| 1:04am | xxxHOLiC Kei 11 - What a relief. | | | | Oh noes, it’s finally here!Flavor: SweetI guess I don’t really have much to say about this episode other than everything was done just like how it was supposed to although the first part seemed to drag out a lot and it had a bunch more of “omg there’s something wrong with Himawari!”... | | |
| 6:14am | Ookiku Furikabutte licensed by Funimation | | | | Like Nomo and Ichiro, Ookiku Furikabutte is now coming to the US. Funimation Acquires Big Windup! Baseball TV Anime Anime adapts Ookiku Furikabutte manga about high school pitcher’s rise Funimation has announced that it has acquired Big Windup!, the 26-episode baseball television anime known... | | |
| 4:45am | SEAMO - Honey Honey feat. AYUSE KOZUE (xxxHOLiC Kei ED Theme) | | | | SEAMO - Honey Honey feat. AYUSE KOZUE (25.7MB, PSP/Quicktime format) | Abbreviated Live Performance (YouTube video) The first time I heard the song as xxxHOLiC Kei ED theme, I thought the song was just okay. I just didn't get the groove of the song in the TV version of the song. Besides, Mokona,... | | |
| 10:55pm | xxxholic kei episode 11 |  | | | So, in my personal opinion, it’s not too often you see something done incredibly better in the anime then the manga. Especially with the low-grade animation of xxxholic kei against xxxholic’s gorgeous art. Yet, it happened.Episode 11 opens with Watanuki walking home with Himawari. He bids... | | |
| 4:00am | T.H.A.T.’s Summer 2008 Anime Preview (Updated 6/14) |  | | | Summer timeand the livin’s easy Since Impz has bailed on us for three weeks to go to some academic conference, the duty of creating the THAT Anime Blog Summer 2008 Preview falls to me. Thankfully it’s not a fall or spring preview or I’d have to kill him. This preview uses pretty much the... | | |
| 6:01pm | Code Geass R2 ep.09 | | | | I knew that I'll come back to a huge amount of back episodes to cover but I really didn't expect that it'll be this hard to start writing again. Oh well, I'll just have to pick things up slowly, starting with this episode. First thing first, Newtype Japan has just published top 10 ranking of Code... | | |
| 5:56pm | xxxHolic Kei episode 9 & 10 review |  | | | Episode 9 - ‘Rumours’Ok first off, I’m putting episode 9’s review first because I find it to be probably the best episode yet, and I have a lot to say about it. xxxHolic’s plot structure is special because of the way it drops hints within episodes and revisits them later, alluding... | | |
| 9:22am | xxxHolic Kei Episode 11 Impression | | | | While the Kohane episodes really bored me to tears and almost turned me off the series completely, this episode which finally dealt with Himawari after seasons of hints as to her mysterious true nature.Flashbacks were done really well (and I hope they do more in the next episode to show just how much... | | |
| 3:57am | Mahjong-holic | | | | After watching xxxHolic episode 6, I found myself wondering this: Why hasn’t there been any anime or manga solely on the topic of Mahjong? We’ve had anime and manga based on food, bread, Go, chess, Tamiya, tennis, gambling, card games, etc but none on Mahjong. While I’m no expert,... | | |
| 3:57am | Mahjong-holic | | | | After watching xxxHolic episode 6, I found myself wondering this: Why hasn’t there been any anime or manga solely on the topic of Mahjong? We’ve had anime and manga based on food, bread, Go, chess, Tamiya, tennis, gambling, card games, etc but none on Mahjong. While I’m no expert,... | | |
| 3:50am | Funimation’s New Video Podcast Ain’t Bad | | | | One of the main differences between covering anime and covering films or video games is that there is a relatively short lead time - usually 1-3 months - between a title’s production announcement and its airing. Very little information surfaces about the development cycles except for the cast... | | |
| 3:50am | Funimation’s New Video Podcast Ain’t Bad | | | | One of the main differences between covering anime and covering films or video games is that there is a relatively short lead time - usually 1-3 months - between a title’s production announcement and its airing. Very little information surfaces about the development cycles except for the cast... | | |
| 1:46am | xxxholic kei catch-up! |  | | | Well, four episodes were released recently. Unfortunately, most of them were over exams, and passing is a priority. And then came Summer School. So I’m doing catch-up on episode 7-10Luckily, xxxholic kei is mostly episodic, so I don’t need to do tooo much. But things to affect the overall... | | |
| 1:00pm | Kurenai - 11 | | | | Just like xxxHolic, after two weaker episodes, Kurenai is totally back on track. The finale might be a bit shorter than I expected (only two episodes), but this episode was an excellent conclusion, and it made up for a lot of time that got wasted on the previous episode. In this episode, Shinkurou,... | | |
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