| 12:00am | I Was Made to Hit in America… Beck: MCS Ends | | | | [There are no spoilers of consequence in this post]. I failed Beck. I discovered Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad as an anime around 2006. I watched the whole show streaming, using mostly a wireless internet card running on a GPRS network. That.is.slow. Nonetheless I finished all 26 episodes on that ancient... | | |
| 3:17pm | [Ascaloth] K-ON!, Episode 5 | | | | Having conducted what few club activities they have had so far with an uncharacteristically un-Japanese lack of organization, the laxness of the K-On girls have finally come around to bite them; no thanks to the frighteningly irresponsible Club President, the Light Music Club was never officially recognized... | | |
| 12:54pm | 2009 The Year of the Ox..and Anime Boxsets | | | | Well it seems we are to be spoilt for choice in the coming year with numerous Anime boxsets due for release. I for one am extremely happy for this development as I much prefer to purchase Boxsets over individual Volumes. The price is usualy Cheaper and the Boxset Artwork is usualy superior. There... | | |
| 6:04pm | Gundam Unicorn Anime Offically Announced! | | | | Finally, the impending announcement that everyone has been waiting for is officially confirmed! Via ANN: The June issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Gundam Ace magazine will officially announce on April 25 that an anime adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui’s Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn space robot... | | |
| 1:51am | K-On! 3 review; Special training for a “special girl”. | | | | This episode begins with Yui talking about how scary the guitar strings are, thin and sharp, and Ritsu tells Yui that she has to be careful or she’ll cut herself and bleed all over the place. Mio gets upset over the unhappy talk, but Yui calms her down by telling her that she’s... | | |
| 2:02pm | A Peek into the Diary of K-ON’s Hirasawa Yui! | | | | Dear Diary, I have started to write in this diary because I will soon be a very popular pop star and some day will need to make a book about myself so my fans can know how I grew up into a pop star. Because I got this only on Thursday, I’ll write the earlier entries from memory. Monday Wheee,... | | |
| 12:00am | Mai Waifu, SHE IS GAR | | | | She agreed to watch Armored Trooper VOTOMS with me. I’ve been meaning to see this show for some time, given it’s reputation as a dark, gritty-as-hell, /m/anly plate of GAR. Yeah sybilant is a Ouran High School Host Club-loving girl who I marathon Aria with, but she saw all 110 episodes... | | |
| 5:19am | Say NO to K-ON | | | | I will never understand why anime glorifies Japanese high school so much. I suppose it’s only adults watching this moe garbage but still you have to think about it. I mean, doesn’t the average skinny turd Japanese student know that by getting to high school they pretty much sell their... | | |
| 10:42am | Full Metal Panic: The Musical(?) | | | | Click here to view the embedded video. The Mandalay Pictures production studio has licensed the film rights to Shoji Gatoh’s Full Metal Panic! high school action comedy light novels. The story centers around a brusque young sergeant named Sousuke Sagara who must protect an assertive high school... | | |
| 10:40am | Cool Products Tuesday, April 7, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 10:30am | Dragonball Evolution: Over 9000 |  | | | A note from the author: This was the 2009 April Fools’ column for Anime Diet. While many of the facts mentioned in here are true, mixed in with them are many wildly erroneous citations. The concept was that as a positive review of Dragonball Evolution, it would be naturally viewed with disbelief... | | |
| 2:35pm | March Summary | | | | An interesting month this time. It featured a lot of very awesome finales, but also quite a few disappointing or lacking endings, unfortunately. What surprised me is that most of the shows whose endings went right are the ones who still have some sort of second season or OVA waiting, or at least whose... | | |
| 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 ... | | |
| 3:00pm | Mikan Watch #19: Ouran High School Host Club | | | | As seen in the shows nineteenth episode, it’s not much of a surprise to see it in Haruhis homestead (well, her parents) - it’s the commoners storage solution, after all! I’d rather forgot how variable the quality of Ouran becomes once you get into the series - it’s like you... | | |
| 2:27am | Review: Toradora! (85%) |  | | | Animation: 85% Acting: 90% Music/Sound: 80% Story: 88% Overall: 85% See explanation of scores. Toradora is the standard-setter anime about high school shounen romance. It does for high school love what Kare Kano does for adolescence in general and Honey and Clover did for post-adolescence–and... | | |
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