| 12:05am | Welcome to the Summer Days | | | | After two relatively dry anime seasons in Japan, the sky has finally opened up and blessed us with more potential gems than there is time to watch them all. That’s my feeling, at least. And the timing couldn’t be any better. As usual, here are the coming Summer season shows that catch... | | |
| 9:04pm | Anext08: Del Rey Liveblog | | | | Well, they’re $10/hr and slow, but I HAS INTERNETS. So! We have Dallas Middaugh, associate publisher at Del Rey Manga. He mentions again that he doesn’t have any new announcements and will mostly be talking about getting published and the like, and he opens up for questions right away. Someone... | | |
| 6:53pm | xxxHolic - 36 | | | | Now this was an awesome episode! I’m glad to see that the creators were able to play with the manga chapters in such a way to save the best story for last. In fact, I wouldn’t mind if the Himawari-arc would close off the xxxHolic anime, because in this way, the series would leave you in... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 4:00am | T.H.A.T.’s Summer 2008 Anime Preview (Updated 6/14) |  | | | Summer timeand the livin’s easy Since Impz has bailed on us for three weeks to go to some academic conference, the duty of creating the THAT Anime Blog Summer 2008 Preview falls to me. Thankfully it’s not a fall or spring preview or I’d have to kill him. This preview uses pretty much the... | | |
| 8:40am | xxxHOLiC: CLAMP’s ‘First Lady’ Yuuko breaks her silence | | | | You would be pissed off, too. xxxHOLiC is Production IG’s TV adaptation of an ongoing seinen manga created by the highly-successful CLAMP, known for their lithe character designs, fusion of shoujo and shounen styles, and penchant for recycling characters. Over the years, CLAMP’s interlinked... | | |
| 3:54pm | DMC Mini-Episode Streamed! | | | | Amazon has the first mini-episode online for the anime adaptation of Detroit Metal City! Brought to you by Studio 4°C and directed by Hiroshi Nagahama of Mushishi fame! It’s hilarious and play faithfully to the manga. Seeing the first episode, I now want the box set of the animation! Be forewarned,... | | |
| 6:34pm | Beautiful Shows You Must Watch | | | | Watching anime has become one of the most fabulous things that I’ve come to enjoy. Sure, there’s plenty of popular shows with stereotypical plots, characters and themes, and I’ve seen a few of those to know that there are way better stuff just waiting to be discovered. If you arrived... | | |
| 11:52pm | T.H.A.T.’s Summer 2008 Anime Preview | | | | Summer timeand the livin’s easy Since Impz has bailed on us for three weeks to go to some academic conference, the duty of creating the THAT Anime Blog Summer 2008 Preview falls to me. Thankfully it’s not a fall or spring preview or I’d have to kill him. This preview uses pretty much the... | | |
| 11:05am | Kyoushuu (郷愁): Not just as simple as mere homesickness / nostalgia | | | | There is a powerful concept in the spectrum of Japanese sensibilities called kyoushuu (郷愁). It's right up there with isagiyoi (潔い) - which is another chapter in itself that I will discuss some other time. The dictionary definition of kyoushuu is i) homesickness or ii) nostalgia. However,... | | |
| 11:05am | Kyoushuu (郷愁): Not just as simple as mere homesickness / nostalgia | | | | There is a powerful concept in the spectrum of Japanese sensibilities called kyoushuu (郷愁). It's right up there with isagiyoi (潔い) - which is another chapter in itself that I will discuss some other time. The dictionary definition of kyoushuu is i) homesickness or ii) nostalgia. However,... | | |
| 7:38am | Summer season preview - I guess it’s time to get to my backlog | | | | I finished this blog posting and was just about to click on “Publish” when I decided to change my whole entry. It just has to be said: The next season is going to be crap and I have a beautiful set of 4 series I might watch. What the heck is wrong with this world? If I look back at my preview... | | |
| 5:19am | xxxHOLiC 02 - “Left Eye” | | | | Synopsis: Doumeki continues to search for a way to restore Watanuki’s eye. Although it is already late at night, Doumeki continues to search for a way to restore Watanuki’s eye. Watanuki arrives bringing food for him. Doumeki explains to Watanuki that the storehouse contains books... | | |
| 5:36am | Summer Season Preview | | | | Well, it’s time to start looking at what the next season has to offer again. The summer-season is again going to be relatively small, but there are quite a number of potential gems in it. There’s also a wide variety of different genres; there’s slice of life, action, adventure, mystery,... | | |
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