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The popularity of Arashi is just unstoppable! Yesterday I shared with you folks on JAL launching the Arashi Jet, now we have news that Arashi has made their way into a book titled “Nippon no ...
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Product placement works. Thanks, Asobi ni Ikuyo. Now for the love of all things traditional, don’t go in there for a cosplay shoot.
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Me and My buddies went Zeke hunting, twas a good mission and many Zekes lost their lives and limbs and most deliciously of all their pathetic HOPE for salvation. ���Tenshi’s blade might be for Aiur but I have returned and it has been a rough adjustment trying to get back into civilian life again kind of like Duke [...]
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Yup Animax MUSIX Fall’s edition, on 3rd November, have announced the Singers taking part in the event. And here is the list! Updated list of artists participating: May’n, SCANDAL, Mikuni Shimokawa Kotoko, Tamaki Nami, Kalafina, Akino from Bless 4, ORIGA, Elisa, Himeka, Kita Shuuhei, Sasaki Sayaka, Shoko Nakagawa, GRANRODEO, Lia, LISP (Kiyoshi Kana Abe, Risa [...] Related posts:Animax Musix 2010 Videos.. Tokyo Anitour 2~ Animelo Summer Live 2010 ~ Chinka: PV crew list revealed!
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Chapter 508: A Ninja's Death So Kisame died. How many Akatsuki members are left?!?! Chapter highlights: Kisame bit his own tongue and broke free from being captured. Kisame managed to use Suiro no Jutsu (Water Prison Technique). Guy attmpted to penetrate inside the water wall but failed to do so, giving Kisame the room to perform a Summoning Technique. Kisame did a bit of flashback to his first meeting with Itachi and how the two of them winded up as partners. Both of them share the same past, the same sin of killing their own comrades. Because of his experience and partnership with Itachi, Kisame now knows that he is not a good for nothing type of person. He then commits suicide by feeding himself to his sharks. Samehada cries for the loss of Kisame. Naruto says that Kisame killed himself so that his secret will not fall into enemy's hands. There are those within akatsuki who act to protect their friends. Guy also said that he will never ever forget Kisame for living and dying as a ninja. With Kisame dead, Guy opens the scroll and it was a trap afterall. Suiro no Jutsu appeared as well a shark came out, trapping everyone. Another shark carries the scroll and no one can catch up with it. Meanwhile, Konan and Madara gets ready to fight as Madara tries to retrieve Nagato's Rinnegan.
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From www.Burnah.com Wooh, Episode 10.. I remember on episode 1 I thought.. ‘I might blog this series, it’s 12 episodes, that should last a while’.. and it really hasn’t. Anyway! Okay I have said this a lot in my previous HOTD blogs but this has topped it all the way baby.. BEST-OPENING SCENE-EVER. Completely took [...]
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Ani-Gamers is publishing a handful of messages from our bloggers expressing our personal reactions to the great loss that is the death of anime director Satoshi Kon. For the final installment, Evan remembers his experiences with his favorite Kon film. Though many anime fans know Satoshi Kon for his more recent, more publicized works such as Paranoia Agent (2004) and Paprika (2006), the celebrated anime director has been my favorite since the credits rolled on one film: Millennium Actress (2001). The story of two documentary filmmakers' quest to recount the life of an aging Japanese film actress struck me from the very first time I saw it, and its poignant ending now holds even more meaning to me in the wake of Kon's untimely death. When I first experienced Millennium Actress, I cried (a rare occurrence for me). Its structure leads up to an incredibly tense series of scenes so infused with emotion that even my reviewer's mind couldn't help but get caught up in the feeling of it all. I was so blown away with it that I purchased the first copy I could find and showed it to my family, friends, and high school anime club. In fact, during the four years of my tenure as president, the club showed the film every year, and I personally watch it at least once or twice a year. It is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite movie of all time. Thinking back, though, the life and death of the main character, actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, is almost an accidental analogue to Kon's. Kon's career was also defined by spectacular, critically-acclaimed pieces that often told stories with similar, overarching themes. Both were deft at eliciting strong emotional reactions from their fans. But the most heartbreaking connection comes in death. Both the fictional character and the real man died with only a small number of people around them, with their oncoming demise hidden away from the rest of the world. Nevertheless, they leave us with the understanding that it is often the journey, rather than the destination, that provides us with true happiness. While Satoshi Kon may have left us, he also leaves us a number of monuments to remember his life by. Through them we must remember the man, through them we must honor the journey. With such thoughts in mind, there is surely no better memorial to Satoshi Kon than Millennium Actress.
