| 12:00am | Summer 2007 Anime Calendar -- what's on when, w/staff & cast highlights | | | | Koshimizu Ami 小清水亜美 is just 21, but already she is one of the top voice actresses in Japan. The youthful vibrancy and great professionalism of her voice have won her numerous good roles, and she was recognized as the top supporting actress of 2006 in the first annual Seiyuu Awards."Amisuke,"... | | |
| 12:00am | Suzumiya Haruhi Live Event a Big Hit | | | | Some people described it as the best anime live event they had ever attended. It was the long-awaited Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou 涼宮ハルヒの激奏 show last Sunday, featuring the entire main cast of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, and especially the | | |
| 12:00am | Ten Favorite Voice Actresses | | | | On the brink of a new season, here is a look at the new shows, concentrating on staff and cast. The shows I'm looking forward to? As usual, it's hard to tell which shows will work for me, but I'm looking at Code E, Doujin Work, Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho, Moetan, Mononoke, Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei,... | | |
| 12:00am | The Excellence of Suzumiya Haruhi | | | | a deep, smart, hilarious, beautiful show.SHnY is excellent in more ways than any anime I know: humor, animation, story, characters, relationships, voice acting, songs, humane philosophy, romance, and even tasteful but stimulating fanservice.From the first couple of minutes of the first episode, the | | |
| 12:00am | The Fragile Strength of Hirano Aya 平野綾 | | | | In the spring of 2006, 18-year-old voice actress Hirano Aya's exciting performance as Suzumiya Haruhi made her a superstar. She ended the year having made more public appearances than any other voice actress. It was a year of sunshine and roses. But in October, a sudden cloud blocked the sun: she | | |
| 12:00am | Touka Gettan -- English wiki | | | | Thinking we can probably take what we learn from the Japanese wiki and improve on it, I have made an English wiki for Touka Gettan.This alpha version includes the following pages translated from the Japanese wiki:CharactersEpisode 3Episode 4The characters page is particularly fruitful, with lots of | | |
| 12:00am | Touka Gettan -- episode 6 of 26 | | | | For the English wiki, I've been translating and expanding the Japanese wiki's pages for each episode. I thought I'd spend a few more minutes and put episode 6 into a blog post. There's another summary in the Subculture Anime Blog.Ep6 is less mysterious and more comical than previous episodes. | | |
| 12:00am | Touka Gettan -- seiyuu pics and info | | | | On the brink of a new season, here is a look at the new shows, concentrating on staff and cast. The shows I'm looking forward to? As usual, it's hard to tell which shows will work for me, but I'm looking at Code E, Doujin Work, Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho, Moetan, Mononoke, Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei,... | | |
| 12:00am | Touka Gettan 03 -- Japanese wiki | | | | There is a Japanese wiki for Touka Gettan which collates information about the show, including a run-through of each episode, as well as details about the characters, links to other sites, etc. I thought I'd translate the wiki for episode 3. It may not be as useful as I thought -- and it is | | |
| 12:00am | Winter 2007 Anime Calendar w/staff & cast highlights | | | | Here is the graphic-style weekly calendar of shows that are on this January, with highlights of staff and cast, and this season with the total number of episodes for each series. Here is my preview of the new shows. Dates and times are for the first TV or Web broadcast of a show, or the release date... |
| 12:00am | Yuri Seiyuus? -- Koshimizu Ami "weds" Sanpei Yuuko | | | | Many seiyuusare said to be gay. There are Japanese websites like "Yuri Seiyuu News" and "Lesbian Seiyuu Research" devoted to tracking quotes that supposedly show one or another seiyuu is "rezu".Is it true? I don't know. Nothing on those websites proves it. But the seiyuusthemselves are the | | |
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