So I’ve been looking at the polls…hmm. I see that there are more people not listening to the podcast. Not to not shamelessly plugging the cast, but we did pack more fun into the thing. But anyway, Looking at the new season, I’m most impressed with Claymore, mostly “moe” ed by Lucky Star’s opening, and [...]
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Here’s some thoughts about new shows that I couldn’t think of an entire post to write about. :) What do you all think and what else looks promising to you this season? (Some of these are shows Ray and I talk about in the upcoming podcast, which will be released tomorrow.) Lucky Star Given the [...]
WOW! I know this sounds really dumb, but…wow…what a beginning! Just what I expected from MADHOUSE. The show gave me a little bit of the feeling of Berserk. But the era isn’t filled with evil…just yet. The first “Claymore” woman that appears is Clair. She’s played by one of my favorite seiyuu – Kuwashima Houko. [...]
This is the commercial for Lucky Star. By now most otaku have seen it, and know that the one doing the MUUUUUUUUUing is none other than Hirano Aya, one of the goddesses of moe. I keep wondering whether this commercial, by itself, pretty much encapsulates and represents the logical limit of moe–the purest, most concise [...]
Impressions And so the spring 2007 season begins with a funny, postmodern bang! I remember seeing the premise for this show and not being particularly interested–from the screenshots, it looked like Just Another Harem Comedy (c), and the closing sequence seems to reinforce this impression. I am so happy to be proven wrong. This is [...]
Hello Scattered Cels readers! This is our new home, called Anime Diet, which is now hosted at animeblogger.net. The podcast has also been moved, and is now called Anime Diet Radio! Click below to subscribe via iTunes, or on the links on the right. If you already subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, you don’t [...]
I think this parody of Death Note pretty much is a signal that this show has made it into the mainstream of Japanese pop culture, not just the otaku niche. (The same applies to any musician who gets parodied by Weird Al.) Not to mention that it’s awfully funny…in a Super Size way, if you [...]
Do you remember that episode early on in Welcome to the NHK where Satou and Yamazaki are sitting in a cafe in Akibhabara, trying to come up with a main character for their eroge? Remember after being immersed in the Otaku Holy Land, Satou basically threw every single gal-game cliche at Yamazaki, who’s furiously sketching [...]
The rumors have been flying over the English anime blogosphere about the possibility of a live-action Haruhi Suzumiya J-drama starting soon. (See here and here, where the rumor originated.) According to one commenter elsewhere, however, someone from the infamous 2chan actually called the production companies to confirm and they have neither confirmed nor denied it, [...]
So. I’ve been silenced for a few days – no, I didn’t get whacked by Noir, though I wouldn’t mind being whacked as long as I got autographs from them (it’d be even better if I got that from the the actual seiyuus), and no, I wasn’t send to an alternate universe, even though that [...]
So I’ve been looking at the listings of what’s coming out this upcoming (or, actually, just already started) season in anime. The winter has been rather disappointing, after the astonishingly good run from spring to fall of last year (or maybe it was just filled with shows that I happened to like a lot, like [...]
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