| 3:57am | Mahjong-holic | | | | After watching xxxHolic episode 6, I found myself wondering this: Why hasn’t there been any anime or manga solely on the topic of Mahjong? We’ve had anime and manga based on food, bread, Go, chess, Tamiya, tennis, gambling, card games, etc but none on Mahjong. While I’m no expert,... | | |
| 3:57am | Mahjong-holic | | | | After watching xxxHolic episode 6, I found myself wondering this: Why hasn’t there been any anime or manga solely on the topic of Mahjong? We’ve had anime and manga based on food, bread, Go, chess, Tamiya, tennis, gambling, card games, etc but none on Mahjong. While I’m no expert,... | | |
| 8:43pm | The Kanonisation? | | | | Fa-uchi wheels Ay-ille off-stage. So I finished Kanon. I don’t like to begin by emphasising what little I can say, partly because doing so seems a little too introspective for my taste and partly because it could be a trick: practiced orators sometimes claim to be rough-spoken so that the audience... | | |
| 11:46pm | Otaku Paranoia: Ressentiment and the NHK Conspiracy | | | | I’ve been going on an interesting, almost existential-type tangent in my anime fandom of recently. Perhaps it’s a slow time waiting week-to-week on all the latest shows, or an over-saturation in pink happy-happy fluffiness, but I’ve been challenging my mentality (and perhaps sanity)... | | |
| 10:58pm | Weekly Round-Up: May 23rd | | | | Reviewed this week: Allison and Lillia 7, Amatsuki 5, Baccano! 15, Chi’s Sweet Home 25-8, Himawari!! 4, Itazura na Kiss 7, Kurenai 7, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 5, Nabari no Ou 5, Persona Trinity Soul 9, Toshokan Sensou 6, Wagaya no Oinari-sama 6, xxxHOLiC Kei 6…and in manga: Akagi 12-13, Elfen Lied 85,... | | |
| 4:29am | A Month Late, A Couple Million Yen Short: Kaiji, reviewed | | | | So what happened? I posted numerous times on the show, shoved it to the top of the viewing list over and over, gave it a nine - the highest ranking possible - on the ever-important Scale of Condensing A Complex Anime Into A Single Digit Number (aka MyAnimeList). And yet, it takes until a month later... | | |
| 8:52am | Final Thoughts and Ramblings: Kaiji | | | | Twenty-two year old Itou Kaiji is a bit of a loser- an unemployed bum, he amuses himself by slashing tyres and stealing the emblems from cars. All that changes, however, when his friend defaults on a loan and the yakuza come to collect from the guarantor- namely Kaiji himself. With no other way of paying... | | |
| 7:52pm | List o the weak: Anime that time has forgotten | | | | So there are some series that make such an impression that they seem to rock the foundations of anime fandom: Evangelion, Serial Experiments Lain, Fullmetal Alchemist, Cowboy Beebop, etc. It's not that these shows are universally beloved, but they're definitely universal. They'll come up at least once... | | |
| 11:53am | Anime Megablog backlog: Aria, Bamboo Blade, Bamboo Blade, Genshiken, Gundam 00, Kaiji, Koharu Biyori, Minami-ke, Mokke, Moyashimon, Prism Ark, Shugo Chara, Sketchbook ~full Color’S~…and lots more! | | | | I came across the Mukoh Hadan - Sword of the Stranger Trailer recently. I’ve read some positive reviews (Star Crossed Anime Blog/Atarashii Prelude) and since I love historical violence, I think I’ll check it out.Yaoi manga has come to life? Yaoi fan girls can get excited about seeing their... | | |
| 10:46am | Weekly Round-Up: April 25th | | | | Reviewed this week: Allison and Lillia 3, Chi’s Sweet Home 9-12, Himitsu 1, Itazura na Kiss 2-3, Kaiba 1, Kaiji 26, Kurenai 3, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 2, Mnemosyne 3, Real Drive 1, Shion no Ou 19, Soul Eater 1-2, Wagaya no Oinari-sama 2, xxxHOLiC Kei 2-3, Zoku SZS 11…and in manga: Chi’s Sweet Home... | | |
| 9:28pm | Kaiji: the tissue box raffle | | | | There’s a good reason why, at the end of the series, I’m not doing one of my customary ‘Final Thoughts’ posts on Kaiji. It is indeed the end of the series run without an official announcement regarding any sequel TV shows or OAVs but I can’t bring myself to view this as the end.... | | |
| 2:54pm | Bus Gamer Review - 80/100 | | | | It’s not often when an anime is made about a manga that went down after only one volume. Apparently, the original mangaka ran into trouble with the magazine that Bus Gamer was published in, and only one volume ended up published before it was cancelled. Still, the premise had potential, which... | | |
| 11:54am | Kanokon - What YOU SEE Is What YOU WANT (fan side) | | | | Kanokon. Fanservice. Insert “This show sucks.”Well, enough bickering. Didn’t you ask for this?Oh wait. You asked for deep, satisfying storylines that move people to shed manly tears, epic battles and quality animation. Something along the lines of Gurren Lagann and Kaiji and True Tears. Not inane... | | |
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