| 9:50pm | Shakugan no Shana II - 24 [End] | | | | Shana, please stop shining! So Shana continued to fight Hecate and Wilhelmina with Sydonay. Soon, Shana and Wilhelmina went to the clock tower to rest. It was then that they realized that Sydonay and Hecate didn't want to attack - it was of importance to them. Yoshida, on the other hand, was hallucinating... | | |
| 8:50pm | FMA anime… Oh, sweet memories |  | | | While scrounging around for some of my Fullmetal Alchemist DVDs, I found Volume 2 (Scarred Man of the East) and was reminded of how the anime *used* to be somewhat better than the manga before it went off-track. For example, Nina’s death in the manga (while still sad) was not as much of a tearjerker... | | |
| 2:00pm | Anime Review - Shakugan no Shana: The Movie: 84.7% | | | | The Essentials Name: Shakugan no Shana: The Movie Genre: Fantasy, Action Episodes: N/A Released: April 21, 2007 Based On: Shakugan no Shana light novels by Yashichiro Takahashi Director: Takashi Watanabe Produced By: J.C. Staff US Distribution By: N/AMajor Japanese Cast Yuji Sakai: Satoshi Hino Shana:... | | |
| 11:30pm | First Impression: The Secret of Haruka Nogizaka | | | | The third non-blogged series I’m watching in the summer is Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu a.k.a. The Secret of Haruka Nogizaka. This one is about, shockingly, Haruka Nogizaka, the quintessential perfect girl in the school - rich, good grades, great looking, good at sports, etc., etc., etc. Meanwhile,... | | |
| 3:52am | Shakugan no Shana II - 23 | | | | Next Episode: The Apocalypse has come! After Hecate took away Sakai's Reiji Maigo, he fainted. She held out her hand to a clocktower and the Reiji Maigo went into the clock; she placed the Reiji Maigo into the silver armor's body and it received an silver aura. Shana, Wilhelmina, Margery hurried where... | | |
| 4:28pm | Love Is A Battlefield |  | | | From Crusader: Like war for the shoujo heroine there is no substitute for victory in her love life and in her struggles all is fair, though not all is right. To form a coherent doctrine she has to break things down into strategy (over all vision of how to achieve her goals), operational art (amassing... | | |
| 3:51am | Shakugan no Shana II - 22 - Who do you like? | | | | Next Episode: Who Do You Like? This episode was pretty crazy with lots of surprises. One thing is that in the beginning, Sabrac reappeared. He wasn't going to attack Sakai and friends again, but he was alive. Keisaku tried to call his father which he dislikes, but he wouldn't pick up. Margery asked him... | | |
| 3:06am | U.S Manga Price Gap |  | | | When I was driving through Calgary I saw a sign that said ‘All comics and manga for U.S cover price’ I was astonished. I looked at the manga I had with me (Negima volume 10 and Girls Bravo volume 6) and both of those were like ten dollars! The Canadian price were like twelve and fourteen... | | |
| 3:48am | Shakugan no Shana II - 20 + 21 | | | | Next Episode: Sabrac's Indestructibly Destructible Sakai felt something from the hole that Shana made when all of a sudden a large strike of energy splattered at his direction. Luckily, Wilhelmina protected him. The three fell down and were briefly unconscious. When Sakai awoke, he was looking at the... | | |
| 10:34pm | New Geneon Releases Get Dated | | | | Let the rejoicing begin: the first new Geneon release (via FUNimation) will be on August 19th, and it’s Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage volume 1 (regular and limited edition). Then come Karin 4 (September 2nd), Shakugan no Shana’s box set (September 9th), and a bunch of stuff on the 16th,... | | |
| 10:48pm | Princess Ressurection GN 3 |  | | | It’s a little unusual for me to be doing a review on anything really. But a manga seems so much more less likely. Oh well. It’s not my fault I became observant of publishers, prices and princesses. Hmm Although when I was at this omega-awesome store with like the most manga I’ve EVER... | | |
| 6:29pm | Amuri in Star Ocean 01 -- weird gem of moe science-fiction | | | | Now that there is a fansub for this show, perhaps it will begin to get the attention it deserves.Hoshi no Umi no Amuri 星の海のアムリ is a three-episode OVA done almost entirely in 3DCG, including the characters. I would call it a moe science-fiction fantasy: it's real moe, and real science fiction.What... | | |
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