| 5:56am | April ?06 Preliminary Roundup | | | | My eyes, much like Michael’s, have rotted away from excessive anime exposure these past few weeks, and it’s not looking like it’s going to end soon; because I’m incredibly fickle, I’m sure I’ll drop most of these shows, but at current count I have 14 shows I want | | |
| 3:57am | Ouran High School Host Club Episode 2 - The Job of a High School Host | | | | And on this week’s Ouran High School Sub-Utena Imagery Watch - whirling tea cup rides!Haruhi turns up at the Host Club to discover that, for no real reason other than they look good doing it, the Club has decked out their room like they’re in Bali and are all dressed appropriately (all | | |
| 10:07pm | April 2006 Anime | | | | Jesus CHRIST, there’s a lot of anime airing in April - it’s especially exciting as I’m coming up to the two-year mark of anime blogging (however sporadically). There’s a phenomenal amount of new series starting, not to mention shows continuing. Could this revitalise my | | |
| 6:49am | Monday Notes... | | | | A good Monday evening to all y'all out there. Anime (well, blogging anime) wasn't exactly among my top priorities over the weekend, which looked something like this:Watching College Football >>> Watching/Capping Anime >>> Making the rounds of the Japanese blogs >>>... | | |
| 12:00am | 19. KIRARIN REVOLUTION (Anime) | | | | Raw image by Nakahara An, G&G Entertainment, no infringement intended.Summary:Tsukishima Kirari, the energetic protagonist, was also a very stupid little girl. One day, she accidentally bumps into Hiwatari Seiji, a band member of SHIPS, one of the hottest boy bands in Japan, and falls for him. She | | |
| 12:00am | April Anime Preview - pics/staff/cast | | | | I'm not as high on this season as fans of shounen shows and mecha are, but I'm sure there will be some pleasant surprises. There always are. However, I don't see anything like the three masterpieces that debuted a year ago: Suzumiya Haruhi, NANA, and Simoun. Then again, I didn't see them coming, | | |
| 12:00am | Current Anime TV Ratings in Japan | | | | It's difficult to get a good idea of the ratings for most anime. The main commercial ratings sites, Video Research and Oricon, just cover the top ten, which are almost all prime-time kids' shows.There is another site that appears to collate info about shows lower in the ratings list, probably from | | |
| 12:00am | My favorite anime of 2006 -- Simoun, Suzumiya, NANA, et al. | | | | I'm already looking at what new shows are coming up in January, so perhaps it's time to look back over 2006.What a year it was! I sat down to do a personal top ten and came up with a top three or a top fifteen. And the top three are competitors not just for the top anime of this year, but for my | | |
| 12:00am | Schedule | | | | - Schedule/Archives Page of [SS - Silent Scribbles] -[Silent Reviews]This is the main idea behind Silent Scribbles, aiming for 1000 entries. Anything without "predictions" or "screencaps" typed after the title is most likely a Review. [Predictions] These acts as a blurb on the success of future | | |
| 12:00am | Silent Reviews | | | | Winter 06-07 Reports:20. THE MARROW OF A BONE (CD)19. KIRARIN REVOLUTION (Anime)18. ORANGE RANGE (CD)17. RADWIMPS4 (CD)16. Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na (Series)______________________ _________________Autumn 06 Reviews:15. Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo! (Anime)14. Inukami! (Anime)13. Mai-Otome | | |
| 12:00am | Tokyo Trip 2007: Final day | | | | Last night we saw just about the most unwatchable anime we'd ever seen, Kirarin Revolution. For a kids anime about pop idols, the music was unbelievably bad.We also watched "Maguro!" and true to its name, it was a cold fish of a show. I don't think it could have been more trite or lifeless if it | | |
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