9. Hashi-hime on seyuu of ef

   The Hashi-hime is the definitive seyuu blog in the anglosphere and HH Hashi plays to her strengths in the feature on ef. Fascinating.

   She didn't say anything bad about Natsumi Yanase, which was a big relief for me.

   It would be cool if these interviews were added to R1 DVD …

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10. Owen is such a kidder

    I think Saturnine is pleading for linkage today.

    I noticed that a majority of the anime blogs out there acted like RSS never existed, pingbacks and trackbacks were non-words, and comments souped up ego boosting (or as I like to say, e-go) guestbook entries. What links? Fellow anime bloggers didn …

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11. Sequel to Hidamari?

    Saw a link to a 20s long promo at YouTube at Anime Banzai. Dunno how real it is. Supposedly comes in 2008. The title is "Hidamari Sketch x365": sounds like a name of an ITU-T protocol, honestly.

    BTW, it takes a sadistic genius of web design to put a link …

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12. State of the R1 industry with numbers

    TAB does the work to get real numbers.

    Here's one piece of data:

    Anime sales in the US (does not include revenues from theater box offices or TV broadcast):

    • 2002 - $500 million
    • 2003 - $550 million
    • 2004 - $500 million
    • 2005 - $450 million
    • 2006 - $400 million

    And another:

    Anime releases (DVDs) in …

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13. Dame-dame on Kimikiss

    Suguru is not saying anything not said before about the Kimikiss:

    If you draw the relationship chart for Da Capo, Kanon, or most other bishoujo series you get a million arrows pointing from all the girls directly at the male lead, but Kimikiss's chart would look more like Urusei Yatsura …

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14. ef and anime crazies

    Moe-Moe on ef ep.7:

    By the end of this episode, and the same with the last, we get the overall feeling that Kei is the bad person in this love triangle.

    I think things took upon this turn in ep.5, when Miyako suddenly offered insights about Hiro's career …

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15. Epic Win on Lucky Star

    Orion engages into a rescan of delights:

    In our last poll (man, I really need to make a new one :P), Kagami and Konata were the clear favorites, but each of the other girls have their unique charms. Misao has FANG POWER. Tamura has fangirlish enthusiasm. Patty-chan has her awesome …

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16. Hashi-hime on 2007

    HH Hashi rolls out her year-end summary, and opens it with:

    Another great year. Maybe not as great as 2006, which produced three classics: Simoun, NANA, and Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu. But 2007 was full of interesting shows.

    What can I say. "Thanks for the warning" would be most appropriate …

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17. Rocket Girls and the reality

    Thanks to their policy of unprecentented openness, the today's update at SpaceX contains a few interesting pictures, which really bring up memories of adventures with Yukari Morita.

    First up, the hypersonic flow:

    
    SSA Mangosteen

    
    SpaceX Dragon

    Colors are not directly comparable. In case of Mangosteen, the temperature is shown (presumably …

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18. Shingu second pass

    Back when I encountered Shingu, I expressed a hope for better connection with it on the second pass. Unfortunately, it didn't play out. I only see more animation errors (e.g. Hajime closes the door on the borrowed camera). One plot move became more dubious with the second take: when …

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