Via Nigorimasen! comes the word that ADV's Ledford continues to toot the same cracked horn of lies, deceiption, and disregard for his customers.
I am sure it would not be a new insight, but consider this: If only A titles sell profitably, why does ADV continue to license B titles …
read moreThe Sea Sliugs posted an interview with Hung of BasuGasuBakuHatsu. I expected them to touch upon the reviewing of free stuff and Steven's criticism, but not plopping it right on top. No burying the lede here, that's for sure. Hung himself handled the "incident" with remarkable maturity [^1].
From there …
read moreJason made a post about how 26% of all search queries on Wikipedia are anime-related. Then, he took it further and proclaimed Wikipedia to become a premier anime website.
Aside from AoD and maybe ANN, there really weren’t any place to find information about anime. Sure, you could hunt …read more
My resolve not to do episodic posts remains strong. Still, Lucky Star ep.12 was quite topical when discussing the relocation of convetion.
This is, of course, because AX, which opens today, has relocated to a new location this year: Long Beach convention center. I skipped AX for a couple …
read moreI react violenty when people use the family-first order in English with Japanese names. It has the same power to piss me off as "u". Sometimes I have to put up with it, because of, well, other mitigating factors. But today I saw a comment in Jeff's entry about the …
read moreI am still nurturing my plans to blog about Naruto's greatness. But for now, this is what Concrete Badger had to say about it:
While Naruto follows the cliches of the martial arts genre with the intermittent recaps and lengthy dialogue that go along with the action scenes, it …read more
Hidamari Sketch and Manabi Straight aired in the same season. Many expected them to compete head-to-head, but the two turned out nothing alike. Manabi has a great plot, larger than life characters, and UFOtable. Hidamari has... Yashinoya-sensei, if that even counts.
So after 3 episodes, my main problem with Hidamari …
read moreI saw 4 eps. of Parallel Dual: Visions, or whatever its name is, by accident. Seems like mindless fluff, but if I get a chance to see more, I probably will.
The animation sometimes reminds me of the old Tenchi OVA.
At other times, not so much.
Also, it looks …
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