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: September 7, 2010
Do you know what Love Live! is? Yeah, I bet you don’t. It’s a collaboration between Dengeki G’s magazine (Sister Princess), Lantis (a music label that includes Chihara Minori and Kuribayashi Minami), and Sunrise (Gundam) that seems aimed squarely at the iDOLM@STER crowd. The formula seems simple: take some relatively talented voice actresses and have [...]
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 9, 2010
Aaand, just when you thought that a new wave of mecha anime was going to sweep away all the ills of the anime world, we also got news over the weekend that the plotless blob of lesbians known as Kämpfer is going to have a new show. In case you forgot, last year’s Kämpfer was [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 8, 2010
Over in the Twitter universe, a single post has sparked a lot of discussion – the official Bandai Namco Games twitter account announced that a Pac-Man anime is in the works for broadcast in 2012. It’s going to be in 3D, and in the opinion of this American blogger, it’s already a bad idea. How [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 7, 2010
I’m still catching up a bit on last week’s news here, but I should at least mention that the famously pervy To Love-Ru (pronounced “Trouble”) is getting a second anime season soon. The middle school romance/sci-fi manga by Hasemi Saki and Yabuki Kentarou may have been terminated prematurely, but it maintains a strong following thanks to [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: June 25, 2010
In the United States vs. Ghana match tomorrow, the United States team is going up against famed Ligue 1 striker Asamoah Gyan. Ghana’s national team is also nicknamed the Black Stars. In my mind, this means that the US game plan is simple. – Ghana will most likely play an attacking 4-3-3 formation, with Gaia, [...]
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