| 8:51am | The Greatest Generation (Civilization: The Road To War – A Let’s Play Attempt) | | | | I Kind Of Wish I Could Be Playing This On Multiplayer With Ghost or Myssa Rei as The Philippines But What Are Ya Gonna Do Yeah well, I know I was supposed to be doing a write up of the great people feature for this installment of my Civilization IV exploits, but as everyone can probably see I struggled... | | |
| 8:50am | The Greatest Generation (Civilization: The Road To War – A Let’s Play Attempt) | | | | I Kind Of Wish I Could Be Playing This On Multiplayer With Ghost or Myssa Rei as The Philippines But What Are Ya Gonna Do Yeah well, I know I was supposed to be doing a write up of the great people feature for this installment of my Civilization IV exploits, but as everyone can probably see I struggled... | | |
| 4:25am | U | | | | I just got to see the French feature-length production U (2006) directed by Serge Elissalde and written and designed by Gregoire Solotareff. A few adjectives that immediately spring to mind to describe this delightful film: fresh, bright, meandering, relaxed, tender. There's no other feature-length... | | |
| 11:45pm | Sora no Woto episode 11 review; Filicia, you can’t stop what’s coming | | | | This episode begins while winter is in full swing with Kureha and Kanata conducting a patrol that was ordered by HQ. While deep in the back country, near the observation stations, Kanata spots a fallen person in the snow. When Kanata and Kureha are examining the fallen woman they discover... | | |
| 2:25am | Summer Wars | | | | It’s been a damn long time since I’ve posted anything here, and I wasn’t planning on reviewing this, but as I watched it, the post constructed itself in my head and by the end it seemed crying out to be written. Summer Wars is a movie directed by Mamoru Hosada, the same director who... | | |
| 11:13pm | Sword of the Stranger and 2D Power | | | | Producer Masahiko Minami and director Masahiro Ando of studio Bones created Sword of the Stranger as a desire to show the strengths of hand drawn animation in an action film. This is a particularly interesting goal to put forth considering hand drawn animation shrinks in relevance every year. Advances... | | |
| 12:00am | Gundam Ecole du Ciel is so Doomed Moe | | | | A collaboration of incompetents, no matter how diligent or well-meaning, cannot be successful.Michael Schrage The Law of the Vital Few tells us that 20% or even lower of the contributors are responsible for 80% of the desirable results. Applied to the evaluation of military organizations, particularly... | | |
| 5:44am | Ookami Kakushi: A More Satisfying 07th Expansion Anime Than Umineko | | | | Over the last two weeks I caught up with watching Ookami Kakushi. The last time I had watched it was when I spent my 21st birthday immersing myself in everything 07th Expansion. I watched the first two episodes and after only that I was pretty much able to formulate a solid theory which later proved... | | |
| 7:15pm | Final Fantasy XIII PS3 vs Xbox 360 Definitive Comparison |  | | | A detailed comparison of the PS3 and Xbox 360 releases of marathon sim Final Fantasy XIII concludes that the Xbox 360 version is indeed significantly inferior to the PS3 original, and even goes so far as to ridicule the game for its now legendary linearity. Expert comparison yields a series of comparison... | | |
| 10:59pm | The Sensualist | | | | In the 54 years from his sexual awakening at the age of 7 until the age of 61, Yonosuke had relations with 3740 women and 725 men. So we learn about the protagonist of Ihara Saikaku's 17th century novel The Sensualist in this animated adaptation, which is directed by erstwhile art director Yukio Abe,... | | |
| 6:10am | Do I Like Sora no Woto? | | | | Sora no Woto was one of my most anticipated shows of the winter season. I had high expectations of it since it was supposed to be my replacement K-ON for the season but after a couple of episodes I realized it actually wasn’t what I was wishing for. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing but... | | |
| 3:30am | The 2008 Doraemon movie | | | | Though you might be surprised that I'd expect otherwise, this year's Doraemon movie looks terrible. The series had a streak of solid films starting with the revamped 2006 film directed by Ayumu Watanabe and featuring a bevy of great animators headed by animation director Kenichi Konishi. The new film... | | |
| 4:06am | The Anime Diet State of the Union Address |  | | | The Anime Diet State of the Union Address – By Ray Hu, representing all for this moment in time. February 26, 2010 My fellow Otakus: As Anime Diet enters its third year, I’m reminded of the tracks that we have carved in the history of anime fandom. As fellow anime lovers, or otakus, if you so dare,... | | |
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