| 8:06pm | Mouryou no Hako - 06 | | | | Short Synopsis: Toriguchi shares his theories with Akihiko. Highlights: I can’t recall having seen any episode for the past year that had more dialogue in it than this one Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) Wow just wow. When I thought that the previous episode was full of dialogue, this... | | |
| 10:16pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 45 | | | | Short Synopsis: Paris is big. Mina isn’t there yet. Porfy’s out of money. So yeah, he’s still going to have to kill some time. Highlights: Calm before the storm!! Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 Porfy no Nagai Tabi is a very good series, but as I’ve mentioned before: overall... | | |
| 6:36pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 41 | | | | Short Synopsis: Porfy goes along to the salesman’s home and wrecks a potential marriage. Highlights: The pacing really gets faster and faster as the show goes on! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Well, there you have it. A few episodes ago, I wondered whether the soundtrack would change, now... | | |
| 2:42pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 39 | | | | Short Synopsis: Porfy travels. Highlights: Just when you thought that the background artists couldn’t get any better, they surpass themselves. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Okay, the summary can be very short this time, seeing as this is one of these episodes where hardly anything happens.... | | |
| 8:14pm | Seiyuu Sawashiro Miyuki -- One of a Kind | | | | SAWASHIRO Miyuki 沢城みゆき is a great seiyuu and a strange bird. She spends her time reading, likes classical music, dresses older than her 23 years, and speaks gently, but with great confidence in her own opinions.She started in anime at 14 (born in Tokyo 1985.06.02), and has been working ever... | | |
| 1:45pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 38 | | | | Short Synopsis: Erm without going into spoilers: Porfy meets a market saleswoman in a town with horse-races. Highlights: Hard to say without going into spoilers, but let’s just say that stuff that’s typical of the World Masterpiece Theatre happens. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,75/10 Awesome... | | |
| 12:35pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 30 | | | | Short Synopsis: In Rome, Porfy and Apollo continue to search for Mina, as he meets a poor woman with a similar fate. Highlights: So! Much! Foreshadowing! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Now THIS is exactly what I’m talking about! Forget the Sicily-arc or the Maximilian-arc. THIS is exactly what... | | |
| 9:05pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 29 | | | | Short Synopsis: Recap Highlights: Strangely enough, this was EXACTLY what this series needed Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Okay, so I’m obviously not going to summarize this recap-episode in detail. What I do want to talk about is everything else that happened here. I rated this episode high... | | |
| 6:31pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 19 | | | | Travelling-anime with random stories usually come in two categories: the saviour and the observer. The first one is by far the most common one: the protagonist arrives at a place where there’s some kind of problem, and at the end of the episode he or she has solved it. Examples of this are El... | | |
| 9:03pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 18 | | | | This was the most light-hearted episode of Porfy no Nagai Tabi in what felt like ages. The tragedy has finally settled down a bit, and it’s time for Porfy to move on and search for Mina, as he travels to Italy. Porfy walks around the harbour, searching for the place that sells tickets to the... | | |
| 5:13am | First Look Fair: Allison and Lillia |  | | | Ray suggested not too long ago that this might be right up my alley. He was right. We need more anime like this. It’s not a surprise that this show is running on the public TV network, NHK, who have a history of showing family-friendly yet innovative shows (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, where... | | |
| 3:49pm | Attaining Allusions of Grandeur |  | | | some might consider not getting this to be a good thing, but I beg to differ While I was cropping, rotating, and resizing headers for the new layout I thought to myself, “How can I make this interesting?” CCY had the idea of incorporating the relevant taglines into his rotating headers,... | | |
| 12:59am | "true tears" Becomes Most Popular New Show on 2channel | | | | The romance drama true tears has passed Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei to become the most popular new-season show on 2channel, the Japanese forum site.true tears is on its 88th thread, having passed 87,000 posts. Zetsubou Sensei is on its 85th thread (84,000+ posts).A little over a month ago, Zetsubou... | | |
| 4:28pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 07 | | | | By request of Chris, I’ve decided to write full and detailed summaries for Porfy from now on. It’s the least I can do for this series. The episode starts with Porfy, thinking back about the previous episode, and more specifically Alecia. Ever since she left, she’s been on his mind,... | | |
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