Anime

Finding Ponyo

July 1, 2009

The trailers for Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on a Cliff are out, and the influence of Disney/Pixar animation honcho John Lassiter is rather apparent from the poster art: Check out that font, complete with little ocean wave! Plus here’s a bonus image still from the movie, which makes me suspect that Ponyo is going to have [...]

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Gurren Lagann: piercing the heavens with a drill

May 15, 2009

I’ve been watching Gurren Lagann on Cartoon Network’s monday night anime block for the past couple of months, and have been really enjoying it. The design of the mecha are truly unique, gigantic faces as torsos, and the story is your classic young boy becomes a man, along with a big brother role model and [...]

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Ponyo is coming

March 25, 2009

Good news – Ponyo on a Cliff will have much wider distribution than most previous Miyazaki films have had thus far in the US market. The voice line-up for the english dub is suitably all-star, including Matt Damon and Tina Fey. In other news, there’s a lot of interesting anime coming out soon – including [...]

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Samurai 7 revisited

March 23, 2009

I burned through Samurai 7 quite quickly a while back and intended to say a few words about it, but never quite got around to it. I am reminded of it now by Mark’s list of anime on his queue to watch, and I can definitely offer a recommendation for S7, though it wasn’t the [...]

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let the world be your PC

March 17, 2009

ok, anyone who watched Dennou Coil will immediately recognize where this is headed: Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on [...]

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unsure about Fullmetal Alchemist

March 15, 2009

I watched disc one of Fullmetal Alchemist tonight (episodes 1-4). I got kind of interested in it via Shamus’ early review, so added the series to my netflix q. I have to admit that the premise is engaging and original and the characters thus far are appealing. It’s fun to watch a mahou shoujo where [...]

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Drastic my Anime

March 13, 2009

Finally got around to adding Drastic my Anime blog to the blogroll (and the Otakusphere search engine). I’m increasingly disillusioned with google reader for keeping up to date. Its better than visiting sites manually, but I’d rather have a twitter-based model. I am thinking of setting up a twitter feed dedicated to the same blogs [...]

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the whisper of the Cat

February 10, 2009

I am a huge fan of the movie The Cat Returns. It just entranced all of us in my household, so I was looking forward to the “prequel” Whisper of the Heart. However we just found that movie incredibly tedious for some reason. As it turns out, we seem to be an outlier, as everyone [...]

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Old Home Bulletin Board

February 8, 2009

I’ve been meaning to mention that if anyone really wants to get into in-depth Haibane Renmei discussion, the Old Home Bulletin Board is still the best place for it. I’ve linked a few times before but figured it deserves a mention of its own. It isn’t the most vibrant arena around but it has a [...]

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new perspectives on Glie

February 7, 2009

Pete sent me this link some time ago, but I haven’t had time until now to really browse in some detail – Chris Fritz has been blogging his journey through Haibane Renmei, and it’s a treat to re-discover the series via his eyes. In his commentary on the final episode, Chris muses on the big [...]

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