| 2:35pm | Soul Eater 80: WOW | | | | WOW WOW WOW! That was awful! Can I go home now? No? Oh, OK."Crap! I told you we should have taken that left turn!!" Never mind the absence of Medusa, Wolf, and all those neat characterswhat Okubo is doing with the villains of the moment is ridiculous. We’re supposed to be in... | | |
| 12:51pm | Metapher und Kritik (practical) | | | | metaphor: critic is a stray Le me give some concrete examples on my use of metaphors/models in my anime posts. If you’re interested in any of them please use the Search bar (I don’t like linking to my own posts). Here we go: Exhibit One – SPC Harlock 36: Theology of Harlock Theology... | | |
| 8:31am | Fall 2010 Anime Impressions – Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru | | | | After taking the Summer season off, Shaft returns with two shows for the Fall season; the first is a sequel to my top show from Spring, Arakawa Under the Bridge, and the other one is Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru. Going into the season, I felt a little bad for this show because it was getting dealt a... | | |
| 6:03pm | Oct.12/2010 | | | | - Soul Eater Blu-ray BOX confirmed. BOX1 1/26, BOX2 3/23 26250yen. Spec hasn't changed much from what I already listed before but neowing lists English subtitles and dubbing, so that's new. Special/bonus features: Audio Commentary(1, 6, 8, 14, 19, 21, 2.. | | |
| 8:22pm | Star Driver - 02 | | | | As for the series I’m not going to blog: - Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls is just bad. Its dialogue is so camp that it becomes silly, no matter what it does. Its voice acting sucks, the premise is worthless and there’s just no hope for this one. - Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake... | | |
| 6:39pm | Oct.10/2010 | | | | - While I don't have the image confirmation, I found several difference sources regarding Soul Eater BD-BOX, so I think it's legit. Some details I found(other than:BOX1 1/26, BOX2 3/23, 26,250yen each): Audio commentary, Non-credit OP/ED, and PV. Each B.. | | |
| 5:24am | In My Mailbox – October 3rd Edition | | | | Don’t forget to enter for your chance to win a copy of Inara Scott’s Delcroix Academy: The Candidates! Click here to enter! Today is the last day to enter! In My Mailbox is a weekly meme, and it is hosted by The Story Siren. Go here for a full description of IMM. Wow, when it rains,... | | |
| 7:57am | Fall 2010 Anime Preview and Watch List | | | | With the Summer season all but over and the Fall season starting within a week, now is a good time to start getting excited about the new anime shows that will take the baton from the Summer shows and attempt to win the hearts and minds of anime fans around the world.If the Fall series succeed will only... | | |
| 11:00pm | Fall 2010 Season Preview |  | | | Well, it’s that time where our intrepid team of bloggers adds our voices to the cacophony of season preview posts. I myself only followed six shows during the summer season, but this season seems to have a lot more bulk to it. I honestly don’t know what I’ll do with myself between... | | |
| 12:39am | The curse of ep.7 |  | | | In the comments (not body) of the post at Chizumatic Steven writes that AsoIku 07 has severily tried his patience: I’m having a strange reaction today: I don’t want to watch the rest of this episode. [..] Last night I thought I’d pounce on it first thing this morning, but it’s... | | |
| 4:16pm | Manga Releases for August 2010 | | | | Tweet Square Enix, a company known for its game franchises like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, also has a manga publishing division with titles like Bamboo Blade and Zombie Loan. They announced through a July 21 Press Release that they “will launch a digital manga store serving customers in... | | |
| 10:44pm | Memo to Funimation | | | | I had been planning to purchase at the the first few discs of Soul Eater when my budget permits. However, if you force me to endure the preview of the SE dub every time I watch an episode of Baccano!, I might change my mind.1 ***** I don’t know which is more depressing: the number I don’t... | | |
| 9:13pm | Yuuki Aoi At Live Event For New Shaft/Shinbou Anime | | | | I guess Shinbou Akiyuki liked Yuuki Aoi's work in Vampire Bund, since he has now cast her as co-star in his new anime, to come out this fall: Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru.There was a live event Saturday at the "TBS Anime Festa" put on by Tokyo Broadcasting System TV. In her blog, Aoi says she cosplayed... | | |
| 4:22pm | The Treasure of Otakon 2010 | | | | I’ll start the Otakon 2010 posts with the easy post first, the loot post. When making the rounds of the dealer’s room, two item types have priority, pins (and by pins I don’t mean those crappy can badges) and art books. After that it’s a search for random junk that will never... | | |
| 8:57pm | Wakfu bonus ep | | | | One of the things people have been bringing up in my last post on what you want to see in anime is the idea of cross-pollination of animation cultures - the idea of exposing the talented animators in Japan to the style of working of, say, Disney, or France, or wherever there is a strong method of doing... | | |
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