This awesome looking Revoltech figure of the Protect Gear series is just looking so good that I must get an entire army of them. The figure is scheduled to be released in mid Sept and will be retailing for 1,995 yen. I really like how all the joints are nicely hidden behind the armor and clothing. So how [...]
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The Essentials Name: Uta-Kata Genre: Drama, Fantasy Episodes: 12 Released: October 3, 2004 - December 18, 2004 Based On: N/A Director: Keiji Gotoh Produced By: Bandai Visual US Distribution By: N/A Major Japanese Cast Ichika Tachibana: Youko Honda Manatsu Kuroki: Masumi Asano Satsuki Takigawa: Tomoko Kawakami Keiko Takamura: Yurika Ochiai Michiru Munakata: Yukari Tamura Sei Toudou: Nobuo Tobita Kai Toudou: Nobutoshi Canna Saya Kogure: Maria Kawamura Major English Cast N/A Scores Animation: 8/10 (x 4 = [...]
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Spotted this on Kotaku today, a supposedly leaked trailer of Final Fantasy Versus XIII trailer from last year’s Jump Festa in Japan. While Square Enix announcing at E3 that Final Fantasy XIII Coming To XBOX 360, FF VS XIII is still a PS3 exclusive [...]
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It’s already been so long since I’ve updated on my progress learning Japanese…I only have one post. It’s from June. It’s been almost a month. Well, I have a good reason, I haven’t made much progress. So there. First, I want to thank everyone who offered me advice when I began Project TTDMITS (Which has now been [...]
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As the days go by my excitement of heading to Japan for a month grows ever so greatly. I’ve been drilling through the pile of work in hopes that my boss and co-worker aren’t drowned in projects, and I’m still doing some planning on the itinerary. But within my humble home I figured that I [...]
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Another week, another desperate attempt to come up with something to talk about on this blog of increasingly embarrassing time-wastage. Well, it’s not like the blog hasn’t been thoroughly embarrassing for all concerned anyway, since I’ve never made a secret of the inherent Ogling of Cute Girls which remains, to this day, the blog’s raison [...]
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Don’t miss out on my reviews of School Rumble, Volumes One, Two, Three, Four and Five and Six!! School Rumble, Season One is over, but school is still in session with sneak peeks behind the scenes in School Rumble, Extra Class! Plot Summary Ever wonder what happens before or after an episode? Apparently someone has and has collected [...]
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Himaruya Hidekazu's web-distributed Manga, Hetalia Axis Powers, will be getting an Anime adaptation!Thanks to Animesuki and Neosam for the tipoff!Hetalia Axis powers was serialized online by the Mangaka, and released in Tankobon form by Gentosha publishing, ran for one volume and is completed (you can even order it off Gentosha's site for 1050 Yen, tax incl.).According to Mangaupdates' description:Think of it like WWII, except every country is a pretty boy instead. A hilariously stereotypical pretty boy. America loves burgers, Russia is into the vodka, and China has pandas and a Wok.It is centered mostly around Italy, who has both a North and South character. The Hetaria portion of the name is probably mocking Italy, as Hetare means 'Useless'And in my opinion, the Russians should have huge-ass killer bears at their disposal. srsly.
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While Ten can post coherent thoughts and opinions regarding series, I generally fail.  So instead I’ll do a roundup of what ridiculous self involved manga that have caught my eye recently..   (Sorry no caps/Illustrations tonight cos’ I sorta suck!)First on the chopping block:  100% Perfect GIrl.  If you feel your heroine has to be the [...]
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Apologies for the delay of this review of the second movie, I totally forgot about it until the third one suddenly popped up. The second chapter of the Garden of Sinners tells how everything started, and how Shiki and Mikiya first met with each other. It’s obviously a chapter that’s more about building up and [...]
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Kimi wa dare to kisu wo suru? When you think of romance comedy, what would be the titles that cross your mind? Most probably for recent fans of the Japanese visual culture, the answer would probably be Love Hina or Suzuka to a lesser extent (since Suzuka is more inclined towards being serious in its theme [...]
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Seven Seas has been doing webcomics since their inception, but now they’re trying a different format: Veteran creators and manga adaptors Nunzio DeFillipis and Christina Weir are writing a new comic, The Ninja Diaries, which will run in the free L.A. paper Metromix Los Angeles, as well as on the Metromix site. I reviewed the [...]
