| 1:40am | Maria Holic Alive 02 |  | | | YURIGANGER PUNCH!!! Summary: Kanako looks forward to the end of the rainy season and the subsequent pool reopening but has a sense of deja vu of the events of the first season’s final episode. But she is forced to quit her line of enquiry at the Dorm Mistress’s insistence. Confined to quarters... | | |
| 4:44pm | Spring 2011 Anime Season Preview | | | | Ok, spring preview. This is typically my soapbox to bitch about how it’s incredibly late, how putting it together is a pain in the ass, and how the new season is going to suck. But hey, baseball has begun so might as well kick back and enjoy. Plus, the new season doesn’t look that bad.... | | |
| 8:58am | Previewing the Music for Spring 2011′s Anime Season | | | | Well, that was quick. This winter, for better or for worse seemed to just fly by. It feels like yesterday that many of us dipped our toes into Madoka, Hourou Musuko, and Yumekui Merry, but many of those shows are coming to an end and many new ones take their place. Like before, we’ll be doing... | | |
| 8:58am | Previewing the Music for Spring 2011′s Anime Season | | | | Well, that was quick. This winter, for better or for worse seemed to just fly by. It feels like yesterday that many of us dipped our toes into Madoka, Hourou Musuko, and Yumekui Merry, but many of those shows are coming to an end and many new ones take their place. Like before, we’ll be doing... | | |
| 12:59pm | GO! GO! MANIACS! The eternal whoring of anime | | | | Followng the recent announcement of the new K-On manga, one of them appropriately named K-On! Carat, with the other having the less than clever name K-On! Kirara. Which leads me to wonder how much authors actually care about how their stories turn out, since more often than not, with every popular... | | |
| 3:33pm | Valence’s history with anime | | | | Can you imagine images of nearly nude Jo haunting your childhood? Recently, Nopy proposed a project in which we anibloggers post about our history with anime. Being the reflective sort, I tend to like doing reflective posts like these ones, but where do I begin? Long story. I have no idea how I got into... | | |
| 10:47am | Japanese Language Weirdness | | | | As with any language, Japanese has certain weirdness built into it. There are, of course, words for occupations which have become associated with females, like nurse (kangofu, lit. "nursing wife") or the usually-but-not-always female teachers at preschools, called hobo or "protective mothers." While... | | |
| 1:30pm | Magical Girl Madoka Magica 4 – Things Aren’t Going to End Well, Are They? |  | | | There was plenty that happened in this episode that could be used to fuel speculation. At the same time, I’m not much of one for speculation; I prefer to let the work come to me at its own pace. Guessing and coming up with outlandish theories to fit what we know so far is not the game for me.... | | |
| 3:36pm | Jan.17/2011 | | | | - According to reply the mail I got from King Records, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei BD-BOX 1 and 2 will be SD upconvert. I didn't ask about the third one because I believe that the TV CM back then was in HD (although the actual episodes were aired in SD upc.. | | |
| 3:35pm | Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica ep. 1 |  | | | SHAFTxMAHOUSHOUJOxKAIJURAYUKI! = Miraculous Combo! It’s no secret that I’m a SHAFT fanboy. I love their work and Shinbo has been a favorite director of mine ever since his work on Negima!?, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, and ef – a tale of memories/melodies. Those facts being out of... | | |
| 6:00am | Now, Why am I Watching This Again? | | | | Just what am I doing with my life? During the past days, I’ve been having some fairly intricate conversations with my partners in crime (mostly whilst waiting in line for goods at Comiket.) One of our more interesting conversations dealt with the root purpose of anime, which my friend claims is... | | |
| 2:42am | Jan.13/2011 -pt.2 | | | | - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei BD-BOX 3/23 19740yen (link). 2 disc digipak. Special features: Maeda-kun on air ver. episode 1, non-credit ending, TV spots, and ending cards gallery. - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei BD-BOX2 5/25 23940yen (link) 13 TV episodes(zoku.. | | |
| 1:19am | First Impressions – Madoka Magica | | | | My exposure to the work of Shinbo Akiyuki has been admittedly limited. I'm familiar with his comical work like Pani Poni Dash! and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, but have mostly glossed over his more serious stuff. Of his recent shows, I've only seen Dance In the Vampire Bund, which I have extremely mixed... | | |
| 6:39am | First Look Fair: Puella Magi Madoka Magica |  | | | Shinbo + Yuki Kajiura music + magical girls = win? Alice in Shinboland It’s all about the atmosphere. There’s a certain image of what a mahou shoujo show is supposed to feel and look like: fluffy, cute, pastel colors, and frills. An animal sidekick, easily adaptable to become a plushie,... | | |
| 3:24am | Magical Girl Madoka Magica 1 – An Eyeful of Potential | | | | So Shaft and Shinbo’s hightly anticipated original magical girl show has started, which means we finally get to see what all the hype was about. At the same time, this was still just the first episode, so the “wait and see” approach would be the right one to follow at this point. Still,... | | |
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