| 7:50am | Merry Christmas from Mainichi Anime Yume! |  | | | Just wanted to wish all my visitors a merry Christmas! ^_^ Whether you celebrate the real Xmas, or just a secular version like me, I hope it’s merry and bright! And if you don’t celebrate Xmas, I wish you a happy holidays in whatever you do =) Sorry, I usually offer a little gift such... |
| 9:31pm | Mainichi Anime Yume on Twitter! | | | | About a week ago I decided to sign up for the fairly new but popular short-messaging site, Twitter At first, I wasn’t sure what kind of messages I should put on Twitter. I’m posting my Twitter updates publicly both on the sidebar of my blog and on the homepage of the main AnimeYume.com... |
| 1:03am | Clannad - After Story: the halfway mark review | | | | Since I enjoyed Visual Art’s/Key’s other two series, Air and Kanon, and since I adore KyotoAni’s work, I decided to start watching Clannad when the first season aired last fall. Unlike Air and Kanon, Clannad not only got an additional OVA, but now it’s going through its sequel... | | |
| 11:01pm | Toradora!: the halfway mark review | | | | As of now, I am 12 episodes through Toradora!, which is roughly half of this 25 episode series. When news of this anime based on award-winning light novels first came out, it was one of the most highly anticipated series for the fall 2008 season. So I decided to watch it and see if it was worth all... | | |
| 6:35am | Veteran Pokemon voice actress Maddie Blaustein passes away | | | | Earlier today it was announced that English anime VA Maddie Blaustein, most famous for her role as Meowth in 4Kids’ dub of Pokemon, passed away unexpectedly last Thursday at the age of 48 I could not find out the exact details of Maddie’s death; it was either the result of a recent illness... |
| 4:14am | Game review: Harvest Moon - Tree of Tranquility | | | | Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, the latest release in the Harvest Moon series. This first HM game for the Wii utilizes a larger and more complex world than previous games, with many new additions to the farming, crop harvesting, animal raising, cooking, foraging, and just plain “peaceful living,”... | | |
| 12:46am | Back for the holidays (and with a pretty big update too!) | | | | Hey ^^ It’s been quite a while but I’m finally on vacation now and I’m ready to do some long overdue blog posts! X) Unfortunately my vacation is only 3 weeks long but since I don’t have too much planned, I’ll probably spend a good amount of time catching up on blog posts... |
| 4:47am | Back to uni (and back on hiatus for the fall) | | | | Well, my three months of summer vacation have finally come to an end; tomorrow I’ll be putting MAY back on hiatus for a while, heading back to university, and starting the fall quarter of my (hopefully) last year of schooling… It’s been extremely hot in California this summer as usual,... |
| 1:06am | Is anime better than American TV shows and movies? | | | | I have yet to see an American TV show on the same level as Cowboy Bebop This is the most recent question on ANN’s Answerfans section of Hey Answerman!. It’s a topic I’ve been thinking about ever since I became a more or less “anime-only” fan. Being an American, why do... | | |
| 10:24pm | The Anime Preference Survey 2008 results | | | | The results of the Anime Preference Survey (2008 version) are now posted! I opened this survey a little over 3 weeks ago (I had one in ‘06 and ‘07 too) and it was basically a quick survey recording general preferences, interests, and tastes among anime fans such as how they watch anime,... |
| 10:55pm | Sola review | | | | After hearing that Sola was voted as the “best anime of 2007″ in a Japanese poll of two million votes, I decided to check it out as soon as I could. And after finally getting through the 13 episodes series this summer, I can definitely see why it’s thought so highly of Before watching... | | |
| 10:36pm | Anime import calendar scans | | | | I’ve been collecting original Japanese anime calendars for a few years now, either buying them myself or downloading the scans online. I’m just a big sucker for large, original, and gorgeous images of official anime artwork! XD As of today, I have over 150 calendar scans on my computer... | | |
| 9:03pm | My fall season ‘08 picks | | | | As I count down the last few weeks of my summer break, I’m also counting the anime I’m planning to watch this fall season. I think I might be watching more anime this coming season than I ever did before, mostly because of all the sequels that are coming out. Since I’ll be back at... | | |
| 11:07pm | Nostalgia: what anime did you used to watch on TV when you were little? | | | | It wasn’t until I became an anime fan around 1999/2000 did I find out what anime really is. However, unbeknown to myself at the time, I used to watch some anime and anime-related shows on TV back when I was a kid in elementary school, despite the fact that I didn’t have cable TV back then... | | |
| 10:50pm | Do the Japanese value fandom more than America? | | | | Taken in Osaka; Japan appreciates Stitch more than America XD For some time I’ve been puzzled about the difference between “fandom” in America and “fandom” in Japan, not just anime fandom but fandom in general. It seems to me that the Japanese place more emphasis on having... |
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