| 12:14am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-5: Analysis, Thoughts and Random Comments | | | | [Disclaimer]: This entry might contain MINOR spoilers. However, while the analysis might push you to these minor spoilers, NO foretelling spoiler is present. Therefore, please follow the same guideline, and understand that any spoiler can just ruin this critical part of the story for any reader. ... | | |
| 12:14am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-5: Analysis, Thoughts and Random Comments | | | | [Disclaimer]: This entry might contain MINOR spoilers. However, while the analysis might push you to these minor spoilers, NO foretelling spoiler is present. Therefore, please follow the same guideline, and understand that any spoiler can just ruin this critical part of the story for any reader. ... | | |
| 6:37pm | Babies for sale! Babies for sale! Buy one, get another 50% off! | | | | Adoption in anime is always an interesting theme. From what I have seen, the theme is largely ignored, and is mostly a plot device of sorts. It receives no further treatment, exploring the minds of the adoptee and adopted. Ponti-dono speaks of Mari acting as a de facto mother for Mirai in TM8.0 and... | | |
| 1:34pm | Bandai and the Marketing Blitz of Kannagi |  | | | When the Japanese company Aniplex held an industry panel at Anime Boston last May, their emphasis on the unlicensed series Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens baffled the audience and bloggers. “Why are they spending so much time talking about Kannagi?” “The show’s still unlicensed,... | | |
| 10:06am | July Summary | | | | I must say, that we’ve got ourselves an awesome Summer Season here. Sure, there aren’t many series, but a significant majority of the new series succeed at what they intend to do. There may not be a lot of shows with awesome and ambitious story-lines, but in terms of slice of life and characterization,... | | |
| 5:05am | Chiptune | | | | Something I've always liked in animation is the notion of restrictions. Animation itself seems to impose certain inherent restrictions. Sometimes, more interesting results can be achieved when a set of restrictions are imposed. For example, the way Norman McLaren made a film entirely out of vertical... | | |
| 12:15am | Yakk! Deculture: A Close Encounter with Macross Frontier | | | | I discovered anime blogs only very recently. How recently? Spring 2008. I apparently missed out on the heyday of anime blogging where significant events and shows (that still have influence over current opinion) were written about and discussed. While I don’t deny this particular feeling of... | | |
| 3:00pm | L'Ange | | | | Patrick Bokanowski's L'Ange is one of the great masterpieces of filmmaking of the last half century. If Oscars were given out for experimental films, it would surely have taken the award in 1982, when after 5 years of filming and editing Patrick finally unleashed this magisterial visual feast upon... | | |
| 1:44am | Hold On To Your Sanity, It’s the Happy Science Platform | | | | Here’s the sequel to my original post about the Happiness Realization Party, in which I discuss their amazing party platform. This article has zero relevance to anime, but after the original story was posted to MetaFilter I feel like this blog is the best place to put it. I’ll make it up... | | |
| 10:57pm | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-4: Analysis, Thoughts and Random Comments | | | | [Disclaimer]: This entry might contain MINOR spoilers. However, while the analysis might push you to these minor spoilers, NO foretelling spoiler is present. Therefore, please follow the same guideline, and understand that any spoiler can just ruin this critical part of the story for any reader. ... | | |
| 7:01am | Review: Ponyo (Dub) - 88% |  | | | Scores Animation: 90% Music: 95% Voice Acting (dub): 85% Story: 89% Overall: 88% See explanation of scores below. Ponyo is Hayao Miyazaki’s most joyous film since Porco Rosso, and the purest evocation of childhood he’s done since My Neighbor Totoro. After flirting with darker and more surreal... | | |
| 11:36pm | Tokyo Figure Show |  | | | image ID#27379Sorry to have kept you waiting - announcing the details of my first figure show - the Tokyo Figure Show. Details below copy pasted from the official site.WhyI've been collecting and writing about figures at dannychoo.com for quite a few years now and through working closely with the figure... | | |
| 10:16pm | Otakon 2009: Panels, Loot, Wrap | | | | I enjoy Otakon every year, but I always get the feeling at the end of each one that I’ve had a good run and might skip it from now on. I’ve been saying it for three years now, so I’ll probably be back. This here is my convention report, panels, loot, and jabber at the end. Didn’t... | | |
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