In this episode, Ray, Jeremy, and I tackle the Seiyuu Oscars in Tokyo, the Death Note laptop, the manga artist who has released his own line of illustrated toilet paper, and some more comments on the Naruto Shippenden arc! I also give a full review of Soukou no Strain, which I finished watching recently. Leave [...]
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Impressions Aww, Chiaki didn’t play the Rach 2 after all! Stresemann was apparently using it as a way to make him go away and let him take over the S Orchestra again. On the other hand, we did get to see Nodame actually playing Chopin. I love Chopin–I often listen to Chopin nocturnes and preludes [...]
+ = Well…after a long hiatus, and even though we’re not all that happy with some of the results, we’ve decided to release this anyway–the zeroth episode Laugh Track, a downloadable Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary track for a particular episode of anime. This is episode 0, not 1, because we learned a lot of [...]
In this episode, I do a totally inaccurate Charlie Rose impersonation (what would he ask about moe?), and talk about To Heart 2, the Haruhi Suzumiya broadcast order DVDs, Soukou no Strain first impressions, and what anime characters you’d like to be friends with! Jeremy couldn’t join us this week as he needed a break. [...]
I couldn’t pass this video up and just to had to share it everyone. This is very well made and very funny for everyone who knows what this show is REALLY about: It’s got everything: the first names of the girls scrolled under their action shots. The over synthesized J-pop soundtrack with an impossibly squeeky [...]
More images available by this artist here. This is really impressive, though if anything these are the Charlie Brown characters as adolescents rather than preteen kids. And here’s the Scooby gang, shoujofied! This, I think, works really well: The artist’s site is here. He’s only 17!
Again, I don’t know if this is news to anyone, but Koei is going to release a game that combines Dynasty Warrior characters and Samurai Warrior characters, in the same game (oh rejoice, rejoice for the world of supreme hacking and slashing has come forth to cure us of our stressful world)! There will be [...]
First, I would like to thank noooneofconsequnece for correcting me that Ikkitousan: Dragon Destiny isn’t an OVA. Second, I think to come up with a list of characters that one would like to be with in real life may be too much work. So, for anyone who still wants to post comments on that (see [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I made a few comments on poor choices of English titles for anime. The official announcement of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni by Geneon has come, and it’s been titled When They Cry in English. I think this is an example of a good compromise between the sense of the [...]
Actual musical animation returns! For once, they finally spared the budget to show us musicians actually bowing and hitting keys. Even if it was, in the end, all too brief. This episode, in which Chiaki learns the value of teamwork and not-hectoring-people-until-they-cry-by-watching-a-corny-kids-anime, was silly. :) In either case it really seems to confirm the purely [...]
To Heart 1 had a lot of charm, even though I could hardly identify with the protagonist – but I do have to admit, he…scores! OK, that was dumb. But To Heart holds a special place in my heart (sorry about the pun), even without a real plot. To Heart RMM (Remember My Memories) on [...]
Well, well. I guess people don’t get enough girls in super short skirts and high kicks a lot. Just see how popular DoA series of games are. Here, we have an series that’s coming out with an OVA – the manga isn’t going to end anytime soon. It’s super popular even in this remote island [...]
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