| 12:48am | ♥ing the heartless | | | | I found myself belatedly developing an interest for and liking of Ryoko Asakura after the initial airing of Haruhi. It had been sparked off by the yuri content of Ryoko’s creepy stalker Shizuru-like crush on Yuki in the fourth novel, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya but continued to grow... | | |
| 1:51am | Geneon Update | | | | First the (mostly) good news:On one of ANN’s forum threads, Corey Fischer of Ocean Productions has said that the dubbing for Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage will be completedusing the same voice actors. He has no news about distribution, however.Avatar_exADV (subtitler) has said in an entry on... | | |
| 8:51pm | Sunday News Bites: October 7th | | | | Hello and welcome to another edition of Sunday News Bites! This week we invited one badass freaking Overlord to join us in the newsroom- that’s right, Zetta himself is here! Let’s see what he thinks of the latest news from the world of anime.Geneon Saga latest: letter to fans In our continuing coverage... | | |
| 3:47pm | WTF is GAR Afterall? | | | | As with any community, anime fans has it’s own set of terms to describe their unique characteristics. But words like Moé, Tsundere, Yandere, Trap, Boomer or Bishie are quite recent and have a blurry line of definition. GAR is one of them. And no, I’m not referring to the primitive predaceous... | | |
| 6:24am | Bamboo Blade, Episode 1 |  | | | Reminder: Our School Days Demotivational Poster contest ends in just two days! The deadline is October 6, 9:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, or October 7, 9:30 AM in Taiwan and Singapore. Please see here for more details. Well, I’m not going to say I was totally WOWed by it. I mean I won’t say... | | |
| 6:00pm | This month’s featured Female Seiyuu - Kuwashima Houko | | | | One interesting seiyuu that’s often known to be sarcastic and harsh in real life, much like the characters “Kyun(from Haruhi)” or “Kagame (from Lucky Star)” is Kuwashima Houko. Here’s a little Bio of her (from Wiki): (桑島 法子, Kuwashima Hōko?) is a seiyū... | | |
| 3:12pm | Black Lagoon | | | | Name: Black Lagoon Genre: Action, Adventure Year: 2006 Rating: Enjoyable Okajima Rokuro (Rock) is a typical Japanese businessman known as salary men. His normal duties include carrying out the orders of his superiors, however he is one day given the task to deliver a valuable disc. Like many valuable... | | |
| 7:40pm | 42 New Fall Anime -- Cast, Staff, Story, Pic | | | | Here are just about all the series and OVAs scheduled to start this fall, according to the Japanese site MoonPhase -- 35 series and seven OVAs. I've tried to give a story intro, show a pic, and talk about the staff and cast of each one. Click images to enlarge.Nothing seems like an instant classic, but... | | |
| 8:58pm | Saimoe 2007 G Bracket Results |  | | | Late again—Round G1- Kamyu -UtawarerumonoReinforce II-Nanoha StrikersAyu Tsukimiya -KanonResults-■第1試合1 934票 月宮あゆ＠Ka non2位 813票 リイン ォースII＠魔法少女リ リカルなのはStrikerS3位 161票 カミュ＠うた われるものWinner-AyuRound... | | |
| 9:00am | The Story of Saiunkoku v1 | | | | During one of Geneon’s panels at Otakon ‘07, I caught the trailer for The Story of Saiunkoku (Saiunkoku Monogatari). One of the producers mentioned how addictive the show was and from the trailer it looked amusing, but something I might Netflix instead of buy what with the show apparently... | | |
| 3:37pm | Gender in Anime: Boy will be Girls, and Girls will be Boys? | | | | Yes, I see what you did there, and there, and there, and there, and there, and there. Everyone’s talking about the new topic. Gender in anime. Well, it’s not quite that simple. It’s not just that anime is so laden with stereotypes as to be nearly drowning itself, it’s also important... | | |
| 2:43pm | Standing The Test of Time | | | | Last night, I was introducing my girlfriend to some new series. Namely, Cowboy Bebop and Love Hina, two of my favorite shows of all time. She’s not that new to anime, having seen Haruhi, Lucky Star, a little Gundam, the Eva Movies (in retrospect, not the best idea, let people watch some more normal... | | |
| 1:20pm | Anime Review: Black Lagoon, Volume 1 | | | | Rachel and I recently watched Black Lagoon, Volume 1. Geneon promoted Black Lagoon pretty well at Anime Central and Anime Expo this year. I think it’s a pretty big release for them - next to Hellsing in terms of being the ‘next big thing‘. That means the show has some pretty big boots... | | |
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