Angel's Anime Rating Guide

I'm particularly fond of the Magazine template. At the time of this writing (October 2011), there is very little customization offered for the new templates. In addition, scripts appear to have been disabled. This would prevent me from dynamically replacing the rating images on-the-fly. The Blogger team has made assurances that these deficiencies will be dealt with in forthcoming software upgrades. Of greater concern is the fact that the new templates do not appear to degrade nicely in older browsers. About half of my traffic comes from people using older browsers. The site displays a message in older browsers that the user needs to upgrade. The user is given an opportunity to proceed, but, since the bulk of my traffic comes from search engines, I would think that such a message would tend to discourage users from viewing the site. Overall, while I'm very pleased with the new templates, there are still some usability issues to work through, so, I don't think I'll be

According to a post on the AnimeNation blog, a long-running dispute over unpaid royalties owed to Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn , appears to have been resolved... In its latest e-mail newsletter, Conlan Press has formally announced that the 1982 animated film The Last Unicorn will be getting a theatrical re-release next year. "Starting early next year and running through the middle of 2013, there will be more than 80 special digital theater screenings of The Last Unicorn taking place in America, Canada, Great Britain, and Germany. [Last Unicorn author] Peter [S. Beagle] will be at every one of these events to do audience Q&A, meet people, and sign stuff." Furthermore, the film will also be getting a five-million dollar digital overhaul. "Not remastering, mind you, but renovating: going through The Last Unicorn from end to end and top to bottom, spending five million dollars to upgrade the special visual effects and soundtrack, smooth out and improve

Sometime ago, I came across a wonderful animated movie, somewhere on the dial, called Mary and Max ... From Academy Award winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs (HARVEY KRUMPET) comes the hilarious and moving new claymated feature film about the pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Daisy Dinkle (voiced by Oscar nominee Toni Collette) is a lonely 8-year-old in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Max Jerry Horovitz (Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman) is an obese 44-year-old with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City. Over the course of 20 years and 2 continents, their unusual journey of friendship will explore autism, taxidermy, alcoholism, where babies come from, kleptomania, sexual differences, trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and more of life's big and little surprises. Mary and Max follows the relationship of the two main characters, who carry a great deal of emotional baggag

A few days ago, I picked up the new Trigun movie, Badlands Rumble ... In town surrounded by quicksand, an outlaw from Vash the Stampede's past has resurfaced after twenty years. His name is Gasback - and he's looking to cause a little trouble. It seems Gasback has a serious beef with the town's mayor, who's paying dozens of bounty hunters to protect his turf. One of those hired guns is a beautiful woman with a vendetta against Gasback. Will she get a shot at revenge? Maybe, if she can get through Gasback's bodyguard, Wolfwood. And what's Vash got to do with this mess? Nothing much - except for the fact that he personally set off the entire chain of events two decades ago! To refresh your memory, the original Trigun series plot summaries follow... Volume 1 The $60,000,000,000 Man The legendary Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter so ruthless he has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head and entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival. Fortunately, t