| 12:00am | Spring 2007 Anime Season: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS | | | | I was going to wait for a few more episodes before I wrote about Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, but heck, I've speculated on less than two episodes, so (three, now, which made me rewrite a bit in the middle. lol)I was not the biggest fan of the original Nanoha series, but I didn't hate | | |
| 12:00am | Spring Anime Schedule and First Looks | | | | I've put together a calendar-style schedule for this spring's anime viewing, giving TV days/times in Japan, along with staff and cast highlights.The calendar shows currently broadcast shows, including those that are not new, but began in past seasons. Titles are color-coded by season, with this | | |
| 12:00am | Spring FTW | | | | There's nothing worse than when you expect something to be really good, and it turns out to be terrible. It's like taking a bite of chocolate cake and finding out what you thought was chocolate icing is, in fact, moose poop. Fortunately, so far this spring has completely lived up to the hype, and the... | | |
| 12:00am | Suzuka Episode 5 | | | | Paradise Kiss is about a girl named Yukari who is a bit of the stuck-up studious type who gets in the mix with a bunch of free-spirited fashion design students and begins a life-changing journey of self discovery yada yada yada. I've read the short 5 volume series twice, so I'm pretty familiar with... | | |
| 12:00am | Suzuka Episode 6 | | | | Paradise Kiss is about a girl named Yukari who is a bit of the stuck-up studious type who gets in the mix with a bunch of free-spirited fashion design students and begins a life-changing journey of self discovery yada yada yada. I've read the short 5 volume series twice, so I'm pretty familiar with... | | |
| 12:00am | Suzumiya Haruhi Live Event a Big Hit | | | | Some people described it as the best anime live event they had ever attended. It was the long-awaited Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou 涼宮ハルヒの激奏 show last Sunday, featuring the entire main cast of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, and especially the | | |
| 12:00am | Tengan Toppa Who-the-Hell-Animated-Ep-4? | | | | So I watched episode 4 of Tengan Toppa Gurren-Lagann and itwell, let's say the animation quality could have been better. It wasn't quite as bad as Yoakena episode 3, where I lost a perfectly good laptop by slamming it into the wall over and over as cross-eyed Feena stared vacantly out of the screen,... | | |
| 12:00am | Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann 1: Break through the Sky with your Drill! | | | | This latest action anime from Gainax is about a boy, Simon, who lives in an underground city and spend his day drilling tunnels.Why is Simon doing this sweatshop job? While most of his colleagues drill these tunnels to get delicious food as payment (steak, no less!) from the village chief who wants to... | | |
| 12:00am | Touka Gettan -- episode 6 of 26 | | | | For the English wiki, I've been translating and expanding the Japanese wiki's pages for each episode. I thought I'd spend a few more minutes and put episode 6 into a blog post. There's another summary in the Subculture Anime Blog.Ep6 is less mysterious and more comical than previous episodes. | | |
| 12:00am | Will Pino Survive? - Ergo Proxy Ep.23 The Final Episode | | | | Ergo Proxy Episode 23 The Agents/代理人/deus ex machinaThe only blog left to witness the end of time!Written by Dai Sato (of course)Sorry for the lateness of this posting. However this is a complicated episode and I am not sure whether I am getting everything right. The last episode does tie in all... | | |
| 12:00am | Winter 2007 Anime Season: Red Garden | | | | Like Code Geass, Red Garden is a series that is more properly attributed to the Autumn 2006 anime season, but I've been too lazy busy to review it until now.The plot is still a bit obscure, and I am not sure how much will be or can be explained. But in short, four high school girls learn that they | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Anime News: Simoun Licensed | | | | My secret, insider, Deep Throat informant tells me that Yuri anime Simoun has been licensed by our good friends at Media Blasters. No street date yet, but I'm doing my damndest to get a Yuricon 07 exclusive. :-)Tune in for more news as it becomes available! | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Anime: Best Student Council, Volume 1 | | | | The first of *many* thanks to Ted for sponsoring today's review! Give him a round of applause, will you? /round of applause/ Thank you kindly, sir.As a counter to a day of heavy-duty thinking and talking about work-related issues, Best Student Council, aka Gokujou Seitokai, Volume 1 is a perfect | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Anime: Kannazuki no Miko, Volume 3 | | | | All the things I liked about Kannazuki no Miko, Volume 3 are things that no one else cares aboutand ditto the things that I don't like. lolBut before I start on any of these, let me begin by thanking Daniel for his sponsorship of today's review! Yay, Daniel! Thank you kindly. :-)There is | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Anime: Maria-sama ga Miteru OAV 3, Suzukaze Satsusatsu | | | | This time, the picture and the title link will link to the Collector's Edition. For those who might want, here is a link to OAV 3 without extras.But, before I spend a review gushing about the third Maria-sama ga Miteru OAV, Suzukaze Satsusatsu, I want to finish some business from the second OAV.My | | |
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