| 5:45am | Nendoroid Sheryl Nome | | | | GoodSmile Company has commenced preorder for the kawaii Nendoroid figure of the beautiful songstress Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier. She is wearing the outfit seen in one of the opening themes as well as in the final episode of the anime series. She comes with three different expressions including... | | |
| 10:32am | Cool Products Friday, May 10, 2013 | | | | For the new update, we've got some excellent products from Japan for you. You can view all new J-List products by clicking this link. Today's New & Restocked Items Newtype June 2013Newtype is one of the hottest magazines in Japan... | | |
| 7:40am | Anime Instrumentality Turns 5 – Looking Back On Our Brief History | | | | Anime Instrumentality has rocked and rolled, waltzed and jigged (the latter, possibly in a trance) its way through 5 years of existence. In that time, it has accumulated over 200 anime album reviews, over 10 concert reports, and just very recently, 1 million page views. With all of these accomplishments... | | |
| 2:20am | First Impressions: Valvrave the Liberator | | | | Instant Summary: A guy stumbles upon an insanely powerful mech when his city is being invaded.Protip: If you're using CG and not on super HD, don't bother with so many parts on your fast moving model. It'll just look a mess.It's the birth of another mech series with the most formulaic anime beginning... | | |
| 5:24am | Valvrave the Liberator 01 |  | | | All hail Valvrave! What, you think I would blog anything else but THE A++ mecha show of the season?Summary:Every show needs a good eating competitionIn the year 71 of the True Calendar with the completion of the Dyson Sphere, mankind has successfully colonized space with 70% of the population moving... | | |
| 11:00pm | Suisei no Gargantia — First Impressions | | | | A few weeks ago, I was supposedly on FAPcast to talk about previewing this season. Presumably because my internet eviscerated itself early in the recording process, I did not get the chance to talk about most of the shows I was looking forward to. If I had, you would have know that I was pretty hyped... | | |
| 8:00pm | What makes an anime memorable? |  | | | Last month, hoshiko wrote a post discussing certain qualities of anime she feels make them memorable. While I’m sure we can all think of things that make an anime “good,” I think the traits that make an anime “memorable” are different In this day and age where we have... | | |
| 8:00pm | What makes an anime memorable? |  | | | Last month, hoshiko wrote a post discussing certain qualities of anime she feels make them memorable. While I’m sure we can all think of things that make an anime “good,” I think the traits that make an anime “memorable” are different In this day and age where we have... | | |
| 6:01am | Happy Valentine’s! aka Pixiv Shipping Masterpost |  | | | Ah,Valentine’s. It is a day. A day where you’re supposed to be lovey dovey or whatever. Well, if you feel like celebrating somehow, have I got a present for you! I have a lot of pixiv tags saved up becuase I spend a LOT of time on pixiv, of course.(These are obviously not direct translations... | | |
| 4:37am | Winter 2013: Watching More Than I Expected | | | | I wasn’t interested in much before the current winter season started but as I began to try out series, I came to like most of what I sampled. Joe and Aeroblip discussed the surprising number of shorts on one of their Anime Talk episodes last month. There’s Inferno Cop, Yama no Susume,... | | |
| 11:54pm | Sentai Filmworks Announce Acquisition of AKB0048 Anime Series |  | | | North American anime publisher Sentai Filmworks have announced that they have acquired the rights to the anime series AKB0048, a 26 episode anime series directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike (Kaleido Star, Amagami SS)and featuring series composition by Mari Okada (Vampire Knight, Canaan), character designs... | | |
| 11:14pm | The Best and Worst of 2012 Anime | | | | As 2012 finally comes to an end, I felt that this year is rather subdued for Anime. Although there were some Anime that received some rave reviews that I didn’t watch, I was still satisfied by what I have already watched. Not only that, I only dropped one show this year compared to two in 2011. Still,... | | |
| 11:14pm | The Best and Worst of 2012 Anime | | | | As 2012 finally comes to an end, I felt that this year is rather subdued for Anime. Although there were some Anime that received some rave reviews that I didn’t watch, I was still satisfied by what I have already watched. Not only that, I only dropped one show this year compared to two in 2011. Still,... | | |
| 11:42pm | January 2013 Anime Previews: staff, cast, story, pic, trailer, manga, etc. | | | | Last season was one of the best I can recall. So perhaps it's fair that this season doesn't look very promising.The show I'm most looking forward to is Sasami-san@Ganbaranai, a new offering from Shinbou and Shaft about a female hikikomori who only sees the outside world through a camera attached to her... | | |
| 4:59am | AFA 2012 Event Report |  | | | My first repeat visit to the “main” AFA since the inaugural one back in 2008. This year also marks a turning point for the event too as it expands to the region, with the addition of AFAMY (event report here) and AFA Indonesia, while the main event moves to a new venue, Singapore Expo,... | | |
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