| 2:44am | The Moe Heroine and the Yamato Nadeshiko | | | | A “Yamato Nadeshiko” is defined as the traditional ideal Japanese woman. These qualities include being loyal to their husband, putting family first, modesty, and being skilled in domestic matters. Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess is a prominent example in anime and manga of a Yamato Nadeshiko,... | | |
| 6:03pm | Fashion designer draws inspiration from manga. | | | | Here’s a fun piece of news. The NY Daily writes that young fashion designer Julie Haus is bringing a bit of manga inspiration to Fashion Week. The models swap between a hot-pink, a sleek black and a zebra print dress. Haus’ inspiration, books from the manga comic series The Wallflower,... | | |
| 9:05am | A Preview: Skip Beat! TV |  | | | While the rest of our fellow anime enthusiasts peruse selections from upcoming fall shows, this sporadic-anime-watcher-cum-blo gger focuses her energy on a single title. Yes, one. It’s sad, but true.source: Sweet Revenge Skip Beat!, a Yoshiki Nakamura creation, centers on Kyoko Mogami, an average... | | |
| 4:09am | I forgot about my blog… |  | | | I woke up one morning and it hit me: “Oh, right, I still have an anime blog.. lemme see what’s the url again..?” heheh. After my not so exciting official trip, I had to go back to my hometown, consult with my doctor, settle stuff with my landlady, and deal with excessive amount of work... | | |
| 1:20pm | Odex starts new online anime channel | | | | The infamous Singaporean anime distributor Odex has teamed up with state-owned television and radio broadcasting company MediaCorp to open up a number of new anime distribution channels. Firstly, Odex will now be showing anime on MediaCorp’s Arts Central TV channel. In a joint statement released,... | | |
| 12:48pm | Itazura na Kiss - 01 - 15 - or: what the heck happened here? | | | | I just finished watching episode fifteen of this series, and I’ve got too many thoughts about this series and I don’t feel like waiting for this series to end to share them. It’s just too much of a shame to see that a series that I once loved for its witty humour degraded so much... | | |
| 9:38pm | Nendroids | | | | Have’nt posted in a while so thought I’d do a long post have’nt got any new dvd’s on order at the moment been building a new pc so have’nt had any money left over to get any anime. My hubby has got two figures on order for august and we were looking at some display cabinets... | | |
| 1:42pm | The Wallflower, Volumes Two and Three | | | | Read my review of The Wallflower, Volume One Pretty boys and scary girl get mixed up in spooky romantic hilarity in Volumes Two and Three of The Wallflower! plot summary The pretty bishonen are still scared (kawai! kawai!) of the dark and tangled mess which is Sunako, but they’ve gotten used to... | | |
| 6:37am | My Biggest and Cheapest Manga Purchase Yet: Thank you Manga Kissa | | | | Partial view of the crapload of mangas I bought So yesterday I went to Manga Kissa, a local manga cafe in our area which is now closing down because their contract in the Philippines has ended (or so said the lady in the counter, or was she the manager?), whose existence I never really knew about until... | | |
| 5:43am | Chocolat - Vol 05 - Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Many thanks to Yen Press for providing a review copy Note: The first four volumes of Chocolate were released under the Ice Kunion label, however Yen Press are re-releasing volumes 1-4. these will be available from 04/09/2008 About the Mangaka This time around I was able to find something out about them... | | |
| 5:42pm | Webbmaster62 is off to da KON! | | | | I didn't think it was possible I'll be leaving for DFW's A-Kon 19 this Friday so I won't be around to make my reviews for awhile. But be sure when I come back, they'll be a ton of updates. As for the kon, I went last year and actually had a good time. It's fun when you meet... | | |
| 11:57pm | The Wallflower Vol 16 by Tomoko Hayakawa Manga Review | | | | Amazon.com Widgets Title: The Wallflower Vol 16 Author: Tomoko Hayakawa Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 9780345499196 May Contain Spoilers I was disappointed with this outing of The Wallflower. None of the stories really grabbed my imagination, and except for the ending, none of the chapters contained... | | |
| 8:54pm | AMV OF THE DAY #12 | | | | Here’s an amv of a show I really want the wallflower but cant afford at the mo went on holiday at the weekend so me poor now. I’ll have to wait a month or so as much as I dont want too cause I really love the show and cant wait to see the rest of it. Wallflower - Perfect ShareThis | | |
| 1:49pm | Taiyaki | | | | In Japan, if you have a jones for a snack, you’re covered. The huge amount of street food and vendors alike ensure you need not walk four blocks without something to eat in between. Thanks to anime, Westerners are introduced to a wide variety of these intriguing street foods. Okonomiyaki turns... | | |
| 9:36pm | RD Sennou Chousashitsu - 03 | | | | I love the thing that this series is trying to prove: you can even have a great story if your main characters aren’t perfectly looking guys or girls. So many of them have lost their parents, so many of them have had a troubled childhood and they’ve had to endure the most horrible things... | | |
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