| 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 ~ Â¥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.... | | |
| 4:00am | Series Review: The Skull Man |  | | | Story: Ootomo City is home to rumors of a mysterious “skeleton man” that haunts the night and may also be responsible for a recent series of bizarre murders. Hayate Mikogami, a tabloid reporter and former resident of Ootomo, chooses to return to his hometown to investigate the Skull Man... | | |
| 10:28am | July Summary | | | | July 2007 Rankings As you can see, this section’s got a few new features. Someone requested to give out series ratings of the past month, and I decided to give it a try. Rating individual episodes was clearly a bad idea, but I liked the idea of monthly ratings, so I decided to let my rating system... | | |
| 5:17pm | In Brief - The Skull Man just fucked my mind | | | | Featuring the final episodes of two series today - Moonlight Mile and The Skull Man - and, well, let’s just say that one of them made a lasting impression on me, while the other didn’t. And for some reason, I suddenly got this terrible urge to re-watch R.O.D the TV - but since I still | | |
| 7:58am | mini-talk ep06: Moving sucks. | | | | Reviews on Gurren Lagann 09-11, Dennou Coil 04, and Skull Man 05-07. Also, a first look on Seirei no Moribito.[audio:http://yspduh. com/podcast/audio/podcast/06.m p3]Download Here | Subscribe with FeedBurner.Running Time: 15:59Podcast Record Date: July 04, 2007I actually recorded and edited this bit... | | |
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