| 10:12pm | 53RG10’s Top Ten Anime Songs {Winter ‘09} | | | | OU! It’s time for another installment of my favorite Anime Songs of the previous season! This season’s OP/ED theme kinda came at me from behind. When I first listened to them, I thought they would even make this list herebut after some time, these songs came from behind, grew on me, and... | | |
| 7:25pm | Absolutely Lovely Children #48 — Black Wings | | | | Does Patty look like an adult Punie to anybody else? Impressions: They clearly had a large chunk of extra money in the budget this week because the production was even better than normal. Not all that much of it was actually spent on the fights in the episode, but I’m not sure there were too... | | |
| 8:32pm | Seiyuu Awards Update | | | | I just found out from a post on Animesuki what performance each person supposedly won their respective awards for: Lead Character Performance Male - Kamiya Hiroshi (Natsume Yuujincho) Female - Kugimiya Rie (Toradora, Nabari no Ou) Supporting Character Performance Male (1 of 2) - Inoue Kazuhiko (Natsume... | | |
| 7:12pm | Absolutely Lovely Children #47 — Back to the Future | | | | Future, present, past, present, future, present! A trip through time indeed. Impressions: A rather interesting episode, not so much for the content as the questions it raises about the future that everybody is trying to avoid. We’ve yet to ever see any glimpse of a future where Shiho or Aoi... | | |
| 7:07am | Absolutely Lovely Children #45 — The Gospel of Uncle Ben | | | | And an absolutely lovely Valentine’s Day. Impressions: What a surprisingly good episode. Takeshi was certainly nowhere near strong enough to threaten Kaoru, but I think this is really the first time they’ve actually done a little Uncle Ben story. Great power and great responsibility etc... | | |
| 9:06am | Absolutely Lovely Children #44 — Sexually Harassing Obama | | | | I don’t remember Obama’s head being that large. It’s late and I’m tired, so my apologies if this is a little terse. Impressions: Well, everything went a little bit too predictably for my tastes, but I suppose it was alright overall. We’ve already gotten that Minamoto... | | |
| 6:30pm | Absolutely Lovely Children #43 — Carrie Carrie | | | | Maybe we’ll meet again. That’s right. Europe. I went there. Impressions: It was probably the fact that a flashback took up about half of this episode, but I wasn’t really feeling it here. It could also be that they took Carrie out of her pony tail and fashionable skirt/jeans combo... | | |
| 2:28pm | Zettai Karen Note (This is not a parody doujinshi) | | | | This post contains minor spoilers from the Zettai Karen Children manga, volume 14. Nothing very shocking here, so do read on for the love of the God of the New World, Shiho-chan (:3) With the anime nearing its end, I’ve finally mustered enough love for this series to pick up the 15-volume (and... | | |
| 6:21am | Absolutely Lovely Children #42 — Playthings | | | | You were far more boring than you should have been, Tim Toy. Impressions: I expected a lot more from Black Phantom’s return. Tim Toy was just lame. His toy power was sort of interesting, but all he really did was yell at them to use the boost and just stomp around. Fujiko had the highest quotient... | | |
| 10:15am | Absolutely Lovely Children #41 — Sexual Harassment Saves The Day | | | | Mmmm delicious dessicated corpses Impressions: It is entirely too late at night for this much technobabble. Even for ZKC, this episode was chock full of some especially nonsensical pseudo-science, involving psychometers sort of quasi-living beyond the grave and taking over the body of a concubine... | | |
| 9:13pm | Absolutely Lovely Children #40 — The Great Armada | | | | Too many naval jokes Impressions: Kaoru: Boobs! Minamoto! BOOBS! Minamoto: Eh? Kaoru: In the bath Natsuko, Hotaru, Naomi, Supervisor, Oboro THE GREAT ARMADA! Hilarious episode. Absolutely bloody hilarious. Everything from Naomi turning poisoner, to Minamoto snapping and inducing drill trauma in the... | | |
| 9:07pm | Absolutely Lovely Children - Double Face Recap Special | | | | As expected, just a clips episode plus recap from Hotaru and Natsuko while they played a lot of the character themes and insert songs as they talked about each one. They used the fancy version of the second ED, so assumably we’ll be getting the new one next week. The only new shots were the... | | |
| 12:02am | Exit Trance Presents SPEED ANIME TRANCE COMPLETE BEST | | | | I've been posting more at my personal blog recently, but right when AnimeRemix went down and OverCoat revived NMM, the perfect opportunity to post here popped up. A friend of mine recently acquired a copy of a CD called Exit Trance Presents SPEED ANIME TRANCE COMPLETE BEST while browsing Kinokuniya.... | | |
| 10:29am | 2008 TV Anime DVD/Blu-ray Grand Sales Ranking |  | | | 2008 has seen a huge variety of anime released, and the difficult question of assessing their success can approached in all sorts of ways, from TV ratings to 2ch thread activity, but DVD sales are usually given most prominence in such analysis. This final summary of the TV anime of 2008 incorporates... | | |
| 10:03pm | Zettai Karen Children: Suprised by Hilarity | | | | For those who have had better things to watch this year, Zettai Karen Children is - how to put this? - a cocktail of comedy and action in a magical girl-shaped glass, with an olive in it that tastes like X-Men’s theme of prejudice against the superpowered. Judging from its timeslot, children... | | |
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