| 6:58pm | Utena via Gurren-Lagann | | | | This isn’t really anything mind-blowing, but I find that one of the themes of Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann can be used to explain a certain aspect of the ending to Revolutionary Girl Utena in a rather straightforward fashion. As I’ll be discussing the ending to Utena, I think a spoiler warning... | | |
| 9:52am | The Top 12 Anime of 2011 – #6 to #1 | | | | Sorry to break the Hidamari Sketch streak but this was my favorite screenshot from 2011.Did you feel your ears pop just now? I know I did. We’ve finally here – the rarefied air were this year’s best anime titles inhabit.Before getting to the final countdown here’s some stats that the numerical-minded... | | |
| 9:52am | The Top 12 Anime of 2011 – #6 to #1 | | | | Sorry to break the Hidamari Sketch streak but this was my favorite screenshot from 2011.Did you feel your ears pop just now? I know I did. We’ve finally here – the rarefied air were this year’s best anime titles inhabit.Before getting to the final countdown here’s some stats that the numerical-minded... | | |
| 3:54am | Wondering What Makes a Anime “Modern” | | | | A few months ago, I started thinking about the phrase “modern anime” and what that even means. It wasn’t from reading something from other people but from looking back at the series that debuted this young decade (the 2010s). It feels like a broad term and my question can be answered... | | |
| 4:34am | Diebuster fails |  | | | It was just like FLCL, and I hated FLCL, so I completed FLCL though. It was amusingly weird and unconventional. But I don’t want to do it again. The Diebuster (aka Top wo Nerau 2) comes highly recommended, although I do not remember by whom. Perhaps by the same people who search the deep meaning... | | |
| 10:02am | Cool Products Friday, January 13, 2012 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 10:41pm | Project: Try-Saber (Part 1) | | | | Being in a rut sucks After taking a little break (and doing a little gunpla again), I really feel like doing another garage kit and with my backlog as big as it is, you’d think that there’d be no problem finding one which I really felt like working on. But after working on a really big project... | | |
| 2:29am | Nippon Ichi Software America Announce Acquisition of Brave10 |  | | | LEFT: Lets be honest, who can resist a piece of Phantom Brave artwork? Get it Phantom BRAVE! (Ahahaha) Nippon Ichi Software America today announced that they had acquired the license for the upcoming anime release of Brave10 and of course would be doing one of their special premium releases of it at... | | |
| 2:42am | REPOST – The Speakeasy #002: Heart of Fire, Go Nagai VS. Gurren Lagann | | | | Drink #002: Heart of Fire, Go Nagai VS. Gurren Lagann RSS Feed - iTunes Feed This is THE match-up of manly madness made for men who marvel at mechanical monsters. The battle for the hearts and minds for those who love robot designs. A grudge match started in the land of the rising sun... | | |
| 7:05am | CKS on EDs of Hanamaru | | | | I must’ve missed it back when it was posted: (One interesting note is that according to ANN Mizushima also directed Hanamaru Kindergarten, which had a startlingly interesting set of ending animations that are well worth tracking down on their own; each one did its own little mini-story in various... | | |
| 2:59am | Heroines and heroes, and a new poll | | | | Balsa (Seirei no Moribito) is the most heroic character in anime according to visitors to this site, followed by Simon (Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann), Homura Akemi (Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica), Kenshin Himura (Samurai X; Rurouni Kenshin) and Vash the Stampede (Trigun). Others receiving votes are Edward... | | |
| 12:00am | The Trap of Comparing Vinland Saga With Berserk | | | | Is obvious but I fall for it anyway. I’ll live. I’ve this thing for historical fiction (e.g. The Masters of Rome; series of novels by Colleen McCullough) , or fiction that presents itself as some kind of historical record (e.g. The Red Book of Westmarch, a.k.a. The Lord of The Rings). Vinland Saga... | | |
| 12:00am | The Trap of Comparing Vinland Saga With Berserk | | | | Is obvious but I fall for it anyway. I’ll live. I’ve this thing for historical fiction (e.g. The Masters of Rome; series of novels by Colleen McCullough) , or fiction that presents itself as some kind of historical record (e.g. The Red Book of Westmarch, a.k.a. The Lord of The Rings). Vinland Saga... | | |
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