| 9:00am | Mnemosyne - Final Thoughts | | | | Mmm vodka. I usually have a taste for the lighthearted, comedic, and slice-of-life variety of anime and manga. However, if that was the ONLY things I watched, I’d loose my mind after awhile (not to mention, miss out on a large chunk of shows out there). What made Mnemosyne’s story attractive... | | |
| 2:52am | In “Defense” of Not Knowing What the Hell “Good” and “Bad” Actually Are | | | | CAUTION: INCREASED VERBOSITY! HARD HAT AREA! PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE LETTERS! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU READ THIS POST AND COMPLAIN ABOUT ITS LACK OF A POINT! I am totally circle nine. Totally.So, between Real Drive episodes, I noticed on MAL that IKnight had finished watching Figure 17, which is... | | |
| 12:17am | The Lagann Dub and the Decade Ahead | | | | Last night, I tuned into Sci-Fi Channel to watch the TV premiere of the Bang Zoom-produced Gurren Lagann dub. I actually thought it was pretty good and something I’d watch weekly but then again, I am more forgiving of dubs than other, more purist fans may be. Kamina didn’t seem to possess... | | |
| 12:17am | The Lagann Dub and the Decade Ahead | | | | Last night, I tuned into Sci-Fi Channel to watch the TV premiere of the Bang Zoom-produced Gurren Lagann dub. I actually thought it was pretty good and something I’d watch weekly but then again, I am more forgiving of dubs than other, more purist fans may be. Kamina didn’t seem to possess... | | |
| 12:17am | The Lagann Dub and the Decade Ahead | | | | Last night, I tuned into Sci-Fi Channel to watch the TV premiere of the Bang Zoom-produced Gurren Lagann dub. I actually thought it was pretty good and something I’d watch weekly but then again, I am more forgiving of dubs than other, more purist fans may be. Kamina didn’t seem to possess... | | |
| 6:12pm | Mission-E - 03 | | | | Short Synopsis: The target of this week: a girl with her pet bat. Highlights: Enemies get stronger and smarter as the series goes on. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 I’m not sure who on Anime News Network found it a good idea to lump all of the staff of Mission-E all together as directors, but... | | |
| 7:00pm | Yuri Anime: Simoun, Volume 4 (English) | | | | It's not uncommon to run across this comment in anime forums in any language, referring to any anime - "It gets better in later episodes." Whether it's correct or not is entirely dependent upon whether you *like* whatever literary theme that particular anime is abusing, of course. lolIf you have been... | | |
| 6:29pm | Amuri in Star Ocean 01 -- weird gem of moe science-fiction | | | | Now that there is a fansub for this show, perhaps it will begin to get the attention it deserves.Hoshi no Umi no Amuri 星の海のアムリ is a three-episode OVA done almost entirely in 3DCG, including the characters. I would call it a moe science-fiction fantasy: it's real moe, and real science fiction.What... | | |
| 1:22am | stupidity with fansubs: animenext day 2 |  | | | Between generally feeling exhausted from being up since 7:30am to the fact that the subway line that goes to our apartment was shut down for the weekend, thus making us not too excited about taking a roundabout way home at midnight, we went home early. We just ended up spending almost the entire day... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 2:30am | The Votes Have Been Counted, The Hottest Couple In Anime Today Is… | | | | Hey cute anime fans, earlier this week we asked you to vote for your favorite couple from an anime series currently airing on TV in Japan today. And you voted in large numbers, but after a grueling primary campaign season of 5 whole days, the race is finally over, but will the loser concede defeat... | | |
| 6:55pm | Anime Blog Awards -- Thanks, Bloggers | | | | The full results of the Anime Blog Awards are now out. Thank you, bloggers, for voting this the bloggers' choice as top seiyuu blog. And congratulations to j1m0ne for being chosen top seiyuu blog by the public. I like my blog, but I voted for her.A great big thank you to Impz and all the people who came... | | |
| 8:36pm | Kaleido Star Anime, Volume 2 (English) | | | | For anime fans in general, but more specifically for fans romantic pairings, there's a delicious moment when one of the couple starts getting very irritated at his/her reaction to the other one. Often that irritated reaction is the sum and total of their personality, spawning any number of tsun-xyz combinations.... | | |
| 2:18pm | Simoun | | | | Name: Simoun Genre: Science Fiction Year: 2006 Rating: Enjoyable Simoun is set in a world called Daikuuriku. In this earth like planet the inhabitants are all born female and are given the chance to choose their sex at the age of seventeen. The nation of Simulacrum wields the powerful technology of... | | |
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