| 3:35pm | Perfume Portfolio Interview : Translated | | | | “tannoy5″ from the Perfume City Forums has recently finished translating the whole chunk text found in Perfume’s first photobook, Perfume Portfolio. Credits to him and his translator Yosuke Yamamoto! (General editing done by sentinel011) A-CHAN A-CHAN’s 10 Key Words Name: A-CHAN... | | |
| 7:20am | First Look Fair: Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (1-4) |  | | | What would the Big One, Tokyo style, be like if it was animated? How would it affect the lives of an ordinary girl and boy? Bones did their research and tried to show what might happen, with nuanced, realistic results. It’s the most promising show of the season. Many of you might not know that... | | |
| 9:14am | At this point I can no longer back down – and I’m hoping neither will you | | | | (If at any point you find these 2000 words to be too overwhelming, click here to skip to the last few paragraphs at the end; although you’ll be missing out on some great stories) I like to make things sound so dramatic, when obviously they are not such. Well, maybe not to you anyway; certainly... | | |
| 2:30pm | Eden of the East 09 |  | | | Summary: Akira convinces Yutaka by getting a MLB player traded to the Carps, bumping their chances of winning this year’s championship to 99.98% on Yutaka’s Social Computer. Yutaka leads Akira through a crawlspace to his “secret base” and gets to work decoding the various purchase... | | |
| 5:07am | Eden of the East – Impressions and Plot Conjectures | | | | Continuing with my spring 2009 anime impression posts is the latest work by the director of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Seirei no Morbito, Kenji Kamiyama – East of Eden. As an original work, it’s impossible to accurately gauge the quality of East of Eden before it aired but from... | | |
| 11:38pm | Nana Mizuki Smile Gang 5th Anniversary! Shassu F!! | | | | In my continued quest to spend more money than I actually have, I ordered this little gem along with a bunch of magazines to help balance out shipping costs last week. Celebrating the 5th anniversary’s of Nana Mizuki’s Smile Gang radio show back in 2007, the DVD is basically a live recording... | | |
| 11:40pm | Future Diary Vol 1 by Sakae Esuno Manga Review | | | | Title: Future Diary Vol 1 Author: Sakae Esuno Publisher: Tokyopop ISBN: 9781427815576 May Contain Spoilers Yukiteru is shy and reclusive, and his only hobby is keeping a diary on his cell phone. Other students have given up long ago on engaging with him in any meaningful manner,... | | |
| 1:16pm | Cool Stuff Thursday, April 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... | | |
| 11:31am | Time to Buy a New Cell Phone | | | | Over the weekend I went with my son to get him a new keitai, or cell phone. Portable phones are so ubiquitous in Japan that NTT has actually started removing some payphones from public areas due to lack of use. With the penetration rate for cell phones near 100%, things can get pretty competitive between... | | |
| 5:25am | Kimikiss~pure rouge: Or, Romancing the Ensemble Romance | | | | My love affair is only just beginning--with Kimikiss, not Yuumi. (but her too) First: I picked up Kimikiss, uh, last night. I’m now on episode 7 24 hours later, which isn’t bad progress at all (for me, anyway), and I’m highly surprised that I’m that far already. This is a good... | | |
| 10:52am | iPhone vs the Giant Cell Phone Robot | | | | I got my Japanese iPhone 3G, and am currently experiencing that state of gadget-derived bliss known as "Nerdvanna." While I was waiting for them to process my phone, I wandered around the Softbank store to check out what other models they were selling, so I could do my semi-regular "State of the Cell... | | |
| 4:47pm | Omo and truth about BOST |  | | | Omo writes at length on the perennieal issue of Internet vs. anime (I just cannot make myself to call it “digital distribution”, because obviously DVDs are quite digital without Internet). It’s quite good despite the length, RTWT. Just one note: [] to pull down some pant-less, flash-based... | | |
| 6:56pm | v is for vending machines! | | | | NOTE: I just did a cursory look-through and there are tons of typos. I apologize for this oversight! It’s late and I’m tired (had an interview hohoho, driving lessons and creative writing class =A=;;) and very hungry and yes. Typos are not edible. PingMag (one of my favourite online magazines... | | |
| 7:34am | Rescue Me Mave-chan | | | | Mave-chan is a one-episode OVA, blurbed thus: One day he is transported to another dimension where the jet planes from the anime, Yukikaze, take on the form of beautiful girls fighting a never-ending battle against the JAM. And it was only $7.99+tax. How could I pass it? It turned out very far ranging.... | | |
| 7:40am | Druaga, BOST, etc. | | | | With a supreme effort of will, I managed to open the new season at last, and this time I’m doing it in a legal way, thanks to BOST (of course we all know that certain things are only made “illegal” because certain interests bent the copyright regime to their advantage and the detriment... | | |
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