| 12:24am | The Good, The Bad, and the Moe: Summer 2009 Anime Rankings | | | | 17 different shows from the summer ‘09 anime season, analyzed and ranked from the bottom up. Disclaimer: These rankings are purely a reflection of our own opinions and tastes, which are admittedly rather different from your average anime fan. Just because we don’t like a particular show... | | |
| 11:53pm | The Effects of Visual Falsehood | | | | In the Anime World Order review of Nobody’s Boy Remi, Gerald Rathkolb discusses the way in which the narrator plays with the expectations of its viewers by saying things that turn out to be completely false a short while after. If the narrator says that Remi found some money and spent it happily,... | | |
| 12:00am | Gaming Humanity in Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji | | | | After many recommendations and reading lots of hype, I watched Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji. The unsurprising part: it’s rather very good. I’ll get to that in a moment. The surprising part: I didn’t enjoy it as much as I intended. For such a thoroughly human work, I didn’t form... | | |
| 12:00am | I don’t mind mindscrews, I really don’t; so just tighten it, deeper! | | | | [SPOILERS WARNING: For Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (up to episode 08), and Bakemonogatari (up to episode 05)] Yeah I enjoyed The End of Evangelion, I even enjoyed the end of the TV series. I enjoyed Perfect Blue and Paprika. I enjoyed Akira, and enjoyed reading Bokurano. I don’t mind being messed with,... | | |
| 7:36pm | Princess Lover! #06 — Dirty Ping Pong | | | | I mean that they cheat, you perverts. Sorry, my presence is mandatory at a party tonight for my newly engaged sister. If I don’t get these done now, I may not get them done until tomorrow. You’ll survive the LQ. Impressions: Well, apparently Go Hands still has some budget left, as they... | | |
| 4:09am | Pachinko Ita-Office Building |  | | | This Nagoya pachinko company is handling the matter of advertising one of their newer series of games machines (originally based on a manga series) with aplomb, decorating the entire face of their office building in a way that is most familiar to fans of itasha. The company is Takao Corp., a maker... | | |
| 3:11am | So a butler, a seleção, and a data entity walk into a blog post | | | | And the owner of of the blog says, “What the hell kind of introductory paragraph am I supposed to make from this?” Sadly enough, I haven’t been popular enough to have any rumors of my blogging death to greatly exaggerate (in the Mark Twain fashion) – perhaps this is due to the... | | |
| 10:28pm | Somerset Somersault: AnimeNEXT 2009 | | | | This past weekend I attended AnimeNEXT in New Jersey. While held this year in Somerset at the Garden State Exhibit Center and conjoined Somerset Doubletree Hotel, in years prior the convention was held at the Meadowlands Arena in Secaucus. However, seeing as this was my first ever AnimeNEXT this did... | | |
| 7:21pm | Slice of life | | | | I know it has been a long time since I published anything, but I hope you haven’t given up on me just yet. There is warmth in these embers still, I can feel it. I just need stoke them up is all, with a bit of hard work and guts. The stupid thing is, it’s not as though I’ve stopped... | | |
| 8:30pm | The Good, The Bad, and the Moe: Spring 2009 Anime Rankings - Part 1 | | | | How many references can you identify? Incoming Dekkai Huge Post of Long. Yes, that’s right, I’ve decided to satisfy my penchant for attaching meaningless numbers to things by putting together yet another Anime Season Ranking Post. Haven’t done this for a couple years now, come to... | | |
| 12:17pm | BECK Live Action Movie?! HELL YEA! | | | | I’ve said this before, and I’ll say this again. BECK is awesome; The anime is, and so is the manga. The music rocks, despite the Engrish. Ever since I watched the anime, I have always hoped for a live action adaptation of it, be it a movie or a drama series. Of course, a non-Hollywood adaptation.... | | |
| 6:36am | My Love, My Anger, and All of My Fanime [2009]: Part 1 - Panels | | | | Starting now, ending later: a summary / review of everything and everyone I did at Fanime 2009, for the purposes of entertaining the masses and enlightening future congoers on what I think is a good idea to check out. It’s how I found a couple interesting panels and things to do, myself. There’s... | | |
| 9:05pm | Finalizing Fanime Fplans F2009 | | | | Hey everyone. Just a list of all the events I tentatively plan on at least checking out; figured it would make useful planning for when I should schedule the aniblogger meetup. Right now the best choice is perhaps a late lunch on Sunday, after the Visual Novels panel, which ends at 2 PM, at which point... | | |
| 6:16pm | Saki #01 — Get A Bra, Nodoka | | | | Because, damn you desperately need one. New Season Disclaimer: I prefer to give every show a chance. You never know when your dream-eating insect wielding Mai HiME knockoff will turn out to be a psychological romantic thriller, or the strange moeblob show will be full of wit and urine jokes. However,... | | |
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