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Uzume takes on Musubi and Tsukiumi. Uzume needs to watch her back. Summary: Uzume challenges Musubi and Tsukiumi outside the hospital. Musubi accepts the challenge and engages Uzume in combat while Tsukiumi stands by to watch as she believes Sekirei fights should be one on one. Minato arrives, but Tsukiumi stops him from interfering. The fight ends up being a draw with both Musubi and Uzume unable to continue. Watching the fight from his car, Kakizaki decides to call in backups and Sekireis No. 16 and 18 arrive and they double-team Tsukiumi, but Homura and Kazehana arrive to swing the numbers back in favor of Minato's group. Kakizaki gives the signal to retreat, but No. 16 gets past Minato and Tsukiumi and tries to stab Musubi. Homura and Kazehana try to intervene, but it was Uzume who threw herself in the way and took the hit for Musubi. After Higa's Sekireis retreat, the dying Uzume requests that Minato help look after Chiho, and Minato agrees. Before her Sekirei crest fades away, Uzume thinks back to her times with Chiho: Oh NO!! Apparently Sekireis have magically appearing outfits. Uzume and Chiho met when Uzume was on a shopping errand for Miya. Uzume was taking a break at the top of the hospital and Chiho mistakenly thought that Uzume wanted to commit suicide. They both end up falling off the building and Uzume saved Chiho. After hanging out with each other for a while, the two finally kissed and Uzume became Chiho's Sekirei. At least there will be memories. Those keyboards won't last very long if you keep typing on them like that. The day after Uzume's deactivation, Kazehana is at the inn binge drinking, and Miya actually decides to share a cup as well. Meanwhile, Minato, Kusano, Musubi, and Tsukiumi visit Chiho at the hospital, and Musubi promises she'll become the winner of the Sekirei plan and bring Uzume back to Chiho. Later back at the inn, Minato decides that he can't just mope around and do nothing, so he goes to talk to Matsu who has the same idea. Minato wants to talk to Higa face to face about Chiho's situation (Higa owns the hospital), and to force Higa to appear Matsu launches a cyber attack against Higa's company. However during the attack, Minato gets a phone call from the hospital stating that Chiho's situation has suddenly worsened. Later at the hospital hallway, Minato runs into Higa who is on his way to deliver some flowers to Chiho. Manipulative evil bastard alert. There is a special ED sequence dedicated to Uzume and Chiho. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They killed Uzume off?! I totally didn't expect this to happen. This is a BIG deviation from the manga. *manga spoiler* It's funny that Uzume is also currently the focus of the manga, but she is still alive and well *end spoiler*. I thought Uzume would fight Musubi and Tsukiumi but not have the battle reach any sort of definite conclusion, but this puts the anime on a different track. It looks like the anime is determined to go on its own path now, since this kind of development cannot be reversed (without seriously bad effects). As for the episode itself, it was not bad, although I'm probably too focused on Uzume's unexpected departure to say much else. Quite a few minutes was about how Uzume met Chiho which was also a bit different from the manga version. The fight between Uzume and Musubi was nicely choreographed, but the actual scenes of combat wasn't that long. With this big development, it looks like we'll be getting plenty of anime-original material from ~Pure Engagement~. It'll be interesting now to see where the anime goes from now. Will it still mostly follow the manga or will it completely go off on its own? It's hard to say at this point, but there probably will be one more season to the show to put together a satisfying ending. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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UPDATE: I don’t know what the heck just happened so I just re-uploaded all the photos in this post so hope the stuff shows now…. Nice day outside today. Not much was going by the time I showed up since there was only half an hour left before closing ^^;. Walked and snapped a bunch [...]
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The fanservice and the action took a back seat this week, as we dove more into the story... Continue Reading
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Back in May 2008, I took some photos of my room, and it looked pretty hardcore with posters and magazines everywhere and what not. But like some of us, we kind of grow up and grow out of anime. My room is still some what in a transitional phase. I still want to buy a [...]
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Nice day outside today. Not much was going by the time I showed up since there was only half an hour left before closing ^^;. Walked and snapped a bunch of pics before I went back to the dealer’s room to start work. Many people standing outside doing what seems to be nothing. Some dealers [...]
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Oh My! Look at the calender its September already. College exam have just ended with a math paper being my most dreadful paper that stared at me while silently laughing away on how incompetent I am. Damn you! College math. This month wallpaper looks remarkably stunning! The blank stare of this particular young Japanese girl of an unknown animal incarnation just takes the cake away, I guess. Wearing a strikingly red summer Yukata while holding a bright red Wasaga (Traditional Japanese Umbrella) which scent outflow a calming vibe. Just a quick ... Related posts:June Desktop 2010 Is Your Desktop Male or Female? Are You Running On Linux?
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Hey look a figure review! But, it’s not here! I’m a guest writer for Aniverse.info and you’ll have to go there to see all the gruesome details! Go here to Aniverse.info for the review! Also don’t forget to catch me on AX Live! Every Wednesday at 7pm PST! We’ve been doing Figure Giveaways recently so [...]
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Highschool of the Dead is best when it just rides the gore and oppai wave and not mess with getting too dramatic. Unfortunately, we were light on the oppai and almost totally missing on the zombie gore.   So what was cuter this week? Rei whining about how her breasts hurt because of Takashi’s sharpshooting [...]
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As you probably already saw in my WonFes Summer 2010 wish list, Alicia Melchiott 1/8 PVC figure by Kotobukiya is one of them. Back in WonFes Summer 2010, she was unpainted thus we all are little curious how she will turn out after being painted....Related posts:Mina Tepes by KotobukiyaOctavia ~Tears to Tiara~ 1/8 PVC by KotobukiyaFate Testarossa -Phantom Minds-
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Hello Aniverse readers! Nice to meet you all, my name is Frances Delgado and I’m going to review figures for you all! Hmm, maybe you’ve heard of me before from my own personal figure review site Howagirlfigures.com or as the figure correspondent on AX Live at anime-expo.org/ax-live. Well our good friends at Otaku Mitsukai have sent over the Revoltech Hoshii Miki for review! I bring her to you and I’ve got to say that while I tend to be kind on figure reviews, it’s been hard to find a kind word for Miki.  
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I love heading out to the beach but not to play beach ball or look at bikini babes. Sometimes I just like to admire the beautiful sights that nature has to offer. For Today’s Japan Photo, ...
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Mitsudomoe, a summer anime that has yet to finish has recently gotten an announcement that a second season is currently in the works. The second season is “formally” announced by the wrap about jacket band on the 10th volume of the manga itself, although no other information regarding the second season has been revealed. According [...] Related posts:Mitsudomoe Triplet Comedy Manga Gets Anime Adaptation! Baka Test Second Season Officially Confirmed! Strike Witches Season 2 Officially Confirmed!
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