| 1:59pm | Day 1 in Japan: Not According to Plan | | | | I had a pretty good idea of what to write for day 1. That is, until the past 4-5 hours, when strange happenings occurred. The day started off with day 0, which was the previous night at Changi Airport. A few of the otaku gang came to see me off, for some reason. I knew I was popular. Anyway, I was... | | |
| 6:53pm | Saimoe catchup 2- “Don’t be Lazy, Jop.” |  | | | Because I got my new laptop, I was too busy fiddling around with it instead of posting. Sorry. Round 14: Auto IN- 1st 466 votes | Horo @ Spice And Wolf II2nd 398 votes | Furude Rika @ Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei3rd 362 votes | Okazaki Ushio @ CLANNAD ~AFTER STORY~4th 346 votes... | | |
| 7:07am | Haruhi Suzumiya: Feeling SHAFTed yet? | | | | The hour of victory is near it’s up to you to seize it. Victory is almost theirs. They can taste it. That boiling blood of the fanbase. Certainly Kyoto Animation and Kadokawa have stretched the majority of Haruhi fans almost to their breaking point with their 5th iteration of Endless Eight;... | | |
| 4:34am | Key 10th Anniversary Letter Project Drawing | | | | Today is my favorite company Key’s 11th anniversary so for the past few weeks I’ve been working on a drawing to submit as part of Cloud668’s 10th Anniversary Letter Project. Basically messages and illustrations addressed to Key to commemorate their 10th Anniversary will be compiled... | | |
| 12:50am | Otakon Day One - Kikuko Inoue Panel Q&A, Pt 1. |  | | | Kikuko Inoue is a famous seiyuu associated with many popular anime. Her past performances include Belldandy of Aa Megami-Sama, Kasume Tendou in Ranma 1/2, Rune Venus in El-Hazard, Kazami Mizuho in Onegai Teacher, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist, Miria in Claymore, Grace O’Connor in Macross Frontier,... | | |
| 5:41pm | Final Thoughts: Clannad After Story | | | | Azure Flame is now over three years old! Wish us luck as we become older and ever more behind the pulse of current anime. Nagisa and Tomoya are finally together, but there are still many more obstacles for them to face. Whilst Nagisa continues to battle with her illness, Tomoya must grow up fast as... | | |
| 6:47am | SaiMoe Seiyuu Edition 2009 | | | | Some folks at Ayako linked this interesting article to me. Seems that the folks at 2ch have been doing this saimoe seiyuu for the past 6 years. Without further ado, here are the results for the top 10. 10. Kawasumi Ayako. This grand dame is 33 this year. She has that versatile voice that on one hand... | | |
| 7:32pm | Saimoe 2009 1st Preliminaries Round 11 |  | | | This one was the important one.(to me) Auto-in: 1st 528 votes | Kawashima Ami @ Toradora!2nd 477 votes | Furukawa Nagisa(Okazaki Nagisa) @ CLANNAD ~AFTER STORY~3rd 467 votes | Minami Haruka @ Minami-ke Okaeri4th 393 votes | Kotegawa Yui @ To LOVEru5th 364 votes | Nogizaka... | | |
| 7:46am | Cool Products Wednesday, July 15, 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... | | |
| 1:44am | What’s Even More Unbelievable Then Going Through A Time Loop 15,513 Times | | | | This recently released map is meant to show how far from average the continental US was from the average June. These maps are released by the NOAA – a federal agency – monthly and are just one of the many things there in charge of. Why am I bothering to write a post up about this map... | | |
| 6:01pm | Saimoe Preliminaries Round 9: That which matters | | | | The polls opened roughly 2 hours ago, which gives you about 21 hours to vote from the time of this post (10 AM PST). I’m sure you’ll find someone to vote for in the group; Saki features strongly, Kyou of Clannad is set to steamroll, and there’s also Churuya-san and Krauser-tan? It’s... | | |
| 6:57pm | Spring 2009 Wrap-up: Eden of the East, K-ON! & Ristorante Paradiso |  | | | The spring season finished like a couple of weeks ago, and I haven’t blogged about actual anime in a while, so I have decided to write about the three spring shows I have finished watching (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2 are still airing, and I haven’t... | | |
| 1:59am | Clannad - Kyou’s Arc |  | | | Disappointing. Due to sister angst and Kyou being emo most of the episode but I guess some people like that kind of thing. I sure don’t though. Kyou is obviously best eaten in a tsundere mode in their school gym outfit. Short Summary: Ryou goes out with Okazaki, Kyou is emo, Okazaki realizes his... | | |
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