| 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... | | |
| 1:41am | Face Off 4: Ray and Mike Speculate on Chaos;Head |  | | | Mike: Is it just me, or is Taku’s viewpoint getting more and more closed by the minute? Basically, since we only see things from his viewpoint, it’s starting to feel increasingly unhinged and even claustrophobic and oppressive in a way—like you feel like you’re trapped in his warped... | | |
| 10:42pm | Princess Tutu: 4.AKT Analysis | | | | Giselle ～Giselle～ The tale of Giselle is a sorrowful tale. A peasant man loves a beautiful peasant woman named Giselle, but a prince dressed as a peasant catches Giselle’s eye. When it’s reveal Giselle’s love is a prince, and already arranged to marry another, Giselle goes mad,... | | |
| 10:19pm | Funeral Games | | | | Axe-wielding men in dressy uniforms fighting amid neoclassical columns. Delicious. A month or so ago I finished Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It was very good. I’m going to stop myself from talking about how good it was. Perhaps Lelangir put it best when he wrote that ‘LoGH killed anime... | | |
| 1:27am | Studio 4c - Studio Studies Part Four | | | | Having discussed my favorites, I’d now like to go over the studio I have the most respect for, Studio 4c. It was founded by genius director Koji Morimoto and company president Eiko Tanaka, with whom you can read a great interview from Asian Cinema site Midnight Eye, in 1986. As mentioned in... | | |
| 7:10am | [Ascaloth] ef ~a tale of melodies~, Episode 4 | | | | When a mechanical metronome is wound to its fullest, it taps out regular beats at the pace which the pendulum weight is set at, and it can do so for a good amount of time. However, as with all clockwork mechanisms, the spring that powers the rhythm of the metronomic beat will gradually unwind; a time... | | |
| 6:22am | Run | | | | Bones is one of the most consistent studios active today in terms of maintaining a high standard of quality from one show to the next, and from one episode to the next. I can't say I'm always into the shows they produce (which is not to say they don't dedicate an equal amount to creating intricately... | | |
| 6:10am | October Summary | | | | Okay, so since this list already is huge for this month, I decided to omit the OVAs in this list, along with series that have already finished and belong to the previous season, like Chi’s Sweet Home and Wagaya no Oinarisama, in an attempt to keep this list a bit overviewable (although I do want... | | |
| 11:15pm | ‘Ghost in the Shell’: What’s inside the shell? Part 4. | | | | This week’s ‘Ghost in the Shell’: What’s inside the Shell critiques one of my favourite scenes from the film. This week we going diving with Kusanagi both in the computerised sense as well as to the bottom of the sea. The scene is a perfect scene and is a representation of the... | | |
| 1:11am | ChäoS;HEad, Episode 3 | | | | Yua revealed some shocking truth to Takumi, and the later is unable to figure “who is he”. Completely clueless to what’s true and false, Takumi will investigate himself, though another unexpected event will put even more pressure ______________________________ ______________________________... | | |
| 6:52pm | UFOTable - Studio Studies Part Two | | | | The greatest studio currently operating? Probably. UFOTable is, at least in the West, one of the lesser known production companies that has developed a hardcore cult following in the last few years. The company formed in 2000 and there is little information in English about the staff. From what information... | | |
| 3:48pm | [Animation Nation 2008] Let’s have a (Genius) Party | | | | 27 October saw me heading down to Fusionpolis to catch the screening of Studio 4℃’s Genius Party. Despite the rain and the out-of-the-way locations (it’s easy to get to from school, but troublesome to get there from anywhere else), the anthology of short films proved to be a delightful... | | |
| 2:24am | Chaos;HEAd, Episode #03 - Harem + Giant Swords = OHSHIAT! |  | | | When Harems Attack, Part III And just when Takki thought it was safe to leave the shipping container and bump elbows with the 3-Ds! Actually, Taku makes a surprisingly levelheaded decision for being such a doofus. He checks himself into the local hospital for a psychiatric examination. That’s... | | |
| 3:03am | Gundam 00 S2 - 04: Mr. Bushido to the Rescue! | | | | Finally ended his coffee break to kick take names and kick ass How dreadful are the curses which Mammonism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries like... | | |
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