| 9:31pm | Minami-ke: Welcome Back #06 — Summer Daze | | | | Needs more beach. Tired of waiting for a better raw. Let’s go with this. Impressions: Well, if you ignore the really terrible pacing, I suppose it was a decent episode, but parts 2 and 3 dragged without actually having any real jokes to speak of. I expected that Maki would have been able to... | | |
| 3:09pm | Minami-ke Okaeri 5 review; Swimming pools, and a game of tag. | | | | This episode begins with Chiaki getting bummed out because a swimming class will be taking place later in the day (if you remember, Chiaki can’t swim) . While the other kids work at cleaning the pool, Chiaki tries to delay the completion of the pool cleaning by taking control of the... | | |
| 12:20am | Huge Clannad Continuity Error Shocks Fans |  | | | Clannad fans have had the roots of their faith in the much vaunted integrity of the title’s narrative shaken, after observations revealed a continuity error of the most egregious sort between the two seasons. As you can see here, the Furukawa household’s stairway, on the left and from episode... | | |
| 4:48pm | Minami-dora! Minami-ke’s Kana Cameos in Toradora? | | | | Is the character pictured here in episode 18 of palmtop tiger anime Toradora in fact Kana Minami of baka-yarou anime Minami-ke? To many she bears a striking resemblance, though she may be just a generic character all the same. The other character pictured also bears a passing resemblance to Touma... | | |
| 9:15pm | 2channel -- Current Anime Popularity | | | | The top new anime of the season, in terms of popularity on the 2channel forums in Japan, are Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo first, followed by Chrome-shelled Regios, White Album, Fresh Precure, and Maria Holic, with Rideback and Kurokami not far behind.Kurokami is a special case, since it is receiving a lot of... | | |
| 10:35pm | Minami-ke Okaeri - Episode 5 | | | | "The pool" is a staple part of pretty any anime series diet, especially when it comes to slice of life shows, so I can't pretend that I was exactly shocked to see an episode of Minami-ke Okaeri focusing entirely on swimming pool related shenanigans.If I'm honest, the whole thing started in a rather mundane... | | |
| 3:02am | Anime Inbou Awards 2008, pt. 4 ~ oshimai |  | | | I couldn’t think of a better way to end this then calling this last part the end, so you get your oshimai instead. This final entry has a whopping eight categories so this is where the best of the best lie. Our focus here is on the story and direction of the show and overall how it was handled... | | |
| 2:26am | Minami-ke Okaeri - 05: Mako-cakes Returns… |  | | | I guess Yoshino has some Banchou in her as well Well this marks the triumphant return of Mako-cakes to help Touma out on her path of brokenness. By Jove was it terrifying to behold. That first skit made me feel dirty…still it must be great to be Chiaki, she gets to be the brattiest of them all in not... | | |
| 3:38pm | Minamike - Naptime | | | | Two of the girls from Minamike crashed out on the lap of the third. ZzzzzZzzz | | |
| 2:14am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 4: Music, Voice, and Animation Awards | | | | This show had one of the best pure filler episodes of the year.Or if I rearranged the words, the VMA Awards or the AMV Awards . It is certainly possible for an anime show to be good or at least watchable without stellar music, voice acting, or animation; however, it does definitely help. For example,... | | |
| 12:19am | Minami-ke Okaeri 4; a tale of snacks, animals, brothers, and umbrellas | | | | This episode begins with Kana returning home from school and finding that Haruka has made snacks for everyone. When Kana walks into the living room she sees Touma is over and that she is eating a snack, and Kana just sticks her finger in Touma’s food, causing Touma to head butt her.... | | |
| 6:04pm | Minami-ke Okaeri - 05 |  | | | Mako-chan’s underwhelming return. Summary: Chiaki’s class has pool cleaning duty, but Chiaki refuses to help because she would not benefit from it. An enthusiastic Makoto still believes that he would make a spectacularly clean pool without Chiaki’s help, but she soon interrupts... | | |
| 7:00am | Minami-ke: Welcome Back #05 — Partly Angry with a Chance of Rage | | | | So peeved that I called off the hiatus 11 hours ahead of time. No, not because the poor Cardinals lost, although Harrison should seriously have been thrown out of the game for the flagrant BS he pulled. Seriously he held the guy down, punched him, then as soon as possession changed, he goes for... | | |
| 3:34pm | January Summary | | | | It’s definitely been an interesting Winter-season so far. I know that I’ve ranted pretty often about the lack of new concepts this series, but when you look at the big picture, then this is promising to become an excellent season. There are many quality sequels airing right now, and especially... | | |
| 4:44am | Best Shows This Season Begin With Maria | | | | As I have mentioned before, I wasn’t initially too terribly impressed with this season’s lineup so I have given the few shows I do follow some time to pick up before trying to write something. It’s been a month a so far but the season still as a whole seems rather underwhelming. Although... | | |
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