| 5:36am | A Retrospective Account of 2006, Pt.4: Five Characters | | | | After yesterday’s brief detour into the world of criticism, my more positive views of the return, firstly with a look at five of the year’s more appealing characters. While they are chosen on personal taste rather than pure merit, the five of them form a diverse range of personalities | | |
| 12:27am | Goodbye term holidays, hello sporadic posting… T_T | | | | 'みの時"はおわ たよ!Or something like that ^_^ I’m back in my University for more brutal academic punishment (”enrichment” if you’re a half-full, optimistic kinda person), so expect my posting to get even more sporadic then what it already | | |
| 2:32pm | Subs vs. Dubs: The Debate Rages… | | | | Hello again. I really haven’t posted all that much on this site lately, and for that I apologize. In fact, the last post I made when I was high on caffeine, low on sleep, and off-the-charts in paranoid delusions, and for that I apologize. (I removed it the day after, and I can only hope | | |
| 8:42am | The ASOS Brigade - Anime Marketing at its Finest |  | | | Buzz was generating through out all off last week as a mysterious website popped onto the internets with promises of the popular anime series, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, being licensed in the US. The website only claimed that “The World as we know it will end” that Friday. But | | |
| 11:45am | A3 2006: Let’s get the voting started on Alternative Anime Awards! |  | | | This is A3 2006, where the underdogs, the unknown and the bizarre gets their place in history!For now, the format has been decided. I will have 7 highly-professional judges (*cough*) from the anime blogging community. Please start voting while I hound my judges for the votes. This thing will last | | |
| 9:34am | Giving to Thyself | | | | Let’s be honest here, the holiday season has nothing to do with the various religious events or good will towards your fellow men normally associated with the times. What the holiday season is really about is spending, gifts, uncomfortable family gatherings, drinking, getting laid, and | | |
| 8:58pm | Alternative Anime Awards (A3 2006): I have a dream~ |  | | | Note: This is a suggestion post, not a VOTE NOW post!This is A3 2006, where the underdogs, the unknown and the bizarre gets their place in history!Let us not wallow in our love for Yuki, Tsuruya (nooooo!) and Haruhi, I say to you today, my friends.So even though we face the difficulties of today and... | | |
| 12:22am | 12 Sisters of Madam Marciano | | | | Since Episode 1 of Coyote Ragtime Show impressed me so much .. I decided to do a special feature on the 12 gothic assasins and tell u their names From what we see in the first episode the 12 sisters are commanded by Madam Marciano that belongs to some top criminal guild | | |
| 8:29pm | Binchou-tan - episode 11 | | | | “First snow, first sled, first flight Bin”The meaning of friendship is giving acorns to birds so that you may soar in the sky together.Chikutan takes Binchou-tan out for some hunting, gathering and bartering to prepare for the long winter ahead. Ren-tan wins a bicycle for Chiku-tan, and | | |
| 8:29pm | Binchou-tan - episode 12 | | | | “A Letter to the Sky Bin”I welled up at the end.It’s New Year and all of the -tans go to the shrine to ring it in, with the exception of Binchou-tan, sick in bed.The theme that has been in place throughout the series came to a head here, with a tear-inducingly beautiful | | |
| 8:34pm | Binchou-tan - episode 10 | | | | “Season of Sweet Potatoes Bin”Looks like Binchou-tan has become a two episodes at a time OVA. Suits me fine, if we get such an awesome ondo ED.This is an autumn episode, and the moment Binchou-tan began collecting acorns and chestnuts, and saw a squirrel, my first thought was “kuri... | | |
| 8:32pm | Binchou-tan - episode 9 | | | | “There is a beetle on you Bin”Beautiful enough to bring a tear to your eye, is Binchou-tan. When times are upon you, the -tans are nice through and through.Ren-tan helps Chiku-tan sell her medicines. Meanwhile, Kunugi-tan plays with Binchou-tan and begins to teach her how to write. In | | |
| 8:10pm | Binchou-tan - episode 8 | | | | “Musunde hiraite Bin”An episode that is by turns depressing and uplifting. Damn your empty life, Binchou-tan!Binchou-tan is followed home by a stray dog. She and Chiku-tan decide to raise it under the name of Saji. Shortly after realising the extent of her poverty, Binchou-tan receives a... | | |
| 2:30pm | Thursday Notes (Early Edition)... | | | | Good morning, if anybody's up at this time around here. Been practicing piano here (as I mentioned previously), and it's coming along decently well, one piece is okay, the other I can't handle competing rhythms in each hand, especially 3 against 2, but putting my poor piano | | |
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