| 9:16pm | Shangri-La - 05 | | | | Whoa. I must say, I totally didn’t see this coming. This was without a doubt the best episode of Shangri-La yet. The thing with Gonzo is that they’ve got so much flaws, that I at times forget that these guys make damn good anime. No other animation studio has surprised me more times than... | | |
| 6:17pm | Spring 2009 - The Season of the Simulcast |  | | | A year ago, Japanese studio Gonzo was on the verge of financial collapse and tried to dig themselves out by experimenting with a new idea for the US market. They introduced the simulcast, a free, legal, fully-subtitled copy of their Spring 2008 series Drauga and Blassreiter. They would make each episode... | | |
| 6:24pm | We Prefer to Call It Downsizing |  | | | Omigod, I see dead people! From Owen (yes, I really am quoting tweets): Akamatsu needs to up the ante and do a Rowling soon. such a huge cast begs to have some killed off by Fate eventually. I think that all the fanboys who were upset about all the recent (awesome) battling would go nuts if this happened,... | | |
| 6:50pm | Spring '09 Previews | | | | There are several interesting facts about this spring season. First with the exception of FMA, Hayate and Polyphonica, all other series are new. Another noteworthy fact is that all series are adaptions from manga, novels or games with Eden and Basquash as the only exceptions! As for my expectations ... | | |
| 7:30pm | Shangri-La: A List of Do-Nots Please, Gonzo | | | | GONZO is totally like Tottenham Hotspurs. The joke might be lost on you American readers, but Spurs are a football club that was good for a couple of years sometime in the last century and since then, its fans have been delusionally waiting for the next era of success even when it’s pretty obvious... | | |
| 8:01pm | Blassreiter’s ending is damn random |  | | | Uh, okay. I just finished Blassreiter. That’s like the most random ending ever, with all the dead people suddenly coming back in, including the villains to greet the living ones. And they didn’t even talk about Elea’s true identity. Hmm well, in the end, the story was pretty much... | | |
| 3:38am | Funimation licenses God, Planet | | | | OK, Funimation didn’t quite license that much, but they went on yet another licensing spree today, picking up both Tower of Druaga shows, Dragonaut - The Resonance, and Blassreiter from GONZO and Bamboo Blade from D. Rights. Now, personally, I’m not sure if any of these are actually good... | | |
| 11:07pm | Boobs to hit R1 | | | | Really, Funimation? Dragonaut? Seriously? Was it cheap? Were you forced to pick it up as part of a package deal? Have you merely gone crazy? Slightly more interesting is probably the fact that they’ve also picked up the two Duraga series and Blassreiter, both of which have been available to watch... | | |
| 4:57pm | Starting on Blassreiter | | | | Watching Blassreiter now. Gave it a miss when it was running mainly because it was Gonzo + hearing tons of bad things about the CG. However, the presence of Itou Shizuka in the show made sure it stayed in my mind and I’m glad now, because it’s quite a good show, unexpectedly. Well then again,... | | |
| 2:45am | Afro Samurai |  | | | image ID#24170From left to right:- Fuminori Kizaki (Director of Afro Samurai, Animation Director of Blue Gender, Character Designer of Galaxy Railways, Key Animation for Macross Pluss OAV)Danny Choo CEO Mirai Inc/Key pigeon cage cleanerTakashi Okazaki (Original creator art/manga of Afro Samurai)Andrew... | | |
| 8:22pm | 2008 Summary - Part II | | | | I originally wanted to wait with posting this until Porfy no Nagai’s final episode got released, but its time is nearly running out here. The Share-uploaders have a very cruel sense of humour: out of all the episodes they could have picked to delay, it became that one. In any case, here’s... | | |
| 2:36am | 1st Day of Christmas: The Release of the Tower of Druaga |  | | | Well–here’s my first salvo in the “12 Days, 12 Moments” project. Why so late and out of sync with the rest of the blogosphere? Well, as someone with theological training, I couldn’t bear to be so liturgically incorrect as to misidentify the 12 Days of Christmas as the days... | | |
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