| 8:11pm | King of Bandits Jing Review - 77,5/100 | | | | Hiroshi Watanabe intrigues me. No matter what kind of utter crap he produces, he intrigues me like no other. The guy is a brilliant writer, he has a bizarre sense of humour, and at the same time he can come up with the most terrible and cheesy storylines ever. The guy has also been around for a decade... | | |
| 7:25pm | Don’t forget the character designers: Yoshitoshi ABe | | | | I was racking my brains over what to write for this blog entry: it’s too early to give a worthwhile run-down of what’s the best new summer show currently airing and wider-reaching topics such as the state of the industry have been done to death right across the anime blogosphere already.... | | |
| 5:44pm | Telepathy Shoujo Ran - 03 | | | | Short Synopsis: The villain turns out to be a teacher. More importantly: Ran and Midori become friends. Highlights: Excellent banter, though the evil teacher was way too evil. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 I’m probably going to end up comparing this series a lot to Night Head Genesis, the... | | |
| 8:09pm | Crystal Blaze - 12 | | | | Oh god, the creators actually did it! They actually pulled off a great ending as well. This episode was really good, and amongst the best of the entire series. One thing I’ve noticed with endings that they often feel rather lukewarm. I think that my opinion of this seems to change with every... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 7:59pm | Nijuu Mensou no Musume Episode 6 - Dreaming of the Prior World | | | | Before I start on the episode - what’s the significance of the “utsushiyo” of the title of this episode (”utsushiyo no yume”)? It’s my understanding that the manga this show is based on was subtitled “Utsushiyo no Yoru”, and those of you who’ve... | | |
| 12:27pm | Real Drive - Episode 7 | | | | It always makes life interesting when an anime series exceeds or otherwise confounds my expectations, but what the Hell was this?! An episode of Real Drive where the client is a dog, only he's not a dog but a human in a dog's body, and there are lots of dogs and they have cyberbrains and they all connect... | | |
| 4:49pm | Arjuna Is Magically Delicious | | | | Kudos to these guys for bringing Arjuna to my attention. Back in the day (8 years ago seems like forever) I was pretty big on the show, and I liked it a lot. It’s probably still somewhere in my top 10-20 TV anime of all times list. To fully appreciate Arjuna I think you do need to look at it... | | |
| 3:40pm | The Weekly Ratings Return… 6 June 2008 (as I forgot the Week Number). | | | | Due to the start of the holidays, I had to miss watching anime for a while and this prevented the weekly rating post from being written. As I caught up on my backlog, I got confused by the numerous series I was following. Like I’ll miss out on episode 6 and start watching 7, only realising halfway... | | |
| 9:17pm | RD Sennou Chousashitsu - 09 | | | | Whoa, such a difference from the previous episodes. This episode takes all the focus away from Minamo, Haru and Holon, and instead focuses on Souta and especially his father. As it turns out, he’s a businessman, and he’s the chief of the unit that keeps the metal up and running. Perhaps... | | |
| 5:36am | Summer Season Preview | | | | Well, it’s time to start looking at what the next season has to offer again. The summer-season is again going to be relatively small, but there are quite a number of potential gems in it. There’s also a wide variety of different genres; there’s slice of life, action, adventure, mystery,... | | |
| 1:24pm | Real Drive ¦ RD Sennou Chosashitsu - From the Depths of Confusion | | | | So Real Drive had some gusto concealed beneath its dry and confusing first few episodes after all. For those of you unfamiliar with Real Drive, let me say that it’s a series with a unique and interesting premise, continuing on Production IG’s quest for a niche market in obscurity. Much like Ghost... | | |
| 6:00pm | When the sky turned blue | | | | Gone a bit quiet around here, ain’t it? Last update was a couple of weeks ago, so I figured I’d pop-in a quick “Hello, not dead yet”. The truth is that, since finishing Ghost Hound, I’ve not been watching nearly enough (good) anime, so, aside from a few sarcastic paragraphs,... | | |
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