| 3:20am | THYME - forever we can make it! PV (To LOVE-Ru OP) |  | | | With the finale of To LOVE-Ru coming up this week, I thought this would be as good a time as ever to post the PV for the opening theme. When I first heard this song back in April, I admittedly had no idea who THYME was, but found the song itself surprisingly catchy---a sentiment that only... | | |
| 6:59pm | Seiyuu Romance -- Do Nana-chan and Hana-chan Have Boyfriends? | | | | Fair warning: this post is pure tabloid fluff.This summer, we have had a couple of seiyuu romance rumors, one of them old but proven.1. A photo-booth photo has turned up showing Hanazawa Kana 花澤香菜 with her boyfriend in 2006.2. 2channel has been playing with a rumor that Mizuki Nana 水樹奈々and... | | |
| 4:44pm | Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto ~Natsu no Sora~ 5-7: Unmagically Magical | | | | I really think this is the perfect anime to watch and write about, especially in the wasted sickly state that I’m currently in (oh fever please go away already… for good ). This IS my iyashikei~ (Yes, I decided to make use of the super long title again because it captures this series best)... | | |
| 5:17pm | Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora- 03 |  | | | First assignment. This episode started with very cool over stylized surfing scenes and then it went into breakfast mode. Fortunately it looks like HAL won’t put Midorikawa into stereotypical “lonely, angry outsider” cliche. Sure, he’s not the most friendly guy around, but... | | |
| 9:14pm | Takahashi Mikako no Koto | | | | Mikako Takahashi (高橋美佳子) is a seiyuu and J-pop singer born May 29, 1980 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Under the alias Mikako Hyatt, she forms one half of the Excel Saga seiyuu duo The Excel Girls (the other half being fellow seiyuu Kobayashi Yumiko). She is employed by I’m Enterprise.... | | |
| 3:21pm | Lucky Star Girls in Cheerleader Outfits | | | | Here are the Lucky Star usual suspects in their cheerleader outfits, equipped with gold pom poms. I was just searching the web trying to figure out if there were any anime from the Spring / Summer seasons to watch, and the lack of anything really interesting made me want to go back and watch this show... | | |
| 6:32am | Tooryanse - Cultural tidbits |  | | | It’s no secret; I love anime. I mean, if I didn’t love it, I damn sure wouldn’t be here, right? But sometimes I need to take a step back and ask myself why I love it so much. More specifically, why is anime so frigging addictive? What is it about Japanese animation, compared to Chinese... | | |
| 6:39am | August Summary | | | | August has definitely been an interesting and at the same time strange month. I keep seeing everywhere that the past Summer Season has disappointed, but I just can’t agree with those statements. Sure, there’s no absolute masterpiece airing now that Kaiba ended, but there are actually lots... | | |
| 9:35pm | Summer Anime 2008 | | | | A quick round-up of the spring and summer anime: I’m continuing to watch Itazura na Kiss and Kaiba, but dropped xxxHOLOC Kei as the plot wasn’t interesting. Nogizawa Haruka no Himitsu The hero wastes little time in extablishing a relationship with the school “princess” after... | | |
| 10:43pm | Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto - Natsu no Sora - Episode 5 | | | | While I have no doubt that it's very much an acquired taste, I've been rather drawn in by the lilting and easy manner of Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto - Natsu no Sora so far, and it certainly doesn't look like the tempo of the series will be changing at all any time soon, which is only good news as... | | |
| 6:39pm | A Minor Masterpiece: Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto ~Natsu no Sora~ Ep. 8 | | | | I've enjoyed this show from the start, but episode 8 was a minor masterpiece. It combined story, acting, character design, animation and backgrounds to create a really memorable anime episode.This show is at a higher aesthetic level than any other current show, with the possible exception of Kara no... | | |
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