| 2:51pm | Defenders of justice!! Favourite swordwomen in anime | | | | Instead of a silver spoon in the mouth, I was born with a wooden sword in my baby-grip. Having seen too many swashbuckling pugilists battling for righteousness and damsels, I was enamoured with the idea of being a champion for justice. Zyl would know. I insisted on being a Lawful Good paladin during... | | |
| 11:38am | Bamboo Blade 25 | | | | Things have been looking up since our bedroom scene! *fist clench* / :3 The kendo-kers face off in the individual matches of the Rising Dragon tournament, the very one where Ishida won his great victory all those years ago in the 25th tournament. In the first round, Satori gets crushed by Tama-chan... | | |
| 8:30pm | Blade of Immortal Anime! | | | | Japanese blog Earl.box has images of the May issue of Afternoon announcing Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of Immortal (Mugen no Junin) anime. Set to premiere this summer, the show will be directed by Koichi Mashimo of Noir and animation house Bee Train will be taking care of the production. Manji will... | | |
| 3:17am | (Supposed to be) Short post: At the end of the anime world | | | | It’s red alert at M3 camp following the sudden revelation that all the shows I’ve been watching are ending. With the combination of some ace 1-cour shows this season with some excellent carryover shows from the fall season, the next week or two is looking to be one giant send-off to many... | | |
| 6:06am | Bamboo Blade 22 |  | | | Summary: It’s time for the 55th Kanto Tournament, and a lot more schools are participating. The Muroe team is pumped up because Kirino has made them some super cute sentai dolls and everyone figures that Tamaki is a guaranteed win. Toraji’s team hopes to advance to the final and face... | | |
| 1:44pm | Catching up with figure announcements, other news (ero alert) | | | | We finally get caught up with the last few weeks of figure coverage in tonight's update, which includes a ton of odds and ends pulled from all around the bishoujo figure universe, many of them meant for mature audiences only. We take a closer look at Questioners' Shiratori Amane, pass by Griffon's Queen's... | | |
| 12:23pm | Bamboo Blade - 23 | | | | After their defeat at the tournament, it wasn’t surprising that everyone was feeling down, especially Miyako. After all her training she still couldn’t beat Carrie or even some of the other opponents she faced throughout the tournament. I still doubt that we’ll see Miyako win a match... | | |
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