| 10:57pm | Hidamari Sketch x365 - Episode 11 | | | | Hidamari Sketch x365, it's been so long since you last graced us with your presence, and how I've missed you soIt may have been far too long a break without a new instalment from Hidamari apartments, but episode eleven of x365 wasted no time in getting back to the joys that this series brings, beginning... | | |
| 1:10pm | Thoughts on Hidamari Sketch x365 Episode 9: Girls on Film |  | | | When I see Yoshinoya-sensei in action, it makes me feel guilty, since I feel like a kindred spirit on some senses. In terms of things that “matter”, things that she “needs” to do, she’s a chronic procrastinator. I totally understand having priorities that take personal... | | |
| 11:00pm | SHAFT - Studio Studies Part Three | | | | Now that I’ve covered what I consider the best along with the most influential studio, I have to talk about my personal favorite, SHAFT. SHAFT was formed in 1975, which comes as a surprise to me because besides their first single-handed production in 1987, Yume Kara, Samenai (which I only just... | | |
| 1:21pm | T-That’s Impossible: A Retrospect on Saimoe 2008, Round 3 | | | | Analysis\ up when I get the chance, but since I’ll be away from the computer for a bit, I’ve got to push this post out the door: G3-2 Results: Show ▼ Tsukasa (Lucky Star) defeats Nagi (Hayate) 1080-889 H3-1 Results: Show ▼ Noe (true tears) defeats Suzu (Nagasarete Airantou) 972-555... | | |
| 4:15pm | Random Ramblings 4.0: Nothing Important Was Lost |  | | | By TheBigN Starting out this list of things with a shout-out to one of my cohorts, as today happens to be Nomadotto’s birthday. Hopefully he’s punching out ungrateful undergrads in celebration, or at least taking a little respite from grad school for this day. And if you remember from... | | |
| 6:18pm | Kana vs. KyoAni: Saimoe ‘08 [3CD-1] results and [3CD-2] preview | | | | And yet another climactic round comes to pass. SaiMoe is very much a tournament of dreams, not because to outsiders it seems like a bunch of people verbally fapping to imaginary characters, but because it really is an example where sometimes, anything seems possible. We’ve seen the legendary... | | |
| 8:17pm | Hidamari Sketch x365 - Episode 10 | | | | Two episodes of Hidamari Sketch x365 in two days - How spoiled do I feel? A new episode of this particular slice-of-life series is always more than welcome in my day, and this particular instalment was a most excellent one.After watching episode nine I mentioned that it wasn't big on laughs but instead... | | |
| 8:05pm | Hidamari Sketch x365 - Episode 9 | | | | It's quite simply been far, far too long since I last had an episode of Hidamari Sketch x365 to enjoy - Indeed, since watching episode eight, I've had time to enjoy the original series in its entirety, which has further boosted my love for the show as a whole.Anyhow, in general episode nine of Hidamari... | | |
| 5:27am | Prepare for War: An infodump on SaiMoe 2008 as it enters round 3 | | | | The tension continues to grow as we move out of the second round and into the third, where this is no longer child’s play, a domination of the popular over the obscure, but now, as the 4chan SaiMoe ads infamous put it, moe is “serious f’ing business”. Certainly we’ve seen... | | |
| 8:14pm | Seiyuu Sawashiro Miyuki -- One of a Kind | | | | SAWASHIRO Miyuki 沢城みゆき is a great seiyuu and a strange bird. She spends her time reading, likes classical music, dresses older than her 23 years, and speaks gently, but with great confidence in her own opinions.She started in anime at 14 (born in Tokyo 1985.06.02), and has been working ever... | | |
| 9:24pm | TheBigN’s Crappy One/Two-Liner 2008 Fall Preview |  | | | As I’ve stated before, I haven’t done these things before because for most of the shows, I don’t know jack about them, so I thought there was no point. Well, I still think there’s no point in the matter, but because I can’t really think of anything else to post about for... | | |
| 12:14pm | Status Update | | | | As you surely have noticed, the appearance of the blog has changed a bit. I got bored of the default Wordpress theme and finally decided to get rid of it because I had too much time due to skipping school. Big thanks to Nicd for helping me out with the CSS. Because I’ve been too lazy to properly... | | |
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