| 10:02pm | Strike Witches: Whut | | | | In his grave, William Earl Johns spins like the prop of a Striker Unit. Strike Witches gave us fanservice hyperinflation (not the Divergence Eve kind). If any shot involving a female character is a pantyshot then the pantyshot becomes fanservice’s Zimbabwe Dollar, as it loses its air of the extraordinary.... | | |
| 5:00am | Impressions on a Year 2008: Beginning With Interesting People |  | | | By TheBigN I don’t know if I can do this next year, what with how the end of second year and the beginning of third year of med school (if I make it that far) goes. But more than about actually being able to see plenty of anime in 2009 is I’ll be motivated enough to keep track of stuff... | | |
| 9:58am | Ishikei’s Kannagi Doujinshi & Hot Milk Cover |  | | | Esteemed ero artist Ishikei has provided the cover for the latest issue of ero-manga magazine Comic Hot Milk. The book’s contents also include art by other well known artists such as Kisaragi Gunma and Urotan, so this issue should be of interest to hunters of cake and oppai alike. In related... | | |
| 9:53am | Strike Witches Nopan Loli Paipan Ero-DVD Delights |  | | | As promised, the censorship in the legendary no pantsu episode of Strike Witches has been eliminated in DVD volume four, leaving the title at borderline loli ero-anime status. We even see in detail the smooth contents of Gertrud’s pantsu like things Below you can see the detailed ero-comparison:... | | |
| 10:52pm | Christmas Witches |  | | | Christmas themed Strike Witches images are not exactly plentiful, but the quality is quite high so they deserve reproduction. It was in fact Lucchini’s birthday on the 24th, so a mention of her is doubly appropriate. Notice what is spilling from her sack. You can see much more of her on the Channel,... | | |
| 10:51pm | 2008 in Review and Predictions for 2009 |  | | | You know, even though I mostly focus this blog on stories about the anime industry and the American fan culture behind it, I am still an avid collector of manga and anime DVDs. So that means that along with keeping tabs on the latest news and traveling to many conventions this past year, I’ve... | | |
| 5:30pm | Yoshika Oppai Raep Pin-up |  | | | Yoshika enjoying a spot of steamy yuri bathing antics, at the expense of Gertrud’s oppai. An official piece of art, which explains the steamy reticence to reveal more than we already see. See also the previous images in the Strike Witches series: Eila clandestinely feeling Sanya, Yoshika being... | | |
| 2:54pm | The 2nd anniversary of Iwa ni Hana, and a wishlist for 2009 | | | | Ladies and gentlemen - Iwa ni Hana enters the second anniversary this month! The past two years have been fruitful. Not that I have been able to sustain interest in anime/manga continuously throughout my life - there have been lapses for years at a stretch. Two years ago, I was brought back into the... | | |
| 10:57pm | No-Pantsu Witches Uncensored Preview |  | | | Tantalizing glimpses of the uncensored DVD version of the famous no-pan episode (7) of Strike Witches have become available, showing us what we might reasonably expect to see when the long-awaited DVD Vol.4 release becomes available later this month. Also, a surprising amount of touch-up work has been... | | |
| 9:33am | Macross F Vol.1 Blu-ray Huge Success, Sales Top 35,000 |  | | | Oricon reports sales of the first volume of Macross F in Blu-ray have topped 35,000 since its release in late July, making it the 1# selling Blu-ray disc in Japan for 2008. Sales of series receiving simultaneous DVD and Blu-ray releases such as Code Geass, Macross F and Gundam 00 have been difficult... | | |
| 9:33am | Macross F Vol.1 Blu-ray Huge Success, Sales Top 35,000 |  | | | Oricon reports sales of the first volume of Macross F in Blu-ray have topped 35,000 since its release in late July, making it the 1# selling Blu-ray disc in Japan for 2008. Sales of series receiving simultaneous DVD and Blu-ray releases such as Code Geass, Macross F and Gundam 00 have been difficult... | | |
| 9:51am | Strike Witches, The Steven Den Beste Cut | | | | If you want to give yourself a chance to see the whole rest of the series, skip 5 and 7. Come back and watch them later. Thus spake SDB. I’m here to report that, having done so, I enjoyed this series very much. With SDB’s speculative explanation, even the ending made sense. And an unexpected... | | |
| 7:15pm | Unfulfilled Expectations or a Drastic My Anime Blog 2008 Primer |  | | | By TheBigN So according to others, I was apparently supposed to be part of the “12 Days of Christmas” craze that’s sweeping the blogosphere, and I’m kinda confused on how that impression came to be. I’m planning on doing what I did last year with the “Impressions... | | |
| 11:14am | Cool Items Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | | | | 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... | | |
| 6:07am | Pantsu Witches Director Releases C75 Ero-Doujinshi |  | | | Fans of popular mecha musume series Strike Witches have yet another reason to look forward to the upcoming Comiket 75 - Kazuhiro Takamura, director of the TV series, will be releasing a Lynette Bishop doujinshi at the event. Undoubtedly this book will become highly sought after, as doujinshi made... | | |
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