| 6:50pm | Spring '09 Previews | | | | There are several interesting facts about this spring season. First with the exception of FMA, Hayate and Polyphonica, all other series are new. Another noteworthy fact is that all series are adaptions from manga, novels or games with Eden and Basquash as the only exceptions! As for my expectations ... | | |
| 4:28am | 2009 Spring Anime Menu: Boys Keep Out Edition | | | | Springtime is finally here (yes we’re late, don’t have to tell us), bringing with it a HEAPLOAD of animes!! ‘For You in Full Blossom’ is but apt to describe this season, with plenty of variety to cater to just about any audience. And since our beloved male chefs didn’t... | | |
| 1:00pm | The Slippery Slope of a Super Speedy Shopping Trip to Akihabara | | | | So last month I had the once in a lifetime (though hopefully not) opportunity to go to Tokyo, and luckily enough, despite the super-short 4-day business trip, still had time to roam around the city, especially on the first and last day of our trip. If you’ve read my blog post more than a month ago... | | |
| 4:11pm | Hawt Skip Beat Furoku GET! (Fangirl Self Revival GET!) | | | | as my dear kouhai arrives from his Japan business trip, so does my Hana to Yume magazine with the SIZZLING HAWT Skip Beat Furoku!! *squeals in the corner* Consider this my obligatory “My Skip Beat Kokoro no Tamago is not dead yet!” post, as I am finally In The Zone to catch up with the ongoing... | | |
| 7:30am | Spring 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | Just within the last few days, winter’s frigid fingers have finally loosened their grip around where I live. We had been experiencing high temperatures well below freezing and that’s not conducive to getting in the spring mindset. Yesterday we got into the 50’s and today our high was 65˚F (18˚C);... | | |
| 7:11am | JLPT1 Left Me Devastated | | | | …NOT! I didn’t pass JLPT1, 39 points short, and it’s not just because of my big booboo — Writing/Vocabulary section was BAD - 53/100, Listening was even WORSE - 40/100, Reading/Grammar was ok - 148/200 — BUT that’s not any reason to feel sad or anything. No way can this put my... | | |
| 8:32pm | Seiyuu Awards Update | | | | I just found out from a post on Animesuki what performance each person supposedly won their respective awards for: Lead Character Performance Male - Kamiya Hiroshi (Natsume Yuujincho) Female - Kugimiya Rie (Toradora, Nabari no Ou) Supporting Character Performance Male (1 of 2) - Inoue Kazuhiko (Natsume... | | |
| 7:18pm | Winter 2009 Mid-Season Check | | | | Once again it’s about time to check what’s going on this fine season. I apologize for the recent silence - I was busy spending my spring break in Austria with no chance to access internet before reaching Munich airport on the way back. Another reason for delay would be that I managed to... | | |
| 11:56pm | Updating My Grading Scale and Seeking Feedback About the New Layout | | | | When I came up with my grading scale, I was attempting to strike a good balance between having a system that accurately reflected the different levels of quality and a system that was overly complex. After a year of using this scale, I’m better able to recognize differences in quality and score accordingly.... | | |
| 1:00am | Time For Some Toshokan Sensou Break! | | | | I’ve been failing to fangirl over ToshoSen lately, much like other fandom I’ve neglected for so long (Kaze no Stigma, Shugo Chara.), but I just want to say, that my ToshoSen PASSION lives on! Rawr! With this, I present to you, my obligatory “I will forever be a Toshokan Sensou fangirl”... | | |
| 2:06am | Shameless Shipping ‘09 #4 - Iku/Doujou |  | | | I’ve already pimped this pairing pretty hard, but like with any under appreciated couple, you can never really pimp it too hard. And one needs some GARful shipping during a series in honors of the sappiest holiday in human history, anyway, just to keep y’all from getting cavities. Toshokan... | | |
| 8:28am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 6: Top Anime #10 - #6 | | | | Only a month later then just about everyone else .I thought 2008 was another very solid year of anime, with good shows to be found in most, if not all, major genre types. The fact that I became an anime blogger this year pushed me to watch more shows then I would have otherwise and I was rewarded... | | |
| 2:14am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 4: Music, Voice, and Animation Awards | | | | This show had one of the best pure filler episodes of the year.Or if I rearranged the words, the VMA Awards or the AMV Awards . It is certainly possible for an anime show to be good or at least watchable without stellar music, voice acting, or animation; however, it does definitely help. For example,... | | |
| 8:52am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 3: Genre Awards | | | | Soldiering on, this next set of awards cover some of the many different types of anime out there. I enjoy many of these types of anime and this sometimes leads to odd pairings; for example, I remember watching Kaiba and Maid Guy back-to-back on several occasions. There are a few categories you won’t... | | |
| 6:15pm | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 2: Cast and Assorted Awards | | | | I should make a "Cutest Character of 2008" category so I could give him an award. Part 2 is somewhat of a mishmash of awards. I started out just having multi-character awards but while figuring out where everything went I realized I needed a spot to place various awards that didn’t fit... | | |
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