| 5:24pm | Looking Forward to October | | | | April and October are months where a slew of anime come out. It’s the start of a new season, and there are some titles that I will definitely keep an eye on. Chaos; Head • Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens Skip Beat! • Vampire Knight Guilty Kyo no Gononi • Nodame Cantabile: Paris Chapter... | | |
| 2:38pm | Form Without Power | | | | [It’s weird to be posting things you’ve written 3 months ago.] When things are done for the sake of itself, depleted of its underlying purpose, it is a type of powerlessness. That is what a cliché is, and that is why they are bad. But cliché only are cliché when they become a form that... | | |
| 5:13pm | Ultraviolet: Code 044 - 12 | | | | Short Synopsis: Luka tries to rescue King, and more things happen which I’m not going to spoil here. Highlights: So different from what I expected! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8.5/10 Whoa! That was actually a really good ending! This episode was among the best episodes of the entire series, and... | | |
| 3:45am | Hige on Haibane Renmei |  | | | Hige vs Otaku: I feel my rewatching of Haibane Renmei requires a brief word. Yes, I was one of the poor simple fools that discarded it after the first four episodes (DVD volume one), but I’m willing to reassess such misdirected dismissal when enough people shit their pants about a show. Told Ya So.... | | |
| 5:27pm | Hmm | | | | When I watch anime, I see meditations on despair and redemption (Haibane Renmei), speculations about information technology and consciousness (Denno Coil, Serial Experiments Lain), case studies in dealing with grief and the importance of music (Sugar, a Tiny Snow Fairy), and illustrations of the importance... | | |
| 9:58am | Blade of the Immortal - 04 | | | | Short Synopsis: Rin visits an old teacher of her to request assistance. Highlights: Bee-Train hasn’t forgotten how to make great action-scenes at all, despite this series’ limited budget. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Well, so it really seems that this series is going to air every two... | | |
| 6:40pm | RD Sennou Chousashitsu - 19 | | | | Short Synopsis: Haru tries to take care of the source of the noise. Highlights: If the metal wasn’t already deep enough, it just gained some more depth. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Okay, what just happened back there? The metal has always been a mysterious existence, but it’s this episode... | | |
| 12:32am | Through the Looking Glass | | | | Alas, the title does not mean I’m going to review the Lewis Carroll story. Instead, the title was just one that popped into my mind when thinking of a what I should call this entry. Recently, I saw a question – If you could live in any anime world, what would it be? – and I was surprised when... | | |
| 8:47pm | Thoughts & OSTs | | | | I have been slacking from writing posts lately, but that’s because I’m preparing for a retreat (where I’m supposed to be a counselor), and packing for my trip back to college. This post will have to last for about a week, which seems only to be a little while, yes, but then again,... | | |
| 3:51am | Nigorimasen Podcast Ep. 2: A Casual Interview with Omo | | | | For this week’s edition of the Nigorimasen Podcast, I interviewed Omo from Omonomono and we also talked about conventions, the PS3 download experience, indescribable Japanese terms, and AMV’s. Feel free to leave feedback in the comments or e-mail questions, guest suggestions, or other concerns... | | |
| 10:37am | Telepathy Shoujo Ran - 07 | | | | Short Synopsis: Ran, Rui, Rin and Midori solve the case of the haunted resort building. Highlights: Dialogue-heavy like no other. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Whoa! Since this is a NHK children series, you wouldn’t expect the dialogue to be so hard to understand, but Telepathy Shoujo Ran somehow... | | |
| 4:29pm | Extrange on Xam’d | | | | It’s an entry full of spoilers, but also many interesting screenshots which looks more Ghiblesque than early Dennou Coil. Not what I expected at all. I suppose he didn’t extract the video out of a PS3. | | |
| 3:37am | The Colour of Time | | | | I took Mike’s order suggestion and found myself immersed in The Girl Who Lept Through Time (時をかける少女) this evening. It was an excellent choice for the moment and well worth the time; I’m beyond content.The mood and tone were similar to Dennou Coil, from my pov, but with better... | | |
| 1:36am | Have You Seen Me Lately? | | | | Hidamari Sketch x365 is fantastic. But you already knew that. Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora is quite nice, too; although, Kobayashi Osamu’s spartan direction renders the show duller than it need be. Finally, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu is fun, even if it is convenience store... | | |
| 12:18pm | Ultraviolet: Code 044 - 04 | | | | Short Synopsis: An intermezzo, without much action, but much character-development and introductions. Highlights: The new characters should prove interesting for the rest of this series. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Okay, so even though this was a quiet episode, it still delivered, as it made perfect... | | |
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