| 2:56pm | Another blog update? Yes, yes… |  | | | These types of posts seem neverending, don’t they? Oh well, bear with me as this will hopefully be the last for at least a month or two. For a blog that is supposed to be focused on anime, Minimum Tempo hasn’t seen many anime-related posts lately, and that will change. But of course, that... | | |
| 6:09am | Magazine Review: Megami vol. 95 (April 2008) | | | | We revisit the hallowed posteriffic pages of Megami Magazine for the first time in a few months to find a very solid issue indeed, including offerings from Shana II, Clannad, Aria, Kimiaru, Nanoha, Spice and Wolf, To Heart 2, Kanokon, Minami-ke, Gunslinger Girls, Kimikiss, Bamboo Blade, Yotsunoha, Rosario... | | |
| 1:28am | Minami-Ke Okawari: Seconds? No Thanks, I’m Full… | | | | So I haven’t really been watching much anime since starting grad school, but I latched onto Minami-ke a few weeks ago and I’ve been watching it whenever I have free time. I’m about four episodes into the second season, Okawari, and I have to say, the series seriously jumped the shark... | | |
| 1:18am | Winter 2008 Mid-Season Recap - March Madness Edition | | | | Kyou’s stroking it like it’s hot err I mean stroking three pointers and not that kind of stroking you sick freaksWith March already here, sports fans in the United States are preparing for one of the special multi-week events in sports: The 2008 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament.... | | |
| 8:29am | Dubbing Minami-ke in English… (plus a translation rant) |  | | | The one I can’t figure out is Haruka-nee-sama. Generally you can use Lord or Lady or Sir or Madam since -sama is typically used for royalty or top-ranking people in an organization. But here Chiaki has a lot of family respect for Haruka, and I see “Miss Haruka” sounding distant rather... | | |
| 1:45pm | Seeing as I don’t have anything good to post about, why not… |  | | | repost a pic. If you get the joke (pic’s from here, BTW), as well as the joke within the joke, more power to you. :3 I’m still coming off of taking 3 exams on Monday, and I can’t think of something in order to write a nice, complete post about at the moment, so forgive this transgression.... | | |
| 3:42am | Saigar Abandoned and Other Unrelated Nonsense | | | | Just a quickie notice for anyone interested, apparently the bloated beast that is the recent Saigar 2008 tournament has finally been put to rest by it’s creator before it could reach any sort of “Conclusion”. Reasons cited include “Aids” and “Lol Proxies”,... | | |
| 1:27pm | Minami-ke ~Okawari~ 08 |  | | | POORU DAAA!!!!! Pool episode! Wai! Haruka wins tickets to a newly opened pool, and the usual gang gets invited along, including Fujioka. Their oji-san gets roped in to function as a driver and disappears soon after completing (and screwing up) his role. Chiaki isn’t too hyped about going to... | | |
| 1:27pm | Minami-ke ~Okawari~ 08 |  | | | POORU DAAA!!!!! Pool episode! Wai! Haruka wins tickets to a newly opened pool, and the usual gang gets invited along, including Fujioka. Their oji-san gets roped in to function as a driver and disappears soon after completing (and screwing up) his role. Chiaki isn’t too hyped about going to... | | |
| 8:00am | Anime and Lit: Little Lolis (I mean Little Women) and slice-of-life | | | | Opening of the 1987 Little Women anime: I’ve been reading Little Women, by Louis May Alcott, and I have heard that the book is very popular in Japan. In fact, someone who once worked at the house where the Alcotts lived in Concord Mass (it’s now a museum) mentioned the many visitors from... | | |
| 12:59am | "true tears" Becomes Most Popular New Show on 2channel | | | | The romance drama true tears has passed Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei to become the most popular new-season show on 2channel, the Japanese forum site.true tears is on its 88th thread, having passed 87,000 posts. Zetsubou Sensei is on its 85th thread (84,000+ posts).A little over a month ago, Zetsubou... | | |
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