| 5:42am | Sora no Manimani Episode 10 – Death Letter |  | | | After a little slowdown in the subs we have episode 10, a very character and drama centric episode. The students are busy with exams after a field trip (which I’m guessing was in the manga but left out of the anime), and once back in school Mihoshi and Souma-sensei are arranging what Hime and Edogawa... | | |
| 12:00am | As Cruel Gods Go, Haruhi Shows Her Age | | | | That is to say, she behaves like a teenager. Without mentioning names or sources, indulge me in accepting that many viewers have been declaring their ’sudden’ discovery that Haruhi is a bitch, and that they hate her now. The ‘Sighs’ arc, which occurs prior to her fanboy-making-turn... | | |
| 4:30pm | T.H.A.T. Fall 2009 Anime Preview |  | | | Deadpan lolis, my favorite Welcome to another edition of the T.H.A.T. anime preview! Out of a total of 26 series covered in this preview (I excluded the kiddie shows/educational stuff as usual), the statistical breakdown goes like this (some categories overlap): Sequels: 8 Spin-offs: 3 New Shows: 15... | | |
| 4:30pm | T.H.A.T. Fall 2009 Anime Preview |  | | | Deadpan lolis, my favorite Welcome to another edition of the T.H.A.T. anime preview! Out of a total of 26 series covered in this preview (I excluded the kiddie shows/educational stuff as usual), the statistical breakdown goes like this (some categories overlap): Sequels: 8 Spin-offs: 3 New Shows: 15... | | |
| 10:49pm | New York Anime Festival 2009 Preview |  | | | I ordered my ticket and my cousin’s ticket for the New York Anime Festival (N.Y.A.F.) over this past weekend. It just so happens the con falls on the weekend of my birthday (my birthday being September 24th and the con running from September 25th - 27th). My cousin and I will be attending on Saturday,... | | |
| 11:21am | [Granado Espada] Hrin’s Big Farewell Screenshot |  | | | As a previous post stated, our dear Mistress Hrin is leaving Team GE and therefore we all had to hunt around for a way to make her feel just a little bit of that pleasure that we have felt whilst playing Granado Espada over the 2+ years it has been open. Unfortunately, we were not able to have her head... | | |
| 11:20am | Welcome to the N.H.K – Novel Review |  | | | This is a novel (It is technically a light novel but it is nothing like a light novel so) that I got given as a present by one of my relatives. Yes I did pick this out myself and didn’t send a relative in to do the manga shopping for me. This is a storyline that borderlines both seriousness and... | | |
| 7:00pm | Light Novel Maria-sama ga Miteru: Bara no Mille-Feuille, Intro & Part 4, Final | | | | Part 4Chapter 4 Yumi felt a bit refreshed after she screamed through the roller coaster, and returned to find Sachiko-sama and Yuuki happily talking to each other. They were a boy-girl pair, but looked nothing like two lovers, and instead looked precisely like a princess and her retainer. The image was... | | |
| 12:00am | Unwelcome to the NHK: Light Novel is So Heavy | | | | I just finished reading Welcome to the NHK. It is not a pleasant book. I’m not writing a review, so don’t expect a recommendation either way. Why not? It’s partly because NHK is a deeply personal story. It’s not an autobiography in the strict sense, but the preface, and the... | | |
| 7:00pm | Light Novel Maria-sama ga Miteru: Bara no Mille-Feuille, Part 3 | | | | Part 3High Tension and Roller CoastersThe morning of the amusement park date was a cloudy one."But you know, there's a zero percent chance of rain."The final examinations, which for so long had been a towering cloud of gray, had finally gone somewhere not to be found, and so her mood had cleared. If... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 1:04am | 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... | | |
| 6:58am | Taku Furukawa | | | | A while back I mentioned that Anido was working on the English version of their web shop. Well, it's up now, and there are a number of items of interest on there, so I thought I would talk about one of them today. I bought the Taku Furukawa DVD a few months back but just got around to watching it yesterday.... | | |
| 5:11am | How To Make A Successful Anime (The 5 Golden Rules) | | | | Following the events of Welcome To The NHK the dynamic duo of Sato and Yamazaki would go on to publish the best selling anime of all time based off of the failure of their self-published erogeMan moe series sure are popular eh? It sometimes can seem like it’s all that really sells these days... | | |
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