| 2:03am | Best anime of 2008, and the anime year in review, part 1. | | | | Well, at the stroke of midnight, 2008 ended and the new year began, and whether you spent the night partying with family and friends or you spent your time reflecting on the past year, I hope you enjoyed the night. To me, this time of the year makes me feel reflective... | | |
| 9:54pm | True Tears: ‘No connection! No connection!’ | | | | I watched True Tears in the space of a few days at the end of August. I was reasonably impressed. People who actually know things about quality seemed to agree: if I had to list the better anime of 2008 by skimming opinions from the creamy top of the ’sphere, True Tears would probably feature.... | | |
| 8:22pm | 2008 Summary - Part II | | | | I originally wanted to wait with posting this until Porfy no Nagai’s final episode got released, but its time is nearly running out here. The Share-uploaders have a very cruel sense of humour: out of all the episodes they could have picked to delay, it became that one. In any case, here’s... | | |
| 1:40pm | 2008 Summary - Part I | | | | Well, it’s the time of the year again for the obligatory posts that look back at the highlights (and some of the lowlights) of the past year. This time, I decided to split this entry in two halves, otherwise the list would simply become too huge. I’ll post the second half tomorrow, after Porfy no... | | |
| 3:44pm | Mouryou no Hako - 12 | | | | Short Synopsis: Akihiko gathers everyone to tell them about the things he discovered. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 (Awesome) I don’t think that for the past year, I’ve ever been this frustrated at a climax than with this episode, apart perhaps from Kaiba. This episode was simply amazing,... | | |
| 5:59pm | 10th Day of Christmas - Experimentation |  | | | In a sea of rehashes and sequels, occasionally you find something pretty unique. For this year’s anime run, that series was Kaiba. The animation style is far out of the norm. A lot of anime relies on “hard lines” as it were; everything is very clearly defined, and it all runs along very... | | |
| 5:15am | My Favorite 2008 OPs (and Yours?) |  | | | Let’s do something we haven’t done here before on Anime Diet: end-of-the-year lists! Our first list is favorite OPs of the year, drawn from the various anime shown throughout 2008. My personal top five OPs are: 1.) Kaiba OP, “Never.” A deeply heartfelt, mostly-correct English... | | |
| 5:32pm | Anime Vice Check-In 12/10/08 | | | | This time I have an excuse for being a bit late! We suffered from a bunch of downtime yesterday and I didn’t want to link to stuff when you couldn’t get to it. And then I had to catch up Sunday 12/07/08 - Rumor Squad: Gonzo Goes Ero? - Bandai Keeps Teasing New Project; I Weep Bitter Tears... | | |
| 4:51pm | Enjoy everything | | | | It looks like there never will be an anime of Yotsuba&! It may be just as well. Movie adaptations of favorite books are invariably inferior to the originals, no matter how skilled the adaptors, and that probably goes for anime versions of manga as well (I wonder if I would like Cardcaptor Sakura... | | |
| 2:38am | Quality and quality at Nakama Britannica |  | | | The entry is mostly the familiar dogma, tired and tiresome (”In the harsh world of anime business, apparently a DVD only sells as well as the amount of scantily-clad females an artist can squeeze on to the cover” — real quote! at least we were spared bashing of Naruto), but contains... | | |
| 2:51am | Winter 2008 – 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | I figure it’s appropriate to start writing this on Turkey Day. Physically, I’m stuffed and yet I’m trying to figure out a way to have another piece of my Mom’s apple pie – it’s simply impossible to make a better pie crust then hers. Mentally, I’m stuffed from the huge number of great fall... | | |
| 11:45pm | Clannad Episode 8 – Stay Gold, Ponyboy | | | | Before I begin I wanted to mention that my computer is giving me grief again. Hopefully it’s something simple this time like a faulty power supply, and not something expensive. This means I’m stuck using my circa 2002 laptop to watch anime and write my posts, so while I hope this doesn’t... | | |
| 7:05am | Key Mechanisms? | | | | ←[83] Key adaptations provide an interesting perspective on the “lead character”. There is, of course, the main main person, and then the loads of other characters whose arcs go in a round. So, oddly, during each arc, the protagonist becomes the focus of the arc, “she” becomes... | | |
| 5:24am | [ID SOJOURNER] THE ANIME BLOGOSPSHERE IS EVIL! | | | | OMG!!!! GUESS WHAT? THE BLOGOSPHERE IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL!Allow me to reiterate: THE BLOGOSPHERE IS EVIL!!! Name any negative element and you shall find it contributing to the stifling air in the blogosphere. THE BLOGSPHERE IS EVIL!!!! We should have been contended with just watching anime... | | |
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