| 2:09pm | 2008 in Review: The Only Moment They Were Alone |  | | | 2008 didn’t feel all that ‘anime’ for me. Honest. I think that the prolonged absence from my blog and the internet in general might have something to do with it, but I could be wrong. It was a Rip Van Winkle moment when I realised that, Code Geass aside, my peers were writing about... | | |
| 8:33am | The 14th Day of Christmas 2008 - found my music | | | | found my music - Some of the best themes of 2008 anime Part 14 in the 12 Moments in Anime Countdown Counting down a few of my favorite songs from anime in 2008; I can’t claim to be a music enthusiast in terms of knowing terminology, or knowing musical theory, but anime music does make up a large... | | |
| 12:14am | 2nd Day of Christmas - Stand Up For Your Otaku Woman |  | | | Today’s moment is brought to you by on of more interesting shows from the summer season, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, in which all of Haruka’s friends stand up to her father in defense of her fandom. A number of titles in recent years have either questioned, poked fun at, or even demonized... | | |
| 8:03am | 2D vs 3D: Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Seiyuu |  | | | The latest comparison of 2D vs 3D we can turn our attention to is shown here, comparing the 2D cast of recent secret otaku anime Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu to their 3D seiyuu counterparts, who obligingly pose in a similar fashion. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site... | | |
| 8:00am | Twelve Moments in Anime 2008 - #11: Haruka’s Secret 07 | | | | (Part of a 12-day series fondly remembering some of the best moments in anime this year. Participants include: lolikitsune, lelangir, Owen S, FuyuMaiden, IKnight, Zeroblade, Nazarielle, ghostlightning, TheBigN, ETERNAL, Mike, A Day Without Me, digitalboy, Josh, otou-san, Culchann and Pontifus, IcyStorm,... | | |
| 8:27am | Code Speed Anime Trance 5 Review |  | | | I just posted about this the other day. Didn’t take long, did it? I had some trouble finding the Caipirinha album but someone came through. Instead of reviewing that album I’m just going to upload the songs to youtube and you can just listen. I’ll throw in the UmaUma 3 ones I mentioned... | | |
| 3:07am | My Delusions As A Fanboy: Got Your (Scape)Goat Handy? |  | | | By TheBigN Despite me getting annoyed by the end of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (mainly just execution problems, and that might be another story), there are still plenty of moments that made me feel glad that I actually took time to watch the series. One specific moment came during episode 7, one... | | |
| 4:19am | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - Interesting start, but typical moeblob anime end | | | | View Poll Whoa, it is already November and I am just finishing my first anime of the semester. Well, I guess it can be forgiven since I doing a lot more fun and interesting stuff here in Japan. Anyway, I really hate having these kinds of shows where you watch about half way where it has some pretty... | | |
| 12:44pm | Chaos;HEAd, Episode #02 - “Shogun” |  | | | Zero to moe in six seconds flat. C;H #01 made it clear that (o)Taku suffers from serious delusions — there’s no doubt about that. What remains unclear is when we are being shown another delusion and when we are being craftily fed the truth. There was some speculation that the murder scene... | | |
| 8:36pm | Out with the old anime, in with the New | | | | FINISHED! * Allison and Lilia - solid B+ adventure * Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - brought out my inner fangirl; late-game cockblocking was a little annoying, but in line with the show’s general demeanor * Itazura na Kiss - This got dull, but I finished it anyway. Needed morelulz. * Special A... | | |
| 2:01am | Chaos;Head - 02 |  | | | Despite what it may look like, this show isn’t anything remotely close to being like Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu. Chaos;Head is a good name for this show because it shows the chaos constantly going in Takumi’s head. It’s hard for us as a viewer to understand wtf is going (excluding... | | |
| 10:40pm | Toradora! Episode 2 & 3 | | | | Gomen, gomen! I’ve been neglecting this blog lately, but I’m really busy with Uni and Japanese lessons right now and I barely have time to sit down, watch some anime and blog about it. I’m trying to catch up (I finished Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, so I’ll write a review as soon... | | |
| 10:50am | Nogizaka Haruka - Welcome to the list | | | | View Poll Welcome to my favorite female list Haruka! Only four episodes into Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and I already love Haruka a lot. She is such a typical moeblob and such a wish fulfillment female character, but really that is why I like her. Haha. I mean where Konata from Lucky Star fails, Haruka... | | |
| 12:58am | 2008 Anime DVD Sales Ranking | | | | Here we have the rather interesting DVD sales ranking for 2008 anime, in this case focused on the first volume as a proxy for total popularity. There are a number of interesting results within the list, but the top and bottom are likely not surprising. These numbers are the number of DVDs sold over... | | |
| 5:36pm | WANTED - Spring/Summer anime recommendations | | | | This must be the nuclear winter of my anime passion. Since embarking on new employment in March, time has become such a precious commodity that I’ve only managed to complete 2 series from the Spring and Summer broadcasts - Code Geass R2 and DCIISS (both of which I enjoyed tremendously.) Of course,... | | |
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