There is an anime for Arakawa Under the Bridge series coming out, but I read some of the manga to get a taste of what it’s like. It’s really weird. While it never made me laugh out loud or anything, I had a stupid grin plastered on my face the whole time I was reading this. More »

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It’s March. Sakura trees are blooming or soon to be blooming in Japan around this time of year. While the US has two months left till our Sakura Festival starts I’d like to commemorate this month official Perfect Cherry Blossom month! Yes, Touhou. More »

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I’m not too familiar with any Chinese manhua (Chinese manga) — the only one I have ever read is Ravages of Time. Manhua is pretty much Chinese comics. I always thought Korean comics were called the same thing, but I recently noticed that they’re actually called manhwa. Not a big difference, they’re all comics either way. I don’t know why manga seems to be the most popular, but Ravages of Time is easily better than most manga I have read. The artwork is incredibly detailed and fits the story very well. The fight scenes would also look amazing if they were animated. I had a problem with the story though. More »

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Summer Wars is finally out, and I’m so excited to watch it. I’ve managed to resist watching the low quality versions floating around on the internet because I wanted to watch the movie at its best. I heard people compare this to the first Digimon movie, something I need to rewatch some day. I’ve managed to avoid spoilers for this long, just to be able to enjoy this movie even more. More »

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I recently stumbled across this song today and thought it was really good. I can’t read the name, but it’s titled “Tada Rin Toshite”. The album it belongs to is called Starry Sky Logic. It got me interested enough to look up more songs StudioK2. More »

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It was glorious. It followed most of the clichés that the earlier series followed, some kid gets caught up in the middle of an attack and jumps into a gundam. But what I like about this one is that it follows the mood of the original gundam and zeta gundam more closely. More »

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Yotsuba&! is a pretty cute series done by Kiyohiko Azuma, the guy who also did the Azumanga Daioh manga. It’s about a little girl named Yotsuba and her life after moving to a new house. I can’t believe I enjoyed this, and it’s almost embarassing, but I loved reading it. This should crack open even the most stone hearted devil witch emo. More »

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So apparently, shit hits the fan in episode 7. Instead of cute girls doing cute stuff, you have explosions and tanks and stuff blowing up everywhere. I need to catch up now. I stopped watching around episode 3 because I lost interest. More »

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It took a while to muster the motivation to watch Katanagatari’s second episode. I’m not sure if it was worth it. The problems from the first episode are still existing in the second one, mostly the dialogue. It was too dragged out and mostly meaningless. It felt like they struggled to extend the episode to 1 hour when it could easily fit a 30 minute episode. More »

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This is a pretty solemn week for anyone who read the latest chapters of Naruto, Bleach and One Piece. Possible heavy spoiler ahead. Although I dislike Bleach and Naruto so I found those chapters pretty funny. I love One Piece though and damn, this chapter made me shed a tear. The events in these chapters have been predicted, but that doesn’t make it any less satisfying to read. More »

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This is a decent Touhou song but the main attraction is the video. Everything just flows very smoothly and it’s addicting to watch. I can keep this looping all day and not get bored. I was recently introduced to this video through some McDonald’s spin-off and I just stumbled across the original. There’s a lot of information available on how the video began and it’s pretty funny. They’re available on the uploader’s comment. The video even showed up on CNN where they obviously had no idea what they were commenting about but it made me laugh either way. More »

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I never knew Persona 3 Audio Dramas existed until recently. They are supposed to be a lot of them but the only one I’ve watched/listened to was “A Certain Day of Summer.” Although audio dramas are supposed to be audio only, these are animated for some reason, I’m assuming it’s a fan who did it. This one was pretty funny and got me interested in more, but not interested enough to search for them. Maybe if I ever stumble across a bundle of them all translated I’ll watch it. Wikipedia says that there’s another audio drama coming out February 25th. Maybe by then I’ll be motivated to look for more. If I knew about this while I was playing through P3 I’d be all over it. I’ll definitely be playing P3 portable though. More »

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The Highschool of the Dead manga has been on hiatus for over a year and it’s been announced that it will be returning along with an anime being developed. The artist for the manga has done a lot of hentai stuff and it shows in the manga with tons of blatant fan service. And there’s a lot of it. Almost every single drawing of a female character is an erotic one. I think this will do pretty well as an anime, but I’d definitely avoid watching it if there is anyone around. More »

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When I first started reading Yankee-kun to Meganee-chan last year, I wasn’t impressed at all. The art wasn’t that great and the story was boring. Something changed though. I recently re-read the first chapters and caught up to the most recent chapter and for some reason everything seemed better. While the beginning was still weak, it gets a lot better after. More »

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The 2 hours I spent watching Gurren Lagann Movie Lagann-Hen were the best 2 hours of my life. The wait for the DVDs to come out was worth it. If anything, it made the movie even better. While the movie wouldn’t be too spectacular if I watched it right after the series. Revisiting it a few years later was a good reminder on why Gurren Lagann was so good. It’s not just a simple re-hash either. More »

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I was really excited for Katanagatari’s first episode, and when it finally came out it didn’t really meet my expectations. Even though I knew nothing about it besides the pretty pictures I was really expecting more out of this. The first episode was still good. My biggest complaint was the dialogue. There was just way too much of it. I was so hyped up for a big action scene, but in so many cases they just continued with more talking. And more talking. More »

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Episode three of Durarara was just plain awesome. When someone falcon punches another guy out of his clothes, you know that it’s something special. The scene where the bartender guy shows up was definitely one of the highlights of this episode. And it just got better with someone jumping off a building to catch a thrown vending machine. Hopefully this does well enough to warrant a second season of Baccano. More »

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If there’s an anime I don’t like but would benefit from being a movie, I would probably still not like it. And if it’s an anime I already like, a movie may be unnecessary and I may end up disliking it. Here are my picks for anime that need to be made into movies. More »

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Along with Hidamari Sketch x365, Asatte no Houkou and Petite Cossette, Gintama has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks. The only one I really care about is Gintama though. Apparently it’s going to be $40 for Collection 1 which has a run time of 325 minutes. More »

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Naburo is an Indonesian version of Naruto. Some scanlator kindly translated the first volume so us non-Indonesian readers can appreciate the story. Otherwise we would have to make do with the beautiful art. Even after being translated, I don’t really understand the story. Obviously it wasn’t meant for lesser minds like mine to comprehend. More »

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