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For the third year running, I’ve set up a mock award for anime, based on the Oscars and timed to coincide with Hollywood’s most prestigious annual awards. I’ve tried to make this award resemble the real Academy Awards as closely as possible, with a couple of allowances for the sake of relevance and convenience. This [...]

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 [...]

Today we have for you the third episode of our seasonal podcast, The Nihon Revue. kadian1364 and myself have taken a look at five titles that have just finished airing, and shared and discuss our thoughts while they’re still fairly raw. This is the line up for this episode (minor spoiler warning for all segments): [...]

While Shiki started out as a slow-paced and, in certain respects, predictable horror mystery, it has now developed into an enthralling vampire thriller. Episode 14 was particularly memorable… the number of scenes in anime as terrifying and disturbing as Dr. Ozaki’s “examination” of his vampirised victim (the identity of whom is a major spoiler) would [...]

It’s December, the time when the anime blogosphere reflects on the year that’s been, so we can expect a swathe of “the year in review” articles coming soon. Our own “Year in Review” article will be published in the first few days of January (here’s last year’s for those unfamiliar to our yearly tradition), and [...]