| 9:14am | Japan Trip 2008 - Damage Report | | | | Man, my drawers are dirty In addition to my Comiket 75 shopping spree, I also contributed diligently to the wider economy of Japan in numerous ways, no doubt single-handedly helping the island nation escape the brunt of the on-going global recession and the collapse of our century-old debt-based financial... | | |
| 5:31am | Face Off: Ray and Mike Play the “White Album” and Riff on the 1980s |  | | | Ray:I’m wondering if I should continue to watch White Album. It’sfrankly, seemingly a little plain vanilla. Mike: You know, I think that’s a good description of it. It felt very bland and unfocused. The character interactions were very flat. Ray: Aya-chan is being the imouto character,... | | |
| 2:53pm | [Ascaloth] Trial Run: White Album, Episode 1 | | | | Based on a visual novel published by Leaf dating back all the way to 1998, White Album finally gets an anime adaptation by Seven Arcs a full decade after the first publication of its visual novel source material. While the casting choice of Hirano Aya and Nana Mizuki as the two female leads respectively... | | |
| 2:06am | Let Music Decide Your Life | | | | Open up your favorite music player01. Put it on shuffle.02. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.03. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.Below is what I got from my iTunes library with 8590 songs: If someone says “Is this okay?” you say:Curse... | | |
| 6:05am | White Album - 01 | | | | Thoughts: A lot of emotion was in this episode. Overall Rating: 9 I didn’t think that this would be such a serious series right off the bat. It was also nice seeing a lot of different side characters introduced in just one episode. It really helps keep you interested in what their connection... | | |
| 1:37am | Impz’s first Winter impressions - White Album, another IDOL show? |  | | | If you are wondering where Impz went, he was engulfed into the sea of PSP. The sweet and wonderful Thirteensugars (my girlfriend) bought me a PSP for Christmas, and I received it two days ago. Needless to say, I literally abandoned every single thing that has been bothering me in my activities, and... | | |
| 10:52pm | White Album - 01 |  | | | OP: “Shinai (深愛)” by Nana Mizuki - Um, what? The animation is boriiiiiingwait. OMG OMG NANA MIZUKI OMG Summary: A boy named Fujii Touya wakes from a dream where he could not hear his girlfriend Morikawa Yuki over noise being projected from a nearby rock band. In the end, Yuki had... | | |
| 9:45pm | White Album #01 — Classical Gas | | | | Wasn’t this about pop idols? New Season Disclaimer: I’ll make a post for almost all new series (barring sequels) with a wrap-up and bullet point opinion of each once the premier week is over. Remember that these are just my kneejerk reactions to the first 20 minutes of shows, many of... | | |
| 10:41am | Winter 2009 Preview! |  | | | Sorry this took so long to get written up - leaving for a week set me back a week in terms of working on this. Regardless, the new year is upon us and with it is another new season of anime. Since this isn't a spring or fall season, there are relatively fewer new offerings, but that still leaves around... | | |
| 2:15pm | OMG OMG OMG Yukari Tamura is coming to Nagoya -But wait… | | | | View Poll Randomly picked up a book at Lawson to just check to see what kinds of concerts are going on and apparently Yukarin is coming to Nagoya in February, and Nana Mizuki is coming later this month but I am not too interested in that ANYWAY, this is awesome news. I didn’t think I would have... | | |
| 6:36pm | 2008 Spending Ups & Downs | | | | I know everyone has been waiting for it; my 2008 spending report for last year. I don’t know whether I should be proud or ashamed at the final total as using my aniblogging peers for comparison did not help much especially when I ended up spending a little over $10,000USD in goods in 2008 ^^;;... | | |
| 5:10pm | 2008/2009 Winter Anime Menu | | | | Super delayed preview, as always! woohoo!! Better late than never, right? It’s that time of the year when the chefs get together and actually post something to bring you this comprehensive list of animes due this season. Without further ado, we bring to you this almost complete list of this sequel-filled... | | |
| 8:18am | Shuffling the last of Nana Loot 2008 | | | | Last merchandise for the year 2008. Unfortunately did not get posters with my 2nd order of Nana Mizuki’s LIVE FIGHTER from HMV but at least nice to have clean un-open copies for the Konata in me. Also shown is the last volume of Gurren Lagann with possibly some of the best episodes of the series!... | | |
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