| 5:47pm | San | | | | So my real name is San, and I thought I’d list all these anime characters I’ve encountered deemed San. I thought my name was unique, for I have never met another San. However, there are apparently plenty of San’s around asia D: Mamotte! Lollipop • Princess Mononoke Seto no Hanayome... | | |
| 10:54pm | Manga Review: Modotte! Mamotte! Lollipop Vol. 6 (Finale) |  | | | Well the Mamotte Lollipop sequel manga has now officially ended and been released in tankoubon form. Before I go any further let me remind you all that I purchased this at Kinokuniya and all scans are done by me. If you further insist on asking me where to download “these scans” a giant... | | |
| 2:00am | Funimation On A Roll | | | | You know Funimation seems to be on a roll this week. They pretty much have made a license announcement every day this week. You don’t really see that much. Anyways, not really big news to me because all the series they have licensed are series I could give a crap about. Just a nice little trend... | | |
| 2:34am | Will Thirteen Be A Lucky Number for Funimation? | | | | This week Funimation has been announcing licenses and so far all of them have involved 13-episode sets. On Monday, it was Save Me, Lollipop (aka Mamotte! Lollipop) that will come out as a 13-episode set in December and Tuesday they announced plans to release the first 26 episodes of Kenichi: The... | | |
| 5:33pm | Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- licensed by Funimation | | | | Well, I was hoping I could get my review for episode 7 of this series out before this announcement, but oh well. In any case, just as the hint yesterday suggested, Funimation has licensed Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- and will release it in a single 13-episode set sometime in 2009. As a result, I’m... | | |
| 5:59am | In My View: Much ado about a loli | | | | Talking about the industry is like having an itch in the middle of my back. I want to scratch it, but I can only reach the edges. That said, I still want to do it. Usually I can trust Author to cut through the BS, but even he is jumping on the "What is FUNImation doing?" bandwagon (at least from what... | | |
| 10:52pm | ANN: Mamotte! Lollipop licensed by Funimation |  | | | Funimation has announced that they have acquired the rights to the Mamotte! Lollipop anime, which they’re retitling Save Me! Lollipop. According to Japanator, it’s been set for a single box-set release for the end of 2008.My regular readers might be wondering, “CJ-chi, why are you blogging... | | |
| 5:02pm | FUNimation Snags ‘Mamotte! Lollipop’ (Oh-Lolly-Lollipop…) | | | | Remember how we were talking about how FUNimation was going to announce some new licenses before Anime Central this year? Well, it looks like it may be true; Active Anime has the press release for a new FUNi license: Save Me! Lollipop (Japanese name Mamotte! Lollipop). I never watched it, so here’s... | | |
| 2:41am | The Positives & Negatives of Open Comments. |  | | | It’s been a while since I did a real rant & rave post so here I go for old time’s sake. I was just thinking what my fellow comrad does on his blog and flames everyone while shutting comments off so no one can flame him back. While I really don’t care to flame people or bloggers,... | | |
| 3:20am | Manga Review: Modotte! Mamotte! Lollipop Vol. 5 |  | | | So it turns out that this manga will be 6 volumes - with the final volume being released on April 28th. The volume started out a bit cheesy but it was still pretty good. They went to the magic world to meet Zero’s family and his grandma who wanted him to get married and take over the house. Nina... | | |
| 8:01pm | New York’s Weeaboo Land has spoiled me. |  | | | And because I don’t have a witty image for this post, here’s an ancient logo I did for some fansub group. So the last 2 days I spent walking around Manhattan’s 2 prominent weeaboo spots: Kinokuniya and Asahiya bookstores in search of Kamichama Karin and Modotte! Mamotte Lollipop... | | |
| 2:49pm | Nagareboshi Manga’s 100th Chapter Contest | | | | Nagareboshi Manga is one of my favourite scanlation groups who distribute super cute shoujo series. If you have never checked them out, you really should. They’re scanlated many shoujo series, including the ever-so-popular Modotte Mamotte Lollipop, Orange Planet, and Pink Innocent. They’ve released a ne... | | |
| 8:49pm | Manga Review: Modotte! Mamotte Lollipop Vol. 4 |  | | | So here’s the most recent Modotte volume. So now Nina Zero and Ichi (as well as the others) are in high school. The only exception is Rokka and Go. Go appears to have become Rokka’s guardian/babysistter and Rokka returned to her original form and goes to an elementary school next door. ... | | |
| 4:48pm | Manga Review: Modotte! Mamotte Lollipop Vol. 3 |  | | | So if you missed the mushy moments between Zero and Nina, well I recommend you pick up the next to Modotte Mamotte Lollipop books because that’s pretty much all it is. It’s gotten to the point where they add some sort of storyline in order to ultimately conclude with Nino and Zero hugging... | | |
| 8:29am | Wikipedia and anime |  | | | Jason made a post about how 26% of all search queries on Wikipedia are anime-related. Then, he took it further and proclaimed Wikipedia to become a premier anime website.Aside from AoD and maybe ANN, there really weren’t any place to find information about anime. Sure, you could hunt through | | |
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