| 6:55pm | Koihime Musou -- Character Pics and Info | | | | This season's most outrageous show is Koihime Musou. It reworks stories from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi 三国演义), but as comedy, and with an all-female cast.Cao Cao is a short girl with ringlets (picture at right), and hairpins in the shape of skulls. Guan Yu is a big-breasted... | | |
| 2:00pm | Manga Review - Kashimashi: 83% | | | | The Essentials Name: Kashimashi Genre: Comedy, Romance Tankoubon: 5 Serialized In: Comic Dengeki Daioh Released: May 21, 2004 - March 21, 2007 Story: Satoru Akahori Art: Yukimaru Katsura Published By (Japan): MediaWorks Published By (US): Seven SeasScores Story: 9/10 (x 3 = 27 pts) Art: 8/10 (x 3 = 24... | | |
| 9:16pm | Publishers ‘vs’ Fans | | | | Erica, over at Okazu has posted an interesting post. I disagree with her choice of title, since after reading it through several times, I don’t see what she write as the truth. Rather it’s the truth from her perspective as a small publisher. Be that as it may, after talking about it some... | | |
| 5:50pm | Seven Seas still spewing garbage!! | | | | Well, after reading Erica’s post yesterday, I wasn’t going to bother with this. Though I had my suspicions I couldn’t be bothered to research any further. However that’s changed today as I received an e-mail from amazon and a phone call from one of my suppliers, both saying they... | | |
| 8:56pm | The death knell for yuri?? | | | | Over at Okazu Erika broke the news that many have been suspecting for a good few months now. Seven Seas have put almost their entire yuri line on hold. Apparently the only one not to be put on hold is Strawberry Panic, and lets face it that’s probably only because they’ve fully released... | | |
| 6:29pm | Amuri in Star Ocean 01 -- weird gem of moe science-fiction | | | | Now that there is a fansub for this show, perhaps it will begin to get the attention it deserves.Hoshi no Umi no Amuri 星の海のアムリ is a three-episode OVA done almost entirely in 3DCG, including the characters. I would call it a moe science-fiction fantasy: it's real moe, and real science fiction.What... | | |
| 2:35pm | [Hynavian] Battle of the Publishers - The Good, The Bad and The HORRIBLE! | | | | Friends who know me well enough will know that I’m a manga collector who treat my manga like gold. I collect raw manga, the English version and sometimes, the Mandarin version (traditional/simplified). They’re kept in top notch condition, no dust, no dog ears and they’re as good as... | | |
| 2:00pm | Summer 2008 Anime Preview | | | | It’s that time again: It’s time to look at what anime is airing in the Summer 2008 season. Shows are listed in alphabetical order. There are 7 possible levels of ratings that I’ll give a show:Will definitely blog itMay blog itWill definitely watch itMay watch itMay watch it if I hear good things... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 5:57pm | Full Summer Anime Preview -- staff, cast, trailers, pics, stories | | | | For me, the best way to guess how good a coming anime will be, is by looking at its staff: the director and writers and animation director and sound director, and so on. People who have made good shows before tend to make good shows again.I sometimes start watching a show for its voice actors, but I... | | |
| 4:00am | T.H.A.T.’s Summer 2008 Anime Preview (Updated 6/14) |  | | | Summer timeand the livin’s easy Since Impz has bailed on us for three weeks to go to some academic conference, the duty of creating the THAT Anime Blog Summer 2008 Preview falls to me. Thankfully it’s not a fall or spring preview or I’d have to kill him. This preview uses pretty much the... | | |
| 3:13am | Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Anime | | | | Thou art more workbut shorter than spring! Yes, folks, it’s time for the summer preview– a little bit early, but that’s because this time around I included shows airing this June (one of which starts tomorow), and would have included August had there been any! Yaaaaay. This summer... | | |
| 6:59am | Are Seven Seas Entertainment about to die? | | | | Me and Seven Seas have had a rocky relationship over the past year. Starting back in October/November last year I ran into difficulties getting the Kashimashi volumes. After months of messing around SSE said it was due to them moving distributors to Tor. This would have been fine, things like this... | | |
| 11:52pm | T.H.A.T.’s Summer 2008 Anime Preview |  | | | Summer timeand the livin’s easy Since Impz has bailed on us for three weeks to go to some academic conference, the duty of creating the THAT Anime Blog Summer 2008 Preview falls to me. Thankfully it’s not a fall or spring preview or I’d have to kill him. This preview uses pretty much the... | | |
| 1:52pm | Yuri Manga: Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl, Volume 5 (English) | | | | This is likely to be the last time I write about this series. Anime is over, been licensed, been reviewed. Manga has been reviewed - twice. Once in English, once in Japanese. This is the final volume. To my surprise, I'm a little saddened by that.When I first began to read this series, I witheld my affection,... | | |
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