| 11:53am | Nendoroid Drossel PV Preview | | | | Mika-tan has uploaded some lovely preview photos of the upcoming Nendoroid Drossel onto the GSC’s blog. She looks so cute with her oversized head ^^ But the coolest thing is that her eyes can light up. It just looks so cool in the dark. Source: Goodsmile Blog by Mika-tan Related PostsNendoroid... | | |
| 8:52am | Cool Products Monday, July 13, 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... | | |
| 11:55am | Nendoroid Asakura Yume PVC Preorder Starts | | | | Just in case you didn’t know, preorders for the lovely Nendoroid Asakura Yume starts today! She is scheduled to be release in late October 2009, and will be retailing for around 3,250 yen. Interested folks can place your preorder at Hobby Search or Toylet. I can already imagine all the fun things... | | |
| 8:04am | Lucky Star Hina Doll Set – Four Months too late |  | | | Those who were following my Japan trip posts would know that I brought some Lucky Star goods home. ^^ So I finally got the time to open it up and check it out. And it’s 4 months too late because Hinamatsuri is on the 3rd of March ^^;; First up is the Lucky Star Hina Doll set which cost me a hefty... | | |
| 7:37am | Nendoroid PLUS: Lucky Star Cosplay Charm Series 2 | | | | The first batch of Lucky☆Star Charms were released back in April. Now GoodSmile Company is back with the second series and this time the girls are cosplaying famous commanders from the Sengoku era! There are a total of six sets to collect and like the previous time, a seperate set will be sold in... | | |
| 5:10pm | TJ Han on GA:GADC |  | | | On RIUVA: The similarities are striking, with GA also being adapted from that kind of manga and featuring a group of girls doing their hobby. But unlike K-ON, which was a bit mundane, dull and unfunny, GA is not only educationally informative, it is also very witty and well-written gag-moe style. In... | | |
| 12:07pm | Nendoroid Asakura Yume PVC Preview | | | | How many of you have bought the lovely limited edition Nendoroid Asakura Otome? Mika-tan has just posted preview photos of her sister Nendoroid Asakura Yume on the GSC blog, and she sure is kawaii!! Here are a couple more photos to showcase her sweetness. I just love how the good folks at GSC included... | | |
| 9:22am | Cool Products Wednesday, July 8, 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... | | |
| 3:53am | GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class Anime is how K-ON Should have Been Done. | | | | The similarities are striking, with GA also being adapted from that kind of manga and featuring a group of girls doing their hobby. But unlike K-ON, which was a bit mundane, dull and unfunny, GA is not only educationally informative, it is also very witty and well-written gag-moe style. In fact I would... | | |
| 4:55pm | Spring 2009 Season Conclusion | | | | Found one of these in my mail box this morning. Wats goin on? I suppose it’s about time to write up a post about whatever survived on my watchlist to the bitter end. Let me start off with Chrome Shelled Regios. In the end it was a rather plain experience and the ending felt like cheating, even... | | |
| 1:29am | Pictures from Anime Expo 2009 | | | | Okay, by reader request here are some pictures of the show, randomly and in no particular order.The hit of the show were our spiffy J-List printed event bags we'd brought, which people were carrying all over the place.Lots of cosplay to shoot pictures of. Here's a guy dressed up as Marisa from Touhou,... | | |
| 11:56pm | GA Art Design Class #01 — Attention Deficit Disorder | | | | Suffer from it? Nah, I enjoy it. New Season Disclaimer: I try to watch at least the first episode of every new show in a season. However, do not expect anything I say to be fair or balanced. I value my own entertainment above all else and there are some genres or methods of presentation that I just... | | |
| 4:11pm | Happy Birthday Hiiragi Twins! |  | | | And what better present to give them than to have a second season of Lucky Star? XD WISH IT!!! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebanzaieff ect.com%2Farticles%2Fnutcase23 %2Fhappy-birthday-hiiragi-twin s%2F'; addthis_title = 'Happy+Birthday+Hiiragi+Twins% 21'; addthis_pub = ''; | | |
| 12:00am | Remembering Love as Homage in Anime: Eureka SeveN x Mobile Suit Gundam | | | | [This post is infested with spoilers] Paying homage in the context of a media work is the recreation of one work of fiction in the context of another, with the referencing done as an ‘inside joke’ or an ‘easter egg’ for those familiar with the referenced work. Often this is... | | |
| 1:52am | Nodame Cantabile 11-14 | | | | I’m just astounded that the current series I’m most excited about is old news to the aniblogosphere, being ‘current’ only WRT the Animax Asia broadcast schedule. Chiaki’s story was interesting from the get-go and I look forward to his (inevitable?) success. And it was... | | |
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