| 4:08pm | Secret Santa: House of Five Leaves | | | | For those who don’t know Secret Santa In my first year of participation, I got to choose between Tekkon Kinkreet, Manabi Straight, and House of Five Leaves. Since I’ve already been interested in the last one since a while ago, I decided to go with that. Both my and my santa’s hunch... | | |
| 12:00am | We Remember Love Says Goodbye, and Thank You For All The Memories | | | | This was easier than I thought. I fought the idea hard, but acknowledged the following things:I have, one way or another, made blog posts about every animated work of the Macross franchise (those with available subtitled editions in English).After four years to this day October 13, 2012; I have said... | | |
| 12:00am | We Remember Love Says Goodbye, and Thank You For All The Memories | | | | This was easier than I thought. I fought the idea hard, but acknowledged the following things:I have, one way or another, made blog posts about every animated work of the Macross franchise (those with available subtitled editions in English).After four years to this day October 13, 2012; I have said... | | |
| 3:47am | Totally Random Seiyuu Agency Half-Questions | | | | I have questions, do you have answers? Question 1: Yuruyuri season 2 came to an end today. That marks also the end of the latest show where both Saki Fujita and Aki Toyosaki play in the same show. You don’t have to look far to see the last time these two were in the same production: Jewelpet.... | | |
| 4:20am | Anime tastes I’ve acquired |  | | | A recent post by Leap250 talks about how, through our years of being anime fans, we often acquire tastes for certain genres and tropes in anime that we didn’t originally have. Even though I’ve always been pretty open-minded as far as the types of anime I watch, there were a few I was hesitant... | | |
| 4:20am | Anime tastes I’ve acquired | | | | A recent post by Leap250 talks about how, through our years of being anime fans, we often acquire tastes for certain genres and tropes in anime that we didn’t originally have. Even though I’ve always been pretty open-minded as far as the types of anime I watch, there were a few I was hesitant... | | |
| 5:37pm | Manabi Straight Press | | | | Does the role of Momoha Otori in Manabi Straight reflect a particular philosophy about press and its place in self-regulating societies? I don’t think I can jump and say that the specific circumstances reflected by Manabi Straight Episodes 8-10 parallels some larger, real-world political situation.... | | |
| 6:59pm | Manabi Straight Blu-ray Versus the Most Worthless PQ Test | | | | As I slowly work my way through the Manabi Straight Blu-ray box, you probably should expect a series of Manabi Straight blog posts. I think the show earned a spot on my list of favorites precisely because it evokes so much thought on watching it. And I really didn’t write all that much about... | | |
| 3:11am | Manabi Straight on Blu-ray | | | | It’s always kind of a gamble to buy a BD release of a show created during the post-digital, pre-high-def era of TV anime. That’s pretty much any show created between like 1998 and 2008 or so, which includes Manabi Straight. Manabi Straight is one of the last TV anime that was created for... | | |
| 4:18am | Otakon 2012: Wrap | | | | This con, I had a lot of fun. It’s definitely one of the more memorable Otakon personally. But that’s got a lot to do with some non-con related things. It’s just that I’ve been going to too many cons and taking too many days off work, I don’t know when I can really afford... | | |
| 8:54pm | Otakon 2012: Day -2 | | | | Here’s the deal. All vitals are on their website here. There are a lot of details about Kakihara’s autograph session, the best thing to do is read Loy’s post. The key takeaway is that for both of his sessions, there will be no more than 1 hour or 100 autographs, although in times... | | |
| 5:46pm | There Is No Such a Thing as a Slice-of-Life Genre | | | | One of the neat things about being a fan for a while (I’d say at least 6 years) is the opportunity to see your niche fandom evolve. When I was watching anime in the 90s, there was no such a thing as “slice-of-life” genre. In fact the term didn’t really come into its own until... | | |
| 5:32pm | 2012 Bog Snorkeling Competition and Summer Season Preview | | | | It was summer a week ago. Now it’s just raining again. As always, do try to remember that most shows most seasons are not going to be the greatest thing ever. In fact, the vast majority of shows are going to be mediocre to bad. They can still be fun to watch though. I have no idea how people... | | |
| 8:53pm | Summer 2012 Anime: full previews w/story, trailer, staff, cast, etc. | | | | Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta KoiAfter an amazing spring season, even the summer "off-season" looks pretty good. Some highlights:Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi -- Romantic stories loosely based on the lives and poetry of the great Japanese poets and poetesses of a thousand years ago. This is right up... | | |
| 1:10pm | The Texture of Friendship in Natsuiro Kiseki | | | | Natsuiro Kiseki is a standard affair in many ways yet intriguing for it’s approach to friendship, a topic Akirascuro wrote about in observation. I raised the point that Hanasaku Iroha may exemplify the kind of frictionship immediately prominent in Natsuiro, but I feel there is more to the texture... | | |
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