| 5:27am | The Melancholy of Riko | | | | I wonder why is it that its always girls who fall into love triangles over boys in anime. Perhaps something that doesn’t happen as often in real life is much more entertaining? Or maybe its just because girls are cuter that way? One of the great things I love about Minamike is that Kana is... | | |
| 9:54pm | 48 Spring Anime -- full previews: story, trailer, cast, staff, pic | | | | These may be difficult times in the anime industry, but you couldn't tell it from the number of anime being produced. Forty-eight titles come out this spring -- series and OVAs -- about the same number as last spring.But quantity doesn't necessarily imply quality. Nothing here seems like an instant classic.... | | |
| 7:37pm | Chiaki Animator Comparison |  | | | Minami-ke fans continue to cast a critical eye over the production of Minami-ke Okaeri. This time it is Chiaki who comes under scrutiny; above you see her character design across 12 episodes of the series compared. The differences in (normal) character designs between episodes seem rather pronounced.... | | |
| 11:32am | Minami-ke Okaeri 11 review; Confessions, warm baths, and Chocolate. | | | | This episode begins with Fujioka asking Kana to give Chiaki a book that she wanted to read after he was finished with it. After thinking about it for a while, Kana just tells Fujioka to stop by and give it to Chiaki himself, he seems happy. All the while, Riko is watching from the other... | | |
| 6:25am | Top Picks – Winter 2009 Anime, Part 1: Cast and Character Awards | | | | If I was giving an award for best hair cut, the guy on the left would win.The winter season, as conventional wisdom goes, is one of the weaker seasons for new anime. Oftentimes this generalization has some truth to it but this time a combination of sequels to good shows and a handful of new hits made... | | |
| 3:48am | Rules to follow when asking for a favor | | | | Here are some life lessons from Minamike 10 which everyone should find very indispensible and useful to advancing in society. 1. First and foremost, you must always SMILE. 2. You must always remember the much obliged present. Ensure that it is something of significant value to the other side. 3.... | | |
| 11:37pm | Weekly Anime Review (Mar 9 – Mar 15) | | | | This week’s review is getting done much later then I wanted and there’s a few reasons for that but the primary reason is that the ending to Clannad gave my brain a bunch of things to chew on and I couldn’t get in the right mood to write this column. The ending adds greatly onto a post I’ve been... | | |
| 10:36pm | Minami-ke Okaeri - Episode 11 | | | | Episode eleven of Minami-ke Okaeri gives plenty of attention to Riko in her never-endingly fruitless pursuit of Fujioka, and to be frank it seems to be having a bad effect on her.The episode begins with the appearance of "Observer Hiroko", although the word "observer" should probably be replaced by "interferer",... | | |
| 4:26am | Minami-ke Okaeri 10 - Poor Communication And You |  | | | Natsuki’s version of “The Look” An episode about attitude, ideas, and communication - or lack thereof. Also an excuse to show Chiaki’s more childish side, as well as give the animators a reason to show some skin. The driving force behind much of the humour is how poor communications... | | |
| 7:37pm | Minami-ke Okaeri - Episode 10 | | | | Minami-ke Okaeri is proving to be as varied as ever in terms of episode quality, but on this particular occasion this falls in its favour, as episode ten proves to be towards the more amusing end of the scale.The episode begins with a torrential downpour that catches Touma out, leaving her drenched.... | | |
| 5:18am | Minami-ke Okaeri 10; trivia, politeness, laps, & smiles. | | | | This episode begins with Touma getting soaking wet while walking to Chiaki’s house. When Haruka see her state she has Chiaki run a bath for her, and Haruka and Kana proceed to fawn over her. Chiaki doesn’t like the attention Touma is getting and feels that she’s not... | | |
| 8:38pm | Minami-ke: Welcome Back #11 — Naked Time at the Minami’s | | | | It gets in the bath or it gets the hose. Impressions: Well, they can’t all be as good as last week, but this one was especially dull. I’m not sure why they decided to introduce a new bring back an old character ignored for the last 20 episodes or so this late in the run, but she’s... | | |
| 12:44am | [Anime Investigative Reports] Ibuki Ikaruga vs. Haruka Minami | | | | Watching anime would leave people with the opinion that parents routinely leave the care of their children to the oldest sibling. Currently there’s two different anime, Minami-ke and Asu no Yoichi, that feature the eldest sister as the head of the household while still attending high school. While... | | |
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