| 4:00pm | Review: Hatsukoi Limited (78%) |  | | | Animation: 85% Sound/Music: 75% Voice Acting: 80% Story: 75% Overall: 78% See explanation of scores here. Hatsukoi Limited is a best-of-breed shounen fanservice comedy, with enough emotional sincerity and empathy to make it better than the average show of its type. This is no surprise, of course,... | | |
| 3:59am | Phantom -Requiem for the Phantom- 19 |  | | | Summary: It’s recap episode time. We get to see Cal donning a crappy maid outfit and cleaning Reiji’s disgusting table. Cal still thinks that $5 million is not quite enough to pay for Phantom; I guess she doesn’t have enough for the service fee. Cal and Reiji talk about their... | | |
| 6:02am | Phantom -Requiem for the Phantom- 18 | | | | Summary: Reiji kills the Inferno bombers, and then flops in the alley until Claudia calls him up to ask him to meet her at the 39th Drive Inn. Instead, Lizzie meets Claudia whom she has been ordered to kill, while Reiji heads back to his old training facility, where he knows that Ellen will be waiting... | | |
| 9:00am | [Ascaloth] Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (2009), Episode 19: Endless Eight | | | | The Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody of three weeks ago was but a teaser to whet appetites, but this week the God Empress Herself makes an emphatic return. And how! It has been three years since the first season burst out from obscurity to capture the imagination of an entire generation of otaku, and things have... | | |
| 6:27am | Crusher Joe | | | | One of the classics of the 80s I never got to see back in the early days was Crusher Joe. I've been curious about it for a long time, and finally got the chance to watch the movie from 1983 and the two OVAs from 1989 today. They're both very different but very nice in their own ways, and are a time... | | |
| 4:39pm | Figure Fun+: Reunion | | | | Click picture for bigger size! Ok brought you in for 3 months and you’ve gain an attitude, huh? Good going, you’ve struck the right note there. “Almost there, you guys will be out soon!” Yup, its been left in the pile for quite a bit. Had to open it sooner or later so I decided... | | |
| 6:58am | Taku Furukawa | | | | A while back I mentioned that Anido was working on the English version of their web shop. Well, it's up now, and there are a number of items of interest on there, so I thought I would talk about one of them today. I bought the Taku Furukawa DVD a few months back but just got around to watching it yesterday.... | | |
| 12:14am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-5: Analysis, Thoughts and Random Comments | | | | [Disclaimer]: This entry might contain MINOR spoilers. However, while the analysis might push you to these minor spoilers, NO foretelling spoiler is present. Therefore, please follow the same guideline, and understand that any spoiler can just ruin this critical part of the story for any reader. ... | | |
| 12:14am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-5: Analysis, Thoughts and Random Comments | | | | [Disclaimer]: This entry might contain MINOR spoilers. However, while the analysis might push you to these minor spoilers, NO foretelling spoiler is present. Therefore, please follow the same guideline, and understand that any spoiler can just ruin this critical part of the story for any reader. ... | | |
| 10:25pm | Spring Anime -- 2channel vs. TV Ratings vs. AnimeSuki | | | | It was interesting to see the differences in popularity for summer shows among 2channel, TV ratings, and AnimeSuki. So I thought I'd look at spring shows. Particularly the ones that are still on.Fuller lists of figures are below, but Suzumiya Haruhi is the biggest topic of conversation on AnimeSuki,... | | |
| 4:32pm | Web Stats for July 2009 | | | | Here it is again…the post no one but I and a few other people in the known universe care about…the web stats post! Get all the numeric goodness below the fold! Percent change in ( ) is from June. Percent change in [ ] is from July 2008. Visits: 21,589 (+20.4%) [+68.0%] Page Views: 34,101 (+15.0%)... | | |
| 1:34pm | Bandai and the Marketing Blitz of Kannagi |  | | | When the Japanese company Aniplex held an industry panel at Anime Boston last May, their emphasis on the unlicensed series Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens baffled the audience and bloggers. “Why are they spending so much time talking about Kannagi?” “The show’s still unlicensed,... | | |
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