| 4:41am | Wife, sister, what’s the difference?—Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka 4 | | | | That she is blood-related, only makes it so much more spicy. There is a chinese saying that a desirable woman is one who is capable in the kitchen and presentable in the living room. I’ll say Minato is both AND a lot more in the bedroom. Just try to keep your eyes away from these: The trick... | | |
| 9:30pm | On “Character” I: Closure |  | | | ←[71] The main distinction to establish here is the difference between aesthetic personality and conscience. Aesthetic personality is shallow. It’s the surface of the person’s outer quality, how they act, not necessarily why; it’s about the “clothing” of their mind, how... | | |
| 1:21pm | T-That’s Impossible: A Retrospect on Saimoe 2008, Round 3 | | | | Analysis\ up when I get the chance, but since I’ll be away from the computer for a bit, I’ve got to push this post out the door: G3-2 Results: Show ▼ Tsukasa (Lucky Star) defeats Nagi (Hayate) 1080-889 H3-1 Results: Show ▼ Noe (true tears) defeats Suzu (Nagasarete Airantou) 972-555... | | |
| 1:39am | Coburn on True Tears |  | | | The today’s article at Claiming Ground is rather long by the standards of blogs, and constructed in vintage SDB style: 75% introduction, 20% argument (”foo-porn” (gun porn, airplane porn, drink porn), in this case facial expression porn). While being essentially spoiler-free, it makes... | | |
| 4:34pm | Clash of the Ideals: Saimoe ‘08 [3GH-1] results and [3GH-2] preview | | | | Nagi vs. Tsukasa. Nagi vs. Tsukasa. Nagi vs. Tsukasa. The last match in Round 3 is the first major challenge for two beacons of moe for two shows that have shown exceptional support for their top characters. Who will emerge victor, and how hard will the world shake with the battle of these two and... | | |
| 2:54pm | Saimoe Tournament 2008 Group Semi-finals Day 7 |  | | | Semi-finals G3-1 有効コードがある票の 順位 1位 634票 水無灯里 ARIA シリーズ [Mizunashi Akari @ ARIA] 2位 522票 新藤千尋 ef - a tale of memories. [Shindou Chihiro @ ef - a tale of memories] Semi-finals H3-2 有効コードがある票の 順位 1位 830票 桂ヒナギ... | | |
| 12:58am | 2008 Anime DVD Sales Ranking |  | | | Here we have the rather interesting DVD sales ranking for 2008 anime, in this case focused on the first volume as a proxy for total popularity. There are a number of interesting results within the list, but the top and bottom are likely not surprising. These numbers are the number of DVDs sold over... | | |
| 8:55pm | Bateszi on True Tears | | | | Bateszi: I liked it. A lot. [] Thinking back to a dramatic crescendo or two, True Tears does often twist like a slightly cliché, soapy love story, but this existential willingness to look beyond superficial emotion, to find a sad, warm reason behind all the pain, lies and deceit of normal people, rapidly... | | |
| 7:43pm | Love will tear us apart | | | | Earlier this year, I made an agreement with Owen of Cruel Angel Theses. I promised I’d try to watch True Tears if he would step-up to one of my recent favorites too; none other than Shigurui. True to form, Owen came through on his side of the agreement almost instantly, and here I am, many months... | | |
| 5:27am | Prepare for War: An infodump on SaiMoe 2008 as it enters round 3 | | | | The tension continues to grow as we move out of the second round and into the third, where this is no longer child’s play, a domination of the popular over the obscure, but now, as the 4chan SaiMoe ads infamous put it, moe is “serious f’ing business”. Certainly we’ve seen... | | |
| 12:59am | Taigasm | | | | So it took one new season of Zero no Tsukaima and one Series containing Kugimiya Rie and Yui Horie AND Kitamura Eri to resurrect me. The reason I haven’t posted since February is because I was in a comatose state. It turns out watching True Tears causes brain damage if said brain isn’t damaged... | | |
| 8:48pm | 2008 So Far -- My Favorite Shows | | | | As I see my taste drifting further and further from that of a lot of other anime fans, I thought I'd just run through the year and figure out which anime have been my favorites so far.My favorite show of the summer season was definitely Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto -- Natsu no Sora. Lots of people... | | |
| 4:35am | NYAF Day 1 - 11~15% Unpredictable | | | | I think for the most part, my earlier whine on NYAF hit the spot. What didn’t hit the spot was that I’ve started to enjoy that party atmosphere at cons. I had to kill a few hours of time tonight so I sat in the Gundam 00 panel. The panelists are a couple Bandai dudes (that I ought to know... | | |
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