Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 21, 2010
In one of the happier announcements of the day, Sentai Filmworks added Nyan Koi! to its December release slate. The silly, cat-centric romantic comedy series was one of my surprise favorites of 2009, combining wacky comedy with occasional flashes of decent writing to become an above-average romcom experience. So hurray for Nyan Koi!, and hurray [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 9, 2010
With Comic Market 78 coming this weekend, there is a helluva lot of fall anime being put on display in anticipation of the year’s biggest otaku event. First in line: Infinite Stratos, the girls-in-powered-suits sci-fi action/romcom from Eight Bit. A new 90-second trailer has been posted on the official site, and fans are already hailing [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 29, 2010
The latest light novel to anime conversion is Infinite Stratos, a relatively new and unknown series by rising author Yumizuru Izuru. The science fiction series has sold 400,000 total copies over five books so far, which is a modest success but nothing to write home about – for comparison, the To Aru Majutsu no Index novels [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 20, 2010
When I started watching Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells From the Sky early this week, I tried to go in without any prior expectations. The problem was that my sheer hatred for ToLoveRu (Trouble) tainted the “Cute alien descends to earth, hijinks ensue” formula for me. So imagine my surprise when it turned out that not [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 24, 2010
The spring anime season starts in earnest next season, and to get you excited for their cutesy romantic comedy, the makers of B-gata H-kei have released a trailer that is basically Tamura Yukari sounding cute. It’s not very hard for the girl to sound cute – she’s made her living on it, after all – [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 23, 2010
MM! just became another entry in the “Light novels Dom should probably check out” file, since the publisher of Comic Alive just announced a TV anime project for the risque comedy. MM! is one of those books that’s hard to explain to your friends – it’s about a young boy named Sado Tarou (A pun [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 11, 2010
Dengeki Bunko announced over the weekend that its popular Ookami-san light novel series is going multimedia, with a manga adaptation and anime project now in the works for the first book, Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi (“Ookami-san and the Seven Friends,” roughly). More info about the fairy tail-inspired school series, and why it’s like Super [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 28, 2009
Over the holiday, the Kadokawa Anime channel on YouTube was updated with three new trailers for the upcoming anime Omamori Himari featuring all three aspects of its appeal: action, romantic comedy, and blatant sex appeal. Appropriately, the various trailers are called the “action version,” the “romantic comedy version,” and the “sexy version.” Check out all [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 4, 2009
I’m as big a fan of the tsundere character archetype as anyone. But in many cases, it’s so overused and formulaic that it becomes a parody of itself. Take the image above as an example. You may not know what you’re looking at above – that’s from the homepage of Mayoi Neko Overrun!, the series [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 12, 2009
All you really need to know about Omamori Himari is that creator Matra Milan only has one published work suitable for audiences under 18, while the producer’s most recent anime is Sora no Otoshimono, AKA “That anime with the flying panties.” So, the safe assumption is that there’ll be cute girls, comical/sexual misunderstandings, and a [...]
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