11.18.09
Posted in Anime Reviews at 12:05 pm by Yumeka
Unlike the previous No Longer Human and the upcoming Kokoro, I have not read the original novel of Ango Sakaguchi’s In the Forest, Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita). After the dramatic, psychological-intense No Longer Human, Aoi Bungaku switches to this more horrifying though slightly comedic story…
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09.27.09
Posted in Anime Reviews at 1:50 pm by Yumeka

From the first episode and onward, Canaan has been a well animated, action-packed thrill ride that always kept me in suspense. Although I had some issues with the ending of the series, as a whole I think it was one of the best to come out this year…
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09.25.09
Posted in Anime Reviews at 1:52 pm by Yumeka

After the 52 episodes of the first Hayate no Gotoku! season, we have the 25-episode second season, Hayate no Gotoku!! (with two exclamation points). Despite the second season being shorter, I found that I enjoyed it more than the first…
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09.23.09
Posted in Anime Reviews at 2:23 pm by Yumeka

Yesterday I finished watching all 24 episodes of Shangri-la via Crunchyroll’s simulcast. Despite all the hype that the series received when it first came out, I can’t say that it lived up to expectation. I don’t think it was the worst series of the year, but it could have been better…
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09.20.09
Posted in Anime English Dubs, Anime Reviews at 4:07 pm by Yumeka

Back when I first became an anime fan about 10 years ago, I didn’t have cable TV or high-speed Internet, so I was stuck with watching mostly Americanized “kiddy” anime on local channels. Thinking back, many of these series were pretty dispensable. However, Digimon was one of my early favorites that I still enjoy even to this day…
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09.17.09
Posted in Anime Reviews at 3:11 pm by Yumeka

I have never read the Full Metal Alchemist manga, but I did watch the original anime series that came out in 2003/04 and loved it. I heard that around the middle of the first series, the story took a completely different route than the ongoing manga. So now, about five years later, we finally have a new FMA anime series that is meant to follow the manga…
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08.30.09
Posted in Anime Reviews at 12:52 pm by Yumeka
Although it came out in 2002, I only recently got a chance to watch Haibane Renmei…
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08.26.09
Posted in Anime Reviews, Essays and Rants at 3:09 pm by Yumeka

As I’m making my way through the concluding episodes of the Enies Lobby arc of One Piece, I’m continually intrigued by the series’ reoccurring theme of “rebelling against authority,” particularly how the heroes of the show are pirates, and the villains are often the Marines or other authoritative figures…
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07.11.09
Posted in Anime Reviews at 11:29 am by Yumeka

I was a little late with watching Spice and Wolf, but better late than never for this excellent series…
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07.07.09
Posted in Anime Reviews at 8:18 pm by Yumeka

I finished watching Natsu no Arashi last night, the first series I’ve completed using Crunchyroll’s simulcasting…
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