| 8:12pm | Kodansha goes west!! | | | | Well, the rumours that have been circulating for a while turned out to be true. Kodansha has come to America, and is scheduled to start releasing in September, though no titles have been announced yet. Brigid over at MangaBlog was where I first read of it, and some of the comments made by others got... | | |
| 12:54pm | Nodame Cantabile (Live-Action Drama): Gyabo~~! Inspiring! | | | | Let us cry. I finished the Live-Action Drama version of Nodame Cantabile a while ago (a few hours, actually), and I didn’t realize that this series also fell under the “shoujo” catergory after stumbling across Wikipedia (midnightrose’s favourite site). So I might have said that... | | |
| 1:54am | animenext 2008 day 1 |  | | | Yeah, that sucked. Then again, cons suck and anime sucks. Well, maybe the former much more than the latter, but I was tempted to respond in kind when we were waiting on the prereg line and the ganguro behind us said to someone who wanted to take her picture, “I hate anime! I’m just dressed... | | |
| 9:04pm | Anext08: Del Rey Liveblog | | | | Well, they’re $10/hr and slow, but I HAS INTERNETS. So! We have Dallas Middaugh, associate publisher at Del Rey Manga. He mentions again that he doesn’t have any new announcements and will mostly be talking about getting published and the like, and he opens up for questions right away. Someone... | | |
| 9:55am | The Daily Dose |  | | | The third Bleach movie will premiere in December.The Slayers Revolution website has updated with a cast list (the main voice actors are still the same as always) and airdates.The first episode of the mobile phone anime Chocolate Underground will be available this Thursday, June 12th.The production blog... | | |
| 9:55am | The Daily Dose |  | | | The third Bleach movie will premiere in December.The Slayers Revolution website has updated with a cast list (the main voice actors are still the same as always) and airdates.The first episode of the mobile phone anime Chocolate Underground will be available this Thursday, June 12th.The production blog... | | |
| 8:17pm | Nodame Cantabile is mega-awesome |  | | | I remember when I first started watching the anime version of Nodame Cantabile and had these skyhigh expectations on the show for some reason. I hadn’t heard of the manga at the time and didn’t know anything about the characters but I had visions of a story filled with sweet romance and... | | |
| 11:40am | Weekly Round-Up: May 30th | | | | Reviewed this week: Chi’s Sweet Home 29-32, Himitsu 4, Itazura na Kiss 8, Kaiba 5, Kurenai 8, Persona Trinity Soul 10, Real Drive 5, Shion no Ou 20, Toshokan Sensou 7…and in manga: Minami-ke 23-8, Nodame Cantabile 114-9, Potemayo 1-8, Tennai 32-3, Tsubasa Chronicle 190ANIMECURRENT SERIES RANKINGSChi’s... | | |
| 1:43pm | and now an actual comparison of the nodame cantabile manga |  | | | After writing my post on sound in Nodame Cantabile, I managed to find the scans of the Rachmaninov concert. My guess was basically correct, but with a few important manga-specific points that I had missed since I wasn’t actually reading the manga. Here’s the series of pages for the first... | | |
| 2:21pm | an unfounded conclusion on sound in nodame cantabile |  | | | I’m going to make a statement that I can’t really back up: the anime of Nodame Cantabile is much better than the manga. The reason that I can’t back this up is because I haven’t read a page of the manga. I do know that the manga is a critical and popular success, but the manga... | | |
| 9:13pm | the ipod as prosthesis |  | | | It’s time again for another entry of “copy and paste a paper and call it a blog post”, but this time I’m not doing it as a joke. bateszi said: Don’t you find it difficult to “get into” an episode of anime by watching it in public? I don’t think I could ever focus enough... | | |
| 6:45pm | Follow-up on “What Ivy League school students seemingly learn about manga” | | | | Dear Matt, first of all, I feel unable to express my gratitude for replying to my criticism. You even managed to surpass the length of my posting by 200 words, and it goes without saying that you addressed many interesting points that I could never possibly have in the one hour of lunch break I spent... | | |
| 6:45am | Kimikiss - Final Impressions | | | | What was broken with Kimikiss? Kouichi’s entire storyline. Going into Kimikiss I had no expectations. Even while it was airing I avoided pretty much any mubling about it because I knew that I was going to plow through it once it was completed. In a sense I was watching it for the first time like... | | |
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