| 5:19am | Year in Review: Conclusion | | | | Decidedly, the word is that 2007 is not as exciting as 2006. We did not have Haruhi, we did not have Simoun, we did not have Black Lagoon. In fact, I’m going to talk about shows I didn’t see in 2007 (and some that I did see, but not like Haruhi, Simoun and Black Lagoon). | | |
| 7:31pm | My Picks of Anime ‘07 |  | | | Best ” OVA ” - ARIA the AriettaOk, actually ARIA the Arietta was probably the only OVA from this year I saw, but it doesn’t mean it wasn’t good. Like everything about ARIA, it was great; calming, funny, whimsical, and slightly melancholic. Fortunately the OVA did not signal the... | | |
| 7:59pm | Immortals and non-Immortals both Enjoy Life Equally, so says Baccano! | | | | It bothers me to say I took a while to realize the quality of “Baccano!”. Aside from boasting no less than 18 main characters, the Pulp Fiction-esque narrative would constantly fracture and leap back and forth in time. I didn’t like that I had to make an effort to constantly focus and be forced... | | |
| 12:10pm | Year in Review: Japan Just Can’t Get Some Things Right… | | | | but we should really encourage them to try and try again! That is really my feeling about Baccano! in a nutshell. Japanese collaboration with Western producers are really one very direct way to solve some of the problems addressed by that dreaded open letter, but we should remember that Americans (and... | | |
| 12:48pm | Anime & Manga News (early to mid November) | | | | Anime NewsGeneon Update There has been one recent interesting tidbit in the Geneon situation. Navarre CEO Kerry Deacon held a conference call to talk about his company’s recent quarterly earnings report. Navarre is the parent company of FUNimation. Part of the call dealt with the impact of Geneon’s... | | |
| 12:48pm | Anime & Manga News (early to mid November) | | | | Anime NewsGeneon Update There has been one recent interesting tidbit in the Geneon situation. Navarre CEO Kerry Deacon held a conference call to talk about his company’s recent quarterly earnings report. Navarre is the parent company of FUNimation. Part of the call dealt with the impact of Geneon’s... | | |
| 1:06am | Can the Church of Moyism bring salvation to animebloggers? | | | | Two orders from RightStuf arrived today. Over the three weeks it took them to make their trans-Atlantic journey, I’ve been brooding about the relative success of US-based anime distributors’ strategies vis-a-vis my wallet and how we, fansub-downloading anime fans, can better market ourselves.... | | |
| 5:07am | Nomad’s Super Awesome Manga Review part Two + Genshiken!!!one111 |  | | | By Nomad “I can’t belive I’m writing this with a headache when I’ve got three problem sets and a research presentation due next week” Otto Alright, folks, I promised another chapter of the endless manga review cycle that is my life, well, not counting the research, the... | | |
| 6:01pm | It’s not all doom and gloom. | | | | Just a quick little post today, being caught up in the real world with adult things to do is just oh so fun! Now over the past few months things have been a little bit volatile in the Anime industry as a whole, I’m talking about Japan, Europe, USA, pretty much everywhere. People have been crapping... | | |
| 3:17am | Last week’s news on Manga sales drop in Japan… |  | | | From ANN - Manga Sales in Japan Decline for Fifth Consecutive Year Figures released by Japan’s Research Institute of Publications show that sales of manga in Japan fell to 481 billion yen (about US$4.1 billion) in 2006, a decrease of 4% from the previous year the Reseach Institute for Publications... | | |
| 9:25pm | New season! (Genshiken 2! Ghost Hound!) | | | | So, as a new anime season rolls in, these are the shows that I have picked up (so far).Genshiken II: This was a given. I've been excited about this show ever since I learned that there was, in fact, going to be a second season. Somehow, I love this story so much that, although... | | |
| 1:44pm | Anime REview: Black Lagoon, Volume 2 | | | | I just finished watching Geneon’s Black Lagoon Volume Two. Earlier, I compared the series to the 80’s television show ‘The A-Team’. I’m revising that comparison after finishing this volume. It’s here that the show moves a little bit away from action and starts to find its heart. The good... | | |
| 7:37pm | Hayate no Gotoku! ep. 28 |  | | | [ Episode 28: Black Hayate ]What a nice and Hayate-like end to such a good arc. Kuzuha was hilarious as expected and even had her character in clothes similar to Revy from Black Lagoon (they do share the same seiyuu after all). Hayate managed to win the tournament through constant forfeitures and his... | | |
| 2:45am | Few soon and future releases for anime DVDs in UK | | | | For our readers from Britain, if y’all didn’t know this one already. From Anime Corporation News - MVM Picks up Witchblade, Black Lagoon for the UK MVM has licensed Witchblade and Black Lagoon for English UK DVD releases Bleach UK Trailer ”hip, flashy, funkily fragmented” UK... | | |
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