| 5:30pm | Ongoing Investigations: Case #110 | | | | Bihada Ichizoku is, sadly, a show that most people never watched. I remedied my ignorance over the Christmas holiday. These 12 8-minute episodes follow the two Bihada sisters, a family that “battles for beauty,” as they become rivals for the most beautiful skin in the world. Yes, I swear... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 11:51am | The mystic of the closed circle: 'Skip Beat!' and 'Bihada Ichizoku' | | | | Watching the new series Skip Beat! and Bihada Ichizoku recently reminds me of a discussion I had with a reader EricMontreal22 about Oniisama E a long time ago of: How 70s shoujo manga have a melodramatic, heightened emotional take on stories that just does not seem common now, and how this emotionalism... | | |
| 6:10am | October Summary | | | | Okay, so since this list already is huge for this month, I decided to omit the OVAs in this list, along with series that have already finished and belong to the previous season, like Chi’s Sweet Home and Wagaya no Oinarisama, in an attempt to keep this list a bit overviewable (although I do want... | | |
| 2:06am | I Would Like to See Artistic Use of Dithering | | | | Dither is, according to Wikipedia, “a technique used in computer graphics to create the illusion of color depth in images with a limited color palette.” In terms of otakudom, it’s a visual technique used in many early to mid-90s h-games when the maximum number of colors was 256,... | | |
| 2:00am | Bihada Ichizoku Ep. 01-02 - Maybe she's born with it; Maybe it's Insanity | | | | I was really expecting a cute and mindless story about cute girls worrying about fashion and boys. Turns out, it's really not. Bihada Ichizoku (Beautiful Skin Family) is another series in the grand tradition of selling stuff to kids. But instead of trading cards or plastic wands, it's cosmetics. And... | | |
| 1:36pm | Some quick first Impressions: Kurozuka, Bihada Ichizoku and Stitch! | | | | Kurozuka Short Synopsis: Our lead character meets a mysterious woman who lives in the forest, while fleeing for people who are out to kill him. Highlights: A LOT to like, a LOT to dislike Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 I must say that I watched this right after being pumped up with adrenaline from Mouryou... | | |
| 2:23pm | [Anime Bento] Watchlist Fall - Winter 2008 | | | | What are you going to watch this Fall? As written up earlier on my previous post. Here is a list of anime I would like to check out at least the 1st few episodes. I will be updating throughout the post with additional videos PVs for each series as I find them. Currently a bit busy with other things... | | |
| 6:36pm | 2008 Autumn Season Preview and Tye-Dye Festival | | | | When everything turns red and dies or something like that. Well, as usual, unless a show looks so bad as to give me some form of horrible wasting illness, I’m probably going to check it out and then be able to formulate an opinion that isn’t based on a 50 word blurb and some pretty art... | | |
| 5:42am | Fall 2008 Anime List: :D :D :D :D | | | | I didn't make this image. Credit goes to uh anyway, it's already written on the image. But hey, this gets easier every season. I don't even have to try to look up all the animes and write descriptions and provide splash images — it's all done for me! Yay! I'll just say... | | |
| 12:42am | T.H.A.T Fall 2008 Anime Preview |  | | | You know that this will be a great season when I do not even know whether I will be blogging EF. Since poor Calawain wrote the previous summer season, it might seem reasonable that he has the invaluable experience to continue on this feature of T.H.A.T. Nonetheless, to relieve him of his pain and his... | | |
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