| 12:03am | Letter Bee - 08 |  | | | 「シルベット・スエー ドに会う」 (Shirubetto Sueedo ni Au) "Meeting Sylvette Suede" Nooo, not Gauche! When you take into consideration that Lag's looked up to Gauche for the past five years, and that Gauche is his motivation in life to this very day, his tears are completely understandable... |
| 11:53pm | AFA ‘09 Regional Cosplay Championship Coverage |  | | | Kaname-san gives a hug to the Gundam – pricelessThe AFA Regional Cosplay Championship was a hit today, with Kaname-san as one of the judges for the cosplay finalists. It was an event full of fun as the cosplayers from various countries performed their skits. Special guests who also appeared in... |
| 10:02pm | Letter Bee - 08 | | | | While still formulaic, this show has just gotten an a bit more interesting. We’re still in the formula of “Lag meets someone related to the plot, Lag cries, lag tries to save”, but the plot in question has gotten quite a bit more interesting now, and this episode did well in exploring... |
| 8:43pm | The Most Influential Anime of Your Childhood |  | | | Japanese asked which anime and manga had the greatest influence over them as children, shaping their lives and aspirations, gave a surprisingly uniform set of answers, with titles such as Gundam and Fist of the North Star evidently doing much to shape the minds of entire generations… The overall... |
| 7:17pm | White Album - 21 | | | | Oh god, guess who’s back? The one guy who could only turn this into an even bigger drama than it already was. He’s changed a lot, though. He was this confident asshole, but now he’s more like a wimpy moron. However, the impression he left on Misaki remains. In any case, this episode... |
| 7:15pm | Man Randomly Slashes 2 Women on Street | | | | Here’s a news story about another random slashing incident in Japan where two women sustained minor injuries after a man slashed them with a kitchen knife in Sapporo’s Atsubetsu Ward on Friday evening. According to police, 30-year-old Atsushi Nishino attacked two women at random on the street,... |
| 7:00pm | Manhole - Volume 1 | | | | Volume 1 Chapters 1-9 Mangaka: Tsutsui Tetsuya Genres: Horror, Mature, Mystery, Seinen Plot Summary: What do two Japanese detectives, a naked man on a city street, and a roundworm from Botswana all have in common? In the first volume of Manhole, Ken... |
| 6:39pm | AFA 09 I Love Anisong Day 1 Concert – My Thoughts |  | | | Yay, recycled picture! And so I have attended my very first anisong concert as a concert ticket holder. I won’t say it was OMGHOLYWTFBBQ or that sort of thing. But it was definitely enjoyable. Day 1 performances included Shoko-tan, Hatsune Miku and Mizuki Ichirou (a.k.a Aniki) Pictures from the... |
| 6:20pm | Shows You Must Watch: EVE no Jikan | | | | What is EVE no Jikan? It is a short series that completely blew me away – nay, blasted me away – with its fabulous storytelling and unique style. Just so you know, EVE was not broadcast on terrestrial networks so don’t bother asking whether or not you’ll get to see it on Animax... |
| 5:21pm | AFA 09 – Day 1 Cosplay – Part 1 |  | | | #1 – Black Rock Shooter (as above) Hi all, This is inferno0748 (temp TBE staff :P)!!! I will be posting pictures of the cosplayers who have attended the EPIC AFA 2009. Pardon me if some of the pictures doesn’t look nice. I have tried my best. (NOOB spotted!!! OTL) Oh! By the way, if you... |
| 5:15pm | Darker Than Black: Ryūsei No Gemini - Episode 6 | | | | A Sweet Fragrance A Bitter Heart Whatever it is they were transporting, it was just a decoy. BK-201 is driven off somewhere else by Genma. In the middle of that, they discover the mission’s "objective" and the thing being transported is really a person, like I suspected. And it’s... |
| 4:54pm | oOgA! Exposed at AFA! (By shoko-tan) |  | | | A picture speaks a thousand words. And I have no need for words when all I need is this picture taken from Shoko-tan’s blog which was taken when she was autographing CDs for some rich fans. oOgA, you are now famous (as famous as any other face in the background of that picture XD) |
| 4:37pm | English Spice & Wolf Restores Horo, Almost |  | | | Calling those fans who objected to its decision to scrap Horo in favour of a buck-toothed fantasy maiden “opinionated,” English Spice and Wolf publisher Yen Press has partly relented and now offers proper original covers to online retailers who choose to include them, though bookshop shelves will... |
| 4:20pm | Oh Sakutaro you stud! |  | | | Oh Sakutaro you STUD! Having all the Seven Sisters wrapped around your cuddly-bunny buns! Too bad it doesn’t work on QUALITY MOTHER OF THE YEAR, Rosa. I’d so like to give her a mug with BESTEST MOTHER EVER written on it like sagematt suggested once. Finally obligatory SEACATS ANIME IS... |
| 4:17pm | Armed Librarians - The Book of Bantorra - 08 | | | | This show just continues to blow my mind with every episode. This episode again did such a wonderful job of tying the whole arc together in one heck of a climax. This show doesn’t show any signs of slowing down, does it? Okay, so the big secret? The white-haired guy can absorb books. Therefore... |
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