| 7:50pm | Aya and Nana in White Album -- And So It Begins | | | | Here we go. Nana Mizuki and Hirano Aya are getting ready to start recording as the stars of the anime White Album, which will air in January. They were together at the Aquaplus Festa 2008 last Saturday, and have both posted shots in their blogs of the two of them together. The larger photo is from Aya's... | | |
| 10:40pm | Seiyuu Awards 2008 -- Nominations, Please | | | | Being the innocent soul I am, I still take the annual Seiyuu Awards seriously. Most of the awards given over the past two years have been at least reasonable, in my opinion.Public voting for the 2008 Seiyuu Awards is ongoing until New Year's Day. Now that we have seen some episodes of the fall season,... | | |
| 6:24pm | Paran Kimikiss. | | | | Para’s impressions When Nova told me about this series first time, he said that people have compared Kimikiss to Clannad and that really ignited my interest. Yet I started watching the series I decided to kick all preconceptions to the curb and thought “I’m going to take this open-mindedly”... | | |
| 2:58am | T.H.A.T. Winter 2009 Anime Preview |  | | | KeyAni fanboy, reporting in. Once again I have taken on the responsibilities of creating the monstrosity known as THAT’s various season previews. At least since I’m doing it from the start Impz can’t whine and pawn it off on me halfway through. Plus, I’m OCD about getting... | | |
| 8:34pm | AFA Day 2: A Sheryl moment | | | | As much as the merchandise tempted me to buy them, I controlled myself much by: 1) bringing a May’n fan who flew all the way from Japan just to watch her concert. Will elaborate more about him later. 2) having a weird ‘meet the Bonkurasu’ session near Graphite’s booth; which... | | |
| 5:26am | Shugo Chara Doki Episode 59 | | | | Man, this week’s episode really hit the spot. An adorable, pseudo-kiss scene between Amu and Ikuto, Metal Gear Ikuto, the first appearance of Amulet Angel in too long, cute Rima, Utau holding a concert with Heartful Song, pining after her brother in her typical obsessive way. Nifty new Utau concert... | | |
| 4:56am | Essential Anime | | | | Sometimes, love em or hate em, there are shows you just have to watch. Just as it is essential to eat certain healthy foods to maintain life, and it is essential to study if you want to score well on tests, there are certain anime that, as an anime fan, are essential to watch. (shit analogy, I know.)... | | |
| 5:35pm | Chaos;Head 5 And 6: Image! Trace On! | | | | Shiro’s 10 times more awesome than Taku will ever be. Episode 5 I loved the entire dream sequence as it gave some hints as to the progression of the story or, more specifiacally , Taku’s and Rimi’s relationship. It was also the first time that Taku didn’t sound like a whiny... | | |
| 2:00pm | Yuri News This Week - November 22, 2008 | | | | Yuri MangaAnonymous wrote in to let us know that the first collection of Chi-Ran's Yuri Hime stories, Shoujo Bigaku is now available in Germany! Cool for European Yuri fans.***Yuri AnimeSleepy is pleased to share the news that new Ichigo Mashimaro anime is slated to be released on January 29, 2009. More... | | |
| 8:27am | Code Speed Anime Trance 5 Review |  | | | I just posted about this the other day. Didn’t take long, did it? I had some trouble finding the Caipirinha album but someone came through. Instead of reviewing that album I’m just going to upload the songs to youtube and you can just listen. I’ll throw in the UmaUma 3 ones I mentioned... | | |
| 3:55am | A lot of Nana Mizuki Fluff | | | | Summary of the magazines later, too beat from work to type up anything worthwhile-ish. The slow journey to Nana Mizuki fandom continues with the arrival of Seiyuu Animedia November 2008, Pick-up Voice v11, and Anisong Mook v06 2008. With the way I’m slowing becoming a seiyuu idol type of otaku,... | | |
| 10:45pm | Chäos;HEAd 4: Ha! Boob Grab. | | | | That joke never gets old. So the disturbing refrain in the series which I first assumed was probing the depths of Taku’s mind and then assumed was a simple reference to the feeling Taku’s had all his life turns into a meme. Damn the infectious nature of bloodstained writings on toilet... | | |
| 9:47pm | JAM Project · Paris Live | | | | Fans who follow their official web site may know that the most legendary anime song group, JAM Project, was in France and Spain last weekend, to give their final concerts of the “World Flight 2008 No Border” tour. Completely into their latest album “Get over the Border”, and... | | |
| 4:49pm | [Thoughts]Passing of Nana Mizuki’s father. | | | | Most of her fans might have already knew from reading J1m0ne’s and danie’s entries in the past few days, I would like to share my thoughts, even though I’m not entirely a fan of hers. May we hope to see Mizuki Nana smile like this after all that has happened. A death of a loved... | | |
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