| 8:58pm | Mental Health in ‘Devil’s Crossroads’ | | | | Kunizuka Yayoi’s Hue gets clouded due to her getting upset over her purchase requests being ignored. The alarm goes off and a pacifying gas is released. Wards are sometimes locked 24 hours a day. Access to telephones and other means of communicating with the outside world are severely restricted.... | | |
| 3:50pm | The Garden of Words – Review | | | | Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship... | | |
| 1:49am | The ubiquitousness of trains in Makoto Shinkai films | | | | From The Place Promised in Our Early Days, showing the integration between nature and technology To celebrate the release of Makoto Shinkai’s most recent film, The Garden of Words (apparently there are BD rips out already), let’s take a look at his previous works, with special emphises on... | | |
| 4:23pm | Persona 4 The Animation Volume 2 (Blu-ray) (Episodes 10-17) – Anime Review |  | | | Title: Persona 4 the Animation Volume 2 Encompasses: Episodes 10-17 Published by: Madman Entertainment (Australia / New Zealand) Based on: Persona 4 on the Playstation 2 / Playstation Vita Genre: Murder Mystery, Comedy, Drama, Action-Adventure etc Audio: English and Japanese Dubs Subtitles: English... | | |
| 10:45am | Artbook Review – Atelier: Artworks of Arland ~ Rorona & Totori & Meruru ~ |  | | | Title: Atelier: Artworks of Arland ~ Rorona & Totori & Meruru ~ Publisher: Udon Entertainment Series: Atelier Series – Alchemists of Arland Trilogy Format: Softcover Pages: 256 Release Date: Out Now Special Thanks: Udon Entertainment for providing me with a review copy of this title... | | |
| 7:02am | Artbook Review – Bottle Fairy Funbook: Tokumi Yuiko Illustrations |  | | | I have decided that I would do something a little bit different this weekend and rather than review anime or video games, I would go through my small collection of artbooks and pick out a couple of them to review at random. These will include ones currently available to the English-language market such... | | |
| 5:00pm | Steins;Gate – Who Put a Harem in My Time Travel? / Compressed Second Halves | | | | Steins;Gate is based on a visual novel, which may explain some of the idiosyncrasies that I’ve noticed and which weirded me out while watching the show. Not all of them, mind, since some of them are probably there to keep you off your feet. A visual novel for those who don’t know is a video... | | |
| 6:44pm | Ongoing Investigations: Case #217 | | | | Just when I thought I would have no new Type-Moon manga to talk about I found the first 2 chapters of Tsuki no Sango. Tsuki no Sango is an interesting little project that had Saizensen pair together Kinoko Nasu and Maaya Sakamoto for a short story. It started as Sakamoto reading the story while animation... | | |
| 5:47pm | Summer Anime 2013 – Summaries, PVs, Links and Rants | | | | So it’s not quite the end of the Spring Anime yet, but it’s getting quite close.Out of curiosity, I went off to see what’s on for this Summer, and thought I’d share it here on Manga Weekend (It’s been a long, long while since I’ve done on of these posts!) I’ve pretty much got all the... | | |
| 9:23pm | The Alien in Eureka Seven | | | | Note: This article is also available at Ideas Without End HERE With the second half of episode 31 of Eureka Seven, the real nature of the series’ apparent antagonist is shown. Dewey – who has previously only been seen as a perversely parental equivalent to Holland – and Koda are speaking... | | |
| 7:39pm | Summer 2013 Anime Season Preview | | | | It’s summer! That means swimming and beaches and swimsuits and hot firm bodies under the sun with their chests and their abs sweating with the heat and exhaustion and oh those firm, firm bodies *cough* where was I? Oh right yes, anime! That medium that has nothing to do with swimming at all.... | | |
| 1:20pm | Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge - 09 | | | | It's not too often an anime makes me feel as if I'm seeing something truly fresh, but this one does so over and over.I've made reference to "Strange & Beautiful" by Aqualung (Matt Hales) on the blog before - the album specifically, in reference to Zetsuen no Tempest. But I think... | | |
| 2:48am | Japan Trip 2013 Journey and Ikebukuro Chapter | | | | It’s been almost a month since I have returned from my Japan Trip, with the primary objective to attend Dolpa 29 in Tokyo, to secure the incredibly popular limited Dollfie Dream Asuna (I will do my DP29 report in a separate blog post), shopping and sightseeing in the surrounding area. While... | | |
| 6:14am | Episode Review: Photo Kano Episodes 3-5 | | | | The first two episodes of Photo Kano come across as mostly light fluff, with an occasional serious moment. The main relationship was very clear, and the level of fan service was surprisingly low, given the nature of the story-line. The next three episodes both raise and lower the bar in various ways.... | | |
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