| 8:33am | 2008 [Super Late] Summer Anime Menu | | | | Updates 07/04 Antique Bakery official site changed, again. Hopefully now, for good. 07/01 Fixed Yakushiji Ryouko trailer link, added Slayers Revolution, Somedays Dreamers ~Natsu no Sora~, and Scarecrowman trailer link(s) 06/30 Antique Bakery site changed to FujiTV official site, Strike Witches trailer... | | |
| 4:00am | Summer 2008 |  | | | I like nice art, small episode counts, sequels to shows I’ve covered, and nice long walks on the beach. Now that I have a post to link to, I don’t have to give the whole spiel again. I’ll be carrying Macross Frontier into next season, but I should have 3-4 slots free. If this season... | | |
| 11:57pm | Kurenai - Top 3 Moments | | | | Call Kurenai the little show that did. While it may not have been the most popular show this season, it definitely was one of the best. And along with Toshokan Sensou it’s probably the sleeper hit of the season. Now that the series has wrapped up we thought we’d take a look back and pick... | | |
| 12:19am | Home Again | | | | I spent some time this weekend catching up with Toshokan Sensou, a show I lost all enthusiasm for only a few episodes in, initial interest notwithstanding. Like a lot of people, my disappointment with the show was a direct response to its ridiculous premise. However, having given it a second try,... | | |
| 10:07pm | Based on Your Votes, the Hottest Girl & Guy in Anime Are | | | | What’s up cute anime fans. Last week Kira and Asuna gave you their personal top 10 hottest guys and top ten hottest girls in a current anime, as we asked you to vote for your favs as well. And vote you did, both polls combined had 1236 votes cast. Thanks for everyone who voted, here are the... | | |
| 5:59pm | Toshokan Sensou 11 Status | | | | "I'll be Bach." Things have pretty much settled down, and Ashlynne is back in action [as you can see from her flooding the site with her posts :p] so we’re pretty much on schedule. Episode 11 will be out soon enough. Episode 11 Progress: Acquire RAW Timing Translation Translation... | | |
| 2:41pm | [Housekeeping] Iwa ni Hana evolves once again | | | | I know I have swung the emphasis of this blog before in the past: First it was arthouse Japanese animation, then it was arthouse animation with no emphasis on any country of origin in particular, and now this time it has swung to: Art-house Animation and Illustration: Commentary and Analysis (with... | | |
| 4:00pm | Toshokan Sensou - Two Kinds of White | | | | A real nice surprise within Toshokan Sensou is that its story not only consists of the main conflict between the bad guys of the Media Cleansing Committee and the good guys of the Defence Organization, but also of the inner conflict in the Defence Organization between its different groupings. These conflicts... | | |
| 1:23am | The Hottest Guys in Anime | | | | Alright girls (& boy lovers) its your turn. Yesterday we gave you Kira’s hottest girls in a current anime and asked you to vote for your hottest girl as well. Today its Asuna’s turn. Here are Asuna’s top 10 hottest guys in a current anime, vote for who you think is the hottest... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 3:25pm | Toshokan Sensou 11: Ridiculously Ridiculous | | | | Oh dear, oh lord, oh my! Toshokan Sensou 11 is so ridiculous I HAD to post this before I start the translation. Okay, I’m sure the ridiculous premise has been discussed by many bloggers. Most of us have probably accepted it as, you know, Toshokan Sensou and decided to shut some logic down in order... | | |
| 4:44am | Non Aggression? Dialogue? GTFO! | | | | Freedom is not free but the Library Corps will pay the most for your share.After a long absence from writing about Toshokan Sensou, Episode 10 finally rekindled my zeal to write. So this week we see the Library Task Force heading out to a neighboring prefecture to defend an art exhibition from the censorship... | | |
| 7:57pm | Why is Toshokan Sensou only 12 eps. Long? | | | | I really don’t understand how a great series like Toshokan Sensou can only be 12 episodes long. It should be so much longer, like 24 episodes. It’s such a great series. After watching the 10th episode (great episode by the way), I was thinking why only 12? I want to see more of | | |
| 12:53pm | Toshokan Sensou – 10: Mean Girls Attack! | | | | More romance. Despite how awesome this series is getting, I’m always reluctant to watch the next episode but forced myself to endure twenty minutes after reading Kabitzin’s thoughts on episode 10. It definitely was a good episode, but I’m still curious as to why the females of the Affairs... | | |
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