| 2:25am | The Anime Sim Baseball Tournament on Nico | | | | Have you ever wanted to see characters from your favorite anime series face off on a ballfield diamond? Well, some enterprising Japanese person set up a 16-team tournament (作品別対抗大会) using Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 14 to simulate the matches and posted the results on NicoNicoDouga with... | | |
| 6:52pm | Yen Plus Issue 1 |  | | | A while back, Yen Press created a ton of buzz when it announced a new monthly manga/manhwa/OEL anthology. Many speculated that it would not only become a serious contender against VIZ’s Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat, but also possible get the attention of non-otaku with its OEL manga adaptation... | | |
| 12:00pm | Honey and Clover – Series Review | | | | I finally got around to this show, thanks in part to my sister expressing a desire to see it.Final Series Score: 10/12 A Rewatchablity: low, unless the second season is really awesome and this awesomeness leaks back to the first season – it probably will be awhile before I have a desire to watch this... | | |
| 5:51am | Bamboo Blade - Anime Review | | | | Just finished watching Bamboo Blade. It was a fun ride, but now I feel a little bit blank inside. As one who practices kendo, I was excited to find an anime series about kendo, and I quickly found Bamboo Blade to be one of the most entertaining and playful series I've ever seen.The story centers around... | | |
| 2:20pm | Sekirei - 01 | | | | Opening Sequence: OP: “Sekirei” by Hayami Saori, Inoue Marina, Hanazawa Kana, and Endo Aya A group collaboration from all the four main female seiyuus and it’s about average for me. Still can’t beat Bamboo Blade in terms of group songs. Well the OP sequence was quite actiony... | | |
| 7:02am | No updates for a week (damn you Windows) - 2008.06.22 |  | | | I don’t know what it is right now, but my Windows install is corrupt. The registry seems to be missing or corrupted, but this is it. I’m switching back to Ubuntu (for the what, fifth, sixth time?) because I’m just done with this crap. Give me some time as I transition from XP to Ubuntu... | | |
| 1:36pm | I Am A Happy Sunshine Camper, I Am |  | | | Written by TheBigN(andeyanen?!?) So I recieved this in the mail yesterday (Thank you Yen Press, especially with the Bamboo Blade manga coming in the next year or so. :D): And upon recieving it, I promptly felt like this: And no, I won’t stop linking this video. Cause I can’t stop. Yet... | | |
| 9:55am | Organic’s Kawazoe Tamaki preorder open | | | | A preorder listing went up this afternoon at Amiami for Organic's Kawazoe Tamaki PVC figure from Bamboo Blade. We got our first look at her back at Wonder Festival, but with little fanfare leading up to the listing this is the first decent look we have at her color prototype. The sculpt is from Hatsuda... | | |
| 4:00am | Anime Dads |  | | | Ah, it’s Father’s Day over here, so here are some good and not so good anime dads. I tried to highlight fathers in recent series, because we can’t keep milking Evangelion for inspiration. It’s surprising how few have much of a role in anime series. Most of the time they are... | | |
| 4:00am | T.H.A.T.’s Summer 2008 Anime Preview (Updated 6/14) |  | | | Summer timeand the livin’s easy Since Impz has bailed on us for three weeks to go to some academic conference, the duty of creating the THAT Anime Blog Summer 2008 Preview falls to me. Thankfully it’s not a fall or spring preview or I’d have to kill him. This preview uses pretty much the... | | |
| 4:00am | When Reading Season Previews | | | | When I read through season previews and check out promo videos and websites, I notice that several triggers often toggle my interested/disinterested switch. So while I was taking an initial look at some summer previews for 2008, I wrote down some of the factors that triggered my flags. I guess as... | | |
| 2:12am | Stuff I’m Looking Forward To This Summer | | | | Not entirely an anime-related post but with the start of summer I realize there’s a bunch of stuff to look forward too.Anime/MangaThe summer season of anime aside you can probably guess what I’m looking forward to. In July, not only will the subtitled version DVDs of Gurren Lagann will start (at... | | |
| 10:47am | Cool Products: Wednesday, June 4, 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... | | |
| 6:38am | TAMnI Light Novel Series To Become October Anime | | | | A Moon Phase comment has said that an anime adaption of the light novel series To Aru Majutsu no Index (A Certain Magical Index) was confirmed in the 16th volume’s promo sleeve, according to ANN. (Moetron’s post about this news has a picture of an in-store display and a link to a MAD opening.)... | | |
| 11:52pm | T.H.A.T.’s Summer 2008 Anime Preview | | | | Summer timeand the livin’s easy Since Impz has bailed on us for three weeks to go to some academic conference, the duty of creating the THAT Anime Blog Summer 2008 Preview falls to me. Thankfully it’s not a fall or spring preview or I’d have to kill him. This preview uses pretty much the... | | |
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