| 4:17pm | Shikabane Hime - 09 | | | | Short Synopsis: A couple of high schoolers explore an abandoned building. Highlights: The cat! (I shouldn’t be reminded of when saying that Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 (Good) A more quiet episode, but those are needed too. This one is especially useful, as it gives Ouri some development,... | | |
| 11:23pm | Shikabane Hime: Aka - Episode 6 | | | | By the end of episode five of Shikabane Hime: Aka, we were left with a zombie corpse car thing, and not one but two gun-toting yet cute dead schoolgirls. I mean really, if you asked your average geek for a definition of awesome, wouldn't it be something along those lines?Anyway, I digress - Episode... | | |
| 8:07pm | Shikabane Hime - 08 | | | | Short Synopsis: Um yeah. To put it without spoilers: Ouri and Minai become friends. Highlights: Not going to put that here for spoilers’ sake. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 (Good) At times like this, I really feel out of touch with the rest of the anime blogging community. What really is so... | | |
| 9:48pm | Shikabane Hime: Aka - Episode 5 | | | | Episode four of Shikabane Hime: Aka finally brought us to the point where Ouri discovered the truth about Keisei's job as a Contracted Priest and his relationship with Shikabane Hime Makina, so with that out of the way the start of this latest story arc allows us to be dropped a little deeper into the... | | |
| 5:58pm | Shikabane Hime - 07 | | | | Short Synopsis: An old classmate of one of Ouri’s classmates turns into a shikabane. Highlights: Wonderful animation. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) Really, at this point you can consider me a fan of this series. I’m not often impressed by Gainax (at least, not as much as most... | | |
| 12:51pm | Shikabane Hime: Kuro Confirmed for January | | | | My oh My..Shikabane Hime: Kuro , the sequel of AKA Oh yes,we do know that there’s a second season to Shikabane Hime and now it’s confirmed that it will premiere in January according to the Shikabane Hime: Kuro website launched by StarChild. And as I mentioned in the previous post (or haven’t... | | |
| 3:55am | A lot of Nana Mizuki Fluff | | | | Summary of the magazines later, too beat from work to type up anything worthwhile-ish. The slow journey to Nana Mizuki fandom continues with the arrival of Seiyuu Animedia November 2008, Pick-up Voice v11, and Anisong Mook v06 2008. With the way I’m slowing becoming a seiyuu idol type of otaku,... | | |
| 10:48am | Shikabane Hime: AKA OP/ED theme | | | | Shikabane Hime:AKA OP/ED theme song - Beautiful Fighter/My story by ANGELA ‘Cover of the Regular edition CD’ Tracklisting: 1.Beautiful Fighter 2.My story 3.Darling 4.Beautiful Fighter(off vocal) 5.My story(off vocal) 6.Darling(off vocal) This is ANGELA’s 12th single.For those who... | | |
| 10:40pm | Shikabane Hime: Aka - Episode 4 | | | | It's been a while since we last checked it out, but at last we're back on the trail of our corpse princess courtesy of episode four of Shikabane Hime. Sadly, it appears that the first victim of this particular instalment is the animation quality (which takes a definite dive here), but what of the story... | | |
| 3:38pm | Shikabane Hime - 06 | | | | Short Synopsis: The fight against the evil car continues, and Ouri gets more insight into the bond between Makina and Keisei. Highlights: Nice fight! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 (Awesome) Now THIS is exactly why I’m watching this series! Best episode so far, and the fight this episode was... | | |
| 12:19pm | Anime/Manga News from October 2008 | | | | Director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell & The Sky Crawlers) has a couple of projects which will keep him busy through the Summer of 2009. The first project is a new theatrical stage adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28 manga. Oshii-san will be writing the script as well as making... | | |
| 6:10am | October Summary | | | | Okay, so since this list already is huge for this month, I decided to omit the OVAs in this list, along with series that have already finished and belong to the previous season, like Chi’s Sweet Home and Wagaya no Oinarisama, in an attempt to keep this list a bit overviewable (although I do want... | | |
| 3:52pm | Shikabane Hime - 05 | | | | Short Synopsis: A bunch of teenagers jack a car and are attacked by a Shikabane. Highlights: TRANSFER STUDENT! TRANSFER STUDENT! TRANSFER STUDENT! Overall Enjoyment Value: 6,5/10 (Lacking) Ack, this series was doing so well, and then that transfer-student popped up. This is all just a pet peeves of... | | |
| 10:12pm | Michiko e Hatchin - 02 | | | | Short Synopsis: Obviously, the police isn’t going to let Michiko get away without a fight. Highlights: Surprisingly genuine. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 (Good) Well, since Michiko e Hatchin’s second episode took so long to come out, it’s taken me quite a while to finalize my... | | |
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