2. TNK on Gundam 08th MS Team

    Found in a pile of old notes is a review at TNK, written with some pathos:

    Visually, 08th MS Team is probably the strongest Gundam series ever. Its use of heavy shadows and sense of scale with the mechanoids is something truly magnificent, unseen outside of itself and Gundam 0083 …
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  3. Brickmuppet on Chobits

    Ken reviews Chobits and produces this (I'm going to ignore spoiling considerations, because of the series' age):

    I didn't mind the fellow sort of adopting the "Chobit" after realizing he might have an emergent AI and trying to help "her" along he was ethical to do so...that was cute …
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  4. ef ruins

    In ep.8 they finally explained what the pesistent imagery of ruins was.

    It means "ruins of the past" (I forgot what it was originally, but I thought it was an ok translation. Not that I would know anything.). But did they seriously expect anyone to figure it out? In …

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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