| 12:54pm | Toshokan Sensou / Library War (up to Episode 8) | | | | [Spoilers ahead] 1) It seems fair to say that this series focuses on storytelling instead of visual eye-candy. There is seldom any particular frame that stuns you with its beauty, but two such frames came at last at the end of Episode 8. These would not have been out of place in a Shinkai Makoto movie... | | |
| 12:54pm | Toshokan Sensou / Library War (up to Episode 8) | | | | [Spoilers ahead] 1) It seems fair to say that this series focuses on storytelling instead of visual eye-candy. There is seldom any particular frame that stuns you with its beauty, but two such frames came at last at the end of Episode 8. These would not have been out of place in a Shinkai Makoto movie... | | |
| 10:47am | Toshokan Sensou 07 | | | | Library Wars - 07: Shibasaki goes on a date? Impressions Library Wars Story of a Bishoujo girl, thats what the opening was, can’t relly get much out cause it was quite dialogue heavy, but the main story was about Shbasaki and how she was target but a false reporter to get information about... | | |
| 11:40am | Weekly Round-Up: May 30th | | | | Reviewed this week: Chi’s Sweet Home 29-32, Himitsu 4, Itazura na Kiss 8, Kaiba 5, Kurenai 8, Persona Trinity Soul 10, Real Drive 5, Shion no Ou 20, Toshokan Sensou 7…and in manga: Minami-ke 23-8, Nodame Cantabile 114-9, Potemayo 1-8, Tennai 32-3, Tsubasa Chronicle 190ANIMECURRENT SERIES RANKINGSChi’s... | | |
| 11:10am | Toshokan Sensou 08 Sub Will Be Late | | | | One small announcement. Toshokan Sensou 08 sub will be released a bit late due to bad schedules and.. parents. Ashlynne the translator went off to see her parents in her hometown. Her hometown’s internet connection is BAD. Really BAD. And I, will be stuck in front of my computer trying to finish... | | |
| 7:07am | Toshokan Sensou - 07: New Love At Last | | | | Shibasaki gets some light. My brain was literally half-dead when I watched this so I only have a vague understanding of what happened. The beginning was rather decent and opened up by introducing a new character named Asahina, who apparently turns out to be a fraud working for Satoshi, Tezuka’s... | | |
| 10:15pm | Spring 2008 first impressions #4: Real Drive and Toshokan Sensou | | | | It’s halfway through the season and people are already starting to look to the next oneand I’m still finishing my First Impressions for spring. Heh. The final two candidates for my ever-growing watch list are Real Drive and Toshokan Sensou. *Cough* In other news I’m thinking about... | | |
| 8:27pm | The Message I Think Toshokan Sensou Is Trying To Convey | | | | I’m not going to go on about the really deep messages such as media censorship, freedom of speech, so on and so forth. Instead, here’s something I don’t think any other fellow anime blogger has mentioned.The white-collared workers in the library filing books are the same blue-collared... | | |
| 8:42pm | Toshokan Sensou 07’s out! | | | | RAWR It’s out! Here you go: Toshokan Sensou 07 (1024×576) Toshokan Sensou 07 (704×396) *edit* I just realized that the resolution is actually 1024×576. AH DAMN. Sorry for releasing the wrong resolution. T_T Might have slight initial seeding problem due to the ridiculously slow internet... | | |
| 9:22am | Anime Diet Radio Episode 21: Gettin’ Plastered |  | | | Anime Diet Radio, at long last, gets a toast as we reach our 21st episode! In this episode, we tackle: strange Evangelion inspired foods, Haruhi season 2 information, and in our Roundable Kaiba, Library War, Chiko Heiress of the Phantom Thief, Amatsuki, and Himitsu: The Revelation. We also follow... | | |
| 12:31pm | Toshokan Sensou - 06: No blood, but brutal all the same | | | | Poor kid When I saw Komaki running at the start, I immediately asked myself: “who the hell is this?” Maybe it was because the situation was currently set in the nighttime, or perhaps it was because I remember Komaki by his freakish laughter. At last there was some more blood and I seriously... | | |
| 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,... | | |
| 7:32am | Toshokan Sensou 5: Open House Night | | | | You're not sounding quite like yourself there, Iku. Iku's parents' visit is imminent - and though she's asked the library staff to aid her in deceiving them, she's still incredibly nervous. The plan is to have Iku masquerade as a library administrator for a day. As highlighted... | | |
| 1:59am | Library War: Satirical Allusion to Cynics? | | | | Weeks after Toshokan Sensou aired, I couldn’t help but facepalm at the people who were taking it really seriously, especially those who even gave their lengthy oh-so-intelligent logical / analytical / political explanations just to point out the loopholes of the series, vis-à-vis Real World Standards.... | | |
| 2:44pm | An ethical dilemma: A minor problem with Library Wars Episode Three | | | | Here's an ethical situation for y'all: You're a reporter standing at an edge of a lake. In the distance, you spot a boy drowning. You have the means and ability to save him and saving him will not have any unintended consequences (he isn't a child Hitler or anything.) There's also no one else around... | | |
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