| 9:19pm | My Neighbour Totoro Review - 89/100 | | | | Most of Ghibli’s works are for all ages, but there’s always one demographic that stands out for each movie, often related to the ages of the protagonists: Kiki’s Delivery-Service, for example, is for middle-schoolers, Princess Mononoke and Ocean Waves are for high-schoolers, while... | | |
| 11:35am | Princess Mononoke Review - 84/100 | | | | If you want to know why Hayao Miyazaki is famous for his environmentalist movies, then you should watch Mononoke Hime, as the struggle between humans and nature forms a huge focus in this movie. This is the movie that ranks for many people as the best movie that came from Studio Ghibli. While I don’t... | | |
| 8:15pm | Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime, Volume 10 | | | | Yuri Hime, Volume 10 comes in at a bulky 400 pages. Wow. Despite that, I'm going to try and review it in one post, because I have a gigantic backlog of things to review and only a week before I go away and don't care for a while. So, let's see if I can keep the story synopses short and sweet. (But not... | | |
| 5:26am | Mononoke 10-12: Medicine Seller’s Last Bang |  | | | In the final arc of Mononoke, the Medicine Seller involves himself in the murder of a young girl whose body is run over by a train in a metropolitan city. As the seven suspects involved in the murder find themselves in the train, in the same car, whisked away to a ghost world, the Medicine Seller... | | |
| 10:08am | October Summary | | | | + October Rankings + The start of the Autumn 2007-season did show one thing: the amount of great series just isn’t as large as you’d expect. Still, I’m glad that at least a few series managed to stand out for me, and now all that’s left is to hope that they’ll unexpectedly... | | |
| 9:44pm | Miyazaki, condensed |  | | | Thanks to a shoutout, I saw a post a Daijobu (a blog which I really should be reading but never get around to), which looks at Miyazaki’s legacy. I think his creations can be vulgarized further into few basics (e.g. in DS’ terms, all historically developed MODEs can be collapsed further):Miyazaki... | | |
| 9:25pm | New season! (Genshiken 2! Ghost Hound!) | | | | So, as a new anime season rolls in, these are the shows that I have picked up (so far).Genshiken II: This was a given. I've been excited about this show ever since I learned that there was, in fact, going to be a second season. Somehow, I love this story so much that, although... | | |
| 4:54am | What About the Miyazaki-Haters? | | | | Recently I noticed Hidoshi’s rant about the films of Hayao Miyazaki. And he’s certainly not the first to take on the mighty director. My intention here is not to try and answer Hidoshi’s points directly, so this post won’t reach the level of blog-to-blog discourse that some... | | |
| 12:45pm | Anime & Manga News (through Mid-October) | | | | This is an update to an article I wrote earlier about a campaign to protect the Fuchi no Mori forest started by director Hayao Miyazaki, local residents, and other volunteers. At the end of the article, I wrote that the local government would be purchasing the land. On October 9, 2007, Miyazaki-sama... | | |
| 5:04pm | Weekly Round-Up: October 19th | | | | Reviewed this week: Clannad 2, ef 2, Genshiken 2 1-2, Gundam 00 2, Hero Tales 1, Higurashi Kai 14, Kaiji 2, Minami-ke 1-2, Mononoke 12, Moyashimon 1, Mushi-Uta 12, Rental Magica 2, SaiMono II 21, Seirei no Moribito 25-6, Shana II 2, Sketchbook 1..and in manga: Elfen Lied 78, HxH 262, Tsubasa 169 | | |
| 1:36am | Marge, I think I hate Hayao Miyazaki | | | | I rewatched Castle in the Sky today and came away with the conclusive feeling of disappointment. There is something underwhelming about the movie — the same underwhelming feeling I have gotten from Miyazaki movies since the beginning. With the exception of his printed work Nausicaä of the Valley... | | |
| 10:04pm | Final Thoughts: Mononoke | | | | He is known only as a simple medicine seller, a man who wanders from place to place and somehow always finds trouble along the way. Faced with ayakashi and mononoke, he does not back down, but stays the course, unravelling the mysteries that led to their appearance so that he can learn their ‘Form,... | | |
| 3:16pm | Form, Truth and Regret: Final Thoughts on Mononoke | | | | Mononoke seeks to deliver something fresh amidst the moe schoolgirls and lolis that are prevalent in recent anime. Set in Japan, probably during the Edo period, it follows the Medicine Seller as he fights Mononoke of Japanese lore. Mononoke results when an Ayakashi, a spirit that simply comes into being,... | | |
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