Daily Archives: Sunday, March 9, 2008

Some anime review updates

I went through and updated the scores and reviews that are on my blog for several of the past anime series that I re-reviewed on my podcast.  Since I change some parts of my review and scoring for series when I re-review them, I usually need to go back and update those reviews on my blog as well, and I hadn’t done that for quite a while.  Those reviews should be updated now.

I decided to take another look and I re-scored my Rumbling Hearts and Last Exile reviews as well as re-reviewed DNA2.   The story with DNA2 was that I actually don’t have the written podcast re-review script for that series anymore, so I didn’t have anything to base re-reviewing that series other than listening to the podcast again, so I listened to my old podcast review of it and then sort-of kind-of based my re-review on it.

In any case, the reviews on my blog (as well as the alphabetical list and list by score pages) should all be updated now.

You may have noticed that I put up a review each day last week.  This is part of my project to catch up on my rather large backlog of reviews.  I was planning on doing it last month, but if you visited my blog very much last month, you saw that it ended up being a pretty bad month for me posting overall.  As a result, I’m going to try to post a new review every weekday in March, which will hopefully get me closer to being caught up.

CLANNAD - Episode 20

It’s episode 20, and Okazaki and Nagisa try to search for the story that Nagisa wants to turn into a play. However, along the way Akio tells Okazaki a secret from Nagisa’s past and why all their snooping around may not be the best thing. Meanwhile, Nagisa let’s something slip during a family picnic.

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Anime Theme Competition - Quarterfinal Set 2 Results

I thought I’d finally get around to finishing project after letting it age for…a while. In any case, it’s time to announce the results of the final two quarterfinal matchups. Clips for the last 4 songs in the quarterfinals are after the jump.

And just a reminder, I’m choosing these songs since I found that coming up with a top 10 list of favorite songs was a rather daunting task. So by “results” I mean “my favorite.” Just thought I’d mention that again.

The songs which advanced to the Quarterfinal/Seventh Round are in bold. Also, see the full bracket.

“Forever”
by Savage Genius
Elemental Gelad

vs.

“Naraku no Hana”
by Eiko Shimamiya
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

and

“Yoake Umarekuru Shoujo”
by Yoko Takahashi
Shakugan no Shana

vs.

“Hoshizora no Waltz”
by Minami Kuribayashi
Rumbling Hearts

So these two were about as close to routs as one could get at this point in the bracket. And so it’s Forever vs. Hoshizora no Waltz in the 2nd semifinal.

Next Sunday (theoretically), I’ll announce the winners of the two semifinal matchups, setting up the final matchup. The semifinal matchups are:

“Michishirube”
by Yuumao
Kashimashi

vs.

“Ameagari”
by Moeko Matsushita
Angelic Layer


“Forever”
by Savage Genius
Elemental Gelad

vs.

“Hoshizora no Waltz”
by Minami Kuribayashi
Rumbling Hearts