That lucky dog Daike from the Makoto Shinkai Fan Web was to be able to watch the premiere of Byousoku 5 Centimeter at the Cinema Rise theater in Tokyo, Japan. He is nice enough to write a review of the film for us Engish foreigners who won't be able to see this highly anticipated film from Makoto Shinkai for some time.

Anime News Network has an enticing review of Satoshi Kon's Paprika. Yeah, I know it's been around since September. I'm slow.

Too bad that this movie will not be released in the U.S. till March. And it'll be a limited release, which means that it will most likely not be showing anywhere within a couple hours driving distance from here. I may have to wait for the DVD.

A review by Kimberly Pauley of "The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow" shows an extremely favorable response to the first novel: