| 8:03pm | Summer 2009 Anime Previews -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 7:00pm | Maria-sama ga Miteru Special CD, Volume 2 | | | | Tsutako is in the house! Yes, in the second Maria-sama ga Miteru Special CD, Satou Rina is the guest of honor and conversations about soeur and sweets abound. Satou Rina has the most amusing habit of calling Ueda Kana "Yumi-san," which she just canNOT shake. They discuss the usual things - the kind of... | | |
| 3:23am | Anime Boston 2009 Day 0 | | | | Seafood is delicious, you must have it. Honestly though, this is a big reason why I am here. It’s not so much the con has draws for me, even if it certainly does. It’s the people, the location (first time really spending a day++ inside Boston), and doing stuff in a relaxed manner. I have... | | |
| 1:58pm | Yuri News This Week - May 16, 2009 | | | | Get Okazu on your Kindle! It's a super cheap monthly subscription and will be delivered directly to your reading device with every update. Okazu is already not the only anime/manga blog - you can also get Mangablog, Anime Almanac, Comics Worth Reading and more. If I do say so myself, Okazu looks pretty... | | |
| 9:15pm | DarkMirage on RahXephon |  | | | I laughed, I really did, reading how DM misleads the reader with screencaps of Ayato in ambiguous positions. Although, perhaps he doesn’t. Some said before that the whole story is about Ayato killing off members of his harem one by one. Now that’s misleading. RahXephon is like a work of... | | |
| 12:56am | Marketing Otaku Anime | | | | An alternative take at the eternal struggle of copywriting (read the comments there!) anime for an American audience–the shoppers of America’s big-box heartland–is that it really doesn’t matter. At least not in the way fans think of it. Let’s take a well-known import of... | | |
| 12:34am | SDS on advertising | | | | Ogiue Maniax: Is it all right to, in some sense, trick people into reading your book or watching your show? Is it simply a case that if you told most people that Saiunkoku was like, political shoujo, that it would turn most people away? Apropos that, a few bloggers I know admitted that they picked Divergence... | | |
| 10:47pm | Yurumates -- Seiyuu Triumph | | | | Slipping in under the radar comes the hilarious one-episode OVA Yurumates ゆるめいつ, based on a 4-koma comic strip by saxyun.The simple Flash+2D animation is funny enough, but the script and the seiyuus really make this a great little show. Hidamari Sketch with a drier wit.Main character Yurume... | | |
| 1:30pm | Ristorante Paradiso Episode 3 - Why is it so darn good? |  | | | The question in my mind: Why is a show about old men, food and some romance so darn good? There are some shows out there that are great, and you know why they are great. FLCL is great because it has an insane level of energy and craziness that makes your heart pounding for more. On the other hand, Simoun... | | |
| 10:43pm | Higashi no Eden -- Godly Voices and Animation | | | | I've been eagerly awaiting the first episode of Higashi no Eden, which aired in Japan a few hours ago.It did not disappoint.First, for me, is the godly voice work of Hayami Saori. As in her best singing, she can run a stream of subtle nuances through any line of text. She is a young seiyuu with mature... | | |
| 9:10pm | Hayami Saori's Breakthrough Year? | | | | Seiyuu HAYAMI Saori 早見沙織, 17, is graduating from high school this spring and beginning her seiyuu career in earnest.Up to now, she has been limited to one role at a time. But in the upcoming spring season she will have three roles, including her biggest role yet.She began her career two years... | | |
| 1:25pm | Yuri News This Week - March 28, 2009 | | | | The Yuriscape is very anime-heavy this week.Yuri AnimeSean and Eric leapt to tell us that a Simoun box set will be shipping in June. I was asked recently why Media Blasters didn't ship the first [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://okazu.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more!... | | |
| 2:04am | Using Takarazuka Revue to Focus on Genre Tropes | | | | Takarazuka Revue. Tropes. Get it? Actually this is just answering a call from Gia, who wonders if people would play blog ping pong with her (ideally on AnimeVice, natch): Find some Takarazuka elements in shoujo manga or anime series– OTHER than the following: Utena, Princess Knight, Rose of Versailles.... | | |
| 1:29am | Aging, Rambling Old Man | | | | Being a silly American, I bought the US release of Persona 3 FES when it came out last April. I even pre-ordered it, counting on the buzz of friends and foes alike. It did turn out to be a great little PS2 gem, even for someone who generally avoids RPGs on the console like myself. I chalk it up to that... | | |
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