| 6:39pm | Passionate Prelude: J-Saimoe 2009, preliminaries round 4 are open | | | | Yeah, let’s start this up again; a bit late to the party thanks to Anime Expo (which will also get posted on soon) but the Japanese Saimoe (as opposed to ISML) preliminaries have just begun, and to be honest, it requires a bit more work to vote than ISML, so I’ve written up a few things... | | |
| 12:00am | Remembering Love as Homage in Anime: Eureka SeveN x Mobile Suit Gundam | | | | [This post is infested with spoilers] Paying homage in the context of a media work is the recreation of one work of fiction in the context of another, with the referencing done as an ‘inside joke’ or an ‘easter egg’ for those familiar with the referenced work. Often this is... | | |
| 4:17am | Cel vs digital: does animation style affect overall quality? |  | | | (Left) Lina from Slayers Next, 1995; (Right) Lina from Slayers Revolution, 2008 Ever since all anime switched from cel animation to digital animation back in the early 2000s, there has been some debate among fans about whether story/character quality has decreased even though animation techniques have... | | |
| 10:46am | Cool Products Monday, June 22, 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... | | |
| 2:47am | Freeing 1/8 Nagi | | | | Flickr Link The Lovely Freeing Nagi from Kannagi Crazy Shrine Maidens. This is my first Freeing figure and I’m not disappointed. She’s quite lovely and very well made. Provided by the wonderful people at beNippon, amazing service, fast shipping and good prices. check them out for sure! ... | | |
| 8:39pm | Studying the Realism in the Fujoshi Character Design | | | | Ever since the mid-2000s the fujoshi character has seen an increase in overall presence in anime and manga, as evidenced by my Fujoshi Files, an ongoing project where I catalogue fujoshi characters. While comparing various fujoshi characters, especially in seinen manga, I began to realize something... | | |
| 6:30pm | Yamakan to Direct Special OP OVA for Tonari no 801-chan Manga | | | | Bad-boy director Yamamoto Yutaka 山本寛 (Yamakan) will direct a 90-second OP animation to be released with vol4 of the comic Tonari no 801-chan, on September 10.Maybe it's more common than I realize, but I've never heard of releasing an OP animation with a manga. A special anime episode, yes. But... | | |
| 2:42pm | Muteki na Fujoshi: 801-chan’s Small Anime Revival | | | | Months ago I reported on the fact that the popular Japanese webcomic turned franchise Tonari no 801-chan, about a hardcore fujoshi and her otaku boyfriend, was getting an anime and later that the anime was getting scrapped. Well now it is back in the form of a 90-second opening-only anime titled Tonari... | | |
| 11:06pm | Anime Summer 2009 -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 9:32pm | Summer 2009 Anime -- full previews w/staff, cast, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 8:03pm | Summer 2009 Anime Previews -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 3:30pm | Kannagi OVA – Strangely unsatisfying | | | | Actually after a short reflection, it isn’t so strange that I didn’t enjoy the Kannagi OVA as much as hoped. The OVA suffered from the same issues as the TV series – too much immiscible fat. Note that I enjoyed the ‘fatty’ bits of Kannagi. Theose fun eps were entertaining,... | | |
| 3:00pm | The Zen of Eureka Seven |  | | | Take one gangly kid, one cooldere, and a bunch of heroic rebels who just want to live free. Put them in a dystopian future where an almost-magical element, trapar, generates lift forces and enables them to defy gravity. Mix in mecha, a threat to the world, and an uneasy peace. Serves seven: Eureka... | | |
| 1:32am | Nagi-sama Naturism |  | | | Flat goddess Nagi-sama of clothing optional shrine maiden anime Kannagi takes a break from onanism to appear here posing tastefully by a tree, though not tastefully enough for the creator of the Photoshop interference below The full size versions. | | |
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