| 9:34pm | New anime for 2009: Munto, Tears to Tiara, Minamike, and more! | | | | [Cross-posted from Japanator] As this year gets closer to ending, info on the new anime awaiting us next year has started to flow, starting with something of a surprise. Kyoto Animation will be completing their original OVA series, Munto, as a TV anime starting in spring 2009. Sorry Haruhi fans, but... | | |
| 12:58am | 2008 Anime DVD Sales Ranking |  | | | Here we have the rather interesting DVD sales ranking for 2008 anime, in this case focused on the first volume as a proxy for total popularity. There are a number of interesting results within the list, but the top and bottom are likely not surprising. These numbers are the number of DVDs sold over... | | |
| 7:00pm | Minami-ke season 3?! | | | | Pleasantly surprising news–a third helping of Minami-ke! (Is it just me, or does Touma look strikingly similar to Black Diamond Utau in that image? Mizuki Nana tie-in, or simply coincidence?) I refuse to believe Mako-chan is a trap. It’s like saying the Earth is flat or that Sakura Diaries... | | |
| 11:53pm | The Return of the Hosaka Award | | | | It’s been so long since we’ve had a Hosaka award winner that we feel it’s necessary to explain what this award is all about. ‘The Weekly - Funniest Scene not Involving Hosaka - Award’ highlights gut busting funny moments in anime. The award is obviously named in honor of... | | |
| 8:55pm | Kyou no Go no Ni | | | | I got the first urge to rewatch Kyou no Go no Ni OVA (Today, in class 5-2) at the time Minami-ke: Okawari started to get average to boring. I missed the first season and knew that both series were written by the same author, Koharu Sakuraba. Lack of time prevented me to do so and | | |
| 1:03am | Ga-rei zero to air this Autumn | | | | Ga-rei zero, the anime adaption of the Ga-rei manga by Segawa Hajime is, like Kiddy Grade 2, to be animated by asread. According to Moonphase it is now scheduled to air this Autumn. Since they only have two completed series under their belt where they were the lead producers (Shuffle! and Minami-ke... | | |
| 10:30pm | Minami-ke Okawari 13 last episode Review, don’t leave us Haruka! | | | | This episode begins with Kana returning home from her meeting with Maki and Atsuko, her and telling Chiaki about Haruka’s departure for overseas studies, Chiaki can’t believe it and says she’ll go ask her about it, and basically Kana says not to bother Haruka, let Haruka... | | |
| 7:42pm | Minami-ke Okawari 12 Review, the sports festival and goodbyes. | | | | This episode begins with Chiaki’s school preparing for a sports festival, and Chiaki gets put in charge of the first aid part. We also get to see Kana training some of Chiaki’s friends for the sports festival, and we get shown how Chiaki gets along with Fuyuki. She keeps getting... | | |
| 6:08am | Minami-ke Okawari 11 Review, Kana’s license to ill | | | | This episode begins with Kana faking an illness to avoid classroom duties, so later she is surprised when Fujioka show up at her house to check on her, and when he enters the living room he sees Touma in a girls school uniform (everyone but Fujioka knows that Touma is a girl). Touma retreats... | | |
| 3:15am | Minami-ke Okawari 10, the Hanami party. | | | | This episode begins with Haruka, Maki, and Atsuko returning from a shopping trip, once they get back to Haruka’s apartment Maki and Atsuko talk with Kana and Chiaki about cats, the news, and the coming of spring when idiots will become more active, Kana asks Chiaki is she’s... | | |
| 5:38am | Minami-ke Okawari 9, dreams, changes, and choices. | | | | This episode begins with the Minami sister sharing dinner, afterwards Kana tells Chiaki that she frightens herself. Kana tells her that for the past two nights that she dreamed in advance what they were going to eat for dinner the next day. Chiaki is very skeptical about this and tells her... | | |
| 4:00am | Minami-ke Okawari 8, a pool, girls, and goals. | | | | This episode begins with Haruka being given some free tickets to an indoor pool from the owner of a shop that she and her sisters always buy groceries from. When Haruka returns home she tells her sisters that their are going to an indoor pool this weekend, Kana is very happy about the trip,... | | |
| 5:32am | Minami-ke Okawari 7, it’s choko time. | | | | This episode begins with Haruka wanting to teach Chiaki and Kana how to properly make choko for Valentine’s day, Chiaki is very receptive to the idea but Kana wants no part of it. Kana feels that it’s much better to receive than to give and she only plans on receiving. ... | | |
| 5:28am | Minami-ke Okawari 6, the snowstorm and blackout. | | | | This episode begins with Kana borrowing a large amount of manga from Fuyuki, when she asks him who is favorite character is he waits to hear who Kana’s is before agreeing with her. It is snowing very heavily outside so that’s what most of the talk is about between the sisters.... | | |
| 9:42pm | Minami-ke Okawari 5, a broken rabbit. | | | | This episode begins with Kana searching for food in the kitchen, and when she finds a small locked box and tries to open it Chiaki tells her to give it up. Kana tells Chiaki that maybe the box contains something like naked bath pictures of Chiaki as a child, so the both struggle... | | |
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