| 4:14pm | Idolm@ster for DS |  | | | As seen at “my game news flash” (via), a gaming magazine Famitsu announced Idolm@ster Dear Stars for DS. The whole idea seems cynical. First Idolmaster Portable, and now this. For the game defined by its exquisite 3D to be detuned progressively for the worse and worse platform may be very... | | |
| 1:22am | Arashi 08 | | | | Almost as great as 01, only the subject matter was weaker. It would be great to know where this picture was taken, back in the days of Kamichu and juice cans with pull-out tabs. Nice cameo, but I want Yunocci. UPDATE: Tenkousei: a commenter says: “1982 Japanese movie “Tenkousei”... |
| 5:03pm | Haruhi is not trending | | | | Don’t know where Omo got it, but Haruhi clearly is not trending. And why would it? The 08 was just another episodic episode where exactly nothing has happened except a modest bit of fanservice. UPDATE 2009/05/25: Took it three days to start trending, but it is now: |
| 3:36am | Moogy on Arashi at 07 | | | | What would a blog be without a little hyperbola? The show that everyone is watching, but nobody is talking about. Actually a number of people were blogging it. Astronerdboy posts like clockwork. Omo dabbed. I have a category, but I’m not big on the concept of episodicals. I’m a bit biased... |
| 9:52pm | Chichouban goes to Fanime | | | | As seen at the blog, the online voice of SF Bay Area and Silicon Valley J-expats goes to Fanime with a press pass: シリコンバレー地方版 では、昨年から公式プ レスとしてこのイベン トに参加している。 |
| 6:51pm | Gia the saleswoman | | | | Tell me she really means it: I’m not actually as bitter about it as I sound, but I do find it mildly irksome that this is such a nicely done figure — the pose, the sculpting, the face, the painting, all pitch-perfect — and yet Kagami gets a super-expensive shaft-job, out of Good Smile... |
| 9:51pm | DiGiKerot on Kadokawa’s sadism | | | | When I complain about Kadokawa being bad to fans of Haruhi, I am not really hurt. Real fans, however, get it rough: Even the home release was a bit of a fanboy headache in Japan - the limited edition release came with a first pressing bonus of a sheet of stickers, the exact sheet (and these were all... |
| 7:00am | Bluemist on Hitohira | | | | When Hitohira came out, I automatically filed it under the “lesbian trash” tab, but the review text at Bluemist does not have a peep about the issue. Not a word. Just the praise for “very lovable and relatable characters”, “well told story” that sum up to “wonderful... | | |
| 5:44am | Omo on Arashi at 07 | | | | Sunday means Arashi, and Omo is on the case. He follows the “membership” schedule, so he’s ahead by one week. The 06 was the first episode that lacked a scene with Detective (05 had his scenes grafted in for no reason except to break up the monotony). Sadly, Omo’s screencap tells... |
| 7:32am | On reflection | | | | After rewatching it for the umpteenth time, I’m seriously thinking about promoting Nodame to the short list of greats. There are some issues though. The slow trajectory that the raising evaluation of Nodame charted reminds me very much of Shingu, the show I did not love at first. Their quality... |
| 11:05pm | Zepy on product synergy, bis | | | | Zepy continues to track the knock-off effects of K-ON. It was previously noted as pure speculation, but now it’s different: Fender Japan reports that they’ve currently sent an order for the production of a large number of their JB62/LH/3TS model, the number of guitars that was ordered for production... |
| 10:33pm | Hinano on Megumi Nakajima | | | | I don’t know if it’s the cosmic justice or anything, but according to Hinano, Megumi Nakajima was used as a character in Vocaloid (and presumably her voice was somehow used as a base for synthesized vocals there). I mentioned it just recently that Sheryl’s singing was more dramatic... | | |
| 7:56pm | John on Wolverine | | | | Anime Nation: Isn’t Piracy Supposed to Hurt Films? Let me get this straight. X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked to the public more than a month prior to theatrical opening, and the flick has been widely panned. Yet it still had a $9.1 million bigger opening weekend than Star Trek, which got universally... | | |
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