| 9:50am | The Animated Spree: Pierce The Heavens With Your Quill | | | | I almost had Hyakko poached from me, but we’ve come to an agreement, Kaze and I.In my long absence from Yukan in terms of episodic blogging I suppose I have neglected Machiavelli’s rule of taking over the world by building settlements, and so far my settlements at Yukan seem rather dusty... | | |
| 8:00pm | Notes on the Nineteenth Maria-sama ga Miteru Novel, Part 4 (Final) | | | | Part 4In Library V1+1+1-1+2=4. What kind of math is that?The answer is, the number of people looking for Sachiko-sama.Yumi and Touko-chan began, and when Minako-san participated, Touko-chan left, then Shimako-san and Noriko-san joined, which made the current 4 people."We'll look in the passage, Yumi-sama,... | | |
| 8:00pm | Notes on the Nineteenth Maria-sama ga Miteru Novel, Part 3 | | | | Part 3In Library IV"Ogasawara Sachiko-san? Yeah, she returned the book a long time ago."Down another branch of the forked road, behind the Loan Counter of the Library's reading room, she laughed."Ah. Thirty minutes ago huh Sorry, I don't remember exactly how long."Which one was which she did not know.... | | |
| 6:47pm | Notes on the Nineteenth Maria-sama ga Miteru Novel, Part 2 | | | | In Library -- III"Library? Is that right?" As the words flew out of Touko-chan's mouth before she could think about it, Yumi blinked. Touko-chan spoke, before she could say 'then why didn't you meet her.'"But, well. There are several paths linking the Library and the Rose Mansion after all. It's possible... | | |
| 6:30pm | Notes on the Nineteenth Maria-sama ga Miteru Novel, Introduction and Part 1 | | | | Introduction: Before anything else, I must take this opportunity to thank Sukoshi, whose assistance was invaluable. She translated "In Library IV" and the "Cherry Blossom Folk Tales." Thank you, thank you.There's not much to say about this book, really. It was another collection of short stories, like... | | |
| 2:58am | T.H.A.T. Winter 2009 Anime Preview |  | | | KeyAni fanboy, reporting in. Once again I have taken on the responsibilities of creating the monstrosity known as THAT’s various season previews. At least since I’m doing it from the start Impz can’t whine and pawn it off on me halfway through. Plus, I’m OCD about getting... | | |
| 2:50am | ‘Ghost in the Shell’: What’s inside the Shell? Part 6. | | | | Welcome to final ‘Ghost in the Shell’: What’s inside the Shell? This time we skip three scenes which were not suitable for analysis, if you wish to though you could analyse these yourself and post them on here, and go stright to one of ‘Ghost in the Shell’s’ signature... | | |
| 5:37pm | NHK Witches: Welcome to the NHK Strike Witches Cameo |  | | | It seems several scenes in dissolute otaku anime Welcome to the NHK in fact harbour subtely placed tributes to Strike Witches (which of course at that time was still restricted to light novels). The cameos take the form of by now iconic witchy cover illustrations adorning backgrounds as posters. You... | | |
| 8:00pm | On plotting the perfect (anime) murder | | | | I’m a huge fan of mystery stories, which meant that I was overjoyed that there was not one but two murder-mystery series this season in the form of Chaos;Head and Mouryou no Hako. The likes of CSI and NCIS are good fun with their Hollywood sheen (the cool music, the SHADES OF JUSTICE and so on)... | | |
| 12:19pm | Anime/Manga News from October 2008 | | | | Director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell & The Sky Crawlers) has a couple of projects which will keep him busy through the Summer of 2009. The first project is a new theatrical stage adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28 manga. Oshii-san will be writing the script as well as making... | | |
| 1:00pm | This Week in Yuri - October 25, 2008 | | | | It's been very exciting this week - let's get right to the good stuff!Yuri MangaKodansha has announced that they are releasing three issues of their Morning 2 magazine online for free. You'll need to download their online reader, but it is also free. You'll see all sorts of news how this gets you Saint... | | |
| 9:15pm | Autumn ‘08 impressions: week 2 | | | | Another week and the last of my autumn anime impressions. Right now, it feels like this is an exciting time to be an anime fan. There is so much that’s actually worth watching at the moment that it really seems like every day I’m adding more and more to my back-log. Naturally, I’m... | | |
| 10:58pm | The score so far, and dorks and damsels | | | | Thumbs tentatively up: Kannagi — Hoping that Hideyuki Kurata writes consistently well this time. To Aru Majutsu no Index Thumbs emphatically down: Hakushaku to Yousei (Earl and Fairy) — There’s a vast literature about the collision of the human and faerie realms, from “Tam Lin”... | | |
| 1:12pm | Chaos Head 01 - Awesome Impressions | | | | Ok, so I am very confused here about the OP animation to this show. I had heard this was kind of like Higurashi from a friend but the OP features girls with swords flying around and an a emo looking main character. Lol what? - So, wow, what a strong first episode that just pulled me into the world... | | |
| 6:46am | First Look Fair: Chaos;Head |  | | | Fearof girls? Welcome to the NHK! meets Higurashi meets Perfect Blue–does it work? I think I’ll have to say yes, for now. What we have so far is a little bit like Satoshi Kon territory: a story about the blurring between reality and fantasy (delusional fantasy, in this case), and like in... | | |
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