| 10:52am | Xam’d Lost Memories - At A Glance | | | | A bit confusing, but impressive at the same time. Omni has a short summary over at Random Curiosity. First off, OP and ED of the show were great. You rarely hear a good Engrish song, but “Shut Up and Explode” by the Boom Boom Satellites and “Vacency” by Kylee both fit the OP... | | |
| 1:57am | Bonen no Xam’d | | | | Xam’d: Lost Memories 亡念のザムド (Bōnen no Zamudo) [XAMD Offcial site] Bōnen no Xamdou [ANN] a secret project by BONES a fast and cool mecha anime, when I first saw the trailer I immediately noticed Eureka Seven style, which is incidentally by the same company. Check out the HD... | | |
| 2:15am | Xam it all to hell | | | | As you might know, I have been looking forward to Bounen no Xamdou, now known as “Xam’d: Lost Memories,” ever since it was announced. I’m a big fan of Eureka Seven to the extent that I bought all the DVDs individually as special editions (when those editions were available)... | | |
| 12:56am | PlayStation network gets Xam’d anime | | | | Sony talked A LOT about their new plans to offer a crapload of shows on the PlayStation network today in their E3 media conference. One of the big pieces of news for us anime fans was the official announcement that Sony has partnered with Bones Studio to release an anime called Xam’d: Lost Memories... | | |
| 7:47pm | Tuesday Rumble: July 15th | | | | Dragons’ Den(UK readers, a new series of the real Dragons’ Den begins next Monday at 9pm on BBC2.) Welcome to our regular feature based on the TV program of the same name, in which anime characters try to market their great idea to five fat cats of anime! President Aria made his fortune in the gondola... | | |
| 3:11pm | Eureka Seven | | | | In a town where nothing happens, Renton Thurston dreams of taking to the skies and surfing the Trapar waves with his hero Holland and the rogue nation of Gekko State. And then one day his dream comes true, when a member of Gekko State quite literally crashes into his home, sparking off a chain of events... | | |
| 3:53am | “Britney.” |  | | | Gloss. By some strange and cruel twist of fate, and despite a deluge of delicious words like ‘blaxploitation’ and ‘gentrisone’ from our readers, good old Impz managed to pull ‘Britney’ out of the hat Okay, so it actually wasn’t that bad. With some serious mind-stretching,... | | |
| 5:58pm | Blaze Driver becomes a Nintendo DS game |  | | | Sometimes, you can see it coming from miles away. According to Ds Fanboy and Famitsu, Blazer Drive is being converted to a Nintendo Ds. This by itself isn’t nothing surprising, but the small detail is that Blazer Drive only has 3 chapters out! Remember what I said on this post? I guess I was really... | | |
| 11:15am | AX BONES Autograph Guest: Kawamoto, Komori, or Minami? | | | | Bandai’s blog has a Anime Expo page pimping all the events possibly connected with them as well as teasing secret guests like the new English Gurren Lagann dub cast and a person (Mr. X) from BONES who will be signing autographs. They gave enough references about Mr. X’s previous work - Ghost... | | |
| 11:15am | AX BONES Autograph Guest: Kawamoto, Komori, or Minami? | | | | Bandai’s blog has a Anime Expo page pimping all the events possibly connected with them as well as teasing secret guests like the new English Gurren Lagann dub cast and a person (Mr. X) from BONES who will be signing autographs. They gave enough references about Mr. X’s previous work - Ghost... | | |
| 2:29am | Even Mewtwo Understands the Principles of Good T-Shirt Design | | | | Nintendo has announced plans to release Pokemon t-shirts for adults under its “Pokemon 151″ line. This means not only larger sizes, but also designs catering to older audiences as well. And I for one welcome this desire to match actual aesthetics with anime/video game t-shirts. Anime t-shirts... | | |
| 10:39pm | Fixed | | | | Remember my music post? After an afternoon of blood, sweat, tears, and agony, I finally got another place to host the files and re-uploaded them. They should work fine now. This is mostly a tidbits post. Greatly enjoying Kanisino right now. The only problem is that the second branch of the story dosen’t... | | |
| 4:46pm | Eureka Seven 46-50: final thoughts | | | | And so we reach the end of the road for Renton, Eureka, the Gekkostate and the others as the final confrontation with the true nature of the Coralians looms: Dewey swings his plan into action while our heroes make a desperate final attempt to find a peaceful solution. Of all the expectations I had of... | | |
| 10:23pm | Toshokan Sensou halfway thoughts: fight for your right to…read?! | | | | Toshokan Sensou, or to go by its neat translated title of Library Wars, is simultaneously lightweight fun, and thought provoking and serious. As I outlined in my last post regarding the Macross franchise, you don’t have to forgo brightness and humour to make a serious point; get the balance right... | | |
| 9:52am | Weekly Round-Up: June 13th | | | | Reviewed this week: Allison and Lillia 9, Itazura na Kiss 9, Kurenai 10, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki 7, Nabari no Ou 9-10, Real Drive 6, Soul Eater 10, Toshokan Sensou 9, xxxHOLiC Kei 10…and in manga: Claymore 80, REC 38 ANIMECURRENT SERIES RANKINGSKurenai (1) – just a mistake?Chi’s Sweet Home... | | |
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