The End of the World
07/03/2008 06:24 PM EDTCasshan the Robot Hunter OAV: no-nonsense robot-bashing >>
The Casshan franchise is an odd thing for me. Apparently it started in the 1970s as a TV series (which I have yet to see) but its cult status earned it the live-action treatment as Casshern (which I’m still in two minds about in terms of quality, but at least Shiro Sagisu’s musical score was [...]
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Omonomono
07/03/2008 06:20 PM EDT♪ Welcome to Your Slice of Life O.P.S.! - Natsu no Sora Edition >>
This is just a cheap ploy to prod at what really matters–when your HAL Film Maker (best known for the animated Aria adaptations) overlords work with Osamu Kobayashi (probably best known for his Gurren Lagann episode 4 nonsense to kids on the lawn today?) to create a very interesting mash-up between what is real and [...]
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Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
Josh's Anime Blog
07/03/2008 06:18 PM EDTADV Update: It ain’t lookin good for Kanon, NHK, et. al. >>
It’s hard to tell how much trouble ADV is in, but apparently ADV has had a falling out with their licensing parter Sojitz which, from the sound of it, effectively makes the four titles announced yesterday technically unlicensed for the time being.
The fact that the ADV rep at their Sneak Peak panel talked about how [...]
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Kanon
"Do you think this show is educational?"
"Yes, it’ll drive people to read books."
"Hooohohohohohohoh!"
Impressions:
You know how I said that there’s a misogynist point to be made somewhere in Strike Witches? There’s a 1,000 pound homophobic hammer to be made here. If Antique Bakery is to believed, gays are aggressive and slutty, forcing themselves onto other people [...]
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Yakitate!! Japan
Strike Witches
Erika’s tongue action is so cute!
Wow, this show has some of the best looking people on Japanese television today. This promotion interview was aired few hours before the first episode airs today. (By the time you are reading this, someone should be uploading the raw for episode one already.) How can anyone [...]
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Bit of a short post this week but I thought it would be a good idea to break up all the Ignis updates, so I thought I would post my summer spending since I had a few figures arrive in the past week.
Yes, your eyes do not deceive you, I have 2 Rize figures! Due [...]
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minaide! hazukashii...
07/03/2008 05:35 PM EDTbut but but “entitlement” and “instant gratification” >>
So remember how I said that Heroes was the top-selling TV series DVD release last year and also got about 13 million viewers? It also gets about 10 million viewers on Bittorrent. Most of this article at TorrentFreak is the usually blah blah torrents are awesome and here are actual numbers and support [...]
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I really only starting watching this show because I felt I needed to catch at least an episode or two from as many animes as possible. What has happened though is this title is slowly making it’s way up my favorites list and it’s the simple things that are doing it.
Episode 9 Rating: 11/12 A+
Episode [...]
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Series:
Wagaya no Oinari-sama
2:07 PM: Playing a new music video. She’s got really crazy nails in this one too.
2:08 PM: Shokotan Appears. She’s dressed as Kenshin. Greets us in English
2:11 PM: Likes the LA weather. Steak too. Talks about the bomb threat at LAX, but it reminded her of a movie.
2:12 PM: Will judge AX Idol too, and [...]
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Don’t get so excited guys, this is just the last 60 seconds of the episode. The actual rain scene is next week.
Man Kin-chan lost some major points this week. I always thought of him as that annoying guy but now he’s a freaking rapist in training! “I’ll make you forget him.” WTF, I’ll [...]
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Itazura na Kiss
I know everyone has heard about this already but Funimation saves several of Geneon’s titles. Some of them are ones that Geneon licensed but either started it or never released them. I’m actually glad to hear about this because there are a few titles I actually would mind having. I may...
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Well, here I am…they just said they’ve just finished two episodes of Kiba and there’s a deal closing shortly. The panelist, whose name I didn’t catch, says he’s not going to go into a lot of the “what’s going on at ADV,” so we’ll see…
Because ADV’s deal with Soujutsu has fallen apart, ADV may lose [...]
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Kiba
OK, I know AX has already started, and I’m not there in LA (whaaa! It’s my goal in life to, at least once in my life, make the cross-country trip to AX), but in any case, here is the schedule for the industry panels there:
July 4th
11:00am - 12:00pm: Aurora Publishing
12:00 - 1:00pm: Viz Media
12:00 - [...]
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Tenka Seiha
07/03/2008 04:35 PM EDTStrike Witches #01 — Gonzo Can No Longer Afford to Draw Pants >>
I didn’t know things had become that desperate.
Impressions:
Impressive. This is perhaps the strangest thing I’ve ever seen. 90% of the girls in Strike Witches just have no pants on. No shorts or a skirt or anything, they just stopped dressing themselves halfway. If every single one of them had gone bottomless, you might [...]
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Strike Witches
OP: “Hatena de Wasshoi” by Kana Asumi, Kaori Mizuhashi, Ryoko Shintani & Yuko Goto - Nooooooo! Where’s my “namida no blue”??? Just kidding. The new OP is totally full of happiness power, and it kind of makes me want to party.
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Hidamari Sketch
Star Crossed Anime Blog
07/03/2008 04:10 PM EDTSome quick first impressions: Someday’s Dreamers: Natsu no Sora, Hidamari Sketch x356 and Antique Bakery >>
Someday’s Dreamers: Natsu no Sora
Short Synopsis: Our lead character who lives on the countryside gets accepted on a magic school in Tokyo.
Highlights: Awesome art direction; warm slice of life; is the first season as good as this?
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
Usually, I refer to the titles of anime in their romanized form, but in this case [...]
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Hidamari Sketch
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Oops, that’s not it. I mean:
full size
Oh look, an anime that I want to watch, when I want to watch it, in the format that I want to watch it, and at a price that’s actually lower than I was planning on spending (150 points when I thought it would be 200)! [...]
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Strike Witches
In the first round of the Crunchyroll vs. BOST TV battles, it seems to me that Crunchyroll had a clear advantage over BOST TV. While BOST had a better quality stream of the video, you had to pay to see it while, at the same time, you could “donate” as little as $0.01 to [...]
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Strike Witches
Protaku Anime and Manga Blog
07/03/2008 03:51 PM EDTGood News: FUNimation picks up where Geneon left off >>
Some good news in the anime industry today. FUNimation and its parent company Navarre have announced a deal with Geneon to distribute anime titles in North America.
From the press release:
FUNimation Entertainment, has entered into an exclusive agreement to distribute select DVD titles in North America on behalf of Geneon Entertainment, a leading producer [...]
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Mmmmmm everything.
Impressions:
Wow. Just… wow. Everything here has taken a sharp tick upwards. The Shaftiness, the production values, Shinbo’s… Shinboness, the works. At times, it’s a little strange because it’s too well animated and feels a bit overblown, but then again, what Shaft show manages to avoid that? Like most Shaft shows, it’s a [...]
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Hidamari Sketch
