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Bringing Anime to Life

AC — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:53:55 +0000

Who is more boyish: 3D-Kazehaya or 2D-Kazehaya?

If you watch Japanese movies and have been following them lately, you would’ve probably noticed a rise in live-action adaptations of anime/manga titles, and it piqued my interest the other day when I finished watching Kimi ni Todoke the live-action movie. It’s not difficult to understand the surge in such movies; firstly, the staff doesn’t need to pen the plot from scratch; secondly, such movies won’t need viral advertising since their original sources have done the job; and lastly, since the original sources would have more or less established their fanbase, the movies are likely to get their fair share of the pie.

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Anime Oscars?

Sorrow-kun — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:15:27 +0000

Like I mentioned earlier, I (sadly) have more than a passing interest in these types of awards. The 2008 Tokyo Anime Fair Awards were just announced to, as far as I can see, reasonable disinterest. I can see the logic behind the choices behind these awards, even if I don’t particularly agree with all of them (in all honesty, I surprisingly haven’t seen most of the winners, so it’s hard for me to have an opinion either way). But as Kaioshin Sama from When Anime Past Meets Present puts it, if you don’t like the results of a given set of awards, why not make your own. But it’s not like I’m taking his advice (I’m starting to sound like a tsundere now), I’ve been playing with this idea for months.

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AnimeSuki 2008 Choice Awards: Picking Winners

Sorrow-kun — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:50:47 +0000

I’ll admit it, I do have more than just a passing interest in these types of awards. Obviously one affords as much credibility to a set of awards like these as one agrees with the results, and it always surprises me just how much people RAGE when they don’t, c.f. SaiMoe and its multiple incarnations. Then again, there’s more emotions involved in SaiMoe than there are in these.

This year’s list of nominations is a little more “credible” than last year’s, where, for whatever reason, titles like 5cm/s and Baccano! were snubbed in categories that they could have possibly won had they made it past the nomination round. There are a few titles here and there that I would have liked to have seen given nods, but for the most part they’ve captured the likely winners, which isn’t an all-too-easy thing to do in something that’s determined by an open popular vote. Anyway, this post is an attempt to predict the winners, which is much more challenging than just telling you who I think should win (but I’ll tell you that too ). Particularly with the AnimeSuki Forums, which is a real mix of varying tastes. I haven’t done any counting of the current votes, but I have flipped through the thread, so I have a (highly) vague idea of what people have been voting for at this stage.

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About the lack of new posts

Sorrow-kun — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:17:08 +0000

It’s the busy review writing period, so most of the activity in the next couple of weeks will be on the front page. Just today we’ve published reviews of the recently finished Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~ and Detroit Metal City, which ended in October, and we’ve got reviews of Kannagi, Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka, Rosario + Vampire Capu2 and Macross Plus, among others, coming very soon, as well as our traditional annual Year in Review article, where we look at the biggest and/or best anime of the year. After that, we’re likely to have reviews of Chaos;Head and Ga-rei-Zero further down the road. In the meantime, as an apology for lack of activity, here’s a high-res scan of a very sexy looking Kyou from the 2009 Kyoto Animation Clannad calender. You can get the rest of the series from here. Happy New Year, all.

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