| 4:07pm | Nodame Cantabile Live-Action Movie Trailer Released |  | | | Yet another popular anime is receiving a movie adaptation, this time classical music comedy Nodame Cantabile; the trailer shows what to expect: The series, which was adapted from the hugely popular shoujo manga by Ninomiya Tomoko centers around two highly contrasting characters, Noda Megumi and Chiaki... | | |
| 1:07pm | Nodame Cantabile Movie Trailers Available |  | | | The full trailer for the two upcoming “Nodame Cantabile” movies which up where the popular Fuji TV drama series left off is now available. The movies’ filming take place in various countries spanning from Japan, France, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, and Austria. Part 1 will be launched in Japan... | | |
| 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,... | | |
| 2:00am | Sora no Manimani 4 - Starcross’d | | | | Is this the hinge episode, where all anime comedies start transitioning to becoming More Serious? Sora no Manimani is this season’s sleeper show. Aside from a burst of initial fangirling, there hasn’t been much written about it on the blogosphere; for the most part, it’s because the... | | |
| 6:33am | Nodame Cantabile Paris 04 | | | | Summary: Shinichi returns a shockingly clean apartment and a Grave of the Fireflies Nodame; she is miserable after her terrible sightreading class, being laughed at by a French shota and being asked why is she here by Charles. Shinichi realizes Nodame is jealous of Rui when she plays Etudes and tries... | | |
| 6:33am | Nodame Cantabile Paris 04 | | | | Summary: Shinichi returns a shockingly clean apartment and a Grave of the Fireflies Nodame; she is miserable after her terrible sightreading class, being laughed at by a French shota and being asked why is she here by Charles. Shinichi realizes Nodame is jealous of Rui when she plays Etudes and tries... | | |
| 12:56pm | Aoi Hana - 05 | | | | Oh, I so love how this series managed to bring its characters to life. The non-verbal communication between the characters says much more than what the dialogue can even hope for and the creators manage to do this with a lot of subtlety. It really gives all of the characters complex stories, rather... | | |
| 7:08am | Nodame Cantabile Paris 03 | | | | Summary: Stresemann accosts Nodame on the streets of Paris and she takes him back to her apartment for a status report. Kidnapped by Oliver, Shinichi is forced by Elise forces him to sign on with her firm. Shinichi finds Nodame and Stresemann at a Japanese-style club but the boys soon depart for a... | | |
| 3:02am | Sora no Manimani Episode 01 – For it is written in the stars. |  | | | Sora no Manimani: a series combining some real astronomy with a romantic comedy story that reminds me a bit of Nodame Cantabile. Being enamored of space and astronomy for as long as I can remember (a Golden Book about the planets was one of my favorite books when I was 3 or 4 years old) I couldn’t... | | |
| 4:53pm | Nodame Cantabile Paris 02 | | | | Summary: Shinichi enters the harsh and challenging Platini conducting competition and Nodame happens to be in the same town with Frank for an anime festival. He meets fellow competitors Katahira Hajime and Jean Donnadieu; the latter is proclaimed by harpy girlfriend Yuuko to be Vieira’s most... | | |
| 4:18pm | Chiaki’s “Onani Play” Criticism | | | | For those of you who have watched or read Nodame Cantabile, do you remember when Chiaki criticised Mine, that punky rocker violinist, regarding the way he plays? Chiaki used the words “Onani play”, which translates to masturbation play. In other words, self pleasure. I still remember how... | | |
| 1:09am | Nodame Cantabile Paris 01 | | | | Summary: Shinichi and Nodame arrive in Paris and move into neighbouring apartments in a block owned by Shinichi’s mom, Seiko. Nodame plays Ravel’s Mirrors, drawing in the neighbours, Tanya and Frank. The latter met Nodame at the one of the entrance exams and tries to pick her up (again)... | | |
| 7:00pm | Nodame Cantabile 23-24 and Series Review | | | | Haremettes attack from the front and rear First off, Ep 24 wasn’t the final episode but should have been before Ep 9 instead. A funny piece, based on Ch 21, about Nodame, Chiaki, Mine and Masumi’s trip to the sea prior to the Nagano festival – the main ‘plot’ point being... | | |
| 8:04am | Nodame Cantabile 19-22 | | | | Gives you crabs? Pressed for time and lots to catch up on so just some brief points from last week’s Animax Asia broadcast. Screencaps from Memento. Ep 19:Hypnosis was a bit convenient but was made palatable by how it was foreshadowed in Ep 14 during the visit back to Uncle Take’s house and... | | |
| 7:19am | The long road to Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou | | | | All anime roads take me home / to the place, where I belong / Evangelion, Ayanami Rei / Take me, anime roads~ I vaguely remember that how hearing Bach’s Air on a String, Pachelbel’s Canon in D, Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B minor on the Evangelion OSTs (particularly Death and Rebirth)... | | |
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