| 2:00pm | The Autumn Season, a.k.a. THE ANIME APOCALYPSE | | | | This entry is brought to by the letters A, B and C. A certain Collective of Anime Bloggers who, this time, consist of CCYoshi, J. Valdez, Karura, Martin, Mike, Owen, Roxas and Xerox The fact that we can talk about anime in seasonal blocks underlines what an oddity the... | | |
| 2:00pm | The Autumn Season, a.k.a. THE ANIME APOCALYPSE | | | | This entry is brought to by the letters A, B and C. A certain Collective of Anime Bloggers who, this time, consist of CCYoshi, J. Valdez, Karura, Martin, Mike, Owen, Roxas and Xerox The fact that we can talk about anime in seasonal blocks underlines what an oddity the... | | |
| 6:14am | School Rumble begins |  | | | So, everyone on the Net goes mad about ef. Meanwhile, in the Region 1 I picked School Rumble by suggestion from Nanobot. He promised “amazing character development involving Karasuma”, and after watching 4 episodes I am pretty certain that cruelly pranked me. Karasuma is a side character... | | |
| 6:08pm | Star Crossed Two-Year Anniversary | | | | Yes, I’m proud to announce that Star Crossed is officially two years old now. Last year, I celebrated it with a new lay-out, though I’m not going to do this this year, as I like the current lay-out too much for that. Instead, some statistics, with the help of Google Analytics. I only installed... | | |
| 8:26pm | The Anime Review #5 | | | | Ghost Hound Eps. 2 - 4 The show took its time in laying out the main cast and their various connections, but by episode four we get a semblance of direction. Visiting the ubiquitous hospital where Tarou has eerie memories of his sister (who varies from conversational and alive to corpsetastic and fly-ridden),... | | |
| 8:26pm | The Anime Review #5 | | | | Ghost Hound Eps. 2 - 4 The show took its time in laying out the main cast and their various connections, but by episode four we get a semblance of direction. Visiting the ubiquitous hospital where Tarou has eerie memories of his sister (who varies from conversational and alive to corpsetastic and fly-ridden),... | | |
| 3:22pm | Dennou Coil - A Circle of Children - 24 | | | | Yup, this really is a calm-before-the-storm-episode. The pieces are set in the right spot for the finale, and the characters mourn about the things that happened in the previous episode. Finally, the parents of the different children decide to take away their glasses, because it’s now really... | | |
| 11:16am | Weekly Round-Up: November 17th: day late edition | | | | Reviewed this week: Baccano! 11, Clannad 4-5, Dennou Coil 20, Genshiken 2 5-6, Minami-ke 5-6, Moyashimon 3-4, Romeo X Juliet 22, SaiMono II 25-6, Shion no Ou 3-4…and in manga: Tenshi Nanka Janai 29Everything else to follow next week. | | |
| 6:19pm | From Xenoglossia to Repeating Themes in Soundtracks | | | | A lot of people didn’t think iDOLM@STER: XENOGLOSSIA was any good. Well, it wasn’t; but looking closer you can see that it’s not consistently bad or mediocre, but a mixed bag. I actually finished (if one can call watching just the first episode and 18-26 “finished”) watching... | | |
| 7:19pm | Dennou Coil begins | | | | Dennou Coil was recommended by many people, starting with my friend Joe (not an animeblogger, a catblogger). It was a while ago and I remember how unimpressive screenshots were: very basic art, bleak color key, computerized inserts. Now that I’ve seen it, I can say that the vicarious impression... | | |
| 9:27pm | Dennou Coil - 23 - II | | | | This episode was absolutely amazing! Seriously, I was a bit pissed off at the sudden recap-episode, but the real 23rd episode was SO WORTH THE WAIT. I was already satisfied by the hilarious chase of Daiichi in the first half of the episode, but I still can’t believe the awesomeness of the second... | | |
| 7:14pm | Indistinguishable from magic | | | | Dennou Coil, Aria. Two series (in the case of Aria, a franchise) that spend a considerable amount of time worldbuilding, but in different ways. Were it not for episode 12 of Animation, someone could have told me that Neo Venezia built itself one fine day on rainbows and sunshine and my response would... | | |
| 11:28pm | Dennou Coil 16-18 | | | | I’ve come to realise that I can’t properly concentrate on the current season until I’ve seen Dennou Coil through to the end. After a jovial and fragmented middle section (I can’t bring myself to call it filler when it was so entertaining) the story eases back into its stride... | | |
| 9:40pm | Dennou Coil - 23 | | | | So, yes. Today’s episode is a recap. Don’t bother hoping for a bit of new content like with episode 14: there isn’t. Every frame of this episode was basically recycled from the other episodes. I really wonder why the creators had to include a recap at this point, so close to the... | | |
| 4:37pm | Weekly Round-Up: November 2nd | | | | Reviewed this week: Baccano 9-10, Dennou Coil 19, Genshiken 2-4, Kaiji 4-5, Minami-ke 3-4, Mokke 4, Moyashimon 2, Rental Magica 3, SaiMono II 22-4, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 9, Shion no Ou 2, Sketchbook 2-3…and in manga: HxH 263-4, Nodame 89-93, Tsubasa 170-1 | | |
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