| 11:33pm | A timeline of Haruhi season 2 trolls |  | | | Since everybody’s already posted their thoughts about the new Haruhi episode, I thought I’d do something a little different Anybody who’s been following the Haruhi Suzumiya fandom since the first anime season aired in April 2006 knows that it’s unlike any other anime fandom,... | | |
| 1:39pm | Seiyuu Surprises – Same Actor, Different Roles |  | | | Seiyuu, or voice actors, are one of the more recognized workers in the creation of anime, giving our beloved 2D characters the most obvious link to humanity – their voices. The names of many famous seiyuu are well known among the ranks of otaku, even more so in this decade than past years, but the... | | |
| 11:39am | Nihon University |  | | | image ID#26491Had the honor of speaking this week at the largest university in Japan - Nihon University.And you could squeeze them like this while making a "puni puni" sound.image ID#26492Zooming back in time to the morning at about 10:40. Is making our way by car to the economics building at Nihon University... | | |
| 6:06pm | [Ascaloth] K-ON!, Episode 8 | | | | A new school year has arrived, it’s time for a new beginning. It almost seems like yesterday when the girls were worrying about the survival of the recently-revived Light Music Club, and now they’ve already set their minds to expanding their dreams. Which, of course, means it’s time... | | |
| 6:46am | Birdy the Mighty Decode 2 Series Review | | | | With spring impressions out of the way, I’ve got some time to finish up the previous season’s anime. First up is one of the best shows of the winter season, Birdy the Mighty Decode 2 but before we get there, I wanted to mention a couple new additions to my series review posts starting with this... | | |
| 4:19pm | New Yuri animations Ahoy! | | | | Yeah I translated my Facebook to Pirate. I still haven’t got bored of it, but sometimes I get lost and can’t find the functions properly -_- So, this post is about the yuri in the current season and a couple of anime on the horizon for yuri fans amongst us (all of you, I hope!) Now showing! K-ON!... | | |
| 11:58am | 棒読み[bouyomi] | | | | There is the most insulting word that most actors or actresses are afraid of. At the same time, it could be the worst labelthat is 棒読み[bouyomi]. 棒[bou] means a bar, and 読み[yomi] is a noun form of 読む[yomu] or read. 棒読み[bouyomi] is an emotionless speech. There is no acting, no... | | |
| 10:32pm | ‘Waiter, there’re noises in this OP!’ | | | | I’ve been busy, writing essays and experiencing the loneliness of the long-distance reader. Here’s a list of some post ideas I’ve thrown together, but not worked up: a condensed review of The Skull Man; a post about honour in the eighth episode of Space Runaway Ideon; praise for the... | | |
| 4:27am | Alpha x Omega Shirley | | | | Flickr Link Finally a Shirley figure! For such a popular series i’d expect Code Geass to have more figures of their characters. Still i’m glad the figures that have come out by Alpha x Omega are awesome and how they just keep producing these amazing figures. What is awesome is how they were... | | |
| 1:02pm | Manga Review: Genghis Khan - To the Ends of the Earth and Sea |  | | | The Japanese novel To the Ends of the Earth and Sea - the story of Mongolian leader Genghis Khan - recently saw two different adaptations. The first was an epic live-action film in 2007. A co-production between Japan and Mongolia, the Genghis Khan movie won over the critics thanks to its lavish Mongolian... | | |
| 4:21am | A Day in Tokyo 5 |  | | | image ID#26205Had a health checkup this time last year and wrote about it in the Health Care in Japan article. "You never know until you ask" has been a motto I've been religiously following and this time asked if I could bring my camera to take pics of the medical equipment used in the tests - the hospital... | | |
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