| 6:36am | Summer '08 Season Review | | | | In general the shows that were completed during the summer season were very weak. With Hidamari being the sole exception, I would not recommend anything anything else, unless you begin to run out of choices. Recommended: Hidamari Sketch x 365Good: Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, MISSION-E, Wagaya no Oinari-samaWatchable:... | | |
| 2:07pm | Bishoujo Game Witches On DS & PS2 |  | | | As we heard, several games based on recently concluded loli pantsu anime Strike Witches are due, one for the DS and the other for the PS2. Further details rule out the possibility of an interesting shooting game; the PS2 version looks to be a standard adventure game, whilst the DS is said to be simulation... | | |
| 5:27am | Prepare for War: An infodump on SaiMoe 2008 as it enters round 3 | | | | The tension continues to grow as we move out of the second round and into the third, where this is no longer child’s play, a domination of the popular over the obscure, but now, as the 4chan SaiMoe ads infamous put it, moe is “serious f’ing business”. Certainly we’ve seen... | | |
| 5:20am | Initial Fall Impressions |  | | | After finally getting some episode counts, I think I have my lineup set for the fall. I will be continuing (slowly) with Real Drive from before. The new series I’ll most likely be covering are Kannagi (13 episodes), Michiko To Hatchin (not sure how many episodes, probably between 24 and 26),... | | |
| 6:23am | First Impressions: Clannad ~After Story~ & … | | | | But no, Dango Daikazoku isn’t the ED anymore. ;_; The new season’s here, but like any season where things don’t look too familiar, it can be hard (at least to me) to stop nitpicking at things and choose something that you can find worth watching. That usually works out with people,... | | |
| 4:47am | Snapshot: Macademi Wasshoi! - 01 |  | | | 「なんか女の子出てき ちゃったんですけど」 (Nanka Onna no Ko Dete Kichattan Desu Kedo) "Um, But a Girl Came Forth" First Glance: In what looks like a mash up between Zero no Tsukaima and Negima comes Macademi Wasshoi!, an adaptation about a high school boy named Hasegawa Takuto who's... | | |
| 7:15pm | Fall 2008: 「Macademi Wasshoi!」 Impressions |  | | | Zero no Tsukaima premise reversed. Guy summons girl familiar which turns out to be powerful enough to destroy a country alone, but thankfully she’s an airhead and only cares about him. I felt quite jaded while starting the show. It still has its moments though, like the yandere cousin who’s... | | |
| 4:16pm | Zero no Tsukaima ~Princess no Rondo~ - 12 [Final] |  | | | Everyone fights against Gallia’s giant golem that tries to stop their return to Tristain. Impressions: This episode was pretty good. I still don’t think it’s quite as epic as the second season’s climax where Saito fights thousands of enemies, but it was still a pretty good episode. I pretty... | | |
| 4:33am | Macademy Wasshoi! #01 — Zero no Tsukaima #-01 | | | | Bizarro world! New Season Disclaimer: I’ll make a post for almost all new series (barring sequels) with a wrap-up and bullet point opinion of each once the premier week is over. Remember that these are just my kneejerk reactions to the first 20 minutes of shows, many of which in genres that... | | |
| 9:56am | Novels update |  | | | -first of all Yen Press has licensed SPICE AND WOLF novels yeah! yeah! yeah! -Viz will have new japanese SF novels line . “It’s a Japanese science fiction imprint that is spearheaded by one of our editors here and is a wholly separate imprint. The name Haikasoru is a kind of Japanified version... | | |
| 8:50am | Akane Iro Ni Somaru Saka 1: The Scarlet First Kiss |  | | | Akasaka was quick to come out. It was streamed on nico the day before it was officially aired, which was after Toradora. Pretty much earlier than Index’s release, so maybe this is good. Then again, I’m fucking late again, so what gives?I sure picked this up out of a whim. Basically, because... | | |
| 11:17pm | Toradora!! - First looks =) | | | | Salt de vanilla? Tigers are my second favourite animal,my favourite is the cat girl. Its another manga adaption and nope I didn’t read this one yetWhy?Thats a tough one.I just skipped over this since the summary didn’t get my attention lol.But the anime did however.It seems that many liken... | | |
| 12:08am | Toradora a fun start, better Kugimin |  | | | Another Kugimiya Rie series can mean only more swooning moments for fans and more facepalms for critics. Yes she has the same voice practically, but as long as a market exists for loli tsunderes and the fans (like myself) exists, then she’ll be around. In Toradora, though, she takes on a deeper,... | | |
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