| 2:47am | An Embarrassing Confession… | | | | I actually am liking Nanoha Strikers.OH NO NOW I MUST BURN IN OTAKU HELL!I identified a few factors to account for this strange phenomenon:I’ve seen the original and A’s. The constant references to it make for an associated sense of superiority, where you think you know more than the new... | | |
| 9:31pm | Skull Man, ep. 4: The Ghost Monorail… and Nietzsche | | | | Skull Man, ep. 4: “The Walking Ghost” (Sanpo suru yuurei)Hayato and Kiriko’s investigations lead to another urban legend called the “Ghost Monorail.” What will Hayato find when he takes a ride? Summary and thoughts following the pics (click to enlarge):Hayato visits | | |
| 11:19pm | El Cazador de la Bruja - Episode 06: Man in Love (or, “Never trust a… | | | | Not a very good episode, even considering the standard set by the series so far. The premise might’ve had the potential for a genuinely entertaining one-shot story that would’ve provided acute insights on Nadie’s past, but the execution is simply flawed, and the story doesn’t... | | |
| 10:19pm | school days: when an eroge’s bad end beats the good end |  | | | While I personally think that it’s a little bit too early to start with the summer season preview, I’m curious about School Days. I’m not really interested in watching it, but rather just how they handle it. First of all, I don’t want to watch it because the voice acting | | |
| 8:42pm | The Skull Man, ep. 3: Wolves, Angels, and Macbeth | | | | Skull Man, ep. 3: The Scarlet Rain Falls in the Afternoon (Shinku no ame wa gogo in furu)The Skull Man has locked in on the next target and Kiriko manages to witness the dangerous battle that ensues. Plus, we get a bit of Shakespeare in an anime not titled “Romeo X Juliet” :p | | |
| 8:36am | Mirei San |  | | | View the rest of this post ( 50 images )Kotobukiya delivered my Mirei on the day of release but I returned it due to shoddy paint work around her lower pair of eyes. They were pretty good about replacing her for me but I had to wait a while as it was Golden Week at the time.Went absolutely crazy | | |
| 5:12am | The Skull Man Episode 3 - Crimson Rain Falls In The Afternoon | | | | Spoilers! Well, sort of. It is only the third episode, but I guess I wasn’t quite expecting this.The actress Yui receives a death threat which is reported in the papers; her assistant Sayoko, an ex-resident of Ootomo, poses as Yui in the resultant tabloid frenzy, and secretly harbours dreams... | | |
| 4:28am | The Skull Man Episode 2 - The Man From The Past | | | | Hayato goes and meets-and-greets with important players for the plot including his childhood friend-turned-priest Yoshio and Kuroshio’s daughter Maya. In the meantime, Kiriko helps spot a link between the two most recent victims of the Skull Man, and the past of “ootomo” | | |
| 3:48am | It’s that time again! Summer Season Preview. |  | | | I might be running ahead of the game but I checked out links on moonphase and I’m doing another preview post. Once again these are shows that caught my eye based on either I know something about them prior to the anime, or the character designs/artwork looks nice. By no means is this list | | |
| 2:08am | Initial D? In MY Lucky Star?! | | | | Sweet mercy, the animation, the entertainment, the fanservice, and the lulz, just shot straight through the roof this week. We are already seeing the directorial switch coming into fruition here. It's been awhile since I've been so excited for a series. 18 more episodes to go. Buckle up~... | | |
| 12:33am | Romeo x Juliet - Episode 06: “Hope” Speranza ~The Entrusted Tomorrow~ (or,… | | | | To briefly recap the end of the previous episode: The evil generic guards have gathered all men suspected of being the Red Whirlwind into a wooden cage in the middle of a square, threatening to set the cage aflame, for the sake of luring out the real Red Whirlwind. The good doctor Lancelot has | | |
| 10:26pm | Prince of Tennis NCC - 11 |  | | | Oh good, they didn't ruin this episode with Tezuka's aura nonsense. It made for a terrible episode back when he used it for the first time, but now it wasn't so bad.Summary - This episode starts off with a small flashback on how Tezuka recovered completely from his shoulder injury. Tezuka had | | |
| 10:15pm | Kamichama Karin - 06 |  | | | So while I was hoping that they’d do more on the school festival this week I guess this will be a 2 ep or 3 ep arc. Anyway Kazune’s been training Karin to learn to “run away” even if she gets a bit physically hurt. Karin is angry that he wants her to run away instead of | | |
| 4:33pm | Tohsaka Update | | | | Here’s Rin a few weeks after bending her back into shape. There’s a little bit of warp coming back, but I expected that since the inner tube she’s carrying makes for an imbalance and I didn’t do anything to counteract that weight. So, while the hot water method is a pretty good... | | |
| 3:20pm | UVERworld - endscape PV (Terra e… OP) |  | | | UVERworld's latest song endscape is featured as the opening of the series Terra e which I actually ended up watching only two episodes of (and blogged just the first). Despite that, I remember how much I liked the small bits of it played in the promos and how the TV-size version didn't quite | | |
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