| 8:27pm | Magazine Extras: Animedia May 2011 – Surveying 100 Voice Actresses | | | | I used to get Japanese magazines like Newtype, Animage, and Animedia every once in a while – usually around the start of a new anime season but also sometimes for the extras. While cleaning around last night, I found a little booklet from Animage‘s May 2011 issue. They gave survey forms... | | |
| 9:23pm | The Alien in Eureka Seven | | | | Note: This article is also available at Ideas Without End HERE With the second half of episode 31 of Eureka Seven, the real nature of the series’ apparent antagonist is shown. Dewey – who has previously only been seen as a perversely parental equivalent to Holland – and Koda are speaking... | | |
| 3:45pm | Updating the franchises page | | | | Just over a year ago I made the anime franchises page, which was an attempt to inform people what order to best watch various anime franchises in. Which is the best gateway drug and whether you should follow chronological order or release order and so on. It still gets plenty of hits, but there’s... | | |
| 3:00pm | Winter 2013 Season Wrap | | | | Yet another season ends, while another begins! Quite a few of the anime this season were late add-ins either because they were backlogged or because I overlooked them the first time around. Many thanks to the people who convinced me to pick them up and catch up with everyone! So you see, I do take... | | |
| 5:00pm | Giant Robot Protagonists and the Fathers Who Left Them | | | | When I wrote my overview of anime in 1977 for the Golden Ani-Versary project, one thing I did not mention was the fact that all three of the major robot anime of that year featured to some extent a the relationship between a boy and his father. In Zambot 3, Kappei’s father had been away for a... | | |
| 1:15pm | Kichijoji |  | | | Probably not on a lot of your radars but Kichijoji [吉祥寺] is voted the most wanted to live in town in the whole of Tokyo.Located on the Sobu and Chuo lines to the West of Tokyo, Kichijoji has a wide variety of shopping facilities, cafes, restaurants, zakka in the many shotengai that can be found... | | |
| 11:19pm | Introduction – “I Prefer the Term ‘Enthusiast’” | | | | I never so much as imagined that a casual remark could lead to the fulfillment of a dream, but here I am, still pinching myself every few minutes to make sure I'm not making it up.My experience with anime has been a deeply personal one. I was a sheltered child whose television programming was carefully... | | |
| 9:58pm | Change and Growth: Episode 30 of Eureka Seven | | | | Note: This Article is Also Available at Ideas Without End HEREEpisode 30 of Eureka Seven seems to be, after so much seriousness and trauma, a return to the endearing oddness and youthful exuberance of the now long-distant first arc. It begins – as, in fact, several such early episodes did – with... | | |
| 8:00am | Spring 2013 Anime Preview and Watch List | | | | I like to say that every season of anime has a different character to itself then the preceding seasons but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such an extreme change as the coming spring season appears to herald.For the record, that’s not a bad thing because I think keeping an open mind about what... | | |
| 8:00am | Spring 2013 Anime Preview and Watch List | | | | I like to say that every season of anime has a different character to itself then the preceding seasons but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such an extreme change as the coming spring season appears to herald.For the record, that’s not a bad thing because I think keeping an open mind about what... | | |
| 1:14am | “Kami Kai Theater” Part 2: Overlooked or Snubbed “Divine Episodes”. | | | | Was this episode one of the selections? Maybe it should have been Earlier this week, I took a look at Anime Content Expo’s “Kami Kai Theater” feature, wherein fans and industry people voted on which special episodes of anime shows deserved the title of “kami kai”, or divinely... | | |
| 10:20pm | Roll out the “Barrels” | | | | OK, for a person who dislikes giant fighting robot shows, why did I watch another giant fighting robot show? Well, call me a hopeless optimist, but I am genuinely wishing that I can find a giant fighting robot show that works. Like an honest lawyer, I know there’s one out there, but I haven’t see... | | |
| 3:25pm | Keep On Moving – Progression and Development in Episode 29 of Eureka Seven | | | | Note: This article is also available at Ideas Without End HEREWith the death of Ray Beams in episode 28, presented unglamorously and graphically, the second arc of Eureka Seven is over. The allusions to Mobile Suit Gundam that have become increasingly apparent in this section come to a head would appear... | | |
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