| 5:30pm | Ongoing Investigations: Case #202 | | | | I checked out the new WSJ USA title World Trigger. In it our world has come in contact with another dimension which spills out monsters (known as “neighbors”) who begin wreaking havoc. But an organization named Border suddenly appears with the technology to fight them claiming they’ve... | | |
| 8:53pm | Summer 2012 Anime: full previews w/story, trailer, staff, cast, etc. | | | | Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta KoiAfter an amazing spring season, even the summer "off-season" looks pretty good. Some highlights:Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi -- Romantic stories loosely based on the lives and poetry of the great Japanese poets and poetesses of a thousand years ago. This is right up... | | |
| 7:24am | Music, love and opening a door that never closes: Kids on the Slope | | | | I’ve been thinking of the best way to write this post for a while now. Kids on the Slope is one of the best animes I’ve seen so far, and so far, perhaps my favorite romance anime to date. In retrospect, I wish I’d blogged about it episodically, but I was late to the ball.When in doubt, act first,... | | |
| 1:00pm | Nodame Cantabile: Bloom | | | | “Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A rainy day is a good place to start this episode. Water is so fundamental yet powerful with regards to life. “April showers, bring May flowers,” but in more traditional... | | |
| 11:00pm | Day 1: Nodame Cantabile, or rediscovering my Bach | | | | My ultimate goal is to play a piano/violin concerto with myself #sempersolusOn the first day of Christmas my true love gave to meA piano concerto. I was never really good at playing the piano. Throughout elementary and middle school I didn’t practise all that much. I never felt the urge to and... | | |
| 7:01am | Review: Seitokai Yakuindomo (生徒会役員共) TV + OVA | | | | The one-winged fallen angel a.k.a. the main male protagonist and one of the best characters in this anime. The second review for this month is yet another of last year’s series titled Seitokai Yakuindomo. Unlike the previous anime reviewed here that also comes out last year, this anime sure has... | | |
| 7:04pm | Review: Yumekui Merry (夢喰いメリー) | | | | The main male protagonist. The audition to choose the inaugural winner of the ‘Anime of the Year 2011’ title continued with the review of Yumekui Merry, the seventh title in the audition. It has a beach episode in it, therefore the question is can this anime challenge the best ever beach... | | |
| 5:23am | Summer 2011 Anime -- Full Previews of All the New Series | | | | We have 26 new series this summer, up from 21 last summer and 22 the summer before. Trends? Four shows involving vampires, and lots of moe.I'm not sure we'll get shows as good as Shiki (summer 2010) or Bakemonogatari, Aoi Hana, and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (summer 2009). But there are some good possibilities:●... | | |
| 3:25am | Nodame Cantabile: Intermission | | | | I’ve been writing about Nodame Cantabile episode 3 so long that I’m somewhere in the belief that I’ve been writing about episode 4. Episode 3 is Sakura’s episode, and I feel the issues is that my initial tactic was to dismiss Sakura’s story as mostly trivial. This is hardly... | | |
| 12:25pm | Bakuman | | | | Title: Bakuman Genre: Drama/Romance Company: J.C. Staff Format: 25 episodes Dates: 2 Oct 2010 - 2 Apr 2011 Synopsis: Ever since the death of his mangaka uncle, Mashiro Moritaka has been drifting through life, with no clear goal for his future. A talented artist, Mashiro spends his days fantasizing about... | | |
| 12:14pm | [Cosplay] Nodame Cantabile -Part 2- | | | | Even though there are so much concern, we’ve got back our daily lives. Trains work, and delivery is okay. Food is still late, but not so much. The only thing we are scared of is the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. Having said that, more and more people refrain from having fun in consideration... | | |
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