| 12:14am | AX 2008 Wrapup: Smartphone Next Time Would Be Nice | | | | Today is the recovery day after the long weekend at Anime Expo 2008 and during the con, I felt disconnected from much of the stuff that was happening. My hotel didn’t have free wifi and neither did the convention center and I had varying success at 7th + Fig (it worked in the pit but not in the... | | |
| 12:14am | AX 2008 Wrapup: Smartphone Next Time Would Be Nice | | | | Today is the recovery day after the long weekend at Anime Expo 2008 and during the con, I felt disconnected from much of the stuff that was happening. My hotel didn’t have free wifi and neither did the convention center and I had varying success at 7th + Fig (it worked in the pit but not in the... | | |
| 6:35pm | Natsume’s Book of Friends #01 — Get Better Friends | | | | Or lay off the mood-killers. Impressions: Does anybody else feel like this is xxxHOLiC on ritalin? The two start pretty much the same way, with the protagonist being chased by a huge demon, then accidently stumbling onto a cattish benefactor. The difference though, is that Natsume is about as interesting... | | |
| 3:53am | “Britney.” |  | | | Gloss. By some strange and cruel twist of fate, and despite a deluge of delicious words like ‘blaxploitation’ and ‘gentrisone’ from our readers, good old Impz managed to pull ‘Britney’ out of the hat Okay, so it actually wasn’t that bad. With some serious mind-stretching,... | | |
| 12:18am | xxxHolic Kei #3 DVD (with CLAMP box) Preorder! | | | | Amazon has just updated the page for the third Japanese xxxHolic Kei DVD which comes with a box to hold the DVDs and features an exclusive illustration by CLAMP for the release. Currently only the DVD case cover image is shown (made by Production I.G.). Expect the CLAMP box artwork to pop up online... | | |
| 8:12pm | Kodansha goes west!! | | | | Well, the rumours that have been circulating for a while turned out to be true. Kodansha has come to America, and is scheduled to start releasing in September, though no titles have been announced yet. Brigid over at MangaBlog was where I first read of it, and some of the comments made by others got... | | |
| 4:15pm | The otaku gift economy | | | | In the opening page of The Gift: Forms and functions of exchange archaic societies, Marcel Mauss asks: In primitive or archaic types of society, what is the principle whereby the gift received has to be repaid? What force is there in the thing given which compels the recipient to make a return? One... | | |
| 9:25pm | Del Rey + Hiro Mashima + SDCC = FUNTIME! | | | | I forgot to include this in the roundup, so I’m going to give you the full press release from Del Rey Manga under the jump. But the short version is, Del Rey Manga is really excited to be bringing Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima to San Diego Comic Con, and he’ll have a panel and two autographing... | | |
| 2:00pm | Summer 2008 Anime Preview | | | | It’s that time again: It’s time to look at what anime is airing in the Summer 2008 season. Shows are listed in alphabetical order. There are 7 possible levels of ratings that I’ll give a show:Will definitely blog itMay blog itWill definitely watch itMay watch itMay watch it if I hear good things... | | |
| 1:34pm | June Summary | | | | Well, the end of the month couldn’t have come at a better time, because it offered me a good opportunity to experiment a bit with my new rating system. What caught my attention is that the average score seems to be lower than usual, but that can also be because this spring-season overall has turned... | | |
| 10:34am | Not Lost in Translation: Tanoshimi Manga | | | | At the moment I’m reviewing the manga titles Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and xxxHolic, both created by CLAMP, and both published here in the UK by Tanoshimi. I can’t help but be impressed by the great job Tanoshimi have done in the presentation and translation of these (and other) titles. I’ve... | | |
| 2:38pm | The ABA experience: The Best Episodic Anime Blogs of our blogosphere | | | | Thank you for your vote, bloggers and readers alike For all winners of the Anime Blog Awards, please use the images on our website if you wish to show your appreciation to the bloggers/rabid fans who have voted for you. For those who have forgotten who won, here is a summary of the results. Thank you... | | |
| 1:48pm | For xxxholic fans-Pipe Fox |  | | | Looking around the xxxholic community on livejournal, I saw tsunamichan had made a post showing off the pipe fox she’d made. It’s really well made, and even posable. She’s also taking commissons on them, at least for the time being. Anyway, there’s not much for me to say about... | | |
| 3:00pm | xxxHolic: Kei Review - 90/100 - ✩✩✩✩✩✩ | | | | xxxHolic Kei is the second season of the anime-adaptation of Clamp’s manga about modern Japanese folklore. In contrast to its predecessor, there are only 13 episodes, but to make up for it, the creators have put into these episodes the rumoured best chapters in the manga. The result is a second... | | |
|
![[Valid RSS]](/images/valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
![[Valid Atom 1.0]](/images/valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
