| 2:30am | Crystal Blaze Review |  | | | What, an anime review? On this blog? It’s more likely than you think. Episode 12 was finally subbed and put on the Internet, after basically a three month drought. The ending, like the rest of the series, was decent. Let’s take a look at what makes this series tick Crystal Blaze... | | |
| 10:05am | Himitsu ~The Revelation~ - 23 | | | | Short Synopsis: Two dead bodies are found at a love hotel. Highlights: SEARCH MY BODY Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,75/10 OMG! Now THIS is what I’m talking about! THIS is exactly why I like this series so much! Himitsu’s multi-episode arcs have always known exactly how to use their time,... | | |
| 1:34pm | June Summary | | | | Well, the end of the month couldn’t have come at a better time, because it offered me a good opportunity to experiment a bit with my new rating system. What caught my attention is that the average score seems to be lower than usual, but that can also be because this spring-season overall has turned... | | |
| 8:46pm | Crystal Blaze Review - 90/100 | | | | Some great anime have a very detailed art-style with absolutely gorgeous animation. Others have a smashing soundtrack, performed by a famous composer. Others hired a cast of well-known voice-actors to perform on their characters. Again others put a lot of attention to their dialogue to make this... | | |
| 8:09pm | Crystal Blaze - 12 | | | | Oh god, the creators actually did it! They actually pulled off a great ending as well. This episode was really good, and amongst the best of the entire series. One thing I’ve noticed with endings that they often feel rather lukewarm. I think that my opinion of this seems to change with every... | | |
| 3:52pm | Crystal Blaze - 11 | | | | Talk about an excellent first half of a finale! 12-episode series shouldn’t have “calm before the storm”-episodes. It wastes a precious episode that could have been used so much better, and all these episodes to fill time until the next episode, when the big climax is going to happen.... | | |
| 4:10pm | Kaiba - 08 | | | | It’s been a long wait, but finally my beloved Kaiba is back. And what an episode does it return with! For once, Kaiba doesn’t appear in it at all, and instead it’s all about Popo, and how the bastards killed off his own mother to keep up his appearances. As it turns out, she once... | | |
| 1:38pm | Amatsuki - 11 | | | | For the past few years, I’ve been using AniDB to keep track of the anime I’ve watched. It’s got a clean look with a lot of options for statistics, and I especially like how you can assign priorities to the entries in your wishlist, which helps to give a clear overview over my huge... | | |
| 8:55pm | Crystal Blaze - 10 | | | | Now that’s an aftermath! I’ve lately noticed that a lot of aftermaths in anime after a big climax are relatively boring, where characters do nothing but angst and try to let the events of said climax sink in. It may be because I’ve seen things like these for too many times, but they’re... | | |
| 3:40pm | The Weekly Ratings Return… 6 June 2008 (as I forgot the Week Number). | | | | Due to the start of the holidays, I had to miss watching anime for a while and this prevented the weekly rating post from being written. As I caught up on my backlog, I got confused by the numerous series I was following. Like I’ll miss out on episode 6 and start watching 7, only realising halfway... | | |
| 1:06pm | Kurenai - 10 | | | | As this episode was mostly boring, I’m going to hijack most of this post for something completely different that caught my attention. I stumbled upon this post, referring to this piece of art, that rants against the lack of shading in the anime of the 21st century. Ironically, it’s done... | | |
| 12:19pm | Crystal Blaze - 09 | | | | Awesome episode! Only now I realize how similar this series is to Kurenai: we have Shinkurou taking care of Murasaki versus Shu, taking care of Sara. Manami and Ayaka are comparable to Shinkurou’s two neighbours, while Poririn and the tech-guy whose name I forgot are similar to Benika. In Kurenai,... | | |
| 2:04pm | May Summary | | | | I noticed that this season, there are a lot of really good 13-episode series. Much more than usual. This trend seems to become more and more popular. In some cases, it’s unfortunate, because some series would be able to show their potential even more with 26 episodes. #23 (16) - Allison to Lillia... | | |
| 12:15pm | Crystal Blaze - 08 | | | | The past week, I’ve gotten a few interesting comments, along the lines of “this post says nothing about the actual episode, what an informative anime blog” (with the last part being obvious sarcasm), and they got me thinking. It’s not the first part that got me (heck, I’m... | | |
| 8:49am | Crystal Blaze - 07 | | | | Ah, the standard episode in which a character is angsting and his or her friends spend the episode trying to talk him or her out of it. I now realize how often such an episode can go wrong: it’s obviously predictable, and often it comes across rather lazy. I now realize that series as Suteki... | | |
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