| 7:22pm | VIZ Media Delivers Sci-Fi, Romance, Ninja Action, Dinosaurs & Heavy Metal! | | | | VIZ Media has announced ten new manga series set to debut throughout the Second Quarter of 2009.Ten New Manga Series - Something For Everyone Science fiction, fantasy action/adventure, romance, feudal Japan, dinosaurs and even rock and roll provide an array of story backdrops and themes for an exciting... | | |
| 12:54pm | 2009 The Year of the Ox..and Anime Boxsets | | | | Well it seems we are to be spoilt for choice in the coming year with numerous Anime boxsets due for release. I for one am extremely happy for this development as I much prefer to purchase Boxsets over individual Volumes. The price is usualy Cheaper and the Boxset Artwork is usualy superior. There... | | |
| 8:46am | The divine comedy of Hatsukoi Limited | | | | In accordance with the Shizu-sama Doctrine, I was going to check out Hatsukoi Limited anyway. But I kept putting it off for various reasons. High school romance hijinks are not exactly my cup of tea. My answer to the opening question in the opening moments of the series was a grumpy ぜんぜん！... | | |
| 12:00am | My Good Old Boys of Gundam | | | | [This post is rife with spoilers] Alfredo Izuruha had it bad. But before this became apparent, he had led what is the Gundam equivalent of an idyllic suburban childhood. He spent his time playing with his friends, their interests in military-themed toys and games. Mobile suits were the height of awesomeness,... | | |
| 8:00pm | Spring Anime -- Brief Reviews and Early Favorites | | | | There are too many good new shows this season. Heading the list for me are Eden of the East, Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom, and Ristorante Paradiso.K-On, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen and Pandora Hearts aren't too far behind. Here are brief reviews of most of the new shows, from my own fairly idiosyncratic... | | |
| 1:47pm | Eden of the East - 03 | | | | Short Synopsis: Akira and Saki arrive at Akira’s “home”. Episode Rating: 8/10 (Excellent) For me, the great thing of Eden of the East is that it only gets awesome after an episode finishes. At least, I had that with this episode: most of the episode was just a collection of strange... | | |
| 12:55am | from the ancient times STVY | | | | Sakura Wars TV Series 1 (Reviewed 2003-02-10, Updated 2003-11-23) Based on the console game, the TV series draws on the very first version (have lost count of the number of subsequent versions). This is set in an alternative 1920s setting where the Taisho era didn’t all go horribly wrong and Imperial... | | |
| 10:30am | from the ancient times IMO | | | | I! My! Me! Strawberry Eggs (Reviewed 2002-03-05 with revisions 2003-11-16) Mix of Tootsie and Great Teacher Onizuka i suppose. Guy can’t get a job at a girls’ school as the principal is anti-male. With the help of a rich, eccentric, techie ‘grandma’, he’s transformed into... | | |
| 5:07am | Eden of the East – Impressions and Plot Conjectures | | | | Continuing with my spring 2009 anime impression posts is the latest work by the director of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Seirei no Morbito, Kenji Kamiyama – East of Eden. As an original work, it’s impossible to accurately gauge the quality of East of Eden before it aired but from... | | |
| 3:25am | Akamatsu wants to do hadoukens as well |  | | | Canned Dogs recently posted an article about Akamatsu commenting on the recent increase of popularity of the Negima manga, which he says; Akamatsu’s opinion is that the current direction of the manga is good as the battles have been pretty compact and it’s good to have an increase in readership... | | |
| 11:49am | Revoltech Fraulein Nagato | | | | After getting my hands on an Evil Witch Nagato Figma, I was curious to see what Revoltech had to answer with in their Fraulein series. Now let’s take a look at what the Revoltech Fraulein Nagato has to offer. Like other Revoltech Frauleins, Nagato comes in a compact oblong box that crams everything... | | |
| 7:18am | from the ancient times FGH | | | | More stuff from the pre-blog era for archival: FLCL, Gundam SEED, Hand Maid May, Hellsing. FLCL (Reviewed 2001-12-27) Weirdshit headtrip courtesy of Gainax of Evangelion Ep 25 and 26. Naota, a grade school boy, being fawned over by his older brother’s high school girlfriend and then assaulted... | | |
| 3:28am | (Anime - TV) Eden of the East 01 - Metareview |  | | | This post may contain spoilers. You have been warned :) Haven’t done this in a while. Thought I may start metareviewing again, so here’s Eden of the East 01. From Minimum Tempo I have to admit, I really, really liked this episode. From the OP to the actual English used by the American characters,... | | |
| 7:53am | from the ancient times #ABC | | | | No, not Gachapen. While struggling to remember and add pre-2005 anime to MAL, I dug out the handful of old anime reviews I wrote which predate this blog. It’s been fun re-reading them; I’ve been surprised at how some of my views have changed. Or not. 801 T.T.S. Airbats (Reviewed 2001-12-27)... | | |
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