| 12:45am | The Recency Bias and How it Affects Anime Appreciation | | | | [Pic somehow related] I just finished watching a lot of shows in the past 2 months, as well as read a lot of manga. I look at my recent archives and see how much samurai anime and manga I’ve bee consuming. Sometimes I catch myself thinking, ‘oh wow, this is just the best thing ever.’... | | |
| 11:18pm | Summer '09 Previews | | | | With several shows that I enjoy carrying on from spring; add 14 new ones, plus Haruhi new episodes, Zetsubou Sensei 3rd and Ookami 2nd season; this summer looks very promising! The highlights are of course Canaan from the Type-Moon team, Umineko from Higurashi creators and SHAFT's second TV show this... | | |
| 11:03pm | Play Persona 4! It’s Addictive. | | | | In recent years, there’s been an increasingly wide division in styles between American and Japanese-made games. On one hand, we have the Halos, Gears of Wars, GTAs, where the main character is some gruff macho man who plunders the sandbox or shoots aliens, and across the Pacific, we have pretty... | | |
| 7:33pm | Taiga Aisaka Loli Mizugi Figure by Kotobukiya |  | | | This especially moe-some figure rendition of Toradora!’s heroine Taiga Aisaka from maker Kotobukiya will soon become available, much to the delight of her fans since this might well be the best figure of Taiga yet. That enthusiasm will likely prove useful for international fans of the loli tsundere... | | |
| 10:50am | Japanese Shoe Removal Culture | | | | There are certain things you can find in a Japanese house that would be missing in most homes in the U.S., such as a traditional tatami room with paper shoji doors, a washing machine with a hose to let you wash your clothes with last night's bath water, and a toilet that cleans your butt for you when... | | |
| 10:48am | Cool Products Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | | | | 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... | | |
| 11:06pm | Anime Summer 2009 -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 9:32pm | Summer 2009 Anime -- full previews w/staff, cast, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 8:03pm | Summer 2009 Anime Previews -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 4:58pm | Japan’s Top 10 Waifus (and Husbandos) |  | | | Recently, ANN of all places posted this interesting article of a survey conducted in Japan on which anime characters the respondents wished to marry. Most of the characters on the lists shouldn’t be particularly surprising, and its somewhat tilted toward currently running shows, but it’s... | | |
| 7:42am | Summer 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | This seems to happen every time, just when I’m finally feel like I’ve got used to the season’s mix of shows, a new season comes along and offers a completely different set of shows to watch.At the start of the spring season, I was unsure if there’d be as many quality titles as the past several... | | |
| 12:00am | Hatsukoi Limited is Where all the Males are Limited | | | | I’ve grown rather fond of Hatsukoi Limited. It feels every bit the generic junior/high school hijinks romance comedy with some dramatic elements. What sets it apart for me is the gorgeous character designs by J. C. Staff, that to me, is superior to their work on Toradora! Why is this a critical... | | |
| 3:44am | Clannad - “To My Beloved” MAD | | | | A beautiful and mournful Clannad MAD is currently sitting on Nico’s Top 3 in the “Anime” chart, “Itoshii Hito E” (To My Beloved). This MAD is quite different from the frenzied sort we typically show here, much like the previous Toradora Deep Love MAD, so those who are... | | |
| 10:56am | Cool Products Monday, June 1, 2009 | | | | 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... | | |
| 9:05pm | Finalizing Fanime Fplans F2009 | | | | Hey everyone. Just a list of all the events I tentatively plan on at least checking out; figured it would make useful planning for when I should schedule the aniblogger meetup. Right now the best choice is perhaps a late lunch on Sunday, after the Visual Novels panel, which ends at 2 PM, at which point... | | |
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