| 12:00am | In the mood for blood: notes on the atmosphere in Shigurui | | | | Shigurui is one sexy show. I don’t mean this in the way the reviewers I respect mean it, in the way they talk about the content of sex in the show. The sexuality of the show is actually quite repulsive. If you get off on it, think of what you’re finding out about yourself. That may make... | | |
| 6:47pm | Tadanari Okamoto DVD box on June 24 | | | | Why do Gobelins films move so fast? It's an overgeneralization, but I often find the actions seem too fast to me. I love their work, and the action in itself is usually amazingly lush and excitingly choreographed, but the zippy speed is the one thing that nags at me when I watch it. I guess it's not... | | |
| 10:19am | The Kokoro of Code Geass | | | | In an episode of Code Geass, the anime about an alternate-reality Earth in which Japan is conquered by the evil Empire of Britannia, Zero asks his friend Suzaku a question. "What is it to be 'Japanese,' and how do you define the concept of 'race'? Is it through language? The land where people are living?... | | |
| 12:00am | A Well-Drawn Sword is Hard to Beat: Vagabond and Shigurui | | | | If there’s anything I like almost as much as ‘real robot’ anime, it’s ‘real samurai’ anime and manga. What I mean by ‘real samurai’ is that the swordsmen and swordplay in the subject works are for the most part portrayed with a realistic aesthetic; the... | | |
| 10:35am | Cool Products Wednesday, June 10, 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... | | |
| 7:42am | Summer 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | This seems to happen every time, just when I’m finally feel like I’ve got used to the season’s mix of shows, a new season comes along and offers a completely different set of shows to watch.At the start of the spring season, I was unsure if there’d be as many quality titles as the past several... | | |
| 7:22am | “Akihabara Can Show How to Beat the Recession!” |  | | | The newest issue of Keizaikai (Economic World) magazine carries the interesting headline “The Secrets of How Akihabara, The Neighborhood Prime Minster Aso Loves, Can Teach Us to Beat the Recession,” with photographs of Rozen Aso himself adorning the cover, along with images of the otaku... | | |
| 1:49pm | T.H.A.T. Summer 2009 Anime Preview |  | | | Are you ready for your swine flu vaccination? Welcome to the 2009 Summer Anime Preview. I hope everyone is enjoying the time off, because I have none -_- (damn Bar review). Regardless, enjoy our seasonal preview, the format is the same as last time. Much of this info is pulled from Fansub Wiki,... | | |
| 1:12pm | アゲ嬢[agejou] | | | | うーん、スゴい！ A while ago, a charismatic visual-kei singer who actually claims to be a Gundam otaku, Gackt crossdressed in the cover of his brand-new CD. What surprised people was that he cosplayed an アゲ嬢[agejou]. I didn’t mean to introduce this word because I didn’t... | | |
| 1:00pm | Sacred 2 Review |  | | | I picked up and played this game without a lot of knowledge on what it was about. Even after playing it for a while and beating it, trying out several different characters and exploring a plethora of side quests it’s hard to nail down exactly a specific genre or type of game this falls into. On one... | | |
| 8:42pm | [PR] Viz Media’s Manga Line-up for Third Quarter 2009 | | | | VIZ MEDIA OFFERS A SELECTION OF INTRIGUING NEW MANGA SERIES FOR RELEASE THROUGHOUT THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2009 San Francisco, CA, JUNE 4, 2009 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, is previewing... | | |
| 12:00am | A Meditation on Robots, not mecha, ROBOTS! | | | | [This post will have many references, and no spoilers]. I’ve taken time to pause from my obsession with mecha anime typology (super robot vs. real robot) to consider robots in anime the non-galactic-busting, turn you into a God or a Demon kind; neither did I think of the mobile suit kind. I’m... | | |
| 9:15pm | Summer 2009 |  | | | Oops, I did it again Summer’s almost here, and so it’s time for the preview post. I decided to go all out again, and even tried to make the preview a little more readable. As usual, this post ignores any series that look like they were made before 1985, series that look like they were... | | |
| 8:30pm | The Good, The Bad, and the Moe: Spring 2009 Anime Rankings - Part 1 | | | | How many references can you identify? Incoming Dekkai Huge Post of Long. Yes, that’s right, I’ve decided to satisfy my penchant for attaching meaningless numbers to things by putting together yet another Anime Season Ranking Post. Haven’t done this for a couple years now, come to... | | |
| 10:56am | Cool Products Monday, June 1, 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... | | |
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