| 9:58pm | The Modern Blogroll | | | | For a long time now I’ve been dissatisfied with my current blogroll, and indeed I’ve never been particularly keen on the concept for traditional blogrolls to begin with. The standard “list of links on the sidebar” doesn’t give much useful information, hardly ever generates... | | |
| 11:10pm | Mushi-shi Review |  | | | Ginko, as always smoking a cigarette Ginko, as always smoking a cigarette You can check out my half-way through Mushi-shi post to get an idea of what I thought of Mushi-shi after 13 episodes. Well 13 episodes later, not much has changed. The series continued in the same fashion, each episode telling... | | |
| 3:29pm | Do You Watch Anime On the Sony Playstation Network? | | | | Do you have a Sony Playstation 3? If so, did you know that there’s a ton of anime series available on the Sony Playstation Network? Here’s the complete list of anime available for September 2009:Anime Network Angelic Layer Appleseed Aquarian Age Burn Up Excess E’s Otherwise Madlax Neon... | | |
| 3:09am | Mushishinbougatari, pt. 2 |  | | | Or maybe that should be “Araraginko”. In the maligned episode 10 of Bakemonogatari, at about 7:57 in the episode, Mushishi fans can hear that familiar three chord descent on the piano, interweaved with a jazzy tune (Mushishi meets Brubeck’s Time Out), as they’re ascending the... | | |
| 12:48am | Mushishinbougatari | | | | (Updated 9 Sep 2009, see below.) Bakemonogatari 9 started and I thought I’d stumbled on a lost episode of Mushishi I walked ten thousand miles, ten thousand miles to see you (sometimes that’s an animated gif of the opening few seconds of the episode, if not, here’s a link to something... | | |
| 9:20pm | Halfway Through - Mushi-shi | | | | My thoughts on Mushi-shi after 13 episodes. Mushi-shi is a 26 episode anime series that came out a few years back and had a generally well reception, liked by many anime fans. The anime is adapted from the manga, and a few years back a live-action film was created (which is coming out in the U.S.A.... | | |
| 11:18am | Hanada Shounen Shi Review - 85/100 | | | | Oh boy; here’s a series that’s aiming for great first impressions. The OP and ED are sung by the Backstreet Boys of all people. The lead character, a nine-year-old boy named Ichiro, is downright the most annoying and obnoxious anime character out there: he’s loud-mouthed, a cry-baby,... | | |
| 1:00pm | Kino no Tabi: The Road Goes Ever On | | | | Ever since I first heard about Kino no Tabi (or Kino’s Journey) when it aired six years ago, I have been eager to watch it. For reasons ineffable even to me, it has taken me until a few days ago to even start upon the series. I am quite happy to report that the series has been well worth the... | | |
| 4:17am | Cel vs digital: does animation style affect overall quality? |  | | | (Left) Lina from Slayers Next, 1995; (Right) Lina from Slayers Revolution, 2008 Ever since all anime switched from cel animation to digital animation back in the early 2000s, there has been some debate among fans about whether story/character quality has decreased even though animation techniques have... | | |
| 3:44pm | Manga in Japan = One Piece |  | | | Manga in Japan appears synonymous with One Piece in much the same way that manga overseas is a shorthand for saying “Naruto“, if the latest manga sales figures are anything to go by. The collected Oricon Top 50 figures for manga sales through the first half of 2009 (shown below) give a... | | |
| 11:06pm | Anime Summer 2009 -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 9:32pm | Summer 2009 Anime -- full previews w/staff, cast, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 8:03pm | Summer 2009 Anime Previews -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
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