Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 30, 2009
Anime based on 18+ PC games, like this season’s 11eyes, generally fall into two categories: the true visual novels where the sex scenes often felt tacked-on and suffer nothing from the all-ages conversion because they get to focus on the story, and the meaningless fluff games that end up being slapped with the “slice of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 30, 2009
Now is the perfect time to start following One Piece, and I’ll tell you why. One Piece is one of the most popular manga in history, with over 170 million copies sold over the past 12 years of its existence. It embodies the Shonen Jump spirit and takes it to the next level, combining epic [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 29, 2009
Yoshinaga Yuunosuke’s Broken Blade (“Break Blade” in Japanese) is scheduled for an anime movie adaptation in 2010, and today (Technically tomorrow – the article is dated 10/30) Dengeki Online showed off some of the character and mecha designs for the robot fantasy series. CMX Manga is currently releasing the Broken Blade manga in English. The [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 28, 2009
Disney’s attempt to bring in the young male demographic begins in earnest tonight, as the first four episodes of Naruto Shippuden air on the Disney XD channel from 8:30 to 10:30 (check your local listings). What I’m interested in is how they’ll air the show going forward. They can’t possibly air four episodes a week; [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 27, 2009
I missed the boat on Darker than Black back in 2007. I wasn’t watching much anime back then, but I recently started watching it on FUNimation’s video channel (it’s also available on YouTube, for those international readers who can’t see the FUNi site) and got hooked hard enough by the setting and the style of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 27, 2009
Like many other people, I’ve updated my work and home computers to Windows 7 in the last week. It’s been great to me so far, with performance improvements aplenty and more importantly, a very cute mascot. More on Madobe Nanami and the voice behind her after the jump.
Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 27, 2009
The design is temporary and the content area is blanker than freshly fallen snow, but AnimeReel is open! SideReel.com now has an anime affiliate, and by an anime affiliate I really mean “A place for Dom to blog about anime, manga, Japanese music, and whatever else he thinks of that doesn’t quite fit on SideReel.” [...]
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