| 4:11am | Weekly Anime Review (Aug 31 – Sept 6) | | | | Chiko + broom > 2 bad guys + knivesTruthfully, my mind was elsewhere this past week for most of the week. I was unexpectantly glued to the tv watching the convention so I needed the various anime shows to be really good to register with me this week. And almost every episode was stellar this week.The... | | |
| 6:47pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 9 | | | | After a couple of really pretty shaky episodes of Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo recently, I'd steeled myself for more of the same with episode nine But turned out to be pleasantly surprised.Sure, this latest instalment of the series is no magnum opus, but it goes places that are far more interesting... | | |
| 4:42pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 8 | | | | When a whole spate of suicides strikes a single apartment block, there can only be one answer - Someone is pumping a 24-hour marathon of Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo onto everyone's TV!Oh wait, sorry, that isn't it. Of course, the real explanation is a far more plausible "Ultrasound Bug", whose... | | |
| 3:21pm | Lucky Star Girls in Cheerleader Outfits | | | | Here are the Lucky Star usual suspects in their cheerleader outfits, equipped with gold pom poms. I was just searching the web trying to figure out if there were any anime from the Spring / Summer seasons to watch, and the lack of anything really interesting made me want to go back and watch this show... | | |
| 10:40pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 7 | | | | When a fellow 'Blogger tipped me off that this episode of Ryoko's Supernatural Case File was about a killer mangrove, I wasn't sure exactly how literally I should take that information given our often light-hearted discussions about the latest anime. Well, it looks like I should have taken it serious,... | | |
| 6:26pm | Battle of the Backlog: summer 2008 edition | | | | So far I’ve found only two new shows for the summer season that have really caught my attention and even then one of them, Eve no Jikan, isn’t following a weekly schedule. I quickly realised how I need to really pull my finger out in sifting through the newest offerings before they’re... | | |
| 9:35pm | Summer Anime 2008 | | | | A quick round-up of the spring and summer anime: I’m continuing to watch Itazura na Kiss and Kaiba, but dropped xxxHOLOC Kei as the plot wasn’t interesting. Nogizawa Haruka no Himitsu The hero wastes little time in extablishing a relationship with the school “princess” after... | | |
| 9:00pm | Weekly Round-Up: August 29th | | | | “and you brought me the Dragonballs too!“Reviewed this week: Antique Bakery 6, Chocolate Underground 6, Itazura na Kiss 20, Koihime Musou 6-7, Natsume Yuujinchou 8, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 7, Ryoko’s Case File 7, Slayers Revolution 7, Someday’s Dreamers ~Summer Skies~ 6, Soul Eater... | | |
| 9:26pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 6 | | | | The last couple of episodes of Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo actually managed to up the quality of this series quite noticeably, and with this episode introducing French maids who are also experts in weaponry and computer hacking surely things can only get better?Well. Not really. After a handful... | | |
| 6:00am | Weekly Anime Review (Aug 17 - 23) | | | | I know people from all over visit this blog but did anyone else feel autumn making it’s presence felt last week? Where I live we had one night’s low dip into the 40’s (~9° C) unexpectantly and it instantly felt like fall. I mention this because fall is such a melancholic time of the year and... | | |
| 8:41pm | Weekly Round-Up: August 22nd | | | | “I’ve heard this joke before.”Reviewed this week: Antique Bakery 5, Chi’s Sweet Home 69-76, Chocolate Underground 5, Detroit Metal City 1, Hidamari Sketch x365 7, Itazura na Kiss 19, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 14-15, Natsume Yuujinchou 7, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 6, Ryoko’s Case File... | | |
| 11:00am | Top Picks – Summer 2008 Anime, Part 2 | | | | Can I take him home? I've always wanted a fox spiritThe second part of my picks for the summer season of anime is two countdowns: one for the best new shows and one for the best continuing shows.If I had drawn up this countdown last week, it would have been different. The recent episodes of Natsume... | | |
| 6:25pm | Opening Vids List - Summer 2008 |  | | | THAT is back with another season Op’s post, but this time things are a bit different. To allow all the team to comment on the posts, we’ve dropped the rankings and we are checking each opening individually (this also avoids the issues of internal competition inside THAT. I was constantly... | | |
| 10:17pm | Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo - Episode 4 | | | | After what felt like an almost entirely pointless third episode, episode four of Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo at least brings us back to the true driver of the series, with a return to some proper supernatural investigation.Oddly, this particular episode felt like perfect two-parter material, as... | | |
| 5:19pm | Weekly Round-Up: August 15th | | | | Sadly no- that’s why I dropped the series.Reviewed this week: Hidamari Sketch x365 5-6, Itazura na Kiss 18, Koihime Musou 5, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 13, Nabari no Ou 19, Natsume Yuujinchou 6, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 5, Ryoko’s Case File 5, Slayers Revolution 6, Someday’s Dreamers ~Summer Skies~... | | |
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