| 9:01am | Sky Girls DVD Special 5 |  | | | Sky Girls fun continues, this time with Elise! Eika is able to catch more than just fish; she is a crane master as well! And then The Lord appears again.“Bass fishing contest!”SummaryAt Game Fantasy, motionslit-donning Elise tries hard to catch a prize at the crane game, but she keeps failing.... | | |
| 5:41am | Sky Girls DVD Special 4 |  | | | Awesome; Ayako is catching up with these. Four-minute shorts are so much fun. In this episode, the Sky Girls visit the Amazon Rainforest in search of pirahna. Unfortunately they get a little more than they expected. And Togo isn’t really all that pleased.SummaryThe girls and Togo search the rainforest... | | |
| 2:41am | Sky Girls | | | | Takumi is a great example of many camera gearheads.In episode 4, he goes ahead and shows off his CG Nikon. Could be a D50 due to the lack of a front wheel knob, but since there is a three-button mode dial, it’s likely a D200. The lens look like it comes from the 80s with | | |
| 11:51pm | Sky Girls DVD Special 3 |  | | | Been waiting so long for this! Now that the TV episodes have finished, I’m eager for any bit of new Sky Girls, even if I might have criticized the animation a bit in my review of DVD Special 2. But now I don’t have anything to compare it to, so bring on the delicious motionslits.Anyway, ... | | |
| 8:58pm | 49 New Anime: preview, staff, cast, story, pic | | | | As usual, what looked like a poor season is actually shaping up to have a number of interesting shows. Nothing so far looks like an instant classic, but there are always surprises. And with 49 shows (including OVAs), there could be plenty of surprises.Hirano Aya returns to anime in a big way, starring... | | |
| 1:21pm | Mainichi Junk: March 27th, 2008 | | | | News of the DayFigure: Alter augments August lineup with Nanoha’s Vita, UnisonFigure: Hatsune Miku Figma announced at TAFTokyo International Anime Fair Special ReportIn figure news from TAF, both the Goodsmile official blog and Akiba Hobby have chimed in with additional reporting on the Figma, fixed-pose... | | |
| 10:51pm | Sekirei TV anime announced! | | | | The official Sekirei manga site at Square-Enix's Young Gangan Magazine brought the announcement last night: as previously rumored, the bishoujo fighting-themed manga from Gokurakuin Sakurako (Ashika Sakura) will become an anime some time this year! It will be directed by Kusakawa Keizou (recent directorial... | | |
| 5:48am | February 27th figure news | | | | Figure news from the past day, including the preorder availability of a Sky Girls Sonic Diver Fuujin action figure from FREEing, Taki Corporation's castoffable Eruru from Utawarerumono, and a Code Geass Cornelia polystone courtesy of B-Club. Also: Max Factory's Figma Saber is selling better than expected... | | |
| 2:28pm | Good Smile Company |  | | | View the rest of this post ( 36 images ) Next up is the goodies at the Good Smile booth. Camera used : EOS Kiss Digital N + EF-S60mm F2.8 macro USM Archived in : Wonfes 2008 Winter. (Click image to enlarge) A load crowd round Hatsune Miku. Good Smile set up a photo corner where you can play with the... | | |
| 3:12pm | A Nagato imagepost can fix everything | | | | Everything. It’s been a busy weekend so I apologize if no post comes up until Monday or possibly Tuesday (y’know, Pacific Time). I suppose as a teaser I’ll let on it involves some predictions, arguments, and comparisons between some of the most heated harem-style romantic wars this... | | |
| 3:03pm | Spring Season Preview | | | | Incidentally, this is my 1600th post, so I thought that it would a good time for the upcoming spring-season preview, and the line-up is looking quite interesting. There are a lot of science-fiction series, and no hentai-game adaptations at all. That’s probably the first since years now. Apart... | | |
| 4:58pm | New items posted: the Leek Girl T-shirt is hot! | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 1:52am | [HOW] Fansub timing | | | | In one of my recent entries I stated that I’m sidetracking fansubbing for a while, which is why I decided to release this nifty video for people curious about the fansubbing process. Nothing exciting, really. It’s a screen recording of a timing session I had with one of the latter Sky Girls... | | |
| 12:39pm | Nominees in for ~Most ‘I want a remake’ show~ Vote Now!! | | | | VOTE!!!! Sigh…I’m so behind…this is going to go well into February now…Well anyway, for this category, Claymore won in nominations with 3, followed by Death Note and Nanoha StrikerS with 2. There weren’t a lot of nominations for this category, which I assume is a good thing, but I... | | |
| 5:00am | Figure News: January 22 news roundup | | | | No rest for the wicked today as figure news picks up from Wonder Festival and other quarters. Volks represents with a Muv Luv trading figure set, Toy'sworks introduces a new Prism Ark Priecia figure, Shueisha's Solid Selction ponies up a Hiiragi Aika from Mx0, Taki Corporation tackles Sonsaku Hakufu... | | |
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