Heisei 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 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 …
read moreAs seen at Wakaranai, MyAnimeList is a yet another attempt at creating an anime list site. This is not anything new, for example ANN has this feature as well, here's one list I know: Nanobot. Another example is AnimeSeen. Finally there's a number of ad-hoc lists. Seems like getting crowded …
read moreFollowing a hint from an ancient blog entry, I visited TV.com. Here's the result:
Naruto descended to #4, but it's still within the leading pack, ribbing with the broadcast shows which I've never seen.
Actually, all such online rankings are poorly ordered and easily stuffed, I just find it …
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