| 2:09am | Counting them down | | | | Number five on my list of best endings: Click here to view the embedded video. Oh! Edo Rocket, second ending, “I Got Rhythm” by Natural High. Click here to view the embedded video. I like both endings, so here’s the first as well: “100 miles~Niji o Oikakete” by Santar... |
| 2:00am | Advisory | | | | I’m going to be away from the computer for a few days. Like Pete, I’m taking Moribito with me, though in my case it’s the book. My picks for the top five anime endings should appear one a day. As you will discover, my taste is very different from Astro’s, but there is one we... |
| 8:31pm | Memo to the staff at ANN | | | | When you’re burned out, do something else. You’re not doing anyone a favor by going through the motions. By the time Zac Bertschy quit his “Answerman” job, my sympathies were with the Flakes of the Week. Justin Sevakis’ review of The Sky Crawlers tells me more about Sevakis’... |
| 2:51am | Counting down to the count down | | | | I had planned to spend some time this evening rambling on about anime endings, but I’m dead tired. Instead, here are a couple of honorable mentions, plus an extra. The countdown begins tomorrow. While it was introducing the characters, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei was fine absurd humor. Later episodes... | | |
| 9:56pm | A couple of quick notes | | | | Funimation has been dropping hints about the licenses they’re about to announce. Most of the series guessed are of little interest to me, but a couple of possibilities might be worth my money. What I’ve seen of Soul Eater has been fun, and Oh! Edo Rocket was the second-best show of 2007.... | | |
| 1:44pm | Footnote | | | | Actually, we do see Kirika smile — rarely — during Noir. This screen capture is from episode six, “Lost Kitten.” |
| 6:23pm | Count five and Miss Michiko | | | | Astro is counting down his top five endings. It looks like fun, so I’ll probably post my own list, though it will have to wait until next week. Astro’s fourth choice, incidentally, almost made my list. It will be interesting to see if there is something we both pick. As Astro notes, it’s... |
| 6:27pm | Query | | | | “Voices,” Yoko Kanno, Macross Plus OST Can you see the mp3 player? How about this one? View Poll I post a lot of music on my other weblog, and recently I’ve been receiving reports that the music players are not appearing on the page. I wonder if that’s a problem here, too,... |
| 4:42pm | Whole lotta Liszt | | | | In a discussion of anime involving classical music, the writer at Transientem included links to several animated versions of Liszt’s second Martian Hungarian rhapsody, including performances by Tom & Jerry Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse. Here’s another, featuring a bunch of canines,... |
| 4:51pm | Enjoy everything | | | | It looks like there never will be an anime of Yotsuba&! It may be just as well. Movie adaptations of favorite books are invariably inferior to the originals, no matter how skilled the adaptors, and that probably goes for anime versions of manga as well (I wonder if I would like Cardcaptor Sakura... | | |
| 8:43pm | World music | | | | You find the damnedest things on anime blogs, e.g., some very good Klezmer, including David Krakauer, the Amsterdam Klezmer band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band, not to mention a bit of Klezmer Nutcracker. |
| 1:53pm | Patience rewarded | | | | Those of you who are waiting impatiently for the next episodes of Macademi Wasshoi, cheer up. The translation is proceeding quite briskly in comparison to that of Master of Epic. The seventh episode of the latter has finally been fansubbed, nine months after the sixth. Was it worth the wait? Not really.... | | |
| 8:13pm | Wasting time | | | | I came across yet another damned book meme over at Robbo’s, and I thought that adapting it for anime might be a pleasant way of spending a lunch hour. • What anime are you watching now? The only current series I’m following is Macademi Wasshoi, and if there are more episodes like the fifth,... | | |
| 6:39pm | Acqua alta | | | | If you were planning to tour Venice this week, you might want to cancel your trip and visit Neo Venezia instead. (Via Naked Villainy.) |
| 10:31pm | Linkety-link | | | | I’m going to be busy not watching anime for the next few weeks. There may be an occasional trivial post, but don’t expect anything more. I’ll probably be back around the middle of December. Until then, here are a few links of interest. I would have thought that this was obviously true,... | | |
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