I dragged myself through the end of the first episode with the help of healthy dose of skipping when they started dealing with items. Horrible show, really.
Mind, I was one of the few who ate the coronet discussion. The problem here is that I don't care for the characters …
read moreAnyone watching Taishou Yakyuu Musume 01 saw how girls were shocked at the violence of the sport after a player was knocked out with a ball. Also, I recall some bloggers mentioning anachronistic aluminum bats in TYM, although I didn't watch far enough to see them myself. Now, check out …
read moreBy a strange coincidence, entrails toy was profiled at Failblog recently.
I'm sure someone has blogged this already, but I'm saving it for reference.
"Neko funjatta" means, roughly, "I stepped on the cat", or at least the song goes that way (with missing particles).
BTW, I realize that nobody stepped …
read moreSwayed by the exhalting posts, I gave Kimi ni Todoke a good try and giggled maniacally non-stop through the first 15 minutes of the episode. Also, squeaked "OH NOES SHE'S CHANGING COLOR" and such. No idea if this is my internal fangirl or what, I've never met her before.
As …
read moreA broadcast "industry" observer Claire Atkinson reports that Hulu is going to charge fees according to News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey (via).
I only used Hulu sporadically. Their anime content is extremely sparse. That they only offer the first half of Honey and Clover is utter madness. Their flash …
read moreA random post at Scrumptious pointed to a blog called "Opinion Prone" and a quick backscan brought up a post ostensibly about learning with Nintendo DS, although actually it broaches a wider topic.
I imagine that most people will take a few shots at memorizing their kana and then give …read more
Poor Eternal struggles to define the essense of Kimi ni Todoke and comes up with heart, which is the same signifier Mahoraba commonly received back in 2005. Now I have to extract the anime from the "rejected" pile, where it landed after a brutal beating by Aroduc, and put it …
read moreJosh is staging a comeback that includes his newly minted co-writer, Polaryzed, producing cutesy first impressions going like this:
read moreNow this series threw me for a loop. I came into it knowing that it’d be a fan service comedy. The premise/synopsis from ANN made it sound very similar …