Seen at Daily Yomiuri Online:
[Trulee Karahashi, the new CEO of SJPA (promoters of AX)] thought Gundam Wing might be even more popular among American girls than boys, despite its seemingly guyish "mecha" (giant robot warrior) theme.
I'm pretty sure that Trulee cannot be so naiive, but I suppose the …
read moreHeisei Democracy compiled a list of scandals and mishaps in 2007 anime. It looks pretty thick even with the year still to run out. Check this out:
Darker Than Black: The show’s production manager ran away with the manuscript.
You just can't make this up.
Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight …read more
Ars has the best scoop, and Bruce Schneier offers an additional transcript. This seems like a real war (PCs 0wned, DoS, and guvmint), which we haven't yet started feeling despite the best efforts of ADV's Ledford and the like, but the one is bound to remake anime as we know …
read moreI talked with my kids about RahXephon and several items cropped up. Needless to say, this is going to spoil a lot.
Firstly, criticisms:
* Why does nobody recognize Ixtil when she appears in the shape of Mishima?
I supposed that it has to do with the way people change over …
read moreSteven mentions that "every three months we get at least a couple of dozen new titles". You'd wish... Although not as high as spring's 56 (!), the upcoming season features 42 new shows. The scoop is at HH Hashi, who herself links to MoonPhase (not a permalink -- Japanese are so...). Worryingly …
read moreWhen I heard about the Impz's paper/thesis, he only mentioned that a) his major was media economics, and b) he studies anime blogs and collects some data on links. It sounded a bit strange, because media economics people study things like the way ownership and consolidation affect the news …
read moreI only watched Nadesico because it was somewhat of a classic.
But it was pretty good, although I think it's another series suffering from being overlong: half of it can be thrown away without damage to the story.
I've got some funny screencaps with subtitles like, "Perhaps you should have …
read moreI saw a panegyric to Meia at Karmaburn yesterday, and that got me thinking just why she wasn't my favourite in Vandread. She is quite cool and seems like a pleasant and strong character. I cannot remember well now, it was so long ago.
If I wrote a good summary …
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