| 7:43am | Sengoku Basara Review - 75/100 | | | | Game adaptations are of course notorious in how they tend to fail more often than not, but Sengoku Basara at first sight looked like it was going to be among the good ones. It was full of manliness and great fights, but along the way it didn’t really manage to fully live up to its expectations.... | | |
| 8:47am | May Summary | | | | My opinion on this season? Awesome. It really is one of the best seasons we’ve had in years, and especially the series I’ve been blogging haven’t disappointed at all so far. This season is especially excels in characters: there are lots of series with excellent characterizations and... | | |
| 4:00pm | Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai ep. 1 |  | | | Series Information ANN Encyclopedia | AniDB Genres: Action, Fantasy, Romance Production: Kyoto Animation OP: 「Anemoi」 by eufonius ED: 「Hikari to Yami to Toki no Hate」 by Ceui ムント公式サイト [ Episode 1: Things I know ] Long title is LONG. And here I thought Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto... | | |
| 3:37am | Koji Morimoto |  | | | Koji Morimoto works with Nike on their latest NikeID promo. Low res below, high rest at YouTube. Thanks to comrade Jason Ho at Lucasfilm for the link. Lovely animation style. Morimoto sensei has worked on the following titles (taken from ANN). Ai Monogatari (OAV) : Director (Hero) Akira (movie) :... | | |
| 7:50pm | Aya and Nana in White Album -- And So It Begins | | | | Here we go. Nana Mizuki and Hirano Aya are getting ready to start recording as the stars of the anime White Album, which will air in January. They were together at the Aquaplus Festa 2008 last Saturday, and have both posted shots in their blogs of the two of them together. The larger photo is from Aya's... | | |
| 9:15am | Blade of the Immortal - 06 | | | | Short Synopsis: This episode fleshes out some of the members of the Ittou-Ryuu Highlights: The ending. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 So, the Ittou-Ryuu has its own enemies too, and this episode shows them as they get rid of those who are in their way. The first seems to be some sort of ronin, the... | | |
| 8:31pm | Kekkaishi Review - 84/100 | | | | Ah, shounen-fighting series. How many of them have fallen into the pit of mediocrity? Probably too many to count. Still, once in a while a series appears in the genre that actually delivers. The cream of the crop is for me the Law of Ueki, and even though Kekkaishi couldn’t come to that same... | | |
| 2:46pm | SA・DA・ME ～運命と宿命～ | | | | If you happen to learn Japanese, particulary kanji, have you encountered any weird reading? I mean, even though those reading are not technically correct, it should bestow a better ring to it. That’s what’s-called, 当て字[ateji, phonetic equivalent]. I think you could find this kind... | | |
| 3:03pm | Spring Season Preview | | | | Incidentally, this is my 1600th post, so I thought that it would a good time for the upcoming spring-season preview, and the line-up is looking quite interesting. There are a lot of science-fiction series, and no hentai-game adaptations at all. That’s probably the first since years now. Apart... | | |
| 6:06am | サムライガール [samurai girl] | | | | Is this a new type? Come to think of it, we could find this kind of girl in a bishoujo anime or game. If she is good at some martial arts (mostly kendo or kyudo[Japanese archery]), and always holds a bamboo sword or a real sword, she could be labelled as a サムライガール[samurai girl]. There’s... | | |
| 3:09pm | [Woohoo!] 「Candy☆Boy」 sequel coming up! | | | | Wow, this is great news. It’s getting a seven-episode sequel if I’m reading this correctly. I can’t read the text under the illustration; requesting assistance. (;ﾟдﾟ) Thoughts? Hm, a genuine Web Anime (Webアニメ) format series How long has it been since Bakumatsu Kikansetsu... | | |
| 1:22pm | Impressions of 'Hijikata Toshizo Shiro no Kiseki (土方歳三 白の軌跡)' | | | | I watched Hijikata Toshizo Shiro no Kiseki (土方歳三 白の軌跡), a 30-minute OVA by Studio 4℃. It is everything you would expect of Studio 4℃ - nice storyboarding and colour coordination etc. Basically it's a walk-through of the life of Hijikata Toshizo. There are some artistic touches,... | | |
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