| 9:05am | A Preview: Skip Beat! TV |  | | | While the rest of our fellow anime enthusiasts peruse selections from upcoming fall shows, this sporadic-anime-watcher-cum-blo gger focuses her energy on a single title. Yes, one. It’s sad, but true.source: Sweet Revenge Skip Beat!, a Yoshiki Nakamura creation, centers on Kyoko Mogami, an average... | | |
| 2:40am | Love Com Vols. 4 & 5 - Manga Review | | | | Continuing my library binge of manga, here’s my review of Lovely Complex volumes 4 and 5. The bad news: Otani can’t come up with a new name besides “Jumbo-gal” to call Risa, and Risa can’t come up with something other than “Shrimp” to call Otani. In volume 4,... | | |
| 1:43am | Love Com Vol. 3 - Manga Review | | | | My local library has a ton of manga, so I decided to go on a bit of a Love*Com marathon of sorts. Here’s volume 3! Review: In this volume, Risa and Otani are both still a bit confused about their relationship. Otani says a lot of messed up stuff, like “It’s hard to believe sometimes,... | | |
| 10:40pm | sdcc: VIZ Shojo Beat | | | | In just a few! We’ve got Marc Weidenbaum, Pancha Diaz, and Narasu Rebbaprasada. They’re going to show three anime clips, including Vampire Knight– which, again, they do NOT have the rights to. We’re walking through titles we’ve heard about recently: Honey Hunt, Magic Touch,... | | |
| 12:11am | Love Com Vol. 2 - Manga Review | | | | The adventures of short-lad and jumbo-gal continue in Love*Com Volume 2! Review: So in this chapter, the plotline concerning Otani and Risa’s bet on who will get a girl/boyfriend first continues. Otani is still pretty blatantly dense about Risa’s feelings. But then again, so is Risa! Since... | | |
| 2:10am | Itazura na Kiss EP 14 vs. Special A EP 14 | | | | That’s right we’re taking the pudding fight to the next level. We’ scrapped the weekly highlights of Itazura na Kiss in favour of a weekly battle with between it and Special A. Don’t be too upset fans of highlights & lowlights, you can still expect to see the same nonsensical,... | | |
| 8:30am | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Episode 1- A Really Awkward Title To Type |  | | | At least Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de had an abbreviated title that fans used (Kimiaru), this one has nothing that I’m aware of. Anyways, the basic story for Nogizaka Haruka is something like as follows: normal guy accidentlly finds out school idol is an otaku and keeps her secret, so... | | |
| 4:35am | On Love: Love Doctrines for the Modern Bishoujo | | | | Getting a boyfriend is tough, but for lovable lasses like Miya here reading this post could help her come up with a winning plan to make Lulu her HUNNI. Ah music to me ears. Well I guess waiting for the professor to compile all the data from every land is now the norm so in the mean time I guess more... | | |
| 11:46pm | Toshokan Sensou: Top 3 Moments | | | | It’s become a tradition for us here are KA to take a look back at some of our favorite shows and pick the top three moments form the entire series. So just like we did for Kurenai and Hosaka we’re going to give the treatment to Toshokan Sensou aka Library War. Oh - we know Hosaka is... | | |
| 12:55am | Love Com Vol 7 by Aya Nakahara Manga Review | | | | Title: Love Com Vol 7 Author: Aya Nakahara Publisher: Viz ISBN: 9781421517407 May Contain Spoilers Will things finally start working out for Risa and Otani? When the tallest girl in class falls for the shortest guy, you know that they’re going to be in for a rocky... | | |
| 5:47am | My Step into Taiwanese Dramas |  | | | Recently I’ve been watching Taiwanese drama series nonstop. My objectives were twofold: 1. To see whether TWDramas had outgrown their status as el-cheapo cousins of J-Dramas. 2. To improve my Mandarin listening skills. To this end, I would be limiting my choice of series to ones with relatively... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 12:15am | Mining for Diamonds in the June 08 Previews | | | | Because of the holiday, I received my issue of Previews late. Real life has also been nuts, so I haven’t been able to pour over the pages like I usually do. Here’s an abbreviated list of books I’m looking forward to from the June Previews, shipping in August. Amazon.com Widgets... | | |
| 3:13pm | June 2008 Contests and Sales | | | | Leading things off this month are three contests:Third International Manga Competition (MIMC) First, Kodansha’s weekly manga magazine, Morning, is presenting its Third International Manga Competition (MIMC). The purpose of the competition is to find and develop new talent. The grand prize is... | | |
| 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... | | |
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