| 12:00am | January 2007 -- New Anime | | | | After three amazing seasons of anime, the season that starts in January may be a bit of a respite. But that's what I always think, and then the shows that seemed as if they would be ordinary turn out to be great. In January, I'm most looking forward to Nodame Cantabile and Les Miserables. These | | |
| 12:00am | Kanon (2006, Review) | | | | First introduced as a game of questionable content for the "mature' rating, Kanon was later introduced as an anime in 2002. This article will be reviewing the 2006 release of Kanon by Kyoto Animation. Since I have not watched the 2002 version nor played the game before, this is my first exposure | | |
| 12:00am | Karin (2006, Review) | | | | You know the drill when it comes to vampires. Nasty monsters with the tendency to drink blood, preferably fresh from the neck of unsuspecting victims, all cloaked in gothic cape and costume and tends to shy away from sunbathing activities.But then, Karin is on the polar opposite of all things vampy.... | | |
| 12:00am | Karin Review | | | | KarinGenre: Comedy, Romance, SupernaturalAir Date: November 2005Episode Count: 24Karin Maaka is the middle child in a family of vampires living in Japan. However, unlike the rest of her family, she does not need to suck blood from humans. Instead, her blood level increases to the point that she needs... | | |
| 12:00am | Lesbian Animation: Plica-chan | | | | The second half of Yuri Hime "S" is as variable as the first. What was good was really pretty good, and what was bad was exhaustingly tedious."Interface" by Kurogane Kenn (Shoujo Sect) was unexpected in every conceivable way. The story begins with a girl walking in on another girl drawing a stick figure... | | |
| 12:00am | Manabi no Geass - I probably should have tried Nodame | | | | Code Geass - Manabi of the RebellionThe splash on your-mom's episode 23 sub of Code Geass was title, "Suzumiya Haruhi no Geass." It cracked me up. Really, I had to pause the video to recover a little.Anyway, I wanted to see what this would look like. I tried for about 5 minutes to get a better quality... | | |
| 12:00am | My favorite anime of 2006 -- Simoun, Suzumiya, NANA, et al. | | | | I'm already looking at what new shows are coming up in January, so perhaps it's time to look back over 2006.What a year it was! I sat down to do a personal top ten and came up with a top three or a top fifteen. And the top three are competitors not just for the top anime of this year, but for my | | |
| 12:00am | My Ten Favorite Voice Actresses | | | | Ten favorite female seiyuu? I have too many favorites, but here are tenwhose presence alone will make me eager to watch a series. They are not necessarily the best seiyuus, although most of them are among the best. Nor are they the most famous seiyuus, although some of them are that. There are even | | |
| 12:00am | RAY The Animation - 01 | | | | What's this? A new anime that I actually like? I have a feeling that this medical drama spliced with kung-fu nurses will be knocked under the radar -which is a shame, because this is so much better than the rest I have seen so far! It tramples all over the very overrated and crap anime that is The Melancholy... | | |
| 12:00am | Seiyuu Awards -- Hirano Aya | | | | This photo of Aaya on her way home from the awards is what led me to make this post. It amazed me, as it amazed posters to her 2channel thread, that dolled up as she is she is going home, not in a taxi, but on a public train. And her tired and forlorn expression struck them as it strikes me. Perhaps... | | |
| 12:00am | Seiyuu Awards Ceremony -- winners | | | | The First Annual Seiyuu Awards ceremony was held in Tokyo Saturday night. Paku Romi won for best female lead, and Fukuyama Jun for best male lead. Hirano Aya, Koshimizu Ami, Morita Masakazu, Gotou Yuuko, and Kano Yui were among the other winners. (mouseover photos for captions; click to enlarge)The | | |
| 12:00am | Seiyuu Awards Nominees | | | | A new awards presentation will take place on March 3 in Tokyo: the Seiyuu Awards. The competition has been organized by the Tokyo Anime Centre and various companies and organizations to select the seiyuu that "left the deepest impression" with their work during the year.Here are the nominees (in | | |
| 12:00am | Sola 2: Look up at the blue (ミアゲルアオ) | | | | From this year's spring anime lineup that I have seen, Sola, Hayate no Gotoku and Lucky Star are the series I am looking forward to see the most.Continuing the fight from the first episode, the cornered Matsuri is saved when Yorito makes his appearance. Taking advantage of the distraction, she jumps... | | |
| 12:00am | Sola 3: Calm day (オダヤカナヒ) | | | | Before going to school on this calm day, Yorito got an earful of advice from Matsuri. Just as Yorito opens the door to go to school, he is surprised to see Mana standing right in front of his house. After a moment of panic, he calms down when he realize Matsuri has went in before Mana can see her.Later... | | |
| 12:00am | Spring 2006 Anime - Midterms | | | | The Spring 2006 anime season has been full of surprises. Of the four new shows I'm following, I'd only intended on watching one of them. Most of the shows I'd been planning to watch either turned out disappointing or haven't been subbed (although the latter isn't really a good excuse, since I can understand... | | |
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