| 9:00pm | Yuri Manga: Tokimeki Mononoke Gakuen, Volume 1 | | | | There's not too many series that make me shriek with outraged sensibilities and hysterical laughter at the same time, and even less that are also very good. Tokimeki Mononoke Gakuen is tops on that list. This collection of Yuri Hime chapters about a "normal" rain fairy, and her soujourn at an all-girl,... | | |
| 6:59pm | Seiyuu Romance -- Do Nana-chan and Hana-chan Have Boyfriends? | | | | Fair warning: this post is pure tabloid fluff.This summer, we have had a couple of seiyuu romance rumors, one of them old but proven.1. A photo-booth photo has turned up showing Hanazawa Kana 花澤香菜 with her boyfriend in 2006.2. 2channel has been playing with a rumor that Mizuki Nana 水樹奈々and... | | |
| 1:45am | Ponyo on the Cliff coming to the US in 2009 | | | | It was expected, yes, but hearing some confirmation is always a good thing. Time Mag Confirms Disney’s U.S. Ponyo Plans for 2009 Miyazaki’s latest movie to be released in United States next year A positive review of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, written by Time magazine’s... | | |
| 7:00pm | kyou’s thighs get another post | | | | “We still have your wife.” - Syaoran LiI feel like Denzel in Man on Fire.(I assume he’s referencing this post. The last few posts on Derailed have been about, in order, a stripping loli tsundere, Kobe Bryant, Sunrise being Sunrise, Princess Mononoke, brokenness, death metal featuring... | | |
| 6:25pm | Opening Vids List - Summer 2008 |  | | | THAT is back with another season Op’s post, but this time things are a bit different. To allow all the team to comment on the posts, we’ve dropped the rankings and we are checking each opening individually (this also avoids the issues of internal competition inside THAT. I was constantly... | | |
| 6:58am | Review: Kaiba (90%) |  | | | Facing it In the end, no words were necessary to bring this thoughtful, emotionally resonant work of art to a close. So much was resolved not with words, but with gestures, looks, and the thoughts that have no need to be said aloud. I have become so conditioned to certain kinds of endings in both mainstream... | | |
| 4:21am | Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? | | | | Well, I don’t know about you, but reading otousan’s post on this topic, the similar top-10 post he linked to (you know, the one that wasn’t me), and realizing that this is August, which makes this the six-year anniversary of my friend finally magically convincing me to watch Cowboy... | | |
| 4:21am | Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? | | | | Well, I don’t know about you, but reading otousan’s post on this topic, the similar top-10 post he linked to (you know, the one that wasn’t me), and realizing that this is August, which makes this the six-year anniversary of my friend finally magically convincing me to watch Cowboy... | | |
| 8:47pm | Thoughts & OSTs | | | | I have been slacking from writing posts lately, but that’s because I’m preparing for a retreat (where I’m supposed to be a counselor), and packing for my trip back to college. This post will have to last for about a week, which seems only to be a little while, yes, but then again,... | | |
| 4:00am | Inspiring Characters in Anime | | | | Do they exist? Yes they do. But they’re few and far in between. 1. The cast of Honey and Clover are everything that most anime male leads are not. They’re funny, sociable, independent, quirky, and professional [some of the time]. In the end of the first season the main protagonist goes... | | |
| 7:00pm | VIZ MEDIA’S TEKKONKINKREET BY TAIYO MATSUMOTO WINS 2008 EISNER AWARD | | | | Edgy Series About Two Miscreant Boys’ Adventures In A Surreal Metropolis Is The Only Japanese Manga Title To Win This Year San Francisco, CA, August 1, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing... | | |
| 4:09pm | Hols: Prince of the Sun/ Taiyo no Oji: Horusu no Daiboken (1968) review | | | | A few day ago I was looking through a old collection of my anime tapes when I saw a copy of Hols: Prince of the Sun/ Taiyo no Oji: Horusu no Daiboken AKA The Little Norse Prince from 1968. This film is very important in anime history for two major reasons, the first one that this film... | | |
| 10:53am | Bonen no Xamdou - 02 | | | | Short Synopsis: Akiyuki tries to make sense of his new body as the assault causes many casualties. Highlights: Shows all the basics of good storytelling. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 I can imagine that if there ever was something like a “Basic Guide-Book to Telling A Good Story”, it would... | | |
| 7:58am | Instant Manga Reviews: Mononokemono, Me and the Devil Blues, Amawresu Kenchan | | | | Getting some stuff out there before I clean it off my desk and shelve it in the black hole known as my room. Mononokemono, GotsuboxRyuji, vol 1 (2007) When Ibuki returns to his home town for his grandmother’s funeral, he discovers that he has been chosen as her successor as a mononokemono, a human... | | |
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