| 9:06pm | Fall 2011 Anime Preview |  | | | Fall Anime Preview 2011 Draft OrderZylLeeninaHalfadeckshorto tou-sanJesus159159159EpiKabitz in There are some really impressive-looking series coming up for Fall 2011 and we should be getting Epi back just in time. I’m surprised Blood-C is only 11 episodes (thank goodness), so I’ll actually... | | |
| 6:15pm | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 2: Cast and Assorted Awards | | | | I should make a "Cutest Character of 2008" category so I could give him an award. Part 2 is somewhat of a mishmash of awards. I started out just having multi-character awards but while figuring out where everything went I realized I needed a spot to place various awards that didn’t fit... | | |
| 6:00am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 1: Character Awards | | | | I start with the character awards partly because I feel once a show establishes a great cast of characters then it’s 70% of the way to ensuring that I’ll like it. And it doesn’t matter what type of show, any show can be improved with good character development.Best Female Main Character Winner:... | | |
| 2:41am | CJ and Janette’s New Year’s Special! |  | | | Consider this to be like one of those pointless anime episodes where lolis the characters celebrate a random holiday while reminiscing or something Except, you know, we’re gonna be handing out awards. Best Engrish: CJ: “What ’bout my star?” from Macross Frontier. Awesome song,... | | |
| 9:00am | Final Thoughts: Ryoko’s Case File | | | | Yakushiji Ryoko is a police officer with a difference; she’s vain, driven and completely selfish- a veritable nightmare to work with. Unfortunately, that’s just what her long-suffering aide Izumida Jun’ichirou has to do- and it’s as thankless a task as you’d expect. Nonetheless, against all... | | |
| 12:27pm | Anime With Strong, Adult Female Leads | | | | Yesterday I threw out the idea of mentioning a few completely non-Yuri anime that feature adult females here, for people who want to watch anime that do not revolve around fetuses in frilly dresses. I was specifically thinking of a few series I am watching or have watched recently that star women who... | | |
| 6:49am | Ryoko’s Case Files Series Review | | | | I’m always on the lookout for anime shows that are different; partly because I like shows that are different and partly because it becomes harder to get bored of shows that aren’t different since they only make up part of what I watch. This anime was an example of being slightly different, not really... | | |
| 1:15pm | Brief notes | | | | I shot about 1,500 frames of dance last night, and it’s going to take a few evenings to go through all the pictures, selecting and editing the best. That and some projects for work mean that I will continue to be scarce here. I’ll be back eventually, but don’t hold your breath. *****... | | |
| 5:26pm | Is that Nirvana in my Clannad? | | | | I’m guessing he’s not happy to see me again. In an attempt to revive my blogging career, while juggling classes and trying to find a job, I will be trying to just poke quick quips based on things I’ve watched. Here’s the first installment. With the advent of the Fall Season,... | | |
| 3:20pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 13 (Completed) | | | | After bemoaning the unlikely odds of success in the last episode, which pitted Ryoko up against an army single-handedly, this final episode of Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo at least evened things up a bit by kindly providing her with a tank. Although she didn't use it to invade Paris, Tokyo Tower... | | |
| 10:05pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 12 | | | | By the end of the last episode of Ryoko's Supernatural Case File, we got to find out exactly what her rival Ruriko was planning - In short, killing Ryoko to replace her with the artificial clone Monami, allowing her to take control of JACES in the process.For a while, it looks as though Monami is going... | | |
| 9:08pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 11 | | | | Ryoko's Supernatural Case File continues along its recent path concerning Monami in episode eleven, which can only really be good news as it's been by far the strongest storyline of this series so far by some distance, even if it did go off the boil rather last time around.Episode eleven at least manages... | | |
| 3:49am | Weekly Anime Review (Sept 13 - Sept 20) | | | | Gee Ryoko, why do you have this?There was plenty of good anime this week but the highlight of my anime watching isn’t any of the shows listed below. I decided it was about time to rewatch Lucky Star and so I did. One of things that I was most wondering about was how I would enjoy the early episodes.... | | |
| 9:49pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 10 | | | | After a fair few spotty episodes, the ninth instalment of Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo finally seemed to put us on solid ground, giving us a decent story with both political intrigue and a rather bizarre cliffhanger, as Ryoko ended up face to face with her sleeping beauty of a younger look-a-like.With... | | |
| 10:02pm | Weekly Anime Review (Sept 7 - Sept 13) - emo face week | | | | Another relatively quiet week of anime - no big surprises. It’s normally this time of the season that I try to fit in some shows that are on my backlog because I get antsy for new things but I think I’ll let the temptation slide. I think the next season will be a big season and I need to try to... | | |
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