| 9:17am | One Outs Review - 80/100 | | | | In a way, One outs is much like Death Note or Code Geass: it’s a show that isn’t exactly smart, but loves to make others think that it’s the smartest kid on the block. It comes from the creators of Akagi and Kaiji, meaning that we get lots of mind games surrounding a god-like character,... | | |
| 6:59am | Spring 2009 |  | | | I’ve always wanted to do one of these full previews, but usually there are some comprehensive guides out before I even start. This is my first time, be gentle! Anyway, a lot of information comes from MAL and ANN, but in (perhaps) a nicer format. I will be completely freed from my current series... | | |
| 12:03am | notes on Kaiji | | | | [re: 116] Show vascillates frequently between Marxist and Durkheimian perspectives. Does solidarity triumph over economy? Vice versa? The answer is probably an ethical one, seeing as though, in this case, solidarity and economy are largely irreconcilable.Stars constitute a semiotic terrain that appropriates... | | |
| 3:40am | Ultimate Survivor Kaiji! | | | | Kaiji proves that the show Survivor would be 100% more interesting with yakuza, death, and manly tears! | | |
| 9:26pm | Speculating on the Spectacle of the Bespectacled Girl | | | | Glasses on a girl are not always a plus. But they are never a minus. Sometimes I wonder what kind of reputation I have around the otakusphere. The taste for harem shows that I developed early in my anime-viewing career, starting with Key’s crying shows and fluff-drama pieces like Shuffle and... | | |
| 7:17pm | Favorite Anime of 2008 | | | | As if anyone cared, here's my personal list of top anime of 2008.I'd say "best" anime, but "favorite" is more accurate. I can't imagine how to be objective about this. We all have our own likes and dislikes. Even adding up points in various categories -- animation, story, characters, etc. -- seems pretty... | | |
| 3:01pm | New Years posts - They’re overrated and cliche - Looking back on 2008 | | | | HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ended up watching more in 2008 than in 2007, but not by much. Most of it is just due to tie in movies and what not, but still watching more and is watching more of it so I cannot complain. I still haven’t reached my goal of watching 100 or more shows in a year,... | | |
| 2:36pm | Over 9000 Meaningless Words |  | | | ←[100] first impressions on Mariaholic In the first part, ghostlightning and I talk about Kannagi. In the second, superfani talks about art in general. Essentially, the conclusion we came to was that the religious metaphorical elements are played out in such that they themselves constitute a subplot.... | | |
| 8:00am | The 18th Day of Christmas 2008 - resolving resolutions | | | | Well, one year ago I made a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions of sorts, in terms of anime viewing, as to what I definitely most absolutely must had to see (or experience, or rave about, in a few cases) over the next 12 months. And while it’s apparent that the last year in the anime fandom... | | |
| 9:40pm | The 15th Day of Christmas 2008 - Club Nayuki | | | | “Club Nayuki” is this hip imaginary place in my head, a VIP locale for some of the underdog, underloved, or underrated characters in anime. Christened after a certain Miss Minase who gained quite the following in the great battle of Kanon, it’s a place I often reference when referring... | | |
| 7:11pm | Kaiji: ‘He fell! He fell!’ | | | | People have written about Kamina, and rightly so, but I don’t want to talk about him today. Today I want to talk about Mitsuzi Ishida. Ishida owed a lot of money to gangsters. His debt meant that his wife became something like an indentured labourer, working in a pachinko parlour under a false... | | |
| 3:08am | 39 New Winter Anime -- full previews: staff, cast, pic, story, trailer | | | | The winter season is usually the least exciting of the year, but there are always surprises. Last year, there were true tears and Spice & Wolf. Here are some of this year's possibilities, followed by a complete preview of almost all the new shows:-- Genji Monogatari Sennenki is a new anime based... | | |
| 8:23am | The 13th Day of Christmas 2008 - and the rest… | | | | “Well, I’m no demon. I’ll play with you until morning.” Yeah, those of you who know me from last year know I’m not much for stopping at just 12 Days of nonstop posting. I’m not sure why. Maybe I’m cocky and want to see how far I can push myself. Maybe I’m... | | |
| 8:00am | Twelve Moments in Anime 2008 - #03: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai 13 | | | | (Part of a 12-day series fondly remembering some of the best moments in anime this year. Participants include: lolikitsune, lelangir, FuyuMaiden, Zeroblade, Nazarielle, ghostlightning, TheBigN, ETERNAL, Mike, A Day Without Me, digitalboy, Josh, otou-san, Culchann and Pontifus, IcyStorm, Cokematic, koneko-chan,... | | |
| 8:00am | Twelve Moments in Anime 2008 - #08: Akagi 4 | | | | (Part of a 12-day series fondly remembering some of the best moments in anime this year. Participants include: lolikitsune, lelangir, FuyuMaiden, Zeroblade, Nazarielle, ghostlightning, TheBigN, ETERNAL, Mike, A Day Without Me, digitalboy, Josh, otou-san, Culchann and Pontifus, IcyStorm, Cokematic, koneko-chan,... | | |
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