| 11:30pm | 57 Fall Anime -- story, staff, cast, trailer, pic | | | | There are more new shows this fall than in any season over the past few years. But I'm not sure the quality -- or at least the appeal to my taste -- will be that high. I don't see any shows I expect to be as good as the great shows of this past summer season, such as Aoi Hana and Bakemonogatari. But... | | |
| 1:22pm | Valkyria Chronicles: Guns of Gallia | | | | She Is (The)Boss. Shin and his (yet another) self indulgent Metal Gear Solid referenced post! Also, don’t mind the quirky photoshop filters, since that was pretty much A1’s intention in presenting their creation, and I merely made it more apparent That said, I honestly have no idea exactly... | | |
| 12:00pm | Mecha is magnificent, but it is not war. (A response to ‘War Sucks!’) |  | | | A Zeon worth fighting for. Well now that work is out of the way and I am currently waiting for orders during Spring Break I am finally able to fully address IKnight’s “War Sucks!” post in a fuller manner. IKnight raises an important distinction between the war sucks theme and the prevalent misnomer... | | |
| 4:28am | 2009 Spring Anime Menu: Boys Keep Out Edition | | | | Springtime is finally here (yes we’re late, don’t have to tell us), bringing with it a HEAPLOAD of animes!! ‘For You in Full Blossom’ is but apt to describe this season, with plenty of variety to cater to just about any audience. And since our beloved male chefs didn’t... | | |
| 2:29am | Pumpkin Scissors Vol2-4 - Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Nothing available on Iwango Ryotaro sadly. Hit the button up there if you have any info please About the Manga Took me a while to get back to this series after reading volume one, got side tracked. The differences between the manga and anime are both huge, and yet not. As I said... | | |
| 10:57am | Pumpkin Scissors Vol 01 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Nothing available on Iwango Ryotaro sadly. Hit the button up there if you have any info please About the MangaI’ve put off reading this series for a looong time, because just about every review I’d seen had slammed it as seriously bad. As a huge fan of the anime, I didn’t... | | |
| 12:19pm | Anime/Manga News from October 2008 | | | | Director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell & The Sky Crawlers) has a couple of projects which will keep him busy through the Summer of 2009. The first project is a new theatrical stage adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28 manga. Oshii-san will be writing the script as well as making... | | |
| 10:56am | Haruka’s day as a stalker and an Ueda Kana “sighting” | | | | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - 04 “Oh! The extremely beautiful seiyuu Ueda Kana-san is up there!” Transition lenses meganekko meido. I like Nobunaga’s taste in seiyuu. Nanami proves once again, she is awesome. Cheers to whoever came up with the idea of having an Ueda Kana voiced character... | | |
| 3:16pm | Two years, 1000 posts: an Azure Flame Anniversary | | | | In a coincidence that has been several weeks in the planning, Karura has managed to roll two events into one- for not only is the one thousandth post to appear on Azure Flame, but it also marks exactly two years since that fated day when Azure Flame came into being. Since that time, thousands of words... | | |
| 11:39pm | AX 2008 ~ Anime Expo Expo Expo Expo | | | | Alright, the title doesn’t make much sense unless you’ve heard that m-flo song, but that’s alright. This years Anime Expo is finally over. I will assume you know some about it if your reading this. Basics: 4 day con, held at Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown LA. I was extremely... | | |
| 9:36am | Sgt. Frog Hasn’t Invaded Yet But There’s Still a Sliver of Hope | | | | FACT: There are still six months left in 2008. FACT: Still no Keroro. The last six months have seemed like doom-and-gloom for ADV Films with their glossy magazine folding (and the rebirthed version also shutting down) and a license financing dispute that forced them to presumably sell Gurren Lagann to... | | |
| 9:36am | Sgt. Frog Hasn’t Invaded Yet But There’s Still a Sliver of Hope | | | | FACT: There are still six months left in 2008. FACT: Still no Keroro. The last six months have seemed like doom-and-gloom for ADV Films with their glossy magazine folding (and the rebirthed version also shutting down) and a license financing dispute that forced them to presumably sell Gurren Lagann to... | | |
| 9:53pm | Pumpkin Scissors parody 19 | | | | “Alice, you must stop thinking about BI!”“The time has come to settle down and prepare for a life of STRAIGHT.”“Won’t that upset the status quo?”“Don’t worry, I’m sure everything will be back to normal by the end of the arc.”“Hurry up, Randel- there are people queuing up for BI!”“A... | | |
| 11:46pm | Itazura na Kiss to end properly | | | | The ending the manga never saw to be animated. Itazura na Kiss Anime to Show Creator’s Planned Ending Kaoru Tada told husband of unfinished manga’s ending before fatal accident The Mainichi Shimbun paper interviewed music producer Shigeru Nishikawa about the ongoing anime adaptation of... | | |
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