| 9:48am | Cool Items: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 12:31pm | Ringo Noyamano | | | | So what's the verdict then? I opened the box carefully upon arrival in anticipation of me having to box her back up and let her go on Yahoo Auction. The pre-release pictures taken by Akiba Hobby *and* Moeyo made this figure look really bad! Not only that, its released by Yamato and they haven't really... | | |
| 7:17am | Sekirei 04:Of lolis and bishounens | | | | Keeping your pokemon Sekirei happy =) Kuu is just plain adorable I guess Kuu makes up for her lack of any assets with her umm ability to look good in animal costumes? “Hey what about that blow job that I thought was coming after the sweet talk?!” -Inside Minato’s head Seriously its... | | |
| 3:17pm | Rie Tanaka Brings Her Famous Voice to New York Anime Festival | | | | PROLIFIC JAPANESE VOICE ACTRESS TO ATTEND THE NEW YORK ANIME FESTIVAL AS A GUEST OF HONOR The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced famous Japanese voice actress Rie Tanaka will appear at its 2008 event as a Guest of Honor. Ms. Tanaka is most known around the globe for voicing Lacus Clyne in... | | |
| 3:57pm | Japan Expo: an otaku’s paradise, just across the channel. | | | | Last weekend I was invited to attend the ninth Japan Expo at the Parc d’Expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte. When I first read the names of the mangaka and anime artists who were appearing at Japan Expo this year, I had to pinch myself. Because the team who organize Japan Expo had accumulated a... | | |
| 3:30pm | Cosfest 2008: Air Gear | | | | First set of photos from Cosfest 2008. Have decided to categorize the photos by anime where the characters are from. And the first set is from Air Gear! More pictures after the jump! Illegal Gathering I tell ya! A simple photo of the cosplayers from the Air Gear team! Mikan is missing from the picture... | | |
| 3:43pm | Cosfest VII (2008) - Day 2 Pyoro’s Impressions | | | | Aye aye tedfox-sama! Ahh it’s that time of the year again. Cosfest VII got off to a great start yesterday and tedfox-sama and I were eagerly anticipating the continuation of that quality but alas, the quality of the cosplayers were relatively less than stellar. HOWEVER, they were still awesome, especially... | | |
| 6:46pm | Cosfest Day 1: Standards are Slipping, Singapore! | | | | Today is the annual Cosfest, now in its seventh incarnation and supposedly getting better. Since Ascaloth, Mr "Pre-arranged Fight" of Riuva, was there was well covering the event in great detail, he will be responsible for the minute details and photographs. It does not help that my camera... | | |
| 3:16pm | Like Cake, You Cant Resist Hidamari Sketch |  | | | I tried to resist watching the first episode of Hidamari Sketch x365 because I wanted to wait for a high quality version of the episode as opposed to [h00rjforce]’s but I could not stop myself. I went to check the quality and saw about 2 seconds of glory before I close the window and had a 5 minute... | | |
| 11:05am | Had to Comment on the Digital File Argument | | | | Trivia: Greg Ayres voiced Chrono in the ADV dub. I suppose I should have anticipated that, the day before a large convention, a firestorm that would spawn from Scott’s post on the divisive issue of fansubs with relation to Greg Ayres’ Anime Next panel but I was still a bit surprised by the... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 5:29pm | Air gear: Kazu’s training arc and others | | | | Well, this posts’s really short.Kazu, because Oh great want to make the fangirls happy. KAzu’s depressed that the regalia got stolen. He gets invited into a nightclub of sorts where there’s cage fighting. A person with a mask, the club’s mascot of sorts called loki, challenges... | | |
| 1:12am | Air Gear predicts next US president | | | | I’m not a manga reader, I have to admit that. Even then, I do read on certain occasion when the mood strikes. And of all the titles, Air Gear definitely won’t get my interest. But this time, it did. And it’s all because of this.Well don’t this guy looks awfully familiar? Let me... | | |
| 1:35pm | oh MAN, how did i miss this? |  | | | I was checking Wikipedia just now to confirm that the Del Rey release of the Air Gear manga wasn’t censored. It didn’t say that it was, and since the Internet loves to make big stinks about stuff like that, this is confirmation enough for me that it isn’t. Anyway, what randomly caught... | | |
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