Archive for December, 2008
A partial “best of” list
Manga Life has posted its end of 2008 wrap-up. I contributed a few thoughts on my favorite manga and anime releases in 2008.
Click on the link to see what I and other ML contributors cited as our favorites. I read lots of other things I loved this year, of course, but most of the others [...]
Voice actor performances
Voice acting is one of those things I never really noticed until I started watching anime. Then I went and compared the original Japanese-language audio tracks of a couple anime to their English-language dubs and heard for myself the difference a voice performance can make. For some series, it’s not that big a deal. For [...]
Cross that off my to-watch list
Avatar: The Last Airbender is a children’s cartoon that aired on Nickelodeon over three seasons. It’s the story of a fantasy world where certain people have an affinity for elemental magic. Those with the ability to manipulate one of the four elements–air, earth, water, fire–are known as benders. And one person in every generation, the [...]
Hagaren miscellany
Via umadoshi: Jake Forbes on the joys of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga. An excerpt:
Any anime fan who’s followed the scene for the last five years is probably quite familiar with this ongoing tale of angst and alchemy, but if you’ve only experienced Fullmetal in its animated form, you’re really missing out. The manga, still going [...]
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