| 6:18pm | Kana vs. KyoAni: Saimoe ‘08 [3CD-1] results and [3CD-2] preview | | | | And yet another climactic round comes to pass. SaiMoe is very much a tournament of dreams, not because to outsiders it seems like a bunch of people verbally fapping to imaginary characters, but because it really is an example where sometimes, anything seems possible. We’ve seen the legendary... | | |
| 6:39pm | “Can you believe in it?” Saimoe ‘08 [3AB-2] results and [3CD-1] preview | | | | The matches continue to be a close fight, and this time, it was the clash of Hanyuu and San that proved to be a nailbiter, especially for Higurashi fans that got burnt once before. But on the flip side, Seto no Hanayome fans bet all their stakes on this round, with both their characters fighting in... | | |
| 2:26pm | Bamboo Beatdown Brewing? Saimoe ‘08 [3AB-1] results and [3AB-2] preview | | | | And no one stopped to tell me that I got the match preview backwards, flipping B3-2 with A3-2? In any case, a great fight yesterday; I often found myself checking the interim standings for how close the Haruka vs. Fuuko results were, and if you look at the graph of the votes you find that over the... | | |
| 7:10am | DEFCON 3: Saimoe ‘08 [3-A] Preview | | | | And the third round of SaiMoe 2008 is go - with the field of 288 girls pared down to 36, a character has to be either very moe, very popular, or very lucky to get this far, with the action only increasing in intensity from here. It’s a bit too early to declare it all-out war, despite my allusion... | | |
| 5:27am | Prepare for War: An infodump on SaiMoe 2008 as it enters round 3 | | | | The tension continues to grow as we move out of the second round and into the third, where this is no longer child’s play, a domination of the popular over the obscure, but now, as the 4chan SaiMoe ads infamous put it, moe is “serious f’ing business”. Certainly we’ve seen... | | |
| 9:20pm | My VERY Late Fall Picks |  | | | Well I’m VERY late in posting this information, but better late then never. This is the first season since gettinga new writer so I’ll mention what series each of us will be handling. As with any season, there is always the possibility that one of us will pick up a new one, espeically if... | | |
| 8:25am | The Fall Call: Fall 2008 Anime Preview | | | | I know, I know, I’m late– things have gotten very busy with my project. But here it is: your Fall 2008 anime preview! A couple of interesting trends this season. First off, I was struck by how many shows this season are the directorial debuts for the people helming them. Hyakko (Michio Fukuda),... | | |
| 7:59am | Shikabane Hime – Pantsu Princess |  | | | Zombie slaughter anime 屍姫 / Shikabane Hime, or “Corpse Princess”, has begun airing and it seems the anime could attain moderate popularity, though between middling production values and an eccentric attitude to service the title may have difficulty aiming higher. The stylish... | | |
| 2:06pm | Saimoe Tournament 2008 Group Quarterfinals Day 10 |  | | | Quarterfinals E2-2 有効コードがある票の 順位 1位 943票 高町なの @魔法少女リリカル のはStrikerS [Takamachi Nanoha @ Nanoha StrikerS] 2位 683票 ランカ・ ー@マクロスFRONTIER [Ranka Lee @ Macross Frontier] 3位 83票 キャロ・ル ・ルシエ@魔法少女リ... | | |
| 11:32am | What is needed to be done and has to be done– 2008 Fall | | | | And now, I’m all worked up like Misao and Tsukasa. It’s officially that this Wednesday, or tomorrow or yesterday, is finally the long-anticipated start of the 2008 Fall Season, which will take over October up until the end of December. What’s needed to be done and what has to be done.... | | |
| 10:00am | Anime Odds’n’Ends From the Summer Season | | | | I realized that due to different reasons I’ve missed mentioning a few anime related things over this summer season and had the idea of making a single post out of them.The first thing was to mention the Gurren Lagann Parallel Clip Project. This was a project by Gainax in which Gainax employees would... | | |
| 5:47pm | やらないか?[yaranaika?] | | | | If you have seen Minamike, you could recall Hosaka-sempai who is stalking Haruka. He is extremely narcissistic and often starts dellusionand for some reason he is naked under his jacket. His famous line is definitely バレーボールをやらな いか?[volleyball wo yaranaika?] or why don’t... | | |
| 9:48pm | Minamike 3rd Season to be Reformed Okawari? |  | | | Minamike fans everywhere are in a state of grave despair with the news that the recently announced third season of Minamike is set to be a continuation of the oft reviled second series, Okawari, with the same producers, which was not previously clear. However, it also seems that parts of the production... | | |
| 2:06pm | Saimoe Tournament 2008 Group Stage Day 32 |  | | | Group H4 有効コードがある票の 順位 1位 366票 黒乃胡夢 ロザリオとバンパイ [Kurono Kurumu @ Rosario+Vampire] 2位 351票 木津千里 さよなら絶望先生 [Chiri Kitsu @ Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei] 3位 168票 明石薫@ 対可憐チルドレン... | | |
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