| 12:13am | Impossibility of top 10 |  | | | Steven chastizes Jeff for not being enthusiastic enough about the 10 notables of the year: 2007 really must have sucked if Jeff couldn’t find ten series he was genuinely enthusiastic about, and doesn’t have to apologize for recommending. The problem mainly that indeed, while making 150 series... | | |
| 12:18am | Dennou Coil 22-24 | | | | I’m finding it increasingly hard to review this series - the jargon and double crosses are piling up and I’m resisting the urge to cop out and sum it up in fanboyish raves peppered with superlatives. What other series paints such a rich and immersive world in seemingly simplistic watercolour?... | | |
| 2:28am | Denno Coil epilogue | | | | Denno Coil ended about a week ago, so I thought I would post my thoughts on how the series progressed since the last episode I blogged, episode 12. I try to avoid discussing anything remotely specific about the plot when I blog something, for one because it would be a spoiler, but more importantly because... | | |
| 11:50pm | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | | | | I won’t hazard a guess as to how long this was sitting unwatched - suffice to say it was too long. The nostalgic, iyashikei vibe of the movie is just the sort of thing I’ve grown to love in recent months so maybe it’s no surprise that I fell for this little gem hook, line and sinker.... | | |
| 4:56am | 2007 Year in Review: Opening, Ending and Insert Themes | | | | : Greetings and salutations, good readers. The year is winding to a close, I’m nearing the end of my undergraduate career, and it’s time to look back on a whole year of Anime. And what a year it has been. Are you going to be doing the speech long? ‘Cause I could go get snacks if I’m... | | |
| 7:00pm | The 4th Day of Christmas | | | | On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me 4 metatags 3 rain charms 2 Guchuko’s And a cruise on a nice boat for free! Talk about a great Christmas present! Tired of waiting for the stupid red light to change? Just h4xx0r it with a handy metatag! Getting pwned at that gaming LAN party?... | | |
| 3:42am | A breath of living air | | | | Off the top of my head, I can think of 4 shows about university students, in university. This estimate is easily dwarfed by the number of series set in and/or around a high school. I know that high school was really the last time that “we were all together”, so the high school character... | | |
| 3:17pm | Dennou Coil - A Circle of Children - Review - 93/100 | | | | Fans of the fifteenth episode of Rahxephon can rejoice: its director, Mitsuo Iso has embarked on a new project called Dennou Coil. Having done the animation for major Ghibli-movies such as Porco Rosso, Ocean Waves and Only Yesterday as well, this guy had the potential to create a masterpiece. Thankfully,... | | |
| 2:23pm | Dennou Coil - A Circle of Children - 26 | | | | Ah, thank god. For a minute, I thought that the ending for Dennou Coil would end up rushed, but thankfully the series gets closed with one final powerful climax that nicely finished the series. Obviously, the ending itself doesn’t match up to some of the other series of the spring-season: Bokura... | | |
| 7:03am | November Summary | | | | + November Rankings + My general opinion of the current Autumn-Season is indeed that it isn’t as good as the previous Spring-season. There haven’t really come any epic series yet, like Bokura no, Towards the Terra or Kaze no Shoujo Emily, but instead of that, we’ve got quite a lot... | | |
| 12:16am | Dennou Coil 19-21: see you on the other side | | | | As cliff-hangers go, #18 of Dennou Coil took some beating with poor little Kyouko being dragged away by shadowy Illegals; it’s become something of a supernatural piece in which the cyberbody can be separated from the physical self, and by the end of #21 offers some head-scratchery that led me... | | |
| 10:55pm | Dennou Coil - 25 | | | | Haha! That was some major plot-twist at the end of the episode! I’m not going to say what it is, though. I’ll leave that up to the next and final episode of this series. There’s just so much potential for it! In any case, Mayumi turned out to be a small character in the end, whose... | | |
| 4:13pm | Ghost Hound - 06 | | | | One thing that I’ve been wondering about this series: what’s going to be the point? Will it just feature Tarou and the others exploring their fears, or is there going to be some kind of crisis or issue that will be introduced in the second half of this series? I originally thought that... | | |
| 2:00pm | Autumn season 07: preconceptions and the element of surprise | | | | With a forecast of chilly receptions, widespread mediocrity and a chance of a few scattered moments of greatness across all regions of the anime blogosphere the autumn season looked a little bleak, or so I thought. For sure, there’s been a lot of stuff that passed me by and provoked little more... | | |
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