| 6:27pm | People’s Choice Top 20 Anime Composers… of all time! | | | | After much delay since we did our broadcast of the People’s Choice Top 20 Anime Composers Awards, here’s the post in text form with all of the bells and whistles and the music clips that we weren’t able to host on Youtube. So if you remember, back in November, we put a poll together... | | |
| 6:27pm | People’s Choice Top 20 Anime Composers… of all time! | | | | After much delay since we did our broadcast of the People’s Choice Top 20 Anime Composers Awards, here’s the post in text form with all of the bells and whistles and the music clips that we weren’t able to host on Youtube. So if you remember, back in November, we put a poll together... | | |
| 9:57am | Secret Santa Project Review – Ef – A Tale of Memories | | | | This is the fourth year I have participated in Reverse Thieves’ Secret Santa Project. The first two years I really hit the jackpot in recommendations – Noein, Figure 17, Simoun, Time of Eve, and Ghost Hound. Last year definitely was not a failure but I was less satisfied with my choices. In the... | | |
| 4:17pm | Old and New: Studio Ghibli’s Tale of the Princess Kaguya | | | | Any adaptation of a folktale must inevitably face two challenges. First, in conveying a story that “everybody” has heard of, how much should the audience be expected to know, and how much should it act as an unfamiliar experience? Second, to what extent should the narrative and cultural... | | |
| 1:00pm | Reference Resource Mondays: Make a Joke | | | | I’m done joking. My NCAA tournament bracket has gone up in flames. I haven’t been able to clear anything in my backlog. At least Spring is here and I can stop wearing my Winter coat now. Yep, that’s the only good thing! But you don’t care for my troubles, you come for one reason... | | |
| 10:00pm | EF: A Tale of Theology | | | | Japes, our Anime Today columnist, has written a number of articles about the intersection of Christianity and anime for his other blog, Japesland. He is editing and resposting a number of these entries, including the one below, to Beneath the Tangles. As I watched through the Ef series (particularly A... | | |
| 1:00pm | 12 Days of Christmas, Day 7: ef~A Tale of Melodies | | | | If ef began with the characters who were lost in the present, then it ended with characters who hopefully looked forward to the future. Although A Tale of Melodies is not a continuation of the stories within the first season, the two tales are tied together by Himura and Yuko and the two twin cities.... | | |
| 1:00pm | 12 Days of Christmas, Day 7: ef~A Tale of Melodies | | | | If ef began with the characters who were lost in the present, then it ended with characters who hopefully looked forward to the future. Although A Tale of Melodies is not a continuation of the stories within the first season, the two tales are tied together by Himura and Yuko and the two twin cities.... | | |
| 12:30am | The Top 10 Best Anime Seasons of All Time | | | | It seems that as the seasons come and go, everyone has a different opinion on the current season of anime. But as soon as one season passes, and the next one comes, hardly anyone goes back to look at the seasons holistically. After all, once a season is over, the entity of the season becomes irrelevant;... | | |
| 12:00pm | Something More | | | | Japes gets into the nitty gritty of the characters’ personal theologies in Ef – A Tale of Melodies in a thorough and thought-provoking post. [Japesland] Nick Calibey correlates Rakka’s sprouting of wings in the first episode of the series to teachings of the Gnostic movement. [A Rather... | | |
| 6:08am | Hanabee’s Releases of ef – a tale of melodies Come with Four Art Cards |  | | | Today has seen the Australian anime publisher Hanabee Entertainment release their February anime titles including Arakawa Under the Bridge and .hack//G.U. Trilogy. But most interesting is their release of ef – a tale of melodies, following their release of ef – a tale of memories last month.... | | |
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