| 3:28pm | プリズム・アーク ~プリズム・ハート エピソード2~ |  | | | What does it take for one to attain happiness? Is it heroism, to ultimately secure the happiness of many? Is it self-sacrifice, the willingness to give one’s own life to save happiness even at the cost of oneself? Is it friendship, wherein one’s happiness becomes one’s strength? Is... | | |
| 4:13pm | The lure of light-haired lolis - A lascivious lolicious list | | | | I know it’s blasphemous to exclude Nadesico’s Ruri (who is believed to be the mother of all light haired lolis) from this list but my overflowing love for Anzu compels me. (Yes, I fully enjoyed DCIISS ep 02.) Light haired lolis (LHLs) have a special place in my heart. If an anime character... | | |
| 6:25pm | Super Smash Roundup Brawl | | | | I need a Wii. Anyway, since I’ve been a bit absent the last couple of days and my weekend looks absolutely insane, I thought I’d put together a big ol’ round-up of recent news. HERE WE GO! Anime: - VIZ has announced that Buso Renkin season 1 will be released in a box set on April... | | |
| 1:55am | Vampire Knight - 03 |  | | | Zero goes for the gold. “Oh SHIT I meant to do this AFTER our first date! Gahh my chances are gone!! “ Haha ever since Karin ended I needed a hawt new vampire series to follow. I honestly loved the last few minutes if the show, while the first few really bored me. Basically any... | | |
| 10:45pm | NYCC08: License/Announcement Roundup | | | | My favorite thing I bought at the con: a Gurren Lagann jacket. (My favorite free swag? Tie between Del Rey’s Fairy Tail slap bracelet and Vertical’s Blackjack syringe/pen.) Okay folks, here it is– all of the new manga/anime licenses and announcements that were made at New York Comic... | | |
| 2:41am | The Positives & Negatives of Open Comments. |  | | | It’s been a while since I did a real rant & rave post so here I go for old time’s sake. I was just thinking what my fellow comrad does on his blog and flames everyone while shutting comments off so no one can flame him back. While I really don’t care to flame people or bloggers,... | | |
| 8:16pm | Spring Anime -- 10 More First Looks | | | | So far, Kurenai is the only show that I think might equal my top shows of the past year (true tears, ef, Blue Drop, Hitohira, Lucky Star), but this is a very broad season, with many good shows, several of which could develop into something great. I covered 24 shows in a previous post. Here are ten more... | | |
| 12:06pm | Macross Frontier - 02 | | | | Ah, why not? I’m going to blog this series. Thanks to L.A. for pointing out that I missed this series. This series is basically THE powerhouse in animation-budget for this season, plus Yoko Kanno’s work is very impressive as well. The second episode was also much better than the rather... | | |
| 2:42am | Manga Review: Karin Vol. 14 (Finale) |  | | | And so after 5 years the Karin manga comes to a close. While it was actually a shounen (seinen maybe?) manga, the ending made it feel like a shoujo one to me lol. Whatever though, it was satisfying and it brought me to tears so I give it a 5 star rating and recommend everyone check it out. (Although... | | |
| 8:45pm | さくらシュトラッセ | | | | Sakura Strasse is ぱれっと’s latest offering, released this January 25th. It’s about Harumi Ayase and how his life turns around when a witch named Marie Rudel comes into the picture, as well as how he, his sister Yuka, and his osananajimi Satomura Karin try to bring back life into his... | | |
| 11:01pm | Mining for Diamonds in the April 08 Previews | | | | Oh, look at that! I received my comics late, so it must be Previews week! You can look for these little gems in June. Amazon.com Widgets Shirley by Kaoru Mori - CMX - Well, it may be a year before the last volume of EMMA is released, but we’re got this single-volume collection of maid-rific... | | |
| 12:23am | Kami-chama Karin Opening Theme - Ankoku Tengoku | | | | Dark HeavenVocals: ALI PROJECTLyrics: Takarano ArikaComposition: Katakura MikiyaArrangement: Katakura MikiyaDarling, open your eyesIn the den of the evils of this worldGive me a heart that’ll be pecked atOh the imprisoned pale princeWho can’t even escapeI’m a goddessThe butterfly’s... | | |
| 5:53am | Sakura08: Swagpost Day Two, Wrap-Up, & Random Pics | | | | So it turns out that tomorrow’s Bandai Visual USA panel has been cancelled, which means I have no panels to cover, which means I’ll probably spend most of the day hanging around in the dealer’s room, acting as a booth babe for KumoriCon. In the meantime, here are the primary highlights... | | |
| 8:58pm | 49 New Anime: preview, staff, cast, story, pic | | | | As usual, what looked like a poor season is actually shaping up to have a number of interesting shows. Nothing so far looks like an instant classic, but there are always surprises. And with 49 shows (including OVAs), there could be plenty of surprises.Hirano Aya returns to anime in a big way, starring... | | |
| 11:18pm | Sakura08: Broccoli LiveBlog | | | | Okay, my internets are SUPER SLOW thanks to my sister-in-law sending me a bunch of photos and me being on slow internet to begin with, so we’ll see how this goes. That said, I’m in with Broccoli’s marketing coordinator Johnathan Kung instead of Shizuki Yamashita, who usually runs Broccoli’s... | | |
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