| 5:50am | Vacation Update – I’m Still On Vacation and Loving the Pretty Sunsets | | | | I’ve been looking forward to this vacation since we planned it last September and I have to say that it’s living up to the hype I’ve been placing on it. The picture above was the sunset yesterday. Among the things I did yesterday was hang out on the beach for 3 hours, watched a... | | |
| 3:46am | Spice and Wolf 2 01 |  | | | Summary: Horo and Lawrence are on their way to the Fuoania nobles’ heathen town of Kumerson. Horo once again dreams of Yoitsu, and in her dream she is torn between choosing Lawrence and her brethren, only to turn and see that in the blink of an eye Lawrence has been reduced to a skeleton. ... | | |
| 6:29pm | Saimoe 2009 Main rounds B1, B4, B7, B10 |  | | | Still, No comments from me until I catch up(Prepare for epic rant) Group B01:1st 494 votes | Holo @ Spice And Wolf II2nd 148 votes | Kazakiri Hyouka @ To Aru Majutsu no Index3rd 145 votes | Minakami Misao @ Asura Cryin’4th 55 votes | Nina Antalk @ Chrome Shelled Regios5th... | | |
| 7:02am | Spice and Wolf II - 05 |  | | | Lawrence meets with Deanna and continues his preparations to try and make the pyrite market crash. Impressions: This episode did a good job of setting up the final struggle for Lawrence. I mean he’s in a battle to keep Horo with him. Stopping Amati from getting the 1000 Trenni silver coins is... | | |
| 2:07pm | ｢Saimoe ‘09｣ “Group B – Day 1″ Block ~ 1st Round Results | | | | Winners: Holo, Yuna, Perrine, and Miki. Next up the high tiers have their turn. If things go as expected, Fuuko can have her long-awaited rematch against Tsukasa. Full results after the jump Group B-1 Results:1位 494票 (Holo @ Spice And Wolf II)2位 148票 (Kazakiri Hyouka @ To Aru Majutsu... | | |
| 10:40pm | Spice and Wolf II - Episode 5 | | | | If you were disappointed by the relatively Horo-free zone that was episode four of Spice and Wolf II, then I'm afraid that you're going to have to prepare yourself for more of the same this time around, as the focus remains well and truly upon Lawrence for the vast majority of this instalment.Of course,... | | |
| 2:05pm | ｢Saimoe ‘09｣ “Group A – Day 3″ Block ~ 1st Round Results | | | | Winners: Yutaka, Minna, Yuuki, and Utau. Tacos wins by double the amount of votes the other 3 received. And no love for Basquash I see. Anyway, it’s time for Group B to begin their first round matches. Full results after the jump Group A-3 Results:1位 365票 (Kobay akawa Yutaka @ Lucky☆Star... | | |
| 2:05pm | ｢Saimoe ‘09｣ “Group A – Day 3″ Block ~ 1st Round Results | | | | Winners: Yutaka, Minna, Yuuki, and Utau. Tacos wins by double the amount of votes the other 3 received. And no love for Basquash I see. Anyway, it’s time for Group B to begin their first round matches. Full results after the jump Group A-3 Results:1位 365票 (Kobay akawa Yutaka @ Lucky☆Star... | | |
| 4:53am | Kabitzin’s July 2009 List | | | | They tell me I have a lovely Barry tone I’ve cleared up a big chunk of my backlog, and it’s been glorious. I still have to watch the second season of Spice and Wolf, as well as Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, but I have heard good things about both series. Has Umi Monogatari gotten any better? ... | | |
| 10:48am | Kanno Co-wrote the lyrics of Spice & Wolf ED?! | | | | UPDATE: Chris Mosdell has answered my email:Hi Mai,Thanks for the “spicy” enquiry, and for the complimentary comments on my lyrical lunacy.Umm, as for Yoko’s involvement in the composition of “Ringo Hiyori: The Wolf Whistling Song” I think that somehow the Ink Music website... | | |
| 10:32pm | Spice and Wolf II OP – Mitsu no Yoake |  | | | So I had planned to lay in bed until five thirty-ish until I somehow got this song in my head. Even though my Shuffle was on the desk beside me, it forced me to get out of bed just to listen to this song. No, the full isn’t out yet. Here’s hoping it doesn’t get the Erinyes treatment... | | |
| 6:10pm | Yuri Network News - August 1, 2009 | | | | As Yuricon is about to turn 9 years old, and Okazu 7, I've been thinking about what we've accomplished so far and what there is still yet to do. In many ways we have no influence over what happens in Japan, of course. Other than perhaps buying so much Yuri that we actually become a blip on their market... | | |
| 10:06am | July Summary | | | | I must say, that we’ve got ourselves an awesome Summer Season here. Sure, there aren’t many series, but a significant majority of the new series succeed at what they intend to do. There may not be a lot of shows with awesome and ambitious story-lines, but in terms of slice of life and characterization,... | | |
| 4:39am | Spice and Wolf II - 04 | | | | Lawrence comes up with a plan to try and stop Amati from paying off Horo’s debt. Impressions: After the disaster of last episode, Lawrence has managed to find his feet and is at least moving forward. Instead of just falling into a deep depression he is going to fight in the only way he can to... | | |
| 6:33pm | Spice and Wolf II - Episode 4 | | | | After the last episode of Spice and Wolf II, one of the replies to my entry posited that said episode's closing scene would go down as an epic one in anime history - While I think that may have been over-egging the delicious pudding of this series, the scene in question did nonetheless light a fire under... | | |
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