| 12:00pm | Guest Post: Whatever You Do, Whatever You Watch | | | | I recently connected with Japes, a commenter on our blog and a new aniblogger, through our new Facebook account. I asked Japes to write a piece for us, a task which he graciously took on. The result is below. I think you’ll really enjoy it. Japes is a full-time computer science major and... | | |
| 8:00pm | Light novel awareness for the indifferent anime fan. | | | | “When we’re talking about a manga, you check both out, saying how the original work has its own goodness” Something I find interesting about many anime fans is their apparent lack of knowledge and interest in Japanese light novels. Typically, anime are not the first form of media released... | | |
| 11:55am | Good and Bad Design in Japan | | | | There are many reasons to like a given anime series, including a truly fresh story approach, characters with endearing moe features, wanting to study the technical aspects of creating high-quality animation, or, well, fanservice and pantsu. I often find myself drawn to shows with a high level of design,... | | |
| 6:54pm | Mixing drama and comedy in anime |  | | | A common element of anime – or any TV show or movie for that matter – is the mixing of comedy in an otherwise dramatic story. Usually the overall story and themes are serious, but the show also has its share of comic relief and slapsticks to break up the tension. For me, the mixing of drama... | | |
| 9:00am | Winter 2013 Mid-Season Anime Report: Part 1 | | | | Did the 2011 Earthquake not teach the Japanese about the dangers of putting a power plant that close to open water without adequate protection?Or the Summer mid-season anime report if one happens to live south of the equator. Realistically if there were no new good anime series this season would still... | | |
| 9:57pm | MaoYu Maou Yuusha -- characters/seiyuus | | | | Koshimizu Ami and Fukuyama Jun are back in roles similar to those they played in Spice and Wolf, and they are just as good this time around.But they are also surrounded by some big names: Saitou Chiwa, Tomatsu Haruka, Touyama Nao, Sawashiro Miyuki, Kamiya Hiroshi, Fukuen Misato, Hirakawa Daisuke, even... | | |
| 4:21am | Briefly noted | | | | Here’s an earlier, very different version of the Mononoke Hime story. You can see some additional Miyazaki art here. ***** Against my better judgment, I sampled some current and recent shows. Avatar invoked Milton Friedman in his discussion of Maoyu Maou Yuusha, so I took a look at it. The story... | | |
| 7:47am | Maoyu, take it out and trade |  | | | Maoyu is really interesting. Maou, or demon king, is actually a girl, or queen, demon queen, and she was like a Cleopatra, well, she didn’t roll off from the carpet, but yes, she used her abundant oppai to break the hero’s will to fight. And her final plan is to end the war between the... | | |
| 1:07pm | I’m coming back | | | | I think Summer 2013 will force me to return to watching anime. I’ve ignored anime for too long. But with the coming of Tsukihime, and even a new season of Spice and Wolf and the last season of Full Metal Panic, plus great manga adaptations such as Otoyomegatari, Yankee-kun to Megane-chan, and Yotsubato,... | | |
| 4:41pm | King of Thorn – Anime Film Review |  | | | Title: King of Thorn Published by: Madman Entertainment (Australia) | Funimation Entertainment (North America) Based on: King of Thorn manga series by Yuji Iwahara Audio: Hybrid Dub Subtitles: English Runtime: 110 Minutes Cost: $29.99 on DVD / $39.99 on Blu-ray Special Thanks: Madman for kindly... | | |
| 3:50am | Winter 2013 First Impression Rankings (and crappy short opinions) | | | | A quick summary of the first impressions of winter 2013:1. Tamako MarketThis is Kyoto Animation doing what they do best, where they will be able to do their best.2. Minami-ke TadaimaBetter than the last three seasons combined.3. Maoyuu Maou YuushaThis is Spice and Wolf upsized; more cutesy romance, more... | | |
| 11:43pm | Bi-Monthly Music Feature, Volume #02 |  | | | Round two! I didn’t forget! A victory for everybody involved. fromadistance – historieI discovered fromadistance shortly after writing the last feature so I’ve been excited about including them in this one. While I would also HIGHLY reccomend Duende and Eureka, we’re going to... | | |
| 7:30am | Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 04 |  | | | ME FEMALE KNIGHT! ME ANGRRRRY! Summary:Love it! The newly arrived Female Knight gets all angsty when she realizes that Yuusha has long left and quickly reverts to her former knight self as she takes Maoyuu’s students under her wing in sparring.Episode 4′s edition of ‘why we all watch... | | |
| 7:30am | Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 04 | | | | ME FEMALE KNIGHT! ME ANGRRRRY! Summary:Love it! The newly arrived Female Knight gets all angsty when she realizes that Yuusha has long left and quickly reverts to her former knight self as she takes Maoyuu’s students under her wing in sparring.Episode 4′s edition of ‘why we all watch... | | |
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