| 5:40pm | My blogroll on Arashi |  | | | Blogging under influence (either of drugs, or a freshly finished episode) is rarely a good idea, but let’s see what cooler heads offer. Beta-Waffle: No information. He’s playing his games, I guess. {Update: DiGiKerot e-mailed that his Internet was broken, so streaming was impossible. Added:... | | |
| 5:30pm | Totali on Hatsukoi 01 |  | | | Apparently, Hatsukoi is School Rumble, only with art of Kimikiss and camel toe. It’s not necesserily what Totali wrote, but that’s what I read. | | |
| 5:52pm | 10 sibling rivalries - Stripey picks sides | | | | Tenjou Tenge is the latest of anime series to join the ranks of my growing DVD stash. Bulldozing through the show, I’m once again held enthralled by the babelicious Maya and fully support Souichirou’s choice over her sister Aya. In fact my love for Maya exceeds Aya by so much that I’m... | | |
| 9:00am | Natsu no Arashi - SHAFT of the Summer Storm | | | | Natsu no Arashi is 100% guaranteed SHAFT. There, straight to the point - I am sure most of you will be able to draw your conclusion on the show already. Those who dislike SHAFT’s unconventional visual trickery and directing may be excused, because beyond this point there will be nothing in this... | | |
| 6:51am | Spring 2009 Roundup 1: Hayate no Gotoku!!, Natsu no Arashi!, K-ON |  | | | Looking at the twit- and blogosphere these days, it looks like I’m late to this new season party. But let’s get started with a few things, shall we? Today, I’ll be profiling the second season of Hayate no Gotoku, the new SHAFT/Shinbo Natsu no Arashi, and the talk of the town K-ON.... | | |
| 6:51am | Spring 2009 Roundup 1: Hayate no Gotoku!!, Natsu no Arashi!, K-ON |  | | | Looking at the twit- and blogosphere these days, it looks like I’m late to this new season party. But let’s get started with a few things, shall we? Today, I’ll be profiling the second season of Hayate no Gotoku, the new SHAFT/Shinbo Natsu no Arashi, and the talk of the town K-ON.... | | |
| 7:29pm | Natsu no Arashi! - 01 |  | | | OP: “Atashi dake ni kakete” by Omokage Lucky Hole – Is this going to be the first Shaft OP that I don’t absolutely love? While I don’t think it’s particularly terrible, I just feel like both the song and animation are a couple decades behind. This is probably intentional,... | | |
| 7:06pm | Natsu no Arashi - Episode 1 | | | | Despite its appallingly bad, rushed ending, I was a big fan of the School Rumble anime, and it was for this reason that I found myself wanting to check out the adaptation of another Jin Kobayashi in the form of Natsu no Arashi, as the new anime season in Japan continues apace.Natsu no Arashi introduces... | | |
| 9:10pm | Hayami Saori's Breakthrough Year? | | | | Seiyuu HAYAMI Saori 早見沙織, 17, is graduating from high school this spring and beginning her seiyuu career in earnest.Up to now, she has been limited to one role at a time. But in the upcoming spring season she will have three roles, including her biggest role yet.She began her career two years... | | |
| 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 ... | | |
| 12:19am | Spring 2009 Series Preview - No Funny Business | | | | Memories of Green ~ The Spring 2009 Season Is Here At Anime History This Saint Patrick’s Day Weekend. Every 3 months I do one of these.every three months, and now I’m doing the grunt work too. Last time I tried to do my review in jest along with some researched observations and got flamed... | | |
| 5:16am | This Spring Season looks terrifying | | | | and I really wish the follow-up were “ly AWESOME”. But sadly, no. I’ve heard the anime industry in Japan is not doing so well these days, this could be symptom or cause, who knows. I wonder if it’s just (what seems like) a huge volume increase in anime produced. Overextension?... | | |
| 9:54pm | 48 Spring Anime -- full previews: story, trailer, cast, staff, pic | | | | These may be difficult times in the anime industry, but you couldn't tell it from the number of anime being produced. Forty-eight titles come out this spring -- series and OVAs -- about the same number as last spring.But quantity doesn't necessarily imply quality. Nothing here seems like an instant classic.... | | |
| 7:48am | Yamcha on Toradora |  | | | Wolf Hurricahe delivers another look, possibly contrarian: Drama has taken over the show recently, putting Toradora into a very uninteresting emo mode. The cast just isn’t dynamic or interesting enough to pull off convincing drama, which had made each recent episode a 24 minute grind to get through.... | | |
| 2:51pm | TBE’s Mega Spring Anime Preview 2009 |  | | | A tad late for this but is better than never, March is here and what are our own picks of the anime in Spring. A quick breakdown on the list and I realized that there a couple of interesting animes out there. Lets see what we have in our mega spring anime preview. Titles are arranged randomly. Navigation... | | |
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