| 6:07pm | Saimoe Main Tournament Group Stage Matchups. |  | | | Matchups have been drawn and determined, so this are the groups from A1 to H12 for the main tournament. For the group stage of the tournament, the voting starts from Group A until Group H. Everyday, three subgroups from each group will compete together and everyone votes for one character from each... | | |
| 2:57am | Kemonozume #13 | | | | It's been almost a year since I saw the first episode of Kemonozume. I saw the last episode at the end of last year, more than half a year ago, yet I never blogged it. Why? I just didn't know how to write about the last episode, or about the series as a whole, so I kind of pushed it to the back of my... | | |
| 9:05pm | Kamichu Review - 85/100 | | | | After “this guy” predicted how I would review Kamichu, I just had to watch it. Lately, I’ve been getting more and more interested in slice-of-life series (I’m currently a huge fan of Kaze no Shoujo Emily), so I was willing to give this series a try. However, when I started... | | |
| 8:52pm | Welcome to the N.H.K. Vol. 3 - Manga Review | | | | NHK Volume 3 ramps up the non-stop hikikomori action by having Satou play MMORPGS! And by action, I mean virtual action. Story: Ah, MMORPGs. I had started up a 10 day trial to WoW and luckily ended it before I had a chance to really get addicted. Satou isn’t as lucky. He’s addicted to a... | | |
| 8:05pm | Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (Goodbye, Mr. Despair)–First Impressions |  | | | I hope to be a teacher one day. I went to my present school because of my experiences teaching Sunday School to both kids and adults, and there are few things I find more satisfying in this life than seeing students engaged, asking questions, and watching insight, knowledge, and wisdom grow. I’m... | | |
| 9:30am | New ADV Trailers for Pumpkin Scissors, Red Garden, NHK (Videos) | | | | ADV released some new trailers this week for 5 Centimeters per Second (December), Pumpkin Scissors (Oct. 23 - tentative), Red Garden (Sept. 18), Welcome to the NHK (Oct. 2 - tentative), and Xenosaga (Sept. 11). They are the usual no-dialogue teasers with either the opening and ending song as music and... | | |
| 1:07am | DTZ’s Rants and Ramblings: The Pitfalls of Shounen | | | | I, like many other guys in the realm of anime fandom, have a lot of history watching shounen series. After all, Dragon Ball Z, while not the first series I watched, WAS one of the series that pulled me into the medium (in my post-Robotech, pre-Slayers days, that is.) And Rurouni Kenshin was one of the... | | |
| 11:57pm | Yuri Norstein interview | | | | About a month ago one of my readers, Mihai Luchian, pointed out an interesting interview in Russian with Yuri Norstein about the making of his short segment for the Basho-inspired omnibus of short animated films Winter Days. Mihai kindly translated the interview for me, which I touched up a bit, so... | | |
| 2:39pm | In Review: NHK ni Youkoso! | | | | Satou Tetsuhiro, is a part of a modern phenomenon called hikkikomori, and a NEET. One day, he comes to a conclusion that his predicament is part of a conspiracy. That conspiracy is mastered by the Nihon Hikkikomori Kyokai.However, a girl named Misaki mysteriously tells him that he has been selected... | | |
| 12:32pm | How do you choose new animations for new anime season | | | | When I choose an anime for watching, then I watch all episodes of it; how it is fun or not(Oh, there is an exception; Re: Cutie Honey). Because it is not so comfortable for me to stop watching with unended story. Therefore, I carefully choose an anime to watch. First of all, It is the easest way that... | | |
| 2:29pm | Elitism and the anime blogosphere; Anime elitism as a social construct |  | | | About this double-feature with Impz over at THAT Anime Blog: For those of you not in the know, there’s all manner of bloggers, about 20 give or take, that can be found over at #animeblogger @ irc.irchighway.net on a fairly regular basis. Now the average age in the channel is anywhere from late... | | |
| 7:00am | Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan | | | | Like coursework that is due in at the end of the week, my intention to watch the second episode of Welcome To The NHK! has been delayed further and further by many things - being unable to get myself out of bed at a reasonable time, enjoying my penultimate week of the holidays before I start Coll | | |
| 8:48pm | Anime News: Japanese “table talk” RPG Night Wizard to recieve anime… | | | | Enterbrain announced the production today of upcoming TV anime Night Wizard, based on the "table talk" (Japanese jargon equivalent of tabletop or PnP) RPG by the same name. Direction will be handled by Yamamoto Yuusuke, most recently the director of Welcome to the NHK; given the spotty history of | | |
| 1:48pm | Anime News: Japanese “table talk” RPG Night Wizard to recieve anime adaptation | | | | Enterbrain announced the production today of upcoming TV anime Night Wizard, based on the "table talk" (Japanese jargon equivalent of tabletop or PnP) RPG by the same name. Direction will be handled by Yamamoto Yuusuke, most recently the director of Welcome to the NHK; given the spotty history of Japan-animated... | | |
| 10:36pm | Animes Licensed by ADV | | | | In the licensing update article in Newtype July 2007 issue, there are several anime that are listed in here and one of them was Xenosaga. I never even knew Xenosaga was made into an anime. Other licensed anime are, Welcome to the NHK!, Pumpkin Scissors, The Wallflower, and Red Garden. These are... | | |
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