| 5:32am | A Closer Look at Asia’s Favorite Chord Progression | | | | Have you noticed throughout your years of music listening that Western pop and Asian pop, in broad generality, “feel” very different from each other? If you thought that there might be a certain harmonic disparity between the two, you’d be right. There is a specific harmonic unit that appears... | | |
| 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.... | | |
| 10:54pm | The shrinking of Attack on Titan | | | | Back in 2011, I wrote two posts about the manga series Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) and since then, it’s only grown in popularity, and in addition to a live-action movie, now has an anime series starting in April, too. I can’t wait to see how it turns out, but in the meantime, I figured... | | |
| 8:30pm | Spring 2013 Anime Previews: staff, cast, story, trailer, pic, etc. | | | | This is the season of science fiction. There are seven shows with something sci-fi about them, from a remake of the Space Battleship Yamato series to three mecha shows to a kids' show and a harem romance.But in this well-populated spring season, we have other genres, too: action fantasy, ecchi comedy,... | | |
| 7:00pm | Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT | | | | Another sequel next to “Minami-ke Tadaima”, was looking forward to “Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT”, the second season of the anime based on the “僕は友達が少な ” light novel series by Hirasaka Yomi. Quite enjoyed the first season of “Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai”,... | | |
| 3:39pm | Slicing Life and Narrative Force | | | | I think it comes down to this. I would like to just lay out my overall thoughts on this topic rather than simply object to what seems like an useful term. In a nutshell, slice of life is a metaphor, a tortured one, if you will. It describes the kind of pacing and descriptive narratives in which the... | | |
| 3:39pm | Slicing Life and Narrative Force | | | | I think it comes down to this. I would like to just lay out my overall thoughts on this topic rather than simply object to what seems like an useful term. In a nutshell, slice of life is a metaphor, a tortured one, if you will. It describes the kind of pacing and descriptive narratives in which the... | | |
| 3:39pm | Slicing Life and Narrative Force | | | | I think it comes down to this. I would like to just lay out my overall thoughts on this topic rather than simply object to what seems like an useful term. In a nutshell, slice of life is a metaphor, a tortured one, if you will. It describes the kind of pacing and descriptive narratives in which the... | | |
| 9:58pm | Blood-C: The Last Dark | | | | Blood-C had a an inauspicious start. Schoolgirl, dark secret, monster of the week, yada-yada. The Blood franchise itself has never been overly inspiring with the original movie a notable exception but the subsequent fifty episode TV series (Blood+) and various multimedia spin-offs remained largely... | | |
| 9:58pm | Blood-C: The Last Dark | | | | Blood-C had a an inauspicious start. Schoolgirl, dark secret, monster of the week, yada-yada. The Blood franchise itself has never been overly inspiring with the original movie a notable exception but the subsequent fifty episode TV series (Blood+) and various multimedia spin-offs remained largely... | | |
| 9:58pm | Blood-C: The Last Dark | | | | Blood-C had a an inauspicious start. Schoolgirl, dark secret, monster of the week, yada-yada. The Blood franchise itself has never been overly inspiring with the original movie a notable exception but the subsequent fifty episode TV series (Blood+) and various multimedia spin-offs remained largely... | | |
| 2:34pm | Stereopony to Disband | | | | Stereopony was a 3-girl Japanese rock band that performed notable anisong for Bleach, Gundam 00, Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor, EUREKA SEVEN AO, and Letter Bee Reverse anime series. Today they make a sad announcement that they are disbanding to pursue different paths, following the one-month... | | |
| 6:29am | Sakamichi no Apollon plus – more & rare Review | | | | Three major releases from three different shows came out last July 25, 2012 – More Than Words, Love @ New Dimension, and Sakamichi no Apollon plus more & rare. Having watched Sakamichi no Apollon, it was easy to guess what the pieces would be in this release and so, I slacked on listening... | | |
| 3:39pm | Oh Miao, you card |  | | | Yes, it’s the thin slicing at now Blog Suki nee Anime On My Mind (poor Darry, discarded like a used sock), and it starts well. No opaque sports references, no mis-spelled Brett Favre, but I am smirking and snorting at all the cute hate down the scale. Uta Koi: TYO Productions (yet another studio... | | |
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