Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 14, 2010
A week has gone by since the last time I updated my thoughts on the fall anime series, and while my general opinion is still unchanged – “This is the best season in years” – there’s a lot to be said about what’s going on. With most series having two episodes under their belts, let’s [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 23, 2010
Yes, I’m aware that the subject line doesn’t quite make sense. But this is the author who created “Meltdowner” and “Aerohand,” who should be coming up in the next season of To Aru Majutsu no Index. If you’re going complain, that just opens up a huge can of worms about technical correctness in a show that [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 2, 2010
Star Driver, from Studio Bones, has everything required to be legendary. Giant robots? Check. Preposterous posturing? Check. Good animation and character designs? Check. A sense of humor about itself and a good feel for the ridiculous? Check and check. Its main character calls himself the “Ginga Bishounen” (Galactic Prettyboy). How can this possibly go wrong?
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 27, 2010
Enterbrain has posted a brief teaser for the upcoming Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu OVA, filled with the series’ trademark insanity. It’s hard to call this a trailer since it’s really a gag video, but it’s funny, so I forgive it. The video is three fake scenes from a mobile phone dating game strung together, and [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 23, 2010
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu fans like me are about to get a veritable smorgasbord of delicious BakaTest over the next year. The comedy series currently has a light novel series, a manga adaptation, two manga spin-offs, and a TV anime under its belt, and every one of those is running strong. Volume 8 of the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 11, 2010
I’ve been reading the To Aru Majutsu no Index novels recently, and while it’s a rough grind for someone who’s not quite fluent – I now know how to talk about muscular dystrophy, medieval gnosticism, quantum uncertainty, and vector mathematics in Japanese thanks to volume 3 – I’m enjoying the hell out of it. In [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 22, 2010
Update: The Super Robot Wars official anime page is up, and gives the new anime a fall season start date! What’s this I see on the Internet? A new Super Robot Wars OG series that takes place after the overly-political Divine Wars series? And it’s subtitled The Inspector, just like the first villains of OG2? And [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 8, 2010
So, we now have a few more names to attach to the increasingly attractive-looking Kami Nomizo Shiru Sekai (“The World God Only Knows”) project. Rising star Itou Kanae (Amu from Shugo Chara!) will voice the clumsy devil Elsea, while Shimono Hiro (Akihisa from BakaTest) will be voicing the Capturing God, Katsuragi Keima. The tiny snippet [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: June 15, 2010
The theme song for the Japanese 25th anniversary of Disney on Ice is Korean pop star BoA’s funk-heavy dance tune “Woo Weekend.” The above video really reminds me of the pop videos that you see during the commercial breaks on the Disney channel, which is kind of a career throwback for BoA after her more [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 24, 2010
Because if you haven’t, you really should. There are currently six episodes of the hit baseball anime streaming over at Hulu and VizAnime.com, and I highly recommend all of them. Cross Game was one of the best anime of 2009, and it’s a damn shame that more people haven’t watched it. Heck, I think more [...]
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