Eden of the East leaves us hanging. K-ON! delivers some surprising slice of life goodness at the end. Hinagiku is the real star of Hayate no Gotoku. I'm waiting 'patiently' for the last episode of Hatsukoi Limited. Bleach returns to filler hell. Sengoku Basara is a strangely mixed bag. And then there's Haruhi Suzumiya. And then there's Haruhi Suzumiya. And then there's Haruhi Suzumiya...
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Are we there yet? Oh the innuendo. Ahaha, that’s the side you should show more of to Hayate. I think that Yukichi might have better luck with guys now if she regrew her ponytail. But maybe that’s just me… Well, it happens sometimes while waiting for a guy to come… Shana first OP sequence. It’s strap-on time! A Dark Hina is fine [...]
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Hayate the Combat Butler "2nd Season" Ep. 13ハヤテのごとく������Episode 13SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: In the time before Hayate arrives at the clock tower, Hina is frustrated that he is late for their appointment. When she falls asleep, she has a memory-dream of being abandoned as a little girl along with her sister. So waking up to see Hayate, Hina decides to take it out on him while elsewhere, Isumi, over
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  Bandai Entertainment has a guest from Lantis, Ai Takai, with an announcement from Bandai Visual Japan, which teamed up with Lantis (a music production company): They're going to release Jpop and anime music on iTunes in the US and Canada starting later this month or next month at the latest. They're talking up some of the artists now, including JAM Project, Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, CooRie, Yozuca, and Minami Kurabayaki.That is really cool.Back to Bandai Entertainment proper, run by marketing head Bob Napton and president Ken Iyadomi. This next bit is the sum-up of current and upcoming titles. I'll just share release dates as they go through. Sword of the Stranger out now... Kurokami DVD info ncoming soon Code Geass is currently airing on Adult Swim at 2am, and the first part of R2 is coming out in August, with a regular edition and special with volume 4 of the manga-- that should be interesting. Gundam 00 second season is also airing on SyFy. Season 1 part 1 is due out July 21st; special edition has the first manga volume and Gundam 00-F, neither of which will be released until sometime later. Gurren Lagann is out in its entirety of course.The Lucky Star OVA is due out the first week of August at an SRP of $14.98-- no dub, but a few extras, like the Washinomiya Lucky Star Event and some Lucky Channel stuff. Hayate no Gotoku is also dub-less, episodes 1-7 on July 21st for $39.98.
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When Yahagi Sayuri 矢作紗友里 debuted at 19 as Karin, she knocked me out with her liquid, well-inflected voice.Now she has been a professional seiyuu for four years. She still has the strong, supple, quite high voice she started with, but the burbling liquidness has been toned down. She has developed a bit wider vocal and acting range and appears to have become one of the indispensables. She had 2 roles in 2005, 7 in 2006, 15 in 2007, 19 in 2008, and so far this year, she already has 13.Personally I regret her having left some of her unique sound behind, but she is a pro and is making a living by being able to give directors the voice they want.Her only other real starring role since Karin has been as Kuu in Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora in 2007, in which she was passionate but so ethereal as to almost disappear.Now, however, like other real pros she is getting more and more second-rank roles, as a classmate or a sister. And she has staked out some profitable territory in squeaky-animal land, with roles like Kyuupi in Otogijushi Akazukin and Suni in Guin Saga.This summer, you can hear her in Aoi Hana, Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan, a ToLoveRu OVA, and the continuing Hayate no Gotoku and Guin Saga.Here is a compendium of Yahagi Sayuri's anime roles, from YouTube:<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kwaQRzfDv8k&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kwaQRzfDv8k&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>I think I hear her expression becoming more natural and her range of convincing emotions and personalities wider. It sounds as if she has worked at her craft.She is far from beautiful. Kind of homely, really. But homely in a cute way. “Busu” means ugly, and it's hard to forget the surname of her character in Busou Renkin: Busujima (a homonym for "ugly island"). She has an outstanding set of crooked teeth, but I doubt she is thinking of fixing them any time soon, since it might affect her sound.She's kind of attractive, anyway, isn't she? Especially in motion, displaying her entertaining personality, as she does in this interview with co-star Konishi Katsuyuki from the Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora DVDs:<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IMwVlmhQE4g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IMwVlmhQE4g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Like Kawasumi Ayako, she will have to get by on her