| 12:20am | The Devil makes work for Idle Thumbs… | | | | OK, so the title probably isn’t the most accurate description of what I’m about to attempt. Basically, while checking out my old fansub collection, I found a couple of files from back in 2004. Basically, some heroic fellow made a video of every mecha TV anime which was aired in the 80s and... | | |
| 8:46am | 2011′s Anime Music in Review – Soundtrack Edition | | | | Introduction: In August? Man, at this rate, the 2012 music roundup post won’t be released until 2014 at the earliest! *Ahem* Starting last year, we decided that an anime soundtrack retrospective wouldn’t be a bad idea. Doing so serves two functions: it allows people to get an idea for what... | | |
| 8:46am | 2011′s Anime Music in Review – Soundtrack Edition | | | | Introduction: In August? Man, at this rate, the 2012 music roundup post won’t be released until 2014 at the earliest! *Ahem* Starting last year, we decided that an anime soundtrack retrospective wouldn’t be a bad idea. Doing so serves two functions: it allows people to get an idea for what... | | |
| 11:17pm | A Season of Optimism: full previews of spring shows | | | | Big buzz. Everyone seems to have high expectations for the upcoming spring season. Including me. There are promising shows in almost every genre. I'm not sure I see any masterpieces, but time will tell.Kawamori Shouji (Macross) is working with writer Okada Mari (true tears, AnoHana) to bring us a science... | | |
| 12:00am | Secret Santa 2011: Bokurano | | | | This post is part of the Reverse Thieves’ Secret Santa Project. Bokurano was a show I’ve been wanting to watch but never had the time to, and my Secret Santa was kind enough to offer it for my viewing. Naturally, I jumped at the chance. (The other picks were Heroic Age, Gigantic Formula,... | | |
| 12:00am | Secret Santa 2011: Bokurano | | | | This post is part of the Reverse Thieves’ Secret Santa Project. Bokurano was a show I’ve been wanting to watch but never had the time to, and my Secret Santa was kind enough to offer it for my viewing. Naturally, I jumped at the chance. (The other picks were Heroic Age, Gigantic Formula,... | | |
| 1:05pm | Miyuki Sawashiro |  | | | Had the honor of being the MC for voice actress Miyuki Sawashiro [沢城 みゆき] at Anime Expo 2011 last month. Shes such a sweet lady! For folks who are not familiar with her work, take a butchers hook at the titles that shes worked on below - copypaste from ANN.A Channel (TV) as Kamate-senseiAIKa... | | |
| 3:11am | Review: REDLINE (レドライン) | | | | The main male protagonist. Just like I have mentioned in my previous blog post just a couple of days ago, today’s review is going to be for the long-awaited feature-length anime movie titled REDLINE. Seven years in the making, with all frames being hand-drawn, this 2009 title will then challenge... | | |
| 5:09pm | Review: Reideen (らいでぃーん) | | | | The main male protagonist doesn’t have to operate his mecha to defend Earth from zombies. After wading through 11 2011 anime titles that can be summarily described as ‘decent at best’, today I will review a 2007 anime series titled Reideen. This is probably the best mecha anime I have... | | |
| 3:24pm | Shoji Kawamori |  | | | Was meeting with the big boss of Satelight at their offices yesterday in Asagaya - they be the folks who produced the latest Macross title "Macross Frontier" and a load of other anime.A familiar face walked in during our meeting - t'was Shoji Kawamori - the man who brought us the... | | |
| 8:58am | Previewing the Music for Spring 2011′s Anime Season | | | | Well, that was quick. This winter, for better or for worse seemed to just fly by. It feels like yesterday that many of us dipped our toes into Madoka, Hourou Musuko, and Yumekui Merry, but many of those shows are coming to an end and many new ones take their place. Like before, we’ll be doing... | | |
| 8:58am | Previewing the Music for Spring 2011′s Anime Season | | | | Well, that was quick. This winter, for better or for worse seemed to just fly by. It feels like yesterday that many of us dipped our toes into Madoka, Hourou Musuko, and Yumekui Merry, but many of those shows are coming to an end and many new ones take their place. Like before, we’ll be doing... | | |
| 8:10pm | January-March 2011 Anime Previews: new OVAs and OVA episodes | | | | Here are the coming season's new OVAs and new episodes of continuing OVAs.Nothing really calls out to me here, except perhaps the third episode of Gundam Unicorn, which will come out in March. The new .hack//Quantum is interesting for its cast and staff: Hanazawa Kana, Sawashiro Miyuki, Fujimura Ayumi... | | |
| 9:24pm | Autumn Season Preview | | | | The amount of series that will première in the upcoming Autumn season? 29. That’s about the same as the previous Spring Season. While I’d love to say that anime is getting better again, this season is looking pretty bleak, with only three series that do not focus on kids or teenagers and... | | |
| 12:20pm | KIDDY GiRL-AND cast and airdate confirmed | | | | http://www.kiddygirl-and.com/ has been updated to confirm the air date for the first episode as the 15th of October 2009. There is also a finalised logo, which is rather like a blinged out version of the first series logo. The main staff and cast are also now confirmed along with airtimes for various... | | |
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