| 3:04pm | SasameKisscomi: Anime iPhone Kissing Game | | | | You heard me right, there is an anime kissing game that just came out in the iPhone app store (around Wednesday). From the upcoming Yuri series, Sasameki Koto Yuri, you get to practice your kissing skills and get trained on kissing by Ushio Kazama from the series. Mainly you get scored on how you kiss... |
| 8:55pm | Inuyasha: The Final Act | | | | Great news for Inuyasha fans! Soon there finally will be closure to the anime series! The 26 episode sequel series called Inuyasha: The Final Act will be airing in Japan starting October 3rd. The story continues where the last series ended and will complete the story remaining in 21 manga volumes.... |
| 3:22pm | Reminder About Nendoroid Kureha Contest | | | | It seems I have to remind people about this. I am giving away a FREE Nendoroid Kureha figure with this current contest. The purpose of the contest is to promote my new member's blog and to help you all link up your anime sites better.and to give a lucky reader this adorable figure. Some of you have... |
| 12:00am | Anime Pic of the Day 9/10/09: Starbucks Logo | | | | Had to post this one up today too. Thanks to peterpayne.net (head of the famed JList store, see I complement even my 'competition') for showing us this amazing anime logo of Starbucks. Now if they had that as the logo, you'd know they'd fix their little slump they are in (and of course cheaper coffee).... |
| 8:54pm | Naruto Shippuden & Disney XD | | | | Big news today thanks to the Hollywood Reporter is that Disney completed a deal with Viz to air Naruto Shippuden in the US on Disney's XD block of programming. Cartoon Network probably did it's greatest blunder since it's canceling of Toonami and their few years of practically ignoring what got them... | | |
| 7:04pm | New Anime Site Feature: Thumbnail Posts | | | | Many sites have this, the ability to post their feeds with thumbnail photos, but my God is it a pain to find out HOW to do it, even for a programmer, like me. Even more of a trouble is that my blogs are all run from my own server/sites; so, despite this being a "blogger" blog, I get no customization... |
| 8:46pm | Anime Pic of the Day: Marvel/Yamashita Girls | | | | This poster was at the Kotobukiya booth over at SDCC 09 about a month and a half back. just wanted to pay homage to Shunya Yamashita and his amazing work so far with Marvel. The Rogue figure recently arrived and it looks great. (kept one for myself ^^) Of course the news that happened earlier this... |
| 2:21pm | Chaos;HEAd Seira Orgel 1/7 Scale Figure | | | | Being a long time anime fan, figure collector and anime store owner has it's perks but there are times when being a fan of what you sell is a major weakness. This figure, Orchid Seed's recently announced Chaos;HEAd Seira Orgel 1/7 Scale Figure brings out that weakness and I'm bound to keep one for myself.... | | |
| 8:47pm | Eureka Seven Movie | | | | To my wonderful surprise, the Eureka Seven Movie is coming to the US soon and is also going to be in some theaters ^_^. Make that 438 theaters. Yep, the English dub of "Eureka Seven - Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers" will be out in select US theaters on September 24th, just before our arrival... | | |
| 5:02pm | Nendoroid: K-ON! - Yui Hirasawa | | | | Of course I make sure to talk about Mio but let not forget Nendoroid Yui. Recently she became available for us USA anime retailers to pre-ordersadly though, looks as if her official US release won't be until Feb 2010 o_0. Darn it! Like anything K-On, we here in the West are getting the scrapsor of... |
| 10:47pm | K-ON! - Mio Akiyama 1/8 Scale Figure | | | | Alter's Mio Akiyama figure has already been on the top of the pre-order list for many people for the past week and a half or so. I of course had to make her available for pre-order here in my shop. Alter's craftsmanship is stellar as they tend to be and like other Alter figures, expect the prototype... |
| 2:00pm | Yu-Gi-Oh! Sets Guinness World Record | | | | 22.6 Billion Cards! That's how many Yu-Gi-Oh Cards have sold since the series' debut in 1999.Once again anime is trumping areas of hobby, comics and games. To be honest, even though I collected (and used to play) Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, I thought that Magic: The Gathering was the lead in sales; especially... |
| 3:00pm | New Contest: Win Nendoroid Kureha | | | | Finally, after a long, long time I have created a new contest for you, my loyal readers. The prize, the cute and adorable Nendoroid Kureha. Yes, I'm once again taking the time to talk about the Member's Blog section; but hey, it's a cool feature to be able to write your own blog posts and promote your... |
| 2:01pm | Anime Store Gift Certificates | | | | Thanks to Paypal, I was able to add a much needed feature to my anime store. That feature of course is is to give anyone shopping at my store the ability to buy and redeem gift certificates. They start as low as $5 and go up to $1000. I made it simple and had it as one button that opens up a secure... |
| 10:01pm | Figma Mirai | | | | Big congrats to Danny Choo (@dannychoo). As of today he graced fans on his two sites, dannychoo.com and figure.fm with pictures of the prototype to the Mirai Figma figure. It must feel great to see a character that you create as a mascot to your site or just in general become an official anime figure.... |
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