Jason's Thin Slicing is out and it's as strong as it used to be. Also, no sports references!
Competitors snap on his heels though. Check out Sasa's version:
- Lelouch’s “I order you to kill yourself”-theater is horrible, why is the main character so ridiculously and flamboyantly gay?
She …
read moreBy way of the dot-anime (which unfortunately lacks the site feed):
read moreI got an update from GAINAX production manager Saito-san about their staff coming to Fanime.
Apparently they're sending 46 people this year.
A good number of them are Gurren Lagann staff. Almost all of the Gurren Lagann staff are …
Nominations closed and collated. Although due to Oscar-like system they haven't yet "won", non-AB blogs took top counts in Editorial (Lawson), Manga, Influential, Rookie, Funniest (Hinano), Satire (Minaide), Seiyuu (Hashi-hime — of course!). AB-based blogs had to contend with Episodic (RandomC) and Team (THAT). So much for the circlejerk.
I suppose …
read moreThis experience I completely spoiled myself, because I procrastinated until DVDs went out of print. Instigated by J.P., I managed to gather the remainder of the set, but years after I watched the first volume. Naturally, it was a mash...
The biggest surprise is how little the original and …
read moreOwen does his best to shill for Kure-nai, and I must say he's persuasive, but since my original capsule comment was "Crime, Rental Magica inside-out, whatever", it will take more to make me watch it. Hate crime anime.
UPDATE:
<saturnine> but "crime anime" is a severe misnomerread more
<saturnine> almost as …
No matter if SDB drops it, I've seen a DVD screenshot. Now I'm questioning the sanity of my decision to wait nobody knows what. It's only $22.98 @RACS.
Comparisons with Azumanga occured to many bloggers initially, but they dissipated quickly.
UPDATE: Comments.
read moreSeen today:
I always laugh whenever people try to do a semantic or syntactic approach to defining those Japanese age/gender-based genres. Shounen series have fighting! Shoujo has boys and kissing! Josei is mature! Seinen has lots of sex and violence! These can get really asinine when people start thinking …read more
I heard about the game when Penny-Arcade made a strip about it, but now J.P. has a screenshot (and commentary).
read moreI'm extremely pleased to see Os using the space Sasa lent him to reply to me. That's how blogs are supposed to work. I see that my efforts to promote true blogosphere in animeblogging were not for naught, and perhaps I did no less than ABC for the common good …
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