| 11:05am | Cool Products Friday, April 24, 2009 | | | | 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... | | |
| 7:55am | Sakura-Con 2009 | | | | Sakura-Con 2009, held in Seattle, WA, had over 16,500 attendees and featured Hangry & Angry, a Japanese pop-rock group consisting of former Morning Musume Yoshizawa Hitomi and former v-u-den Ishikawa Rika. This year featured over 100 exhibitors at the Exhibit Hall. In addition to small vendors,... | | |
| 11:46am | Cool Items Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | | | | 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... | | |
| 6:50pm | A Tour of the Key Atelier |  | | | Top visual novel production studio Key (Kanon, AIR, Clannad, Little Busters!) gives an interesting tour of its undeniably shabby offices. The first desk visited is that of Itaru Hinoue, responsible for some of the most beloved character designs in recent memory Not the most technologically impressive... | | |
| 6:09pm | Quick Impressions of Spring 2009 Anime Lineup | | | | This is a filler post So I’m going to make a quick list of my personal impression of what I’ve seen this season. Just keep in mind that this is what I think and if you don’t agree with it. well I don’t care. Asura Cryin’ – It’s alright. Probably will give... | | |
| 3:21pm | Bearable Male Protagonists | | | | As a follow up to last week’s post on male protagonists whose personalities are so contrived that the fact that anyone even acknowledges them let alone falls for them is amazing in itself, I thought I would compile a short list of the ones I thought were not so bad… 1. Okazaki Tomoya (Clannad) ... | | |
| 5:32pm | Eroge Innovation Fails to Impress | | | | The latest eroge title from esteemed developer Nitroplus, 装甲悪鬼村正 / Soukou Akki Murasei, brings with it some unusual innovation, but quickly reminds fans of the visual novel just why relying on these companies to innovate is not necessarily a good idea (see Mahou Shoujo Ai, Cross Days, etc).... | | |
| 7:36am | The Daily Dose |  | | | The title of Rumiko Takahashi's brand spanking new manga is Kyōkai no Rinne and it follows a girl named Sakura Mamiya. She has the ability to see ghosts after something happens to her when she was younger. It's not exactly what you'd call original, but I hope this is in the vein of Takahashi's darker... | | |
| 7:00pm | Winter 2009 Wrap-up: To Aru Majutsu no Index, Toradora! & White Album |  | | | This is a series of posts on winter 2009 shows I finished. Hit up the first one about Clannad ~After Story~ and Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th, or the second one about Maria+Holic, Minami-ke Okaeri and Skip Beat!. This post will cover my last three. To Aru Majutsu no Index Toradora! White Album | | |
| 1:00pm | Winter 2009 Wrap-up: Maria+Holic, Minami-ke Okaeri & Skip Beat! | | | | This is a series of posts on winter 2009 shows I finished. Hit up the previous one about Clannad ~After Story~ and Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th. This post will cover three more. Maria+Holic What a disappointment. The show went nowhere after seeming so promising. The two best characters of the show, Mariya... | | |
| 1:05am | Winter 2009 Wrap-up: Clannad ~After Story~ & Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th | | | | The winter season’s been over for a few weeks now, but I’ve only recently finished the shows from the winter season (and some from the fall) that I was watching. I’ve yet to finish Akikan! and RideBack, and I haven’t caught up to the latest episodes of Churuya-san, Haruhi-chan,... | | |
| 1:05am | Winter 2009 Wrap-up: Clannad ~After Story~ & Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th | | | | The winter season’s been over for a few weeks now, but I’ve only recently finished the shows from the winter season (and some from the fall) that I was watching. I’ve yet to finish Akikan! and RideBack, and I haven’t caught up to the latest episodes of Churuya-san, Haruhi-chan,... | | |
| 6:21pm | Winter Season Goes Bye-Bye | | | | The best thing that came out of the past season. I apologize for the recent lack of activity here, especially considering last week’s surge of posts. I simply ran out of juice due to long evening shifts at work followed by a 4-day LAN-party. Also for the future record in case any more people from... | | |
| 11:48am | Another World: Kyou’s Arc announced. |  | | | The eighth and final DVD for Kyoto Animation’s Clannad After Story anime adaptation of Key’s Clannad visual novel will include an “Another World: Kyou Arc” episode. As the name implies, the episode will recount an alternate story arc that focuses on the Kyou Fujibayashi character.... | | |
| 5:12am | Spring 2009 Anime Impressions – K-ON! | | | | I know just about everyone else in the anime blogosphere has already talked about KyoAni’s latest – K-ON!; it’s even gotten Jeff Lawson (still one of my favorite bloggers) to comment on it. Therefore, I probably can’t contribute anything groundbreaking to the discussion – I’ve never been... | | |
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