Wagaya no Oinari-sama Episode 9 and 10 Review

I really only starting watching this show because I felt I needed to catch at least an episode or two from as many animes as possible. What has happened though is this title is slowly making it’s way up my favorites list and it’s the simple things that are doing it.

(Bi)Weekly Review of Anime Watched (June 15 – 28)

As the spring season gives way to the summer season of anime we are in a ‘make or brake’ time – can the 1-season animes finish well and can the 2-season animes not get bogged down at their midway point. Well, we’ll see. First up is a show that continues to be my favorite show of the season.

Kure-nai Series Review

(As a side note to people coming from animenano, my last post wasn’t listed on there for some reason - so if you want to read that as well, please do and find out why I’ve been derailed by spore.)

The precocious child, Murasaki, was the fire behind what made this show good but her circumstances, along with the episode count, ultimately denied this show from greatness.

Derailed by Spore

As you can see this isn’t my review of Kure-nai but it still is coming. I’ve been side-tracked this week and it’s thanks to Spore and it’s Creature Creator. Therefore, it’s getting a post along with a few odds’n'ends (and only one of them is anime related) so read at your own risk.

Melody of Oblivion – Series Review

I read a comment about this show on a blog and decided to give it a go. The idea of a Gainax – J.C. Staff project sounded like a good idea but I forgot this Gainax was pre-Gurren Lagann Gainax. Oh well, maybe next time they work together we’ll get Potemayo operating a mech with Sunao acting as the aloof father-figure of a secret organization bent on saving humanity and the show would be called Potegelion

Someday’s Dreamers Season 1 - Series Review

The ending to Kure-nai gave me a lot to think about and thus I didn’t feel like writing anything till I figured out if I liked the ending or not. I think I’m ready so to warm up, I’m going to do a couple of other series review first. Both were older series I watched for the first time recently. The first up is Someday’s Dreamers season 1.

Summer 2008 Anime Preview

With spring giving way to summer, a new season of anime is upon us. This time around there’s not as many new animes starting as last time. And once again THAT Animeblog has the best preview out there and I used it to figure out what I’m looking forward to.

Tokyo Godfathers on American TV

Just a quick note. I was channel surfing last night and on a channel I’ve never watched, Ovation TV, was a movie showing called Tokyo Godfathers. I thought to myself - there’s no way someone would be showing Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers so I waited for the commercial break to end. Yes they were showing it and they are going to replay it a couple of times this week as well as Spirited Away.

Ovation TV is channel 157 on Dish Network and 274 on DirectTV and they plan on showing Spirited Away on Friday, June 20 - 8 PM, 11PM; Sat., June 21 - 5PM; and Sun., June 22 - 2PM and Tokyo Godfathers on Sat., June 21 - 8 PM, 11 PM and Sun., June 22 - 5 PM according to their website.

If you haven’t watched Tokyo Godfathers before you really need to watch it - it’s one of the best anime movies you’ll ever see. And in case anyone asks - they are showing it subbed.

Pythagora Switch (Pitagora Suicchi)

If you know where to look then you might have come across show already. It’s called Pythagora Switch and it’s a children’s educational show from Japan that is a blast to watch.

Weekly Review (June 8-14) of Anime Watched - Bad Haiku Edition

End of the school year must have put a damper on the fansubbers out there since many of the shows I’m watching from the spring season didn’t get released this week. That’s okay - it gave me time to try out vector tracing. Since there was only a few shows I thought I’d try something different - sum up the show in the form of haiku (bad haiku since I’m not poetic).