| 6:57am | Toradora Series Review | | | | A slowly increasing pile of shows awaiting their series review has been on my mind lately. I’m tempted to brush them under the carpet since I could rightly reason that hardily anyone will care (and click on) what I thought of Toradora or the third season of Minami-ke or Rideback at this late date... | | |
| 4:43pm | I’d eat her taco if you know what I mean | | | | Yuuki is such a cute character and voiced by Rie Kugimiya yet! I think those ribbons on her thighhighs, orange hair and energetic personality are her moe points. There seem to be a few Hayate no Gotoku voice actors in this show. But man, I have never watched a show where I didn’t know anything... | | |
| 3:53pm | Genga books | | | | A while back I was asked if there were any good collections of key animation that could be bought online. A lot of books have been put out, but most of those went out of print very quickly, and to find them now you'd have to buy them second-hand from an auction site like Yahoo! Japan Auctions. Here's... | | |
| 5:55am | Haxx, Upgrades, and Server Issues, Oh My | | | | Mmm, my favorite. Yes, it’s true. Not only has Epic Win had some painful issues with our server host the last few weeks, we also got h4xx0red. And to top it all off Guff has abandoned me again and flown back to Japan. Not to fear, though. I was able to identify the source of the problem and everything’s... | | |
| 9:00pm | Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 -- Who are those great voices? | | | | The first two episodes of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 have been outstanding. And the perfect voices have been a big part of the deal.Hanamura Satomi as Mirai has been particularly brilliant. She did the sullen middle-schooler so perfectly in episode one that many people hated her. And her determination to find... | | |
| 1:59pm | Anime nowadays is at a standstill. True or not? | | | | Okay, so the discussion has been going on in a number of posts and shoutboxes, but the subject is interesting so I decided to make one post about it. Blogsome unfortunately doesn’t support the option to move comments, so I’ll instead quote what the different people have said about it. It... | | |
| 8:36pm | Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 | | | | The first episode of Bones' new show Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 went over well with me. The directing and animation were solid and left a strong impression, without needing to resort to any sort of silly antics or extravagantly animated action. It stuck to a very even and carefully poised tone throughout.... | | |
| 3:18am | Nope | | | | Anime Expo has come and gone. What got licensed? Denno Coil? Kaiba? Mononoke? Mind Game? Uh-uh. There was no mention of anything I’ve been waiting for. The titles that were announced all look like drivel.1 Steven has a different list, but he, too, was disappointed. I’m particularly annoyed... | | |
| 9:17pm | Call for nominations II | | | | The next poll will probably be anime soundtracks: which is the best? There are the obvious candidates: Noir, Haibane Renmei, nearly everything by Yoko Kanno; and some less-obvious ones: Denno Coil, Oh! Edo Rocket, Mushishi. What other examples are worth considering? Please leave your nominations in... | | |
| 9:16pm | New season thoughts | | | | Before I write a few thoughts on anime I've seen recently, behold Felix's Machines, one of the most ingenious concepts, constructions and videos I've seen in a good while. Felix Thorn, a young electronic musician living in the UK, has been putting together a DIY orchestra of cannibalized instrument... | | |
| 5:07pm | How Martians Think of Us. Or Is It Jovians? | | | | It’s a common notion in science fiction that if we ever stumble upon extraterrestrials, they would possess far superior technological prowess and be able to do things humans cannot. When in reality this is probably not likely to be the case (odds are we’ll just find some bacteria first... | | |
| 6:27pm | SDS on Dennou Coil |  | | | The post at OGIUE MAXIAX is an old news, but I meant to mark it as a perfect example of what a trained critic sees in Dennou Coil. Look at the big paragraph in the middle with “the storytelling is subtle without being excessively obtuse” and such. Myself, I suddenly suspended it at ep.08,... | | |
| 1:27am | December 2008 News Highlights | | | | On December 9, Bandai Namco Games released a variant of a karaoke machine using its Afrec! technology. Instead of having fans add their voices to music, Afrec! allows fans to voice over anime segments. The machine was released under the Joysound label. The process for the seiyuu wannabe has three... | | |
| 4:34pm | Be Mindful of Your Surroundings: Dennou Coil | | | | In 2007, Dennou Coil hit the anime scene and blew everyone (who watched it) away. Touting one of the most impressive production staffs in recent history, Dennou Coil went on to win numerous awards, even one that was not exclusive to anime. If you want a very basic idea of Dennou Coil and its level... | | |
| 12:13am | Dreams of the Year Behind: 2008 Series | | | | Rather bummed of my incapability to slice over 30 series in 2008, I was close anyway. And so the ordering goes: 27Dragonaut26Kyouran Kazoku Nikki25Haruka Nogizaka’s Secret24Ruler of Nabari23The Daughter of Twenty Faces22Wolf and Spice21Shakugan no Shana II20kimikiss19xxxHOLiC: Kei18Sayonara Zetsubou... | | |
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