The Fierce War of 2008: The Dead Art of “Original Video Animation”
The OVA is almost a dead art in the fast, 100MB-per-second world of today, but even so there were a few direct-to-video titles that hit shelves this year. Of course, they were either lame eroge adaptations, lackluster fanservice romps or straight up porn. However, despite these odds, an intrepid...
January 09 Anime
Hey hey hey sup 09 what’s happenin bro Current Casshern Sins: Sins carries itself on art direction more than anything else, but the light musings on what it means to live are interesting. Casshern has also stopped being a pussy, kind of. Clannad ~After Story~: I have no idea...
2009
Haruhi girls this year. Happy 2009....
ef – a tale of whatever, man
The other show I finished yesterday was ef – a tale of melodies. Ugh. ef – a tale of memories, the series that precedes melodies, was all around okay, and ended rather strongly. I was primarily interested in it because it was the first eroge adaptation Shaft had done...
Will you kill someone you love, because of love?
This post will have some spoilerific Ga-Rei -zero- rambles, so read with caution....
MoY Podcast 2 BEYOND THE TIME: Episode 11– Seiya’s House PART II
Download [audio:http://mistakesofyouth.com/podcast2/MoY_2_ep_11.mp3] More of my time at Seiya’s house. I changed the recording setting in this one because I thought it’d make things sound better, but they actually sound worse, so I apologize in advance for the terrible audio quality. The content is pretty good though, especially Seiya’s Gainax...
I am torrenting ALL OF FIRST GUNDAM
Those with a keen eye on the ever flowing stream of pirated anime may notice that a curious torrent has appeared. It is a most sadistic little collection of files, containing the first thirty-nine episodes of the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam series. Where are the last four episodes,...
In the great words of Alec Guinness from the end of The Bridge on the River Kwai, “What have I done?”
You’d think that after watching one whole season of this junk, one would eventually give up and spend their time on more worthwhile endeavours. However, my common sense is forever broken, and I somehow just found myself at the end of the second season of Rosario + Vampire. Though,...
Adventures with my first portable music player
My awesome parents got me a neat 8GB Insignia Pilot mp3 player for Christmas, and the thing’s working great. I’ve never had the pleasure of walking around with music blaring in my ears, and now that I have I can understand why I always run into so many detached...
The Grand Battle Of December 25th 20XX: War Spoils (The Haul ’08)
Pictured: Gurren Lagann PART I w/ box and core drill Reading lamp Zero no Tsukaima Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Toki Wo Kakeru Shoujo SE Insignia MP3 player Yokai Attack! (review copy) Black Lagoon s2 vol 1 SE Karin vol 4 Not Pictured 190 US dollars in COLD HARD CASH...