| 2:53pm | January Anime Daily Calendar -- with staff/cast highlights | | | | Time to plan the week's viewing for the new season.The season has already started, with pre-release streamed episodes (Kurokami, Akikan, Maria Holic), and some OVAs will be released at Comiket today or tomorrow. And the season gets going in earnest this coming Saturday with Marimite 4, Akikan, and White... |
| 3:08am | 39 New Winter Anime -- full previews: staff, cast, pic, story, trailer | | | | The winter season is usually the least exciting of the year, but there are always surprises. Last year, there were true tears and Spice & Wolf. Here are some of this year's possibilities, followed by a complete preview of almost all the new shows:-- Genji Monogatari Sennenki is a new anime based... | | |
| 2:23am | Hirano Aya -- Riot Tour DVD Release Date | | | | We're going to have to wait over two months for the DVD of Hirano Aya's "Riot Tour." Release date is 25 February 2009.Lawson's, the Japanese convenience store chain, has the DVD available for pre-order. Their version will include a signed photograph.Cost of the DVD? ¥5000 (about US$50). This appears... |
| 1:01am | Hayami Saori and Her Mother | | | | Hayami Saori's mother was mentioned on one of her radio shows in October, and from clues on the show, people on 2channel have found her mother's blog and homepage.There are pics there of her mother, Matsuo Midori, performing a few songs in a Tokyo jazz club (Ginza Cygnus). Her blog announced a later... | | |
| 7:21pm | Seiyuu Awards 2008 -- Nominees List and How to Vote | | | | Thank you for your additions to the nominations list for the 2008 Seiyuu Awards. Here is the full list, along with instructions on how to vote.There are two kinds of awards that you can vote for: the main awards, several categories of them, for which Japanese voters will be voting, too; and the Overseas... | | |
| 7:50pm | Aya and Nana in White Album -- And So It Begins | | | | Here we go. Nana Mizuki and Hirano Aya are getting ready to start recording as the stars of the anime White Album, which will air in January. They were together at the Aquaplus Festa 2008 last Saturday, and have both posted shots in their blogs of the two of them together. The larger photo is from Aya's... | | |
| 6:34pm | Sasaki Nozomi -- One of the Moe-est Voices in Anime | | | | I am addicted to the lovely liquid lisp of seiyuu Sasaki Nozomi (Nanami in Bokura ga Ita). I think she and Hanazawa Kana have the most moé voices in anime.The problem is, she doesn't get many roles. I heard her most recently last Saturday, when she played Kaede in episode 9 of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae.... | | |
| 10:40pm | Seiyuu Awards 2008 -- Nominations, Please | | | | Being the innocent soul I am, I still take the annual Seiyuu Awards seriously. Most of the awards given over the past two years have been at least reasonable, in my opinion.Public voting for the 2008 Seiyuu Awards is ongoing until New Year's Day. Now that we have seen some episodes of the fall season,... | | |
| 4:05am | Sanpei Yuuko and Itou Kanae -- "Sorry, Ami" | | | | Sanpei Yuuko was a guest on Itou Kanae's radio show on Tuesday. Sanpei-san is Nakiami in Bounen no Xamdo. Itou-san is Amu in Shugo Chara. Sanpei-san posted this nice pic on her blog:Yuuyu (Yuuko's nickname) said that Kanae-chan (right) was really cute, but made it clear that she refrained from sexually... | | |
| 3:08am | Hirano Aya -- Yokohama Tears | | | | Hirano Aya brought her four-stop Riot Tour to a close the weekend before last, with performances in Osaka and her hometown of Yokohama.The Yokohama concert was the highlight of the tour. Aya was at her best, and brought the house down with a tearful salute to her parents and her fans. This performance... | | |
| 5:56pm | Hirano Aya -- Nagoya Riot | | | | In her blog, Hirano Aya 平野綾 has been saying how happy she was with the enthusiasm in the crowd during her Nagoya show last Thursday.But on 2channel people are complaining about being pushed out of the way as guys rushed the stage, and speak of a fight during the show and a guy bleeding.Maybe this... |
| 6:22pm | Kurozuka Characters/Seiyuus -- pics and info | | | | In addition to its mind-bending plot, action, and imagery, Kurozuka has a cast full of top seiyuus. Here is a character/seiyuu page showing little pics of each character, with a pic of their seiyuu and info about his or her past roles.Paku Romi -- Loran Cehack (Turn A Gundam), Edward Elric (FMA), Osaki... | | |
| 4:00am | ef melodies -- the most beautiful anime ever? | | | | Well, that's a bit over the top. But it is very beautiful and extremely visually inventive. Many images in episode four were just entrancing.The plot, characters, music, and visual and dramatic rhythms are pretty special, too. In my opinion, director OONUMA Shin continues to outdo his master, SHINBO... | | |
| 9:40pm | Hirano Aya Riot Tour -- more photos | | | | Here are some photos from Hirano Aya's blog today. Aya calls the first Riot Tour concert a "big success," and thanks everyone for coming out and supporting her for this landmark event in her life.And she expresses her pride at having done it: having put on a successful two-hour one-woman show. But she... |
| 10:03pm | Hirano Aya Riot Tour in Shibuya | | | | "This is the 'Riot Tour,' and I'm going to get riotous. Let's start a riot!" said Hirano Aya at the beginning of the first in her four-concert tour of Japan.It seems they did. The fans in the pit were so riotous that at one point someone was pushed to the ground and Aya had to ask if they were okay.As... | | |
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