| 8:02am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 5: Memorable Moments and Favorite Episodes | | | | Last year I had a single award given to the most memorable moment of 2007. It went to episode 10 of Manabi Straight when it’s revealed that the school festival will be held. This year, I wanted to go a little further in depth to spotlight my favorite episodes and memorable moments. Since I don’t... | | |
| 6:00am | Best in Anime 2008 – Part 1: Character Awards | | | | I start with the character awards partly because I feel once a show establishes a great cast of characters then it’s 70% of the way to ensuring that I’ll like it. And it doesn’t matter what type of show, any show can be improved with good character development.Best Female Main Character Winner:... | | |
| 12:00pm | Winter Anime Impressions – Chrome Shelled Regios | | | | Chrome Shelled Regios made my list of shows that I planned on catching mainly because the animation studio behind it, Zexcs, was responsible for the delightful Wagaya no Oinari-sama that ran this past spring and summer. What made me even a bit excited was how the animation quality in the previews for... | | |
| 10:31am | Megumi Nakajima Nominated for Seiyuu Awards | | | | click to go to the Seiyuu Awards WebsiteMegumi Nakajima is nominated for Best Singer in the 2008 Seiyuu Awards, which would commence on March 7, 2009. Alongside her, the other nominees are Hayami Saori (Wagaya no Oinarisama), Tomatsu Haruka (Kannagi), Chihara Minori, Mizuki Nana, Hirano Aya, Kitamura... | | |
| 12:00pm | 2008 in Review: The Good, the Bad and the WTF?! |  | | | This post is dedicated to the good, the bad and the WTF’s of this year. It’s really been an interesting year.. Heh, I was supposed to post this yesterday, but with all the shopping, satelite tracking, celebrations and epic rickrolling, I only finished it today. I guess this will be my... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 1:01am | Hayami Saori and Her Mother | | | | Hayami Saori's mother was mentioned on one of her radio shows in October, and from clues on the show, people on 2channel have found her mother's blog and homepage.There are pics there of her mother, Matsuo Midori, performing a few songs in a Tokyo jazz club (Ginza Cygnus). Her blog announced a later... | | |
| 7:21pm | Seiyuu Awards 2008 -- Nominees List and How to Vote | | | | Thank you for your additions to the nominations list for the 2008 Seiyuu Awards. Here is the full list, along with instructions on how to vote.There are two kinds of awards that you can vote for: the main awards, several categories of them, for which Japanese voters will be voting, too; and the Overseas... | | |
| 2:51am | Winter 2008 – 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | I figure it’s appropriate to start writing this on Turkey Day. Physically, I’m stuffed and yet I’m trying to figure out a way to have another piece of my Mom’s apple pie – it’s simply impossible to make a better pie crust then hers. Mentally, I’m stuffed from the huge number of great fall... | | |
| 10:40pm | Seiyuu Awards 2008 -- Nominations, Please | | | | Being the innocent soul I am, I still take the annual Seiyuu Awards seriously. Most of the awards given over the past two years have been at least reasonable, in my opinion.Public voting for the 2008 Seiyuu Awards is ongoing until New Year's Day. Now that we have seen some episodes of the fall season,... | | |
| 7:43am | Weekly Anime Review (Oct 26 – Nov 1) | | | | I think one of the great things about watching anime is that each season offers different types of shows. I am, personally, surprised by many of the shows that are my favorites of the season. Which just strengthens my conviction that it’s important to keep an open mind when trying to pick anime to... | | |
| 11:05am | Tenko Kuugen – Wagaya no Oinari-sama Kitsune Figure |  | | | This splendid apparition is 天狐空幻 / Tenko Kuugen, kitsune lead of kitsune anime 我が家のお稲荷さま / Wagaya no Oinari-sama. Aside from possessing the quality of fox ear moe in abundance, as well as miko moe, she also manages some nice use of material in modelling her colourful energy... | | |
| 6:10am | October Summary | | | | Okay, so since this list already is huge for this month, I decided to omit the OVAs in this list, along with series that have already finished and belong to the previous season, like Chi’s Sweet Home and Wagaya no Oinarisama, in an attempt to keep this list a bit overviewable (although I do want... | | |
| 2:26am | Kuugen Tenko |  | | | I think I watched the first EP of Wagaya no Oinarisama but didn't get round to watching the rest. Do remember the girls in it being cute though. And how about the back of the figure - most certainly inspired by Firefox?image ID#22860This is Tenko Kuugen from the anime series. At the beginning, it... | | |
| 1:22am | Month by month | | | | I did searches at amazon.com and calendars.com for “anime calendar.” The results were pathetic. Between the two sites, 2009 calendars included only Naruto, Inuyasha, Bleach and Pokemon, and something called “Domo.” Bleah. Therefore, I paid a visit to YesAsia.com, where I did... | | |
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