| 6:46am | Birdy the Mighty Decode 2 Series Review | | | | With spring impressions out of the way, I’ve got some time to finish up the previous season’s anime. First up is one of the best shows of the winter season, Birdy the Mighty Decode 2 but before we get there, I wanted to mention a couple new additions to my series review posts starting with this... | | |
| 10:32pm | ‘Waiter, there’re noises in this OP!’ | | | | I’ve been busy, writing essays and experiencing the loneliness of the long-distance reader. Here’s a list of some post ideas I’ve thrown together, but not worked up: a condensed review of The Skull Man; a post about honour in the eighth episode of Space Runaway Ideon; praise for the... | | |
| 1:02pm | Manga Review: Genghis Khan - To the Ends of the Earth and Sea |  | | | The Japanese novel To the Ends of the Earth and Sea - the story of Mongolian leader Genghis Khan - recently saw two different adaptations. The first was an epic live-action film in 2007. A co-production between Japan and Mongolia, the Genghis Khan movie won over the critics thanks to its lavish Mongolian... | | |
| 4:21am | A Day in Tokyo 5 |  | | | image ID#26205Had a health checkup this time last year and wrote about it in the Health Care in Japan article. "You never know until you ask" has been a motto I've been religiously following and this time asked if I could bring my camera to take pics of the medical equipment used in the tests - the hospital... | | |
| 3:26am | Live Action Review - Star Trek | | | | I kind of hate it that my first “real” post coming back from my hiatus is for a live action movie, but that’s how it is. Now, on to the review Star Trek is a sequel/prequel/reboot/whatever /all of the above of the Star Trek franchise which has been dead in the water since Star Trek:... | | |
| 3:43pm | 8 Must Watch Anime for Spring 09 | | | | Following through my post on the most promising spring series this year, it’s time to re-evaluate that list. It’s already about a month into the season so I’ve managed to catch all the series I wanted to. Some were not as good as I originally thought, while some proved to get better... | | |
| 8:26am | Morinaga Milk’s Girl Friends Vol.1 and 2 | | | | I’m not entirely sure why I suddenly decided that I had to have these two tankubon. But when I did, Amazon.jp (even Marketplace) was out of stock, Kinokuniya Singapore refused to accept my order - something about ‘due to the content’ and the vigilant eyes of the Customs officers of... | | |
| 12:00am | Macross Zero is a Peculiar Prequel | | | | [This posts does not use spoiler tags, but provides sufficient warning] I don’t believe it tells the story of how everything begins. If anything, it introduced or complicated the mysteries of the extended narrative; in particular that of the Protoculture, the mysterious ‘first race’... | | |
| 7:16am | April Summary | | | | I think that this is the first time that this ever happened ever since I started including ratings in these summaries: none of the shows I’m watching has a rating of 9/10 or above. But that’s logical since the only awesome show that continued from the past month was Hajime no Ippo, and that... | | |
| 6:21pm | Souten Kouro Episode 4 - I am on uncharted territory. |  | | | I must admit that my knowledge of Cao Cao before the Romance of the Three Kingdoms era is very low (which means the later period of Eastern Han and its fall). I would probably need some help from nice readers to enlighten me on some issues that I will be discussing here. Obviously, rather than talking... | | |
| 6:21pm | Souten Kouro Episode 4 - I am on uncharted territory. |  | | | I must admit that my knowledge of Cao Cao before the Romance of the Three Kingdoms era is very low (which means the later period of Eastern Han and its fall). I would probably need some help from nice readers to enlighten me on some issues that I will be discussing here. Obviously, rather than talking... | | |
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