| 6:05pm | Event Report: “Maritan to Hanasou!” Book Signing | | | | In the midst of my trip to Tokyo last weekend, my keitai rings. It's Shingo. "Hello? What's up? We still meeting today?" I ask. "Maritan to Hanasou signing event at K-Books in Akiba. Starts at 11. I can't get in in time. Can you make it?" comes the distorted voice (his phone ain't so good) | | |
| 5:02pm | The Skull Man 1 | | | | After watching episode 00 frankly I didn’t know what to make out of the show lol. So now that the first episode is out, here are some quick comments on the show, so those who have mentaly erased this from your list, you might want to rethink. I think by episode 1 the notion that the Skull Man... | | |
| 3:03pm | El Cazador de la Bruja - 05 | | | | I decided to stop giving these small blurbs of information about each show. I began to notice something, and Cos confirmed this. These things made me really lose sight of what’s important in an anime, and they only made sure that I was way too focused on finding something really unique. The | | |
| 10:54am | iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia 04 |  | | | There was some much-needed development of the characters this time, painting a picture of the main characters’ day-to-day interactions with each other and defining their identities better (they even have cool nicknames like “Ribbon” and “Sunshine Forehead” now). | | |
| 9:38am | Candy Girl Showroom |  | | | View the rest of this post ( 12 images )Spent a day in Akiba last week and thought I'd pop into Orient Industries Candy Girl showroom to see their latest Model Jewel Rosa. I've seen Candy Girl Ai in the 'flesh' but not the new ones.Walked in to be greeted by Koyuki lying on a bed waiting to | | |
| 8:02am | Seirei no Moribito Episode 4 - “Now, where is my egg?” |  | | | Sorry on the bad pun intended, but with the phrase of “Tamago” running in my head when Torogai keeps going “Tamago” when she enters the room, that is perhaps the only title I can think of right now. Seirei no Moribito Episode 4 starts off really strong, concluding the rescue | | |
| 5:54am | My first anime convention! | | | | Sorry, tsubaki, I just had to use this picture. It’s so great!First of all, a few side notes as aperitif:I must say that I am really amazed about the download speed of my university. 1,5MB/sec. is just awesome. And the 4th episode of Darker than Black was so incredibly sad T_TI also feel like | | |
| 3:59am | Darker than Black 3 | | | | A new arc, a new characterthis time it’s a high schooler named Mai who has been suffering from memory lapses. Hopefully she’ll last a bit longer than the previous character did when she suffered similar symptoms because Mai could explain a lot about what the devil is going on. | | |
| 12:43am | Weekend Rollup - April 28-29 2007 | | | | Well, I am a bit short on time today. Got some things I need to get through. So as such, I am going to FLY through things more or less. Oh yeah, and I closed Onii-chan no Ecchi. And I'll be setting up a new personal bog soon where I will do occasional articles and stuff. More info on all | | |
| 12:15am | Love Celeb by Mayu Shinjo | | | | ラブセレブ(Rabu Serebu)Once upon a time, in internet land, there was a girl who dreamed of a manga that was funny, romantic, maybe the occasional hero and heroine getting it on. Okay so it wasn’t once upon a time. I think it was about last year or so. It was internet land or whatever you | | |
| 9:10pm | ZB’s A-Z of J-Music: “F-G” | | | | Here we are again with another attempt to brighten the impending doom that is Monday with another hope filled edition of ZB’s A-Z! Forget about the five days of unfulfilling drone work you have ahead of as you click the next video from Foot Stamp or Fra-Foa. Feel the gloom melt away as you | | |
| 9:02pm | Skull Man, ep. 1: first impressions | | | | Skull Man, episode 1: “The Town Where Masks Dance” (Kamen ga Odoru Machi)This is Studio Bones’ modern adaptation of Ishinomori Shoutaro’s manga of a dark, vigilante hero. But the anime’s focus seems to be on the reporter, Hayato Mikigami, whose investigation of the | | |
| 6:22pm | Le Chevalier d’Eon Review - 91/100 | | | | Le Chevalier d’Eon tells the brilliant story of the years before the French Revolution, during the reign of Louis XV in a setting with fantasy-elements. It follows d’Eon de Beaumont, a chevalier in service of the king (hence the title), who suddenly discovers the death of his famous | | |
| 3:20pm | Bokura no - 04 | | | | Short Synopsis: It’s Masaru’s father, and only now the concept of Bokura no really becomes clear.Good: Wow just wowBad: Certain characters didn’t get any lines at all.Overall Enjoyment Value: 8.5/10 Oh boy I may have misunderstood this part, so correct me if | | |
| 12:07pm | Little Busters! OP Released [Now With YouTube Link!] | | | | The promo OP for Little Busters! - that is, Key/Visual Arts’ (Kanon, AIR, Clannad, planetarian) next game - has been released.It’s good stuff. I really want the OP single, because it’s really good. Like Megemeru* good. Watch it here, registration required, and find the checkbox | | |
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