| 12:02am | Family Compo vols 1-14 - Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Hojo Tsukasa is the mastermind behind the famous Cat’s Eye, City Hunter, Angel Heart, and Rash series of manga. Angel Heart is a spin off from the City Hunter manga, and set in an alternate universe. Hojo-sensei has a personal website, though it’s in Japanese About the... | | |
| 12:55pm | Escapism: You’re doing it wrong | | | | Witnessing the horror that is the turmoil in the anime industry today, I came to a realisation about myself: my reason for watching anime seems to have changed. Having very little to concern myself with in my personal life at the moment (I mean that I have no inner turmoils, not that I’m a blank... | | |
| 6:39pm | Anime Obscura - Cat’s Eye | | | | This time around for Anime Obscura is Cat’s Eye. Although this series was made in 1983 and has been broadcast in countries around the world such as France, Italy and Canada, it’s first United States broadcast and video release has only just been announced this year (by ImaginAsian). | | |
| 8:32am | Weekly Oricon Top 30 - 6/04/07 | | | | True to form, this week’s Oricon brings another round of mediocre-to-good music, with a minimum of lesser-quality tracks, at least for the most part. It’s not the best list, but it’s passable, and some of the songs are some of the better ones I’ve heard in awhile!While the | | |
| 8:25am | Feast your eyes on Naruto: Rise of a Ninja teaser trailer for the Xbox 360 | | | | Yes, it is finally time to see what the hell Ubisoft has been doing over in Montreal regarding our favorite ninja license. From the speck of game play that we do see, it looks like it just might be darn good. The game play itself looks as if it is a RPG-action hybrid, or maybe a sandbox game like | | |
| 8:02am | Anime Review - Claymore (クレイモア) First Impressions |  | | | OP: "Raison D’être" by NightmareED: "Danzai no Hana~Guilty Sky" by Riyu KosakaStory Overview (from Wikipedia because I have no free time for my own written summary):The setting of Claymore's story is a fictional world with medieval technology. Politically, it appears to consist of a | | |
| 6:45am | Space Pirate? NO WAI!! |  | | | Rogue Galaxy isgenius! This game is amazing, I just couldn't believe an RPG could be combined with real time combat so well. It feels like a hack and slash, but if you try to slam on that 'X' button then you'll be dead before you reach the first boss. No joke, it happened to me on the game's | | |
| 6:42am | Anime Review - Lucky☆Star/らき☆すた Episode 04 |  | | | Episode 4 - "Motivation Issues" やる気の問題 Yes, she's going to make you cosplay. ~~Konata's tedency to procrastinate blossoms in this episode. Real suprise, huh? Actually it's just like me, actually. Wanna do homework oh wait! I must go to the computer | | |
| 2:04am | ZB’s A-Z of J-Music: “IJK” | | | | Another Monday, another round of music-y goodness. This week I’ll be covering three letters all at once. Is it just me (it’s probably just me) but is it Impossible to find Japanese “I” bands? Same goes for, ironically, “J.” So I’m hoping you faithful readers... | | |
| 10:19pm | school days: when an eroge’s bad end beats the good end |  | | | While I personally think that it’s a little bit too early to start with the summer season preview, I’m curious about School Days. I’m not really interested in watching it, but rather just how they handle it. First of all, I don’t want to watch it because the voice acting | | |
| 11:05am | Translating titles into Japanese isn’t so easy | | | | An article at the Daily Yomiuri looks at what it’s like to translate titles from foreign languages into Japanese. Understandably, more has to go into it than just writing up the title in katakana and slapping it on a movie poster –things like peoples’ reactions and the meaning | | |
| 10:21am | ACEN 2007: God Len’s journey, day 2 and wrap-up! | | | | Let me tell you that cons leech away your energy until you have nothing left. I know I should of wrote this article yesterday once I returned home from Anime Central, however someone planted a sleeping-gas grenade in my room, so here I am now. My second and final day at ACEN was chalk full of busy, | | |
| 8:36am | Mirei San | | | | View the rest of this post ( 50 images )Kotobukiya delivered my Mirei on the day of release but I returned it due to shoddy paint work around her lower pair of eyes. They were pretty good about replacing her for me but I had to wait a while as it was Golden Week at the time.Went absolutely crazy | | |
| 2:08am | Initial D? In MY Lucky Star?! | | | | Sweet mercy, the animation, the entertainment, the fanservice, and the lulz, just shot straight through the roof this week. We are already seeing the directorial switch coming into fruition here. It's been awhile since I've been so excited for a series. 18 more episodes to go. Buckle up~... | | |
| 3:15pm | Golly gee wiz! This is darn weird! | | | | It looks more to me like these two monster-movie staples are holding hands than preparing to wage mortal combatbut that’s not nearly bizarre as the idea of Nickolodeon and Paramount working with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker to make a G- or PG-rated movie.Yes, this is | | |
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