| 4:40am | Singer and Songwriter- Kawai Eri passed away… |  | | | Source: ANNEri Kawai, the singer-songwriter for Aria, Utawarerumono, and several other anime and live-action series, passed away on Monday at 11:40 a.m. in JapanI liked her song lyrics from ARIA and honestly, it is pretty nice, her utawarerumono ED song’s good too. Many of her pieces include tracks... | | |
| 6:18pm | ARIA Songstress Passes Away | | | | According to her official website– which you may have trouble getting to, presumably due to an overload of people attempting to visit said site at the moment –singer/songwriter Eri Kawai passed away at 11:40am yesterday. Western anime fans probably know her best as the performer of a handful... | | |
| 7:01am | The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk, RPG Anime Gone Wild |  | | | Game-Based Anime: Hit or Miss? It is not often that a game-based anime embraces its inner game, and for good reason. Many are visibly forced attempts to fashion a second-rate story into a compelling screenplay, which sometimes works, but often not, especially if the director is not allowed enough creative... | | |
| 7:00am | The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk, RPG Gone Wild | | | | Game-Based Anime: Hit or Miss? It is not often that a game-based anime embraces its inner game, and for good reason. Many are visibly forced attempts to fashion a second-rate story into a compelling screenplay, which sometimes works, but often not, especially if the director is not allowed enough creative... | | |
| 9:53pm | Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu review | | | | WARNING: This game contains 18+ material. 天使のいない12月, which translates into December when there is no angel in English, is a game developed by Leaf (to heart, comic party, Utawarerumono, and a few others) and released in 2003. Unlike most of that company’s games, which are generally... | | |
| 12:51pm | ケモミミ萌え[kemomimi-moe] | | | | OMG, this has got into the mainstream already, so there’s no need to explainHowever, I thought this genre of moe is supposed to be for men. But actually even among female otaku including fujoshis, this is getting very popular. To get to the point, ケモミミ[kemomimi] is an abbreviation of... | | |
| 1:11pm | D.N.Angel Review - 82/100 | | | | Series that promise to be better in their second half are always tricky. You never know whether they can actually live up to their claims or not; it went well for series as El Cazador, Chevalier, NHK ni Youkoso and Full Moon wo Sagashite, but on the other hand, things went disastrously wrong for series... | | |
| 1:16am | Final Thoughts on Utawarerumono |  | | | I’ve never cried this much during any anime ever. I mentioned before I was watching Utawarerumono but only today did I finish it and WOW. Justoh my gosh, really? How is this show so unpopular? The ending was amazing and I was bawling like baby Kuuya might! Every anime ending is going to have... | | |
| 2:59pm | Someday I dream of starting a fansub group | | | | I love Japanese and I like learning and speaking it. I’m not sure what kinds of things I can do majoring in a language and minoring in something like Asian Studies. But I hope I can get into a company and do what I’ve had my heart on wanting to translate since day one. And that is Japanese... | | |
| 8:58pm | 49 New Anime: preview, staff, cast, story, pic | | | | As usual, what looked like a poor season is actually shaping up to have a number of interesting shows. Nothing so far looks like an instant classic, but there are always surprises. And with 49 shows (including OVAs), there could be plenty of surprises.Hirano Aya returns to anime in a big way, starring... | | |
| 2:51pm | Defenders of justice!! Favourite swordwomen in anime | | | | Instead of a silver spoon in the mouth, I was born with a wooden sword in my baby-grip. Having seen too many swashbuckling pugilists battling for righteousness and damsels, I was enamoured with the idea of being a champion for justice. Zyl would know. I insisted on being a Lawful Good paladin during... | | |
| 6:38pm | Utawarerumono game finished & New Fate/stay night patch | | | | Finished the Utawarerumono game last night. The end of the story is still quite messed up, the tactical component was pretty easy and the hentai scenes were forced into the story and superfluous, but the game was sure a heck lot of fun. With having watched the anime the story (sadly) didn’t hold... | | |
| 5:07pm | Real Drive Cast Unveiled | | | | Production I.G’s English-language website has unveiled the staff and cast of Real Drive, their upcoming project with Shirow Masamune. The show, announced back in November, is a futuristic sci-fi series set to air in April. Here’s part of I.G’s plot summary (the full version is here:... | | |
| 5:48am | February 27th figure news | | | | Figure news from the past day, including the preorder availability of a Sky Girls Sonic Diver Fuujin action figure from FREEing, Taki Corporation's castoffable Eruru from Utawarerumono, and a Code Geass Cornelia polystone courtesy of B-Club. Also: Max Factory's Figma Saber is selling better than expected... | | |
| 1:00am | Let’s get a couple of things clear. | | | | First of all, for anyone who hasn’t noticed, Bandai Entertainment and Bandai Visual are not two different companies. They belong to the same parent company, Namco Bandai Holdings, Limited. That means if someone inside Bandai Visual fucks up, someone in Namco Bandai Holdings, Limited, fucked up... | | |
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