Kobato.–First Impressions
So far Kobato. (with a period) is my favorite series of an admittedly weak fall anime season. It’s cute, it’s funny and it’s charming. Maybe there’s more to it than… Read more »
Category: Anime
Seitokai no Ichizon–First Impression
Perhaps it’s an indication of the overall quality of the Fall 2009 anime season that the show that seems to be attracting the most attention is one that irritates the… Read more »
Inuyasha the Final Act–First Impressions
I just watched the first episode of Inuyasha–The Final Act on Hulu. First the good news: the subtitle translation seems noticeably better than the one on the VIZ DVDs for… Read more »
Erin on Crunchyroll
What happens to a high-quality anime series that doesn’t fit the current model for R1 licensing? Specifically one that is more than 26 episodes long, but doesn’t feature named magical… Read more »
Is Ponyo a Classic?
is everything Miyazaki makes is now an instant classc? How about Howl’s Moving Castle? … And BTW, 20 miles is a big deal now? What a whiner. Just move somewhere… Read more »
Ponyo–Movie Review
Finally after all these years I got to see a Hayao Miyazaki movie in a theater on a big screen. This mini-review is based on the dubbed version currently in… Read more »
Final Thoughts on “Endless Eight”
The story finally ends, in a suitably anticlimactic manner. It feels like the folks at Kyoto Animation are as sick of it as we are. So why did they do… Read more »
Princess Mononoke–Anime Review
Hayao Miyazaki’s second most successful movie (after Spirited Away) is a dark, exciting adventure story that resonates with the power of myth.
Cosplayers At ConnectiCon 2009
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Like Simoun?
Pete quotes my whimsical description of Umi Monogatari and adds: Sounds like Simoun. The question is, if it’s any good as an anime. Let me set the record straight. Umi… Read more »