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Japanese Film Festival 2010

aprilius20 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:30:20 +0000

Japanese Film Festival 2010 Poster

Just as I was about to get up from my chair and rummage through my drawers for the program booklet to take a photo of for the opening image of this post, I stumbled across the poster for this year’s Japanese Film Festival through Google Images. Sure makes [...]

Prince of Persia: But I really am a Persian!

aprilius20 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:10:06 +0000

Dastan: "Don't look at me like that!"

Sands of Time is to be the first in a series of seven movies based on the presumably-soon-to-be legendary (if not already) Prince of Persia (PoP) video games. A quick summary might be helpful for newbies, no?PoP tells the story of a young street urchin named [...]

Hotaru no Haka: A Different Perspective

aprilius20 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:53:45 +0000

Hotaru no Haka

Note: Just got back from an insane one month tour of China and Hong Kong, and still too tired (i.e. lazy) to do anything substantial. Therefore, chew on a pre-composed essay that’s been lying dormant in the draft bin for ages.

Almost every review I’ve read of this movie [...]

The Place Promised in Our Early Days: Now why didn’t I have one?

aprilius20 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:59:47 +0000

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

It’s been a while since I saw an anime that I’ve really enjoyed, one that would give me cause to pick up a wooden placard and preach about it to random people on the street like a raving, Armageddon-prophesying madman. Alright, I admit. I wouldn’t do [...]

Spice and Wolf II: Futures Trading, Medieval Politics, and Inter-Species Courtship

aprilius20 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:12:57 +0000

Spice and Wolf II

Huh. I just realized that I never made a post on the first season of Spice and Wolf- and here I am jumping into a review of its second season. Ah well. Speed review of season one, people? Here goes:

Craft Lawrence, white-haired but no geezer, is a travelling [...]

Natsu no Arashi: Quantum Physics for Amateurs

aprilius20 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:58:51 +0000

It looks nothing like this.

Natsu no Arashi (Summer Storm) first came to my attention while I was reading a copy of School Rumble. This little leaflet fell out, one of those small rectangular spreadable sheets of shiny, thin, brightly (Or darkly, depending on the material it covers) colored paper that just inexplicably [...]

Eden of the East

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:24:47 +0000

I don’t really know what I was expecting out of Eden of the East (Higashi no Eden). At any rate, I don’t remember any pertinent preconceptions I might have had regarding it. Perhaps I was worried that it wouldn’t be able to cover much ground, given it’s short run, a mere 11 episodes- [...]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: How Harry Lost his Lobster

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:22:09 +0000

Summer Fashion Trends... Not.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I haven’t read the book, but I’ve watched the movie. Before I begin let me just say that I am not a Potter maniac, never mind the fact that I lined up with a friend outside a bookstore for a few hours at [...]

Gundam 00: Gravure Idols, Rock Bands, and Scrap Metal

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:13:49 +0000

Tieria's Gravure Debut

“For this post, I will be conducting a dissertation on the art of cross-dressing without ending up looking like a certain idiotic former soldier-turned-butler. I shall begin with the basics of makeup…” Oh shut up, Tieria. He’s one of the main characters in the series I’ll be ‘reviewing’ today… [...]

Nabari no Ou: Of friendship stronger than even Frodo and Sam’s

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:54:25 +0000

Nabari no Ou

Before I go on, a few words: It’s been about a month since my exams, but I still haven’t gotten around to moving to wordpress.org. When will it happen? I keep saying ‘soon’, but nothing has happened yet. And I did say I wanted to move this holiday. Oh well.

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