| 4:05am | Dengeki Daioh 15th Anniversary Special Art Bonanza |  | | | The June issue of popular moe magazine Dengeki Daioh marks the 15th anniversary of its publication. By way of celebration, Dengeki will include a special “Heroine” gallery featuring a huge array of famous female characters that have previously graced the magazine’s pages, illustrated... | | |
| 12:00am | Creativity and Laziness: Four Fags Who Run Anime Blogs | | | | [This post is a product of my own creative bankruptcy and laziness ->] I take anime blogging to be serious business. I don’t mean it in terms that anything I write is of lasting significance to the world, literatrue, or even the anime industry, not at all. It’s just that I put in very... | | |
| 6:07pm | Eden of the East -- episode 3 preview description | | | | Here is a translation of the episode 3 preview from the blog on the official site. Be warned: it includes spoilers for what I guess is the first third of the episode:"Akira and Saki finally get to the home address in Akira's passport. It turns out to be a shopping mall with a cinema complex. Does Akira... | | |
| 3:25pm | Eden of the East 02: The East Is Burning Red! | | | | It’s official, this show is a definite keeper. Although my reasons for loving Eden of the East is somewhat different from say, people like Hinano, I do appreciate the well executed character interaction set pieces. It made me go all DAAAAAAAAAAW, a reaction somewhat alien for a ℳℴℯ❤ fanboy... | | |
| 8:31pm | Darker than Black 05-06: “Redrum” |  | | | The subtext littered throughout is, I do think, a sort of rare gem that keeps this series miles above its peers. I’ve only ever seen anything close to it in True Tears, and while True Tears had the problem of being mistaken for melodrama (it being rather dramatic and whatnot) or utterly misjudged... | | |
| 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.... | | |
| 2:27am | Review: Toradora! (85%) |  | | | Animation: 85% Acting: 90% Music/Sound: 80% Story: 88% Overall: 85% See explanation of scores. Toradora is the standard-setter anime about high school shounen romance. It does for high school love what Kare Kano does for adolescence in general and Honey and Clover did for post-adolescence–and... | | |
| 11:32pm | What exactly do Japanese and American otaku like about anime? |  | | | This is a recent Ask John post that caught my attention. John points out that there is indeed a difference between what Japanese fans like about anime and what American fans like about it John’s basic argument for Japanese fans is that they “perceive the immersive content of anime as an... | | |
| 9:54pm | 48 Spring Anime -- full previews: story, trailer, cast, staff, pic | | | | These may be difficult times in the anime industry, but you couldn't tell it from the number of anime being produced. Forty-eight titles come out this spring -- series and OVAs -- about the same number as last spring.But quantity doesn't necessarily imply quality. Nothing here seems like an instant classic.... | | |
| 5:50pm | White Album - 07 | | | | Short Synopsis: The identity of the mysterious high school girl gets revealed and Rina invites Touya to his own recording session. Episode Rating: 8/10 (Excellent) So in the end, this remains a harem, though it also remains a damn good one. I’m not watching this series to see how many girls... | | |
| 3:41am | 109. Postmodernism and Aya-chan pt.2 (Special) | | | | Is he breakdancing or did he just fall down???Am I special? I ask myself this question now and then. Like many people, when I happen to feel confident at that very moment, I can easily locate the strengths I seem to have. However, in our post-modern society, simply being "good" isn't enough, because... | | |
| 6:06pm | The true tears of Bandai | | | | Did anyone notice one thing suspiciously missing from Robert’s blog post? The true tears, coincidentially available from Robert’s store, was not mentioned at all. As it happened, I was buying nothing but Bandai for months, between Gurren Lagann, Rocket Girls, Tokikake, and Lucky Star (with... | | |
| 3:02am | Anime Inbou Awards 2008, pt. 4 ~ oshimai |  | | | I couldn’t think of a better way to end this then calling this last part the end, so you get your oshimai instead. This final entry has a whopping eight categories so this is where the best of the best lie. Our focus here is on the story and direction of the show and overall how it was handled... | | |
| 10:32pm | Takagaki Ayahi Masterful in Chrome-Shelled Regios | | | | I knew Ayahime (Takagaki Ayahi 高垣彩陽) was good, but her masterful performance as Niina in eps 2-3 of Chrome-Shelled Regios just blows me away.Triumph, pain, aggression, weakness, craftiness, strength, crying -- she sells them all, with a strong and mobile voice for which nothing seems a stretch.I... | | |
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