| 1:30am | 115. Kamui Gaiden (New Movie Review) | | | | Hello, fellow Japanese movie fans. I have recently watched the new Kamui Gaiden film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and here are my thoughts on the film. As many movie-info websites can tell you, this was a big, $18million USD budget ninja fiction film based on a 1960s manga called Kamui.... | | |
| 2:32pm | One Piece – Movie 7 |  | | | The Straw Hat Pirates are off to solve riddles? The Straw Hat crew manages to nab themselves a treasure box. In hopes of landing it big, they open it only to find an old lady inside. Promising them the Golden Crown if they return her home, Luffy agrees even though there’s no proof of the Golden... | | |
| 9:16pm | Figma Vita [Knight Ver.] | | | | Apart from Figma Nanoha [The Movie 1st Ver.], MaxFactory has also announced preorder for this lovely figma of Vita from the anime series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. She is scheduled for release in Jan 2010 and will be retailing for around 2,800 yen. Interested folks can place your preorders... | | |
| 7:14pm | Figma Nanoha [The Movie 1st Ver.] | | | | MaxFactory has announced preorder for this figma of Nanoha Takamachi from the upcoming anime movie Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st. She is scheduled for release in Jan 2010 and will be retailing for around 2,800 yen. Interested folks can place your preorders with Hobby Search, Hobby Link... | | |
| 11:39am | Nanoha Movie |  | | | Due out in December is the loli version of Nanoha from Nanoha The Movie 1st. Retails for 2800 yen and you can see more pics at Good Smile. Which Nanoha do you prefer - Lady or Loli Nanoha? I kinda prefer the loli version of the Figma. The movie will be out Jan 23rd 2010. | | |
| 5:44pm | Suzumiya Haruhi II 14 (2009 – 24) [Final] |  | | | Haruhi finishes her movie. Impressions: This episode was really good I thought a great end to the movie arc. The one thing that just absolutely surprised me though, in this episode, was the amount of talk between Kyon and the supernaturals about not trusting each other. There was a lot of talk about... | | |
| 3:21pm | One Piece – Movie 8 |  | | | A One Piece movie that offers nothing new for its fans and at the same time newcomers should avoid completely. A simple remake of the Alabasta storyline, Luffy and crew are caught in a country in the midst of a civil war, both sides mislead by Crocodile and his goons to fight each other, each side... | | |
| 10:40pm | Brilliance of Life, Billions of Stars: Rintaro’s Galaxy Express 999 | | | | Whenever I am asked to list my favorite anime of all time, I unequivocally give the same answer: the Galaxy Express 999 movie. Released in 1979 and directed by Rintaro, I first watched it theatrically many, many years later, when I was about 16 years old. Galaxy Express 999 is instrumental in defining... | | |
| 7:27am | Film Review – Pixar’s UP | | | | I finally had the opportunity to catch Pixar’s latest work – Up. As a fan of Pixar from their very first movie, Toy Story, I had every intention of catching this in the movie theaters but various reasons prevented me at first. When I was ready to go, it had been playing for well over a month and... | | |
| 11:20am | Cool Products Monday, September 7, 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... | | |
| 5:00pm | Suzumiya Haruhi II - 12 (2009 - 22) |  | | | Haruhi continues to push Mikuru to perform better in the movie and her influence causes things to get dangerous. Impressions: I thought this episode was great. Even without any huge enormous disasters impending, I think they are doing a good enough job showing the characters and utilizing quirks about... | | |
| 5:40am | The Wrestler Thoughts (A Next Generation Rocky) | | | | So I just finished watching The Wrestler (I know this has nothing to do with anime, but I still like to talk about my western movies as people probably already know so please hear my out) on my cable services On Demand feature and I realize that I’m about a year too late for this, but this... | | |
| 4:33am | 113. Deeply Felt Things... (Special + Movie) | | | | Zooey Deschanel on the cover of NYLON magazine.I am not a huge fan of the movie, (500) Days of Summer. However, I am a big fan of Zooey Deschanel. Ever since I saw her in Yes Man alongside Jim Carrey, I started to pay attention to the film works of this girl with the crystal blue eyes and smiles with... | | |
| 7:44pm | Up is touchingly good. |  | | | Y’know, if Pixar continues with this, I might really need to stop going to the cinemas to watch their movies because crying in public is kinda embarrassing. But yeah, I just watched Up and this is the second Pixar movie since The Incredibles that I am really liking. Last year’s WALL-E was... | | |
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