| 6:40pm | Saki Tacos: Yes This is the Best Promotion | | | | In a move I would have been angry about if no one ended up doing it, Japanese taco chain Taco Derio has decided to start using the face of this year’s most popular taco enthusiast in Japan, Kataoka Yuuki from Saki. Order at a Taco Derio and you can get a Yuuki-themed tray mat to show off to your... | | |
| 11:27pm | K-ON! review |  | | | The most popular anime series of the spring 2009 season comes to an end, at least for now For series like K-ON!, especially ones by KyoAni such as Haruhi, Lucky Star, and the Visual Art’s/Key series, you either like this slice-of-life genre with its moe character archetypes or you don’t.... | | |
| 8:56am | Touchdown! nutcase23 is back in Singapore!!! |  | | | Finally back on Singapore soil. It’s been fun and I now have a terrible task of sifting through the thousands of photos ahead of me. I wasn’t expecting any anime merchandise to be available but shopping around resulted me in finding 2 Lucky Star gems. I guess you can call them the proverbial... | | |
| 7:54pm | Saitama Mulls Lucky Star Uniforms for Schoolgirls |  | | | Saitama prefecture, home of Lucky Star, is considering a proposal to make the schoolgirls of the prefecture switch to wearing uniforms based on the design from the hit anime. The proposal, submitted by the “Prefectural Anime Tourism Investigative Commission”, a group compromised of professionals... | | |
| 1:35pm | Anime Review: Venus Versus Virus |  | | | You know, for being called The Anime Almanac, I sure haven’t been showcasing a lot of anime as of late. The last anime review I did was of the first Lucky Star DVD from over a year ago. The last time I even directly talked about any anime show in particular was my analysis of Haré + Guu. Since... | | |
| 10:43am | Cool Products Wednesday, June 24, 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... | | |
| 8:39pm | Studying the Realism in the Fujoshi Character Design | | | | Ever since the mid-2000s the fujoshi character has seen an increase in overall presence in anime and manga, as evidenced by my Fujoshi Files, an ongoing project where I catalogue fujoshi characters. While comparing various fujoshi characters, especially in seinen manga, I began to realize something... | | |
| 6:30pm | Yamakan to Direct Special OP OVA for Tonari no 801-chan Manga | | | | Bad-boy director Yamamoto Yutaka 山本寛 (Yamakan) will direct a 90-second OP animation to be released with vol4 of the comic Tonari no 801-chan, on September 10.Maybe it's more common than I realize, but I've never heard of releasing an OP animation with a manga. A special anime episode, yes. But... | | |
| 5:00pm | Big Indoor Figure Photoshoot - Overall Conclusion |  | | | Well now that I have finally posted the photo-shoots for the five figures (4 and one group) up I figured I would take a look and reflect upon how this indoor photo-shoot was done. Overall, I have to say that I suck at taking indoor photos. I’m no expert by any means but even the pictures I took years... | | |
| 5:00pm | Yui’s Fine Whine, or Why Mio Is More Than What Meets the Eyes | | | | Azusa is a bullfrog. She’s a good friend of mine? I have a lot to say about K-ON, but there’s not a lot of impetus for me to write them down. In fact the only thing out there that nags me is the ongoing debate about people’s expectation of what K-ON is suppose to be. Generally that’s... | | |
| 2:42pm | Muteki na Fujoshi: 801-chan’s Small Anime Revival | | | | Months ago I reported on the fact that the popular Japanese webcomic turned franchise Tonari no 801-chan, about a hardcore fujoshi and her otaku boyfriend, was getting an anime and later that the anime was getting scrapped. Well now it is back in the form of a 90-second opening-only anime titled Tonari... | | |
| 4:31am | K-On! episode 12 review; the finale of a light & fluffy series. | | | | This episode begins with Yui waking from a weird dream about Mugi’s eyebrows, and we see that Yui has a very bad cold and her sister Ui is caring for her. Ui tells Yui that she’ll contact the school, Ui looks like she doesn’t want to leave her sister but Yui tells... | | |
| 11:18pm | Summer '09 Previews | | | | With several shows that I enjoy carrying on from spring; add 14 new ones, plus Haruhi new episodes, Zetsubou Sensei 3rd and Ookami 2nd season; this summer looks very promising! The highlights are of course Canaan from the Type-Moon team, Umineko from Higurashi creators and SHAFT's second TV show this... | | |
| 10:56am | Cool Products Friday, June 19, 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... | | |
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