| 10:42am | Cool Items Friday, January 9, 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... | | |
| 1:02pm | EF is Art: Rakuen’s EF Obligatory Post | | | | Pardon me for not following through Melodies; I’ve been saving it for this season. To tell the truth, I had insanity jolts for a week. Good thing there was nobody around the house to know about it. It’s nothing big, so don’t you worry. So moving on with the obligatory post, or should... | | |
| 2:53pm | [Ascaloth] Trial Run: White Album, Episode 1 | | | | Based on a visual novel published by Leaf dating back all the way to 1998, White Album finally gets an anime adaptation by Seven Arcs a full decade after the first publication of its visual novel source material. While the casting choice of Hirano Aya and Nana Mizuki as the two female leads respectively... | | |
| 11:15pm | Anime Inbou Awards 2008, pt. 1 ~ genre |  | | | Every year, fresh from the Land of the Rising Sun, an overflow of anime in all directions surges out, and we, as technophiles, catch those torrents. In the year of 2008, there was quite many hits and misses. There’s no in-betweens, no so-sos, no kindas, sortas, or littles. Well maybe but I’d... | | |
| 8:57pm | 2008 Eroge Sales Rankings |  | | | Several large stores have recently released rankings of their best-selling galge/eroge/visual novels for 2008, allowing to see which of the last year’s crop attained the most favor from eroge fans. Little distinction is made between the various types of bishoujo type games, such as pure visual... | | |
| 7:50pm | Developer’s Diaries: Fate/Meta Narrative |  | | | A newly-minted enmity of mine is the Fate/stay night anime, especially when those watching it have yet to read the visual novel in all its glory; as all adaptation purists are so disposed to argue, the quality of the former when juxtaposed against the latter forms a significant portion of that criticism,... | | |
| 9:45pm | White Album #01 — Classical Gas | | | | Wasn’t this about pop idols? New Season Disclaimer: I’ll make a post for almost all new series (barring sequels) with a wrap-up and bullet point opinion of each once the premier week is over. Remember that these are just my kneejerk reactions to the first 20 minutes of shows, many of... | | |
| 6:32pm | ef: a tale of melodies - Episode 12 [END] | | | | It’s ef - a tale of melodies episode 12 and Himura finally find what he has been waiting for, and finally makes peace, tying up all the loose ends from from this series, as well as from memories. The first thing we see in this episode is confirmation that, yes, Yuuko died (if there was any question... | | |
| 5:10pm | 2008/2009 Winter Anime Menu | | | | Super delayed preview, as always! woohoo!! Better late than never, right? It’s that time of the year when the chefs get together and actually post something to bring you this comprehensive list of animes due this season. Without further ado, we bring to you this almost complete list of this sequel-filled... | | |
| 12:00pm | 2008 in Review: The Good, the Bad and the WTF?! |  | | | This post is dedicated to the good, the bad and the WTF’s of this year. It’s really been an interesting year.. Heh, I was supposed to post this yesterday, but with all the shopping, satelite tracking, celebrations and epic rickrolling, I only finished it today. I guess this will be my... | | |
| 7:59am | The Final Day of Christmas 2008 - taking aim at 2009 | | | | “But your poorly-crafted charm of endless night That’s no match for my power controlling eternity. The dawn is getting closer. This is the end of your imperishable night Now the dawn will come!!” Well, all good, bad, and tl;dr things must come to an end, right? It’s New Year’s... | | |
| 5:20am | Missing body part(s) | | | | Generally, they are only missing certain parts on their chest, but in this case, Setsuna’s missing both (or all 5, if you want to be specific). This is not the first time that I’ve seen this. The first time was in bleach I still remember how shocked I was back then Why can’t they... | | |
| 3:23am | Our best of 2008 - Top 10 Animes |  | | | our best of 2008 - top 10 animes 2008 is over and we feel we need to do some justice on the animes we love for the year. Hence, we come up with a top10 list for our favorite animes. What was your favorite top 10 animes for 2008 ? Do share with us! 10) Vampire Knight An anime of “gentle”... | | |
| 3:01pm | New Years posts - They’re overrated and cliche - Looking back on 2008 | | | | HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ended up watching more in 2008 than in 2007, but not by much. Most of it is just due to tie in movies and what not, but still watching more and is watching more of it so I cannot complain. I still haven’t reached my goal of watching 100 or more shows in a year,... | | |
| 8:00am | The 18th Day of Christmas 2008 - resolving resolutions | | | | Well, one year ago I made a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions of sorts, in terms of anime viewing, as to what I definitely most absolutely must had to see (or experience, or rave about, in a few cases) over the next 12 months. And while it’s apparent that the last year in the anime fandom... | | |
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