Author Archives: jiff

Manga Review: Tomoyo After: Dear Shining Memories

By jiff | Published: August 23, 2008

This has been a slow summer for me anime-wise, with not much new that has kept my attention. So, I’ve been using this chance to catch up on some of my backlog, marathoning older shows and reading lots of manga. If you read our fall preview, you may have noticed that I have recently [...]

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Eve no Jikan – Act One: Akiko

By jiff | Published: August 7, 2008

So I missed Pale Cocoon last year when it came out, but thanks to phuzy’s review I got a chance to check it out last week, and I was really impressed. So impressed, in fact, that I googled the director Yasuhiro Yoshiura to find out what else he had done, and lo and behold [...]

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Genius Party 7 – Baby Blue

By jiff | Published: July 29, 2008

Genius party is a series of short films by several Japanese directors widely revered as ‘geniuses’ (hence the name). The seventh one is titled Baby Blue, and Shinichirō Watanabe, renowned for his series Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, is the genius director. The brilliant Yoko Kanno, who worked [...]