| 6:24pm | Artists post: Naru Nanao | | | | To celebrate the creation of Canvas3, I give you a little post on Naru Nanao.Naru Nanao is one of the most popular artists out there, and anyone can easily find her artwork. She mainly does character design, but didn’t get popular until the release of Da Capo, where she did the design of Nemu,... | | |
| 11:56pm | Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto ~Natsu no Sora~ - Yay Hamster!! | | | | Screw it, from now on I’ll call it Someday’s Dreamers 2>_> First episode, we got to see a bit of Sora’s cute personality and her magical powers, and here, we get to see her first experience in the big city. And for the new people, a bit of background on this magic thing. Also,... | | |
| 6:55pm | Anime Blog Awards -- Thanks, Bloggers | | | | The full results of the Anime Blog Awards are now out. Thank you, bloggers, for voting this the bloggers' choice as top seiyuu blog. And congratulations to j1m0ne for being chosen top seiyuu blog by the public. I like my blog, but I voted for her.A great big thank you to Impz and all the people who came... | | |
| 9:34pm | Time for the Pre-Preview Roundup | | | | Yesiree, kids, I’m putting the finishing touches on the summer preview, which should go up later today. And of course, the anime news has been very rude and continued to occur while I’ve been working on it. So cruel, anime world. SO SO CRUEL. Anime: - I got a press release announcing that... | | |
| 1:10am | Gift ~eternal rainbow~ | | | | I don’t know if there are still some lasting effects from Canvas 2, but I didn’t really enjoy Gift ~eternal rainbow~ as much as I should have. Is it because I’ve seen TOO many romance type anime that I’m not surprised by their themes? Has seeing these themes over and over made... | | |
| 12:34am | Canvas 2 | | | | I wonder why I didn’t watch this a long time ago, seeing as I love school romance anime. I’ve seen the characters around the net, I’ve read part of it’s Wikipedia entry, I’ve even seen it mentioned many times {in message boards, forums, etc}, and I’ve even seen the... | | |
| 2:31pm | The road to finanical ruin - A 2008 quarterly damage report | | | | With rising commodity and oil prices, I find my disposable income slowly shrinking with inflationary forces. Even though I’ve been driving for years, I never fail to feel the pinch every time I top up my vehicle since it’s the price of a 1/8 PVC figure. Even while enjoying the occasional... | | |
| 2:46pm | Bishoujo perfection in the real world | | | | One of my anime-related dreams is to raise a daughter beautiful both in body and soul like Kotori (DCSS), Karada (Asatte no houkou) or Kanami (Scryed). Mrs Stripey objects every time I bring it up. Not because it’s an impossible task (with her, I have 50% chance :P). but because such gentle-kindness... | | |
| 8:58pm | 49 New Anime: preview, staff, cast, story, pic | | | | As usual, what looked like a poor season is actually shaping up to have a number of interesting shows. Nothing so far looks like an instant classic, but there are always surprises. And with 49 shows (including OVAs), there could be plenty of surprises.Hirano Aya returns to anime in a big way, starring... | | |
| 3:29am | Emperor and Slave: The Mindgames of KimiKiss 22 | | | | Perhaps I’ve compared KimiKiss and Kaiji one too many times for two shows which couldn’t be more opposite in genre and tone, but once again the former surprises me with how much, speaking both outside and inside of the show’s context, it handles itself in a manner that’s almost,... | | |
| 5:49pm | True Tears 10 - Who is Raigomaru? | | | | A panting Hiromi is fine too I agree with Omni. This great ep has the makings of a fine finale for True Tears. With Aiko and Noe bowing out graciously and the climatic restitution of the Shin/Hiromi relationship, I wouldn’t have minded if True Tears ended on this note despite not closing the other... | | |
| 3:11am | True Tears Office Pool | | | | “Here’s 10 for horse number 4.” Gambling in the United States is a multi-billion dollar industry. It takes on many forms and shapes which can be both good or bad (many times it’s bad). One form is casual sports betting and one type of game in that form is a score table (or i... | | |
| 5:15pm | H20 ~ Footprints in the sand 01 - ZEXCS’ next great? | | | | When Zexcs does harem - expect greatness. Zyl said something memorable in our recent Hontouni conference : “Most harem (series) don’t do romance.” And indeed that is the problem with the slew of mediocre harems out there. They get distracted with fanservice and believe the pantsu... | | |
| 11:43pm | Young VA Hayami Saori Gets New Role | | | | Hayami Saori 早見沙織, 16, played heroine Momoka in Touka Gettan, and sang the ED. She was outstanding at both, in my opinion.Now she has been tapped for one of the four main roles in a new anime, Wagaya no O-inari-sama 我が家のお稲荷さま("O ur House's Fox Spirit"), about a household protected... | | |
| 11:31pm | Canvas 2, Contd. |  | | | I spent a bit of time watching more of Canvas 2. Again, I couldn’t remember half of what was going on. Fortunately, I did remember a bit of the basic premise, so I wasn’t totally in the dark. Really, I need to come up with a schedule for this stuff. I want to watch it, and it isn’t... | | |
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