| 10:22pm | #1 Mecha Madness: The DOMINATOR | | | | The first mecha Riuva is featuring in the Mecha Madness column is the Dominator!!!! What's that, you ask? It ’s only the coolest organic robot to have graced the screens of otakus everywhere. For the benefit of the unenlightened, I will briefly explain why I chose it.Dominator is from |
| 9:10pm | Figure News: PaniPoni Dash’s Tachibana Rei 1/6 PVC for June | | | | Rei is my least favourite girl in PPDOnly the second ever Pani Poni PVC figurine after the Alter Becky and Mesousa, Tachibana Rei will be released as a 1/6 scale PVC figurine by Enter Brain in June. The only explicitly sexy girl in the series, she’s barely dressed and holding a can drink. She | | |
| 8:16pm | Music Review: Break the Cocoon by Yoriko | | | | I mentioned this in a previous post weeks ago, but Break the Cocoon by Yoriko is THE female J-rock song “of the year”. Or even of the decade/century/millenia. This is the first time I’ve ever been moved enough to search out the lyrics, translate it myself and attempt a review of a |
| 9:50pm | The inaugural Mecha Madness Post: Introduction | | | | Mecha is the general term for robots, especially in an anime context. It takes all shapes and forms, including the grotesque semi-organic beasts from Evangelion, the retro Super Robots like Mazinger, innocent Doraemon and war machines like the Arbalest and Macross Valkyries. Mecha hold a special |
| 8:11pm | Weekly Forage | | | | As usual, I find myself heading to the anime hub after my Japanese class. It’s now a reflex action.What!Comics has moved out of KKnM, into its own store area just across the aisle. It has also expanded its PVC figurine repetoire extensively, focusing on 1/8, 1/6 PVC and cold cast figurines. | | |
| 1:35am | Anime Retro Rook: Giant Robo OVA | | | | I personally do not know a single person who has watched the Giant Robo OVA. The retro character designs and animation and that fact that the Original Giant Robo was a live-action show in the 1960s is quite a put-off to most people. But if you can get over these minor issues, what awaits is an epic |
| 2:34am | Girl Power: Tsukamoto Yakumo (School Rumble) | | | | The second girl in the GP series also comes from School Rumble and is none other than the embodiment of the perfect Oriental female - Tskumoto Yakumo.It was with such a concept that she was created and she more than fulfills it. But first, let me explain the widely-accepted definition of a | | |
| 11:16pm | Figurine News: Damn the Gainax Eva Milking Machine | | | | Everyone knows that Evangelion was a great show. Everyone knows that Rei and Asuka occupy a special place in all anime fans’ hearts. Everyone knows that fanboys spend money uncontrollably. So what does this mean? It means monthly Eva figurines and action figures, all designed to tempt the |
| 10:20pm | Figurine News: Suzuka PVC Figurine Set for June Release | | | | I know this is a bit late (a week), but for those who have not heard, Suzuka, the female lead of the eponymous series, is being released as a PVC figurine by Popy. Suzuka will be the first of a new line of figurines, called the B-club Pure, by Popy. The figurine recreates in 3D, the pose Suzuka | | |
| 7:16pm | Figurine News: New Full Metal Panic Trading Set on Sale Now | | | | I’m not a fan of trading figures and gashapon but this one is interesting enough. Featuring the fine ladies of Full Metal Panic, all armed with cool weapons (unrelated to the story), there are also variants (repaints) and 2 secret figurines (not shown) to collect.We have Ren with a revolver,... |
| 9:10pm | Girl Power: Sawachika Eri (School Rumble) | | | | First, I have to say Wordpress (mine at least) has problems. My text formatting goes awry all the time, with extra line breaks, paragraphs, italics and bold tags all over the place, resulting in a messed up post. Even typing out the whole post in html doesn't solve it. The posting screen | | |
| 8:08pm | Figurine News: Solty Revant 1/8 PVC Out in April | | | | Solty from the GONZO/AIC anime, Solty Rei, will be released as a 1/8 scale PVC figurine in April by GDH. To be honest, I have not heard of GDH (Gonzo Digimation Holdings) as a maker of figurines before. Judging from the pictures of the sample, I am not expecting much.I will have to watch the 10+ |
| 7:30pm | Anime Rave: Gakuen Alice | | | | I was supposed to go to the manga store today, since they were offering me a read-all-you-can-for-free deal just for today. I even took a day off from work just for it. But as it turned out, I happened to watch episode three of Gakuen Alice the night before on Animax and straightaway, I was hooked | | |
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