| 10:48pm | Are We Just Gravy? The Importance of American Market to the Japanese |  | | | Japanator’s Dick McVengeance issued a challenge in the comments of his response to my fansub controversy. He wanted to know if the American DVD sales of anime actually meant anything to the Japanese. Was the American market really important to the global anime economy, or were we all just gravy... | | |
| 4:00am | Fall 2008 |  | | | THAT has put up their preview of Fall 2008 anime series, and there sure are a lot of sequels. This time, however, most of the sequels are of series I haven’t watched, so that eliminates a lot of possibilities. I’ll be free to pick up at least 4 series, since everything I’m blogging... | | |
| 4:00am | Fall 2008 |  | | | THAT has put up their preview of Fall 2008 anime series, and there sure are a lot of sequels. This time, however, most of the sequels are of series I haven’t watched, so that eliminates a lot of possibilities. I’ll be free to pick up at least 4 series, since everything I’m blogging... | | |
| 6:10am | Fall 2008 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | Shikabane Hime: Aka - Gainax's latest It’s that time again - the new season of anime is upon us and it appears that it’s full of good anime. My preview covers those shows that I plan on checking out. I used the most excellent THAT Animeblog’s Fall Preview to figure out what I plan... | | |
| 5:42am | 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... | | |
| 9:34pm | Fullmetal Alchemist Second Season FINALLY CONFIRMED |  | | | This time, it’s official. BONES has confirmed that a second TV series is in the works, according to an Anime News Network article. The 20th volume of the manga, set to be released Friday, is announcing it. No word yet on plot or length. And it’s about freaking time someone milked this cash... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 12:01am | Weekly Anime Review (Aug 10-16) | | | | Sakura being SakuraSince I’m talking about last week I first wanted to mention that this year’s Perseid meteor shower was cool. We had a cloudless sky and even though I was inside the city I got to see 8-9 really nice meteors that streaked across the sky and a handful of smaller ones. I can’t... | | |
| 12:01am | Weekly Anime Review (Aug 10-16) | | | | Sakura being SakuraSince I’m talking about last week I first wanted to mention that this year’s Perseid meteor shower was cool. We had a cloudless sky and even though I was inside the city I got to see 8-9 really nice meteors that streaked across the sky and a handful of smaller ones. I can’t... | | |
| 11:25am | Birdy the Mighty Decode - 07 | | | | Short Synopsis: A certain someone with long dark blue hair starts killing people. Highlights: Whoa, is this really the same Birdy the Mighty? Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Really, this series is looking ten times better after that second season announcement. Everything finally makes sense. By far... | | |
| 12:26am | Black Lagoon 9-12: the unstoppable housemaid | | | | Black Lagoon rounds off the First Barrage with rip-roaring conclusion to the Unstoppable Housemaid arc before following the crew as they embark on a mission set by the Triads that pits them against a group of international terrorists. Needless to say it involves some more blistering action and an outrageous... | | |
| 12:50pm | Umineko no Naku Koro ni Translation Patch: Second release! | | | | As we already explained on the animesuki thread, we were unfortunately struck by some bizarre curse: starting the project that early (February/March 2008), we suffered from many delay due of the exam period but also the summer holiday. But thanks to our support, and chronotrig’s insane speed,... | | |
| 5:12am | The Olympics done anime style. | | | | I have always loved watching the Olympics and after seeing the above super cute Olympic poster I tried to find a way to link anime and the Olympics. So, I decided to do a post called Olympics done anime style, this post will feature many anime and manga characters performing in various... | | |
| 5:12am | The Olympics done anime style. | | | | I have always loved watching the Olympics and after seeing the above super cute Olympic poster I tried to find a way to link anime and the Olympics. So, I decided to do a post called Olympics done anime style, this post will feature many anime and manga characters performing in various... | | |
| 8:52pm | Thoughts on Legend of the Galactic Heroes 29-56 |  | | | The Legend continues. Like my last post this is more a collection of thoughts and conjectures on the story thus far. Ton of spoilers too. The big focus of the second season is how Phezzan manages to manipulate both sides into war and eventually gets the Empire to outright conquer the alliance. However,... | | |
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