| 2:41am | Spice & Wolf II OVA 狼と香辛料 | | | | Rating: In lieu of the rapidly approaching Wolf & Spice season 2, Horo makes a return in this one-off OVA, which seems designed to both remind us just how little happens in the series, and to snag us into falling in love with Horo again. The latter is the thing that I was... |
| 5:02am | Eden of the East 04 ー東のエデン | | | | 04: 「Real Reality, Imaginary Reality - リアルな現実 虚構の現実」 Rating : I guess it had to happen at some stage. This was the first time I’ve... |
| 8:26am | New Magazine: Nyantype 01 | | | | A wild Nyantype appears! Seriously this magazine release caught me totally unawares (I should probably read ANN):“ Kadokawa Shoten has issued an advertising solicitation sheet for Nyantype, a Newtype spinoff magazine about anime and game bishōjo (pretty girl) characters that will ship in Japan at... |
| 7:37am | Megami 109 | | | | The latest issue of Megami Magazine is in, and goes a long way to make up for the dismal offerings of last month. The saturation of fanserviceless CLANNAD posters has been toned down, and in its place is a more mixed variety of anime, from the new season and seasons past. There’s a good mix | | |
| 3:31am | Pani Poni Dash! OVA ーぱにぽにだっしゅ! | | | | Rating: Ah, nostalgia is always fun. For those who never got the chance to adjust to the general insanity of the Pani Poni Dash TV anime will probably find themselves totally lost in the chaotic mix of inane references and nonsensical humour that characterise Pani Poni Dash. It’s... | | |
| 12:16am | Fly me to the Moon: Rebuild 2.0 PV | | | | Given that the second in Gainax’s Rebuild of Evangelion films isn’t so far from cinemas, I thought it might be worth looking closely at the trailer, too see what we might have in store. I must admit, I found You Are (Not) Alone to bean excellent piece of animated film, grabbing me in ways... |
| 11:53am | The Great Negima Catch-Up Project! Phase 1 | | | | I’ve been a Negima fan for quite a while now (as I’ve iterated many times in older posts). Because I’ve run out of ways to describe why I enjoy it so much without resorting to whacky metaphors and latin phrases I’ll just briefly say that I love its mix of fanservice, mahou shoujo/shounen... | | |
| 11:16am | Eden of the East 03ー東のエデン | | | | 03: 「Evening of the Late Show - 憂鬱な月曜日」 Rating: Althou gh the episodes are getting more and more interesting, my views on this series are still... |
| 2:18am | The Shangri-La Dilemma | | | | Despite the wholesome potential GONZO dug up for this series, with character design contributions from Range Murata, and an interesting sci-fi premise pinched from a novel, they appear to have failed utterly in converting that potential into a watchable anime. Of course, it’s very rare that an... |
| 11:51am | K-ON OP/ED Singles | | | | The Otaku fandom moves along very quickly, and it’s pretty obvious that the current trend is for the cute, carefree and musically-inclined antics of K-ON. The love for the show has been so widespread that I almost feel guilty admitting that I don’t like the anime (although I enjoy the manga).... |
| 11:14am | UC 0096: War was beginning. | | | | I don’t post frequently, for a variety of reasons (don’t say lazy). However, sometimes things pop up which need to posted on. This is one of those sometimes:If you’re a Gundam fan like me, you would undoubtedly know about Harutoshi Fukui’s Unicorn Gundam. And if you’re... |
| 8:52am | Saki 03ー 咲-Saki- | | | | 03: 「Confrontation - 対立」 Rating: There wasn’t too much to digest in this episode of Saki, which took steps to transition us into the fist real arc... |
| 12:51am | Weekly Highlights | | | | Hatsukoi Limited 。。。。01Romant ic Pantsu Comedy 。。 Being the humble-minded, otaku gamma-male that I am, I instantly resolved to watch this show when I saw its abundance of panty shots (and also because it didn’t look atrocious like Queen’s Blade). Good quality, subtle fanservice... |
| 5:28am | Eden of the East 02ー東のエデン | | | | 02: 「Melancholic Monday - 憂鬱な月曜日」 Rating: I’ m glad my predictions for this episode turned out to be totally inaccurate. Because I knew... |
| 9:04am | Michiko to Hatchin REVIEW ーミチコとハッチン | | | | Rating: Set in what seems to be some kind of alternate-universe Brazil, Michiko to Hatchin tells the story of Hana Morenos. Hana is routinely abused by every single member of her adopted family, who only takes care of her because the government pays them tountil one day, an escaped... | | |
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