| 12:45am | Yen Plus Issue 09 April ‘09 - Thoughts & Impressions | | | | This is my sixth and final catch up post. I’m still waiting on the next issue to be delivered so i’ll post it when it arrives. The Nightschool cover was awesome and has a great feel about it. The Soul eater one is nifty, but lacking something IMO. I’m starting with the manhwa side this time,... | | |
| 10:26pm | Yen Plus Issue 08 March ‘09 - Thoughts & Impressions | | | | This is my fifth catch up post of the Yen Plus Anthology. While I love Maximum Ride, something about this cover really turned me off. Fang looks awesome, but the other guy just looks crap. That said I like the Nabari no Ou one, it’s got a good feel to it. Once again I’m starting off with the... | | |
| 7:39pm | Yen Plus Issue 07 February ‘09 - Thoughts & Impressions | | | | This is my fourth catch up post for the Yen Plus Anthology. I like both covers of this issue, neither are the cutesy type we’ve had previously. but both have a presence about them. Both covers are from the new series starting up this month, Hero Tales by the creator of FullMetal Alchemist;... | | |
| 5:18pm | Manga Releases for November 2008 | | | | It’s November, so you know what that means - more new manga! This month offers up new mangaeverything from Chibi Vampire to Higurashi When They Cry. Companies with new fall releases include 801 Media, Aurora Publishing, Broccoli Books, CMX, Dark Horse, Del Rey, Digital Manga Publishing, DrMaster,... | | |
| 4:36pm | NYAF08: Yen Press | | | | Yen has licensed Hero Tales, by FMA creator Arakawa-sensei, and the Spice and Wolf novels (eeeee!). Other licenses: manhwa 13th Boy and Sugarholic and Welcome to Wakaba-Soh Hero Tales will run in Yen+, btw. They’re now giving out copies of the first volume of Haruhi, and I accidentally won one... | | |
| 9:31am | [PR] New DrMaster Titles Hit the Street! | | | | Hot off the press!!! Lunar Legend Tsukihime vol 5, Chinese Hero vol. 5, and Metro Survive vol 1, AVAILABLE NOW!!! SAN JOSE, CA – March, 2008 – DrMaster has just announced the publication of Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword volume 5 by Wing Shing Ma, Lunar Legend Tsukihime volume 5 by TYPE-MOON... | | |
| 10:38am | Juushin Enbu Hero Tales - Episode 05 | ![zeNIME [z for aNIME~]](/images/icons/blogs/zenime_z_for_anime.png "zeNIME [z for aNIME~]") | | | It just keeps getting better and better. Juushin Enbu is really shaping up to be one of the better series of Fall 2007. The icing on the cake would be if the whole thing ends at episode 26, because I personally hate it when series just keeps going on and on and on and on.Episode | | |
| 2:54pm | Jyushin Enbu -Hero Tales- 04 |  | | | Just as our heroes come into another city, Taitou is eager for more manjus, so he hits up the local manju store, which just happened to be robbed by several small kids, leaving Taitou to purchase their last manju. But just as he was about to bite into some manju goodness, Taitou gets bumped into by... | | |
| 7:27am | Jyushin Enbu -Hero Tales- 04 | | | | As our heroes continue their trek to the capital, they run into some thugs in the forest who are chasing after Chinjo, a Chokindan member (aka local enforcement) of a nearby lodging town, who was protecting a little girl Rinrin. Taitou and Laila dispatch of several thugs pretty easily, and they were... | | |
| 4:12am | Juushin Enbu Hero Tales - Episode 04 | | | | Episode 04 is actually so full of things that have been done before, yet I still really liked the episode. I wonder why. Episode Rating: 9/10Continue reading ‘Juushin Enbu Hero Tales - Episode 04′ | | |
| 5:41am | Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales - Episode 03 | | | | Juushin Enbu: Hero Tales finally broke the Cycle of Shounen Stereotypes, resulting in a episode that was rather fun, though still resorting to the use of other forms of stereotypes. In other news, Laila still does not appear in a loin-cloth, although Taito’s nakama does. o.0.And they were bathing... | | |
| 7:23pm | Jyushin Enbu -Hero Tales- 03 | | | | Having walked for quite a bit, Ryuko decides that they should stop for a bit to rest and wash up in the nearby river despite Taitou’s insisting that they would be wasting time. During their pit stop, Ryuko quizzes Taitou about the 8 Rules of Taika Happou, and Taitou was able to name 6 of them... | | |
| 8:10am | Moyashimon - Reasons to love cute, dancing microbes! Squee! | | | | After what seemed like the longest time (and quite possibly the worst, the flat out worst, test-taking experience of my life) I finally crawled back to my cave of a room, clicked on those orange stripped traffic cone and went through the entirety of my backlog. I’ve been most depressingly busy,... | | |
| 7:20pm | Jyushin Enbu -Hero Tales- 02 | | | | As Taitou enters super saiyan mode to do battle with Shimei, Ryukou senses the danger and comes out into the courtyard with Sousei to see what’s going on. Shimei manages to stay a step ahead of him, although he senses that Taitou is getting better at using his Hagun powers, and eventually Taitou... | | |
| 10:08am | October Summary | | | | + October Rankings + The start of the Autumn 2007-season did show one thing: the amount of great series just isn’t as large as you’d expect. Still, I’m glad that at least a few series managed to stand out for me, and now all that’s left is to hope that they’ll unexpectedly... | | |
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