| 1:43pm | Artistic influences on "Mouryou no Hako (魍魎の匣)" | | | | Vaguely continuing on my previous posts on this series here and here, I would like to discuss some traces of artistic influences I spotted in Mouryou no Hako: 1) This is just a totally wild guess - but perhaps the art of Kuroki Kosuwe (黒木こずゑ) inspired part of the ED and Kanako's dream... | | |
| 2:03am | Best anime of 2008, and the anime year in review, part 1. | | | | Well, at the stroke of midnight, 2008 ended and the new year began, and whether you spent the night partying with family and friends or you spent your time reflecting on the past year, I hope you enjoyed the night. To me, this time of the year makes me feel reflective... | | |
| 4:46am | First Look Fair: Maria✝Holic |  | | | First review of the year! Akiyuki Shinbo strikes again–or does he? This new season show comes out earlier than most, courtesy of a free streaming broadcast. The aggregators tell me I’m rather late to the party, but since I’m beginning a brand new year full of resolution I’m... | | |
| 8:22pm | 2008 Summary - Part II | | | | I originally wanted to wait with posting this until Porfy no Nagai’s final episode got released, but its time is nearly running out here. The Share-uploaders have a very cruel sense of humour: out of all the episodes they could have picked to delay, it became that one. In any case, here’s... | | |
| 8:16pm | Mouryou no Hako Review - 92,5/100 | | | | The past fall season aired a lot of good and great series, but none of them was as good as this series: Mouryou no Hako, Madhouse’s latest masterpiece. This is one series that did just about everything right. Obviously it’s not for those who don’t like people talking over and over... | | |
| 7:47pm | Mouryou no Hako - 13 | | | | Short Synopsis: It’s finally time to reveal who is the real culprit behind this series. Overall Enjoyment Value: 9/10 (Fantastic) What an awesome way to close off 2008! I must say, this episode was absolutely incredible. It was the best episode of Mouryou no Hako yet, it had some of the best... | | |
| 8:01am | Top Five Anime for Fall 2008 | | | | I’ve been reluctant to post my top 5 shows for the fall season for various reasons but with the first of season’s shows ending – it’s time. One of the reasons for the delay was that this has been a good season for anime and it made it hard to whittle the list down to just five. Another reason... | | |
| 5:46am | Mouryou no Hako 13 | | | | Best anime series for Fall 2008! Yeah! Some spoilers (or the little points that I could understand from the conversations). | | |
| 1:40pm | 2008 Summary - Part I | | | | Well, it’s the time of the year again for the obligatory posts that look back at the highlights (and some of the lowlights) of the past year. This time, I decided to split this entry in two halves, otherwise the list would simply become too huge. I’ll post the second half tomorrow, after Porfy no... | | |
| 3:27pm | December Summary | | | | For December, I decided to write my summary a bit earlier than usual, so that I can gather a bit more time to work on my 2008 Summary, where I list my highlights of the past year. Overall, this has been a very straightforward month without many big surprises: the series that I expected to do well did... | | |
| 3:44pm | Mouryou no Hako - 12 | | | | Short Synopsis: Akihiko gathers everyone to tell them about the things he discovered. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 (Awesome) I don’t think that for the past year, I’ve ever been this frustrated at a climax than with this episode, apart perhaps from Kaiba. This episode was simply amazing,... | | |
| 9:31pm | Mouryou no Hako - 11 | | | | Short Synopsis: Kiba’s had enough and starts going after who he thinks is the culprit. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) Whoa, to think that this series actually managed to squeeze in some romance, and manages to get away with it! At this point, it really is clear that both the limbs... | | |
| 3:30am | Top Picks – Fall 2008 Anime, Part 2 | | | | Pushing this back a couple of days changed a couple of the winners and caused a few more categories to be added included one award that is my first award named after an anime - The Gurren Lagann Memorial Body-Count Award. I thought it was appropriate and I did make a comment a few weeks ago essentially... | | |
| 5:15am | My Favorite 2008 OPs (and Yours?) | | | | Let’s do something we haven’t done here before on Anime Diet: end-of-the-year lists! Our first list is favorite OPs of the year, drawn from the various anime shown throughout 2008. My personal top five OPs are: 1.) Kaiba OP, “Never.” A deeply heartfelt, mostly-correct English... | | |
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