Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 4, 2010
It’s a slow news cycle in Japan thanks to the Golden Week holiday, which means it’s time to take a good hard look at some of the music that’s been released for this season, both good and bad. Above is our first topic: the guitar-heavy opening for Ichiban Ushiro no Daimao, “Realove: Realife” by seiyuu [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 28, 2010
It’s always been my policy to give a series 4 full episodes before making a real value judgment on it – it’s a habit left over from my days of reviewing pre-FUNimation DVDs, where 4 episodes a disc was the norm. So, with 4 weeks of the spring anime season in the books now, it’s [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 6, 2010
The first week of April is a hectic time for anime fans, as new shows flood out and people fall over themselves making snap judgments based on the first 22 minutes. I tend to wait four weeks before making final decisions about which shows are keepers, which are casual watches, and which are busts, but [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 2, 2010
Well, this is definitely out of the ordinary: it turns out that the Anime Network isn’t the only outlet for the simulcast of Ichiban Ushiro no Daimao! Crunchyroll announced today that it will also be streaming the high school fantasy/comedy. I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is unprecedented, but it’s interesting to see [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 31, 2010
Crunchyroll has added in the latest announcement in the race to for online streaming rights, and it’s a pretty interesting one – the East-meets-West Heroman. The simulcast will be available every Thursday at 3 AM Pacific time, and while I’m not going to stay up for it, I’m definitely going to add it to my [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 30, 2010
In a surprise first strike in the spring anime sweepstakes, the Anime Network just announced that it will be streaming the April fantasy/comedy anime Ichiban Ushiro no Daimao from its Anime Network Online site. The former division of ADV Films will start streaming the show on Friday, April 2. Hit the jump for the text of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 30, 2010
While there are more than a handful of shakycam videos of TAF trailers out there, I feel like it’s not worth pointing to them unless you can actually hear what’s going on without hundreds of Japanese convention-goers jabbering over the blurry video. The Sarai-ya Goyou trailer comes as a breath of fresh air, late as [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 24, 2010
The spring anime season starts in earnest next season, and to get you excited for their cutesy romantic comedy, the makers of B-gata H-kei have released a trailer that is basically Tamura Yukari sounding cute. It’s not very hard for the girl to sound cute – she’s made her living on it, after all – [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 15, 2010
Angel Beats! is on its eighth trailer now, and for once, you’re actually getting animation and the voices to match it. After months of teases involving staff names, stills, interviews, and a half-second of actual animation, the latest trailer actually shows the anime in a semi-completed form. The story of Angel Beats! provides a slight [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 15, 2010
In case you’d forgotten that there is a fourth season of the boobs-’n’-brawls series Ikki Tousen coming up, the official site has been updated with a new trailer for Ikki Tousen Xtreme Xecutor. It shows a lot of predictably risque footage, with panty shots and fight scenes in equal measure, and it also lets you [...]
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