| 2:50am | Breakfast in Japan |  | | | Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries took a survey from a sample from over 5000 people which reveals that less that 10% of Japanese folks regularly eat breakfast. And why is not eating brekkie bad? Well the ministry of agriculture had a load of other data from over a million samples... | | |
| 10:58am | Cool Products Friday, Monday, September 14, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 11:19am | Cool Products Friday, September 4, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 1:00pm | Opening doors to new interests |  | | | Some consider a strength of anime to be the sheer variety in the topics that shows cover. From this summer 2009 season alone, we have anime featuring mahjong, baseball, vampires, witches, butlers, maids, newspaper delivery services, alchemy, and lesbians. Of course, that’s not to say live-action... | | |
| 7:12pm | Moyashimon Gets Adapted Into Picture Book For Kids | | | | Moyashimon is a interesting and informative anime about bacteria and other micro-organisms. Now it is being adapted into picture books that are targeted at kids. According to Comic Natalie, there will be a series of eight picture books in the series. The first volume of the picture book will be released... | | |
| 7:26pm | Summer Season Favorites -- Blue Flowers in an Earthquake | | | | Three episodes in, now it can be said: Aoi Hana ("Sweet Blue Flowers") and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 are my top shows of the summer season. And both are so good that, if they fulfill their promise, they could become anime masterpieces.Close behind comes Bakemonogatari, and I'm enjoying a number of other shows,... | | |
| 3:46pm | nutcase23’s Display Cabinet of LOVE |  | | | My desk got invaded Ever since my last post of my room back in Anime Banzai! when I got my current IKEA table, I have yet to make any posts as to the current state of my figurine collection. If you have been following my figurine reviews, it should be pretty obvious that my collection is a hell lot... | | |
| 4:24am | Tales of Vesperia PS3 vs Xbox 360: Xbox Higher Resolution! |  | | | A detailed comparison of the Tales of Vesperia demos for the PS3 and Xbox 360 reveals that the PS3 actually has noticeably inferior graphics to the Xbox 360 beta which was circulated to paying testers some time ago. The PS3 version actually has a lower resolution than the Xbox 360 version, for reasons... | | |
| 10:59pm | [PR] Right Stuf & Nozomi Entertainment Announce New Licenses! | | | | RIGHT STUF & NOZOMI ENTERTAINMENT Announce JUNJO ROMANTICA, ANTIQUE (Antique Bakery), and ARIA: The ORIGINATION + The OVA ~ARIETTA~ Anime Expo 2009: New license and project announcements GRIMES, IA, July 6, 2009 – Anime producer and distributor Right Stuf, Inc.... | | |
| 11:04am | 25 Things anime style – Yes, this is the stupid Facebook meme | | | | Totally unrelated but sexy. Um yeah. I had drafted this up months ago when this stupid 25 things was all the rage on Facebook. It was actually pretty damn annoying. I thought it would be fun to do an anime only related one. Basically you have to list 25 things about yourself. 1. I think I know what... | | |
| 3:44pm | Manga in Japan = One Piece | | | | Manga in Japan appears synonymous with One Piece in much the same way that manga overseas is a shorthand for saying “Naruto“, if the latest manga sales figures are anything to go by. The collected Oricon Top 50 figures for manga sales through the first half of 2009 (shown below) give a... | | |
| 11:06pm | Anime Summer 2009 -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 9:32pm | Summer 2009 Anime -- full previews w/staff, cast, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
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