| 5:44pm | Telepathy Shoujo Ran - 03 | | | | Short Synopsis: The villain turns out to be a teacher. More importantly: Ran and Midori become friends. Highlights: Excellent banter, though the evil teacher was way too evil. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 I’m probably going to end up comparing this series a lot to Night Head Genesis, the... | | |
| 5:03pm | Maid Cafes in California | | | | My Paper - Singapore extracted: 2008 July 3 Thursday Found this from local ‘My Paper’ in Singapore, Maid cafes are starting to come up in California, however the difference is it is more of like walking into and art fantasy world rather than a hangout for Gamers. As stated by the owner... |
| 4:24pm | A little bit of news this week | | | | I just had to laugh about this. I just got done recording the news segment in my podcast and the news segment for this week is longer than 12 of my complete podcasts. Suffice to say that this week will probably be my longest podcast ever as I may actually cross the half-hour mark this week. Of course,... |
| 3:39pm | Junjo Romantica Review - 82,5/100 | | | | 2008 came with an interesting trend: actually good shounen-ai series. what? At least I liked them Granted, there’s no denying that this series is aimed at fangirls. Nearly every episode features some gay sex scene that will feel rather awkward for any straight male like myself. The characters... |
| 3:16pm | Like Cake, You Cant Resist Hidamari Sketch |  | | | I tried to resist watching the first episode of Hidamari Sketch x365 because I wanted to wait for a high quality version of the episode as opposed to [h00rjforce]’s but I could not stop myself. I went to check the quality and saw about 2 seconds of glory before I close the window and had a 5 minute... | | |
| 1:30pm | Batman - Gotham Knight Review - 77,5/100 | | | | For Batman - Gotham Knight, four of my favourite studios Studio 4°C, Production IG, Bee-Train and Madhouse came together and delivered a collection of six short movies about the comic book legend of Batman. Much like The Animatrix, all have different art styles, though unlike the Animatrix, they’re... |
| 12:41pm | Links revamped | | | | Well after spending some time to go through the links i have in my own bookmarks to make sure they are working, I finally imported them over and now on my sidebar, just click on the image you see above to get yourself away to a random link. Just under 100 links, with most of them being blogs. Have ... |
| 12:39pm | COSFEST VII (2008): Super Henshin - Day 1 |  | | | And this is nutcase23 reporting in with Day 1 of Singapore’s Cosfest 2008!!!I didn’t exactly stay till the end of the event since my battery died on me and I was dead tired and the crowd was getting seriously crazy. But it was fun while I was there and of course I have the pictures |
| 10:43am | Weekly Round-Up: July 5th | | | | Reviewed this week: Amatsuki 7, Chi’s Sweet Home 45-6, Chocolate Underground 2-3, Himawari!! 5, Itazura na Kiss 12, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 9, Nabari no Ou 12, Real Drive 8-10, Shion no Ou 21, Slayers Revolution 1, Soul Eater 12, Telepathy Shoujo Ran 1-2, Wagaya no Oinari-sama 10 …and in manga: Slayers... | | |
| 9:48am | Macross Frontier 13: Ranka, Queen of the Hive | | | | Potentially Ranka’s true formQueen of the HiveThis episode gives plenty of evidence that Ranka has more than just Zentrali blood flowing in her. Already in the prior episodes, that baby Vajra was somehow instinctively drawn to her as if an infant to their mother. Now in this episode, her stomach... | | |
| 7:34am | Kanokon - 12 (END) |  | | | It’s time to say goodbye. Kanokon comes to it’s end with this episode.Kouta didn’t have a chance to answer Chizuru’s question from last episode because Tayura interrupted himTayura should have know better The poor guy had his moment of glory in this episode though.Akane as... | | |
| 7:08am | July 4th Weekend News and Notes |  | | | Finally, Hayate without that annoying censor character! It’s rare that we do any real news posts on THAT, but seeing as how there was a huge pile of crap that occurred in the R1 DVD market as well as some scattered news on the other side of the Pacific I figured I’d post something. Plus... | | |
| 5:52am | We had an AWESOME panel–thanks everyone |  | | | Thanks to everyone who came out to our panel tonight. (Shout out to CalAggie and IcyStorm–you know you were there!) We were scrambling to get things done at the very last minute and you supported us with your laughter, applause, and cheers. The panel was a huge success and you all helped made... |
| 5:48am | AX08 - VIZ and Bandai down, TOKYOPOP and FUNimation to go |  | | | So I’ve been Twittering like mad at Anime Expo, and I’m pretty tired. Once I’m done with TOKYOPOP and FUNimation tomorrow, I will never do this again without an iPhone or a (computer) notebook. I’m sure you’ve heard that Hayate got announced (hey, I was among the few to... |
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