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OKay, so I’ll be honest here… I need a little inspiration.  I am a bit of a drama ho’ yo, so what I’m looking for are some recommendations for some good live action errr Action!  Be it a good movie or even the most archaic drama series - I’m in, I’ve recently got all nostalgic [...]
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[Posted @ 7:54 PM]Teacher x Student FTW!'The difference in our ages, doesn't matter at all.'Disclaimer:I do not scan, so I don't claim credit for it, so please do not ask me where I got my scans. PLEASE.Click on the scans and a new window will open and bring you to the larger and clearer version.Please do not hotlink on forums, just paste my blog url and direct them to the Manga Page section, thanks. The story opened with a kinda teaser as student, Okumura Nanao was telling Matsumoto Ritsuko-sensei not to call her name and left the room [We will know why later, it's kinda a fastforward scene]. Matsumoto-sensei, the school infirmary teacher was zoning off, thinking to herself that at her age, there's no point in been serious in a relationship. It seemed like Matsumoto-sensei's pretty popular with the students lol [more for the air-con office she's working in] as they stopped by to have lunch in her office. Matsumoto-sensei politely declined lunch from the students and asked where's Nanao. Nanao's friends replied that she went to the library to prepare for exams and won't be stopping by. Matsumoto-sensei thought to herself that it's the third day already [probably the third day Nanao hadn't been in her office] and she still hadn't figured out what Nanao's angry about. -Flashback to the first time Matsumoto-sensei and Nanao met- Nanao had bluntly asked how old Matsumoto was [and she didn't even call her sensei lol]. Matsumoto-sensei thought to herself that at that time, she had a rather bad impression of Nanao lol. Nanao went on to asked if Matsumoto's getting married? Matsumoto-sensei showed her her engagement ring, Nanao was unfazed and went on to question more lol. Matsumoto-sensei tried to change the subject by asking if Nanao had done her job and Nanao proudly presented her stuff. Matsumoto-sensei smiled and patted Nanao's head for the job well done. Much to her surprise, Nanao blushed and told Matsumoto-sensei not to treat her like a kid. Matsumoto-sensei thought to herself that Nanao's quite cute after all. A year passed by, Nanao noticed that the ring on Matsumoto-sensei's ring finger was gone and asked what happened. Matsumoto-sensei replied that they broke up last week. Nanao didn't believe her and said she's lying. Matsumoto-sensei replied that there's no reason for her to lie, Nanao answered that it's not normal! Matsumoto-sensei gave excuses like that she had been thinking of doing it for a while and that grown-ups can't have passionate love and thought to herself she had already accepted the fact, 'So it's going to like that' and moved on to protect herself and her emotions. Matsumoto-sensei changed the subject by flipping one of the papers and commenting that Nanao has a pretty name [Okumura's her surname and Matsumoto-sensei had been calling her by Okumura-san rather than Nanao]. Nanao sliced in and told Matsumoto not to call her name and left the room with a distant and cold, 'Goodbye, Sensei' instead of the usual 'Matsumoto-sensei'. Back to present, Matsumoto-sensei still hadn't found out why Nanao was angry, was it because of her name? But it is a nice name, she added. She thought to herself that Nanao was more mad by the fact she called her name rather than she had removed the ring. Matsumoto-sensei murmured, 'Nanao ...'. Speaking of the devil, Nanao appeared and told Matsumoto-sensei not to call her name. Matsumoto-sensei was puzzled on why had she called Nanao's name ... Meanwhile, Nanao told Matsumoto-sensei that she likes her name and usually she will let her friends call her by her name but only Matsumoto-sensei can't do that. Nanao added that it's because the way Matsumoto-sensei's voice said her name grabbed her heart leaving her in pain. Just then, Matsumoto-sensei thought to herself, 'Ah, just now, my chest is burning.' Nanao continued that it's the first time she had ever felt that way, not able to concentrate, leaving her confused ... 'Nanao.', Matsumoto-sensei called. 