| 2:27am | Hashi-hime on 2007 |  | | | HH Hashi rolls out her year-end summary, and opens it with: Another great year. Maybe not as great as 2006, which produced three classics: Simoun, NANA, and Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu. But 2007 was full of interesting shows. What can I say. “Thanks for the warning” would be most appropriate,... | | |
| 10:07pm | 2007 -- The Year in Anime | | | | Another great year. Maybe not as great as 2006, which produced three classics: Simoun, NANA, and Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu. But 2007 was full of interesting shows.The top ones for me are one show from last spring -- Lucky Star -- and two from this fall -- ef ~a tale of memories~ and Blue Drop: Tenshitachi... | | |
| 5:47pm | Perspectives About Fansubbing | | | | If opinions are like pieholes and everyone’s got one, then this blog post is like a public toilet? I kid. But more seriously people do need to think about the whole fansubbing fiasco with the open letter and what not. I took the time to compile a small list of general schools of thoughts regarding... | | |
| 10:15pm | Attempting to Write a Holiday Shopping Guide Is Harder Than It Should Be | | | | So this year, like the past few, I’m doing some gift-giving over the internet. There are some charitable causes I usually support, such as Penny-Arcade’s Child’s Play. I also do my usual holiday gifting just to personal friends and family. It can be hard to find a good present for... | | |
| 10:48am | Gundam 00 - 08 | | | | I admit: the political roots of this series have been quite interesting, and they’re a good reason to watch this series, but the creators do need to put more effort into the characters. As usual, my main problem is with Setsuna again: he yet again surpassed his stupidity with this episode, when... | | |
| 12:48am | i’m not buying any dvds because anime IS worthless |  | | | While this topic was percolating in my head, my first thought was about DVD prices. I thought it was clever how Media Blasters wasn’t dubbing Simoun and was only charging $20 (MSRP) for Simoun. I wondered if there was a way to offering streaming or downloadable episodes shortly after they air... | | |
| 12:27am | Anti-fansub hysteria today | | | | Justin Sevakis (founder of ANN) takes the old rhethoric to the new heights (via Nigorimasen). He does not bother to establish the culpability of fansubbers, simply taking it for granted. And why should he? Even the industry outsiders toe the party line and blame “clueless distributors, selfish... | | |
| 11:09am | Winter Season Preview | | | | Whoa, this is one of the smallest seasons we’ve had in years! To give some numbers, this preview consists out of only thirteen series (I left out the continuations of the series that I haven’t seen like Ah My Goddess, Minami-Ke and Major, and yes, one day I WILL watch Aria). And yet, I’m... | | |
| 12:26pm | Gundam 00 - 07 | | | | Oh god the episode was quite good, but unfortunately one of my fears has been confirmed with this episode: the Gundam-suits become more powerful as their pilots become more emo. That’s why Veda chose teenagers to be the pilots, as their chance of losing it is much higher than with an adult.... | | |
| 8:52pm | Praise Tempus Spatium | | | | The first DVD volume of Simoun showed up in my mailbox earlier this week. I only just got around to watching it last night, and I have to say: as striking a show as Simoun was the first time around, it looks ever more spectacular on DVD. Oh, how I love Kobayashi Shichiro’s backgrounds. In... | | |
| 7:55pm | Yuri Anime: Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl, Volume 3 (Japanese) | | | | Today's review was brought to you by the kindness of the good folks at Media Blasters, who also inform me that the street date for the second volume of Simoun is February 26, 2008. Something to look forward to in the depths of the winter blues. :-)I need to warn you all before you continue reading -... | | |
| 9:02am | [Manga] Yurihime Wildrose Part 2 | | | | [Posted @ 3:09 PM]Ichijinsha - Comic Yurihime has published an ecchish yuri manga titled 'Yurihime Wildrose' [百合姫 Wildrose] on 18th October 2007 along with latest issue, 'Yurihime Volume 10'. This will be Part 2 of my review, click here to view Part 1 of my review. As this is primarily a PG-13... | | |
| 7:05pm | Yuri Anime: Simoun, Volume 1 (English) | | | | So, last week, we were talking about managing expectations in order to enjoy anime more.And there I was this weekend, staring at Volume 1 of Simoun and wondering - how on earth would I manage my expectations of *this*? lolHere's the dilemma - I loved Simoun. I named it the best Yuri series of 2006 and... | | |
| 12:39am | Seirei no Moribito - 26 - End |  | | | Final Impressions - Series Review For better or for worse Seirei no Moribito will probably go down as the best show you did not see in 2007, much like another show of last year, Simoun. The latter show is an entirely different topic all together, so let us shift our focus back to the show at hand.... | | |
| 1:03pm | Managing Expectations to Maximize Anime Enjoyment | | | | So. I'm watching Nanoha StrikerS and two of my chief minions, Serge and Sean, keep telling me how much the fandumb hates it. Apparently it is not epic enough, or loli enough or Yuri enough or something else enough. Or too much of all of the above. Or something else.One of the most laughable complaints... | | |
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