| 6:56am | Clannad ~After Story~ 13 review, Nagisa’s graduation and her epic win. | | | | The episode begins with Tomoya talking with Sanae about his father’s situation, and she reassures him that neither she, Nagisa, or Akio hold him responsible. He tells her that he has something important to talk about, but when Akio returns he insults Sanae’s bread and Sanae... | | |
| 3:15am | Dorvack & Dancougar | | | | I've been watching the old Ashi Production TV shows Dorvack (1983) and Dancougar (1985) here over the last week or so. The shows are a good time capsule of the preoccupations of animators around that period thanks to the liberties that the Ashi Production studio allowed its animators. Ashi Pro is an... | | |
| 6:16pm | High School of the Dead - This needs to get animated | | | | I bought the first volume to High School of the Dead yesterday and some other random manga that I really don’t know what it’s about. I saved two dollars on the purchase too thanks to my point card at Wonder Goo. Why can’t America have a point card system? If you’re wondering... | | |
| 5:27pm | Anime DVD and Manga Releases for January 6 - 12 | | | | It’s been a while, but I’d think this is a useful post for other people, as well as myself, so I’ll restart it (I never really meant for it to lapse to begin with)Anime DVDs January 6, 2009 Blue Dragon - Volume 3 (dub) Eden’s Bowy - Box Set Gurren Lagann - Part 2 Lucky Star -... | | |
| 7:43pm | Fall 2008 Anime Season Conclusion and Overview | | | | The Fall 08 season has pretty much concluded and as such I have the pleasure and honor to present you my season overview. Overall this season was quite pleasant experience, putting aside a certain bitter disappointment but more on that later. Now, I firmly believe that a visual presentation always... | | |
| 7:59am | The Final Day of Christmas 2008 - taking aim at 2009 | | | | “But your poorly-crafted charm of endless night That’s no match for my power controlling eternity. The dawn is getting closer. This is the end of your imperishable night Now the dawn will come!!” Well, all good, bad, and tl;dr things must come to an end, right? It’s New Year’s... | | |
| 3:00pm | Kiss x Sis OAV 1, a boy and his two hot step-sisters. | | | | This episode starts off with a high school aged (?) boy named Keita waking up in bed and finding his arms have gone numb because his sisters, Riko and Ako decided to use them as pillows. As soon as Ako wakes up, she takes advantage of Keita’s numb body to give him... | | |
| 5:03am | Toradora! [13]: Mr. and Ms. Oubashi High School | | | | If there is a man, woman, or androgynous non-gendered person amongst you who was not moved in the slightest by Toradora! episode 13, let ye be cast out of Canann and turned into a pillar of salt and plagued by frogs and all that other Biblical stuff. It’s vaguely kind of fitting that I topped... | | |
| 8:18pm | Announcing My Winter 08/09 Watchlist | | | | Kantoku > Christmas hats. I’ll be pushing out my season overview shortly but before I do, I thought I’d finally take the effort of composing my hitlist for the next season. Winter 08/09 doesn’t have an awful lot of names that say much to me but nevertheless there are a few that... | | |
| 2:54pm | The 2nd anniversary of Iwa ni Hana, and a wishlist for 2009 | | | | Ladies and gentlemen - Iwa ni Hana enters the second anniversary this month! The past two years have been fruitful. Not that I have been able to sustain interest in anime/manga continuously throughout my life - there have been lapses for years at a stretch. Two years ago, I was brought back into the... | | |
| 11:54pm | Winter 2009 Anime Preview | | | | It’s that time again: It’s time to look at what anime is airing in the Winter 2009 season. Shows are listed in alphabetical order. There are 5 possible levels of ratings that I’ll give a show:Will BlogMay Blog (presumes Will Watch)Will WatchMay WatchWon’t Watch As usual, I’m leaving out... | | |
| 4:50pm | Funimation adds a crap load of new videos online | | | | Basically every series of note that they hold has a page and at least trailers up. There also have the first two subbed episodes online for Gunslinger Girl IL Teatrino and Romeo X Juliet, the first six subbed episodes for Shigurui, and the entire Soukou no Strain series subbed. Here are the list of... | | |
| 11:59am | Winter 2008 / 2009 TV Anime Digest |  | | | The coming end-of-year means the end of several TV anime, but will also usher in a new crop of new shows to take their places (and timeslots.) Presented here is a digest of new anime shows scheduled to begin in January 2009, including premiere date, normal weekly airtime, and a brief synopsis of the... | | |
| 1:01am | Hayami Saori and Her Mother | | | | Hayami Saori's mother was mentioned on one of her radio shows in October, and from clues on the show, people on 2channel have found her mother's blog and homepage.There are pics there of her mother, Matsuo Midori, performing a few songs in a Tokyo jazz club (Ginza Cygnus). Her blog announced a later... | | |
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