| 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... | | |
| 6:20am | Spring Anime 2011 Impressions: Nichijou (Selamat Pagi!) | | | | Nichijou is pretty silly, doesn’t really make any sense and the art and animation is kinda meh. But it does bring in the laughs, which started to kick in for me until the “Selamat Pagi” gag, which means good morning in Malay (and for those of you wondering, Selamat Malam is good night).... | | |
| 6:19pm | Fall 2010 Anime -- Season Overview and Detailed Previews of 55 Shows | | | | Here is an overview of the new anime season, followed by full previews of 30 new shows and 25 OVAs, including pics, stories, staff, cast, and links to trailers, mangas, and discussion groups.First, here are nine shows I find particularly promising. Click photos to enlarge; mouseover for captions.Kuragehime... | | |
| 1:59am | Seiyuu Kobayashi Yuu's New Photo Book Out This Week | | | | Seiyuu Kobayashi Yuu's new photo book came out on Thursday. It's called "two love x one love" (2♥1♥), and is published by gravure magazine Sabra.This is Yuu-chan's second book of photos. A previous one called "Lovin' Yu" came out in 2008. Modelling is nothing new for her. She was a magazine model... | | |
| 7:40pm | Summer Anime Weekly Calendar | | | | With the new season getting rolling on Thursday, here's the coming season's weekly anime calendar, showing what days shows are on -- both new shows (in red) and continuing shows.For each show, the calendar includes highlights of staff and cast members, and has links to info pages in English and Japanese... | | |
| 7:15pm | Summer 2010 Anime Full Previews -- story, image, cast, staff, trailer, manga, forum, etc. | | | | This summer, I'm looking forward to new anime from directors Nishimura Junji (Simoun, true tears), Amino Tetsurou (Macross 7, Zeta Gundam), Hiraike Yoshimasa (Working!!) and Araki Tetsurou (Death Note).And to multiple appearances by seiyuus Takagaki Ayahi, Hikasa Youko (Mio in K-On, Junko in Dai Maou),... | | |
| 11:18pm | Summer '09 Previews | | | | With several shows that I enjoy carrying on from spring; add 14 new ones, plus Haruhi new episodes, Zetsubou Sensei 3rd and Ookami 2nd season; this summer looks very promising! The highlights are of course Canaan from the Type-Moon team, Umineko from Higurashi creators and SHAFT's second TV show this... | | |
| 6:50pm | Spring '09 Previews | | | | There are several interesting facts about this spring season. First with the exception of FMA, Hayate and Polyphonica, all other series are new. Another noteworthy fact is that all series are adaptions from manga, novels or games with Eden and Basquash as the only exceptions! As for my expectations ... | | |
| 10:39pm | Today in Post 5-2 | | | | So Today in Class 5-2 or Kyou no Go no Ni Twas a long time ago that I first sampled the manga and the first OVAs seems quite a long time ago but probably like a year or two ago somewhat. The nostalgia aside, my thoughts at the time was somewhere along the lines of ‘Remember man, these are 5th... | | |
| 11:59am | Winter 2008 / 2009 TV Anime Digest |  | | | The coming end-of-year means the end of several TV anime, but will also usher in a new crop of new shows to take their places (and timeslots.) Presented here is a digest of new anime shows scheduled to begin in January 2009, including premiere date, normal weekly airtime, and a brief synopsis of the... | | |
| 8:24am | Kyou no Go no Ni Loli Strip Anime |  | | | Having covered just about every conceivable sort of loli elementary schooler action, loli anime Kyou no Go no Ni returns to the fan pleasing staple of loli strip. Even shota oppai now feature The good source. From the moderately ecchi OVA to the distinctly restrained TV anime, we have to wonder... | | |
| 4:27am | 105. KissXsis (Manga + Anime Predictions) | | | | Raw image taken from official KissXsis website, Kodansha, no infringement intended. The main explanation for the lack of Casshern Sins anime updates is that I've been busy with school work (and that I cannot race the pace of other bloggers always or make my post interesting enough for people not to wait... | | |
| 7:00pm | To Aru Majutsu no Index - Help, I Think My Face Fell on the Floor | | | | Just when I thought To Aru Majutsu no Index would not yield any more ridiculous shit, episode 6 comes and breaks every damn record. I think I’m finally starting to see the familiarity in Index - this shit is actually funny. In the same way of funny as Code Geass R2 and Night Wizard. Index is the... | | |
| 7:56am | Introduction: Tril the Blogger (an Essential Demographic) |  | | | As you know, Divine was a valuable contributor here at Random Curiosity, and since his departure Omni has been looking for someone to help out. I can only hope I’ll be of some service as a new team member here, and honestly I’m very much looking forward to working with all of you. I’ve been... | | |
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