| 11:42pm | January 2013 Anime Previews: staff, cast, story, pic, trailer, manga, etc. | | | | Last season was one of the best I can recall. So perhaps it's fair that this season doesn't look very promising.The show I'm most looking forward to is Sasami-san@Ganbaranai, a new offering from Shinbou and Shaft about a female hikikomori who only sees the outside world through a camera attached to her... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 11:17pm | A Season of Optimism: full previews of spring shows | | | | Big buzz. Everyone seems to have high expectations for the upcoming spring season. Including me. There are promising shows in almost every genre. I'm not sure I see any masterpieces, but time will tell.Kawamori Shouji (Macross) is working with writer Okada Mari (true tears, AnoHana) to bring us a science... | | |
| 5:40pm | Spring Season Preview - Movie and OVA Edition | | | | I was pretty shocked when I went through the list of movies for the upcoming season. Seriously, while it’s going to be packed with TV-series, it will be incredibly dry in the movie department. I only saw two really good movies that will premiere, and that’s it. The rest all were cheap cash-ins... | | |
| 8:10pm | January-March 2011 Anime Previews: new OVAs and OVA episodes | | | | Here are the coming season's new OVAs and new episodes of continuing OVAs.Nothing really calls out to me here, except perhaps the third episode of Gundam Unicorn, which will come out in March. The new .hack//Quantum is interesting for its cast and staff: Hanazawa Kana, Sawashiro Miyuki, Fujimura Ayumi... | | |
| 7:54pm | Winter Season Preview - Movie and OVA Edition | | | | As usual, with every seasonal preview I also realize a preview that discusses the upcoming movies and OVAs (the ones who are slated for December, January and February in this case). Note that it usually takes nine months for the movies to actually get released, but this seems like a good place to look... | | |
| 7:29pm | A Critical Diagnosis of Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora | | | | Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora, or Hantsuki for short, is a story of romance between a young boy and girl set against the backdrop of a hospital. In this environment in which the reality of death is very evident the two struggle to get closer to each other. This sounds like a wonderfully touching premise... | | |
| 9:24pm | Autumn Season Preview | | | | The amount of series that will première in the upcoming Autumn season? 29. That’s about the same as the previous Spring Season. While I’d love to say that anime is getting better again, this season is looking pretty bleak, with only three series that do not focus on kids or teenagers and... | | |
| 9:35pm | Summer Season Preview | | | | Okay, a few statistics first: this season has 18 tv-series. In comparison, the previous season had 31 of them while the past winter-season had 17. Out of these 18, there are five sequels. Nine (!) shows are going to focus a lot on moe and fanservice. Yeah it’s going to be another dry and meagre... | | |
| 4:47am | Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora Opening Theme – Aoi Koufuku | | | | Blue Happiness Vocals: nobuko Lyrics: Aizawa Masaru (macado) Composition: Aizawa Masaru (macado) Arrangement: Deko (macado) Down the pale streets, my shadow flickers My slow gait doesn’t know where I’m heading And we can’t exchange our feelings In order to catch the things reflected... | | |
| 12:10am | Obake Apato no Himitsu and Kimi ni shika kikoenai:A review | | | | After finishing the “Hanbun no tsuki ga noboru sora” light novel, I read two other novels. I’m not sure if they can be considered as light novels, though. At least I can say that these two novels belong to the seal Tusbasa Bunko and are aimed towards young readers, judging from... | | |
| 6:15pm | Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora Volume 1 | | | | Been ages since the last time I posted something in this blog! What have I been doing meanwhile? Among other things, I have been reading the light novel “Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora”. Some of you may remember this title thanks to the anime adaptation released a few years ago. I haven’t... | | |
| 8:19pm | Reviews on new artbooks | | | | 半月 -HANGETSU-, one of the artbooks that, regretfully, I didn't buy. More on that later. Of course, by new, I mean newly acquired. None of this are really “new”.First, up the Pixiv girls collection. Pixiv is like an American version of deviantart, and while the worst of its members... | | |
| 6:50pm | Spring '09 Previews | | | | There are several interesting facts about this spring season. First with the exception of FMA, Hayate and Polyphonica, all other series are new. Another noteworthy fact is that all series are adaptions from manga, novels or games with Eden and Basquash as the only exceptions! As for my expectations ... | | |
| 10:24pm | 46 New Fall Anime -- full previews (story, trailer, staff, cast, etc.) | | | | With just over two weeks to go until the new season starts, it's time to think about what's coming. Tastes differ, but the shows I myself am most looking forward to are:the mysterious moe romances ef - a tale of melodies and Clannad - After Story the absurd comedy Hyakko (with Orikasa Fumiko and Hirano... | | |
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