ANN Needs New Hardware
As you may have noticed, ANN's servers have slowed down a lot recently. The good news is that we're very happy to have all this extra traffic. The bad news is that there isn't room in our budget for servers until January 2010, but we now need them sooner than expected.
There are now two options two help us reach our Lind Server Fund goal:
If you would like to support the "ANN server fund," you can subscribe to ANN Premium. You'd get access to our faster, ad-free server right away, and also help us buy new hardware in early October.
ANN isn't a charity, so we did not feel it appropriate to request "donations." However, several people told us that they had no interest in subscribing, but would be more than happy to actually donate.
So we've set up simple way to allow you to do this:
Anime News Network's existing servers are K1, Bel, Urd, Skuld and Peorth, the protagonist and first four goddesses from Ah My Goddess. So our new server will be named after the fifth Goddess, Lind.
K1 - Mail and Development (our weakest server, it's pretty pathetic actually)
Bel - Database server, will become a webserver
Urd - Webserver
Skuld - "Fast" Webserver
Peorth - Webserver
Lind - New Database server.
Coverage available now:
Funimation Industry Panel
Opening Ceremonies
2009-09-25
This week, the dried-
It's an all-
This week: the Soul Eater games we just might see over here, plus the next Kingdom Hearts, Valkyria Chronicles 2, a new English trailer for Sakura Wars, and this week's Disgaea-
We talk shoujo with MCAD professor Frenchy Lunning, editor in chief for Mechademia, and co-
Ah, Darkside Blues…that 80 minute refugee from the good old days of violent, post-
The problems with this second half are not enough to derail the show, but the experience is way less satisfying than it should be. Such is the power of its characters that I still can't help but love the whole package.
The manga version puts the focus back on the most interesting character: the Count himself. As a result, the plot reaches full steam in a very powerful way—but sadly gets derailed in the later chapters.
It's a film that defies any and all expectations of both medium and genre, that makes us marvel and has really little time to do much else.
The clues it contains about the future direction of Guts' journey—and the relentless monster action—ultimately save it, but unless the series regains its bearings soon this will begin to qualify as a genuine slump.
It's a beauty to look at, but a pain to follow. But we continue following anyway, because the path of destiny still holds many more surprises.
A love triangle forms between two reincarnated priestesses and a boy who represents part of their nihilistic foe in a series laden with fan service and mecha action but ultimately more focused on the development of the central characters' obsessive love. Not great, but not as trashy as it initially appears to be, either.