| 6:16am | Fall 2008 Anime 2ch Popularity Ranking |  | | | A ranking of the number of 2ch threads started on new Fall 2008 late-night anime has been compiled and is presented here translated for your examination. As 2ch is the center point of otaku culture online, it should serve as a rough gauge of series’ popularity through word of mouth: Note:Only... | | |
| 3:08am | 39 New Winter Anime -- full previews: staff, cast, pic, story, trailer | | | | The winter season is usually the least exciting of the year, but there are always surprises. Last year, there were true tears and Spice & Wolf. Here are some of this year's possibilities, followed by a complete preview of almost all the new shows:-- Genji Monogatari Sennenki is a new anime based... | | |
| 3:27pm | December Summary | | | | For December, I decided to write my summary a bit earlier than usual, so that I can gather a bit more time to work on my 2008 Summary, where I list my highlights of the past year. Overall, this has been a very straightforward month without many big surprises: the series that I expected to do well did... | | |
| 8:16am | 3 More Seiyuu Announced for Umineko Anime | | | | As the title says, today on the official site along with design sketches for their respective roles, a few more voice actors and actresses were revealed to be involved in the Umineko no Naku Koro ni anime adaptation. Suzumura Kenichi (Ushiromiya George), Kugimiya Rie (Shanon) and Kobayashi Yuu (Kanon)... | | |
| 3:32am | Twelve Moments in Anime 2008 #2 - Nodame Cantabile | | | | There wasn’t a particular episode that stood out for me, but as a whole the series just proved to me that my prejudice against it was unjustified. Afraid of my childhood where i was forced to play piano, a show about pianos and music just didn’t have much appeal to me. But After the second... | | |
| 12:31am | Favorites of the week: Blog Posts | | | | Here we take a look around the sphere and talk about my favorite blog posts. This is not an objective “best-of” list because I obviously do not read all the blogs. Also some posts, even if written by my favorite bloggers, may be about anime or episodes I haven’t seen, or subjects I don’t understand.... | | |
| 11:21am | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 9 | | | | Oh sure, a mirror will show a reflection of Tanya’s figure with her legs open when she has her legs closed. J.C. Staff, you fail. So. Hard. Despite the glaring (if few) animation inconsistencies that I can’t help but pick on, I am actually as pleased with this episode as I was annoyed with... | | |
| 2:28pm | Nodame Cantabile - Paris Hen Review - 82,5/100 | | | | Well, it’s not fun to be harsh against a series that I originally fell in love with, but I have to be honest: The Paris Chapters of Nodame Cantabile are not as good as the original Nodame Cantabile series. It’s still a fun and engaging series, but in the end it didn’t live up to... | | |
| 7:15pm | Unfulfilled Expectations or a Drastic My Anime Blog 2008 Primer |  | | | By TheBigN So according to others, I was apparently supposed to be part of the “12 Days of Christmas” craze that’s sweeping the blogosphere, and I’m kinda confused on how that impression came to be. I’m planning on doing what I did last year with the “Impressions... | | |
| 8:48pm | 2008 Manga Sales Ranking | | | | Here we see the 2008 annual sales data for manga compilations (tankoubons), as compiled by Oricon: *1 1,678,208 ONE PIECE 50 *2 1,645,128 NANA －ナナ－ 19 *3 1,209,551 のだめカ タービレ 20 / Nodame Cantabile 20 *4 1,188,881 NARUTO－ナ ト－ 43 *5 1,081,575 鋼の錬金... | | |
| 11:27pm | Nodame Cantabile: Paris Sequel Scheduled For Fall 2009 | | | | Fans of the ongoing Nodame Cantabile: Paris anime series will be happy to know that the sequel has been given the green-light for production and is scheduled to be aired in Fall 2009. This piece of news will be announced in the January issue of Animage, which goes on sale today. Source: 2ch via ANN... | | |
| 4:38pm | Transientem on Nodame |  | | | Since the classical music is yucky, I rejected Nodame Cantabile when it first aired and only turned around when I was made to watch it. Transientem provides an opposing example. Despite being a very good series, this integration is one aspect that is lacking. Certainly there is no shortage of hysteria... | | |
| 9:15am | 「Nodame Cantabile」 theatrical feature announcement | | | | Biweekly Kiss magazine will announce tomorrow that Nodame Cantabile will be getting two theatrical anime releases right after the already announced third TV anime season. The first one will be released at the beginning of 2010, and the second one in the following Spring. EDIT: MOON PHASE later edited... | | |
| 7:02am | Classical music in motion | | | | Everyone has a reason for getting into a series, even if it can’t be articulated. For me, with respect to Nodame Cantabile, it was association. The conversation, if translated from the firings of neurons, probably went like this:“Dude, it’s a series about music. You’re a band... | | |
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