| 12:29am | The new Haruhi OP is ewww | | | | It looks and sounds like shit. It just can’t hold a candle to the original. Also, that isn’t Aya Hirano singing is it? Aya Hirano can’t sing too well either but at least she doesn’t sounds like a screeching old grandmother. Wait a minute it is Aya Hirano. Oh well, I guess she... | | |
| 7:54am | Shuffle! Itasha Model Car | | | | Spotted this lovely Shuffle! MAZDA RX-7 FD3S itasha model car on AkibaHobby. It is being produced by Kotobukiya and will be released that will be released in June for 3,990yen. Here’s a final look at the model car from the top. Source: AkibaHobby I think the decals are really lovely. The car would... | | |
| 3:56am | AnimeNEXT 2009 RPT | | | | Made it out to AnimeNEXT 2009, mainly to do an anime blogging panel with Omo, Moy, and SDS. I got there around quarter to four on Saturday to do a practice run before the panel on Sunday. The aforementioned, the duo from Reverse Thieves, Brad from Japanator, Kransom from Welcome Datacomp, Scott from... | | |
| 3:30pm | Kannagi OVA – Strangely unsatisfying | | | | Actually after a short reflection, it isn’t so strange that I didn’t enjoy the Kannagi OVA as much as hoped. The OVA suffered from the same issues as the TV series – too much immiscible fat. Note that I enjoyed the ‘fatty’ bits of Kannagi. Theose fun eps were entertaining,... | | |
| 3:26pm | Taiwan Otaku Shopping |  | | | Hijacking for a few reasons:- -Love to share experiences of members from all over the world - whether they are shopping or events or whatever. -Me likes looking at all the 2D girlie stuff and want to know what that white box is near the bottom of the photo of the girl lying down with what looks like... | | |
| 11:10pm | Anime Credits - Shuffle OP | | | | I’m kind of shocked I never posted this before And just to be safe, there is a brief shot in this one which would most likely classify it as NSFW so, yeah. | | |
| 8:26am | Alter Shigure Asa :: Grassy field in the evening | | | | As usual, I should have seen it coming. Or rather, I should have heard it coming. The running footfalls approaching from behind. The intake of breadth. Perhaps even the swinging of her arm through the air. There was, of course, no missing either the loud greeting of "HELLO!" and the slap... | | |
| 1:39pm | Seiyuu Surprises – Same Actor, Different Roles |  | | | Seiyuu, or voice actors, are one of the more recognized workers in the creation of anime, giving our beloved 2D characters the most obvious link to humanity – their voices. The names of many famous seiyuu are well known among the ranks of otaku, even more so in this decade than past years, but the... | | |
| 4:31pm | Funimation Box sets - True bargains or a discount in quality? | | | | My latest anime DVD haul was received in a mix of joy and apprehension. Joy because I could finally chuck my crappy subs but apprehension crept in when I realised SHUFFLE! was packed onto 4 discs while Soukou no Strain - 2 DVDs. Such compressions are typical of bootlegs but unheard of in legit DVDs,... | | |
| 8:19am | Hayate no Gotoku!! 6 | | | | Hina rescues sad girly boy in snow. Seems that Hayate has some serious blocks (and the usual bad timing) to prevent Hina from decisively triggering his flag. But the potential is shown to be there in a way that we only saw briefly wrt Maria-san right at the beginning of the series. Haha, I loved... | | |
| 6:29am | Macross Frontier 25 and such |  | | | At the last club meeting of the semester, I watched Macross Frontier 25, some Nodame Paris-hen (about 09, I guess), and Shuffle 03. Every time I watch Mac F, it makes a big impression. It’s definitely not a series for me, there’s too much stuff going on, and then the unresolved triangle... | | |
| 5:01pm | Tsundere for Tsukihime? | | | | This purchase is no coincidence. Bought 2 days after Zyl put up my ancient review of Tsukihime, I’m certain my good comrade-in-anime revived something more insidious than just a forgotten relic of the past. Flooded by memories of the bishoujos of Tsukihime (especially the meido-twins), I found... | | |
| 12:15pm | Storm Over Aoi Nishimata’s Selection for Star Wars Book | | | | Artist Aoi Nishimata, renowned as the artist behind Shuffle and a variety of adult games and visual novels, has been at the centre of a storm of controversy as it became known that she was selected as a “representative” artist for Japan, to contribute an illustration to a Lucas endorsed commemorative... | | |
| 10:00am | Nishimata Aoi To Draw For Star Wars Book |  | | | Known for her artworks in Shuffle!, Final Approach, Nishimata Aoi had announced in her blog that she has been chosen among 100 illustrators for the upcoming Star Wars artbook that will be released worldwide. Another illustrator from Japan was also selected although the identity was not known. According... | | |
| 4:00pm | Face Off: Mike, Ray, and Mori Meta-tate on Anime and Art |  | | | Yes, moritheil has become a discussion partner in this revival of our Face Off feature! Please enjoy this rather meta-level discussion about whether anime can be treated like art or not. Mike: today’s topic: “is anime art?” For myself, I actually addressed this issue at length in... | | |
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