You'll either love or hate this cast list for the upcoming anime adaptation of Fairy Tail, which just popped up on the Internets.Fashionable summoner Lucy Hearfilia: Aya Hirano ( The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's Haruhi, Lucky Star's Konata, Death Note's Misa)Fearless leader, carefree Natsu Dragneel: Tetsuya Kakihara ( Dragonaut's Kazuki, Minamike's Fujioka, Gurren Lagann's Simon)The incredibly strong taskmaster Erza Scarlet: Sayaka Ohara ( ARIA's Alicia, Code Geass' Milly Ashford, Vandread's Ezra)Natsu's archrival and ally, Gray Fullbuster: Yuuichi Nakamura ( Clannad's Tomoya, Macross Frontier's Alto Saotome, Shugo Chara!'s Ikuto)Talking cat Happy: Rie Kugimiya ( Fullmetal Alchemist's Al Elric, Shakugan no Shana's Shana, RIN ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~'s Mimi)Quite a cast! Seeing Simon return as Natsu should be ineresting-- veeeery different roles, of course. Hirano as Lucy isn't much of a stretch, but I confess I'm secretly hoping that Hirano releases a single of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which the character is named after. (Seriously, how cool would that be?) And I'm definitely excited to see Nakamura as Gray-- I love him not just as Ikuto, but also as Graham Acre in Gundam 00.What do you guys think?
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Negima! 260 SPOILER Images魔法先生 ネギま���Chapter 260 (Images)Here's what I know many of you have been waiting for -- the original-sized, sneak-peek images for Mahou Sensei Negima! Chapter 260 SPOILER Images as brought to you buy anonymous Japanese fans (click pic to make bigger, y'all).Not much of a spoiler but I suspect the other poster will soon have his/her images up as well. Hopefully, I'll be
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The Pinafore Maid Cafe in Akihabara is well-known for being close to Akiba station and for its frequent tie-ins with games, anime, and other products. And the latest of these? Well, suffice it to say, it's...” desperate”?Yes, it's Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei, and Pinafore has been turned into “Zetsubou Restaurant” (Despair Restaurant), with a “desperate menu and of course, cosplayers! I believe what we have here are Meru (pigtails), Chiri Kitsu (parted hair), Abiru Kobushi (aka the tail-puller), Harumi Fujiyoshi (yaoi fangirl), and...well, I'm not sure about the last one, but I'm thinking it's Nami Hitou (“don't call me 'normal!'”). So, which wacky woman would you want to have wait on your table? Or would you prefer that Itoshiki-sensei himself served you?
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Sunflowers in full boom over in Japan!
Nearly 85,000 sunflowers at the 8,800 square-meter-field at Yamanashi Prefecture city of Hokuto will be blooming until early August at Yamanashi Prefecture city of Hokuto.
Anywhere near your house that has such pretty sights? Sadly, I don’t even have any flowers blooming here :(, only trees. LOL. I like [...]
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Ok, doing a Neil Gaiman style approach to my news update posts. As in, Neil Gaiman’s blog style. Not as in urban fantasy magical realism. But I’ll throw that in if you ask nicely.
Anyway, the #RODLiveTweet on Twitter went off well last night, but I got tired and had to go to bed. On top [...]
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Riuva: Research Institute for Unicultural Visual Arts
08/01/2009 04:15 AM EDT[Tenshi_MKII] Kara no Kyoukai: Oblivion Recording >>
I raged. Although I agree that ufotable has done a great job so far but they have disappointed me for this chapter. There are a great number of differences between the novel and the anime and they didn’t bother to explain Satsuki’s childhood ,disorder and the reason why he became a Magus.
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The ever popular anime which I fag about twice a week on this blog called Saki is not only action packed and wildly entertaining, it is also enlightening and recently opened up my mind. At first the premise seemed utterly ridiculous: Gonzo CG mahjong? Crazy over the top fight scenes? Girls and mahjong? It didn’t [...]
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Weird Asia News reports on a unique kind of robot in Japan...it pitches fastballs and hits home runs, it's youuuuuuuur baseball bot! <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m0Fjkzc_gvw&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed wmode="transparent" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m0Fjkzc_gvw&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></param><param value="transparent" name="wmode"></param></object> Yes, someone in Japan has actually invited a baseball player who's guaranteed not to use steroids: a robot whose pitches are in the strike zone 90% of the time. Currently it's stuck using a foam ball, which it pitches at 25 mph, but they'e hoping to move it up to 93, as well as into curveballs and spitballs.There are actually two robots, I think identical, so one can pitch and one can hit both either can do both. For hitting, they can already recognize a ball and doesn't swing at them, while it hits pitches in the strike zone very nearly 100% of the time. ...Actually, I think watching steroid users might be more interesting than this. If it never screws up a ball or a hit, where's the excitement?
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Liar Game is a psychological manga about an honest and naive girl, Kanzaki Nao, who is forced into the Liar Game. Winners in the Liar Game stand to gain an exorbitant amount of money, but losers are burdened with an equally large debt….and Kanzaki Nao, who is too trustworthy and truthful, gets into trouble awfully [...]
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08/01/2009 03:25 AM EDTNendoroid Mio Akiyama PVC >>
Finally the much-anticipated Nendoroid Mio Akiyama is up for preorder!
She is scheduled for release in November and will be retailing for 3,500 yen. Interested folks can place your preorder at Hobby Search.
Having seen the rest ...
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Apparently, for this 39th episode of Anime Diet Radio, we have a lot of stories about otakus themselves: otakus losing weight, pulling stunts with stars, and getting ruder by the minute! Because we all love to make fools of ourselves, right? But yes, those are the contents of our news items for this episode: the [...]
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I actually didn’t enjoy Shibuya that much. For me, there wasn’t much that appealed to me. Almost everything was clothing, which is what I guess Shibuya is known for anyway. For someone who likes clothes and styles, Shibuya has lots of it. The most famous department store (right word?), 109, has [...]
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Maybe we’ll see this in the near future?
Let’s face it. We’re all obsessed with robots. Be it the normal dumb robots that sits at your street selling some products (well, vending machines for one) or the extremely intelligent ones that controls car manufacturing and stuffs like that, we’re all in awe of it.
Of course, one [...]
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Fumi is starting to feel jealous of all the attention Sugimoto is getting from everyone else.
Impressions:
This episode was alright, but it felt like it wasn’t very exciting. Not a lot of new stuff was revealed here. We already know that Kyoko likes Sugimoto, all that they really introduced here was Fumi being jealous, and so [...]
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This new 1/8 scale figure of “Charlotte E. Yeager” from Strike Witches, will be available this coming September 2009 by AmiAmi for 6,600 Yen retail price. Hobby Search is taking reservations for her as of today.
It’s kind of nice how HS starting to take order for Limited stuffs. Hopefully they’ll start to expand to others [...]
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Hey, Say, Anime!
08/01/2009 02:05 AM EDTSora no Manimani Episode 3: “It Was Like I Was Itching Inside” >>
Minnie: I am a little behind in blogging this anime but please bear with me. I really do like this anime and I will continue to watch it until the end (unless I dislike someone so much that I have to stop *cough*). I broke my charger for a few days a week ago so [...]
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Wow. Creating this episode was literally the biggest waste of money anyone could ever accomplish. I’m not making any screenshots. I’m not even going to say anything about the content of the episode. But don’t feel gypped. If you want to know more about the actual plot of this episode, then just read posts about [...]
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