| 8:05am | Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - 53 | | | | Apologies for the lateness, but I’ve been quite buy for the past week. Still wow. Just wow. I don’t think that I’ve ever watched an OVA that contributed as much to its original series as Higurashi Rei (the only one that comes close is the Rurouni Kenshin OVA). This is really why... | | |
| 11:19am | Nodame Cantabile: Paris-hen | | | | Nodame and Chiaki may have been cream of the crop in Japan, but now they’re both moving to Paris, where the standards are higher and mistakes are less easily forgiven. Whilst Nodame must cope with the dual tasks of learning French and adapting to the disciplined curriculum at the Conservatoire, Chiaki... | | |
| 6:50pm | Spring '09 Previews | | | | There are several interesting facts about this spring season. First with the exception of FMA, Hayate and Polyphonica, all other series are new. Another noteworthy fact is that all series are adaptions from manga, novels or games with Eden and Basquash as the only exceptions! As for my expectations ... | | |
| 6:46pm | Nodame Cantabile OVA Scheduled For Summer | | | | A Nodame Cantabile OVA is scheduled to be released together with the limited edition Volume 22 of the manga.The limited edition bundle will be release on 10 August and will be retailing for 3,500 yen.Source: | | |
| 1:27am | December 2008 News Highlights | | | | On December 9, Bandai Namco Games released a variant of a karaoke machine using its Afrec! technology. Instead of having fans add their voices to music, Afrec! allows fans to voice over anime segments. The machine was released under the Joysound label. The process for the seiyuu wannabe has three... | | |
| 10:44pm | Winter anime 2008/9 | | | | I’ve been enjoying Toradora!, Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter, Eve no Jikan, and Kannagi. Sampled some others which I didn’t pursue. Kannagi is another boy-meets-magical-girl anime. That said, it’s a delightful series. The hero carves a figure of a girl out of an old tree-trunk which... | | |
| 6:45am | Anime Inbou Awards 2008, pt. 3 ~ music |  | | | Third round and this time, it’s all about the music. You can have anime with voices, but once you cue the music at the right time, you get some pretty amazing results. Kudos to all the composers and arrangers, and the vocalists for all their hard work! Firstly, we’d like to get our Top... | | |
| 5:35pm | 2008 Was So-So | | | | In terms of the anime year, the anime released for 2008 was subpar. It does not compare to the ever excellent 2007, simply one year ago! As per usual, Anime-Source is planning the end of the year survey. I’ve been brainstorming on what I might select, but from all possible titles, he “best”... | | |
| 11:15pm | Anime Inbou Awards 2008, pt. 1 ~ genre | | | | Every year, fresh from the Land of the Rising Sun, an overflow of anime in all directions surges out, and we, as technophiles, catch those torrents. In the year of 2008, there was quite many hits and misses. There’s no in-betweens, no so-sos, no kindas, sortas, or littles. Well maybe but I’d... | | |
| 3:23am | Our best of 2008 - Top 10 Animes |  | | | our best of 2008 - top 10 animes 2008 is over and we feel we need to do some justice on the animes we love for the year. Hence, we come up with a top10 list for our favorite animes. What was your favorite top 10 animes for 2008 ? Do share with us! 10) Vampire Knight An anime of “gentle”... | | |
| 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)... | | |
| 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... | | |
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