| 7:46am | Review: Cardfight!! Vanguard – Asia Circuit Hen (カードファイト!! ヴァンガード アジアサーキット編) | | | | The main male protagonist! The second review for the year of 2013 is for a 2012 title, titled Cardfight!! Vanguard – Asia Circuit Hen. This anime is the sequel of Cardfight!! Vanguard, reviewed in this blog some time last year. As a series aired in 2012, this anime is supposed to battle Another... | | |
| 7:18am | Review: Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン) | | | | The final anime series I watched in 2012 is the spiritual prequel of Accel World, titled Sword Art Online, but I only get to write the review for it a year later. While aired later than the former, the latter’s source novel actually comes out in Japan first, which makes sense actually. This review... | | |
| 7:18am | Review: Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン) | | | | The final anime series I watched in 2012 is the spiritual prequel of Accel World, titled Sword Art Online, but I only get to write the review for it a year later. While aired later than the former, the latter’s source novel actually comes out in Japan first, which makes sense actually. This review... | | |
| 4:49pm | Rinsan Kaihou: Genshiken II, Chapter 78 | | | | Kasukabe Saki visits Genshiken, bringing pangs of nostalgia to readers everywhere! As Hato puts it, “Is this what Genshiken used to be like?” As Hato exchanges contact information with his old classmates, Kasukabe attends Shiiou University’s school festival, she catches up with her... | | |
| 4:49pm | Rinshan Kaihou: Genshiken II, Chapter 78 | | | | Kasukabe Saki visits Genshiken, bringing pangs of nostalgia to readers everywhere! As Hato puts it, “Is this what Genshiken used to be like?” As Hato exchanges contact information with his old classmates, Kasukabe attends Shiiou University’s school festival, she catches up with her... | | |
| 5:06am | Review: Nisemonogatari (偽物語) | | | | The main male protagonist, still escaping the full wrath of Japanese law! The audition for this blog’s ‘Anime of the Year 2012’ ends with the only sequel in the line-up, titled Nisemonogatari. This anime is the only sequel in the audition, being the follow-up of Bakemonogatari, which... | | |
| 5:06am | Review: Nisemonogatari (偽物語) | | | | The main male protagonist, still escaping the full wrath of Japanese law! The audition for this blog’s ‘Anime of the Year 2012’ ends with the only sequel in the line-up, titled Nisemonogatari. This anime is the only sequel in the audition, being the follow-up of Bakemonogatari, which... | | |
| 2:00am | Review: Cardfight!! Vanguard (カードファイト!! ヴァンガード) | | | | The blue-haired main protagonist. His name is not Kai though. Cardfight!! Vanguard is a series I’ve glimpsed in a satellite channel I’ve subscribed to but rarely watched, Animax Asia. From the few episodes I’ve watched, I decided to get the whole shebang and watched it from the start... | | |
| 12:43pm | Review: C – The Money of Soul and Possibility – Control | | | | The main male protagonist, holding the fort for Milton Friedman on behalf of International Monetary Fund. IMF in this anime sure is different than the one in real-life. Tiger and Bunny has just managed to win the ‘Anime of the Year 2011’ title in the last post, and today it has to defend... | | |
| 12:43pm | Review: C – The Money of Soul and Possibility – Control | | | | The main male protagonist, holding the fort for Milton Friedman on behalf of International Monetary Fund. IMF in this anime sure is different than the one in real-life. Tiger and Bunny has just managed to win the ‘Anime of the Year 2011’ title in the last post, and today it has to defend... | | |
| 11:17pm | A Season of Optimism: full previews of spring shows | | | | Big buzz. Everyone seems to have high expectations for the upcoming spring season. Including me. There are promising shows in almost every genre. I'm not sure I see any masterpieces, but time will tell.Kawamori Shouji (Macross) is working with writer Okada Mari (true tears, AnoHana) to bring us a science... | | |
| 9:52pm | Winter Season Preview | | | | Holy crap, the next season will be big. To put it into perspective: there will be 22 new series. All non-kiddie. The only Winter season that had more than that was the winter of 2009. Yes, we’re indeed looking at the second-biggest Winter Anime Season in history. That’s not the only strange... | | |
| 9:01pm | Chihayafuru - 04 | | | | I already suspected that the music in this series would be awesome when I realized that this show would have the same composer as Shion no Ou, but I’m really glad that in the end, this show did end up with an amazing and very strong soundtrack. This show is very emotional, and this soundtrack... | | |
| 9:26pm | No. 6 and homoeroticism in anime | | | | It’d be hard to watch No. 6 and not notice how homoerotic it is. I’ve now seen up to episode 5 and it’s notable how blunt it’s becoming in suggesting that Shion and Nezumi are in love. This is not a yaoi series though, it’s not a sexual or pornographic thing, I’m... | | |
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