| 2:52pm | Melonbooks Point Card Changes | | | | Very minor news since I have a bit of spare time: As of this Monday, doujin chain Melonbooks has changed from their old and busted paper + stamp point card to a much fancier solid plastic card with barcode. Instead of 500y/point, 20 points for 500y off, it’s 500y/25 points, 1000 points for 1000y... |
| 12:00am | Tonari no 801-Chan Spinoff Announced | | | | Tamagomagogohan (say that five times fast) is reporting that the newest issue of Best Friend has a notice that a spinoff to Tonari no 801-chan about her younger sister, Tonari no Hana-chan (Kari) (”(Kari)” is inside the quotation marks for the title, so I assume that it means “Alias/Assumed... |
| 11:41pm | Stupid Anime Titles: Part II | | | | Star of David, aka Violence Gekiga David no Hoshi, Beautiful Girl Hunter Tetsuya was the product of his mother being raped by a burglar, and after years of abuse form his mother’s husband he becomes a serial killer/rapist. Did they think it wasn’t good enough without offending a random group... |
| 3:06pm | Fate/Zero Tribute Arts Gallery Event Opens in Toranoana Honten | | | | More info for people who can make it to Akiba this week: Toranoana Honten is running a Fate/Zero Tribute Arts gallery exhibit until the 8th up on the event space floor (6f), and they’re even selling some event-limited swag there, like the limited edition Rough Material book that was only sold... |
| 5:22pm | Weekly Reminder | | | | Only 20 days left to order the Abunai Sisters dvd. Order now, you could be the 138th person to spend what is quickly looking like 34,000 yen on a dvd and an invitation to an ABUNAI private party! This is the best of Sexy comedy. Let’s gather the power of Kano-sister’s fans, and realize our... |
| 7:57am | “Cool Anime Selection” at Theatre Shinjuku from 2/14-2/27: Akira, Roujin Z, Tokikake, 5cm, Beautiful D | | | | This is a bit old, but for any of you movie nerds out there living in Japan, Theatre Shinjuku is doing a bunch of anime film screenings from the 14th until the 27th. Of course, I go back to Tokyo on the 28th, but that’s school for ya. I have to admit, despite the name being pretty lame, these... | | |
| 2:55am | Review and Complaints: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s DVD box | | | | Instant review: Nanoha A’s is one of the best otaku-exploitation shows ever, featuring explosions, Starlight Breaker, German-shouting magical girl weapons, and charming and pleasant plot holes you could drive a truck through. I’m not sure how this happened considering how bad the other two... | | |
| 9:52am | Manga Review: Bakuman。 vol 1 | | | | I realize I’m quite a bit behind the times on this review, but I have this horrible habit of paying money for my manga, especially anything that I review :( Anyway, Bakuman。. Yes, the title includes the crazy Japan period 「。」 but I’m not going to use it anymore because I don’t... | | |
| 2:24pm | Comiket Special 5 info up | | | | Mito city, 3/21/2010. Let’s reviving city with comic and good spirit! In other news, Kodansha needs to stop pricing light novels in the BOX line at 1600 yen if they expect their customers to buy their books and still manage to eat on a daily basis. also, while this post is still (relatively) fresh,... |
| 7:45am | Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai ep. 1 | | | | …is a really long name, so let’s just call it Munto TV. This is the first time in a while KyoAni has produced more than one thing at once, and although there’s a severe quality drop from everything else it might be alright if the plot isn’t too stupid. A poorly defined moe schoolgirl... | | |
| 4:46am | Stupid observations about White Album | | | | I remembered White Album from some old Futaba flashes, so I thought I’d watch it. It’s not really enough to hold my interest (especially since the show seems to be somewhat targeted towards girls, even though none of them would ever watch it), but the direction is a bit strange, what with... | | |
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