Winter 2006 Shows!

By neo December 31, 2005

Show	Airtime in Japan (GMT +9)	Airtime in US (EST, GMT -5)	Info Link	Premiere Date
Nerima Daikon Brothers	Monday, 25:30	Monday, 11:30	Link	January 9th
Magikano	Tuesday, 25:30	Tuesday, 11:30	Link	January 1st
Kashimashi	Wednesday, 25:30	Wednesday, 11:30	Link	January 11th
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru...	Thursday, 24:30	Thursday, 10:30	Link	January 12th
Shinigami no Ballad	Thursday, 24:30	Thursday, 10:30	Link	March 2nd
REC	Thursday, 25:55	Thursday, 11:55	Link	February 2nd
Fate/stay night	Friday, 25:30	Friday, 11:30	Link	January 6th
LEMON ANGEL PROJECT	Friday, 25:30	Friday, 11:30	Link	January 6th
Kage Kara Mamoru!	Saturday, 26:50	Saturday, 12:50	Link	January 7th

Note: All times are given in a 24 hour format, using what I call relative day time where times are extended to show which day they belong to. For instance, Friday morning at 1:30AM would become Thursday at 25:30 to show that the episode aired late Thursday night. By no means is this list complete, these are just the series I'm planning to watch. Check out MOON PHASE for an entire listing and AndrewLB's Winter 2006 Wiki for who's tentatively subbing what. A brief run-down on my choice of shows:

Nerima Daikon Brothers - The director is Watanabe Shinichi (aka. Nabeshin). For that reason alone, this should be pretty interesting.

Magikano - This series sounds like magical girl/harem-romance fluff, but I'm willing to give it an episode to see how it is. It's airing on Tuesdays though, so if it doesn't impress, I probably won't stick with it.

Kashimashi - Boy gets hit on the head by a UFO, turns into a girl, and shoujo-ai ensues. This is probably the series I'm looking the most forward to this next season after having read some of the manga.

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Best of Anime Miscellaneous

The Best of Anime 2005

By neo December 30, 2005

Well, we’re at the end of 2005, which was my first year blogging anime. These past few seasons have had their share of good and bad series, but I’m writing now about the ones that deserve to be recognized. Some of the nominees are:

See inside for my picks for this year in a boatload of categories....

Final Impressions First Impressions Paradise Kiss

Paradise Kiss – 12 (END)

By neo December 29, 2005

Summary: Yukari has been picking up more and more modeling work, and even does a photo shoot with George.

Random Musings School Rumble

Random Musings – School Rumble Edition

By neo December 29, 2005

I just finished watching the first set of School Rumble OVAs, and they are a riot. The animation and production quality are so good, it almost makes me want to cry. If you enjoyed the series, these OVAs are a must-see. And needless to say, I'm really looking forward to next season now. :)

Since there's really nothing to blog about for this weekend - none of the shows I cover are airing Friday, Saturday, or Sunday - I'm thinking of writing up a year-in-review and the upcoming season's schedule then.

Kingdom Hearts II still owns my soul. 35 hours into it (level 47) and I'm just now getting to the point where I visit all of the worlds a second time.

Final Impressions First Impressions Suzuka

Suzuka – 26 (END)

By neo December 28, 2005

Summary: After Suzuka gets home, she ponders her conflicted feelings and stares at her photo of Kazuki.

Miscellaneous School Rumble

School Rumble Next Season, Coming in the Spring

By neo December 27, 2005

With all of the news about the next season of School Rumble (mainly from the recent OVAs), it appears that an announcement has been made on the Shonen Magazine site. The fourth banner down (shown above) says that the anime is coming again next spring. Looks like the spring season just got one more thing for me to look forward to... Edit: It seems that the official School Rumble site now says the same thing.

Source: MOON PHASE

First Impressions Jigoku Shoujo