1. Toradora no seiyuu

    I forgot to mention that Toradora features an all-star cast: Rie Kugimiya as Taiga (not sure what her best role is... of course many know her as Louise of ZnT, but I think her Futaba of Shingu was rather nicely done), Ai Nonaka (Mikan, Shippon), Rie Tanaka (I think she …

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  2. Sasa on the Autumn

    A rather longish list is up on Heterochromia. Sasa is behind on most shows, but for me it's not a problem. I've just finished Toradora 03 yesterday too. I love it when people make an effort to summarize the shows briefly, even when we strongly disagree (e.g. Sasa is …

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  4. Portmanteau words in Nodame

    This observation is not new or unique to Nodame, but still: Japanese sure like their 2+2 syllable shortenings.

    Examples include:

    • ジミヘン / "jimi hen": Jimi Nendrix, made in the same way as Kane-tomo refers to Tomoko Kaneda.
    • セクハラ / "seku hara": Seksual Hara …
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  5. pyTivo

    At last I have discovered a tool which allows my TiVo to download videos from a Linux system: pyTivo (the "wgw" version worked for me).

    Unfortunately, I don't have anything that my family would like... Mushishi is about the only thing, but that is available on DVD.

    UPDATE: While I'm …

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  6. J.P.Meyer on To Heart

    J.P. tells us what makes To Heart different (with spoilers, but hey, how old is this show?):

    I can’t quit put my finger on it, but To Heart has a certain something, a je ne sais quoi if you will, the prevents me from automatically hating it in …

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  7. Nomad Otto on Nodame's French

    Nomad's boss, BigN, made me read the post till the end, and I found something with which to disagree:

    Alright, so, you have Nodame, a notorious screw-up, in a foreign country. Obviously, she’s not going to speak the language at first, so, you have an episode of grace in …
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  8. Peri(ne)-manga

    Xephyre posts a local copy for a dangerously cute Strike Witches themed strip today. Sixten should check out...

    Original artist is... ok, I cannot find anything like a nick or a handle at the webpage (unless "Chief" is it). The blog has "kanako" in the URL.

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  9. Evirus on Macademy

    Karmaburn:

    I don’t know how I made it through the first episode. It’s God awful. It’s worse than Cosprayers, easily. It might even be worse than Limeiro CROSS.

    This looks like a showdown, and honestly, from what I've seen (the YouTube clips) I'm leaning towards Evirus' side …

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  10. Nodame, a Visual Retrospective

    Nodame is a tough object for this excercise, because it produced a record number of screencaps: 646 (for a comparison, in Gurren-Lagann I only thought the frame remarkable enough to capture 240 times). With wittling so ruthless there's a real danger to lose the essence of the anime. It's going …

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