Hashi-hime has the scoop, and it looks like there's nothing for me to watch, except possibly True tears.
read moreAnime Almanac attempts to return
Scott is back. It remains to be seen if he can keep it up, but if he can, he is going to be the first such case. Neither Sama Zama nor Astro (his neighbours in my feedlist) seem able and/or willing. Gambare.
read moreAoi Sakuraba and "westerners"
In today's quicktakes Steven drops the hammer on Aoi Sakuraba:
I think Aoi is the problem. She's an otaku dream girl, but of a kind that is hard for a westerner to stomach, the "Yamato Nadesico".
My problem with this statement is the Steven's projection of personal biases. The type …
read moreAvoiding uncomfortable anime
Damien goes all personal on the ass of Someday's Dreamers and shares this practice:
No other anime has yet caused me that sort of distress again, mainly because since then, I have been actively avoiding any anime which is supposed to “make you cry”.
Unfortunately, I think he's only bidding …
read moreKirino's animated gif
I saw the gif a week ago at Moero Amazon, as a thumbnail, and thought that it was done locally there, but now Orion posts a full-size version. Strange. Anyway, there's lot more fun screencaps at Epic Win, even if the swallowing of chalk is missing. Good times.
UPDATE: Orion …
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DS' mental bandwidth
Hashi-hime on Lucky Star
Hashi-hime makes a comment Jeff's place (I wish she'd make it on her blog though, at least we'd have a permalink):
No, the show did not “rely on jokes and gags to get its point across.” It was not a joke show, it was a humor of living show. Few …
read moreEnder and old favourites
GeGeGe Japanimation
I went to ANN to check something seen at Moero Amazon: Gegege no Kitaro. It turned out to be a remake of 1996 Kitaro, which is a remake of 1985 Kitaro, which is a remake of 1971 Kitaro. Should we expect 2010 Kanon?
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