They shouldn’t need to subtitle this chalkboard shot much, if at all! When ADV/Sentai Filmworks announced some new acquistions via retail solicitations on Tuesday, I was surprised by a few things. The first was Ghost Hound, a series I only got 3 episodes into and forgot to resume watching despite kind of liking it, and the [...]
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Yawn… wow, different camera angles only to show the exact same content as before with only slightly different dialogue and unimportant occurrences in some scenes.  And, probably the only reason the dialogue was kinda different ...
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The strength of your relationship with your yuri partner is directly proportional to the strength of your mahjong skills.
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  When I first heard that Nana would be in KnK 6, I was practically delirious at the prospect of having Maaya Sakamoto and Nana in the same show together. Well, the show turned out to have practically no Nana-Maaya interaction, but Nana’s performance as Ouji Misaya more than made up for it. Ouji is probably [...]
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…Is what I'd be saying if it actually was over. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. For a second, I thought I was KyoAni. Please don't hate me. Their subliminal troll attacks were too much for me to bear. Subliminal troll attacks!
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Don’t let the funny word that begin with a # throw you off… One of the earlier ways of anime fandom that I walked was following the piper and his tune. And unlike cartoons from everywhere else (with some exceptions), anime music somehow just rock harder than all others. I’m not sure why. It didn’t take [...]
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The 8th place in my Top 10 Gackt: Rain. <object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/lNsJhhiXwOw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="600" height="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lNsJhhiXwOw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object>Muza-chan on
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Big give away! If you’ve been wondering how would you get copies of the games that an idol plays, you should worry no more. Apparently, the easiest way to get the copies is through the idol herself. Sounds abusard? Not really, as Shoko Nakagawa, a popular Japanese idol and Pokemon songstress had apparently gave away 6 [...] Related posts:FFXIII For Xbox 360 To Be MonolingualMotion Sensors On Xbox 360?Oops! Misinformation! Rape Games Aren’t Banned Yet In Japan!
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Nice to see a 1/8 scale PVC figure of Felli Loss from the anime Chrome Shelled Regios (Kōkaku no Regiosu). The first scene that I saw from this anime featured the pollutant beasts which made me dislike it initially. But when I saw the characters, especially Felli, I enjoy watching it somehow. [...]
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It's been over two months since my last artwork post. This just goes to show what a slow artist I am lol. Anyways, here is a piece of Maria Holic fan art inspired of course by the anime's trippy OP, which was (unfortunately) one of the best parts about that series. In the picture, we have Mariya (lead singer/guitar), Matsurika (THE lead guitar), Nanami (second guitar), Ryuuken (base guitar), Sachi (drums), and Yuzuru (keyboard) giving a concert to a bunch of drooling and nosebleeding Kanakos. Matsurika probably wouldn't like it too much if Mariya pulled the "smash the guitar" trick.The picture started out as a pencil sketched, and it was lined and colored using Photoshop. It took way too long to color, but at least I managed to finish it before the second season of the anime lol. I know some of the lighting is probably wrong, but like always I'm too lazy to find and fix them. I always put way too much effort into the sketch and then get tired of the picture during coloring. The fact that I'm slow at sucky at coloring certainly doesn't help.This is probably the last piece of artwork I'll post here for a while (not that I'm not slow enough already), since for the next month or so I'll be devoting most of the my free time to writing my statement of intent/purpose for my grad school application. Although every school have different requirements, I'm just going to write a generic one to start and then edit it into different version when I actually apply. Hopefully writing this statement won't be too much of a pain.
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I haven't really watched much this season, but the second I heard supernatural, I was already set on checking out Bakemonogatari.
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It might not look like it, but this post took a very long time to compile because WordPress’s editor is clunky as hell. ARGH. Illustrators nagimiso.sys’s VN02 Hatsune Miku design (from iroha(sasaki)’s MOON REMIXES PV) is being turned into a figure by Max Factory. No release date yet. huke< is doing the character designs for Steins;gate, [...]
