| 7:48am | Orion on Juuden-chan, Umineko, and others |  | | | Warmed up after the metablogging, he decided to deliver some smackdowns. I understand [Juuden-chan] really pushed the envelope in terms of what you can get away with and still be on broadcast television, what with masochism and urination in every episode. Or so I hear anyway. I couldn’t deal with... | | |
| 8:59pm | Summer Anime Popularity -- 2channel vs. AnimeSuki | | | | Someone asked if I might be going to do a post on 2channel popularity any time soon. Sounds like a good idea to me. Here are numbers for the new summer season shows. I'll add a bit about popularity on the nearest English-language equivalent, AnimeSuki, and a bit of info about TV ratings.Of the shows... | | |
| 10:06am | July Summary | | | | I must say, that we’ve got ourselves an awesome Summer Season here. Sure, there aren’t many series, but a significant majority of the new series succeed at what they intend to do. There may not be a lot of shows with awesome and ambitious story-lines, but in terms of slice of life and characterization,... | | |
| 12:47am | Summer 09 Anime - First impressions, part three |  | | | I believe summer should be all about melting popsickles, hot girls, and a guitar + amp combo to rest your boobs on. On the beach, naturally. I believe summer should be all about melting popsickles, hot girls, and a guitar + amp combo to rest your boobs on. On the... | | |
| 3:01pm | Umineko no Naku Koro ni - 02 | | | | Okay, so this is about half impressions on Umineko’s latest episode, and half a wrap up of the first episodes of the summer season. Overall I have to say that this is a very successful season, and the second-best Summer Season I have ever seen based on first impressions. The best was in 2006,... | | |
| 7:36pm | Element Hunters #01 — Hydrogen! I Choose You! | | | | Use "Bad Science" attack! New Season Disclaimer: I try to watch at least the first episode of every new show in a season. However, do not expect anything I say to be fair or balanced. I value my own entertainment above all else and there are some genres or methods of presentation that I... | | |
| 5:12pm | Some quick first Impressions: Element Hunters | | | | Element Hunters Short Synopsis: Our lead characters travel to another world and hunt monsters. Chance of me Blogging: 0% (Nope) Well, so finally we have a bad series again. Element Hunters is an attempt to bring back the parallel world children’s adventures genre (like Digimon, Flint the Time... | | |
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