Anime Diet

This week, Ray introduces the show, and we talk about Ghibli research grants, the possible Hollywood adaptation of Ghost in the Shell (and who we’d cast in the different roles), and review Zero no Tsukaima and a first look at Megadere! There are also major changes coming for next week’s podcast, so keep in touch [...]

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Note: I have decided not to do plot summaries for the time being. They take me too long to do, and I have a lot of schoolwork to finish. This show inspired so much narcissistic nostalgia in me, the review will probably be more about me than it. Oh well… Like many other Asian-American youths, [...]

And then there was a short one. This one is only 34 minutes, and it’s mostly a news rundown, mostly because we forgot to figure out what we wanted to review this week. :) We also give a few not-very-informed impressions of Nana and Megadere. Show Notes Viz licenses Death Note in unique way: will [...]

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Men in Catholic/military style hoods holding up a banner not for joy, but a sense of gloom and darkness that is set in a roughly 18 or 19 century European world with the deep and grim voice of the commentator in the background. That’s how D-Gray Man begin. The main character, Alan Walker is a [...]

Episode 3: now with upgraded, sexier audio, courtesy of much better microphones! We ramble on this time about dubs vs. subs, Miyazaki’s rumored new project, the death of the inventor of instant ramen, and The Third–among many, many other things. This is our longest episode yet! (1 hour) If you have any questions you’d like [...]

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Also called “Looking Up at the Half-Moon”: a fine title that I should have used for one of my stories This 6 episode drama OAV aspires to be, and should have been a quiet, believable short story about the struggles and joys of two hospital patients. The unsynthesized and unpretentious opening song (a wonderful song, [...]

Impressions (SPOILERS) And so the most intelligent and exciting action anime to come along in a while closes its most extensive arc yet, with plenty of room for more seasons to come. (Though my hopes that Yukio, the schoolgirl Yakuza boss, might become a recurring character were, alas, not to be.) The reflective dialogue in [...]

Impressions The first episode of Afro Samurai, the Japanese-animated and Samuel L. Jackson-voiced Gonzo production, is now available for viewing for free on the Spike TV website. It’s a fairly safe bet that the project rides almost entirely on Jackson’s name recognition (Ron Perlman also has a voice too). But how does it stack up, [...]

Not. They purposely made the animation terrible to the degree that one wondered if some kids drew the animation on a PC. But that was supposed to be some type of joke (I think). The episode was about “tales of the Desert!” I guess that the feeling there was that it should be kid like. [...]