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AnimeSuki 2010 Choice Awards: Picking Winners

Sorrow-kun — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:03:58 +0000

It’s on again, and just as I have for the last two years, I’ll be covering this year’s AnimeSuki Choice Awards by sharing my thoughts on the categories, telling you who I’ll be voting for and, most importantly, trying to predict the winners. Last year, I managed to correctly pick 13 of the 18 categories (which is the same number I got the year before), and I’ll be trying to better that again here, except, again this year, I haven’t exactly been active enough on the site to know what people have been fawning over.

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Post tags: Angel Beats!, AnimeSuki Choice Awards, Cross Game, Darker than Black - Kuro no Keiyakusha, Fullmetal Alchemist, High School of the Dead, K-ON!, Katanagatari, Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai, Shiki, Tamayura, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, Working!!, Yosuga no Sora

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20 Decade Highlights (Kavik Ryx)

Kavik Ryx — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:27:42 +0000

With a relatively unique decade in anime at its close, everyone is bound to place their own superlative on it. And of course, many people will be quick to label it as the worst. Only truly getting into anime mid 2004, it would be highly presumptuous of me to put such a label on it. By all means the obscure works of the ‘90s and ‘80s could be just as dreadful as the garbage of today. The only difference is that today is an era where computer graphics have lead to a saturated market of cheap anime amplified by global trolling from the Internet. But this doesn’t make the good works of the decade any less so. There is nothing to say that new animation techniques and global communication haven’t contributed to a successful decade. After all, the following 20 examples are products of the past 10 years. Granted this does not include masterpieces such as Monster and Gankutuou, both of which I am yet to see. But for all the anime I’ve missed this decade, I feel blessed that I had the opportunity have seen these ones.

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Post tags: Flag, FLCL, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gungrave, Infinite Ryvius, Millennium Actress, Mushishi, Planetes, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo

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Zzeroparticle’s List of 20 Noteworthy Anime Titles

zzeroparticle — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:18:48 +0000

That period between Christmas and New Year’s always leaves me in a sort of limbo, where the future is just about there, but not quite, and the past still needs to be nudged on a bit further until it can finally be called the past. Because of that, there’s never really a whole lot to do, making it an excellent time to simply sit back and reflect. The imminent arrival of a new decade means that we look back a bit further than we normally would. After all, 10 years is a long section of road upon which one travels through life, and provided that you didn’t get carsick for most of the journey, there should be some rich memories that you’ll probably want to look back upon and cherish.

Hence, this series of “decade’s” posts by The Nihon Review Staff. If there’s one commonality that links us, it’s that this past decade saw our interest in the medium surge as we began viewing not only the classics of old, but following the shows currently airing in Japan. And despite the deluge of anime we’ve seen, there are those that have made such a deep impression upon us that we cannot forget them.

So in following the footsteps blazed by gaguri, and wishing to join those who have put their thoughts forward, I present you my list of twenty titles that made an impact upon me in this past decade. TV shows tend to leave a stronger image in my mind, so I opted to focus on those. So with that, here’s my list. Dramatic execution demands that I start from the bottom and build up towards the top to create suspense. I’ve always hated that, and so, I’ll start from the top and work my way down. It’s always seemed more natural that way.

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Post tags: Aria The Animation, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gankutsuou, Gunslinger Girl, Honey and Clover, Kino’s Journey, Monster, Mushishi, Nodame Cantabile, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

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Spring 2009: First Thoughts

Sorrow-kun — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:57:42 +0000

This is a lot later than I’d usually make a “First Thoughts” of the season article. I usually try to post them about half-way through the second week, such that I’ve seen up to ep 2 of about half the titles I’m following, and ep 1 of the other half. But even the NHRV Editor’s Choice article came out a week after I originally intended. Let’s just say I’ve been busy (real life, among other things).

Every season the same group of cynics make the comment that this is a crappy season and there’s no good new anime, and it’s easy enough to dismiss their opinion because they say the same thing every season. So I don’t make the same comments lightly, but this really is a crap season. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of another season that has had such a dearth of interesting titles since Winter 2006. Now usually when people make such comments, my thoughts are that they just haven’t found the good stuff, since it’s usually a little more obscure and buried under the mountains of garbage, so if this is the case for me this season, I’d appreciate people to point me away from the crap and in the right direction. Nonetheless, based on what I’ve seen so far, I don’t think ghostlightning‘s Everythingfromthenewseasonisshiteritis disease is a mental delusion that strikes a few separate individuals, at least this time. This time, I think it’s actually reality, and that everything really is crap this season. Almost, anyway. There are a few titles here and there that have shown promise.

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