| 11:11am | Mizuki Nana and Chihara Minori AniSong Special |  | | | Great interview and live performances of Nana-chan and Minorin! Thanks to makoaya7785 at Youtube. Ray’s Take: Both these ladies can sing live well, unlike a certain other favorite. The show even call Nana-chan the queen of Seiyuu, which I think is quite appropriate. Look to me that Minorin couldn’t... | | |
| 7:00pm | Light Novel Maria-sama ga Miteru: Bara no Mille-Feuille, Part 2 | | | | Part 2Chapter 4To say this was not an adventure story might be understating it. In order to return the princess (Rei-chan) who was swept away by an evil demon safely to this world, you must go, brave Yoshino, with attendant Nana.In order to pull herself together, and bring the story to a climax: at... | | |
| 1:25pm | [c76] SOUND HOLIC – 地 -KUNI- |  | | | Ah, right when some more good looking albums were up, Doujinstyle goes down again. Hopefully not for long. Got something at least for you guys though. If DS isn’t up soon, I’ll just go try watching Bakemonogatari. I hope it doesn’t come to that. Album Name: 地 -KUNI- Artist/Group:... | | |
| 1:04am | Light Novel Maria-sama ga Miteru: Bara no Mille-Feuille, Intro & Part 1 | | | | IntroductionRei: I realize parts of this translation will sound stilted or exist only as frozen language, and I apologize. On at least one occasion I have been called, "too rigid" and this is due to the method I use to translate. Having studied translation to some extent in college, I tend to approach... | | |
| 4:23pm | Becca - An American Rock Girl in Japan |  | | | When Otakon announced that one of their Sunday performers would be Portland-born rock singer Becca, pretty much everybody I knew had the same reaction: Who is this American girl and why is she performing at Otakon? What we didn’t know was the unique story of an American rock singer who had already... | | |
| 12:00am | The Best Anime Season Since Spring 2006 | | | | Spring 2006 was the best anime season I can remember, with three anime masterpieces starting their runs: NANA, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, and my all-time favorite, Simoun.Now we have another season to rival it. At least through a half-dozen episodes, there are three summer 2009 shows that I could end... | | |
| 12:44pm | Top 10 Manga of 2009: Demographic Breakdown |  | | | Below you can see the most popular manga for men and women aged 10-50, broken down by age group and gender. The retail sales data used covers the year ending June 2009. For each title the single best selling compilation volume of the period is used as the basis; sales are not aggregated over the entire... | | |
| 11:08am | Cool Products Monday, August 10, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 11:44pm | Yuri Drama CD: Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan ~ White Engage | | | | It has been previously established that the Ame-iro Kouchakan rates very high on the 'ole Yuri-o-meter. In fact, it seems to draw female couples like bees to lilies and yes, I'm mixing my metaphors, thank you.So, it will come as no surprise that Mana-chan-sensei from the earlier mini DCD, "Pink Princess"... | | |
| 1:27pm | [PR] VIZ PICTURES RELEASES LIVE-ACTION DEATH NOTE: L, change the WorLd | | | | VIZ PICTURES RELEASES LIVE-ACTION DEATH NOTE: L, change the WorLd Riveting Unwritten Concluding Chapter Of Edgy DEATH NOTE Psychological Crime Drama Available on DVD San Francisco, CA, July 31, 2009 – VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media, LLC that focuses on Japanese live-action film... | | |
| 8:15am | [Tenshi_MKII] Kara no Kyoukai: Oblivion Recording | | | | I raged. Although I agree that ufotable has done a great job so far but they have disappointed me for this chapter. There are a great number of differences between the novel and the anime and they didn’t bother to explain Satsuki’s childhood ,disorder and the reason why he became a Magus.... | | |
| 7:35am | K-On! [Hokago Teatime] Top Oricon Charts | | | | Just last month, we witness the Nana Mizuki as the first seiyuu to conquer the Oricon weekly charts. This week we have an even more amazing feat where Hokago Teatime 『放課後ティータイム 』, the latest K-On! two-CD album became the first anime character CD release to conquer Oricon charts.... | | |
| 2:14am | Otakon 2009 – Day 3 – Concerts! Concerts! Concerts! | | | | Final day of Otakon 2009 was all about the concerts, plain and simple. Let me say up front I knew and still know jack about Becca and Naomi Tamura but they do put on one heck of a concert if anything else! Once again I started my day getting up with not enough sleep but trucked my tiring self to the... | | |
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