect but it did an excellent job in developing the story and it’s animation was above average bordering on great. I’m hoping that A-1 Pictures received a little more money to do this season because that might be all... | | |
| 12:00pm | Winter Anime Impressions – Shikabane Hime: Kuro | | | | The second season of Shikabane Hime started the week after the first season ended with a different set of animators, much like the second season of Minami-ke. I’m hoping desperately with this recipe for a better result then what we got with Minami-ke.Rating: 7/12 BI’ll keep the story recap light... | | |
| 8:04am | Winter Anime Impressions – Munto TV | | | | Continuing my impressions of the new winter season is the new show from KyoAni – Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Seikei or just Munto. The original OVA, from 2003 and 2005, is the only show of KyoAni that I haven’t seen and it is also KyoAni’s only original work. When I realized that... | | |
| 12:00pm | Winter Anime Impressions – Chrome Shelled Regios | | | | Chrome Shelled Regios made my list of shows that I planned on catching mainly because the animation studio behind it, Zexcs, was responsible for the delightful Wagaya no Oinari-sama that ran this past spring and summer. What made me even a bit excited was how the animation quality in the previews for... | | |
| 8:03am | Winter Anime Impressions – Maria+Holic | | | | Maria+holic is another of the new shows that I was really excited about. The match between source material and the adapting animation studio, Shaft, seemed as near as perfect as possible. Of course, that doesn’t guarantee a hit but increased the chances by many factors of magnitude.Rating: episode... | | |
| 12:00pm | Winter Anime Impressions – Rideback | | | | 2008 was a very good year for Madhouse anime, no other studio could match the number of quality anime shows they had: think Kaiba, Maid Guy, Kurozuka, and Mouryou no Hako to name just four. Therefore, when I found out Rideback was being done by Madhouse I became really excited about this title. Rating:... | | |
| 7:51am | Winter Anime Impressions – Sora o Kakeru Shoujo | | | | I decided to watch the first episode of this solely based on the fact that the title translates to ‘The Girl who Leapt Through Space’. I had to know if there was some reason to use a title that appears to be an obvious reference to the movie ‘The Girl who Leapt Through Time’.Rating: 8/12 B+There... |
| 12:00pm | Winter Anime Impressions – Asu no Yoichi | | | | Asu no Yoichi was on my list of shows to watch but I didn’t really have high hopes for it because it looked liked it was a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy show with a heaping helping of fan service thrown in. But after Akikan, I was just hoping to see something at least passable. So did Asu no Yoichi... | | |
| 7:38am | Winter Anime Impressions – Akikan | | | | With the pre-airing of episode 1 before the new year, many people have had the chance to watch this already and just about everyone reported that this was a stinker. I decided to press on and watch Akikan, not because I think everyone is wrong but because I already said I’d watch it and if it was... |
| 4:56am | Weekly Anime Review (Jan 5 – Jan 11) | | | | A very light week of anime this week for me. I pushed my watching of many of the new winter shows into the current week so I could try to finish a few lingering shows of 2008 I wanted to get too before 2009 started. I was only partially successful, Shigofumi got watched finally but I still want to get... | | |
| 8:52am | Minami-Ke: Okaeri episode 2 - Hosaka the Curry Fairy | | | | Below is a clip from episode 2 of Minami-Ke: Okaeri showing Chiaki’s meeting with Hosaka in the supermarket. My sister and I have been giggling about this for the past two hours. I’m starting to really think that this season might turn out to be a good one. I’ve noticed lots of... | | |
| 5:38am | Clannad Wallpapers 2 | | | | Time for more Clannad wallpapers . This time I have wallpapers I made using the nice scans of the 2009 Clannad calendar found in the animesuki forums as well as several retrimmed scans. In case you can’t tell from in the small thumbnails, the first blue Nagisa wallpaper has her name from... | | |
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