| 3:21am | Fall 2008 looks to continue a good anime year. | | | | This Spring has been rather satisfying with Daughter of 20 Faces, Allison and Lilia, Itazura na Kiss, Special A, Code Geass R2 and others. The Summer, for whatever other faults it might have, will have more School Rumble. And this Fall looks pretty bitchin. Let’s see what we got this Fall *... | | |
| 5:10pm | School Rumble Set to Graduate | | | | Yes, it’s true: the next chapter of School Rumble will be its last, making volume 22 its final tankobon. But what will happen in the final chapter? Will Tenma choose to have her baby? Will Kenji realize that it’s his? Will Oji kill him when he finds out– or her? AND WHAT ABOUT YAKUMO!?... | | |
| 8:58pm | School Rumble - The Final Chapter | | | | After 6 successful years, one of my favorite manga, will be ending with next Wednesday issue of the weekly Shonen magazine.I’m gonna miss my favorite female character, Yakumo chan~ (T.T). Click here for preview of next week’s shonen.Do you follow the School Rumble manga? | | |
| 3:00am | Light Novels Reviews - GoMetal Spice and Dragon XXXVI |  | | | ToraDora manga. Don’t let that look fool you - she’s called the Palm-sized Tiger for a very, very good reason. It’s holiday time, and I’m in Hong Kong, enjoying a well deserved break after a particularly stressing exam period. Within 3 days of my arrival, I’ve already... | | |
| 12:46am | On Into Summer | | | | Extended weekend fuuuuuuuu~! Finished Vampire Knight season one, which was crap (started out well enough, but didn’t go anywhere interesting, and moved too slowly). Finished Library Wars which was okay, but a little lukewarm. Finished Reaper’s Gale, the 7th volume in Tales of the Malazan... | | |
| 2:04am | Akiraman’s Anime Summer 2008 - 02 - Video Compilation | | | | Akiraman’s Anime Watchlist Spring 2008, the 2nd updated list compiled from various blogs, with videos. With so much distractions these days its hard to compile a list of interesting summer anime to watch. This later half of the year has more anime than the first. More video upates later. #Update2... | | |
| 10:33pm | Greg Ayres and the Fight Against Fansubs |  | | | In a darkly lit room at the AnimeNEXT convention on Saturday, English dub voice actor Greg Ayres enters to applause from a full room of otaku. “No, it’s not my final panel for this convention,” he announces to the audience, “but it’s the only one I think is important.”... | | |
| 11:12pm | MACHIGAETAAAAAAAA!!! or What the Hell Happened to School Rumble? | | | | It seems like I’ve been checking up on how various series I left behind are doing lately. First there was Bleach, then Inuyasha, and now School Rumble. And my first reaction is What? At some point School Rumble started dropping the drama bombs like they were coming from Little Boy and Fat Man,... | | |
| 8:00am | School Rumble 3rd Term official website launches! |  | | | http://www.starchild.co.jp/spe cial/schrum3/The official website for the upcoming OVA series - School Rumble San Gakki (School Rumble 3rd Term) launches. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fabanzai.animeblo gger.net%2F2008%2F06%2F20%2Fsc hool-rumble-3rd-term-official- website-launches%2F'; addthis_title... | | |
| 3:26pm | Joppy’s Collection June 17- Old school |  | | | Haven’t done one of these posts in a while.Here is what I picked up this weekend(the pic helps as well):Anime:1. Olde School- Golion (Voltron)Set 1 and Teknoman Complete set.2. Yuri- Strawberry Panic 23. Comedy- School Rumble OVA4. The Cute ones- Kanon 5 and “Shattered Angels” 15. Ecchi-... | | |
| 8:54am | Manga Weekly: School Rumble, Inuyasha, Psyren, Matsuri Special, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, and Bleach |  | | | Before I start the weekly highlights, let me lament two things. First, BECK is still a no show. Why? Any raws passing around? Second, Koukou Debut will end next issue of Bessatsu Margaret. Too soon, I tell you. I love Koukou Debut; it’s fun, entertaining, and no angsty heroine to annoy me.... | | |
| 3:50am | Funimation’s New Video Podcast Ain’t Bad | | | | One of the main differences between covering anime and covering films or video games is that there is a relatively short lead time - usually 1-3 months - between a title’s production announcement and its airing. Very little information surfaces about the development cycles except for the cast... | | |
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