animediet's Feed Releases for August 2010

Kyun Kyun Kyun Kyun, boku no kanojo wa migite! If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. -Jesus Of Nazareth Boku no kanojo wa mig...

Ray and I did an informal, unedited summer season preview a few months ago…and now it’s time for the fall 2010 one! In this edition, we run down almost every show in the order of Scamp’s season chart (version 1). We looked at trailers whenever we cou...

Because Satoshi Kon and me, you see, go a ways back. I saw Perfect Blue very early in my fandom, almost ten years ago—and I have seen every one of his movies ever since. On the sad occasion of his passing, it seemed right to offer this remembrance of...

Apparently, it has been confirmed that famed anime director Satoshi Kon , director of such works as Perfect Blue and Paprika, has in fact died at the age of 47. Initial statements were made over twitter by founding member of Gainax Takeda Yasuhiro e...

It’s perhaps a measure of how caught up in the Now that I’ve gotten as a blogger when I say that Beck (2004-2005) is the oldest anime I’ve watched in a while. It’s also one of the most fascinating and frustrating too, at least so far; it’s one of tho...

The Hanged Man, The Traitor, Uragiri-mono, thus Ura-boku! Uraboku is sick. I have been watching Uraboku and appalled by its sadistic nature. When I was watching Episode 10, the torture scene was just unbearable. It’s crime against humanity. And a tor...

Crunchyroll recently made the first four episodes of Moribito available to premium subscribers, so I took a look. How did I miss this one after all these years? Seirei no Moribito (aka Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit) is the sort of anime I want to...

Primastea, the anime studio that created and distributed Training Together and Sleeping Together, has released a delicious yuri title, created by one guy (of course it’d only be a guy). The story is about the risky adventures of two high school girls...

Kyun Kyun, Kyun Kyun, watashi no kare wa hikikomori! ソクラテスはキモかった。Socrates wa kimokatta. (Socrates was repulsive). -Friedrich Nietzsche Ranka Lee of Macross F sings ‘Watashi no kare wa pilot‘ (originally by Lynn Minmay, composed by legen...

(Oh god, in order to let the search engine find this article faster, I came up with such a lame ass title! XD) Yes, I can hear your screams; “DEEP STUFF? NO, REALLY?” I guess I’m being Captain Obvious and you heard this one coming a mile away. But ye...

The life of a responsible older brother of a hyperactive eleven year-old was practically a full time job by the time the VHS maelstrom was upon us. And growing up in a community, mostly divided between wealthy retirees & small-town denizens, there wa...

Ryuji Takasu may look like a mean guy, due to his small fierce eyes, but in reality he is a kind-hearted teen who loves to cook and is maybe just a bit OCD when it comes to cleaning.  Unfortunately, his classmates are to frightened by his appearance...

You may or may not know this veteran seiyuu (voice actor), but Yuji Mitsuya was a guest at Otakon. Many of his roles are of older titles, that you possible could have seen or not. (Ranma 1/2, Saint Seiya, Touch, Stitch! etc.) He also has roles that...

It is, if anything, the reverse of “Cool Japan.” Rather than spread Japanese culture and influence to the world, a new manga titled Our Alliance – A Lasting Partnership has been published by the US Military in a bid to win the hearts of local Japanes...

Shinjuku written by Mink illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano Dark Horse Books, 2010. 185 pgs. $29.99. Buy it at Amazon.com! Recently Yoshitaka Amano, the famed anime and video game artist, illustrated a novel by Mink (aka Christopher Morrison), Shinjuku....

(Editor’s Note: Thanks to Zone Otaku for some of the information provided, which they found on, uh, Sankaku Complex) I will ask someone to translate this into Japanese because I suspect this is article will be targeting Japanese fanboy behaviors. Yes...