| 3:38am | To Aru Majutsu no Index - 14 |  | | | Summary:Having survived the explosion, Touma manages to avoid Accelerator's next attack and counters with a punch with his right hand. | | |
| 8:57am | Weekly Anime Review (Dec. 22 – Jan 4) | | | | Our lovable Corpse Princess as a baby.And just like that, the book closes on the fall season and 2008.Back at the start of the fall season, early October, the trees where just starting to change colors and it was still possible to walk around outside in shorts. Now at the end of the season, coats are... | | |
| 1:59pm | A Certain Magical Oppai Exposure Beach Episode |  | | | The preview for the 15th episode of A Certain Magical Index reveals what appears to be a dramatic increase in ecchiness, wtith Index and company appearing in a flat chested mizugi beach special, and with some particularly alluring munechira antics visible. The interest of fans has been piqued considerably;... | | |
| 7:33pm | A Certain Magical Index #14 — Shoot Windmills To Win | | | | Why didn’t I think of that? Impressions: A decent episode overall, although there were still quite a few parts where everything just sort of stopped for a moment or two and people started firing off exposition. It only got really bad when Accelerator was charging up his plasma storm ball thingy.... | | |
| 5:02pm | Top 10 Anime Openings of 2008 | | | | Yesterday I presented my list of the top 10 EDs of 2008. Now it’s time for what I thought were the top 10 OPs of 2008. Once again, I’m judging these more on the music than the animation of the OP. Also, once again, they have to be songs that premiered in 2008. #10 - Kaiba “Never”... | | |
| 9:53am | A Certain Magical Cosplay Kickboxer |  | | | As he hinted previously, crossdressing cosplay kickboxer Yuichiro Nagashima has fulfilled his love of A Certain Magical Index, specifically Index, and appeared dressed as a Church of England nun. Above he poses with minor seiyuu Noriko Shitaya, and he is also pictured below: It looks as if the plan... | | |
| 7:43pm | Fall 2008 Anime Season Conclusion and Overview | | | | The Fall 08 season has pretty much concluded and as such I have the pleasure and honor to present you my season overview. Overall this season was quite pleasant experience, putting aside a certain bitter disappointment but more on that later. Now, I firmly believe that a visual presentation always... | | |
| 3:06am | Market Forces Moe: GeGeGe no Kitarou |  | | | This is the prosaically named Nekomusume from very long running anime franchise ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 / GeGeGe no Kitarou; the number indicates the season, and a movie version is also pictured. The season start dates are as follows: 1. 1968 2. 1971 3. 1985 4. 1996 5. 2007 The direction character design... | | |
| 8:08am | Ero-Doujinshi vs Doujinshi: 2008 Ranking |  | | | The scope of doujinshi, or unofficial fan-works of existing anime, manga or game series is gigantic, generating over ¥55 Billion (over $600 Million USD) in 2007 alone. Most otaku know one of the main reasons for the huge proliferation of doujinshi is the fan-artist’s freedom (or sometimes even... | | |
| 5:42pm | Winter 2009 Blog/Watch List | | | | It’s time that I actually decide what series I’m going to watch and blog for the upcoming season. As I decided and noted earlier, the only series I’m going to blog is the second half of CLANNAD: After Story, to give me as light a workload as possible as I go into the final semester... | | |
| 5:22pm | The Moefication of A Certain Magical Index |  | | | The huge gulf between the character design used in the initial A Certain Magical Index light novels and that used in more recent volumes, as well as more widely in the anime and similar, has recently been pointed out by fans. Especially the differences in Index’s design You can see a simple comparison... | | |
| 4:48am | Favorite Anime Characters of 2008 | | | | Ah, yes, the fall season is gone and the winter season has started. That means a brand new year in anime has started. To welcome that new year, I once again will show my favorite characters of the previous yearfrom Winter ‘08 season to Fall ‘08 season. Any character between those season... | | |
| 1:05pm | Best Anime of 2008 | | | | Maybe it’s because I didn’t watch as many anime as I did last year due to work, but it seems like the overall quality of anime released this year wasn’t as high as last year. That doesn’t mean that the series that came out this year are bad. It’s just I find that there... | | |
| 7:00am | Reverse Vampire’s Top 10 Anime Shows (And YES, the list is biased) |  | | | CCS, anyone? The New Year has arrived! To end of 2008 (With so many ups and downs) and hope 2009 will be a better year for everyone living in this planet. Economy crisis, natural disasters, political crisis and global warming, GO AWAY! (Well, except for global warning. You can’t get rid of that.)... | | |
| 11:04am | Stacking Up For The Winter: A 2009 Winter Preview of sorts | | | | Yes. Rakuen will be stacking up this season’s shows for next season. To tell the truth, the only series I’m following through as of now are Clannad, Toradora!, and Kannagi. But I’ll be saving Taiga’s smile for next year. For now, I’m dozing off with some online gaming... | | |
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