| 2:44am | The Moe Heroine and the Yamato Nadeshiko | | | | A “Yamato Nadeshiko” is defined as the traditional ideal Japanese woman. These qualities include being loyal to their husband, putting family first, modesty, and being skilled in domestic matters. Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess is a prominent example in anime and manga of a Yamato Nadeshiko,... | | |
| 1:19am | Pangya - a day in the life | | | | Yeah, yeah, it’s a Pangya fanfic. I’ve forced myself to write it with the characterisations in the previous postI haven’t written for a while and it’s HARD. Anyway, here’s what I’ve got so far. More to come, probably Chapter 1 |
| 12:58am | 2008 Anime DVD Sales Ranking |  | | | Here we have the rather interesting DVD sales ranking for 2008 anime, in this case focused on the first volume as a proxy for total popularity. There are a number of interesting results within the list, but the top and bottom are likely not surprising. These numbers are the number of DVDs sold over... | | |
| 12:34am | First Aria the Natural DVDs out in January | | | | Here at Tea Shop BeLoved, any Aria news is good news. Right Stuf to Launch Aria the Natural Anime in January First of two DVD sets for sequel to Aria the Animation television series The North American anime distributor Right Stuf and its Nozomi Entertainment production arm have announced that they... | | |
| 12:28am | Natsume Yuujinchou Series Review | | | | One of the things that I’ve come to really enjoy about watching anime is that I have the chance to see types of shows that I would never see on American television. Natsume Yuujinchou falls into one such type – the supernatural slice-of-life show. As I’m typing this, I’m trying to think of an... | | |
| 12:26am | Toradora vs. Akane-iro ni Somura Saka | | | | A new season means a new round of pudding fights to the death. This season we are putting two romantic comedies up against each other - Toradora vs Akane-iro ni Somura Saka. Lets hope we don’t get lazy or get fed up with one of these shows so we can continue this for the whole season. ... | | |
| 12:18am | Behind the Mic - The Bang Zoom Workshop |  | | | A group of a dozen aspiring voice actors gather in a small recording studio in Midtown Manhattan. They are there to participate in a day long voice acting workshop hosted by Bang Zoom Entertainment. Not only have they paid quite a lot of money to attend this class, but their promptness in showing up... | | |
| 11:51pm | More Fall Shows (Casshern Sins, Kannagi, and Ga-Rei-Zero) |  | | | There are SO many yummy shows so far this season. I wish I had time to fully blog about them all. But, you know, it’s still volleyball season Ridiculous lack of screencaps within. Very few spoilers, though. Casshern Sins 01 I was gonna go on a rant about how really-kinda-pointless that whole... | | |
| 11:27pm | Tokyo Game Show Best In-Show Winners | | | | There are so many games featured at the Tokyo Game Show, but amongst them which are the few that really shine? Japan’s CESA listed twelve games and gave them the Best In-Show Award. Here is the list and they are not ranked in any particular order:Idolm@ster - Namco Bandai - PSPGyakuten Kenji... |
| 10:58pm | The score so far, and dorks and damsels | | | | Thumbs tentatively up: Kannagi — Hoping that Hideyuki Kurata writes consistently well this time. To Aru Majutsu no Index Thumbs emphatically down: Hakushaku to Yousei (Earl and Fairy) — There’s a vast literature about the collision of the human and faerie realms, from “Tam Lin”... | | |
| 10:48pm | TGS 2008: Tales of the World - PSP Game PV | | | | pspfanboy.com has written up an impression of the upcoming Tales of the World 2: Radiant Mythology with a PV Video. Looks really nice and Epice for a PSP RPG game. Posted in Game PV, Games, Playstation Tagged: namco bandai, psp, tgs, tgs 2008 | | |
| 10:39pm | Jiburiru Holy Angel 1/7 Scale Figure | | | | What has to be one of the most gorgeous figures I've seen in the past few months, Griffon really does well with this one. From the hentai, Jiburiru - Devil Angel, this 1/7th figure depicts St. Jibril. as a very stunning figure indeed. It's going to cost a bit though at around $97 retail which is much... |
| 10:27pm | Nabari no Ou - Episode 26 (Completed) | | | | After being gripped by the first few episodes of Nabari no Ou, I really didn't think that I'd reach the point where I'd be glad to see the end of the series, but glad I am, and then some.In a way, this episode summed up everything that was wrong with the series as a whole, and only served to prove how... | | |
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