“Japanese cartoon” fans of RDG – Red Data Girl – have caused an upset in a UK paper after the volume of their twits on the #RDG hashtag easily obliterated the previous Reading-related activity.
Slice of moe anime Tari Tari has finished to universal acclaim from those who managed to watch it to the end, also enshrining itself as the best equestrian anime to date…
Anime fans have rendered their verdict on who the best anime studio is, and whilst the top spot was probably never in much doubt, the remaining spots look to have been fiercely contested indeed.
Hanasaku Iroha, a tale of a girl exiled into living in the countryside with her grandmother at an onsen, is being greeted warmly despite lacking magical loli, moeblobs or bouncing breasts, instead opting for the novelty of a storyline which would not be out of place in one of Japan’s lunchtime dramas, coupled with some strikingly good animation and scenery.
That was a bit rash...have you ever considered that different countries have different standards and cultures?
Also, if you progress further into the anime you'll find that the grandmother cares for her very deeply. Don't let... More
The recently aired second episode of Angel Beats! provided viewers with both a more concise story than last week’s premiere episode, as well as a spiffy new OP that is reminiscent of their visual novel equivalents.
Both the OP and a number of screenshots from the episode are below…
The first episode of Angel Beats!, a series whose creator-screenwriter was recently interviewed at length, aired recently, and despite a mixed initial reaction is well deserving of further attention (in particular with regards to its confusing storyline)…
Jun Maeda, a co-creator of legendary visual novel company Key (Air, Kanon, Clannad) and screen writer and composer for almost all of Key’s past games, was recently interviewed about his upcoming and highly anticipated Angel Beats! Anime.
Besides speaking about his first time experience with writing a screenplay for an anime, he went into much detail concerning the production of Key’s games, making for a rather fascinating interview, available translated below in full.
Mine as well. That was a good read. Thanks for a great post Quen. I love Key and all their work, and I intend to play every visual novel they've made, since I've watched all... More
Anonymous commented on April 2, 2010 14:48
I think it's great you can read hiragana, but to you and all the people who want to -really- learn japanese (or any other language), there is no software, game, book or magic method that... More
That girl in the forth picture looks a lot like Misaka Mikoto.
http://images.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/to-love-ru-darkness-manga-extra-3-21.jpg... More