| 2:42pm | Cross Game - 24 | | | | I’d like again to hijack this post for a bit to post up some impressions of the past half year of anime. Now that most of the series of the past Spring and Summer Season are about to end, it’s time to reflect on them again, and how they matched up to previous years. My general impression... | | |
| 10:06am | July Summary | | | | I must say, that we’ve got ourselves an awesome Summer Season here. Sure, there aren’t many series, but a significant majority of the new series succeed at what they intend to do. There may not be a lot of shows with awesome and ambitious story-lines, but in terms of slice of life and characterization,... | | |
| 11:13am | Guin Saga - 16 | | | | the more this series progresses, the more of a shame it becomes that there are only going to be 26 episodes. Sure, there can always be plans for a second season, but the chance for a second season to just be cancelled is just as big. That at the moment is sortof my problem with the trend that anime... | | |
| 11:42am | Eureka7 - Pocket Full of Rainbows Review - 70/100 | | | | I haven’t been looking forward to the Eureka7 movie, for the following reason: the series was pretty conclusive, wasn’t it? Why ruin it with a movie. I therefore just assumed that it was going to be one of those recap movies like with Gurren Lagann, but as it turns out it takes place in... | | |
| 3:13pm | 07-Ghost - 12 | | | | I really don’t get it. I’m really starting to agree with the criticisms against this show: for the past twelve episodes, Ayanami an his henchmen hardly did anything other than turning people into ghouls and having Frau kill them. Teito turns out to be the key to either saving the world... | | |
| 8:22pm | 2008 Summary - Part II | | | | I originally wanted to wait with posting this until Porfy no Nagai’s final episode got released, but its time is nearly running out here. The Share-uploaders have a very cruel sense of humour: out of all the episodes they could have picked to delay, it became that one. In any case, here’s... | | |
| 8:36pm | Zipang Review - 85/100 | | | | A modern Japanese cruiser that somehow through some strange cosmic reason travels back in time to 1942. Of course, for these sorts of premises it’s easy to simply fall into a “let’s use this chance to show those American pigs how superior we are”-formula, though it’s... | | |
| 1:40pm | 2008 Summary - Part I | | | | Well, it’s the time of the year again for the obligatory posts that look back at the highlights (and some of the lowlights) of the past year. This time, I decided to split this entry in two halves, otherwise the list would simply become too huge. I’ll post the second half tomorrow, after Porfy no... | | |
| 2:54pm | The 2nd anniversary of Iwa ni Hana, and a wishlist for 2009 | | | | Ladies and gentlemen - Iwa ni Hana enters the second anniversary this month! The past two years have been fruitful. Not that I have been able to sustain interest in anime/manga continuously throughout my life - there have been lapses for years at a stretch. Two years ago, I was brought back into the... | | |
| 2:58pm | Blade of the Immortal - 12 | | | | Short Synopsis: While away from Manji, Rin runs into a certain someone. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) You know, this wasn’t exactly the episode you’d expect as a semi-final one of a series. Even though it involved the main villain, it was just a standalone episode. If the creators... | | |
| 9:15pm | Final Thoughts: Amatsuki | | | | When Tokidoki Rikugou fails his high school history class, he has to make up for it by attending a virtual reality tour of Edo- the last resort for drumming information into young minds. Unfortunately, what started off as a simple make-up class turns into something more sinister when Tokidoki is pulled... | | |
| 10:09am | Natsume Yuujin-Chou - 12 | | | | Short Synopsis: Natsume gets a very nasty curse put on his arm. Highlights: ZOMG Second Season! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Ah, thank goodness this series is getting its second season. The show is nice and all, but there’s so much potential left that still needs to be touched. This concept... | | |
| 8:20am | Mission-E - 12 | | | | Short Synopsis: Mission-E ends as Oz rushes in to prevent the foundation to carry out its plans. Highlights: Predictable, plot-holes, but overall better than expected. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7/10 And so it has ended. I wasn’t expecting too much of this episode, because there isn’t much... | | |
| 8:41pm | Weekly Round-Up: August 22nd | | | | “I’ve heard this joke before.”Reviewed this week: Antique Bakery 5, Chi’s Sweet Home 69-76, Chocolate Underground 5, Detroit Metal City 1, Hidamari Sketch x365 7, Itazura na Kiss 19, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 14-15, Natsume Yuujinchou 7, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 6, Ryoko’s Case File... | | |
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