| 5:05am | Taishou Yakyuu Musume begins |  | | | I was sold on the show after watching the musical insert. It’s like the best parts of Oh Edo Rocket, Sakura Wars, and Abenobashi, backed up by the most amazing animation in the season and led by a transplant from Bamboo Blade. She is even reluctant to participate! I don’t even khow what... | | |
| 1:33pm | 251 | | | | All the pictures from Anime Festival Wichita are up now. Update: here they are in video form: Click here to view the embedded video. The music is from the Oh! Edo Rocket OST. ***** Is there anything that doesn’t come in a Hello Kitty version? (Via Dustbury.) ***** Large green ducks. There’s... | | |
| 9:17pm | Call for nominations II | | | | The next poll will probably be anime soundtracks: which is the best? There are the obvious candidates: Noir, Haibane Renmei, nearly everything by Yoko Kanno; and some less-obvious ones: Denno Coil, Oh! Edo Rocket, Mushishi. What other examples are worth considering? Please leave your nominations in... | | |
| 12:55am | Recent arrivals | | | | I don’t watch as much anime as I used to, but I expect that I will always retain some interest in the art form. Now that my financial situation has improved from nightmarish to merely frightening, I can budget some occasional purchases. Noein and the first seasons of Slayers and Ah! My Goddess... | | |
| 12:54am | Spies like who? | | | | Tenten and Tenhou at an embarrassing moment A friend and I are planning to attend Costume-Con 28 next year, and we need to start working on our costumes soon. The theme is “spies.” I’m too tall for Boris and she’s too short for Natasha, and I’m not particulary interested... | | |
| 9:54pm | 48 Spring Anime -- full previews: story, trailer, cast, staff, pic | | | | These may be difficult times in the anime industry, but you couldn't tell it from the number of anime being produced. Forty-eight titles come out this spring -- series and OVAs -- about the same number as last spring.But quantity doesn't necessarily imply quality. Nothing here seems like an instant classic.... | | |
| 3:58pm | Call for nominations | | | | The classic list of anime babes is a bit outdated. I think the most recent woman mentioned there is Faye Valentine. There’s no mention of such memorable characters as Lyar Von Ertiana from Divergence Eve/Misaki Chronicles, or Lafiel and Lexshue from Crest/Banner of the Stars, or Yoko from Gurren-Lagann.... | | |
| 6:03pm | Funi’s Licensing Spree: What They Got, And What They Seem To Have Missed |  | | | Funimation had been seriously hyping up their New Year’s “New Show A-Go-Go” licensing announcement spree. They left clues hidden around their website for us to decipher, and promised a new show announcement every day for 10 days up until New Year’s Eve (starting on 12/22). Turned... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 7:13am | Funimation’s New Show A-Go-Go Day 6: Oh! Edo Rocket | | | | It’s Day 6 of Funimation’s 10 day New Show A-Go-Go announcement spree, and we get our second brand new show announcement in Oh! Edo Rocket. Oh! Edo Rocket is a 26 episode series which aired in 2007. ANN’s description of the series is this:In Edo during the mid-1800’s, fireworks... | | |
| 6:01pm | Funimation’s New Show A-Go-Go Day 3: Vandread | | | | Another day, another Geneon rescue of another GONZO title for Funimation. As hinted and expected, Funimation continues their GONZO sweep as they pick up their 2nd (actually, technically 2nd and 3rd) GONZO series up from Geneon (Vandread actually showed as two-half season shows). As with the previous... | | |
| 7:21pm | Funi’s upcoming licenses | | | | Running out the door, cannot miss the hint-decoding post at Astronerdboy (via). Funi’s hints are incomparably better than the useless hints that The Dark Lord used to post. Unfortunately, the only title I personally look forward to in the set is Oh Edo Rocket. At the very minimum it’s a... | | |
| 9:56pm | A couple of quick notes | | | | Funimation has been dropping hints about the licenses they’re about to announce. Most of the series guessed are of little interest to me, but a couple of possibilities might be worth my money. What I’ve seen of Soul Eater has been fun, and Oh! Edo Rocket was the second-best show of 2007.... | | |
| 8:13pm | Wasting time | | | | I came across yet another damned book meme over at Robbo’s, and I thought that adapting it for anime might be a pleasant way of spending a lunch hour. • What anime are you watching now? The only current series I’m following is Macademi Wasshoi, and if there are more episodes like the fifth,... | | |
| 8:07pm | Kurozuka - 04 | | | | Short Synopsis: Kurou remembers what happened to Kuromitsu, and the story takes an interesting turn. Highlights: Matrix, anyone? Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 I remember that during the winter-season, I was very annoyed with Madhouse for some strange reason. If I recall correctly, then apart from... | | |
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