| 8:52am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 3: Genre Awards | | | | Soldiering on, this next set of awards cover some of the many different types of anime out there. I enjoy many of these types of anime and this sometimes leads to odd pairings; for example, I remember watching Kaiba and Maid Guy back-to-back on several occasions. There are a few categories you won’t... | | |
| 9:46pm | Top Seiyuus of 2008 -- Poll Results | | | | Koshimizu Ami's Horo in Spice & Wolf was the top lead female seiyuu performance of 2008. That's what your votes said. And that's what I thought, too.Male lead: Fukuyama Jun (Lelouche in Code Geass)Supporting female: Horie Yui (Minori in Toradora)Supporting male: Kamiya Hiroshi (Michel in Macross... | | |
| 8:50am | First Look Fair: Munto |  | | | This surprisingly low-budget KyoAni release isn’t bad in the first episode. The question is: is this going to be the next Escaflowne or the next Noein? Munto, you see, shares much in common with those two fantasy series. It has the whole “Girl of Destiny” concept, the whole “alternate... | | |
| 12:00pm | Winter Anime Impressions – Rideback | | | | 2008 was a very good year for Madhouse anime, no other studio could match the number of quality anime shows they had: think Kaiba, Maid Guy, Kurozuka, and Mouryou no Hako to name just four. Therefore, when I found out Rideback was being done by Madhouse I became really excited about this title. Rating:... | | |
| 1:52pm | Kurozuka - Episode 8 | | | | Chapter VIII Ghost Weep Vines This episodes starts around the time Kuro arrived at the city from the future and met Karuta. He finds a man that indicates him the way to the Butcher.The man also warns... | | |
| 9:52pm | Kurozuka - Episode 7 | | | | Karuga They head to Karuga, an underground settlement.While in the forest, Kuro starts feeling something is wrong. There’s a flashback of Kuro and Kuromitsu fighting, around the same time that the series starts,... | | |
| 11:46am | Kurozuka - Episode 6 | | | | Miitsu Kuro and the others have no problem dealing with most of the enemies. The "cable guy" is the real problem.Izana and the "cable guy" show a vicious attitude. I’ll only let the cable guy... | | |
| 8:57am | Weekly Anime Review (Dec. 22 – Jan 4) | | | | Our lovable Corpse Princess as a baby.And just like that, the book closes on the fall season and 2008.Back at the start of the fall season, early October, the trees where just starting to change colors and it was still possible to walk around outside in shorts. Now at the end of the season, coats are... | | |
| 12:37pm | Kurozuka - Episode 5 | | | | Saniwa This episode reveals some stuff about the Clan chasing Kuromitsu. They have some samples of her blood and are using it to create super soldiers, although most of the test subjects die. It seems they were not just normal... | | |
| 6:00pm | Kurozuka - Episode 4 | | | | Haniwa Man The episode starts in the future again but, before the Great Disaster. This kind of story telling, always mixing past and future, is really hard to do well and can easily be screwed but, Kurozuka is pulling it off... | | |
| 5:35am | Face Off: Ray and Mike Try to Figure Out Kurozuka | | | | Mike: While I really enjoyed many parts of Kurozuka, I think you definitely got into it more than I did. At least until the end, I was more or less watching it like an action show. There really were only two fundamental questions on my mind: 1.) What is Kuromitsu really up to? 2.) What’s going... | | |
| 8:00am | Ga:Rei-Zero Series Review | | | | I just wanted to give a heads-up, my weekly anime review that was due on Wednesday will be combined into next weeks’ – I’ve been playing way too much Harvest Moon: TOT for the wii.Sometimes a show’s creators are really willing to take a risk. When it works, it really works but if it doesn’t,... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 5:58pm | Kurozuka - Episode 3 | | | | Asuka Just noting, I initially though that Kuromistu had been given immortality by that strange ritual in the beginning of each episode but, now I’m remembering that it was the boy in her past, probably her lover.It’s... | | |
| 8:01am | Top Five Anime for Fall 2008 | | | | I’ve been reluctant to post my top 5 shows for the fall season for various reasons but with the first of season’s shows ending – it’s time. One of the reasons for the delay was that this has been a good season for anime and it made it hard to whittle the list down to just five. Another reason... | | |
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