| 9:10pm | Summer 09 Anime - First impressions, part two |  | | | I believe summer should be all about the beach, the blue sea, and girls in bikinis with light swords. I believe summer should be all about the beach, the deep blue sea, girls in bikinis and, of course, light swords. Thanks everyone for all the comments to the first... | | |
| 1:59am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-2: Analysis, Thoughts and Random Comments | | | | [Disclaimer]: This entry might contain MINOR spoilers. However, while the analysis might push you to these minor spoilers, NO foretelling spoiler is present. Therefore, please follow the same guideline, and understand that any spoiler can just ruin this critical part of the story for any reader. ... | | |
| 10:54pm | Summer 2009 Anime Impressions – Umi Monogatari (Sea Story) | | | | I’ll remind readers that as of last season, I started to hold off on doing anime impression posts until I saw at least a couple of episodes because I wanted a more accurate representation of the show and oftentimes one episode isn’t enough. This might put these posts a week or two behind other blogs... | | |
| 5:02pm | NYAFF Double Feature - I’m Your Toy, Your 20th Century Boy |  | | | Why do we care so much whenever our favorite novel, comic, or cartoon is adapted into a live-action movie? After all, we already have the original version right there in front of us, and we know that something in the story is going to be lost when squeezed into a 2-hour-long flick. So why do we care... | | |
| 12:00am | Tomino Yoshiyuki: Laughing Out Loud (LOLTOMINO in Gundam) | | | | [Spoilers for Mobile Suit Gundam, Turn A Gundam, and other works directed by Tomino] When I first tried watching the Mobile Suit Gundam Movie Trilogy, something really disturbed me. I’ve said this before, but I think it merits repeating for the sake of my subject in this post: In Soldiers of... | | |
| 7:05am | Top Seven Anime of the Spring 2009 Season | | | | The final part of my look at the best of the spring season is the countdown of the best titles of the season. This is always a difficult process since I enjoy so many different types of shows and there’s no clear-cut way of comparing a slice-of-life show to a shounen action show to a thought provoking... | | |
| 1:53am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Episode 1-2: First Move | | | | The Ushiromiya family is finally reunited on Rokkenjima on the 4th october 1986. However, as the typhoon is engulfing the island, an harbringer is sealing this family meeting into madness and mystery. ______________________________ ______________________________ ___ During dinner, Rosa is trying... | | |
| 11:03am | Rozen Maiden Traumend - Guest Review | | | | This review is going to be different from usual. Solaris has written up an in-depth essay about the themes and characters of the Rozen Maiden series. There are quite a few spoilers though, and near the end there are also some manga-spoilers, so be careful with that. ———————————————... | | |
| 12:00am | Remembering Love as Homage in Anime: Eureka SeveN x Mobile Suit Gundam | | | | [This post is infested with spoilers] Paying homage in the context of a media work is the recreation of one work of fiction in the context of another, with the referencing done as an ‘inside joke’ or an ‘easter egg’ for those familiar with the referenced work. Often this is... | | |
| 7:18am | Top Picks – Spring 2009 Anime, Part 3: VMA Awards | | | | The final set of awards before going to my top shows of the season cover the music, vocal actors, and animation aspects of this season’s anime. Or the three parts to anime that are heavily dependent on the preferences of the individual viewer. The reason I put these awards third is that in the... | | |
| 2:26pm | NYAFF Double Feature - Being a Man and Loving ‘em Too! | | | | The New York Asian Film Festival is in town this month, and for the first time ever, this blogger is taking the train into the city and catching some of the action for himself. For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting up some reviews and features from the events taking place at the IFC Center and... | | |
| 2:54pm | Umineko no Naku Koro Ni, Episode 1-1: Opening | | | | The time has finally come for Umineko. Pretty much like the other series I have blogged in the past, the summary will be in black while my comments will be colored in blue. As a VN player and leader of the translation group of the said VN, you can certainly expect few comparisons and the like: I will... | | |
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