One of the downsides to not having many friends who share your hobbies is that important events often slip by you. This is especially true when it comes to things that require publishing, and even worse when there are different formats. When it comes to something like anime, I often try not to watch a series as it's airing in Japan. This is the ( Read more... )

Ever watch the start of a show and just know, with firm conviction deep in your bones, that it's going to probably suck? I had that feeling recently when I first started watching Karin a few days ago. In my defense, there were all sorts of earmarks that this was another piece of fluff anime that probably lacked a real plot and would simply throw ( Read more... )

Thanks to BakaBT's free leech period at the start of the year and continual slow accumulation, I've got ridiculous amounts of backlogged anime I've snagged yet haven't gotten around to watching. Part of the problem is that almost anything can be made to sound interesting when all you have is a short description to go on and I also know from ( Read more... )

I spent the past few days watching both seasons of Rosario + Vampire, and I'm halfway through the final episode as I type this. I figured I should take a pause and write down my review now or chances are good I'll just finish the series and never get around to it.


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