| 8:00am | The First Ten Mushi-Shi | | | | I wandered into a random screening room sometime around ten at night, mostly just looking for a place to sit down and rest. It almost didn’t matter what anime was showing; a seat and a break from the convention was the goal. As soon as I sat down, the opening for the next episode began. Some... | | |
| 9:36pm | Anime is a luxury for those who can afford it |  | | | I could’ve used this money to pay off my debts From what I’ve seen during my years of anime fandom, there are generally two kinds of fans; those who mostly watch their anime by buying the official DVDs and those who mostly watch their anime via fansubs. Putting the limited amount of anime... | | |
| 5:42am | Fall ‘07 Preview | | | | In a little under a month, the Fall Anime Season will kick off and a whole slew of new and interesting shows will start up. The fall season is, in my opinion, generally the strongest season of the year. Four years ago, during the fall of 2003, a number of excellent new shows aired, most notably Fullmetal... | | |
| 2:24am | Manga Review: Mushishi V.2 |  | | | Story: This volume continues the adventures of the wandering mushishi Ginko as he further deals with even weirder mushi. He searches for a lost mushishi who is also the master of a mushi-infested mountain. A girl with a forbidden mushi sealed inside her body objects to killing mushi. A village girl... | | |
| 11:04pm | [PR] Newtype USA Goes Gaga for The Story of Saiunkoku! | | | | Exclusive cover and feature on the sizzling new anime series HOUSTON, August 30, 2007-Newtype USA, the top anime magazine in North America, leads off the fall anime season with a blast of beautiful characters, romantic entanglements and political drama with its exclusive cover and feature on The... | | |
| 11:26am | Another six blogs you should be reading |  | | | Just a bit of link blogging before I return to the normal schedule (wait, what schedule?). I’d like to think that four whole days away from the PC at camp did my hands good, but a prolonged bout of instant messaging proved otherwise. I can live with the pain, though, seeing how it serves as a... | | |
| 5:53pm | Mushishi water art |  | | | Once again, venturing into the heart of London I spend more money! Not too expensive this time, I still need to get a frame for it because I don’t intend on BlueTac-ing this onto my wall. When I asked the sales, he said he was unsure but it was this was by Urushibara Yuki. As far as I know his... | | |
| 2:40pm | Dennou Coil - 13 | | | | This episode continued to flesh out the Illegals. While the previous was a comedy, this one was a tragedy. There’s no Daichi this time, or Kyoko. This episode was all about Denpa, and it turned out really sad and overall an incredible episode. Only a heartless bastard would not be moved at the... | | |
| 11:39pm | Mushi-shi - Series Review | | | | A Mushi-shi and a Mushi Well after a really long time, I finally got around to watching Mushi-shi, and it was more than worth it. The stories, the characters, almost everything was executed with such precision and elegance. It really was a series I loved watching unfold. Mushi-shi follows the stories... | | |
| 2:08am | Ouran High School Host Club anime review: Traps never looked so good | | | | Trap reviews certainly are a great way to kick off reviews. Last week, huamulan did a review of the Tenshi Ja Nai!! manga. This week, to start off our weekly anime review, I present the Ouran High School Host Club anime. The show itself was done by BONES, who you might know from Cowboy Bebop the Movie... | | |
| 4:44pm | Let’s Play Chess With Shion! Update | | | | MOON PHASE has updated its anime list with new information on the upcoming Fall anime Shion no Ou. The anime was announced on May 23rd, and it’s actually an adaptation of a manga from Monthly Afternoon (Genshiken, Mushishi). It talks about a 14-year-old girl named Yasuoka Shion, who tries to deal... | | |
| 5:31pm | Mushi-Uta |  | | | Another weird series for this season.Those who are are familiar with Mushi-Shi (蟲師) should be able to pick up the basic surface concept behind this show right away. So, basic scheme of things is this: Mushi are ubiquitous bug like creatures with magical properties related to the essence of life.... | | |
| 2:12pm | Otakon 2007: Mushi-shi screening | | | | John here, and the concept of sleep has never been more alluring. Yesterday was amazingly fun. You’ve heard about the majority of our adventures already, but I also managed to sneak in the first screeners of FUNimation’s current pride and joy, Mushi-shi. The story of mushi master Ginko, FUNi... | | |
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