| 10:06am | July Summary | | | | I must say, that we’ve got ourselves an awesome Summer Season here. Sure, there aren’t many series, but a significant majority of the new series succeed at what they intend to do. There may not be a lot of shows with awesome and ambitious story-lines, but in terms of slice of life and characterization,... | | |
| 5:05am | Chiptune | | | | Something I've always liked in animation is the notion of restrictions. Animation itself seems to impose certain inherent restrictions. Sometimes, more interesting results can be achieved when a set of restrictions are imposed. For example, the way Norman McLaren made a film entirely out of vertical... | | |
| 12:15am | Yakk! Deculture: A Close Encounter with Macross Frontier | | | | I discovered anime blogs only very recently. How recently? Spring 2008. I apparently missed out on the heyday of anime blogging where significant events and shows (that still have influence over current opinion) were written about and discussed. While I don’t deny this particular feeling of... | | |
| 3:00pm | L'Ange | | | | Patrick Bokanowski's L'Ange is one of the great masterpieces of filmmaking of the last half century. If Oscars were given out for experimental films, it would surely have taken the award in 1982, when after 5 years of filming and editing Patrick finally unleashed this magisterial visual feast upon... | | |
| 3:09am | Phantom -Requiem for the Phantom- 17 |  | | | Summary: Cal stay up fixing a broken VHS unit, and when Reiji tells her to just buy a new one, she symbolically states that the unit can totally be refurbished (and sold to some unsuspecting schmuck). Reiji tries to formulate a plan to get himself and Cal away from Inferno, but when Lizzie arrives... | | |
| 1:44am | Hold On To Your Sanity, It’s the Happy Science Platform | | | | Here’s the sequel to my original post about the Happiness Realization Party, in which I discuss their amazing party platform. This article has zero relevance to anime, but after the original story was posted to MetaFilter I feel like this blog is the best place to put it. I’ll make it up... | | |
| 10:57pm | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-4: 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 | The Skull Man - Episode Four |  | | | This episode of the Skull Man starts off on an interesting note with Kiriko and Hayato going back to the orphanage/church, where Hayato talks to Kanzaki about Sayo. I thought the scene where Kiriko is playing sumo wrestling with the kids of the orphanage was funny, as this scene shows that Kiriko is... | | |
| 7:01am | Review: Ponyo (Dub) - 88% |  | | | Scores Animation: 90% Music: 95% Voice Acting (dub): 85% Story: 89% Overall: 88% See explanation of scores below. Ponyo is Hayao Miyazaki’s most joyous film since Porco Rosso, and the purest evocation of childhood he’s done since My Neighbor Totoro. After flirting with darker and more surreal... | | |
| 4:02pm | Phantom -Requiem for the Phantom- 16 | | | | Summary: Claudia calms everyone down by taking Lizzie’s pistol and one-shotting Isaac. She blames the whole thing on Isaac, and Reiji drops the $5 million off at Isaac’s mansion. Along with the incredibly long reports that Claudia compiles, the Godo group is satisfied and Claudia takes... | | |
| 11:36pm | Tokyo Figure Show |  | | | image ID#27379Sorry to have kept you waiting - announcing the details of my first figure show - the Tokyo Figure Show. Details below copy pasted from the official site.WhyI've been collecting and writing about figures at dannychoo.com for quite a few years now and through working closely with the figure... | | |
| 10:16pm | Otakon 2009: Panels, Loot, Wrap | | | | I enjoy Otakon every year, but I always get the feeling at the end of each one that I’ve had a good run and might skip it from now on. I’ve been saying it for three years now, so I’ll probably be back. This here is my convention report, panels, loot, and jabber at the end. Didn’t... | | |
| 8:29am | Tears Fall Down and the Seeds of Love and Hurting | | | | No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no theres no limit! I’ve finally gotten round to watching Eps 10-13 of Asura Cryin’ and I pronounce myself well pleased with these 13 episodes and am very much looking forward to the next season. I suspect that my mileage on this series was quite good because... | | |
| 12:40am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-4: Blunder | | | | Another tragedy occured. The remaining survivors have barely the time to realize what’s going that another incident strikes them mercilessly. Forced to keep a defensive stance, Battler and the rest are sheltering themselves, but an unexpected event will plant the seed of discord among their group.... | | |
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