| 2:00pm | Naruto as a launch pad |  | | | I had a rather interesting conversation with IcyStorm and a friend about Naruto the other day. I understand that Naruto, Bleach, One Piece and other “mega-anime” have a certain stigma these days that seems to repel many otaku these days, and IcyStorm is one of them. Personally, I still like... |
| 11:25pm | Shidou Mariya cosplay: maid or schoolgirl? |  | | | Episode four gave us Mariya in MAID FORM. That gives me two options for cosplay. Should I go withIsn’t he so damn cute?!orISN’T HE SO DAMN IRRESISTIBLE? Or I could make both and wear each on different days of Anime Expo. So decide for me.Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please... |
| 11:09pm | Shidou Mariya cosplay: maid or schoolgirl? |  | | | Episode four gave us Mariya in MAID FORM. That gives me two options for cosplay. Should I go withIsn’t he so damn cute?!orISN’T HE SO DAMN IRRESISTIBLE? Or I could make both and wear each on different days of Anime Expo. So decide for me.Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please... |
| 2:00pm | A question to ALI PROJECT haters |  | | | ALI PROJECT isn’t a band that most people seem to like, even among anime fans. But I do want to ask those of you that do not like ALI PROJECT, have you only heard their anime songs or have you tried to listen to their older music, particularly their older music catalog? A common complaint I hear... |
| 2:00pm | A question to ALI PROJECT haters |  | | | ALI PROJECT isn’t a band that most people seem to like, even among anime fans. But I do want to ask those of you that do not like ALI PROJECT, have you only heard their anime songs or have you tried to listen to their older music, particularly their older music catalog? A common complaint I hear... |
| 2:00pm | (Anime - TV) Comic Party Review |  | | | One title that frequently seems to appear when I read of To Heart is Comic Party. Turns out Leaf developed the games for both. So it didn’t surprise me much when the first thing in Comic Party is a To Heart parody with the main character dreaming that he’s Hiroyuki. Since I recently watched... |
| 2:00pm | (Anime - TV) Comic Party Review |  | | | One title that frequently seems to appear when I read of To Heart is Comic Party. Turns out Leaf developed the games for both. So it didn’t surprise me much when the first thing in Comic Party is a To Heart parody with the main character dreaming that he’s Hiroyuki. Since I recently watched... |
| 2:00am | On dropping shows |  | | | One of the topics that Baka-Raptor and I covered on the first episode of Oi, Hayaku’s “Pardon the Eruption” podcast was my inability to drop shows. Prior to the airing of that episode, I always shelved shows I wasn’t willing to finish or continue under my MAL list’s “on-hold”... | | |
| 2:00am | On dropping shows |  | | | One of the topics that Baka-Raptor and I covered on the first episode of Oi, Hayaku’s “Pardon the Eruption” podcast was my inability to drop shows. Prior to the airing of that episode, I always shelved shows I wasn’t willing to finish or continue under my MAL list’s “on-hold”... |
| 2:00pm | Dragon Ball returns and falls flat on its face |  | | | I have a rather large soft spot for Dragon Ball Z. I grew up with the series and watched through every single episode no matter how long it took them to power up. Every Kamehameha wave and every Spirit Bomb, I was there glued to my seat. So imagine my excitement when I heard a new Dragon Ball Z episode... | | |
| 2:00pm | Dragon Ball returns and falls flat on its face |  | | | I have a rather large soft spot for Dragon Ball Z. I grew up with the series and watched through every single episode no matter how long it took them to power up. Every Kamehameha wave and every Spirit Bomb, I was there glued to my seat. So imagine my excitement when I heard a new Dragon Ball Z episode... |
| 10:03am | Xam’d: Lost Memories confuses me |  | | | Shortly before my winter break, I started watching Xam’d: Lost Memories. While I’ll hold off on fully developed opinions (you know, stuff beyond my tweets of “OMG NAKIAMI IS AWESOMES”) until the last episode airs next week, I can at least say that it was interesting and exciting... |
| 10:03am | Xam’d: Lost Memories confuses me |  | | | Shortly before my winter break, I started watching Xam’d: Lost Memories. While I’ll hold off on fully developed opinions (you know, stuff beyond my tweets of “OMG NAKIAMI IS AWESOMES”) until the last episode airs next week, I can at least say that it was interesting and exciting... |
| 10:30pm | Ta-da! Allow me to introduce myself |  | | | The name’s hanulbada, a.k.a. hanul. I guess, to start off, I should say a few things about myself. My real name is David, I started watching anime around the Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z golden age and since then have become a huge fan of most works of the genre. So much that I’ve actually... | | |
| 1:19am | What I’m doing besides blogging |  | | | I have started five anime-related projects. Some of them are only in their planning stages while the others I have actually started work on. I don’t expect any of these to be finished anytime soon, but assuming I actually try to finish these, they’ll get done by my estimated dates. First... | | |
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