Thanks to a tip by DiGiKerot, we now know that a new series of Tamagotchi is going to air in the Autumn 2012 season, Yume Kira Dream. Omni stonewalled it in his preview, which I mistakenly considered authoritative. Aira posted a perfunctory entry when first episode aired and I missed …
read moreIdol age distribution
Back in the anime continuity 765PRO, Ami and Mami did their middle school homework in the office, while Azusa have already graduated from college. That seemed a little at odds with the narrative of the pipeline. So, AKB0048 comes about, and, according to Evetaku, Makoto is the oldest in the …
read moreBake at Crunchy
By the way of Brickmuppet comes the news that Crunchyroll started streaming Bakemonogatari. It was in my queue for a while. Cuc put in a good word for it, by e-mail. But it's SHAFT, and you never know with SHAFT: ef was great, Arashi not so great. Eventually I rejected …
read moreShin on DD2 11
Dog Days is a better body-swap anime than Kokoro Connect
Granted it's Shin, but still.
Nobar is on the case, too. Adds a choice quote from The Finest Dweller.
Steven takes a family-friendly angle:
read moreShinku has trouble running and moving in Yuki's body (boing boing) and is... tempted to …
Dancing Chibis ED
Apropos J.C.Staff making amends for the awful Kill Me Baby, was there ever a bad anime with dancing chibis ED? Or is that a mark of director's impeccable taste?
UPDATE: Steven says that Happy Lesson was one.
Tsutomu Mizushima also helmed Dokuro-chan, the vilest anime produced with utmost …
read moreYamakan to soil idol anime
According to John, we're officially in the phase of idol anime when every talentless hack rushes in, as Wake Up, Girls! was announced.
I think we've seen something like that that in mecha, both in Super Robot and Real Robot. For each of RahXephon and 08th MS Team there's a …
read moreAKB0048 PV2
It felt really weird to watch the PV after the show, but aside from that it was a good reminder about the dog-eat-dog world of idols. Most of the PV focused on real-life AKB subgroup members who were selected to voice AKB0048 characters (as we know, all of them voice …
read moreThe Interrogation Game
I am too lazy to play it for real, and I will not tag anyone, but I like the questions that Mr. Moofang posted.
1) How much does art style (not so much production values but the style of the drawings, character designs, background stylistics, even the type of BGM …
read moreNovaJinx on the Kokoro Connect scandal
According to report at Jinx, the people behind the masterpiece of fapfessions and ballkicking4PTSD thought to take it RL, with predictable result:
read moreThe whole thing ended up being covered on the radio shows of Tomokazu Sugita and Asami Imai, and as expected the response of the otaku (and anyone with …
Omo falling in with Ritsuko et al
Omo (re-)introduces idols for us thus:
read moreThe truth is, I am steadily descending that slippery slope into iM@S fandom, and while the ride is enjoyable, I see too much stuff that I’m not entirely comfortable with, producer shipping notwithstanding. Maybe to some extent idol fan culture is …