| 7:59am | Lyrical Magical - Third Place Ramblings | | | | Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha has a weird place in my List Of Anime I Like. Every time someone asks me about my Top Ten (or Five or Three) anime, number one will obviously be Card Captor Sakura, and number two will be The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, since both of them made me see the | | |
| 1:26pm | 1/7 Teana Lanster PVC | | | | Alter today has announced the release of Teana Lanster from the anime series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. She is scheduled to be released in Jan 09 and will be retailing for 6,800 yen. Does that mean we will be seeing Subaru Nakajima being produced by Alter soon? | | |
| 3:34am | It Truly is a Smile for You: Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san | | | | When listing the tropes of the magical girl genre, certain traits come to mind. Shows are generally targeted towards mainly a female audience. Romance is usually a focus. Magic is used in some manner of wish fulfillment, either by the characters or the viewers or even both. Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san,... | | |
| 6:20pm | Forget Realism, Let’s Have Some Magic | | | | Over at Borderline Hikikomori, Crisu writes about attempting a lecture on mahou shoujo. To this, Damien Kellis of Moe Check! responds with a piece on shoujo versus shounen. Considering that I’ve spent over four hours over the past two weekends working on an unfinished, content-light Cardcaptor... | | |
| 7:18pm | Attempting a lecture on mahou shoujo |  | | | Take your average anime club in America. It probably has a lot of mainstream fans — people who watch DBZ, Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop Well you’ll mostly get a lot of shounen fans. Said shounen fans probably won’t take magical girl series very seriously. Or they’ll approach it... | | |
| 4:59pm | Much Ado About Shugo Chara! | | | | So Shugo Chara! has added a late-night showing to its schedule, spurring commenters to suggest that she was getting a late show a la Soul Eater, although there doesn’t seem to be any official word of additional content, so I wouldn’t go expecting anything extra just yet. Commenters also... | | |
| 9:59am | Saimoe Catchup 2- 9/5-6 |  | | | Yep, Paydays cause me to be busy.9/5E21位 723票 シ ナ@灼眼のシャナII(S hana@Shakugan no Shana Second)2位 279票 久遠 未有@君が主で執事 俺で(Kuonji Miyu@Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de)3位 224票 加賀愛 さよなら絶望先生(Kaga Ai@Sayonara... | | |
| 8:05pm | Medley of Thoughts Plus My Opinion Of Nanoha StrikerS | | | | Hold that thought.University LifeAfter two years of atrophy, both physically and mentally, I am finally a college student. After hours of flying, I am back in Boston once more and headed straight to my university so that I could move into my room. And it was a surprise to me to find myself in a house... | | |
| 8:42pm | Saimoe Results 9/4 |  | | | Fake votes return.for Nanoha.E11位 600票 桜 音羽@スカイガール (Sakurano Otoha@Sky Girls)2位 419票 神凪 乃@風のスティグマ(K annagi Ayano@Kaze no Stigma)3位 301票 久遠 森羅@君が主で執事 俺で(Kuonji Shinra@Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga... | | |
| 4:50pm | Saimoe results 9/3 |  | | | No lulz from the cat, thankfully.D41位 476票 倉由夢@D.C.II 〜ダ・カーポII〜(Asakur a Yume@D.C.II)2位 246票 乃結美@キミキス pure rouge(Hoshino Yuumi@Kimikiss pure rouge)3位 200票 九軒 まわり@xxxHOLiC◆継(Ku nogi Himawari@xxxHOLiC Kei)The Asakuras... | | |
| 9:00pm | Now This Is Only My Opinion, Volume 6 | | | | Erica is on vacation this week. She will have sporadic access to the internet, so has thoughtfully supplied reviews ahead of time for you to be entertained and/or outraged by. Comment approval and replies will undoubtedly be delayed while she eats lobster rolls and steals rocks from protected sites.Thanks... | | |
| 9:44pm | THIS is how you fandub an anime opening |  | | | [YouTube Link] My favorite singer is back on the net! w00t. Himeka’s singing of Innocent Starter (Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, trance remix) made me have a orchestragasm. /shotforbadpun | | |
| 7:24am | Saimoe 2008 8/31 Results |  | | | When Rena is involved, Fake Votes Ahoy!D11位 996票 一ノ ことみ@CLANNAD(Ichinose Kotomi@CLANNAD)2位 551票 清浦刹那@School Days シリーズ(Kiyoura Setsuna@School Days series)3位 365票 ノー ・アレント@狼と香 料(Nora Arendt@Spice and Wolf)Mamiko Noto... | | |
| 8:55am | Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha - My First Review AKA Second Chances Part I | | | | I can be a very forgiving anime viewer, though one place I’ve often shown my brutality is at the start of a show. A good beginning or at least one that gets you interested, is obviously very important in any form of media, and bad beginnings have ruined a lot of shows chances at becoming | | |
| 12:00am | Saimoe 2008 Tournament - 1st Bracket - 21/08 Results |  | | | auauauau~1位 452票 ギ ガ・ナカジマ@魔法 女リリカルなのはStrik erS(Ginga Nakajima@Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS)2位 374票 杏 詩歌@ムシウタ(Anmoto Shiika@Mushiuta)3位 241票 田端ゆい@H2O -FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND-(Tabata Yui@H2O -FOOTPRINTS... | | |
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