| 1:27am | December 2008 News Highlights | | | | On December 9, Bandai Namco Games released a variant of a karaoke machine using its Afrec! technology. Instead of having fans add their voices to music, Afrec! allows fans to voice over anime segments. The machine was released under the Joysound label. The process for the seiyuu wannabe has three... | | |
| 1:34pm | Toradora Ending |  | | | Tsundere light novel series Toradora! is confirmed as concluding in the tenth volume, to be released March; this is thought to coincide neatly with the ending of the anime, for an ending many are already praising for its discipline in refraining from becoming a long and drawn out franchise more interested... | | |
| 12:47pm | Shikabane Hime - 19 | | | | Short Synopsis: Ouri vs. Keisei & Keisei & Keisei & Keisei & etc. Episode Rating: 8/10 (Excellent) I’m really glad that my fears that the extra shounen roots would ruin the second season proved to be unnecessary, because the creators have found more than enough inspiration... | | |
| 3:02am | Anime Inbou Awards 2008, pt. 4 ~ oshimai |  | | | I couldn’t think of a better way to end this then calling this last part the end, so you get your oshimai instead. This final entry has a whopping eight categories so this is where the best of the best lie. Our focus here is on the story and direction of the show and overall how it was handled... | | |
| 3:27am | Haruhi Season 2 |  | | | Looks like there is not much longer to wait until the second season of Haruhi airs. Question - anybody here not seen the series yet? Original text from Raz below.According to Newtype, the long awaited new season of Haruhi Suzumiya is scheduled to premiere in April. Earlier this year, a newspaper... | | |
| 3:34pm | January Summary | | | | It’s definitely been an interesting Winter-season so far. I know that I’ve ranted pretty often about the lack of new concepts this series, but when you look at the big picture, then this is promising to become an excellent season. There are many quality sequels airing right now, and especially... | | |
| 7:41pm | Shikabane Hime - 18 | | | | Short Synopsis: Sougi takes care of his old friend, while the Seven Stars pull a particularly nasty trick on Makina. Episode Rating: 8/10 (8,5/10 for the first half) Ah, who cares about the stupid fanservice! The second season rocks! I’m really surprised. When the fanservice started coming with... | | |
| 6:15pm | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 2: Cast and Assorted Awards | | | | I should make a "Cutest Character of 2008" category so I could give him an award. Part 2 is somewhat of a mishmash of awards. I started out just having multi-character awards but while figuring out where everything went I realized I needed a spot to place various awards that didn’t fit... | | |
| 8:07am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 0: Introduction and the Anti-Awards | | | | It’s finally time for me to write up my favorites and top picks in anime for 2008. Between waiting for some series to finish, wanting to marathon a couple of missed series, and catching the new season of anime – I didn’t have the room in my writing time to do this until now. I also wanted to be... | | |
| 12:16am | Harima, WTF!? | | | | One of the great tragedies, or at least inconveniences, in life is not being able to choose who you’re attracted to. You like who you like, but damn Harima, Tenma? How can you just not see the awesomeness of Eri? Or anyone else in the show not named Tenma for that matter. At least his blindness... | | |
| 12:16am | Harima, WTF!? | | | | One of the great tragedies, or at least inconveniences, in life is not being able to choose who you’re attracted to. You like who you like, but damn Harima, Tenma? How can you just not see the awesomeness of Eri? Or anyone else in the show not named Tenma for that matter. At least his blindness... | | |
| 4:09pm | Jigoku Shoujo - 68 | | | | Short Synopsis: Yuzuki continues to try and prevent people from pulling the string without much success. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) Haha! Another excellent episode this time. This series’ finale promises to become better than the two previous seasons, if it’s already this... | | |
| 3:10pm | Birdy the Mighty Decode - 16 | | | | Short Synopsis: Senkawa&co visit a refugee camp for a school project. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 (Awesome) ZOMG, is this really the same Birdy the Mighty as the first season? That first season was a nice series and all, but the teen-aged romances got into the way, with especially Senkawa... | | |
| 6:49pm | Shikabane Hime - 17 | | | | Short Synopsis: Sougi and Itsuki tell about their background. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) Now this is more like it! This is exactly the reason why I came to like the first season so much, and I’m glad to see that the second season is going to be more than a weak sequel of the first.... | | |
| 5:10pm | Winter Anime Impressions – Birdy the Mighty Decode 2 | | | | The first season of Birdy was one of the highlights of the summer. It wasn’t perfect but it did an excellent job in developing the story and it’s animation was above average bordering on great. I’m hoping that A-1 Pictures received a little more money to do this season because that might be all... | | |
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