| 11:00am | Cool Products Monday, March 30, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 4:54am | I Knew I Was Right to Compare Toradora and Karekano |  | | | As evidenced in this wonderful (though still incomplete) video: That it really, really fits proves my point. Though I still think Kare Kano is ultimately the more insightful show. This is making me want to go back and watch Kare Kano again. Or imagine what Toradora! would have been like in the hands... | | |
| 12:33am | Gadget Geek Supports Toradora! | | | | I don’t really give a damn about cheeky romance, “one more time” [cue Daft Punk], or the usual inner struggles as manifested through intercharacter drama that wrapped up like a satisfying trashy romance novel. Toradora is based on light novels, right? I do care about the display of... | | |
| 7:23pm | Bateszi on Toradora |  | | | Big guns really come out today for Toradora. Here’s Bateszi’s take: Then we have Toradora. I watched the final four episodes this morning and not expecting much at all, I was surprised by the impact it wrought on me. I’ve been back and forth with my opinion of Toradora for a while now,... | | |
| 7:10pm | Stripey on Toradora | | | | The first graf is this: After marathoning Toradora over the weekend, I finally understood what the fuss/buzz was all about. It is indeed a superb series - one of the best anime romances I have seen. Melding great writing, intriguing characters and focused storytelling, Toradora has been a truly memorable.... | | |
| 6:50pm | Spring '09 Previews | | | | There are several interesting facts about this spring season. First with the exception of FMA, Hayate and Polyphonica, all other series are new. Another noteworthy fact is that all series are adaptions from manga, novels or games with Eden and Basquash as the only exceptions! As for my expectations ... | | |
| 6:19pm | Zyl on Ami | | | | He says: In conclusion, we need an Ami spinoff OVA or [TV] series. Because she is that awesome. In final reckoning, Ami did not dominate Toradora for me in the same way Tsukiumi did of Sekirei. She’s my favourite, yes, because Sumire’s people skills are not very engaging, speaking diplomatically.... | | |
| 5:40pm | Toradora 01-02 rewatch (spoiling) | | | | The club was Toradora 01-02 yesterday, a rewatch for me (Toradora narrowly edged out Maria+Holic in runoff poll). And, I made a discovery. It’s not unusual for me to be very wrong about something I see in anime. This time, I thought that the leads in Toradora are thrown together by the pact, then... | | |
| 4:03pm | Winter 09 :: tis the Good Ends season for KugiRie tsunderes | | | | Well well well, what a pair of pleasant surprises. I tend to apply heavy discounts against series starring Kugimiya Rie tsundere characters due to, among other things, the tendency to take two steps forward and one step back (or more). But I actually enjoyed the endings for ToraDora! (Aye: Totali and... | | |
| 3:51pm | Why I love Toradora so | | | | After marathoning Toradora over the weekend, I finally understood what the fuss/buzz was all about. It is indeed a superb series - one of the best anime romances I have seen. Melding great writing, intriguing characters and focused storytelling, Toradora has been a truly memorable. In fact it was... | | |
| 12:03pm | Satisfaction Achieved: A Toradora! Ending | | | | *Picture was courtesy of Sankaku Complex* Yes, I’ve just achieved utmost satisfaction brought about by Toradora’s ending. I’ve no complains. Pretty much, it ended how I imagined it would end, and I’m glad about it. So yeah, I’ve no more series to blog on this season.... | | |
| 11:29am | The Scale of Yuri | | | | As promised, I’ve got some yuri philosophising for you this week It’s no secret that I like categorising everything that I’m interested in. I believe I’ve already started to try and develop a classification for Yuri in some of my previous posts – most notably my final fetish month post in... | | |
| 8:29pm | Toradora!: final thoughts |  | | | I was hesitant, but I finally watched the last episode of Toradora! a couple of nights ago. And thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised that it pulled off a fairly good ending Since I’ve already written my thoughts about the first half of Toradora! here, I’m just going to focus on the latter... | | |
| 6:25pm | Soul and style: Toradora and Michiko e Hatchin | | | | It’s the eve of the latest spring season, but I’m still playing catch up with a lot of last year’s finest. Last week it was Xam’d, and this week it’s Michiko e Hatchin and Toradora. I’m only too aware that the anime community is driven by an insatiable desire for... | | |
| 12:00pm | It’s Time for the Beach Epiosde of My Life [vacation hiatus] | | | | Vacation has sprung upon me like Minori upon a hapless Taiga, and, whilst I saw it coming, perhaps, it still struck me by surprise. I don’t think I’ve left very far from home in the past couple years (school and work kept me fairly tied down, to where a “vacation” meant “everyone... | | |
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