| 1:05pm | Best Anime of 2008 | | | | Maybe it’s because I didn’t watch as many anime as I did last year due to work, but it seems like the overall quality of anime released this year wasn’t as high as last year. That doesn’t mean that the series that came out this year are bad. It’s just I find that there... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 1:26am | Zero no Tsukaima’s Secret Eroge Lineage Exposed |  | | | It has been known for some time that the author of the original Zero no Tsukaima light novels, ヤマグチノボル/ Noboru Yamaguchi, was originally a writer of scenarios for adult games, but now we hear that even the illustrator responsible for the design of Louise and company, 兎塚エイジ /... | | |
| 1:26am | Zero no Tsukaima’s Secret Eroge Lineage Exposed |  | | | It has been known for some time that the author of the original Zero no Tsukaima light novels, ヤマグチノボル/ Noboru Yamaguchi, was originally a writer of scenarios for adult games, but now we hear that even the illustrator responsible for the design of Louise and company, 兎塚エイジ /... | | |
| 3:49pm | 2008 Top Character Rankings – Megami Magazine |  | | | Megami Magazine, well known for being the source of many of the finest ero posters available, has revealed its 2008 female character popularity ranking in its latest issue. These results are taken from the February 2008 issue of Megami Magazine: Notes:The Monthly Aggregate ranking is determined by... | | |
| 2:30pm | Zero no Tsukaima Gets Tentacle Raep OVA, Hadaka Apron |  | | | The fourth volume of Zero no Tsukaima III brings with it a massive increase in ero, not only including a decensored episode six, replete with hadaka apron, but also including a full bikini service OVA episode, incorporating a marauding creature from the deep, intent on probing the female cast in... | | |
| 1:16pm | Man Thrown Into Air Dies After Colleagues Fail To Catch Him | | | | When I read this story I didn’t know whether to laugh at how ridiculous it was or to feel sad for the man who died. A 60-year-old Japanese man was thrown into the air in celebration at a farewell party for his retirement died after his colleagues failed to catch him and he landed on the floor.... | | |
| 4:30pm | Zero no Tsukaima DVD 3 Oppai Fondling Yuri Extravaganza |  | | | The third DVD release of Zero no Tsukaima III brings with it the biggest ero-upgrade to date, with bathing scenes turned from mere steamy service into something worthy of a full-blown yuri ero-anime. You can see much detail and comparison of the changes below, as well as Louise’s vengeful attacks... | | |
| 11:47am | Cool Items: Friday, November 21, 2008 | | | | 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... | | |
| 3:16pm | Completed list during summer 2008 | | | | I’m late ;_;Prism ArkJigoku Shoujo FutakomorixxxHOLiC KeiCowboy bebopBamboo BladeZero no Tsukaima ~Princess no Rondo~Nogizaka Haruka no HimitsuSlayers RevolutionD.Gray-manReal Drive | | |
| 5:11pm | Zero no Tsukaima III DVD Uncensored – Oppai Raep Anime |  | | | The second DVD of distinctly raunchy tsundere anime Zero no Tsukaima III seems to have excited the attention (and more) of fans, with mysterious darkness banished from screen, and some saucy extra images; you can see it compared below. There are also these erotic Louise images: Via Renka. More Zero... | | |
| 11:19am | Cool Items: Monday, October 20, 2008 | | | | 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... | | |
| 11:55am | My Moe-mpathy for Taiga (and Lack of Sympathy for the Novel/Manga Elitists) | | | | I want a Palmtop Taiga plushie *___* So I watched two episodes of ToraDora, and found it awesome. Ironically, the Taiga HATE I’ve seen in the anime community prior to watching made me all the more willing to check it out, enjoy it, love it, and well now, blog it too. Troll genes triggered? I don’t... | | |
| 12:58am | 2008 Anime DVD Sales Ranking |  | | | Here we have the rather interesting DVD sales ranking for 2008 anime, in this case focused on the first volume as a proxy for total popularity. There are a number of interesting results within the list, but the top and bottom are likely not surprising. These numbers are the number of DVDs sold over... | | |
| 9:01am | Toradora 02 - とらドラ! | | | | Rating: 01: 「Ruuji and Taiga -(竜児と大河)」 My foremost impression from the first episode of Toradora was that it tried very little to avoid the trappings of its predecessors (Shana and Zero no Tsukaima). My fears of the show falling into the same old tsundere-romance... | | |
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