Production Company: Bee Train Genres: Action, Girls-with-guns, Adventure, Drama, Mystery Official Site: エル・カザド Targeted Release Date: April 2007 As a big Bee Train fan this is one of the spring anime that I’m really looking forward to. For the uninformed, Bee Train’s resume would include titles such as Madlax, Noir, and the .hack anime franchise. Another huge plus for this [...]
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So I finally managed to finish another Otome game. Actually this is part of a set of Kare to Kare games but I haven’t finished the Wataru route for the other 2 so that will be in another post. For now this is covering the first Kare to Kare game, which is a murder mystery [...]
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Kiba, ep. 44: “The Unbreaking Spell” (Tokenai Jubaku) Sara will do anything to get Amir Gaul… this means lots of battles all around between Sara, Zed, and Jiico. Meanwhile, Jeem of Task gets ready to make his move. Summary and thoughts following the pics (click to enlarge): Sara demands Zed give her Amirl Gaul and [...]
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I was browsing the local Borders yesterday afternoon after a busy day on campus and looking through the magazines, music, and movies. (Don’t ask me if “that” policy has changed because I didn’t look.) Anyway there was a DVD dedicated to music-related stuff like concerts and, I guess, operas? I don’t know, I wasn’t paying [...]
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The Shiori arc is over now, or at least I think it is. The ending of episode 18 was kind of vague, with Shiori just leaving Yuuichi. The preview seems to hint that Shiori does indeed die, but in the toei anime, and the game I presume, she lives on, cured through her new emotional [...]
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Danny appeared on Technorati’s BlogTV again! It seems like he’s hosting a section called “Danny Choo Akiba Report” now. Mirai-chan, dannychoo.com’s new mascot Illustration by Yuuko Azami I want one too… You can view the episode on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 I translated the portions of the show that feature him. You can take a look after [...]
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Support your local badger! I wanted to watch this show because I wanted a light and fluffy show (I thought I had it in Shuffle! Memories, but noooo, they had to bring in a razor blade and more). But I thought this was a 100% loli show and I just wasn’t really interested in that. [...]
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Well, they look decent. I'd be scared about the poses, though. Wonder what they'd look like painted? Come on, is there any S-Strain fanart?
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Let the angst-less nekomimi good times roll.
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We join the "fun" just as Gaara corners the warrior from Takumi, and given his murderous ability, a simple win for the ultra-strong sand man is expected, but the warrior turns to confidently exclaim, as diabolical villains often do, that in fact, Gaara is now "the one cornered! Muhaha..." Naruto arrives on cue just in time to save a crest-fallen Gaara, who gets trapped in a chakra sucking machine designed to feed on his monstrous energy and resurrect Takumi's long dead legend Seimei; this turns out to be a white haired inb..
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Buy it here Title:  Peppermint #1 Author:  Eun-Jin Seo Publisher:  TOKYOPOP ISBN:  1598166816 May Contain Spoilers Hey is just nuts about classmate EZ, an up and coming entertainer.  EZ's fan club don't take kindly to all the time Hey and EZ spend together, and soon make Hey's life a living hell.  [...]
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“I had my suspicions. Anyway, I’ve decided to give up on HARD YURI and go STRAIGHT.”
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And so OtoBoku ended without much fanfare – nothing really happened besides a dance and some more blushed sighs of ecstasy – but it was consistently entertaining to the point that it left me satisfied, ending up in my “burn” pile rather than a reluctant trip to the recycle bin. As one that’s seen his fair share of hgame based animes, I knew I wasn’t in for much, but c’mon! It was the dazzling debut of the ultimate trap character! Couldn’t there have been some spectacular wardrobe malfunction in front of the whole school? Couldn’t Takako have abused her position of power to get…something extra? Since they’ve already contrived this crazy scenario with some estrogen-enhanced athletically-gifted academically-superior Pantene commercial-worthy guy reaching the upper echelon of an elite girl’s school worthy of Lobelia’s ranks (whew), why not take it all the way instead of just settling back into another typical sappy romance blushfest? Well, it didn’t turn out all that bad so I won’t complain – luckily we have another show to shift our focus to, one with no qualms about finishing what they started. As one of the seasonal hgame shows of lesser morality, Happiness isn’t bound by any delusions of dignity or integrity, and can therefore do whatever they want with no repercussion of their credibility. It doesn’t try to do too much, however, remaining quite focused on its sole purpose – the unadulterated flaunting of girls with big rods.
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I got hooked on this comic in its web form when someone on an Evangelion mailing list forwarded a link to this. While Fred ‘Piro’ Gallagher’s Megatokyo is heavily influenced by dating sims/anime like Kanon, Air, Haibane Renmei, Michael Poe’s Exploitation Now has numerous references to Evangelion, tentacle monsters, ninjas and even one for Sailor [...]
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Now this is interesting: according to Home Made Otaku, Tomy's making a TV that's ordinary in all aspects of its design...save for its totally tsundere navigation system. Also, site updates, and the short announcement of a weekly column aimed at the prospect of forcing Spiritsnare's ass to go and blog more.
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Lots of stuff was going on while I was getting the site squared away. Here’s the first round: NYCC is just around the corner, and Ed pulls out the manga events to make our lives easier. Shaenon Garrity has a new Overlooked Manga Festival up for your reading pleasure. This week she takes on the salaryman sampler [...]
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Cool, another great looking mecha series will be released this April. Not much info about this new anime but it does looks promising. The series are joined produced by Bandai Visual and my favorite’s Sunrise. I can’t manage to capture the screenshot… so you might want to download the 15 seconds trailer to see it [...]
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This is absolutely interesting yet hilarious … to trust Tomy Co. to actually come up with something like this. Anyway, there’s the news story tat I read on Mainichi Daily. “Toy manufacturer Tomy Co. has come up with the world’s first “tsundere” portable television set, which gives audio guidance with a harsh voice that gradually becomes kinder [...]
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