| 10:54pm | Summer 2009 Anime Impressions – Umi Monogatari (Sea Story) | | | | I’ll remind readers that as of last season, I started to hold off on doing anime impression posts until I saw at least a couple of episodes because I wanted a more accurate representation of the show and oftentimes one episode isn’t enough. This might put these posts a week or two behind other blogs... | | |
| 5:02pm | NYAFF Double Feature - I’m Your Toy, Your 20th Century Boy |  | | | Why do we care so much whenever our favorite novel, comic, or cartoon is adapted into a live-action movie? After all, we already have the original version right there in front of us, and we know that something in the story is going to be lost when squeezed into a 2-hour-long flick. So why do we care... | | |
| 4:37pm | Kabitzin’s June 2009 List |  | | | I didn't plan this, it just happened Oops, a little late this month, and I know I’ve been slacking on updates. After watching some of the new series this season, I’ve decided to cut back a bit on the series I’ll be blogging. I’ll be continuing with Valkyria Chronicles... | | |
| 12:00am | Tomino Yoshiyuki: Laughing Out Loud (LOLTOMINO in Gundam) | | | | [Spoilers for Mobile Suit Gundam, Turn A Gundam, and other works directed by Tomino] When I first tried watching the Mobile Suit Gundam Movie Trilogy, something really disturbed me. I’ve said this before, but I think it merits repeating for the sake of my subject in this post: In Soldiers of... | | |
| 7:05am | Top Seven Anime of the Spring 2009 Season | | | | The final part of my look at the best of the spring season is the countdown of the best titles of the season. This is always a difficult process since I enjoy so many different types of shows and there’s no clear-cut way of comparing a slice-of-life show to a shounen action show to a thought provoking... | | |
| 1:53am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-2: First Move | | | | The Ushiromiya family is finally reunited on Rokkenjima on the 4th october 1986. However, as the typhoon is engulfing the island, an harbringer is sealing this family meeting into madness and mystery. ______________________________ ______________________________ ___ During dinner, Rosa is trying... | | |
| 4:01pm | Phantom -Requiem for the Phantom- 14 | | | | Summary: Reiji goes back on his word and says the $5 million is not quite enough, so Cal will have to earn the rest as his assistant. The two have a fun shopping day, but Raymond wants to see some results and a goth-loli wardrobe won’t cut it. Lizzie suggests a SIG Sauer, and Reiji notices... | | |
| 4:16pm | Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 14 | | | | It’s Phantom episode 14, and Reiji has lots of things going on: training Cal, protecting the Godoh group, and putting up with Cal choosing clothes. Phantom tentatively asks Cal (who is a good cook by the way) if she wants to be his assistant, remembering back on how he told McGuire that he wanted... | | |
| 11:03am | Rozen Maiden Traumend - Guest Review | | | | This review is going to be different from usual. Solaris has written up an in-depth essay about the themes and characters of the Rozen Maiden series. There are quite a few spoilers though, and near the end there are also some manga-spoilers, so be careful with that. ———————————————... | | |
| 12:00am | Remembering Love as Homage in Anime: Eureka SeveN x Mobile Suit Gundam | | | | [This post is infested with spoilers] Paying homage in the context of a media work is the recreation of one work of fiction in the context of another, with the referencing done as an ‘inside joke’ or an ‘easter egg’ for those familiar with the referenced work. Often this is... | | |
| 10:21pm | June Web Stats | | | | 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! And see a review of stats for the first half of 2009 at the end! Percent change in ( ) is from May. Percent change in [ ] is from June... | | |
| 7:18am | Top Picks – Spring 2009 Anime, Part 3: VMA Awards | | | | The final set of awards before going to my top shows of the season cover the music, vocal actors, and animation aspects of this season’s anime. Or the three parts to anime that are heavily dependent on the preferences of the individual viewer. The reason I put these awards third is that in the... | | |
| 5:34am | Phantom -Requiem for the Phantom- 13 | | | | Summary: Cal thinks Reiji looks like a wimp, so Reiji arranges to have Lizzie pose as Phantom and meet Cal. Cal plans to stay with Reiji until then, but while Lizzie is chuckling on her cell phone about Reiji being bossed around by his own little lolita, Isaac and his muscle get the drop on Lizzie... | | |
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