| 2:46pm | Kai’s Anime Backlog | | | | Backlogs, who wouldn’t have them? Especially with time constraints, backlogs tend to grow overwhelmingly huge over the long term and before we know it, we are faced with an almost unbreakable wall of piled up unwatched anime. During the winter season, I decided to pick as less anime as possible... | | |
| 8:30pm | Spring 2013 Anime Previews: staff, cast, story, trailer, pic, etc. | | | | This is the season of science fiction. There are seven shows with something sci-fi about them, from a remake of the Space Battleship Yamato series to three mecha shows to a kids' show and a harem romance.But in this well-populated spring season, we have other genres, too: action fantasy, ecchi comedy,... | | |
| 6:30pm | Spring 2013 Season Preview--Big Expectations | | | | Image SourceAs the Winter season wraps up and the wheat is separated from the chaff, it's time to speculate about the new season! I'm excited for quite a few things this time around. Which shows are on your must-watch list?Disclaimer: The following is my personal (and embellished) opinion based on the... | | |
| 11:01pm | Spring 2013 Anime Season Preview | | | | This is the 19th season preview listed on this website’s archives. 20 if I feel like counting the one I did for summer 2008 back on an old livejournal blog where I only covered about 3 upcoming anime and I predicted that Nogizaka Haruka’s Secret would be the next Haruhi Suzumiya. So I’ve... | | |
| 4:42pm | Anime preview – Winter 2013! | | | | Welcome to the first preview of animental! Winter season is upon us, and as such, new titles are on the horizion. Winter usually is the thinnest season of the four when it comes to the amount of new anime, and with alot of crossovers from the fall season, there aren’t that many new ones to go... | | |
| 12:01pm | “Kodomo no Jikan” – Manga Ending Soon | | | | Earlier today on Twitter, 「Kodomo no Jikan」 manga author Watashiya Kaworu revealed that her long-running manga series will be reaching a conclusion in the next chapters to come. However she did confirm that it will not be ending as soon as next month when the next issue of Comic High magazine hits... | | |
| 3:54am | Kodomo no Jikan Manga to See Its End Soon |  | | | Despite being rather controversial outside of Japan after Seven Seas Entertainment tried to publish it (See: Nymphet (Kodomo no Jikan) – Would It Survive in Today’s Manga Market?), Kaworu Watashiya’s manga series Kodomo no Jikan has been relatively successful – seeing 12 volumes currently... | | |
| 12:22am | Everything and nothing: A look at Summer 2012… | | | | and a few other things. First, we should do the anime preview thing. I know it’s a little late to put this up, but some of you guys said you’d actually read it so why not? For those unfamiliar with the process, this is where we post our snarky quips about the upcoming anime season. After... | | |
| 8:53pm | Summer 2012 Anime: full previews w/story, trailer, staff, cast, etc. | | | | Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta KoiAfter an amazing spring season, even the summer "off-season" looks pretty good. Some highlights:Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi -- Romantic stories loosely based on the lives and poetry of the great Japanese poets and poetesses of a thousand years ago. This is right up... | | |
| 5:29am | Upotte begins |  | | | Upotte was supposed to be this filthy innuendo vehicle for dirty perverts but it really is not. It turned out to be a comedy, and honestly I liked its comedic payload more than that of Naruto SD. Funco dealing with puberty gave the haters the excuse to lash out, but it’s entirely up to the viewer... | | |
| 2:36am | Review: Eve No Jikan | | | | Time of Eve, aka Eve no Jikan. Honestly, this review this week was almost the newest Final Fantasy game, but with all the time spent on the demo and still not managing to achieve everything, as well as some other events that ended up with me reading through the archives of another blog and stunbmling... | | |
| 2:36am | Anime Review: Eve No Jikan | | | | Time of Eve, aka Eve no Jikan. Honestly, this review this week was almost the newest Final Fantasy game, but with all the time spent on the demo and still not managing to achieve everything, as well as some other events that ended up with me reading through the archives of another blog and stunbmling... | | |
| 11:45pm | Review: Listen to Me Girls, I am your father episodes 1-6 | | | | College student Yūta Segawa is suddenly given custody of his older sister’s three daughters, aged 14, 10, and 3. They’re now stuck living together in a 10 square meter apartment. Meanwhile Raika, the object of his affection, has a fondness of cuteness, and his unexpected arrivals may finally... | | |
| 6:18pm | Nisemonogatari 04 | | | | Well this episode just made this show a harder sell outside of Japan. The very long bath scene with some seriously dubious imagery will scare away the mainstream westerner. Well the crazy bastards in the US tried to sell Kodomo no Jikan in the States. Boy would I have wanted to be in that marketing... | | |
| 11:16am | Anime Blog Carnival – So What Makes a 10/10 Anime? |  | | | Welcome to the first ever Blog Carnival! The Blog Carnival is a project created by du5k of the anime blog One Minute of Dusk in order to generate discussion between a number of sites who post news about and review anime titles. This also sets out to showcase the diverse opinions between the 14 writers... | | |
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