| 5:07pm | Snapshots: Kurenai |  | | | Little rich damsel needs protection, high school boy with mysterious powers steps up! Here's Kurenai (紅), an action drama show airing on Chiba TV, Thursdays at 26:00 JST. | | |
| 4:43pm | Kurenai - an odd show that I cannot put my finger on. |  | | | snapshot20080405003802 snapshot20080405003708 snapshot20080405003722 snapshot20080405003734 snapshot20080405003745 snapshot20080405003753 Is it supernatural? Is it Jidai (period) style drama? Is it “kid messing up a young man’s life”? Is it “secret organization and assassination”?... | | |
| 4:43pm | Kurenai - an odd show that I cannot put my finger on. |  | | | snapshot20080405003802 snapshot20080405003708 snapshot20080405003722 snapshot20080405003734 snapshot20080405003745 snapshot20080405003753 Is it supernatural? Is it Jidai (period) style drama? Is it “kid messing up a young man’s life”? Is it “secret organization and assassination”?... | | |
| 10:31am | Some quick first impressions: Allison to Lillia, Kurenai and xxxHolic Kei | | | | Allison to Lillia Ah, the first good series of the season. This episode was pretty solid; it started out as not anything special, but as it went on, it became more interesting by the minute, and this is just the first episode. You can really see the influences of both Mokke and Kino no Tabi, and yet... | | |
| 4:13am | Kure-nai 01 |  | | | Let’s start with my initial impressions of Kure-nai. Pulling a few quotes from a previous THAT post:“Rieuzedx: I’m not feeling the character designs. The PV was kinda interesting looking though. Wait and see, wait and see.”“Rieuzedx: Kodomo no Jikan meets Persona…Kure-nai... | | |
| 8:18pm | Kure-nai #01 — This Is Your OP; This Is Your OP On Drugs | | | | Any questions? Impressions: God damn it, Allison & Lillia now I’m fixated on character noses. Alternately Shaft now has a studio competing with them for "Weirdest OP." Certainly a vaunted award, but I don’t think there’s too much other competition out there. AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnn... | | |
| 4:51pm | More Yaoi Jamboree Guests | | | | Aoi Futaba and Kurenai Mitsuba, the creators of Level C and A King’s Lesson (as well as doujinshi co-creators) are the newest two guests to be confirmed for Yaoi Jamboree this June in Phoenix. The con will also feature a charity auction to benefit 1Voice, an LGBT community center in Phoenix.... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 11:36pm | 83. Toshokan Sensou - Library Wars (Anime Predictions) | | | | Raw image by Hiro Arikawa, Production I.G., no infringement intended.Info:Title: Toshokan Sensou (Library Wars)Air Date: 4.10.08Production Team: Production I.G.Main Broadcastor: Fuji TVBlurb:There, just to save myself a bit time and to make my blurb less dumbed-down, I've added the Info section to the... | | |
| 11:26am | Cool Products: Shana Figure, Banana Mentos, and more Endless Bubble Wrap! | | | | 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... | | |
| 8:38pm | Media Rollup - Guy Fawkes Edition | | | | Yes, it's that time of year again. That glorious day when we all set off fireworks in hopes that one of them will spook the codgers in Parliament bad enough to give them all heart attacks, or at the very least a vomit-chain-reaction sort of thing, and so the Catholics will stop being mistreated.... | | |
| 11:56pm | kure-nai Website Online | | | | The official site for the upcoming anime TV series kure-nai has been put online. It's only pre-opened for the moment so there's not a whole lot to be seen there other than some samples of the character designs. Will they look like that in the show? Most assuredly! They always do, after all.... | | |
| 6:02am | Naruto Chapter 319 Flash Review | | | | CHEER UP EMO SAKURA. There, it's been said. Let us never speak of that terrible and degrading scene again. Just when Sakura was regaining much of her awesome . . . And in addition to this, we get just that bit too much exposure to Naruto's bare manly chest bits; all the while with him grunting... | | |
| 6:01am | Naruto Chapter 313 Review | | | | SummaryNii Yugito stands attentive to the coming threat of two new Akatsuki: Hidan and Kazuku. Kazuku calls for a start to the battle and Hidan demands a pause while he prays. Nii reveals her plan of luring the two into a confined space and detonates three explosion seals, cutting off any means of escape.... | | |
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