| 9:03pm | Some Quick First Impressions: Aiura, Yuyushiki and Danchi Tomou | | | | Aiura Short Synopsis: Our lead characters are a bunch of random high school girls. So yeah. For those of you who didn’t know yet allow me to share something. The series this season with the best line-up of staff members isn’t Shingeki no Kyojin. It is not Aku no hana. Nor it is Gargantia,... | | |
| 3:30pm | Girls und Panzer 11 + 12 (Final) |  | | | Anzu this isn’t the time to be shilling for other tank manga. Summary: With the Chi-Nu taken out, but in the process protecting the Panzer IV, the battle against Kuromorimine is on. The Ooarai tanks release smokescreen to hide their movements from the pursuing Kuromorimine forces. They use the... | | |
| 3:30pm | Girls und Panzer 11 + 12 (Final) |  | | | Anzu this isn’t the time to be shilling for other tank manga. Summary: With the Chi-Nu taken out, but in the process protecting the Panzer IV, the battle against Kuromorimine is on. The Ooarai tanks release smokescreen to hide their movements from the pursuing Kuromorimine forces. They use the... | | |
| 12:07am | Episode Review: Photo Kano episode 1 | | | | Synopsis (From MAL): Kazuya, a mild-mannered high school sophomore coming to the end of a very average summer break, receives a digital single lens reflex camera as a gift. His nerdy fascination with its design soon turns to wonder when he realizes this little gadget could really give his social... | | |
| 8:16pm | Spring 2013 – Season Preview | | | | The Spring 2013 anime season already upon us with an extensive array of new and returning anime debuting over the next couple weeks. As with every season prior, this season preview is a complete and thorough glimpse at all the anime airing over the next three months, and paired together with my thoughts... | | |
| 3:34pm | Gender Bender Shoujo Manga: Gender as Social Construct and Performance | | | | Kornfield, S. (2011) . Cross-cultural cross-dressing: Japanese graphic novels perform gender in U.S. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 28(3), 213-229.ABSTRACT: Cross-dressing, a comedic staple in Western entertainment, usually transgresses and then reasserts gender norms, offering audiences an... | | |
| 12:00pm | Spring 2013 Anime Preview |  | | | Spring Anime Preview 2013 Draft Orderotou-san (hiatus)FencedudeCholisoseKabi tzinEpiZylTzu Most information taken from Zana’s chart, as well as MAL and ANN. WRT sequels, I just copy-paste season 1 summaries in most cases. As usual kids series, most RoTK and Sengoku Era adaptations, and series with... | | |
| 12:18pm | Sentai Filmworks and Maiden Japan Announce Their July 2013 Anime Release Slate |  | | | North American anime publishers Sentai Filmworks and Maiden Japan have recently announced their upcoming anime release slates. These titles are as follows:Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere II Sentai Filmworks | DVD/Blu-ray | 2nd July 2013 | $59.98/$69.98 | Hybrid Dub | 325 MinutesTaking advantage of the... | | |
| 4:30pm | Spring 2013 Anime Preview | | | | Chidori3souske A whooping 44 shows this spring 2013 and I did not even included kiddie shows this time and it’s still a lot. Though I included Anime Mirai shows since some of them looked interesting. I’m back (for now) and will be giving you guys Spring 2013 Anime Preview with the Notable Staff/Cast... | | |
| 8:30pm | Spring 2013 Anime Previews: staff, cast, story, trailer, pic, etc. | | | | This is the season of science fiction. There are seven shows with something sci-fi about them, from a remake of the Space Battleship Yamato series to three mecha shows to a kids' show and a harem romance.But in this well-populated spring season, we have other genres, too: action fantasy, ecchi comedy,... | | |
| 10:19pm | The Kirishima Thing – Review | | | | The Kirishima Thing tells the story of two high school students who cross social boundaries between the elite and lower class at their school. Ryoya Maeda, from the lower class, is a member of the film club, while Hiroki Kikuchi, from the elite class, is a non-participating member of the high school... | | |
| 6:30pm | Spring 2013 Season Preview--Big Expectations | | | | Image SourceAs the Winter season wraps up and the wheat is separated from the chaff, it's time to speculate about the new season! I'm excited for quite a few things this time around. Which shows are on your must-watch list?Disclaimer: The following is my personal (and embellished) opinion based on the... | | |
| 12:17am | 2002 Anime: Azumanga Daioh | | | | This was always going to be an interesting one to review. Azumanga Daioh is frequently held up by people such as myself as a cutesy 4-koma adaptation that is actually good and therefore proof that I don’t unconditionally hate moe comedies. But Azumanga was made long before those series became... | | |
| 6:10pm | Playing Grown Up in Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo | | | | Continuing on from the previous season, Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo follows the lives of a special group of high school liberal arts students and the pursuit of their dreams. Most aspects of what make this show memorable are ones that give a slight twist to conventional high school anime. Instead... | | |
| 12:58am | Chihayafuru 2 Episode 6: Arata makes Chihaya cry!!! |  | | | Carnival, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday is over, and Lent have started. And following the distasteful Vaneltine’s Day, but wow, this is also an awesome episode of Chihayafuru 2. Hokuou high school and Mizusawa high school match, the final of the Tokyo high school tournament, blew away all the hard... | | |
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