| 12:00am | Fans of Gundam Love their Franchise Like Saji Loves Louise | | | | So yeah the blog is named after a Macross reference, but I’m a Gundam fanboy too, and part of my fascination for the franchise has to do with the behavior of its fandom. I’m not exactly jumping out my seat to applaud Gundam 00 (though I find the recent episode 20 to be quite good), but... | | |
| 5:40am | The Tower of Druaga ~the Aegis of Uruk~ ep. 12 [END] |  | | | [ Episode 12: YOU ZAPPED TO… ] WTF Kaaya. No wonder Fatina didn’t like you! Ehhh, what the hell? ANOTHER tower? I literally went “WTF?” when I heard that the top of the tower everyone was climbing was just a halfway point. Not only that, but the Druaga they fought was just a... | | |
| 6:58pm | Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae - 20 |  | | | SM Jesus Tsugumi, SSJ Ai, and headplanting Kikuri! What an episode. Summary: Yuzuki has a dream where she rushes to stop someone from pulling the string off of a straw doll, as she is passed by a young Tsugumi. To both of the girls’ dismay, they are unable to stop the person’s revenge.... | | |
| 4:33pm | Jigoku Shoujo - 72 | | | | Short Synopsis: A scientist calls Jigoku Tsuushin Episode Rating: 8,5/10 (Awesome) This was definitely the best episode of the third season yet in terms of solid storytelling. Now this is EXACTLY why I’ve become such a big fan of the franchise: it’s nearly always entertaining to see the... | | |
| 6:18pm | Gundam 00 Second Season Blu-ray vs DTV |  | | | The Blu-ray and terrestrial digital broadcast editions of the second season of sensitive martial robot anime Gundam 00 are compared in the above image. The differences are subtle, but certainly far from invisible The huge high resolution PNG image for those with eyes like microscopes. Gundam being... | | |
| 2:57pm | Natsume Yuujin-Chou - 20 | | | | Short Synopsis: Natsume loses something as he and Taki try to get rid of the evil youkai. Episode Rating: 7,5/10 (Good) Ah, another adorable episode. It’s a good thing that Taki seems to be a recurring character, because there’s still so much potential left in her even though her story... | | |
| 8:11pm | Jigoku Shoujo - 71 | | | | Short Synopsis: A famous flower arranger calls Jigoku Tsuushin Episode Rating: 8/10 (if only because of that awesome plot twist at the end) Muahaha! Oh, this is going to be awesome! I guess that I should have seen it coming, but the end of this episode finally reveals the purpose of Yuzuki, something... | | |
| 2:53am | Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae - 19 |  | | | NA-KA-MA. Summary: A woman named Nakiri Kaori is renown for her flower arrangements, but she herself does not believe she has been performing what she truly wishes to. Seeing her teachers cutting fresh flowers elsewhere, Yuzuki receives a bouquet from the Jigoku Tsushin. She runs into Kaori in town... | | |
| 7:07pm | Seto no Hanayome OVAs - Would not mind a second season at this rate | | | | Yay! Nothing like revisting the world of Seto no Hanayome. I watched the TV series early 2008 and really found it quite hilarious despite getting kind of boring comedy wise during the second half of the show. Regardless it was a solid show with some great characters, and some funny and sometimes serious... | | |
| 6:22pm | Weekly Anime Review (Jan 26 – Feb 8) | | | | There goes that New Year’s resolution for The Null Set – no more missing a week and having to do a biweekly anime review. On the plus side, I should have plenty to talk about. As a total aside, as I’m typing this up I wonder if other people have specific music they listen to when they have to... | | |
| 7:47pm | Ghost Hunt Scares Up High Marks In Part Two | | | | Read my review of Ghost Hunt, Part One! Ghost Hunt, Part Two has Mai dreaming of death and has the rest of the ghost hunters scrambling to solve some grisly cases.Plot Summary Naru takes on another school related case, but this haunting is more sinister than the previous one, especially since people... | | |
| 9:53am | Jigoku Shoujo - 70 | | | | Short Synopsis: A girl who likes to send her stories to a well-known radio-host calls Jigoku Tsuushin. Episode Rating: 7,5/10 (Good) I really wonder what Ai is doing behind that computer of hers. “Ippen Shinde Miru wait, let me check my e-mail first”. In any case, we have another standard... | | |
| 8:32am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 7: Top Anime #5 - #1 | | | | If Kure-nai hadn't flubbed it's ending so badly, it might have made the listWe’re finally here, the last part of my reflection on the best anime of 2008 – the top 5 anime. If you’ve looked at the other parts then this list probably won’t be much of a shock so let’s not waste anymore... | | |
| 1:27am | December 2008 News Highlights | | | | On December 9, Bandai Namco Games released a variant of a karaoke machine using its Afrec! technology. Instead of having fans add their voices to music, Afrec! allows fans to voice over anime segments. The machine was released under the Joysound label. The process for the seiyuu wannabe has three... | | |
| 1:34pm | Toradora Ending |  | | | Tsundere light novel series Toradora! is confirmed as concluding in the tenth volume, to be released March; this is thought to coincide neatly with the ending of the anime, for an ending many are already praising for its discipline in refraining from becoming a long and drawn out franchise more interested... | | |
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