Anime Diet

I’m a sucker for good music. This is especially true if the music is produced by some of the great anime composers–namely, Yoko Kanno or Yuki Kajiura–or contains surprisingly good OPs and EDs. In the best cases, I’ve discovered that at least for me good music can help redeem a show, turning a show that [...]

Not that many, actually, though some essential ones remain. And this episode continues the trend of being simply, well, different–totally different outcomes and plot points and a different focus altogether. In many ways this is a different show from the first season, though they’re intimately interconnected. The bulk of this review, of course, contains spoilers. [...]

Excuse me. I need to get one thing out of my system first. DING DONG, MAKOTO’S DEAD, MAKOTO’S DEAD, STABBY STABBY DEAD! With that out of the way, I can talk a bit more seriously about this unsettling, landmark anime which, in my estimation, went just a bit too far to be truly satisfying. The [...]

From ANN – Italian Police Confiscate 80,000 Pirated Anime DVDs Italian police charged six people in the central region of Ancona and other areas for copyright violations in mass-producing and selling pirated DVDs and videos of Japanese animation. About 80,000 DVDs and one million euros (about US$1.4 million) were confiscated. The suspect allegedly produced the [...]

From The Diet 3 Daily – Sept 29, 2007. Immediately after the last episode of “School Days” was played, fans gathered in front of the station and celebrated the death of Makoto. “Nice death.” A chubby man with glasses gushed, then he immediately corrected himself: “I mean, geez, this is more bloody than the game. [...]

Claymore is a show that’s hard to define. The manga is easier to define. The manga is intelligent through and through. Its emotional impact is consistent and the plots are always good. In my opinion the anime doesn’t lose to the manga in these departments. But because some kind of closure is necessary for a [...]

From Kurogane’s anime blog – A devastated Sekai wakes up the next morning, to a message from Makoto, telling her to go abort the baby (You bloody bastard). Makoto arrives at school and is relieved to see Sekai absent and shortly after receives a message from her saying she’s going to the hospital. Makoto and [...]

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I am sad to see the passing of Geneon USA. This is despite the fact that the majority of my DVDs are from ADV and Bandai, the two remaining big boys left along with Funimation–a company which barely existed when Geneon, aka Pioneer, was at its height. But that’s only because the shows I happen [...]

From Anime New Corporation – Geneon Abruptly Exits Anime Industry Today (Sept. 26) Geneon Entertainment notified retail customers of their decision to cease “the sales of DVDs and all related distribution and marketing operations as of 5 p.m. on Friday, September 28, 2007.” That marks the deadline for orders from their previously announced releases up [...]

From Anime Corpporation News – Afro Samurai Movie An Afro Samurai theatrical movie has been announced for release in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward on October 27, 2007. The movie reportedly includes new animated footage. Ray’s Take: Oh shit, oh shit…Here I go with the comments…WARNING! THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ARE RATED R (clearing his throat): (Washing his [...]

From ANN – Spirited Away’s Canadian Network Premiere on Sunday The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) public television network will broadcast the Academy-Award-winning Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away on Sunday, September 30 at 5:00 p.m. ET/PT. Not only will this be Canada’s network television premiere of director Hayao Miyazaki’s work, but it will apparently mark the [...]

From ANN – Last School Days Episode’s 1st Run to be on Satellite The official Japanese sites for the School Days anime series and the AT-X anime satellite channel have announced that AT-X will run the 12th and last episode on Thursday at 9:30 p.m. JST and repeat next Tuesday morning at 12:30 a.m. Those [...]