| 9:45pm | Hayate no Gotoku!! 2nd Season - 25 (END) |  | | | It's not over until we get a kiss! Oh crap Celestial Being, armed military intervention, GN particles, and Aeolia Schenberg. That's enough references to make any Gundam 00 fan chuckle under his/her breath. Add in some Lelouch/Zero poses with mention of the United States of Japan and you have... | | |
| 4:16pm | Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (End) |  | | | Chaos. It is always nice to be surprised by such a seemingly boring anime, which turns out to become one of the best shows of the summer season. Not to repeat myself on what I’ve said in my previous impressions of this anime, I’ll just focus a little... | | |
| 7:48am | Orion on Juuden-chan, Umineko, and others |  | | | Warmed up after the metablogging, he decided to deliver some smackdowns. I understand [Juuden-chan] really pushed the envelope in terms of what you can get away with and still be on broadcast television, what with masochism and urination in every episode. Or so I hear anyway. I couldn’t deal with... | | |
| 1:30am | 115. Kamui Gaiden (New Movie Review) | | | | Hello, fellow Japanese movie fans. I have recently watched the new Kamui Gaiden film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and here are my thoughts on the film. As many movie-info websites can tell you, this was a big, $18million USD budget ninja fiction film based on a 1960s manga called Kamui.... | | |
| 12:24am | The Good, The Bad, and the Moe: Summer 2009 Anime Rankings | | | | 17 different shows from the summer ‘09 anime season, analyzed and ranked from the bottom up. Disclaimer: These rankings are purely a reflection of our own opinions and tastes, which are admittedly rather different from your average anime fan. Just because we don’t like a particular show... | | |
| 7:13pm | Games Convention Asia 2009 |  | | | Went down on saturday to check out the Games Convention Asia 2009 down at Suntec City. It showcased some of the latest games as well as some regional gaming competitions. Read after the jump for more. Rather small grounds and not much of a crowd this time. I noticed that the exhibition leaned heavily... | | |
| 8:43pm | Editorial: Empires in Anime |  | | | Empires in anime are a fairly common phenomenon, especially in science fiction series. Looking at Japan’s history with being an empire and encountering others, here’s a rather too long post about how I see history perhaps influencing anime in the portrayal of different kinds of empires. This editorial... | | |
| 10:57am | Cool Products Friday, September 18, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 8:03am | The Secret of Kells | | | | I got to see the wonderful Irish-Belgian-French co-production The Secret of Kells this evening. I'd been impressed by the trailer when I saw it a few months ago, and the film didn't disappoint. Kells stands right up there with the films of Michel Ocelot and The Triplets of Belleville in leading today's... | | |
| 7:03am | Explorer Woman Ray | | | | Another noteworthy OVA relic from the post-Akira period of 1989 to the early 90s is Explorer Woman Ray from 1989, which I just picked up out of curiosity. I'd seen it often on the shelves of video stores 15 years ago when I rented anime regularly, but the package failed to impress me, so I'd never seen... | | |
| 11:30pm | 57 Fall Anime -- story, staff, cast, trailer, pic | | | | There are more new shows this fall than in any season over the past few years. But I'm not sure the quality -- or at least the appeal to my taste -- will be that high. I don't see any shows I expect to be as good as the great shows of this past summer season, such as Aoi Hana and Bakemonogatari. But... | | |
| 12:10am | [PR] VIZ MEDIA SCIENCE FICTION IMPRINT HAIKASORU TO DEBUT NEW NOVELS | | | | VIZ MEDIA SCIENCE FICTION IMPRINT HAIKASORU TO DEBUT NEW NOVELS ZOO AND USURPER OF THE SUN New Books Debut In September And Push The Boundaries Of Japanese Science Fiction San Francisco, CA, September 14, 2009– VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative... | | |
| 3:08pm | Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3: The Journey – Review |  | | | Yep, I have spent a good number of hours into Persona 3 and am now ready to do my review on this series. Questions that must be asked by myself are “Was it a good investment of my time?”, “Was it worth the stress hunting for it”, “Does it keep the standard I got from Persona... | | |
|
![[Valid RSS]](/images/valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
![[Valid Atom 1.0]](/images/valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
