| 1:11am | Anime Releases for September 2009 | | | | Hopefully you’ve all survived the Summer Anime Con Season! Now that everyone is back to work/school, it’s time for some Fall Anime Releases! Here are a few noteworthy titles for September – Ghost Slayers Ayashi Part 3; School Rumble Season 1/OVA Set; Red Garden Complete Collection;... | | |
| 11:00pm | Yuri Manga: Red Garden, Volume 4 | | | | Red Garden, Volume 4 is 272 pages of blood, weirdness, violence and undead girls who look very fetching in that frock. As you can see clearly from the cover, Kate steps forward to openly take her place as the lead character in this volume. It's been apparent that, although the story is *said* to revolve... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 8:03pm | Summer 2009 Anime Previews -- 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... | | |
| 11:45pm | Red Garden Anime, Volume 6 (English) | | | | As the curtain opens for Red Garden, Volume 6, the four girls finally find some equilibrium in their shattered lives. One at a time, we watch Clare, Rose, Rachel and Kate come to the belated [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://okazu.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ... | | |
| 12:49am | K-ON! - 01 |  | | | OP: “Cagayake! GIRLS” by Aki Toyosaki with Yoko Hikasa, Satomi Satou and Minako Kotobuki – Huh..cute high school girls and a really bad, yet slightly catchy song by the voice actresses. Where have I seen this formula before? Summary: On the first day of high school, Hirasawa Yui... | | |
| 9:54pm | 48 Spring Anime -- full previews: story, trailer, cast, staff, pic | | | | These may be difficult times in the anime industry, but you couldn't tell it from the number of anime being produced. Forty-eight titles come out this spring -- series and OVAs -- about the same number as last spring.But quantity doesn't necessarily imply quality. Nothing here seems like an instant classic.... | | |
| 7:35am | Staff for new Fullmetal Alchemist Series Announced |  | | | From the Anime News Network: The new television adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa’s “dark fantasy” manga will premiere in Japan in April. Aniplex producer Ryo Oyama said that the production began on the series around last spring, and Irie added that the script for the 18th episode had... | | |
| 11:44pm | Memorable Individual Episodes of 2008 |  | | | Let’s all watch together with Nagi-sama Like the title says, this post reflects what I see as the most memorable episodes of this year. These are in no particular order, and obviously don’t include episodes from shows I have not seen. Feel free to comment on my selections and add some of your... | | |
| 3:08am | 39 New Winter Anime -- full previews: staff, cast, pic, story, trailer | | | | The winter season is usually the least exciting of the year, but there are always surprises. Last year, there were true tears and Spice & Wolf. Here are some of this year's possibilities, followed by a complete preview of almost all the new shows:-- Genji Monogatari Sennenki is a new anime based... | | |
| 1:28am | Year in Review: The Immortal Kurenai | | | | There is a particular joy in working on multiple posts simultaneously. There is also a perversion in reveling in the fact that working ahead of schedule I can actually choose which post to go ahead first. At the same time it’s a cheerful dilemma in choosing. Only if I am guided by such simple... | | |
| 12:19pm | Anime/Manga News from October 2008 | | | | Director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell & The Sky Crawlers) has a couple of projects which will keep him busy through the Summer of 2009. The first project is a new theatrical stage adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s Tetsujin 28 manga. Oshii-san will be writing the script as well as making... | | |
| 12:10am | Red Garden Anime, Volume 5 (English) | | | | Since we've been talking about it, I just had to drag out Red Garden, Volume 5 to enjoy the blood and angst once again. :-)The amazing thing about Volume 5 is that a ton of stuff goes on, and there's pretty much no way to talk about it without spoiling it rotten. Well, okay, I could be irritatingly... | | |
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