Yes, dear readers–that’s your duty too! Because I don’t have time to write full entries tonight and because as of this posting, it’s also my birthday. Whee! Let’s celebrate with some brief thoughts on Rosario + Vampire, Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Persona: Trinity Soul, Clannad 15, and Spice and Wolf thus far.
Archive for January 2008
From AnimeNfo.com Anime : School Days ~Magical Heart Kokoro-chan ~ …Kokoro become determined to save everyone from all the hate and destruction in the relationships and to bring back the dead… Ray’s take: Yeah right. This isn’t even news but just another effort by the studio to milking it all for its worth. Hey, they [...]
From ANN – Funimation Uploads Entire Black Blood Brothers Anime …made all 12 episodes of the Black Blood Brothers supernatural adventure series available on its website as “download-to-own” videos…the second complete anime series to be released online, download-to-own, by a major North American anime studio prior to its North American DVD release. Viz Media released [...]
Can he really be saying that about Makoto? The final burial of this show is done expertly, and hilariously, by the makers of the anime themselves. Having once suggested in a very serious audio column that the best way to treat this show is unseriously, there’s no better way to take that advice than to [...]
Editorial, episode review: it all starts with this. In an astonishing wildfire meme that has spread throughout the anime blogosphere, and this time without the quota set by Owen’s agricultural collective, people are talking about the merits of episode blogging vs. editorials. Personally, I don’t see what the big deal is and why they’re being [...]
Don’t eat the red snow, Shinichiro Hi everyone, the blogger that my partner calls “the professional” is back from an enforced academic break, and I’m here to fulfill my duty to talk about romance shows that don’t suck…like this fine episode, which sets up some ordinary and yet emotionally compelling love drama between our principal [...]
Yeah, yeah, OK, so it’s better than episode one. We have Triela reading the story of Pinocchio; we have she being traumatized and wondering about her life, and we have decent gun fighting sequence and fighting sequence. I’m sure many others said something about this episode already. All I’ve gotta say is – KEEP THIS [...]
From ANN – Montreal’s McGill University Hosts Shōjo Conference …McGill University will host an academic conference on gender issues in manga and anime in Montreal, Canada, this Friday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26. Entitled “TranscultureELLE: How Girls Cross Cultures…” …Frenchy Lunning, “Under the Ruffles: Shōjo and the Morphology of Abjection”… Ray’s take: I wonder [...]
From Anime Corporation News: Anime Movie Screenings at Anima 2008 …The Anima 2008 International Film Festival will screen Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Tekkonkinkreet… …will be held in Brussels, Belgium… Ray’s take: Oops. Hey, I’m American. What the hell do I know? But [...]
From ANN – 3 Japanese Men Arrested, Charged with Uploading Anime …Kyoto Prefectural Police’s High-Tech Crime Task Force and officers from five police stations arrested three men on Thursday on charges of uploading anime episodes and images to the Winny file-sharing network… …The Winny peer-to-peer file-sharing software was developed in 2002 by a then anonymous [...]
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