| 10:21pm | Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei #02 — Let’s Do the Time Warp Again, Again | | | | What is it with today and chronological irregularities? Impressions: Mostly a pretty fun episode, although now that they seem bound and determined to use the Chiri punctuation beeps all the time, I’m going to have to drive a pencil into my skull. Oh well, it was a decent life. Part 1 was about... | | |
| 9:09pm | Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei - Episode 1 | | | | It's not very often that I get ridiculously excited about the return of a particular anime franchise, but I have to confess that the initial news of a return to our screens of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei brought forth a whoop of delight from me. Whether it's in manga or anime form, this is a series that... | | |
| 11:58pm | Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei #01 — Seasons | | | | Welcome back, Itoshiki. Okay, I’m tired of waiting for a decent version. Impressions: Ugh. What an awful OP. At least the ED’s pretty good. Not the greatest SZS episode ever made, but it was still pretty solid. They tried a bit too hard to reintroduce us to all the characters in the... | | |
| 7:29am | Natsu no Arashi - 13 | | | | Ah, so there’s going to be a second season this fall. That’s a good thing, because this episode pretty much was the weakest episode of this show so far. Especially the first half was just a rehash of already used jokes with all of the characters somehow dressed in swimwear (including Jun... | | |
| 11:01am | Positive and Negative Foreigners in Japan | | | | There are, of course, many kinds of foreigners living in Japan, from English teachers to engineers to web designers and Brazilians working a dekasegi job to earn money for a few years before they return home. While everyone must decide for themselves how they feel about Japan --a country both extremely... | | |
| 6:53pm | 2009 Summer Anime BBQ, Preview, and Hootenanny | | | | My money’s on Horie Yui. I always feel the need to remind people that none of us doing these things really has anything but at best a random guess at how shows are going to turn out, and at worst have mistaken a show for a game and are just talking out of their butts. If you’re taking any... | | |
| 8:36pm | Summer 2009 Anime Preview | | | | It’s that time again: It’s time to look at what anime is airing in the Summer 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 anything... | | |
| 11:18pm | Summer '09 Previews | | | | With several shows that I enjoy carrying on from spring; add 14 new ones, plus Haruhi new episodes, Zetsubou Sensei 3rd and Ookami 2nd season; this summer looks very promising! The highlights are of course Canaan from the Type-Moon team, Umineko from Higurashi creators and SHAFT's second TV show this... | | |
| 8:02pm | A Look At Summer Season 09 | | | | She can be surprisingly observant at times. It feels like only yesterday when the spring season started and now it’s coming to an end already. It sure is funny how time flies when you’re actually working for your living. I sure miss the times leeching on the tax money and pretending to go... | | |
| 2:53am | Zetsubou Sensei GN v2 |  | | | More Zetsubou-sensei? Yorokobusu shita! (I sure hope I got that caption right.) Volume two of Del Rey’s translation of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei arrived a couple of weeks ago, and, if anything, it’s better than the first volume. Del Rey’s designers have done a good job paying respect... | | |
| 11:06pm | Anime Summer 2009 -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 9:32pm | Summer 2009 Anime -- full previews w/staff, cast, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 8:03pm | Summer 2009 Anime Previews -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 7:42am | Summer 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | This seems to happen every time, just when I’m finally feel like I’ve got used to the season’s mix of shows, a new season comes along and offers a completely different set of shows to watch.At the start of the spring season, I was unsure if there’d be as many quality titles as the past several... | | |
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