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The epic battle between Whitebeard's forces and the Marines is about to begin.Summary:After crossing the Gates of Justice, Ivankov mentions that there's no way that Dragon would let his son Ace get executed, but Luffy nonchalantly reveals that Ace is actually Gold Roger's son. At Marine HQ, Whitebeard follows up his impressive entrance by using his earthquake-creating powers to form two massive tsunamis. As the tsunamis hurtle towards the Marines from the sides, a flashback sequence of how Ace joined the Whitebeard Pirates starts playing:Ace was once a hotshot pirate with his own crew. He had met Skanks, fought Jimbei to a draw, and was eventually defeated and captured by Whitebeard. Ace had tried and failed assassinate Whitebeard many times, and eventually he chose to join Whitebeard's crew and rose to the commander of the 2nd Division in Whitebeard's fleet. After Blackbeard had killed a crewmate and fled, Whitebeard had a bad feeling about Ace going after Blackbeard, but Ace went after Blackbeard anyways.Back to the present, Ace wonders why Whitebeard and the guys came to save him even though he caused so much trouble, but Whitebeard and the crew don't care and declare that they are going to save Ace no matter what. As the tsunamis are about to crash down upon Marine HQ, the stage is now set for the battle that will literally shake the world.I wonder how the Marines are going to get out of this one.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~After months of build-up, the epic showdown between Whitebeard's band of pirates and the World Government forces is finally underway. I wonder if this will be a fight to death for both sides or Whitebeard will just try to grab Ace and then run. If they go all out, then losses will be significant for both sides which can leave them vulnerable for a third party to take both sides out in one fell swoop. Given all the surprises we've had already, I wouldn't be shocked at all if some other powerful forces showed up. In the short term though it's going to be Whitebeard and allies versus the Marines and the Shichibukai, and there should be plenty of interesting match-ups. Hopefully Whitebeard's crew will have some formidable members to match up against the powerful admirals and Shichibukai, since it's unlikely that Whitebeard can take on all of them by himself. As for Whitebeard himself, creating tsunamis via earthquakes is a pretty awesome power, but wouldn't it be more straightforward to just collapse Marine HQ with an earthquake? I suppose Whitebeard is trying to take out some of the fruit users with the water, but wouldn't that put Ace and his own fleet into danger as well? There are pros and cons to both methods, but I have to admit that the tsunamis look more impressive lol. Whitebeard definitely has style hahaha.
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While Japanese banks have been using this technology for years, Hitachi have implemented this technology to - Vending Machines ^^. You can pay your can or bottle drinks using your veins! No coins or bills are involved ;) Hitachi’s proprietary biometric authentication system requires that users first register an account (probably linking their vein pattern to [...]
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Azaka piety ups. Wait, what am I watching again?
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Well hello, Mr. Literally Tall, Dark and Handsome.  I was surprised that we got an explanation for the moon giants so quickly and I hope that Naviga will be able to compete in Bigfoot competitions.  How funny would it be if he spend time on the court yelling, “HEY, LISTEN”? (Hope someone gets that stretch [...]
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Its been about 2 weeks since the official opening ceremony of the Life-size Gundam Statue in Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park. Now Shueisha has launched a photobook that document all the photographs of the status since its ...
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As Yotsuba so clearly put it in her statistically sound graph above, the Animation Industry in Japan is currently hurting. The Animation Market Analysis Project of Japan’s Media Development Research Institute (MDRI) reports that the animation market in Japan dropped for the second year in a row to 212.9 billion yen (about US$2.26 billion) in 2008. [...]
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I finally got off my lazy butt and went through my Italy trip photos >_<  After cleaning out the junk images, I ended up with around 1,000 photos.  Of course, I’m not going to be posting them all here, no one would like that xD.  Instead, I’ve picked out some of the better ones and [...] No related posts.
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(out of 4) Review: Uta Kata My ex-roommate, along with many others whom I know, never understood why I force myself to finish anime I do not find enjoyable. I really don’t like to drop shows, so if I’m a few episodes in, I am probably going to go to the bitter end. It’s not really [...]
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