For anyone unfamiliar, Kuroko’s Basketball centers around a guy who has the ability to make uncanny passes to his teammates on the court. He is hyper-aware of where people are and where they are headed. Well, in the anime they like to depict this in the above stylized manner.
Whenever, I see Kuroko passing the basketball in said magical way, all I can think of is . . .
. . . Akira’s motorcycle light trails.
Bribery! It is more than just the lubricant that makes bureaucracy function.
As it was eloquently stated in Freakonomics the study of incentives and how to influence people’s decisions is a fascinating science. Everything we do is determined by which decision will give us the greatest overall payoff. And in that spirit, I pledge that every round we win will present our readers with a more fabulous Aniblog Tourney post. By making it to round three you have unlocked the previously untold story of the formation of the Reverse Thieves Detective Agency complete with original artwork. Just imagine what wonders await you if we can make it even farther.
Reverse Thieves: Case File #000
A Woman named Hisui. A Detective named Narutaki. A Dance named Danger.
It is a mater of public record that the Reverse Thieves anime blog began in July of 2007 with a post about MangaPods (an idea that thankfully never really went anywhere). But if you had told anyone a year before the first post that the world’s cleverest detective and the underworld’s sliest thief would work together they would have laughed in your face. But in 2012 you could not imagine a world where that was not the case. The question is how did these two seemingly incompatible forces of nature come together. Today we learn the secret history of one of the greatest duos in the anime blogosphere since Kamina and Simon teamed up to write that blog together. (I hear something happened to Kamina so that he had to stop writing.)
Licensing news finally slowed down this month. But I don’t expect that to last since we are going into the summer convention season. However, there was plenty of interesting streaming/broadcasting news with the return of Toonami and new title surprises for Shonen Jump Alpha. So all in all still a month of happy news.
This is certainly the calm before the storm. I expect that this will seem like a blessing when the con season rolls in and there are nothing but announcements after announcements. I hope that the next few months bring us news of Mawaru Penguindrum or I am going to be very disappointed.
The Line-Up is a monthly rundown of newly licensed in the U.S., newly streaming in the U.S., and newly announced anime and manga projects.
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