| 3:41pm | On the etymology of mouryou | | | | The word mouryou (魍魎) is often translated as “goblin”. The translation, however, is inaccurate. 魍魎 is composed of two characters: 魍, which means “spirits of mountains and streams” and 魎, which means “spirits of trees and rocks”. Thus, 魍魎 is a term... | | |
| 10:05am | One Outs = Total Sports Anime Ripoff | | | | Decided to watch One Outs episode 1 last weekend since it’s been subbed, and my initial impression could be summed up as: Toa is Hiruma’s long lost twin, not to mention they exude the same aura too. I’m sure TheBigN can attest to this. So you can say that we’ve got some (Hiru)MANservice... | | |
| 10:21am | In Anime Football, You need Dragons to Score Goals. | | | | Unlike anyone in the blogosphere, I watch and enjoy the new football anime, Inazuma Eleven. It’s for kids of course, and the football makes the horrid Captain Tsubasa as realistic as a real match on TV. But there’s a certain charm that comes with such intentionally-overpowered sports anime,... | | |
| 4:50am | A Quick Conglomerate Update | | | | Since I haven’t had a chance to do so all week due to either being horribly busy or horribly sick*. Or, on Friday, both. So here’s a (highly hasty) rundown of what I might have said, if I had had the energy or time to do so. Which I didn’t. Toradora! Despite any naysaying, I maintain... | | |
| 8:25am | The Fall Call: Fall 2008 Anime Preview | | | | I know, I know, I’m late– things have gotten very busy with my project. But here it is: your Fall 2008 anime preview! A couple of interesting trends this season. First off, I was struck by how many shows this season are the directorial debuts for the people helming them. Hyakko (Michio Fukuda),... | | |
| 5:14pm | Taishou Yakyuu Musume Baseless Anticipation Post | | | | So, after reading that Taishou Yakyuu Musume (which, by the way, I had not heard about prior to this point) is getting an anime adaptation, I became instantly overwhelmed with completely, utterly baseless and unjustified hype for it. Let me break it down for you: Taishou (大正): Historical fiction!... | | |
| 5:14pm | Taishou Yakyuu Musume Baseless Anticipation Post | | | | So, after reading that Taishou Yakyuu Musume (which, by the way, I had not heard about prior to this point) is getting an anime adaptation, I became instantly overwhelmed with completely, utterly baseless and unjustified hype for it. Let me break it down for you: Taishou (大正): Historical fiction!... | | |
| 2:11am | Some shows that looks interesting from the coming season |  | | | After reading through THAT massive preview of the coming season there are a few shows that definitively caught my attention and I’d like to make a few comments on them. I’d also like to apologize beforehand for the horrible formatting of this post. Wordpress was totally kicking my ass today..... | | |
| 2:25am | The Anime Sim Baseball Tournament on Nico | | | | Have you ever wanted to see characters from your favorite anime series face off on a ballfield diamond? Well, some enterprising Japanese person set up a 16-team tournament (作品別対抗大会) using Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 14 to simulate the matches and posted the results on NicoNicoDouga with... | | |
| 6:46pm | Cosfest Day 1: Standards are Slipping, Singapore! | | | | Today is the annual Cosfest, now in its seventh incarnation and supposedly getting better. Since Ascaloth, Mr "Pre-arranged Fight" of Riuva, was there was well covering the event in great detail, he will be responsible for the minute details and photographs. It does not help that my camera... | | |
| 2:05pm | Major Season 4 Ends. It was Easily the Worst of the 4. | | | | Seriously, professional sports just does not have the same level of thrill, knife-edge balance and overall intensity as school sports. Because you know a season is long, you can afford to lose a game or even throw it to save you from fatigue. School sports on the other hand, are generally one-off knock-out... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 6:11pm | The Facination with Objective Ranking | | | | Objective ranking is like putting a score at the end of your review. The short of it is that it is fun and can be logistically useful, but it is often woefully inadequate as a form of expression. It has some material advantages but it also runs the risk of minimizing what makes one game attractive–in... | | |
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