Gunslinger Girl 2 to to air January 7th

Gunslinger GirlWell, I thought that the original press release on this said Spring, but I guess the winter season it is.

In a way it’s too bad because I was going to use Winter as kind of a rest season on blogging series (by not picking any new series up) while perhaps blogging the first Gunslinger Girl series leading up to the 2nd season.

Well, it looks like both of those are now out since I’m definitely blogging this, and now I’d have to pump out two episodes a week of the first series to get it done before this one airs – and there is no way that’s happening when I’m behind on the series I’m already doing.

P.S., the second season is to be subtitled “Il Teatrino,” which, as far as I can tell, means “The Small Theater,” and can appear to refer to a puppet theater, which would be appropriate for a show like Gunslinger Girl.

New Blog Design Launched!

As I alluded to a couple of weeks ago, I was making a new design for the website and, well, here it is. I’m using the Sandbox theme, like Kabitzin over at Sea Slugs did in their redesign.

Luckily I didn’t have to fudge too much. I think the biggest thing I had to do, other than the CSS design itself, was hack a widget to get my anime series split out from my categories list.

Right now the rotating banners are gone, though if I can find some suitable images to use as banners for different series, I might start that up again. It was hard enough finding images which I could crop to 800×200 and still work. It’s going to be even harder to find ones that I need to crop to 946×200. And unlike last time, I don’t think I’ll try to have a banner for certain series “no matter what” and end up with a few crappy banners. If I do rotating ones again, I want them all to be good this time.

As far as changes to the design, the most obvious change is the addition of a 2nd column since I have so much stuff in the sidebar now. As I mentioned earlier, the list of anime series is split off into it’s own list now, both to make that list more accessible and to make the other categories stand out more in the categories list.

I think just about everything else is the same, except I now have recent posts on the 2nd sidebar now. Other than that, everything should pretty much be the same, sand the design itself.

Of course, if you notice any bugs, feel free to let me know. I wouldn’t be surprised if something, somewhere ended up breaking, given that I upgraded to the newest version of WordPress, implemented a new design, and implemented a new base template. In any case, I hope you like it.

CLANNAD – Episode 08

It’s episode 8, and no one seems interested in accepting Fuko’s starfish anymore. In fact, they don’t even respond to her attempts to hand them out. Meanwhile, Sunohara think he’s found out the truth about Nagisa, while several other people find it hard to remember who Fuko even is.

Starfish labor
Ignored Who are you?

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Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode 53

Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode 53Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #53 is now online! In this podcast, I review the the anime movie Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.

This week’s Podcast Stats:

Time: 16:13
Download Size: 11.1 MB

Opening theme:
“Action!” by Maaya Sakamoto
Theme to CLAMP in Wonderland 2

Ending theme:
“Gotta Knock a Little Harder” by Mai Yamane
Ending theme to Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

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