| 8:20pm | Oshino Meme the Medicine Seller | | | | Prove me wrong.Both are voiced by Takahiro Sakurai.Both are eccentric and are very skilled at removing or killing ‘oddities’ in one way or another. If you think about it, thats all Mononoke are – oddities.Their personalities are extremely similar too, they both are calm and cool-headed... | | |
| 11:30pm | 57 Fall Anime -- story, staff, cast, trailer, pic | | | | There are more new shows this fall than in any season over the past few years. But I'm not sure the quality -- or at least the appeal to my taste -- will be that high. I don't see any shows I expect to be as good as the great shows of this past summer season, such as Aoi Hana and Bakemonogatari. But... | | |
| 1:22pm | Secular religion | | | | A recent discovery: GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters. It mostly concerns Western horrors, but there is an article on “The Religious Functions of Pokemon” here (scroll down a bit). I wonder what the contributers would make of Mononoke, or Mushishi. (Via Eve Tushnet.) | | |
| 9:29pm | Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime, Volume 17 (Part 1) | | | | Welcome to Volume 17 of Yuri Hime (コミック百合姫), which was both very good and very bad - sometimes at the same time.The cover story, and new series by Eiki Eiki and Zaou Taisho isreally frustrating. It's the 22nd century, all the men are dead and women have, for some reason, reinvented hesterosexist... | | |
| 2:00am | Hayao Miyazaki Interviewed by LA Weekly |  | | | From the LA Weekly, via ANN: At 68, Hayao Miyazaki sounds like he might be slowing down. The director of such animated classics as Princess Mononoke and the Academy Award–winning Spirited Away seems content to sit back and watch life around him go by, a pleasure he passes on to us through the colorful... | | |
| 8:57pm | Ponyo | | | | Lucky for me, Ponyo was playing at a multiplex nearby. Ghibli animation looks great on a theater screen, so I’m happy Disney still sees it fit to put some promotion behind showing Ghibli in US theaters in spite of some pretty weak box office numbers for their previous efforts. Ponyo is different... | | |
| 7:39pm | Ponyo | | | | I got to see my first Miyazaki film on the big screen last night, and it couldn't have been a better film. Ponyo is my favorite Miyazaki film in a good long time, thanks in large part to its rich and dynamic animation, which makes it a film that truly benefits from being seen on the big screen. It's... | | |
| 7:39pm | Ponyo | | | | I got to see my first Miyazaki film on the big screen last night, and it couldn't have been a better film. Ponyo is my favorite Miyazaki film in a good long time, thanks in large part to its rich and dynamic animation, which makes it a film that truly benefits from being seen on the big screen. It's... | | |
| 10:46am | Cool Products Friday, August 14, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 6:03pm | Anime Review: Ponyo |  | | | I remember back when I first laid eyes on a Miyazaki film. It was in early 2003 just after Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Best Animated Picture. Disney had decided to re-release the movie into theaters for a couple of weeks before they released it onto DVD. So a couple of my high school buddies... | | |
| 1:59am | Aug. 10/2009 Anime News: NEEDLESS Blu-ray | | | | - Hyakko manga vol.5 comes with 10min anime DVD. I don't need anime DVD so I'll just get the manga only version. - It seems like Tsubasa Chronicle first season will come out in Blu-ray (US) in Nov. ------------------------------ -------------------------.. | | |
| 12:20am | New Kenji Nakamura joint coming up later this year | | | | I'm looking forward to the upcoming series by Kenji Nakamura, Mid-Air Trapeze (Kuchu Buranko), and not just because it will be nice to have something to watch, although that will have to wait until October. It will be worth the wait, if the team that brought us Mononoke (Kenji Nakamura x Takashi Hashimoto... | | |
| 7:01am | Review: Ponyo (Dub) - 88% | | | | Scores Animation: 90% Music: 95% Voice Acting (dub): 85% Story: 89% Overall: 88% See explanation of scores below. Ponyo is Hayao Miyazaki’s most joyous film since Porco Rosso, and the purest evocation of childhood he’s done since My Neighbor Totoro. After flirting with darker and more surreal... | | |
| 7:03pm | Videos of the Week - 7/26/09 | | | | I was originally going to post one of my favorite videos of all time, "Strobolights" by Supercar, when I ran across this. It's the entire song created using one KORG EMX-1, and it's pretty amazing! It might help if you're familiar with the song (or, like me, have listened to it at least a million times)... | | |
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