| 2:42pm | Cross Game - 24 | | | | I’d like again to hijack this post for a bit to post up some impressions of the past half year of anime. Now that most of the series of the past Spring and Summer Season are about to end, it’s time to reflect on them again, and how they matched up to previous years. My general impression... | | |
| 1:23pm | PAPERMOON ~guitar~ – Soul Eater (ソウルイーター) |  | | | First of all, I can upload widescreen videos now (with slightly better quality) I got myself a nice Lumix DMC-FS15 So, expect more widescreen videos in the future, with the same sound quality though ^_^ Anyway, I’m addicted to this song ever since I first heard it in someone’s channel. I... | | |
| 6:26pm | B.Ichi Volume 04 (END) – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Many thanks to Yen Press for providing a review copy About the Mangaka Okubo Atsushi is better known for his more recent work, Soul Eater. However he also assisted on the older series, Get Backers. B.Ichi is his first independent work where he did both the art and story. About the Manga*sigh* While... | | |
| 4:13am | Soul Eater Hentai Ero Gallery |  | | | An ero gallery of the lovely girls of Soul Eater, focusing mostly on twin-tailed Maka Albarn, busty kunoichi Tsubaki and the Thompson sisters, all showing substantially much more flesh than was allowed in the Square-Enix manga, or the recent TV anime. Other characters make appearances, including nekomimi... | | |
| 9:38am | Rewatching Read or Die | | | | “Zaaaa Paaaay-paaaaah!!” Man, even years later hearing that ridiculous Engrish pronunciation of Yomiko Readman’s codename still makes me laugh out loud. I really should go back and rewatch my favorite classics more often. It helps recapture some of that nostalgic enjoyment that got... | | |
| 9:35pm | Senjougahara Fascination -- Saitou Chiwa in Bakemonogatari | | | | In Bakemonogatari, seiyuu Saitou Chiwa 斎藤千和 is helping to create a character that could become one of the most memorable in anime: Senjougahara Hitagi.Senjougahara has been verbally sparring with the male protagonist from the start. She is beautiful, tough and strange. And Chiwa (her given name... | | |
| 11:53am | ConnectiCon 2009 Cospaly | | | | LOL, it was over capacity!!! I went to ConnectiCon on Saturday and took some cosplay pics. Not too much to say about the con (maybe I’m getting too jaded?). The convention was noticeably bigger this year, spilling over from the convention center to some rooms in the hotel next door as well.... | | |
| 10:16pm | Otakon 2009: Panels, Loot, Wrap | | | | I enjoy Otakon every year, but I always get the feeling at the end of each one that I’ve had a good run and might skip it from now on. I’ve been saying it for three years now, so I’ll probably be back. This here is my convention report, panels, loot, and jabber at the end. Didn’t... | | |
| 4:10am | Otakon 2009 - Day 1 in Tweets |  | | | “Well, Mell was swell as hell.” On Site: Scott from The Anime Almanac Jon I. from JANAiBlog Kim Edward Sizemore from Comics Worth Reading animevice from Anime Vice Greg Peter Tatara from New York Anime Fest OutOfTimeProd from Out Of Time Productions Alex from alexleavitt.com Carl from Ogiue... | | |
| 9:00pm | Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 -- Who are those great voices? | | | | The first two episodes of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 have been outstanding. And the perfect voices have been a big part of the deal.Hanamura Satomi as Mirai has been particularly brilliant. She did the sullen middle-schooler so perfectly in episode one that many people hated her. And her determination to find... | | |
| 11:36pm | Soul Eater Trailer - First glimpse of the English Dub | | | | All you lucky punks who went to AX already got to see this, but now the rest of us are finally able to see the first Soul Eater trailer from FUNimation. Definitely a marked improvement over the Media Factory trailer that looks more like a documentary than a trailer. Plus, we finally get our first sample... | | |
| 7:18am | Top Picks – Spring 2009 Anime, Part 3: VMA Awards | | | | The final set of awards before going to my top shows of the season cover the music, vocal actors, and animation aspects of this season’s anime. Or the three parts to anime that are heavily dependent on the preferences of the individual viewer. The reason I put these awards third is that in the... | | |
| 3:44pm | Manga in Japan = One Piece | | | | Manga in Japan appears synonymous with One Piece in much the same way that manga overseas is a shorthand for saying “Naruto“, if the latest manga sales figures are anything to go by. The collected Oricon Top 50 figures for manga sales through the first half of 2009 (shown below) give a... | | |
| 12:00am | Cutting Through a Forest of Swords: a Survey of Swordplay Anime | | | | [This post has no spoilers, pic somewhat related] As I’ve said recently, one thing that interests me almost as much as mecha anime is samurai anime. If there are swordfights, I’m somehow interested. In this post I’m going to give short impressions, or rather what I took away from... | | |
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