'Nanao.', and she felt ... desired. Nanao was flustered by Matsumoto-sensei who kept calling her name lol. When Matsumoto-sensei asked why, Nanao yelled out that that's because even though she likes her, it's not like Matsumoto will like her back either ..., with that Matsumoto-sensei kissed her [LOL, kinda like a shut up kiss.]To spoil that moment, Matsumoto-sensei's stomach growled and fainted from hunger as she didn't eat ever since the day Nanao left the room in angry. In bed, Matsumoto-sensei thought to herself that she didn't even react that way when the engagement was over. Matsumoto-sensei told Nanao that maybe if she give her a kiss, she might get better lol. Despite being embarrassed by the request, Nanao proceed to give her a peck on the lips in the end. With the windows opened and the humid breeze flowing in, Matsumoto-sensei felt warm [from the kiss too]. Nanao then told Matsumoto-sensei that even though she's fooling around, she's fine with it too while giving a serious expression [Nanao's saying that she doesn't mind even if Matsumoto-sensei's not serious in forming a relationship with her]. Matsumoto-sensei caressed Nanao's cheek saying that she doesn't want to as she has finally managed to get serious this time. - END of Summer Window Syndrome -NOTES: Ahhh, I just want to point out that at Page 7, the 'Shut up and lemme kiss you' scene lol, I was quite skeptical about the Mandarin version as it says, '..., then, stop breathing.' I was like, 'Huh, it has no relation to the above pages!?' Thinking back, it might be referring to Nanao's statement of her feeling pain in her heart when Matsumoto-sensei called her name. Perhaps Matsumoto's giving a solution like, 'Stop breathing' = 'Stop the pain'? Flipping to the RAWs, it doesn't help much, just '塞いでいて' [quick check on the dictionary] kinda means to stop up or fill it up. Somehow, in this case from the RAWs, I was given the impression that Matsumoto-sensei's 'filling up', 'stopping' or 'covering' Nanao's pain by kissing her. In the end, I'm going with '... then, let me stop it'. Any comments/suggestions from those of good Japanese knowledge/background? I'll continue to review on the continuation of Matsumoto-sensei and Nanao in Yuri Hime Vol10, '爪先立ちOctober' loosely translated as 'Standing on Tiptoes October' before moving to also another Teacher x Student story, 20 Musume x 30 Otome '20娘x30乙女' by Morishima Akiko. There's also a continuation of '20娘x30乙女' in Yuri Hime Vol12 and I'm doing that too. And yes, I do enjoy TxS stories, so there!Random rants;End of first week of Semester 2 ... sigh, guess there's alot of research to do in this semester ... o_o and to my surprise, no mid-sem tests LOL. Awesome. But there're individual presentations and 1000-1500 words reports to write ... along with a bloody literature review XD. Oh yeah, anyone watched Koihime Musou Ep3 yet? LOL. Guess the producers like to play around with Kannu's beautiful, long, black and silky hair ... now they're hinting her ... hair below lol. Can't help but refer to Guan Yu's famous beard ... oh gods, don't even wanna go there. Girlfriends Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 RAWs out on yamibo ... OZMG, Mari actually agreed to go out with a guy she didn't even know what his name was!? But then I reckon this will be a turning point of the relationship between Mari and Akko ... I can see happy ending already *sparkling eyes*. [Signing off @ 9:26 PM]
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Tenma got drunk with too much soda… It kinda made me happy hearing about the news that there's gonna be a 3rd season to School Rumble. I heard it from a conversation with a friend of mine. But… ok I'll cut to the chase: it really made me disappointed seeing the animation loose the quality I've [...]
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[:DOWNLOAD Tomadoi Bitter Tune Album here.:] Title: Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu OP Single - Tomadoi Bitter Tune Artist: Himemiya Milan & Chocolate Rockers Street Release Date: July 23, 2008 ———————————— Tracklist: 1. Tomadoi Bitter Tune 2. Ai Mai Honey Beans 3. Tomadoi Bitter Tune (Instrumental) 4. Ai Mai Honey Beans (Instrumental)
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It’s the first day of Comic Con for press and 4-day-pass holders–not for anyone else! And really, the “Day 0″ moniker does not at all apply–you’ll see how crowded the Exhibit Hall is, and how long I had to wait in line just to get a press badge. This calvacade of a convention has already [...]
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Pam! 98 slates Seto no Hanayome OVA release for November 28. First pressing will include a nendoroid stature.
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The Usa Colony (うさころにー/Rabbit Colony) is a group made of several doujin singers, musicians, and artists that produce works surrounding mostly VOCALOID–the headliners being singers Yamai and Usa. Anyone well versed in the VOCALOID nico scene have probably heard of their names. But what makes this dynamic yuri duo so enticing? Yamai (ヤマイ) is a [...]
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So yeah I am lying out of my ass again, given how Macross is a pretty good love story as well, but Kannazuki no Miko does tell one of the better love stories within the mecha genre outside of the Macross Franchise. I am pretty sure that at some point we have been overcome with [...]
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