| 1:56am | Guilty Crown #4 / Idolm@ster #18 | | | | Ryotaro Makihara and Akitoshi Yokoyama, two of my favorite people in the anime industry right now, both played major parts in Masaaki Yuasa's last two TV series Kaiba and Tatami Galaxy. In the absence of a Masaaki Yuasa project to work on, they haven't been idle. They both just directed a TV episode... | | |
| 6:36pm | Un-Go - 02 | | | | With this, I’m sure: Un-Go is along with Chihayafuru my favourite show of the Autumn season. What can I say? I’m a sucker for episodic shows done right. This season has a lot of creative series with creative premises and backgrounds. Un-Go is no exception to this, but what sets it apart... | | |
| 11:37am | Ao no Exorcist - 25 | | | | Well, there you have it. The only way for this episode to not have been bland is if the creators ignored Satan’s existence all together. They didn’t, and went for a predictable and very run off the mills ending. The only good part of this episode was the ending, which thankfully went back... | | |
| 8:27pm | Fall 2011 Anime Series -- full previews with staff, cast, image, trailer, manga, etc. | | | | There are 32 new shows in this fall's list of new series, about the same number as the 30 last fall. Promising shows cover many genres, from shounen and mecha to comedy, moe, slice-of-life, yaoi and josei.The five shows I myself am most interested in are:Chihayafuru -- A strong teen girl who is a brilliant... | | |
| 6:31pm | Summer Season Preview | | | | To give an impression of this season: it’s got 25 TV-series in total that are airing. In the history of anime, there was only one summer season that premiered as many TV-series as here, and that was 2007. On top of that though, I’ve marked a whopping six series with a potential of 85% or... | | |
| 10:42am | Katanagatari Review - 82,5/100 | | | | Clocking in at 12 episodes of 50 minutes each, Katanagatari was definitely an interesting experiment of a series. At first sight it seems like a bit of a boring concept to base a series around a quest to gather a different superpowered sword every episode, in the middle of lots and lots of talking,... | | |
| 6:42pm | Sengoku Basara - 24 | | | | Ah, the episode of today that I was looking forward to the most: the conclusion to Sengoku Basara. For a moment after learning about the upcoming movie, I was afraid that it would end with a huge cliff-hanger, but no worries: this episode resolves all of the conflicts built up to. Overall, it wasn’t... | | |
| 7:00pm | Hunter X Hunter - Greed Island Review - 85/100 | | | | It’s so refreshing to watch Hunter X Hunter. It goes right where nearly all other shounen series go left. It’s here where Nippon Animation show that shounen series don’t necessarily have to be fight-fests with shallow battles that last for episodes after each other. The first Greed... | | |
| 6:51am | Shoka Review - 75/100 | | | | The Animax Grand Prix is something like a contest for amateur writers: submit your story, and the winner gets his story animated in a 20-minute OVA. Up till now, the results have been mostly simple kids stories: Yume da Maya Kidan for example was about a girl’s relationship with her brother... | | |
| 3:08am | 39 New Winter Anime -- full previews: staff, cast, pic, story, trailer | | | | The winter season is usually the least exciting of the year, but there are always surprises. Last year, there were true tears and Spice & Wolf. Here are some of this year's possibilities, followed by a complete preview of almost all the new shows:-- Genji Monogatari Sennenki is a new anime based... | | |
| 9:29pm | Nijuu Mensou no Musume - 21 | | | | Short Synopsis: This episode features the climax of Nijuu Mensou no Musume. Highlights: Blegh. Just blegh. Overall Enjoyment Value: 6.5/10 Wait? That’s it? We’ve had all this build-up, and the creators just end with such an ending? Talk about disappointing. There was this whole world... | | |
| 10:24pm | 46 New Fall Anime -- full previews (story, trailer, staff, cast, etc.) | | | | With just over two weeks to go until the new season starts, it's time to think about what's coming. Tastes differ, but the shows I myself am most looking forward to are:the mysterious moe romances ef - a tale of melodies and Clannad - After Story the absurd comedy Hyakko (with Orikasa Fumiko and Hirano... | | |
| 7:48am | Blade of the Immortal - 02 | | | | Short Synopsis: A girl whose parents were murdered asks Manji to help her with her revenge. Highlights: If you weren’t already convinced that this was a Bee-Train series, then this episode will. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Okay, so I think that it was pretty obvious that I’d end up blogging... | | |
| 7:41am | Natsume Yuujin-Chou - 02 | | | | Short Synopsis: This episode shows how Ayakashi also can friendly ask their names back from Natsume’s Book of Friends. Highlights: Storytelling at its finest. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 As for the shows I’m not going to blog: - Hidamari Sketch is nice, but I’m getting a bit... | | |
| 5:36am | Summer Season Preview | | | | Well, it’s time to start looking at what the next season has to offer again. The summer-season is again going to be relatively small, but there are quite a number of potential gems in it. There’s also a wide variety of different genres; there’s slice of life, action, adventure, mystery,... | | |
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