| 10:18pm | Graduated college, now seeking Japan-related jobs… |  | | | Well, I finally hit the big crossroad in life that most of us get to eventually; graduating college and figuring out what to do afterward I just had my university graduation ceremony yesterday, and within the next week all my grades should be processed and I will officially graduate with a B.A. in... |
| 11:33pm | A timeline of Haruhi season 2 trolls |  | | | Since everybody’s already posted their thoughts about the new Haruhi episode, I thought I’d do something a little different Anybody who’s been following the Haruhi Suzumiya fandom since the first anime season aired in April 2006 knows that it’s unlike any other anime fandom,... | | |
| 4:40am | Clannad - After Story: final thoughts |  | | | The Clannad saga finally comes to an end, at least for now. The first Clannad series was touching, but in my opinion, After Story is where the series really shines I’ve already written my general thoughts about Clannad in my review of the first half of After Story here so I’m just gonna... | | |
| 7:07am | Game review: Pokemon Platinum |  | | | Pokemon Platinum, the latest release in the line of Pokemon games and the third standard Pokemon RPG game on the Nintendo DS, following the incredibly successful Diamond and Pearl games. As with past generations of Pokemon games, once the new generation duo games are released, a third expansion version... | | |
| 8:29pm | Toradora!: final thoughts |  | | | I was hesitant, but I finally watched the last episode of Toradora! a couple of nights ago. And thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised that it pulled off a fairly good ending Since I’ve already written my thoughts about the first half of Toradora! here, I’m just going to focus on the latter... | | |
| 3:10am | New anime sections |  | | | I didn’t think I could do it, but today I managed to post a whooping 5 new anime sections on the main AnimeYume.com site Since I only have a few days left of spring break, that will probably be the last update on the main site until my summer vacation. But I’m still planning to write at... |
| 1:51am | Michiko to Hatchin review |  | | | Michiko to Hatchin was one of the more unique anime to come out in the past few years. It doesn’t fall into the genre of wish-fulfilling fantasy or harem comedy that are so common nowadays in anime. Although it could be classified as simply an action/adventure series, it has the same kind of... | | |
| 11:32pm | What exactly do Japanese and American otaku like about anime? |  | | | This is a recent Ask John post that caught my attention. John points out that there is indeed a difference between what Japanese fans like about anime and what American fans like about it John’s basic argument for Japanese fans is that they “perceive the immersive content of anime as an... | | |
| 10:21pm | Briefly off hiatus for spring break |  | | | Hi, it’s been a while ^^ Well, the winter school term is finally behind me so today I started work on some overdue updates Unfortunately my spring break is only until March 30th so I won’t have time for too much site work. But I do have some things planned; a few anime reviews of some... | | |
| 4:34am | Back on hiatus for the winter |  | | | Well, my three week winter break has come to an end and tomorrow I will once again resume the life of a full-time university student. I’m really glad that I managed to write a lot of good blog posts these past few weeks, despite my vacation being so short. However, once again I know that my schoolwork... |
| 5:58am | My 5 favorite anime of 2008 |  | | | Although I only had time to watch a small handful of all the anime that aired in 2008, I enjoyed pretty much all the ones I watched. But of course, while some simply came and went, there were a few that really stood out and reminded me why I like anime so much. So I decided to kick off the new year... | | |
| 6:47am | Happy New Year! |  | | | 明けましておめでとう ございます or Happy New Year! ^_^ 2008 has been a pretty good year for me; I discovered many great new anime, managed to write some good blog posts, and also spent my second four-day stay at AX ‘08. On a more personal level, I’ve taken a lot of fantastic... |
| 4:51am | Haruhi and Shana 2009 calendar scans |  | | | Every year for the past four years I’ve posted scans of newly released anime calendars on my site around this time. So this year I have scans for the Haruhi and Shana 2009 calendars Shakugan no Shana 2009 CalendarShakugan no Shana 2009 Calendar coverShakugan no Shana 2009 Calendar page 1Shakugan... | | |
| 7:22am | Kannagi review |  | | | Kannagi wasn’t on my original list of “to watch” anime for the fall ‘08 season, but once I saw how popular it became, I just had to see what all the fuss was about! XD So I spent the past few days of my winter break marathon-ing through the 13 episodes. And now that I’ve... | | |
| 3:04am | Game review: Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten |  | | | Although this is technically not an actual game, for anyone who’s trying to learn Japanese and who doesn’t have $200+ to spend on a real electronic Japanese dictionary, this “Japanese dictionary on a DS cartridge” is a great substitute. Sure, it doesn’t have quite as much... |
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