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[28 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]

So I watched White Album up to episode 4, but I’ve got nothing to say about it so I’m just gonna let Montaigne take over. This 16th century humanist philosopher.
If you like Nietzsche, you’ll find a lot to like here. In fact, many of Nietzsche’s aphorisms are direct reactions to some of these.
Tell me if there are particular ones that strike your fancy.

philosophy »

[24 Jan 2009 | 5 Comments | ]

They’re bad. That’s the main reason why there hasn’t been an update here in a while. I’ve got some other things to talk about though, such as Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou.

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[15 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]

We already knew that Final Fantasy XIII was hitting Japanese shores sometime in 2009. Today Square-Enix has apparently told business news site Reuters, that Final Fantasy XIII will be released outside of Japan during the 2010 financial year which starts in April 2010.
Some of you may be disappointed but this really is the best we could expect. If Square-Enix is trying to push the game out in Japan by late 2009, localisation and the Xbox 360 port will take some months to complete. A release date for Final Fantasy Versus …

White Album, anime »

[13 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]

As you may have noticed, Browning’s book made another appearance in episode 2. In the first episode, the book represented in some sense Misaki’s interest in Touya. Touya didn’t have interest in the book (Misaki’s feelings by extension) and tried to pass it on to Akira, who refused it, even though he had interest in the literary content of it. What Akira refused is to simply inherit Misaki’s attention from Touya, he wanted Misaki to romantically discover his person by natural progression/personal wooing efforts. He has too much pride, he …

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[5 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]

Back in turn 2.0, we covered our project’s darling blogger sergio and his varied blog. One thing led to another and he’s now found a new home at tenshi.tomatone.net, where he’ll concentrate on anime for us lucky folks.
I’d describe sergio’s blog as a blogger’s blogger’s blog. I say this because the owners of some blogger’s blogs have shown great affection to it. Now I need to define what a blogger’s blog is. Well, a blogger’s blog is a blog where the posts are often interaction between bloggers and follow upon …

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[5 Jan 2009 | 5 Comments | ]

I need 3 more posts and I think I will have their daily production beat.
One of those posts will almost be like an essay so it’s no spam either. Wish me luck.

White Album, anime »

[5 Jan 2009 | 6 Comments | ]

I had no expectations on White Album going into it but the OP convinced me I wasn’t looking at something cheap like Akikan. The images and animation is very crisp and pretty at 720p, the music is polished without being too exuberant. Great first impression.

akikan, anime »

[5 Jan 2009 | 5 Comments | ]

Someone tell me if Akikan’s first episode was good because I stopped watching it within two minutes of the end of the OP.