| 8:06pm | Winter 2014 Mid-Season Anime Status Update | | | | Actually, if it wasn’t for the Olympics pushing a few shows back a week this would be more aptly called the 3/4 season report. Well, the anime apocalypse that this winter season was supposed to bring turned out not nearly as bad as people feared. The sequels are holding their weight and the seasonal... | | |
| 2:02pm | In Retrospect: Chuunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai! | | | | This post was brought to you by our guest blogger Lily Wu. Looking back to the first season of Kyoto Animation’s Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! I recall the cute, eccentric and unique characters that have now come back for season two. To me, it seems as though the first season of Chuunibyou just... | | |
| 5:30pm | Ongoing Investigations: Case #235 | | | | I think is was easy to dismiss The LEGO Movie as utter trash cinema based on a toy like Battleship or the Bayformers movies. It did seem like something that had the distinct potential to be horribly mediocre. But a careful look at the pedigree of the movie was far more encouraging. Phil Lord and Chris... | | |
| 9:45am | January 2014 roundup | | | | It really was high time I started including the year in these monthly roundups. I’ve been doing them since 2009, albeit in a slightly different format back then, so that means there’s been many different January Roundups. Some January’s have been better than others. Some had Full Metal... | | |
| 1:58pm | Winter 2014 Check-in | | | | Is it Spring yet?Mushishi, Baby Steps, Isshukan Friends, maybe Hi Score Girl Spring hovers at the edge of the horizon like a mirage, promising an oasis of cool, clear water to soothe our throats, parched from the sand that is the Winter 2014 season.But this post isn't about Spring (which... | | |
| 5:05am | Simulblast! Week 003 Of Winter 2014 | | | | We’re already three weeks in, but has your vote made an impact? Read to find out! This week’s challenge: Watch the episode twice and see if you noticed anything different the second time.Wake Up, Girls! (Episode Three) Player: Kanashimi Class: Boss What’s this? A new opening, and I like... | | |
| 5:05am | Simulblast! Week 003 Of Winter 2014 | | | | We’re already three weeks in, but has your vote made an impact? Read to find out! This week’s challenge: Watch the episode twice and see if you noticed anything different the second time.Wake Up, Girls! (Episode Three) Player: Kanashimi Class: Boss What’s this? A new opening, and I like... | | |
| 7:06pm | My Top 10 Favourite Anime of 2003 | | | | Almost forgot I hadn’t posted this yet. It’s around there that the boom years for anime hit a little. The industry had fully shaken off the awkward transitional period of the early 00s and was really getting down to business of cranking out product. The amount of TV anime being made shot... | | |
| 1:00am | Simulblast! Week 002 Of Winter 2014 | | | | We’re already into the second week! Have we watched too much anime? Probably not yet. This week’s challenge: Grab your least favorite character from the show and talk about them extensively.Wake Up, Girls! (Episode One) Player: Kanashimi Class: Boss Oh god, I’ve forgotten everyone’s... | | |
| 1:40am | Winter 2014 – First Impressions (Part 2) | | | | This post reviews: Nobunagun, Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta, Hamatora, and Hoozuki no Reitetsu. I realize that I’m pretty late on everything since the second episodes of all these anime have aired, but these are still just my thoughts on the first episodes alone. I’ll have some thoughts, opinions... | | |
| 4:00pm | Life From Japan: Top Ten Trending Anime in 2013 | | | | For better or for worse, 2013 is finally over, and I’m sure you know what that means. Google has released the top ten trending anime for 2013 from the Japanese version of its search engine. Now, for your reading pleasure, I present the 2013 top trending anime for Google Japan. Top Ten Trending... | | |
| 7:11pm | Steins;Gate Movie review | | | | There are two kinds of anime movies from existing franchises. The first is made because the creators wanted to continue the story in movie format. The second is made because the original TV series gave them a lot of money and they didn’t want to waste the brand. Steins;Gate is the second type.... | | |
| 2:31pm | Chihayafuru - 123 | | | | What a long, strange trip it's been.Sometimes in our anime lives, we have our own fated meetings, just like the characters do - meetings that are destined to change our lives together. This was the first paragraph I wrote about the Chihayafuru anime, back in 2011:It’s always a little... | | |
| 6:00pm | My Top 10 (and Worst 5) Anime of 2013 | | | | Last year I struggled quite a bit when coming up with my top ten, not because there were so many good shows, but because there was a lack of them. A few times I actually considered making it a top five list instead, but I ended up going through with ten shows in the end. This year, on the other hand,... | | |
| 11:42pm | Mushishi Second Season in April 2014 | | | | At the end of the special episode of Mushishi: Hihamukage, the second season of the TV Anime Mushishi was announced. With a subtitle of Zoku Shou, the second season will be aired starting from this Spring in April. We’ve also heard that the second season will be split into two cours, where... | | |
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