| 5:02am | Casshern Sins Trailer |  | | | This is justwow. Even better than the Skull Man trailer, which is what I keep comparing this show to in my mind since they’re both remakes/deconstructions of classic henshin hero shows. Definitely my pick for the fall season now. | | |
| 9:02pm | In Defense of Liking Bad Anime | | | | IKnights article about his love of Karin got me thinking about if there was some forgotten or maligned anime I’ve seen that, despite my own high standards, I loved anyways. So I go to check out my MAL anime list and it turns out there’s not just one show that fits the bill, there’s... | | |
| 11:34pm | Impressions: Birdy the Mighty Decode | | | | In some ways this is a complicated first episode, as there’s a lot of names and characters thrown around that aren’t wholly relevant. On the other hand, the premise is pretty simply. Birdy, an alien cop, comes to earth to hunt a criminal and in the process accidentally kills a guy, Tsutomu,... | | |
| 12:07am | The Skull Man - 01 |  | | | Shōtarō Ishinomori is probably one of the most overlooked and most under-appreciated manga artists in the whole anime/manga fandom in America. I, for one, love a lot of his creations (especially Cyborg 009, the live action Kamen Rider series [**** yeah!], and of course, this little gem: The Skull... | | |
| 1:10pm | Ookami to koshinryo - DVD 1 |  | | | A rather large number of days ago I got the first DVD of Ookami to koshinryo, better known as Spice and Wolf, which I talked about previously when the first episode was released. I got the limited edition, which came in with a number of extra features (which still don’t justify its ~ ¥6800 price... | | |
| 8:46pm | Eureka Seven Movie to be Announced Officially in NewType | | | | Just read this over on Anime News Network: The May issue (on sale on April 10) of Kadokawa Shoten’s Newtype magazine will officially anounce that an Eureka Seven movie has been greenlit for production. Director Tomoki Kyoda (RahXephon movie), character designer Kenichi Yoshida (Overman King Gainer),... | | |
| 10:23pm | I Must Be the Only Person Actually Looking Forward to Blassreiter | | | | There is one reason alone I can’t wait for Blassreiter: its story is being done by Nitroplus. Anyone has read the blog for a while will know that I absolutely love Nitroplus, even more than Type-Moon. They have the uncanny knack of mixing together the most diverse elements into something awesome... | | |
| 11:43pm | SaiGAR 2008 - Group A, Round 1c |  | | | The Skull Man (The Skull Man) - 213Kusanagi Kenji (Kotetshushin Jeeg) - 112Robert E O Speedwagon (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood) - 262 (44.6% of 587 total votes)Balsa (Seirei no Moribito) - 245Apollo (Aquarion OVA) - 99Itoshiki Nozomu (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei) - 358 (51.0% of 702 total... | | |
| 12:04am | Quick Review - Bokura no | | | | Gonzo actually managed to spew out something good in the form of Bokura no. Music The OP was absolutely the best for the Spring 2007 season! I believe it’s the only one, aside from The Skull Man, that I sat through each and every time I watched an episode. The BG music was almost good enough... | | |
| 9:21pm | Quick Review - The Skull Man | | | | The Skull Man was yet another show I wanted to see because of bones. I haven’t read this manga or any others by the mangaka, so I had no clue where it’d go and also missed any references to other works that may have been there. (Apparently there was some reference to Cyborg 009 - I had... | | |
| 6:52pm | 2007 Sort-of Year In Review | | | | edit: you need to be viewing just the post itself to get at the pages, apparently. How bizarre! So that would be here, then. For most of this year it seems I’ve always had something else to do rather than watch anime. It figures, then, that on New Year’s Eve I can’t think of anything... | | |
| 3:41am | Twelve Anime Moments of the Year (For Me): Skull Man | | | | On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: nine SKULL MAN’s,eight SYNAPSE ATTACK’s,seven GARO’s, six OH GAWDS YUNO IS MOE!, five ZERO!, four VOLTEKKA!, three PRIMAL SCREAMS OF HOT BLOODED FURY!, two(million) RONs!, and one GIGA DRILL BREAKER! This is the ninth post in a... | | |
| 2:51pm | The Groundwork of Anime: The Music | | | | There are many aspects that come together which can make an anime good. The directing, the story, the characters, the writing, the voice acting, the animation, the design — the list goes on. If just one of these characteristics is fatally flawed, it can really put a damper on a series. Individually,... | | |
| 8:48pm | The Skull Man - Final Thoughts | | | | “Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.” - Friedrich Nietzsche It’s taken me a month and a half and two rewrites thanks to my computer crashing to get around to writing up my final thoughts on Yutaka Izubuchi’s “re-imagining” of The Skull Man.... | | |
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