| 1:41pm | Hi no Tori Uchuu-Hen Review - 90/100 | | | | You know these really good athletes, performers or artists? And how they make what they do, whether it’s sports, acting, acrobatics, painting or whatever, look so incredibly easy? Well, that’s this movie. I mean seriously, I can wind a long story around it, but it’s just a brilliant... |
| 10:25am | Hi no tori Yamato-Hen Review - 82,5/100 | | | | The Yamato-hen is a bit of a step back from the Houou-hen, but really: who cares. With such a brilliant franchise as Hi no Tori, it’s still a very good and enjoyable movie! I think that the biggest flaw for this one is that it becomes a bit too preachy in the end, the morals and values it tries... |
| 8:08pm | Hi no Tori Houou-Hen Revieww - 90/100 | | | | One thing that I’ve noticed with movies is that they’re often too short: they just don’t have the luxury of TV-series, which can take their time in building up their story. It’s much harder to create an awesome movie than an awesome TV-series because of this. I think that Movies... |
| 1:59pm | Black Jack The Movie Review - 80/100 | | | | Black Jack is a medical thriller, and one of the most popular characters that Osamu Tezuka created. For this movie, one of his stories was adapted by Osamu Dezaki. The combination of these two makes it into quite a unique movie, which is actually pretty good. This movie can boast well-drawn surgical... |
| 3:40pm | Air The Motion Picture Review - 85/100 | | | | Many of the criticisms and praises I had for the Clannad Movie also go for the Toei version of air: their big disadvantage lies only in their length. They’re short, and therefore not as engaging as the Kyoani-versions. But they’re still excellent movies that did a great job of cutting... |
| 12:20pm | Clannad The Motion Picture Review - 85/100 | | | | I’m not exactly sure what’s up with Kyoani and Toei’s key rivalry (when one of them adapts a key work, the other one does at well and vice versa), but the Clannad movie premiered about a month before the start of the TV-series. It took me this long to watch it due to the spoilers,... |
| 7:16pm | Marco the Movie - Haha o Tazunete Sanzenri Review - 87,5/100 | | | | What a tear-jerker of a movie. I don’t exactly know how this movie compared to the original TV series of the seventies, but damn, it was so worth it. An excellent recommendation if you’re looking for a sad and depressing movie that’s full of emotions. This is just one of those recap... |
| 3:50pm | 2009 Summary | | | | Overall 2009 wasn’t exactly the best year ever, but it still had its share of awesome series and concepts. Here’s my list of the ones that stood out the most: Biggest Disappointment Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai Gundam 00 is a heavy contender in this category. While the... |
| 1:17pm | Digimon Movie 2 - Bokura no War Game - 80/100 | | | | Those who liked Summer Wars will probably like the second Digimon movie, because it pretty much follows the same scenario. Seriously, Summer Wars is nearly just the same movie only with different characters and lots of technical upgrades and a bigger scale. Bokura no War Game, along with Serial Experiments... |
| 9:47am | Sasameki Koto Review - 85/100 | | | | This was my biggest surprise of the past autumn season. It’s just one of those shows that from the outside looks like nothing special: we have this girl who is in love with another girl but that other girl is oblivious to this, hijinks ensue, blah blah blah. It’s been done many times before.... |
| 9:20pm | Tenchi Muyo! In Love 2 - Tenchi Forever Review - 82,5/100 | | | | While not perfect, the second Tenchi Muyo movie impressed me. I was expecting a real melodrama of characters overacting, but instead there’s a lot of subtlety in this very emotional movie. That’s something I really appreciated, and I think that this is my favourite installment of the Tenchi... |
| 3:29pm | 2000-2009 - Decade Summary Part 2 | | | | Well, as promised here is the second part of my decade summary. It again took me a while to figure out what exactly I wanted to do with it. I didn’t want to write a simple Top X-list; that would just be pointless, since people can just look at my Top 20 and remove all of the series that aren’t from... |
| 1:12pm | Armored Trooper Votoms - Roots of Ambition Review - 80/100 | | | | Now this is more like it. Roots of Ambition is the third Votoms OVA, and unlike Big Battle, it decided to go for the Last Red Shoulder route: background. This one happens earlier than all of the other installments of the franchise so far: Chirico’s time as a Red Shoulder. It pretty much ties... |
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