Hating Umineko if you like Higurashi and vice versa seems to be a common thing. So perhaps stating that I hate Umineko is really nothing new. Either way, I absolutely must rant about why I hate this franchise. I really like Higurashi, and to this day it is still a show I miss. Overall I [...]
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Day 119/365 From the anime Baccano!, Miria Harvent is the partner and lover of Isaac Dian. They are skilled thieves that often have silly ideas. The biggest oddity between the two of them is that they are immortals since the 1930s. Why I like her: She has a great love of life and does everything her way. [...] Related posts:365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 32/365 Duo Maxwell 365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 13/365 Noriko Takaya 365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 91/365 Gintoki Sakata
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I have to admit that I have a soft spot for dramatic, tear jerker anime. When Funimation released Rumbling Hearts, I was yelling at my television as though Mitsuki would actually be able to hear me tell her that she was being an idiot. When the last episodes of Air TV played in front of [...]
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What a wonderful episode. The danger with these slice of life series is to have them too much about nothing, or to not put any creativity in the scenarios that the characters find themselves in. This however was an episode that confronted Masa deeply, and it as well mirrored Yaichi’s past (at least, I assume [...]
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For lucky star fans, you might have known Tsukasa’s adorable song of  ”Reset”. I was searching for good append songs yesterday and I’m really glad that someone uploaded the soft append version of “Reset”. So here’s a comparison of Miku singing with her original voice and the second video is the soft append version. Miku Hatsune [...]Related posts:Vocabeat of the day: Liar’s Artificial FlowerAn Otaku's Journey to the Net -Hatsune Miku -How to get Hatsune Miku Theme for Google Chrome
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Post Authors: Bob, mart, kisuzachi, ssj, J-sama Hello everybody, as most have known or will realize very shortly, there is no Naruto chapter this week. It’s Golden Week in Japan and that means even the hard working folks at Weekly Shonen Jump will be taking a breather for the next few days.  But we at [...]
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You’d think a guy who spent his whole life training in the mountains couldn’t possibly be useless. Indeed, the first time we see him, he appears to be quite the badass. Score Too bad he’s totally irrelevant for the rest of the show. He sucks up to Aoba. Aoba is oblivious. Rinse and repeat. Nothing ever changes. He [...]
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Color on the street black! It’s true the latest color on the walking street fashion of japan is black. Which actually is a bit odd as usally spring time kicks in with bright and cheerfull colors. But the weather has in fact been awful the past few weeks in Japan. And is probly the reason for this outbreak More >
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AkibaBlog spotted a very interesting bus circling the roads of Akihabara today, and upon closer inspection, it is a lovely itabus promoting the upcoming eroge Shin Koi Hime Musou ~Moeshouden~「真・恋姫†無双���萌将伝���」 that is scheduled for release ...
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Click To Watch Video <object width="640" height="360" data="http://media.animevice.com/media/video/flash/flowplayer-3.1.5_10000.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="movie" value="http://media.animevice.com/media/video/flash/flowplayer-3.1.5_10000.swf"/> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/> <param name="whiskey-video-id" value="2313"/> <param name="flashvars" value="config={"key":"#@8dbd13e54901b094e29","clip":{"scaling": "fit"},"canvas":{"background":"#000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"playlist":["http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4/213564-trailer.jpg", {"autoPlay":false,"url":"http://media.animevice.com/video/AV_TrailerBlast6_1_700.flv"}],"plugins":{"controls":{"url":"http://media.animevice.com/media/video/flash/flowplayer.controls-3.1.5_10000.swf","autoHide":"always","timeColor":"#cc0000","bufferGradient":"none","volumeSliderColor":"#333333","durationColor":"#ffffff","sliderColor":"#333333","tooltipTextColor":"#ffffff","backgroundGradient":"none","timeBgColor":"#000","borderRadius":"0px","tooltipColor":"#000","buttonColor":"#cc0000","sliderGradient":"none","progressColor":"#cc0000","bufferColor":"#666666","volumeSliderGradient":"none","buttonOverColor":"#990000","progressGradient":"medium","backgroundColor":"#111111"}}}"/> </object> Gia, John, and AHR comment on the latest batch of anime trailers.
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You know, I’m generally very poor at getting truly into games, even if I like them a lot. The last exception to the rule was Deus Ex way back in my high school times, and no wonder since it’s pretty much the best game ever made. Just when I thought it would be the last [...]
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At the start of the Spring 2010 anime season, Angel Beats was being compared a lot to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.  Perhaps that’s how it was being marketed, but after four episodes, while little glimmers of Haruhi may have shown up in Yuri here and there, I see very little similarity between any of [...]
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Come the end of HEROMAN's last episode, we got to see our robot hero power up yet again, while their victory in seeing the area evacuated was short-lived as yet more of the Skrugg's giant marbles appear throughout and start wreaking their various paths of destruction. What can Joey, Heroman and company do in the face of this latest threat?Run, that's what. With no immediate plan of action
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Many cultures have ancient rituals for invoking or for stopping the rain, and Japan is no exception. However, Japan is one of the few countries where these rituals are still part of the daily life. If you visit Japan, especially during the rainy seasons, you can encounter some curious looking dolls, made of paper or cloth, hanging at the windows. photo credit: nodoca The dolls are called teru teru bozu 「てるてる坊主」 (meaning something like “shiny-shiny Buddhist monk” or “shiny-shiny bald-headed") and are amulets for good weather, believed to have the magical power to stop or even prevent the rain. photo credit: Jackson Boyle Now, the tradition includes also a song associated with teru teru bozu, composed by Shinpei Nakayama and published in 1921. <object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bdpl3ti70UU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="600" height="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bdpl3ti70UU"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object> The song tells an old story about a monk who promised to the villagers that he will stop the rain that was about to ruin their crops. However, the rain continued and the monk was decapitated by angry villagers, hence the origin of the head dolls… Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu Do make tomorrow a sunny day But if the clouds are crying (it’s raining) Then I shall snip your head off photo credit: tschundler photo credit: Jérôme Sadou Read more »
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I know that I complain about this a lot and yes I know that it’s not some big conspiracy against me, but why is it that every time I have a particularly busy week THAT’S the week when everything gets announced? Ok, enough of my moaning about not having enough hours in the day to [...]
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I might not understand the subtleties of a performance of “Swan Lake,” and I’m not even sure what arabesques and pas are, but as I read the manga Swan I find myself being excited by ballet in a way that I never have been before. Through effective narration and energetic artwork and storytelling, I can experience ballet on another level, [...]
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Thanks to my amazing contacts on twitter, I’ve been directed to a translated version of the plot synopsis to the [...]
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After four months, a camrip of the Nanoha movie is out and I shamelessly downloaded it. Quality’s not too bad, especially when compared to previous experiences with other camrips I downloaded. Spoilers are inbound, so if you’d prefer to wait for the Blu-Ray, best not to read. Let’s just say, the whole movie is the [...]
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After the previous episode, I remember noting how this series hasn’t exactly delivered yet in its second episode. It’s like it was missing something. But yeah, after this episode I realize that it was just building up. This episode was much more like it. It’s here where the creators really start playing with what they’ve [...]
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