Because of “dramatic” events in previous episode Chizuru wasn’t able to meet her weekly quota in molesting Kouta. What better moment to catch up than New Year? Yep, this episode has insane amount of fanservice, enough to make up for good three of four drama episodes (let alone for single half-drama one, because at [...]
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[ BLEACH #170] Yet another nice episode. This arc is setting a really nice pace that’s pretty different from the Hueco Mundo arc. Granted it’s probably because a lot of the action has yet to start, I still feel as though this is giving off an atmosphere similar to that of the first Bleach movie. That [...]
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One of the trends that I’ve noticed in my anime watching to-date is how a lot of the recent shows have male characters who aren’t afraid of expressing their more feminine side. Even the skilled warrior Thobari-sensei of Nabari no Ou isn’t afraid to show off his shoujo sparkles every now and again. And maybe it’s very [...]
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This episode mostly introduces Ren, Lala’s childhood friend who she used to always make fun of for being a crybaby. Ren goes on a journey of sorts to become more manly to win over Lala due to a “promise” that was made back when they were children. I wasn’t really impressed with this episode really. Too [...]
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Some of the pieces are much better rendered than others.
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About the Mangaka Do CLAMP really need any introduction? Well, a bit of info for those new to the scene Clamp started life as a twelve man *cough*woman*cough* dojinshi group. Though it shrunk down to seven in 1990. They have a wide ranging stack of titles under their belt, and almost all of them have subsequently [...]
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The episode begins where the last episode left off, Michiru played by Nagasawa Masami (Proposal Daisakusen, Sailor Fuku to Kikanju) finds Sosuke played by Nishikido Ryo (Attention Please, Ganbatte Ikimasshoi) crouched down after waiting outside the apartment all night in the rain. She hugs him while Ruka played by Ueno Juri (Nodame Cantabile, Jodan ja nai!) watches from the house. Takeru played by Eita (Atsu-hime, Orange Days) asks Ruka where Michiru is, just as Michiru calls Ruka’s cell lying to her saying that she’s on the way to the hairdressers when in fact she’s taking the soaked Sosuke to his apartment, but promising to come back soon. Ruka repeats the lie to Eri played by Mizukawa Asami (Iryu, Pride) and Takeru. At the apartment Michiru has the fevered Sosuke in bed, and cooks for him. He asks her not to leave promising not to hit her again. She tells him she can’t but if he can become patient and not act like a stalker, someday she’ll return to him. Then she goes to the beauty salon and apologizes to the manager asking for her job back.I was pleasantly surprised that Michiru didn’t move back in with Sosuke as the beginning of this episode, after the teaser at the end of the last episode I thought she’d be back into his apartment and another cycle of domestic abuse would begin. Another thing I liked about this episode is that all the characters got more development while the oppressive Sosuke languished in bed we learned quite a bit more about most of the supporting characters.Download the Raw video from the bit torrent tracker here; English soft subs can be downloaded here. Screen Shots of the previous episodes are here.
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There’s a recent movement for female bloggers; the "All Girls Round Robin Movement" led by itsubin, usagijen and Hinano. It has caused an uproar among the blogging committee and many female bloggers left their secret hiding spots and jump onto the wagon. Not only that, the male bloggers also try their utmost to join the [...]
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Got wind of this seminar, organized by the Creative Industries Observatory, via Anime Infatuation, and popped by Strand Poly yesterday. A quick rundown of my main takeaways and reflections of the presentations. Extract from Andrew Osmond’s abstract: ‘In American and Britain, Japanese animation has often been presented as something completely different from “cartoons”; darker, more adult [...]
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Wahahaha!!! Choco Coronet FTW!!! Konata FTW!!! Keep em up guys! Drown that tsundere chibi in Choco Coronets! For more details on this campaign, you can refer to our side bar on the right or here.
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Just a reminder, I will be a guest as well as guest hosting at Ramen Revolution tonight! The show starts at 6pm. Come to the show and say hi! Hope to see you there! http://www.ramenrevolution.com/ 
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Things to keep you busy in my likely absence. I’ll spare you the boring details, but I’m on a plane tomorrow, and the next week or so will probably feature delays as I adjust to my new surroundings. Yes, yes, I know that the first Rakkyo DVD is coming out and I eagerly await it probably [...]
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From the New York Times: After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields. Universities call it “rikei banare,” or “flight from science.” The decline is growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns intended to make engineering look sexy and cool, [...]
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I must be the last anime blogger in Sinagpore to post this but anyway better late than never. Click the picture above for more info.
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JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS I THINK THE AMUTO ICE CREAM EPISODE IS NEXT WEEK. That should answer the majority of everyone’s questions. This week was just a little exposure on Rima’s chara -change and how she acts like a goofy clown with her bala-bala-balance routine. Also a little insight on her annoying [...]
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Kinda inspired by wildarmsheero’s post but I’ve been meaning to do this for a while since I just know people don’t check my flickr account. I should just get rid of it since WordPress allows more image space now. Anyway, as you can see a lot of my posters are from forever ago. I’m not [...]
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I’ve never really heard of a figurine company named Aoshima until I saw this. I asked around and soon learned from Shiawasekun that Aoshima was acutally dealing mostly in the car model industry, and the Haruhi itasha model was actually done by them. At a length of 50cm, this entry plug is priced at 8190 yen and [...]
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Love is hard… TAKE IT FLOM KOTOKO Rundown This week, Kotoko becomes horribly obsessed with the notion that she’s a curse on Naoki. Not that, you know, he wouldn’t deserve a curse. Incident the first: Young Bastard Irie goes to take a final, but before he leaves [...]
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Everyone’s really getting a kick out of keeping us guessing, aren’t they? Though FUNimation is making this one increasingly obvious…here’s a new hint I got via e-mail: Like Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind Like Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund in Casablanca Like Buffy Summers and Angel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Like Meredith Grey [...]
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If you hit up Bandai’s splash page and do a select-all, you’ll notice the above message. In the source code you’ll also find this lengthy conversation: !– Sir! We are receiving a private communique from the Capital Ship! – !– Primary Cannon is ready to fire at any time Sir, we need your orders! – !– We must [...]
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