| 12:51am | GARO 01 - Picture Book |  | | | Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of knights, mankind was given hope. The episode starts off with an old museum owner hearing a strange, creepy laugh in the storage basement filled with boxes and paintings. While looking for where the noise was coming from, he sees... | | |
| 5:09am | La Corda D’Oro ~primo passo~ - Episode Fourteen |  | | | As the last episode of La Corda d’Oro ~Primo Passo~ ended with Yunoki calling Hino by her first name, Hino is abducted by Yunoki to pretend to be his preferred candidate, to be his finance. Hino goes along with Yuniko’s plan to get Ayano to stop chasing him, so Yunoki get Hino to help him out,... | | |
| 5:31am | La Corda D’Oro ~primo passo~ - Episode Eleven |  | | | This episode starts off with the evening following the second selection, with Hino, and Fuyuumi going over to Amou’s house, and having a small all girl celebration. Before school starts again for the musical student’s there a cute Shimizu scene for all the Shimizu fans out there. I really liked... | | |
| 1:03am | La Corda D’Oro ~primo passo~ - Episode Nine |  | | | This episode of La Corda d’Oro ~Primo Passo~ starts off with Hino is a bit of daze with her unsure how to greet Tsukimori, after the end of the previous episode. If you’re a Shimizu X Hino fan then you will enjoy this episode, as Hino learns more about Shimizu. After school Hino is looking... | | |
| 8:49pm | Nodame Cantabile: Raw notes | | | | Waiting on Froth-Bite to complete the series. I'm in no particular hurry, otherwise I'd have finished the last episode using speed subs. I've already read a bit about the last episode so I have a vague idea of how it's going to end, even if I don't know the minute details.While not as consistent in... | | |
| 8:30am | La Corda d’Oro volume 2 | | | | When Hino Kahoko was given a magical violin and chosen to enter her school’s music competition, it all seemed like a crazy dream. Even so, now Hino must face up to the reality of the situation, and with only two weeks to go to the first round of the competition, she must not only choose a piece to... | | |
| 11:05am | Translating titles into Japanese isn’t so easy | | | | An article at the Daily Yomiuri looks at what it’s like to translate titles from foreign languages into Japanese. Understandably, more has to go into it than just writing up the title in katakana and slapping it on a movie poster –things like peoples’ reactions and the meaning | | |
| 2:03am | Da Capo II anime - A shadow of doubt | | | | If one hasn’t noticed, I’m actually a HUGE Da Capo fan. DC has shaped many aspects my anime psyche/this blog. A cursory look at past banners would reveal an unhealthy obessession with DC girls. The only original, complete anime DVD series I own is Da Capo. My favourite anime imouto is | | |
| 10:56pm | Animage Magazine's 29th Anime Grand-Prix Results | | | | Japanese anime magazine Animage, as they do annually, launched a reader poll a few months back asking picks for favourite male/female characters, anime series, episodes, seiyuu, music, etc., and the results are revealed in their latest June issue. The results are pretty staggering, but on the | | |
| 4:56am | Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) | | | | Makoto is a very average (if slightly unlucky) high school girl who spends her free time playing baseball with her two best friends Kousuke and Chiaki. After an incredibly bad day involving a test she hasn’t studied for, a complete disaster of a cookery class and an accident in a chemistry | | |
| 6:22pm | Gothic Lolita Aya Hirano Makes Me (*´Д`)ハァハァ | | | | In the midst of having recently obtained the May issue of Seiyuu Grand Prix, volume 1 of VOICHA!, and ogling at the reports of her recent television appearance on NHK's AnimeGIGA programme (will you just survey the brilliant display of zettai ryouiki!), it is no doubt Aya fever here at Neko Mimi | | |
| 2:43pm | Karin (かりん): Episode 20 | | | | In this episode…Anju is awoken to a startling nightmare where shes in a church, pinning Karin down and biting her. She sits up from her bed and breaths hard. she sais hello to boogie-kun, but he doesn’t answer her. She picks him up, calling his name again and he tells her that he can hear | | |
| 1:58pm | Karin (かりん): Episode 19 | | | | In this episodeMaki and Karin are shopping at a store. Karin tells her she looks pretty pumped about Christmas herself. Maki expresses her love for it rather excitedly. Maki shows her a pair of gloves, and Karin tells her its a present for W-kun (who she still has no idea who that is). She | | |
| 9:13am | Mikoto's "Don'ts" on AMVs |  | | | 1. Music that has nothing to do with the AMV at handThis should not even be explained. No one wants to watch an AMV that's, for example, about Flonne from Disgaea yet has "Rewrite" as the song from Fullmetal Alchemist.2. Distracting Subtitles - Piracy AlertUsing scenes from fansubs for your AMVs | | |
| 1:06pm | Anime Review - エル・カザド El Cazador de la Bruja / "The Witch Hunter" - 01 |  | | | OP: "Hikari no Yukue" by savage geniusED: "romanesque" by FictionJunction YUUKAOP Pictures:Summary:The introduction shows us a girl stained with blood, with a dead body in front of her and talks about a scentists called Maxwell and his rejected theories of manipulating molecules ("Maxwell's | | |
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