| 4:17am | Cel vs digital: does animation style affect overall quality? |  | | | (Left) Lina from Slayers Next, 1995; (Right) Lina from Slayers Revolution, 2008 Ever since all anime switched from cel animation to digital animation back in the early 2000s, there has been some debate among fans about whether story/character quality has decreased even though animation techniques have... | | |
| 10:09pm | Final Thoughts: Slayers Revolution | | | | With the Sword of Light lost during the events of Slayers Try, Lina and Gourry are on the lookout for a new weapon for the hapless swordsman- but as so often seems to happen, trouble gets stirred up along the way. Whilst Lina’s destructive ways finally draw the attention of the authorities, she also... | | |
| 11:33am | Anime Sales Rankings Feb. 6 - Clannad & Macross On Top |  | | | These are the sales rankings for anime DVDs as compiled by Oricon for the week of Feb. 6 2009. In addition, the much longed for availability of BD sales rankings is slowly arriving, albeit still lacking exact sales numbers and being reported with a significant delay. It has been some time since we... | | |
| 2:05am | Slayers:Evolution-R must spawn more Overlords | | | | Given how disappointed I was with Slayers: Revolution, I should have had much lower expectations of Slayers: Evolution-AARGH. But it seems fanboy hope springs eternal as I was disappointed with the first episode, especially the lack lustre OP song. While I’m in agreement with Aroduc and Star Crossed... | | |
| 6:03pm | Funi’s Licensing Spree: What They Got, And What They Seem To Have Missed |  | | | Funimation had been seriously hyping up their New Year’s “New Show A-Go-Go” licensing announcement spree. They left clues hidden around their website for us to decipher, and promised a new show announcement every day for 10 days up until New Year’s Eve (starting on 12/22). Turned... | | |
| 5:10pm | 2008/2009 Winter Anime Menu | | | | Super delayed preview, as always! woohoo!! Better late than never, right? It’s that time of the year when the chefs get together and actually post something to bring you this comprehensive list of animes due this season. Without further ado, we bring to you this almost complete list of this sequel-filled... | | |
| 4:52pm | Anime Vice Check-In 01/01/09 | | | | Happy New Year, everyone! This will probably be the last time I do one of these check-ins, although I’m looking into having a plug-in that’ll round up the Anime Vice twitter daily. We’ll see if I can find something. In the mean time Tuesday 12/23 - Haruhi-chan Beats Haruhi by a Mile... | | |
| 9:53am | Problems on the blog front | | | | Every time I try to save a revision to a published post, it just goes to a blank page under http://hontouni.com/souomou/wp -admin/post.php The post gets truncated to plus/minus 350 words T_T [continued from previous post] Figures expenditure amounted to around SGD 300. The year’s acquisitions... | | |
| 8:35am | HNSO 2008 Expenditure | | | | [Having a LOT of problems operating the blog now. Not sure if it's the WP install, my host or my internet connection. Can't enable comments either - like it's got the Author virus or something.] I’ve read Stripey and Adun’s 2008 expenditure reports with great interest and have to say from... | | |
| 1:05pm | Best Anime of 2008 | | | | Maybe it’s because I didn’t watch as many anime as I did last year due to work, but it seems like the overall quality of anime released this year wasn’t as high as last year. That doesn’t mean that the series that came out this year are bad. It’s just I find that there... | | |
| 6:28am | Funimation’s New Show A-Go-Go Day 8: Slayers Revolution | | | | AstroNerdBoy ends up looking like a genius as he guesses right on the final true “mysterious” new Funimation title, which is the recently aired Slayers Revolution, the fourth season in the Slayers franchise. There is still a slight question whether this license includes Slayers Evolution-R... | | |
| 11:59am | Winter 2008 / 2009 TV Anime Digest |  | | | The coming end-of-year means the end of several TV anime, but will also usher in a new crop of new shows to take their places (and timeslots.) Presented here is a digest of new anime shows scheduled to begin in January 2009, including premiere date, normal weekly airtime, and a brief synopsis of the... | | |
| 5:10am | Slayers Revolution 01 |  | | | I wish I could say that it was the shittiest shit ever shat down the shitter, because this is how it felt. But actually the show was very nice if one can get over the characters and story that welcome fecal comparisons, so I cannot say that. Especially Lina is sure controversial. Fig 1. Lina quotes... | | |
| 1:46am | Slayers Evolution-R Air Details |  | | | Details on the airing of the next season of Slayers Revolution, cunningly titled Slayers Evolution-R, have been announced; we hear that the first broadcast will be 9PM on the 12th of January, 2009, on AT-X. It’s yet not clear whether other stations will carry the series. It looks as if Slayers enjoys... | | |
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