| 2:57pm | Blue Dragon “Big Shadow” Advertisement | | | | Caught this on Kotaku today. Apparently, the advertisement team behind the Blue Dragon game for Xbox360 won the Gold Lion award at Cannes. Located in Shibuya, the ad used people and props to create big shadows projected on a wall. | | |
| 7:57am | Blue Dragon “Big Shadow” Advertisement | | | | Caught this on Kotaku today. Apparently, the advertisement team behind the Blue Dragon game for Xbox360 won the Gold Lion award at Cannes. Located in Shibuya, the ad used people and props to create big shadows projected on a wall. | | |
| 6:27am | Some BLUE DRAGON™ News From Viz | | | | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VIZ MEDIA NAMES BANDAI AMERICA AS KEY TOY LICENSEE FOR BLUE DRAGON™ ANIME SERIES Leading Toy Manufacturer Will Develop Innovative Product Line To Support Highly Anticipated Anime Series Based On Popular Xbox 360 Video Game New York, NY - JUNE 19, 2007 - VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ | | |
| 6:46pm | Your first LJ link of the day… | | | | Brad has called dibs on chronicling the massive drama over at LJ (or “wank,” as we call it), so I’ll just warm you guys up with a few pics taken by a LiveJournal buddy of mine, moonphased, who recently grabbed a couple of interesting shots of a Japanese Krispy Kreme shop. Those of | | |
| 3:16am | Fanime Con 2007 Report | | | | Now that Fanime Con 2007 has finally ended, and I've gotten a good fifteen hours of sleep, I can give a good report on just WHAT happened at the convention with regard to anime music. And boy, was there a lot. The con unofficially started on Thursday, with a free (with pre-reg) concert at 8pm... | | |
| 1:31am | Quickie Saturdays 5-5-2007: IMPENDING SENSE OF DOOM! | | | | Happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone, and while I would very much like to be eating good mexican food and drinking Margaritas, it is not only Quickie Saturday, but it is the Quickie Saturday before finals week, and for a number of reasons (both related and unrelated to finals week) I have anWith respects | | |
| 10:51pm | 2 May: Winners and Losers Feature | | | | Another week has gone by and as Riuva prepares to dive into the next phase of our lives by entering "University", we may consider cutting down on our intake of anime.WinnersInfinite RyviusNot technically belonging to this week’s section, but I watched the entire series over the past | | |
| 6:12am | Blue Dragon Episode 2 - Blue Power | | | | Shuu loses control of the power-hungry Blue Dragon so Jiro summons his Shadow, Minotauros - although Blue Dragon is the stronger of the two, Zola takes the easy option and knocks Shuu out thus sealing away Blue Dragon.Shuu awakens to a lecture from Zola about the history of a war between Light and | | |
| 4:57am | Blue Dragon Episode 1 - Shadow, Invoke! | | | | OP - Friend (Keita Tachibana) - for some reason, I absolutely love this song, and I can’t work out why. It’s perky, I guess. Animation-wise, it’s nice enough but doesn’t have any of the flair that Pierrot’s work on the Naruto and Bleach openings does; that said, it | | |
| 10:17pm | This season’s anime in…well, not a very long post. Really. | | | | Right, time for me to actually get down to doing some real posting. This season’s anime already looks more promising than last season, simply because of the presence of Mahou shoujo lyrical Nanoha StrikerS and Lucky Star. But what about the other fluff that’s being screened?Instead of | | |
| 5:31am | Spring Season: INSTANT REVIEWS 3 | | | | I promise, I’ll only do one more of these! There are now four Really Good Shows in my list, possibly the first time this has ever happened. I almost wish some of them fail, so I can keep up my laziness Darker than Black (The Black Contractors) “sort of a Witch Hunter Robin that does not... | | |
| 3:24am | Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Website Online | | | | Wow. This is literally the ONLY news today. The Starchild website for the upcoming manga-based anime, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, is online and ready for you to you know look at. It's only a very interesting picture and a note mentioning that it will start in Summer of this year. | | |
| 4:20am | Viz Media Licenses Blue Dragon Anime Series | | | | VIZ MEDIA NAMED MASTER LICENSOR FOR BLUE DRAGON ™ ANIME SERIES New Action Series Is Based On Popular Xbox 360 Game And Features Character Designs By Manga Mastermind, Akira Toriyama San Francisco, CA April 16, 2007 - VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most | | |
| 3:25am | Spring Season: INSTANT REVIEWS 2 | | | | In this post, I continue watching and instantly dismissing new series! The Really Good Shows Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann - so good we fansubbed it! More on that later. Hayate the Combat Butler Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS The Probably Good Shows Bokurano Steel Jeeg OverDrive Lucky Star To Terra... | | |
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