| 3:28am | Eyecatch: lol Why am I liking Sainukoku and Skip Beat? | | | | Given that I had a week long break, I had the intentions to write something but I ended up succumbing to ennui. Much apologies are needed for my dear ghostlightning for I had promised to complete a certain project that he had kindly invited me to take part in. Then again, my lack of activity is due... | | |
| 2:01am | Skip Beat! - 22: Kyoko’s Badge of Honor |  | | | Misinterpreting signals is Kyoko’s specialty. So it seems that Impz is still MIA for Skip Beat! I can only assume that he is deathly afraid of Mio and cowering in fear, so it falls upon me again At any rate Kyoko was at a loss to figure out the intricacies of her character and starts to believe... | | |
| 10:56am | Skip Beat! - 19-21: Operation Chromite |  | | | Next time you can play hackee sac with Shotaro’s head With Impz MIA in the Philippines or where ever he is now it has fallen upon me once again to raise the standard of Kyoko in these parts. So this will be a three episode blitz in so that Impz can pick up without delay when he comes back. So Kyoko... | | |
| 12:32am | Skip Beat! Vol 17 by Yoshiki Nakamura Manga Review | | | | Title: Skip Beat! Vol 17 Author: Yoshiki Nakamura Publisher: Viz ISBN: 978142523521 May Contain Spoilers The more I read this series, the more I like Ren. He is a complicated hero, with a dark past and intense, hidden feelings. His emotions were so out of control when... | | |
| 12:06pm | February Summary | | | | A bit of a boring list this time perhaps, since it looks mostly the same as last month’s with perhaps a few small differences. Nevertheless, this was a very good month. The winter season has proven to be an excellent one, and quite a few series spent this month getting even better than they already... | | |
| 5:56pm | Skip Beat Ch. 134-136 - Level 5 Torture | | | | Picking up from where we last left off, Kyoko suggests that Chiori's character should act as her "right hand" in bullying. When the director thinks that the Kaori character would be more suitable, Kyoko says that Kaori is too important, and she'd rather use someone disposable. During filming, she uses... | | |
| 1:19am | Thank you everyone! | | | | Its my birthday! So another year, another birthday, but I wanted to thank everyone for all their good wishes, you’ve all helped to make it a great one I know I haven’t been around much lately apart from Naruto updates XD Unfortunately real life is keeping me hella busy. I’m still... | | |
| 7:37pm | To ToraDora with Love: Letters from the Dearly Retarded | | | | Toradora is one of my favorite running shows right now, the other being Skip Beat!. I love the drama and the mix of crack. After my latest dose of Toradora though (episode 19), I have to ask out of frustration: Why is everybody a bloody martyr!?! This is not meant to be taken seriously.Minorin, Why... | | |
| 12:29am | Skip Beat! - Back to What I Like | | | | The last few episodes of Skip Beat focused more on Kyouko focusing on her career and having fun rather than on revenge, and it was good, yes it was good watching her actually like showbiz and keeping Sho off her mind. But that doesn’t fulfill my Skip Beat thirst, although it was great seeing... | | |
| 8:48am | Skip Beat! - 18: Kyoko of Destiny |  | | | In the sky of despair, storm blows savagely For whom the future exists Collapsing is the world, storm blowing through it The chosen ones MEN WOMEN OF DESTINY Well it seems Impz is MIA and tossing work in my direction since my RAGE HAET for Misaki in WA needs time to simmer to perfection I might as well... | | |
| 3:34pm | January Summary | | | | It’s definitely been an interesting Winter-season so far. I know that I’ve ranted pretty often about the lack of new concepts this series, but when you look at the big picture, then this is promising to become an excellent season. There are many quality sequels airing right now, and especially... | | |
| 3:37pm | The meaning of "urameshii (恨めしい)" in Skip Beat! | | | | I have always found the definition of urameshii 恨めしい in my English/Japanese dictionary to be somewhat off-the-mark. Urameshii, according to Kenkyusha, is defined as "reproachful, rueful, regretful". But when you see for instance, Mogami Kyouko saying in respect of Fuwa Shou "あなたが苦しいほど... | | |
| 5:13am | Vote for your Favourite 2008 Anime | | | | Hy look, it’s anotehr Anime-Source survey (: I have a lot of fun with these. I especially like to see the results of what anime fans think. Especially since it’s selective to just recent anime. Well, you can head over to anime-source.com and look at the newspage to see how to vote. Or you... | | |
| 8:52am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 3: Genre Awards | | | | Soldiering on, this next set of awards cover some of the many different types of anime out there. I enjoy many of these types of anime and this sometimes leads to odd pairings; for example, I remember watching Kaiba and Maid Guy back-to-back on several occasions. There are a few categories you won’t... | | |
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