Tooi no kuni no naka ni… Aherm! Anyway, I was reading a review of a maxi-single, and it was fairly well-written, but one thing about it REALLY irked me. The reviewer said "while some songs fail to make the transition from tv-size to full-size well…." Doesn't anyone remember when songs were written full-length, and then edited in order to be used as ( Read more... )

Well, even though it's only 21:00 (yes, I'm using military time for not particular reason), I already feel like today's a wash and that I should be moving on towards tomorrow. Heck, maybe I should just be moving on towards next year. Or maybe I'm just in a bad mood right now. I will admit to feeling very melancholy (although, as capricious as my ( Read more... )

Well, I admit that I'm a bit surprised. I recently have been tracking the availability of Geneon, USA titles for purchase, and they have been shockingly difficult to find. As is to be somewhat expected, the more recent releases seem to be lower-pressed, thus making them disappear faster. Sure, you can at least still find titles like "Shakugan no ( Read more... )

As a long-time fan of Studio Ghibli's works (and, outside of Ghibli, works by Miyazaki Hayao himself in general), I really feel that the newest entry in the Ghibli library, Gedo Senki (a.k.a. Tales of Earthsea) disparages the studio's name. Mind you, I have not yet read the books from which the movie was made. Also, according to the credits, it was ( Read more... )

Okay, this has been bugging me for quite a while, but it seems to have gotten worse recently. First, they started releasing OSTs w/ only the TV edits of the theme songs, or without them at all, thus forcing you to buy at LEAST one or two (more if multiple OP & ED sequences) singles just to get the songs. Just to rub salt in the wound, they then ( Read more... )

I couldn't help but be a bit disturbed when I came across this quote:
"Howl's didn't put me to sleep. Therefore it is better than Spirited Away."

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (aka Spirited Away break box-office records in Japan? Yeah, I know you could argue that it was due to its being a Miyazaki Hayao ( Read more... )

I have too many doujinshi! I'm trying to go through and sort them so I can decide which ones I want to keep, and which ones I'm willing to part with. It's turning into more of a major endeavor than I'd thought it would be, because I'm having to go through each book and try to decide if it's a "keep" or a "sell" (and I keep reading them while I'm ( Read more... )

Because you're going to need it, along with a good grasp of "ye olde English" and archaic sentence structure if you plan on playing the new remake of Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSP. So far, it's basically a straight port of the original PS1 game, but the graphics during the cut scenes have been touched up (and they added voice-overs!), they've ( Read more... )

I think that fairly accurately describes me when I'm woken up way before I want to be, so I think I'll adopt the saying (although, I'm nowhere near as calculating as the character to whom the quote originally referred ( Read more... )

For those who were not enrolled in Geneon's "G-Spot" club and/or did not receive the letter from the CEO, you can find a copy of it here. While I appreciate their finally making a public statement to their customers, this sounds like an extremely non-committal response to fans' begging to know what will happen to series that are not all out yet ( ( Read more... )