Koi Kaze January 27, 2006
What a beautiful anime! Absolutely mind-blowing art! Water-coloured painting and water-coloured atmosphere… And… hm… “weird” story as many have put it before. Naturally it seems weird for it tells about incestuous relationship. A guy falls in love with his own sister (though they grew up until then separately). Development of the situation is very slow (as we can expect from Japanese love story), but that atmosphere! And colours! It draws me in and makes me wait another episode impatiently. Although i’m only at 5th episode, i can tell for sure it’s already one of my favorite things (ok, one of my favorite lovestories in anime). I’m looking forward to what i’ll say when I’ll actually finish watching it…
Проект Мушіші January 12, 2006
Український переклад Мушіші завершено! (Див. присвячену йому сторінку зверху).
Boogiepop novels in English November 11, 2005
Finally! ^_^
Starting in February 2006, Seven Seas Entertainment plans to release the first of the Boogiepop novels in English. Further releases for 2006 include the second and third Boogiepop novels, both volumes of the Boogiepop Doesn’t Laugh manga series drawn by character designer Kouji Ogata and the two-volume Boogiepop Dual manga illustrated by Masayuki Takano (Blood Alone)
Perfect Blue September 14, 2005
Another great anime, Perfect Blue. Thriller at its best, but in very Japanese style. I didn’t really get in the end who’s criminal? But it’s ok, i can guess. Very psychological thing with powerfull animation, direction, story…
Stanton August 11, 2005
The following article was originally published on Animeondvd.com. At the very end of the essay, after the sources are listed, I have added a response that I had written on the aodvd’s message board shortly after this was first printed.
This article has been reprinted with the permission of its author, Robert Stanton.
Boogiepop Phantom is an animated series based upon the acclaimed written work of Kouhei Kadono. Set somewhere in common, urban, contemporary Japan, the dark science fiction premises of the show quickly take over and distort any traditional elements of culture or knowledge. In fact, one of the series’ mantras is “In this world, anything can happen, and everything does happen all the time,” indicating the bizarre twists and turns of fate that will happen to the characters and the world they reside in during a certain amount of time. Over the course of twelve episodes, the viewer witnesses not only the biographical development of a wide cast of characters, but also the way that each of their individual lives manages to effect or coincide with others’. This is successfully accomplished by the use of straightforward character narratives and flashback sequences that force the viewer to make sense out of the series’ use of time in order to piece together what actually happened. The show stresses that flashbacks are concepts of memory and not necessarily truth, and that time is a relative concept dependent in which order sequences are experienced or viewed. [...]