skill as a seiyuu and her fun personality, rather than her good looks. She and Hayami Saori did a turn together as the sorcerer sisters Ran and Sumire Midou in Koharu Biyori (Indian Summer). In real life, neither one of them is a raving beauty. But they are both prominent young seiyuus working for major seiyuu agency I"m Enterprise, an agency that was involved in scandal just a couple of years ago, but appears to be recovering.She has also done some dubbing, notably for the Japanese version of Akelah and the Bee.In her agency profile, she says her interests are reading and watching movies, and that her sport is softball. Her high school had no drama club, so her father suggested she join the softball club. I wonder if she still plays.Major roles (mouseover for captions): From Japanese Wikipedia: She comes from Tokyo, but spent part of her childhood up north, in Aomori. Born 86.09.22 -- now age 22. In high school, her friends made fun of her high voice, saying it was like an anime. But she had no idea anything like a seiyuu existed until she heard it from them.A phrase she uses a lot is: "Reawwy?" (maji de ka, a cute mispronunciation of maji desu ka? "really?").Her nickname, oHagi ぉはぎ, was given her by Inokuchi Yuka, Nabatame Hitomi, and Shitaya Noriko, after she said she wished she had one. An ohagi is a kind of Japanese sweet, made with rice flour and red bean paste (right).She's good at sewing, earning praise from her co-stars in Net Ghost PiPoPa, Shiraishi Ryouko and Satou Rina, for being the quickest among them at sewing a little bag.Her seiyuu friends include Satou Rina, Konishi Katsuyuki, Shitaya Noriko, Takahashi Mikako, and Nakao Eri. She was making fun of Satou-san on a radio show, and Satou called her a "grade-school old man." She's a big fan of the Kamen Rider series, has lots of books and goods, and has become friends with the mangaka.She calls herself a "crazy girl seiyuu." She is apt to come out with odd comments ranging from romantic outbursts to dirty jokes. At an aquarium once, her comment was: "Looks tasty." Cast in:(2005) Karin (TV) as Maaka Karin (debut)(2006) Otogi-Jushi Akazukin (TV) as Gretel; Kyupi(2006) Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~ (TV) as Fujikawa Yuuka(2006) Buso Renkin (TV) as Busujima Hanaka(2007) Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora (TV) as Shiratori Kuu(2007) Hayate the Combat Butler (TV) as Segawa Izumi(2007) Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula (TV) as Amano Utsumi(2007) Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho (TV) as Nanako Maaya(2007) Shugo Chara! (TV) as Mashiro Rima(2007) Indian Summer (Koharu Biyori, OAV) as Midō Ran(2008) Yotsunoha (OAV) as Yuki Arisa(2008) To Love-Ru (TV) as Sairenji Haruna(2008) Net Ghost PiPoPa (TV) as Sobue Hikaru(2008) Sekirei (TV) as Mitsuha (No.38)(2008) Rosario + Vampire Capu2 (TV) as Oniyama Tonko(2008) Ga-Rei -Zero- (TV) as Izumi Mami(2008) Nodame Cantabile: Paris (TV) as Puririn (ep 1)(2008) Tytania (TV) as Lira Florenz(2009) Sora Kake Girl (TV) as Erika; Satchan(2009) Asura Cryin' (TV) as Ania(2009) Guin Saga (TV) as Suni(2009) Fight Ippatsu! Jūden-chan!! (TV) as Iono(2009) Sweet Blue Flowers (Aoi Hana, TV) as Yoko Hon'atsugiStaff in:(2009) Hayate the Combat Butler!! (TV) : Theme Song Performance (ED)(2009) To Love-Ru (OAV) : Theme Song Performance (OP/ED)full list here (English) and here (Japanese). LinksAnime News Network pageWikipedia pageJapanese Wikipedia pageagency home pageYouTube videos 1YouTube videos 2current 2channel thread
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Err, maybe I'm too exaggerating using those title but I was kinda moved with the scenes in this episode. Finally it reach when Hayate and Hinagiku alone together in Hakuou Student Council room. And here we also see Hinagiku in her dere-dere phase ^^ this is the part I really want to see in the anime version
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While I dropped it last year out of boredom (or maybe because I had been burned out of SynergySP stuff through the first season of Hayate no Gotoku!), Zettai Karen Children is now tons of fun again this summer. With HnG’s second season going down a different (and so much better) path, it’s now [...]
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The moment I've been waiting 52+ episodes for...   H-I-N-A Hinagiku! Hai Hai! *da da dun daa dun da daa*
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Hayate the Combat Butler "2nd Season" Ep. 12ハヤテのごとく������Episode 12SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Izumi arrives just in time to see Kotetsu confess to Hayate. She's excited by this as she didn't know Hayate's bread was buttered on that side. Kotetsu is confused, so Izumi explains that Hayate is a boy and provides his student ID as proof. She explains to Hayate that Kotetsu is her butler. Realizing the
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I’ve been waiting quite a long time for them to animate the scenes shown in this episode, and I will say I was quite pleased with the results. I still don’t plan on blogging this regularly, but as I said in the last season preview, I did mention the possibility of making some noise [...]
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