When Anime Past Meets Present

Remember how I said a little while back in one of my Code Geass posts that Code Geass had my second favourite opening of the season and invited people to guess what my favourite one was?  Well now is the time to find out.  See if you were right. Continue reading ‘So Just What Was My Favourite Opening Of This Season?’

So by now many probably know about the whole Gundam 00 and Gurren Lagann licensing by Bandai Entertainment, and if not then they do now.    If you go here you can see a page with two links to “Something Awesome” and “Something Incredible”, but unfortunately nothing to “Something Awful”.  Great website that last one by the way.  Anyways, Something Awesome takes you to the information on Gundam 00’s license and Something Incredible takes you to Gurren Laganns.  I find the later particularly amusing because this is the second time ADV has had a popular series stolen out from under them, the last being Funimations quick move to snatch up the Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid license.  This one was arguably even bolder though as ADV had already announced the license, then did nothing and now it’s in the hands of Bandai Entertainment.  Of course Gundam 00 was a given and it was only a matter of time before it made it to North America, but the latter one is hilarious.   Continue reading ‘Two Great Licenses, One Company And One Hell Of A Steal’

Meh….if it airs it airs, if it doesn’t it doesn’t.  If it’s changed it’s changed if it isn’t it isn’t.  Whatever comes we’ll find out then.  Until that point I trust official information over John Q. Spammer on 2ch.  Sunrise isn’t the one creating the drama though, it’s 2ch and commentators on the whole series of events.  As far as I know they haven’t even said boo yet, but then again I bet they take a lot of crap for it anyway because of one disgruntled employee since this is just the kind of thing some people will take to bash the hell out of them.  Sucks to be Sunrise these days, you just can’t catch a break.

That’s pretty much all I have to say about this right now.

I’ve tried many comedy series in the past few years ranging from Seto No Hanayome (Got 2 episodes in and hadn’t chuckled once) Hayate No Gotoku (Decent opening episodes but wears thin pretty fast as it’s comedy focuses a bit to much on moe) Lucky Star (One of the few I’ve actually finished and sort of regret doing so) Ninomiya-Kun (Just not funny) and many I just haven’t even bothered with because of general disinterest in what they have to offer.  It was with a dose of skepticism that I approached Gintama after having heard about it elsewhere and having seen so many comedy’s that just didn’t work for me I didn’t know if I was wasting my time.  Now I’m glad I did. Continue reading ‘Gintama A Good Substitute For Gin And Tonic’

For the Lolicon in me there is little better to know that more Kodomo No Jikan with the pint sized Kagami Kuro that manages to stand so tall over everyone else.  Of course Kokonoe Rin is our main girl, but Kagami is the one I simply can’t resist.  If I recall the second season ended around the part where Rin is coping with her dark side after almost pushing Hoin down the stairs.  Continue reading ‘Kodomo No Jikan Season 2 Announced’

So now that we are almost at the end of the first season I’ve decided to do something that nobody else I know of has tried to do.  I’m going to talk a little bit about some of the criticisms levelled at the series and try to address them with my own thoughts.  Some are well though out and accurate while others are not so much in my opinion.  Nonetheless I think it’s worth taking a look at so let’s begin then shall we. Continue reading ‘Looking Back At Gundam 00 Season 1 (Addressing The Criticism)’

Whats with the random…ahhh it’s spring ^^

Or not so much “bin” seen for me as I am the type who is greedy and wants to watch as much as I can, sacrificing a lot of other things *rolleyes*
*cough* well, I have been wanting to write this for some time now and finally have some free time. But because my time is also rather limited *shakes angry fist at upcoming exams* I will just have to “borrow” some stuff from the friendly neighbours at THAT and special thanks to Impz for the nod

So! rather than just regurgitating the summaries of upcoming series, thus saving me lots of time, you could turn your attention to the summaries here while I go steal borrow their pictures ^^V.

Continue reading ‘Spring 2008 series - wants and bins’

So apparently Kadokawa managed to put their own promotional interests ahead of the greater good again with this years 2nd Annual Seiyuu awards by basically giving the noteriety to people from their own camp.  The winners are inside: Continue reading ‘Kadokawa Is At It Again (2nd Annual Seiyuu Awards)’

Nostalgic moments hit home in this week’s Kimikiss.

Continue reading ‘Kimikiss moments ~ ep 21′

So the Oscar’s aired last….Sunday was it?  I wasn’t really paying attention as the Oscar’s tend to come and go these days with little of the glitz and glamour they had become infamous for (and you know what, thank god for that).  Meanwhile, another less well known awards ceremony (actually just the announcement, the actual ceremony takes place in March) was going on this week.  It of course was the 7th annual Tokyo International Anime Fair.  And here are the results: Continue reading ‘And The Annies Go Too….’