| 6:44am | Top Picks – Winter 2009 Anime, Part 2: Genre Awards | | | | The first part looked at the characters within the show and now this group of awards (minus one misfit) looks at the series as a whole. I used many of the same categories from the 2008 best awards but I trimmed a few because there was not enough competition. For example, the category of best slice-of-life... | | |
| 6:25am | Top Picks – Winter 2009 Anime, Part 1: Cast and Character Awards | | | | If I was giving an award for best hair cut, the guy on the left would win.The winter season, as conventional wisdom goes, is one of the weaker seasons for new anime. Oftentimes this generalization has some truth to it but this time a combination of sequels to good shows and a handful of new hits made... | | |
| 11:37pm | Weekly Anime Review (Mar 9 – Mar 15) | | | | This week’s review is getting done much later then I wanted and there’s a few reasons for that but the primary reason is that the ending to Clannad gave my brain a bunch of things to chew on and I couldn’t get in the right mood to write this column. The ending adds greatly onto a post I’ve been... | | |
| 9:15pm | Shikabane Hime: Kuro - Episode 10 | | | | After waxing and waning during the course of the series so far, the last episode of Shikabane Hime felt as though the scales had finally fallen from Gainax's eyes, allowing them to see what they needed to do to create something truly magnificent. Put simply, episode nine of Shikabane Hime: Kuro was... | | |
| 9:18pm | Shikabane Hime - 24 | | | | Short Synopsis: Akasha finally reveals why he’s doing the things he did. Episode Rating: 8,5/10 (Awesome) Seriously, is there no end to this series’ awesomeness? While the second season started out with a bunch of really bad and questionable episodes, it picked itself up so well after... | | |
| 11:34pm | Shikabane Hime: Kuro - Episode 9 | | | | Right from the very start, Shikabane Hime has been a difficult series to pin down - At times it's played to its horror roots perfectly or offered up otherwise compelling story lines, but at others it's been slow and ponderous, seemingly struggling to get any real momentum to propel it beyond the realms... | | |
| 9:32pm | Birdy the Mighty Decode - 23 | | | | Short Synopsis: Birdy starts to search for Natoru. Episode Rating: 8,5/10 (Awesome) And so this series continues its string of utterly incredible episodes. Oh boy, it sure has set a incredibly high standard for the rest of 2009. It’s going to be interesting whether the rest of the year can produce... | | |
| 8:48pm | Shikabane Hime - 23 | | | | Short Synopsis: Hokuto, Akasha and whatshisname (the bug guy) carry out their plan to destroy the Kougonshuu (that’s what it was called, right?) Episode Rating: 8,5/10 (Awesome) Great to see that even though the finale is near, this series has yet to show any signs of weakness. That’s... | | |
| 10:22pm | Casshern Sins - 23 | | | | Short Synopsis: Casshern vs. Luna Episode Rating: 8/10 (Excellent) Before I start with the episode, I’m going to have to say some negative things about this series. It’s one of my favourites of the currently airing series, so I’m not happy with it either, but I do want to say a few... | | |
| 11:43am | Shikabane Hime - 22 | | | | Short Synopsis: Finally! The cat! Episode Rating: 9/10 (fantastic) Amazing! The second season just continues to get better and better! I know I have ranted a lot about the second season so far, but the past few episodes have been utterly incredible! This could very well turn into my favourite Gainax... | | |
| 5:12am | Weekly Anime Review (Feb 23 – Mar 1) | | | | Isn't it funny how fate works sometimes.There’s two changes to this week’s anime review that I need to mention before going on. The first is something I mentioned last week, I’ve tweaked my grading scale. What happened, if you didn’t already read, is that I’m throwing out the pluses which... | | |
| 7:48pm | Shikabane Hime: Kuro 06 |  | | | Summary: Ouri surprisingly invokes a Zadan-jutsu to stab Ena-Keisei through the neck, but Ena simply moves to another of the Keisei bodies that she summoned. To combat this, Keisei takes out the other bodies with a little help from Sadahiro and Akira. Left with only one body, Ena has Touya drop Ena’s... | | |
| 9:42pm | Shikabane Hime: Kuro - Episode 8 | | | | Come the end of the last episode of Shikabane Hime: Kuro, Ouri and Makina somehow managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, with the latter finding herself kidnapped by Shichisei while the former seeing Nozomi die right before his eyes. Does she have enough to become a Shikabane Hime? Bzzzt... | | |
| 6:24pm | Shikabane-Hime: Aka Series Review | | | | Shikabane-Hime: Aka or (Corpse Princess: Red) is the latest series from the venerable animation studio Gainax. That fact alone guaranteed big exposure but doomed it in the eyes of many anime fans because is wasn’t the second coming of Gurren Lagann. As much as I love Gurren Lagann and hope Gainax... | | |
| 12:06pm | February Summary | | | | A bit of a boring list this time perhaps, since it looks mostly the same as last month’s with perhaps a few small differences. Nevertheless, this was a very good month. The winter season has proven to be an excellent one, and quite a few series spent this month getting even better than they already... | | |
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