There really is no end to the amount of anime that is pumped onto the Internet every day. Much of what's out there is not worth watching, but there's a bit of it that I find interesting. Unfortunately, even that list is large enough to make me look like a regular couch potato, so I don't exactly highlight everything I decide to check out ( Read more... )

It's been a slow rainy day so I decided to see what's on Hulu. I didn't feel like being disappointed by re-watching old classics or the growing collection of post-modern entertainment. Believe me, I'm sick of our entertainment industry re-making things to the point that you recognize the concept behind the show and dismiss it as "just another ( Read more... )

If you keep tabs on what I've written in the past, you'll know that I had posted my opinion piece on The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo) back in March. It's been a while and there's some good news for those of you who aren't into reading subtitles. As of November 18th Bandai Entertainment, one of the larger import companies, ( Read more... )

If you love sappy little japanime stories, this is one of the best ones out. In fact, both series are produced by the same company, Kyoto Animation. They're mostly famous for Akira and Inuyasha, but I never did watch any of those. Kyoto has been in the business since 1981 but in the last couple years they've put out some of my favorites: a ( Read more... )

For a while I saw what I thought was a random FL Studio fan-contributed anime mascot, who's been dubbed FL-chan. Ha ha, "dubbed". Anyway, it looked like another little fad fanfare thing to me. In some ways it is, like FL Studio had a fireworks generator and other visualization stuff that's really more of a waste of processing power more than ( Read more... )

I normally don't make my recommendations on anime until after I've already watched them, but this series has poked my interest from the first episode. The Telepathy Girl, Ran has some striking similarities to The Girl Who Leapt through Time, which I had mentioned once before. The main characters are similar: both are "shoujos" (girls), and both ( Read more... )

That phrase literally translates, "Shin'ichirô of shoes of that place also cockroach." It actually translates, "There's a cockroach under Shin'ichirô's shoe." And that is the theme of Noe's little nursery rhyme in a lovely little series called True Tears. It took me like half an hour to determine what words were spoken in this little poem.

( And to ramble about translating... )

Don't ask me why it's titled that way. Most people I know called it Tsubasa Chronicle. This, a truly exciting and engaging series has to be near the top of my list of favorite anime. Clean and outside the norms of that eastern culture, this series really tailors to those of us who want a new story with characters you can really learn to like and ( Read more... )

I'd say the answer is somewhat straightforward. But I'll start with the more confusing side of it.

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So here's another installment of anime in review. The title of this series, H20 ~ Footprints in the Sand, makes zero reference to the series itself. Most of the series itself displays more interest in the wind. It makes use of a lot of pinwheels/wind wheels/spinners. Not much water and not many footprints either ( Read more... )