| 7:24pm | Hayate no Gotoku - 36 |  | | | When Tama plants the idea in Klaus’s head, he thinks about retirement and if he is really useful around the mansion anymore. Impressions:This episode was pretty good. For this series it was rather average, but it was still very fun to watch. The focus on Klaus was interesting, seeing as he is a very... | | |
| 5:45am | My Winter 2008 Watch List |  | | | As usual, not all of these series will go on to be blogged but I will make an effort to blog most of these at least once. Title: AYAKASHI Release Date: 12th December 2007 Additional Coments: Already released however I have not had the time to go through it just yet so I am unsure if I will blog it.... | | |
| 5:45am | Moetan - Episode 6 |  | | | This episode of Moetan is the “Removed Episode” that was replaced by a recap episode during its original run. It has recently been released and I wasn’t planning on watching or reviewing it but as they say “Curiosity killed the cat”. I cannot see much that would have had... | | |
| 4:45am | Winter 2007/2008 Anime Schedule | | | | Reposted from ADTRW and MOONPHASE as usual (like the last two times I did it?). 11/22 Candy☆Boy - One episode long, broadcast yesterday, tagline is a joke about tsundere. 11/25 Strait Jacket ep 1 - SF anime with a gun and a robot and a frightening scriptwriting credit. 12/01 Kara no Kyoukai movie... | | |
| 5:13pm | Breaking a Few Eggs: Shugo Chara 1-3 | | | | Shugo Chara is a "pure" magical girl show that's receiving a lot of praise across the English anime blogging community, which either means that most bloggers are eight-year-old girls, that they're still embracing their inner child, or that this show has more merit than a first glance would show.So I... | | |
| 1:08am | Pedophilia in Japan? |  | | | Been seeing comments across the site lately suggesting that loli content leads to pedophilia or that people who like loli characters *are* pedophiles. Under the SexBox 360 item, GunDude says: What's up with Japan and pedophilia anyway?When I was a kid back in the 80s, japanese animation and mangas... | | |
| 1:04am | Roundup : 2007 week 45 |  | | | Yikes. Forgot to do the round up for last week. Better late than never I guess ^^; This weeks theme is Tachiyomi. "Tachiyomi" [立ち読み] means "reading while standing up" and you can usually see hordes of people doing tachiyomi at book/convenience stores. The magazine publication industry in Japan... | | |
| 2:16pm | 1/8 POP Wonderland Alice PVC | | | | This 1/8 scale POP Wonderland Alice PVC is a really loli-licious and uber cute figure (*´∀`*) . Not sure whether its from an illustration book or anime series or from where. EDIT: Its from Alice in Wonderland illustration book by POP Produced by Happinet ハピネット and manufactured by Alter... | | |
| 1:31pm | CheckIt: Super Lollipop | | | | Have obtained one artbook, looking quite posh, titled “Super Lollipop” (ISBN 978-4-86199-096-0), with the subheading of “2nd drawing works of POP”. It contains various artwork of, among others, Moetan (the English textbook, rather than the anime, it seems), and Fairy Musketeers... | | |
| 2:58am | Figure Rollup - Is it in yet? Edition | | | | Alright, time to get back on the horse. Not that there's much a horse around here. Don't believe me? Well, just to prove it, I've got Carmen Sandiego on loop and it's not coming off loop until I'm done. Which may make things take longer actually. ROLLUP TIME! Oh yeah, the way... | | |
| 7:11pm | Shugo Chara! Through Episode 5 | | | | Ah, the “venerable” magical girl show. Truth be told, I don’t really give much of a damn about anything mahou shoujo before Sailor Moon came around; I’ve not seen Princess Knight or anything else from the genre in the 70s, but the 80s stuff is a bit on the passive side for... | | |
| 3:04am | October 2007 Stats |  | | | Didn't manage to bring you stats last month due to the logs disappearing with the server crash. Octobers logs are fine - the figures are looking just fine too ^o^ October served just under 10 million page views (9,951,897) to an average of 56,610 unique daily users (highest day was October 17 at 101,991... | | |
| 1:30am | Shugo Chara 1-4: Feldwebel Amu has Taken the Field |  | | | My thoughts exactly mein Feldwebe tell that Imperialist bastard what you think. Kampfgruppen Crusader supports any and all of your offensive operations. So while waiting to see comrade Darkmirage’s vaunted workmanship for Gundam 00 I decided to check out Shugo Chara. I confess that I have taken... | | |
| 12:39am | Game Book News: Queen’s Gate official site open | | | | The official site for Queen's Blade spinoff series Queen's Gate is now open! Based on the Lost Worlds series of combat game books from Flying Buffalo Press, Queen's Gate serves as the portal between the Queen's Blade series and the creative works of other brands joining in partnership to release other... | | |
| 4:10am | So if 86.5% of Japanese do not like lolicons… |  | | | what does that mean about the remaining 13.5%? OK, that’s unfair. The question that was actually asked, according to Anime News Network, was this: The Japanese government’s Cabinet Office issued on October 25 the results of its Special Opinion Poll on Harmful Materials, in which 86.5% of... | | |
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