Archive for September, 2007
Weekly Round-Up: September 14th
Reviewed this week: Baccano! 5, Doujin Work 6-7, Oh! Edo Rocket 2-6, Seirei no Moribito 21, Sisters of Wellber 8 …and in manga: Akagi 5, Aria 24-5, Spiral 53-6, Tsubasa 166
Posted: September 14th, 2007 under Weekly Round-Up.
Tags: Akagi, Aria, Baccano, Doujin Work, Oh! Edo Rocket, Seirei no Moribito, Sisters of Wellber, Spiral, Tsubasa Chronicle
Comments: 3
Master Keaton
In his trademark suit and tie, Taichi Hiraga-Keaton may look like just another office worker, but this half-English, half-Japanese man is no ordinary person. After graduating from Oxford University, he served in the SAS, before becoming both an insurance investigator for Lloyd’s of London and a researcher and lecturer in archaeology- all the while making [...]
Posted: September 13th, 2007 under Series reviews.
Comments: 7
Autumn 2007 Preview, or Fall for you Yanks
It’s that time again, when I write about all the anime to come in the next month or so, ignoring the fact that everyone else does this already. I’ve given up on the whole predicting what I will or won’t watch, since it’s laughably inaccurate- let’s just get down to what will be replacing the [...]
Posted: September 12th, 2007 under Season Preview.
Tags: Clannad, ef, Genshiken, Gundam, Hero Tales, Kaiji, Minami-ke, Mokke, Moonlight Mile, Moyashimon, Shana, Shion no Ou, Sketchbook
Comments: 11
Pumpkin Scissors parody 17
The epic final showdown between Gun and Flaming Pleasure has begun, but which form of HARD GAY is the strongest? And can anyone who participates in these dangerous types of Pleasure ever live to tell the tale? “Hans, when give the signal, you must give me HARD GAY.”
Posted: September 12th, 2007 under Pumpkin Scissors.
Tags: Pumpkin Scissors
Comments: 1
Tuesday Rumble: September 11th
The other day, I learned something which changed everything I once knew and held to be true. What was this profound truth, you might ask? Well, by using first person mode in the original .hack games, my sister and I have been able to look inside grunties, and they have been discovered to be hollow. [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2007 under Tuesday Rumble.
Tags: Final Fantasy, Gundam, harem of the week, HG corner, mini-rant, OST spotlight, random thoughts, ROTK, search terms, this week in anime
Comments: 8
Good Witch of the West volume 1
In the quiet village of Sera Field, Firiel Dee lives an uneventful life, spending time with her father’s servants whilst he and his apprentice research and study the stars. On her fifteenth birthday, however, she decides to attend a royal ball as a special treat, only to discover that she is descended from the queen [...]
Posted: September 10th, 2007 under Manga.
Tags: Good Witch
Comments: 4
Sunday News Bites: September 9th
Hello and welcome to another edition of Sunday News Bites! Although it hardly feels like it, it’s now been three months since we started, and this week, we have a special guest to celebrate that fact- Ryuuki from Saiunkoku Monogatari. Read on to find out the Imperial opinion on this week’s breaking news. Mushi-Uta second [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2007 under Sunday News Bites.
Tags: Gundam, Mushi-Uta, SaiMono
Comments: 1
Weekly Round-Up: September 7th
Reviewed this week: El Cazador 21, Darker than Black 21, Higurashi Kai 9, Mononoke 6-7, Seirei 20, Wellber 7 …and in manga: Claymore ES 3, SaiMono 8, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 7-11, Spiral 51-2, Tsubasa 165
Posted: September 7th, 2007 under Weekly Round-Up.
Tags: Claymore, Darker than Black, El Cazador, Higurashi, Mononoke, SaiMono, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Seirei no Moribito, Sisters of Wellber, Spiral, Tsubasa Chronicle
Comments: none
Dark Side Gaming Rant: SaGa Frontier 2
In the first gaming era, I was a lot less selective than I am now; if it even remotely resembled an RPG, I had to play it- and more so if was created by the then Squaresoft. Back in those days, I was a hopeless Final Fantasy fangirl, and so everything they produced had to [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2007 under Dark Side Gaming Rants.
Comments: 2
El Cazador de la Bruja parody episode 21
It’s crunch time for Nadie and Ellis as they face up to the vital task of catching a random vulture. How will our heroines fare on this new, unexpected and entirely pointless venture? Blue-Eyes decides to indulge in a bit of casino bondage.
Posted: September 5th, 2007 under El Cazador de la Bruja.
Tags: El Cazador
Comments: 1