| 11:46am | Figure: Akiha (Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo) | | | | >> http://asumanga.sakura.ne.jp/g sc/akiha/skakiha.html Here’s a good preview of the prime piece of Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo merchandise, which has been available for preorder for some time now. Perhaps as a pretty glaring sign of the series’ mild popularity, there hasn’t... |
| 6:04am | Dance in the Vampire Bund - SHAFT | | | | After millennia in hiding, Mina Tepes, the Princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants change. Using the vast wealth of the Tepes line, she has paid off the entire gross national debt of Japan and in so doing, gained the authority to create a “special district” off the... |
| 12:20pm | A Certain Scientific Railgun Chapter 17 Special pt 2 | | | | The flashback fun continues and sadly concludes with the latest Railgun chapter: A Certain Two People’s Training Pt 2. The flashback has been a really nice character study on the loveable and respectable (except for matters in romance) Shirai Kuroko, and a nice bit of background on the friendship... |
| 9:08am | A Weekly Chronicle: Best and Worst of the The Week in Anime 3 | | | | Here I set about to chronicle the highlights and lowlights from another week of anime. Whether it was a nosebleed-inducing ecchi scene, an awe-inspiring action sequence, a piece of powerful drama, or an example of artistic or technical achievements in animation, memorable moments in anime are entombed... |
| 5:51am | CANAAN 5 | | | | 05:「灯ダチ」 Rating: CANAAN continues to impress every week. Even though this episode followed a bit of tangent from the main story and its core players, presenting a character piece on the charming and tragic character of Yun-Yun, it still managed to be as... | | |
| 10:18am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni 05 | | | | 05: 「Fool’s Mate 」 Rating: It’s not often a single episode of an anime series can pull me through such a broad spectrum of reactions as the 5th episode of popular horror/mystery series Umineko no Naku Koro ni. By that I mean, coming off from the gripping developments... | | |
| 6:16am | Megami #112 | | | | Ah, finally my cravings for Megami’s monthly ecchi kick can be satiated! And, even more so than normal, this issue is packed with naughty delights of all kinds (well, just nudity and swimsuits really). The sexy level of this poster lineup is higher than usual, at the cost of the cute/moe factor and... |
| 1:28pm | A Weekly Chronicle: Best and Worst of the The Week in Anime 2 | | | | Here I set about to chronicle the highlights and lowlights from another week of anime. Whether it was a nosebleed-inducing ecchi scene, an awe-inspiring action sequence, a piece of powerful drama, or an example of artistic or technical achievements in animation, memorable moments in anime are entombed... |
| 12:56am | Upcoming CLAMP anime Kobato | | | | I have to admit it’s been some time since I’ve been excited about a CLAMP project. As far as I’m concerned Cardcaptor Sakura is *the* crowning achievement of the magical girl genre and features some of the best character designs in an anime (especially Sakura herself). Since then CLAMP have written... |
| 10:59am | Mahou Sensei Negima! 258 | | | | Ken Akamatsu has seen fit to deliver a new chapter of Negima to the masses after another of his one-week breaks. Us mere fans can only hope that these breaks help him sharpen and energise the epic story of Negima. This chapter was actually a bit disappointing. Lately chapters have been ending... | | |
| 11:22am | Saki 16 | | | | 16: 「Conspiracy - 結託」 Rating: Saki continues its longstanding tradition of sucking one week and being highly entertaining the next. From what I gather,... |
| 6:39am | On Haruhi 2’s Endless Eight | | | | Kyoto Animation have a late history of commercial trolling, a particularly lethal form of trolling in which they perplex, titillate and aggravate their fans. This is particularly true for Haruhi: they riled everyone up with a dupe season 2 announcement, almost screwed us over with Haruhi-chan, and then... |
| 10:26pm | New Despera Scans (Animage August) | | | | New images for Yoshitoshi ABe (SE:Lain, Haibane Renmei) and Ryutaro Nakamura (SE:Lain, Kino’s Journey) new upcoming anime series, Despera. These scans were taken from the August issue of animage by animesuki user, Weiss (thank you!!). I’m still really excited for this seroes, which... |
| 6:00am | A Certain Scientific Railgun Chapter 17.1 (18) | | | | The break between arcs continues with another plot-free addition to the epilogue chapters of the Level Upper story. The previous chapter gave us a rare glimpse into Misaka and Kuroko’s everyday school-life, with some fanservice and yuri assault by Kuroko. This one launches back into Kuroko’s... |
| 9:49am | A Weekly Chronicle: Best and Worst of the The Week in Anime | | | | Here I set about to chronicle the highlights and lowlights from another week of anime. Whether it was a nosebleed-inducing ecchi scene, an awe-inspiring action sequence, a piece of powerful drama, or an example of artistic or technical achievements in animation, memorable moments in anime are entombed... |
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