| 12:00am | Weaboo vs. Japanese: two worlds collide | | | | This post concerns my curiosity about the beingness of an otaku. I’ve comfortably referred to myself as such over the past 4 years, ever since I went nuts over Evangelion. I realize that I’ve never really gotten how extreme this kind of geekness is, or what kind of impression it makes on... | | |
| 7:32pm | Anime Vice Check-in 12/07/08 | | | | Wow, I kinda figured I’d do this every weekday for a week, and I’m already behind! Here’s what’s goin’ on on the new site: Friday 12/05 - Shin-chan to Dance Naked in Theaters in April - Friday is Listurday 12/05/08 (a new weekly feature!) - Delicious Shugo Chara-chan, Must... | | |
| 4:43am | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 8 | | | | Well played, J.C. Staff, you managed to troll me by inserting The Sorcerer’s Apprentice into the episode right after the one where I lamented the absence of it. In any case, just like the eponymous apprentice, Chiaki realizes that he’s become overconfident of his own abilities, and the washout... | | |
| 1:19pm | November Summary | | | | I must say that the current Autumn-season has been a really good one so far. There are lots of promising and charming titles, with a wide variety of different styles. #25 (32) - To Aru Majutsu no Index - (7,5/10) - I originally dropped this series, but after I found out that it was going to be 25 episodes,... | | |
| 5:54pm | Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter Leçon 2 | | | | Whoa! Yet another very late review (blame procrastination for that). But never mind that, given that I’m having my semester break now, I have lots to catch up. First up, Nodame Cantabile Paris!Synopsis: Nodame joins Frank to his hometown to celebrate an anime festival while Chiaki sets out his... | | |
| 1:50pm | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 7 | | | | When a new female character of some significance enters the plot, and threatens to pose some serious competition to the female lead in matters of romance, what is a guy to do to avoid the Harem Male Lead label that befalls so many unassuming male characters? Why, snub the both of them to concentrate... | | |
| 3:55am | Nodame Cantabile: Paris Chapter: Nodame “MUKYA” Kick | | | | Nodame is full of surprises. Or else, this is just the power of love. At any rate, Nodame spin-kick was amazing. I wasn’t quite aware how I’d missed the classical-music antics of Nodame and Chiaki until I started up the second season last night (after a suitably moving re-watching of Toki... | | |
| 9:25pm | Nodame Cantabile Paris-hen #03-06: Redemption | | | | If you were not aware of it, I had frowned upon the pacing of the 2nd episode of Nodame Cantabile Paris-hen and was pondering over whether the show itself was worth an episodic blog treatment. Surely I would still watch the show for my love of classical music and Nodame’s antics, but whether... | | |
| 8:11pm | Nodame Paris 06 |  | | | Ascaloth of RIUVA asked in passing what has happened to blogging Nodame Cantabile ~Paris-hen~ at Ani-nouto. The answer is, lack of interest happened. Although the ep.06 was rather strong by the standards of Paris-hen, and I enjoyed Chiyaki going undercover, the sequel is just not measuring up to the... | | |
| 2:49pm | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 6 | | | | At the beginning of the Nodame Cantabile story, Chiaki Shinichi started off as a piano major in a Japanese conservatory, only managing to become the conducting student of a Maestro through a combination of hard work and luck. Much has happened since then, and in that time, Chiaki has come very far indeed.or... | | |
| 3:39pm | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 5 | | | | The question of Chiaki’s apparently absent father is something that has not been touched on in very much detail in the first season of Nodame Cantabile, and it is only in the Paris Arc that this particular thread of the guy’s character development really starts getting fleshed out in greater... | | |
| 1:35pm | One Year Later, A Genshiken Review | | | | It might seem a bit too dramatic for me to say that Genshiken changed my life, but as I look at the influence that Genshiken has had upon me, including but not limited to the very existence of this blog, I have to say it isn’t an exaggeration. To celebrate the one year anniversary of Ogiue Maniax,... | | |
| 3:36am | Upcoming Exit Trance Albums |  | | | 【ニコニコ動画】ぷん ちきぱやっぱーヾ(ﾟ ﾟ)ﾉ♪～トラック1～ Ah, when did it come to me blogging over such things? Well, forget that. There are two upcoming Exit Trance albums that might be relevant to the interests of some people here (in case you didn’t know, I’m... | | |
| 12:38am | What I watched recently | | | | Chaos;Head – 06 Paranoia layered upon more paranoia; the plot thickens. Who is a friend and who is a foe? Who can Taku really trust? What is real and what is a delusion? Is there more than one reality? Rimi seems to way too sweet, and Taku’s sudden need to be close to her seems like... | | |
| 1:06am | What I watched recently | | | | Clannad After Story – 03 Nothing but a web of lies, eh? First the fake girlfriend, and now Okazaki as the fake brother. I’m looking forward to his showdown with Sunohara next episode. It’s nice to have a little break from the usual “Okazaki messing with the twit Sunohara just... | | |
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