| 12:00am | NICE BOAT PART 2: lol censorship | | | | So I gather everyone has heard about NICE BOAT. Well, Next up is NICE FOOD. (For the uninitiated, the second station to air the last School Days episode got cold feet and replaced the episode with a food-related program.) I would point out that Japan, with a culture of male warriors who would disembowel... | | |
| 12:43am | Manga News: Dengeki Black Maoh official site open, first issue on sale | | | | Mentioned yesterday in the context of a new Queen's Blade manga, word is in from Moon Phase that an official site is now open for the new MediaWorks quarterly serial magazine Dengeki Black Maoh, the first issue of which also goes on sale today. It's being billed as "a bit adult, a bit ecchi comic magazine",... | | |
| 6:15pm | Shards of Summer: Nanatsuiro Drops | | | | Nanatsuiro Drops has always been somewhat of a paradox to me.It's background is an eroge, which usually means that the anime adaptation will have a generally male target audience. Not necessarily fanservice up the behind like Shuffle or to a lesser note Da Capo, but sometimes just a moe flood of cute... | | |
| 2:43pm | Moetan - Episode 10 |  | | | Summary: This episodes starts with Alice restrained by vines and being taunted by her kidnapper who looks like a darker version of herself. In the normal world, Ink is being woken up by the three critters and told to get ready to save Alice. It takes a bit of convincing but she finally decides to go... | | |
| 1:36pm | Moetan - Episode 9 |  | | | Summary: I do not have much to say about this episode, however the next episode is really where the things start get interesting. Here are the list of events that played an important part in this episode:Alice is kidnapped by a darker look-alike of her so it is assumed that it could be the negative... | | |
| 9:31am | Kodomo no Jikan - OVA |  | | | OP Theme: Otome Chikku Shoshinsha Desu by Kitamura Eri, Shindou Kei, Kadowaki Mai [Youtube] - The opening theme itself could be one of the greatest opening themes of any anime this year. The music and animation were good but I would call the theme of the graphics to be different ED Theme: Aijou Education... | | |
| 11:03am | Goods News: POP art collection #2 SUPER LOLLIPOP on sale tomorrow | | | | Fans of all things Moetan and generally cute take note: POP, master of the hyper-saccharin, almost unbearably adorable illustrations that have come to define their own special brand of "moe", is at it again. Blegh, I feel like I'm writing ad copy Anyway, he's got a new artbook out which you can buy at... | | |
| 11:07pm | Goods News: Moetan Nijihara Ink hug pillow up for preorder | | | | The listing has been up for a few days now, but I was just reminded of it this morning by the Dakimakura Integrated Research Institute: character goods shop Chara-Ani has posted a preorder listing for a Nijihara Ink hug pillow based on the heroine of the Moetan English phrasebooks and anime. The pillow... | | |
| 9:24pm | Figure News: Goodsmile presents Moetan’s Pastel Ink | | | | GA Graphic has the honor of the first scoop from yesterday's inaugural Hobby Complex garage kit convention in Kobe, at which Goodsmile unveiled a prototype of a new Pastel Ink PVC figure from the POP-designed Moetan English phrasebook and anime. According to GA's coverage she's scheduled for a January... | | |
| 6:01pm | Let’s see what they’ll make into anime next… |  | | | How about digital pets? No I’m not talking about those pictures with girls wearing Neko mimi on your PC. Here we go with the news: From Anime Corporation - Tamagotchi Anime Movie The insanely popular Tamagotchi digital-pet franchise from the late 90’s is now being adapted into an anime movie,... | | |
| 5:16am | Magazine Review: Megami vol. 89 | | | | Another month, another issue of Megami. We're to the part of the year that can't quite decide whether it's summer or fall, and the posters this time seem equally confused (why don't they just have Konata baking sweet potatoes by the fire in her school swimsuit?), but what may be lacking in poster content... | | |
| 4:36pm | Hontouni mini figure sale | | | | There comes a time in a collection’s life-cycle where it needs pruning to inject a freshness for sustained growth. For my figure collection, it is now. After some agonising, soul-wrenching deliberation, I have decided to sell several of my figures to fellow PVC-lovers who would love them more.... | | |
| 12:18am | Moetan - Ep 01 | | | | Anime? On my lolitron? No wai!I’m kinda curious how show like Moetan get greenlit in the first place? I’d love to be present at a meeting where the concept of Moetan is presented to a bunch of middle-aged salarymen. That has to be the most awkward situation ever. I can imagine it goes something... | | |
| 2:33pm | Moetan 4, a third magic girl, and a naughty monster. | | | | Moetan 4 starts out by showing some back stage stuff at a idol television filming session, and the idol is a loli looking girl named Alice. Then Ark-kun makes fun of Ink because of her small breast size, and we get to see Sumi get tormented by her maid again. Later that day Ink and Sumi both show... | | |
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