I went a step further than Hinano and actually checked out Cheburashka Arere. It's safe to say that it's not Binchou-tan, which only pretended to be a show for little children.
Usagijen expressed a bafflement on GR today about Janette (a co-writer of CJ Blackwing) putting K-ON into a Top5. Janette's explanation was that K-ON "reminds me so much of the tight group of friends I had through most of high school". Nothing like that was possible for me, but I …
read moreAccording to Josh, in January BigN and other fans of Hidamari Sketch might have an opportunity to end the life of illegality.
The same announcement also proclaims a release of Glass Mask, which was available at Crunchyroll without DTO for a while (still is). Now we know that Japanese owners …
read moreI guess I didn't even give Popotan a time to begin, let alone fail, before deciding that I had enough. I might have given it a better chance in a barren spell, but now I have 3 or 4 in-season shows, Mahoraba rewatch on R2, and true tears, not counting …
read moreChris arose from the dead with this:
read more(This makes me unconvinced that Akane actually is as terrible a shot as she seems to be. It doesn't even have to be deliberate and conscious on her part. Really, humans are startlingly kind when you get down to it; outside of cliched …
A visit to website of Eclipse shows download counts: 21239 for Kimi ni Todoke 02, 23532 for Ichizon 03, and 70282 for FMA:B 28. In other words, Ichizon and KnT are about the same, and FMA is far ahead. Who are all those people? I don't even think I …
read moreThat sure was a lot of quotes. Now my biggest fear about Kimi ni Todoke is that it may disappoint all these people by a failure of directing, or leaving a continuation hook, or any other reason why anime fails utterly.
read moreIn regards to Stripey's Top5 meme, I documented changes to the composition of titans before, but to summarize for the meme:
1. Azumanga Daioh
2. Haibane Renmei
3. Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight
4. Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
5. Nodame Cantabile (original)
Shingu, not unexpectedly present on SDB's Top5, is pushing from …
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