| 11:30pm | 57 Fall Anime -- story, staff, cast, trailer, pic | | | | There are more new shows this fall than in any season over the past few years. But I'm not sure the quality -- or at least the appeal to my taste -- will be that high. I don't see any shows I expect to be as good as the great shows of this past summer season, such as Aoi Hana and Bakemonogatari. But... | | |
| 10:19pm | Four-Eyed Prince Vol 1 by Wataru Mizukami Manga Review | | | | Title: Four-Eyed Prince Vol 1 Author: Wataru Mizukami Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 9780345516244 May Contain Spoilers When Sachiko confesses her feelings to the cool, bespectacled Akihiko, he bluntly shoots her down. Her heart broken by his rejection, Sachiko is in for an alarming... | | |
| 4:16pm | Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 14 | | | | It’s Phantom episode 14, and Reiji has lots of things going on: training Cal, protecting the Godoh group, and putting up with Cal choosing clothes. Phantom tentatively asks Cal (who is a good cook by the way) if she wants to be his assistant, remembering back on how he told McGuire that he wanted... | | |
| 8:06pm | Ristorante Paradiso Review - 85/100 | | | | I’ve turned into quite a fan of the modern horeca-series, brought back and popularized by Bartender. It’s a genre with an atmosphere unlike any other genre, and one of those very few types of series targeted solely at adults. The latest installment is Ristorante Paradiso: yet again a short... | | |
| 8:10pm | Ristorante Paradiso - 09 | | | | Yup, today it’s time for the Theo-episode. And like always, there’s another surprise in this episode: the reappearance of that mysterious main chef that the restaurant started out with. She indeed was the one who guided Theo through his rookie-years when he first came to work at the restaurant,... | | |
| 11:11am | Bartender Review - 85/100 | | | | Anime, just like any other medium, does suffer from the fact that as time goes on, it gets harder and harder to be original. In the past decade, nearly all of the genres we know today were already invented, and during the past few years, it has become near-impossible to create any new genres it seems.... | | |
| 8:35pm | The Good, The Bad, and the Moe: Spring 2009 Anime Rankings - Part 2 | | | | Part 2, the continuation of the Spring Anime Rankings post I started last week. Delayed on account of Valkyria Chronicles is as addicting as crack cocaine. orz Honestly, there are quite a few very good shows this season, so even though these series didn’t make it into my top 5, they’re all... | | |
| 4:36pm | WHAT THING IS THIS | | | | IT IS A NEW SUZUMIYA HARUHI EPISODE. AS IN, NOT A RERUN. I HAS JUST WATCHED PART OF IT. IT IS LIKE THE ORIGINAL SEASON 1. AWESOME ED, AND STUFF. Also, I think Suzumiya Haruhi is a moé version of Heinlein’s All You Zombies. Except replace the whole bartender is everyone plot with KYON IS RESPONSIBLE... | | |
| 11:06am | Final Thoughts: Antique Bakery | | | | When Keiichirou Tachibana chucks in a well paid job to become the proprietor of a patisserie, it seems an unlikely move for a man who doesn’t even like sweets that much. Still, his new life is far from uneventful, thanks to his new employees- a chief patissier so gay that he’s been fired from all... | | |
| 8:05pm | Some quick first Impressions: Ristorante Paradiso and Higashi no Eden | | | | Yeah, yeah. I know that there are only 2 shows this time but I’m too lazy and impatient to wait for the final one. I’ll edit it in as soon as it arrives Ristorante Paradiso Short Synopsis: Our lead character visits a restaurant managed by lots of bishies Chance of me Blogging: 100% (Obviously,... | | |
| 12:00am | Almost Famous: Demon-King Takumi of Trapnest (NANA) | | | | What does music mean to you? I ask the man before me. “In a word, Reira.” It’s not easy to get Takumi-san, the Guitarist and principal composer of Trapnest. In journalistic circles he is known to be more ruthless than the most bloodthirsty sharks in the Japanese entertainment press.... | | |
| 9:54pm | 48 Spring Anime -- full previews: story, trailer, cast, staff, pic | | | | These may be difficult times in the anime industry, but you couldn't tell it from the number of anime being produced. Forty-eight titles come out this spring -- series and OVAs -- about the same number as last spring.But quantity doesn't necessarily imply quality. Nothing here seems like an instant classic.... | | |
| 9:05pm | 2009 Spring Anime Releases | | | | With the Front page being pretty devoid of any updates of Late I thought i’d sign up and post some news on a hopefully regular basis. I though it best to start with a listing of the anime to be Released over the next few weeks as we are lead into the Spring of 2009. If the release date has been... | | |
| 4:44am | A Week in Tokyo 31 |  | | | image ID#23862The last A Week in Tokyo installment for 2008. This series started over a year ago back in November 2007 with the aim of sharing my life with you in Tokyo. There are other articles in the category like A Week in Shanghai and A Week in Los Angeles but thats because I'm personally using... | | |
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