| 12:00am | Ninja Nonsense Anime, Volume 3 | | | | The second half of Yuri Hime "S" is as variable as the first. What was good was really pretty good, and what was bad was exhaustingly tedious."Interface" by Kurogane Kenn (Shoujo Sect) was unexpected in every conceivable way. The story begins with a girl walking in on another girl drawing a stick figure... | | |
| 12:00am | Notes on the Sixteenth Maria-sama ga Miteru Novel: Variety Gift, Part 3 | | | | Maria-sama ga Miteru 16 - Variety GiftPart 3Variety Gift III"It wasn't that it was visible, it was just that I saw it." Thrust in the middle of the four people, Touko-chan's face was dyed as red as a boiled octopus'."Number one, a false start is a violation of the rules, isn't it?""It is. | | |
| 12:00am | Orchid Seed's Fantabulous Masane | | | | Well, someone up there must have something against me using my computer. Just days after I get back my internet connection and my PC (running pretty well again, I should say), I get hit by a bucketload of malware/trojan crap. The one day I decided to turn off all my spyware protection/firewalls because... | | |
| 12:00am | Takarazuka Documentary: Dream Girls | | | | Many thanks to today's review sponsor, Bruce. The copy of this DVD that I watched is his, on loan to me until he finds space in his new place for it. :-) Thanks Bruce!Dream Girls is a 1994 documentary about the Takarazuka Musical Revue. It follows new students just joining the school and several | | |
| 12:00am | Ten Favorite Voice Actresses | | | | On the brink of a new season, here is a look at the new shows, concentrating on staff and cast. The shows I'm looking forward to? As usual, it's hard to tell which shows will work for me, but I'm looking at Code E, Doujin Work, Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho, Moetan, Mononoke, Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei,... | | |
| 12:00am | Touka Gettan -- episode 6 of 26 | | | | For the English wiki, I've been translating and expanding the Japanese wiki's pages for each episode. I thought I'd spend a few more minutes and put episode 6 into a blog post. There's another summary in the Subculture Anime Blog.Ep6 is less mysterious and more comical than previous episodes. | | |
| 12:00am | Track & Field Lucky Star 8 | | | | It's still a good series, but it's beginning to feel like more of the same.Maybe that's the issue with slice-of-life/school days stories, in that since there's not a lot of plot or exposition, it's mostly a lot of the same gags used before, in subtly different ways. You can Konata being a video | | |
| 12:00am | Tsubasa, xxxHolic and CCS Ranking | | | | CLAMP NOW has a cool report about a recent ranking released that says Card Captor Sakura is the 8th most popular anime in Japan (with readers of that specific magazine anyway).CCS Sakura was voted the 5th fave female anime character while her Tsubasa counterpart was just below her at 6th.CCS Syaoran... | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Anime/Lesbian Manga/Novels and AfterEllen | | | | This week has been crack-ariffic, hasn't it? Once more, no review today, instead news from all corners of the world that this blog touches.***First up, just in from my deep throat contact at Media Blasters - the folks at MB have licensed the Kashimashi~ Girl Meets Girl anime. The anime is | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Manga: Battle Binder Plus | | | | The second half of Yuri Hime "S" is as variable as the first. What was good was really pretty good, and what was bad was exhaustingly tedious."Interface" by Kurogane Kenn (Shoujo Sect) was unexpected in every conceivable way. The story begins with a girl walking in on another girl drawing a stick figure... | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Manga: Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu | | | | ShunKaShuuTou, (written with the characters for Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter) is collection of stories by Zaou Taishi and Eiki Eiki that ran in Yuri Hime and Yuri Shimai magazines. I got the deluxe version with Drama CD, a review of which will be a separate entry, because I said so.It reads oddly, | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Manga: Iono-sama Fanatics (English) | | | | Today's review was brought to you by Infinity Studios, the publisher of the english-language adaptation of Iono-sama Fanatics.I reviewed this book originally on November 11, 2005. For a discussion of the plot and characters, please read my original review. For today's review I am going to focus | | |
| 12:00am | Yuri Mini-Drama CD: Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu | | | | As I mentioned in my review of the ShunKaShuuTou manga, the deluxe set comes with a Drama CD. Even the cover art is deluxe - I've scanned in the back cover of the Drama CD so you can see Haruka and Akiho in their version of Zaou-esque GothLoli. (And, btw, should you not be as enamored as I am of | | |
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