| 5:42am | Sora no Manimani Episode 10 – Death Letter |  | | | After a little slowdown in the subs we have episode 10, a very character and drama centric episode. The students are busy with exams after a field trip (which I’m guessing was in the manga but left out of the anime), and once back in school Mihoshi and Souma-sensei are arranging what Hime and Edogawa... | | |
| 4:16pm | Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (End) |  | | | Chaos. It is always nice to be surprised by such a seemingly boring anime, which turns out to become one of the best shows of the summer season. Not to repeat myself on what I’ve said in my previous impressions of this anime, I’ll just focus a little... | | |
| 5:26am | A Week in Tokyo 45 |  | | | Going to try to do these as they were meant to be done - every week ^^; So much happens every week that the only way to keep track of my life is to take pictures. First photo taken last Thursday at the Good Smile Company offices - will cover that later on in this post. New daughter head compared to... | | |
| 1:30am | 115. Kamui Gaiden (New Movie Review) | | | | Hello, fellow Japanese movie fans. I have recently watched the new Kamui Gaiden film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and here are my thoughts on the film. As many movie-info websites can tell you, this was a big, $18million USD budget ninja fiction film based on a 1960s manga called Kamui.... | | |
| 12:24am | The Good, The Bad, and the Moe: Summer 2009 Anime Rankings | | | | 17 different shows from the summer ‘09 anime season, analyzed and ranked from the bottom up. Disclaimer: These rankings are purely a reflection of our own opinions and tastes, which are admittedly rather different from your average anime fan. Just because we don’t like a particular show... | | |
| 9:31pm | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 2-6: Back Rank Mate | | | | The witch claimed more and more victims. As the door of the Golden Land is about to open, unyielding wills are confronting Beatrice, but it is all vain. Until ______________________________ ______________________________ ________ After Gohda’s fall, Beatrice barges with her furniture... | | |
| 8:43pm | Editorial: Empires in Anime | | | | Empires in anime are a fairly common phenomenon, especially in science fiction series. Looking at Japan’s history with being an empire and encountering others, here’s a rather too long post about how I see history perhaps influencing anime in the portrayal of different kinds of empires. This editorial... | | |
| 8:03am | The Secret of Kells | | | | I got to see the wonderful Irish-Belgian-French co-production The Secret of Kells this evening. I'd been impressed by the trailer when I saw it a few months ago, and the film didn't disappoint. Kells stands right up there with the films of Michel Ocelot and The Triplets of Belleville in leading today's... | | |
| 4:55pm | Anime Review: Sgt. Frog (Season 1 Part 1) |  | | | Sgt. Keroro is a frog from outer space on a mission to invade Earth and enslave the human race. There’s a small problem - he’s a complete idiot. His plan for world domination is cut short when he is accidentally discovered by the Hinata family after hiding out in their household. The humans... | | |
| 7:03am | Explorer Woman Ray | | | | Another noteworthy OVA relic from the post-Akira period of 1989 to the early 90s is Explorer Woman Ray from 1989, which I just picked up out of curiosity. I'd seen it often on the shelves of video stores 15 years ago when I rented anime regularly, but the package failed to impress me, so I'd never seen... | | |
| 11:30pm | 57 Fall Anime -- story, staff, cast, trailer, pic | | | | There are more new shows this fall than in any season over the past few years. But I'm not sure the quality -- or at least the appeal to my taste -- will be that high. I don't see any shows I expect to be as good as the great shows of this past summer season, such as Aoi Hana and Bakemonogatari. But... | | |
| 12:10am | [PR] VIZ MEDIA SCIENCE FICTION IMPRINT HAIKASORU TO DEBUT NEW NOVELS | | | | VIZ MEDIA SCIENCE FICTION IMPRINT HAIKASORU TO DEBUT NEW NOVELS ZOO AND USURPER OF THE SUN New Books Debut In September And Push The Boundaries Of Japanese Science Fiction San Francisco, CA, September 14, 2009– VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative... | | |
| 3:08pm | Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3: The Journey – Review |  | | | Yep, I have spent a good number of hours into Persona 3 and am now ready to do my review on this series. Questions that must be asked by myself are “Was it a good investment of my time?”, “Was it worth the stress hunting for it”, “Does it keep the standard I got from Persona... | | |
| 2:42pm | Cross Game - 24 | | | | I’d like again to hijack this post for a bit to post up some impressions of the past half year of anime. Now that most of the series of the past Spring and Summer Season are about to end, it’s time to reflect on them again, and how they matched up to previous years. My general impression... | | |
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