| 1:27am | December 2008 News Highlights | | | | On December 9, Bandai Namco Games released a variant of a karaoke machine using its Afrec! technology. Instead of having fans add their voices to music, Afrec! allows fans to voice over anime segments. The machine was released under the Joysound label. The process for the seiyuu wannabe has three... | | |
| 3:02am | Anime Inbou Awards 2008, pt. 4 ~ oshimai |  | | | I couldn’t think of a better way to end this then calling this last part the end, so you get your oshimai instead. This final entry has a whopping eight categories so this is where the best of the best lie. Our focus here is on the story and direction of the show and overall how it was handled... | | |
| 10:47pm | Anime and Manga Giveaway Galore, February 2009 | | | | Welcome to The Anime Blog’s February Anime and Manga Giveaway Galore! If you’re unfamiliar with our giveaways, please read up on them and tell your friends!Win Free Anime and Manga from TheAnimeBlog.com!The ContestYou must register with the siteLog in with your user name and password, then... | | |
| 10:47pm | Anime and Manga Giveaway Galore, February 2009 | | | | Welcome to The Anime Blog’s February Anime and Manga Giveaway Galore! If you’re unfamiliar with our giveaways, please read up on them and tell your friends!Win Free Anime and Manga from TheAnimeBlog.com!The ContestYou must register with the siteLog in with your user name and password, then... | | |
| 3:53am | NicoNico Douga Charts at Sankaku Complex |  | | | Sankaku Complex now boasts a complete English language interface to the extensive rankings provided by NicoNico Douga, encompassing thousands of videos, all of which are freely viewable from within Sankaku Complex’s pages using the Nico player, certainly a unique development for an English language... | | |
| 1:40am | Welcome To The NHK, Part One | | | | Welcome to the NHK is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. The main character, Sato, is a 22-year old unemployed college drop-out and a hikikimori, a shut-in. From there it looked as if this might be something like Genshiken, an otaku comedy with a loving backhand. It does kind of start... | | |
| 1:40am | Welcome To The NHK, Part One | | | | Welcome to the NHK is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. The main character, Sato, is a 22-year old unemployed college drop-out and a hikikimori, a shut-in. From there it looked as if this might be something like Genshiken, an otaku comedy with a loving backhand. It does kind of start... | | |
| 3:25am | The Year That Was | | | | Crippled internets and an ISP hellbent on torturing its customers. The new year started off on a slightly sour note for me, as I impose self exile to go about other things that needed to be taken care of, like backlogs and unfinished games, for instance. Here is the long overdue list of things that... | | |
| 11:15pm | Anime Inbou Awards 2008, pt. 1 ~ genre |  | | | Every year, fresh from the Land of the Rising Sun, an overflow of anime in all directions surges out, and we, as technophiles, catch those torrents. In the year of 2008, there was quite many hits and misses. There’s no in-betweens, no so-sos, no kindas, sortas, or littles. Well maybe but I’d... | | |
| 12:14am | Otaku Metaculture: NHK ni Youkoso | | | | Welcome back, Heisei Democratizers!First of all, I want to thank each and every one of you for your ongoing support (seriously, if you're reading this right now, that's support). However the site evolves, I will do my best not to disappoint you.This brings us to the first in a new (hopefully) ongoing... | | |
| 12:14am | 2nd Day of Christmas - Stand Up For Your Otaku Woman |  | | | Today’s moment is brought to you by on of more interesting shows from the summer season, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, in which all of Haruka’s friends stand up to her father in defense of her fandom. A number of titles in recent years have either questioned, poked fun at, or even demonized... | | |
| 10:15am | Cool Items Monday, December 22, 2008 | | | | 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... | | |
| 7:41pm | How the Japanese are Reclaiming the Internet |  | | | If you have been following my blog for the past year, then you are familiar with my controversial narrative of the US anime market and how it reached its breaking point a few months ago. The giants of the industry formed their mighty empire after Toonami and Adult Swim brought in a new American audience... | | |
| 8:00am | Twelve Moments in Anime 2008 - #09: Kodomo no Jikan ch. 42 | | | | (Part of a 12-day series fondly remembering some of the best moments in anime this year. Participants include: lolikitsune, lelangir, FuyuMaiden, IKnight, Zeroblade, Nazarielle, ghostlightning, TheBigN, ETERNAL, Mike, A Day Without Me, digitalboy, Josh, otou-san, Culchann and Pontifus, IcyStorm, Cokematic,... | | |
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