| 4:13am | Letter C | | | | And I’m back! We’re now onto the letter C. “C” is good letter. It gives us words like: cute, cuddly, composition, cluster, cats, crisis, comedy (okay, we get it). This alphabetizing is part of my “I Love Anime” spew. I select multiple animes worth mentioning- talk... | | |
| 2:57am | Tanoshimi (Del Rey UK Imprint) Dies and turns to Dust | | | | Many thanks to Ephidel for pointing this out I hadn’t put this publisher on my 2009 list for several reasons. Firstly every time I thought I was buying Tanoshimi stuff I was buying the American version (Del Rey), and secondly, I considered them dead over a year ago. According to UKAN (UK Anime Network),... | | |
| 11:16am | Cool Items Friday, January 23, 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... | | |
| 2:04pm | 1/8 Maru & Moro PVC | | | | The really cute duo of Maru and Moro from the anime/manga series xxxHolic has been made into this cute figure.They are scheduled for release in May 2009 and will be retailing for 5,800 yen.Really love | | |
| 9:33pm | Maria+Holic OP: SHAFT fapping Goodness (in HD) |  | | | Must resist.urge to Photoshop.words out Some OP’s are so good that makes you watch it over and over again. That happened several times with me with OP’s from anime such as Shikabane Hime, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Tetsuwan Birdy Decode, xxxHOLiC or Kurenai, just to name a few. But Maria+Holic... | | |
| 5:10pm | 2008/2009 Winter Anime Menu | | | | Super delayed preview, as always! woohoo!! Better late than never, right? It’s that time of the year when the chefs get together and actually post something to bring you this comprehensive list of animes due this season. Without further ado, we bring to you this almost complete list of this sequel-filled... | | |
| 2:41am | CJ and Janette’s New Year’s Special! |  | | | Consider this to be like one of those pointless anime episodes where lolis the characters celebrate a random holiday while reminiscing or something Except, you know, we’re gonna be handing out awards. Best Engrish: CJ: “What ’bout my star?” from Macross Frontier. Awesome song,... | | |
| 8:22pm | 2008 Summary - Part II | | | | I originally wanted to wait with posting this until Porfy no Nagai’s final episode got released, but its time is nearly running out here. The Share-uploaders have a very cruel sense of humour: out of all the episodes they could have picked to delay, it became that one. In any case, here’s... | | |
| 1:22pm | Top Three Anime & Manga News Stories For 2008 | | | | 2008 was a very strange year for the anime and manga industry. It seemed like both anime and manga took big hits- with publishers closing, reduced selections of titles, the failure of a major live action adaptation and other troubles. But the good news underneath it all is that anime is alive and well... | | |
| 10:29am | 2008 TV Anime DVD/Blu-ray Grand Sales Ranking |  | | | 2008 has seen a huge variety of anime released, and the difficult question of assessing their success can approached in all sorts of ways, from TV ratings to 2ch thread activity, but DVD sales are usually given most prominence in such analysis. This final summary of the TV anime of 2008 incorporates... | | |
| 4:43am | End of 2008 - Languid Year | | | | Interesting “Fact” Ok, so I was talking to my friend and he brought up a very interesting point: In most (if not all) romance genre Anime, there is a bloody sidekick - either to support a love or to just be a clown. That person does NOT have to be a male character but tends to be male. Lets... | | |
| 1:34pm | Best of 2008 Anime Awards, Day 1 - Slice of Life | | | | Well, another year has come and gone, and with 2008 at an end is it once again time for us to share with you some of the highlights of the year. Thus, I am very proud to present to you the 13th Annual Epic Win Best of the Year Anime Award Show, where the awards are made up and the points don’t... | | |
| 6:49pm | Extremely Biased/Misinformed Preview of Winter 2009 Anime! | | | | So I’m putting new anime series into Anime Nano. And while I do so, I’m just rapidly looking at their websites to make sure they’re not OVAs, second season, lame shows, etc. I thought I’d use this as a chance to up my post count, so here’s my extremely biased/misinformed... | | |
| 5:26pm | Kannagi ☆ Star | | | | Miyuki’s hair turned purple!A rather straightforward and obvious cameo for Lucky Star’s cast. I just had to LOL when I saw this scene. The episode itself was one of the best in the series so far. Who knew an entire episode of karaoke would be so much fun There seem to be some big fuss... | | |
| 8:45pm | [PR] DEL REY MANGA ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF NINJA GIRLS | | | | DEL REY MANGA ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF NINJA GIRLS NEW YORK, NY – December 19, 2008 – Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, today announced the acquisition of the manga NINJA GIRLS, by Hosana Tanaka. In Japan’s distant past, ninja warriors... | | |
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