| 8:29am | 3rd Annual Anime Music Awards – The Best of 2012 | | | | Introduction by Yu Despite the relatively sparse pickings in comparison to past years, 2012 still managed to produce its fair share of memorable favorites. In fact, the sheer variety on display appeals to many different tastes, and it shows in terms of how divided we were in regard to our selections.... | | |
| 8:00pm | City-sized ships, anglerfish, girls … und panzer? | | | | I’ll just say it: the girls with guns genre is pretty well-represented in anime. Noir, Madlax and El Cazador de la Bruja were all stylish depictions of girls with guns that managed to present some mature themes and relationships while not skimping on the stylish action, and though the trilogy... | | |
| 11:43pm | Yuri Network News - December 30, 2012 | | | | I pushed the news report off a day this week, to make time for all of you to read and disagree with my first two Top Ten lists of 2012! ^_^Top Ten Yuri Anime of 2012Top Ten Yuri Manga of 2012My final list will post tomorrow - please look forward to it!***Yuri MangaJust a reminder that Seven Seas has... | | |
| 8:08pm | Top Ten Yuri Anime of 2012 | | | | Before we get started, I remind you that this is my opinion and no more authoritative than anyone else's. It's also my interpretation of the words "Top" "Yuri" "Anime" and "2012". ^_^ As always, you are most welcome to disagree with me in the comments. I also invite you to... | | |
| 11:09pm | Cardcaptor Sakura Omnibus Manga, Volume 4 (English) | | | | Sakura has faced many trials in the course of Card Captor Sakura and here in Volume 4, she is going to face even more difficult trials, we are toldrepeatedly.It's true that Sakura will face down the original master of the cards, and have to transmute all the cards into "Sakura Cards" but the true trial... | | |
| 4:30pm | Please Use a Spine Template | | | | As readers, I’m sure many of you, like me, treasure the books and feel a lot of satisfaction collecting and displaying them. And that is why I find the above infinitely frustrating. Doesn’t most everyone display their books spine out on their shelves? It is what we see most often after... | | |
| 4:06am | Making Sense of Miyuki-chan in Wonderland | | | | I don’t know why being a CLAMP fan seemed like such a big deal back in the early 2000s. It seemed that every anime/manga fan that I knew — in real life and through the internet — was extremely familiar with CLAMP and their oeuvre, and I was the last remaining newbie left. How did... | | |
| 10:00am | Gate 7: CLAMP’s Take on the Sengoku Jidai | | | | With CLAMP, it’s not a matter of if, but when you’re going to be trolled. Gate 7 leaves the crossovers and multi-universe jumping of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle behind to bring us to the historical city of Kyoto, home of Japan’s imperial past and the ghosts it left behind. Except,... | | |
| 11:00am | Ideal Feminist Scenarios in Anime and Manga | | | | My goal this week was to write about several anime and manga titles that I thought touched on various aspects of feminism across a variety of genres. I picked a fantasy, a comedy, and a historical romance to 1) illustrate that examples of interesting and competent female characters do exist in anime/manga,... | | |
| 8:54pm | Otakon 2012 Day 3: Not Much Quantity, Yet So Much Quality |  | | | By TheBigN Sundays at Otakon are always a cool down period for me. Part of it is that usually the panels scheduled on this day tend to be ones that I don’t particularly have much interest in (though I really wish I did check out the Director’s panels when they used to be there. I missed... | | |
| 10:46pm | For the sake of two worlds, for the sake of two futures: xxxHolic 15 | | | | With the strength of one person’s emotions, time stopped. And I was stopped within that time. It was for the sake of two worlds. For the sake of two futures. Volume 15 is the thematic climax of xxxHolic. Watanuki asks his client, the woman who refuses to eat her own cooking, to see him at Yuuko’s... | | |
| 4:00pm | Madhouse/Team Chihayafuru Press Conference |  | | | Takuya Tsunoki (producer), Kunihiko Hamada (animation director), and Asaka Morio (director). This is the full transcript/translation of Madhouse’s Chihayafuru production team at their press conference during Anime Expo 2012. The team consists of Asaka Morio (director), Kunihiko Hamada (animation... | | |
| 4:30pm | Exposition: Anime Expo 2012, Day 0 | | | | The luxurious express bus seat on the way to downtown LA. See the tweet digest for Day 0. It’s strange that no matter how many years I’ve spent doing conventions as press, I never quite feel ready the night before Day 0, or even on Day 0 itself. Part of it is because there have always been... | | |
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