| 12:28am | New banner！ | | | | Now that April has come around, it’s time for a change of things. Gone is the old and dark theme, spring is the time for fluffy colors and happy faces! The artist is Mikeou (of the circle Pink Chuchu), as some of you may remember from my c75 post. She’s a very talented artist, and one of... | | |
| 7:29pm | Natsu no Arashi! - 01 |  | | | OP: “Atashi dake ni kakete” by Omokage Lucky Hole – Is this going to be the first Shaft OP that I don’t absolutely love? While I don’t think it’s particularly terrible, I just feel like both the song and animation are a couple decades behind. This is probably intentional,... | | |
| 6:19pm | Personal Growth, If Not Physical: Toradora! | | | | Sometimes I get filled with a certain sense of dread in preparation for a new show based on the information available at the time. “This seems oddly familiar” is the prevailing feeling. Fortunately, sometims this is just a false alarm and I end up with something far greater than my expecations.... | | |
| 12:48pm | Belated Happy Birthday to Ogiue | | | | I am ashamed. Just as I did last year, I failed to mention in time that last Saturday was the birthday for the great and wonderful Ogiue Chika, who if we go by the dates set in the Genshiken manga is already a productive(?) member of society. If you recall, Ogiue at the end of Genshiken started to... | | |
| 12:21pm | Impz’s Quick Spring Impressions - Queen’s blade, the boobs extranganza |  | | | Ok, we already know way ahead of time that Queen’s Blade is not for those looking for a philosophical take on shounen series. However, even after bracing myself for the possible fanservice eye-rape, I am still amazed at the way it pushes the boundaries of fanservice rape. In a very strange way,... | | |
| 9:04pm | Spring 2009 Anime Preview |  | | | Spring of last year brought about some awesome (and notorious) series, and this year’s lineup looks just as epic. Still a ton of crappy porno adaptations, but loads of new or manga-based franchises to wow us. Due to time constraints (also known as REAL LIFE DESU) we may not be blogging as many... | | |
| 7:23pm | Bateszi on Toradora |  | | | Big guns really come out today for Toradora. Here’s Bateszi’s take: Then we have Toradora. I watched the final four episodes this morning and not expecting much at all, I was surprised by the impact it wrought on me. I’ve been back and forth with my opinion of Toradora for a while now,... | | |
| 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 ... | | |
| 2:25pm | Gundam 00 ends? … or not. |  | | | LOL. This ending is so bad it’s hillarious. Hell, even Gundam SEED Destiny’s ending scored higher in my books. It started okay, and I was willing to accept the “RIBBONS CANNON” shit. Oh and the Gundam is “RIBBONS GUNDAM” too. And in fact, I can say the action scenes... | | |
| 5:31am | [Ascaloth] Final Critique: CLANNAD (TV) and CLANNAD ~After Story~ | | | | October 4, 2007. That was the day Kyoto Animation aired the first episode of a much-anticipated anime adaptation of one of Key Visual Arts’ most beloved story, the third visual novel released by them, CLANNAD. It was the first anime series I began covering on a weekly basis for RIUVA, and it was... | | |
| 6:25pm | Soul and style: Toradora and Michiko e Hatchin | | | | It’s the eve of the latest spring season, but I’m still playing catch up with a lot of last year’s finest. Last week it was Xam’d, and this week it’s Michiko e Hatchin and Toradora. I’m only too aware that the anime community is driven by an insatiable desire for... | | |
| 2:20pm | メシウマ[meshiuma] | | | | There is an old proverb, 他人の不幸は蜜の味[ta nin no fukou wa mitsu no aji], or others’ misfortune is sweet like honey. If you are happy now, you would hope everybody else would be happy as well. But even if you are not happy, would you hope so? If you say yes, you might be hypocrite... | | |
| 2:27am | Review: Toradora! (85%) |  | | | Animation: 85% Acting: 90% Music/Sound: 80% Story: 88% Overall: 85% See explanation of scores. Toradora is the standard-setter anime about high school shounen romance. It does for high school love what Kare Kano does for adolescence in general and Honey and Clover did for post-adolescence–and... | | |
| 10:50am | Cool Items Friday, March 27, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 9:03am | Excite Music : Interview with Perfume | | | | Chanced upon an online interview segment that Excite!Music did on Perfume. Quite a few pretty pictures on the site itself, so it made me want to translate it more. XD We’ll present the things Perfume has been caught up with or interested in lately, ranked! The article, including its translations,... | | |
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