Namie Amuro was granted a chance to attend the Grammy Awards last week and interview Lady Gaga (whom she is a fan of) for a special program by WOWOW. But she turned down the offer. More »

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Even though cats have destroyed more Japanese homes than anyone cares to admit (that’s what you get for making your walls out of paper!) the Japanese just can’t get enough. Which is why I’m about to fill your daily cup of ‘cute’ until it overflows. 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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Yesterday was Big Bang’s last day of performing for their 2010 Big Show Concert and it was a knock out!……literally. 60 girls were rushed to the ER after they fainted during the concert. I guess they couldn’t handle their heat if you know what I mean. 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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Say what you will about Japanese pop culture, but you have to admit that Japan has a long history of producing very talented artisans and craftsmen. Now what I enjoy is when someone combines (the rather soul sucking) modern pop culture with traditional artwork, producing something insane. Like what you’d get if you painted all 150 Pokemon in a more traditional style. More »

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Besides my ongoing series on the impending “Robot Rebellion,” I’ve also been taking time to point out the brewing “Giant Robot Statue Cold War” that’s going on in Asia right now. Before it was just Japan and Korea, but it seems Taiwan has just entered the race. More »

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Japan goes through a lot of cell phones. Seeing how everyone over the age of 8 has at least one cell phone, I can make a complete off the top of my head statistic that there are over 100 million cell phones being used in Japan right now. Most of them will be thrown away and replaced every two years. That’s a lot of trash. 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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Now that the wonderful Tokyo Gundam is gone the only giant robot to represent Japan in the “Asian Giant Robot Statue Cold War” is the massive Gigantor statue sitting in Kobe. 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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In this past week’s episode of 30 Rock, James Franco (Spiderman movies, Pineapple Express) guest stars as himself with a very special companion. More »

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The owl in Sora no Woto is an actual owl that can flatten itself. I thought it was just an exaggeration of how scared it was. I guess it was obvious since they never used any generic anime style expressions like a sweat drop or black lines down the face. Seeing an actual owl flatten itself like that is kinda creepy. More »

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I tried to hate it. I was skeptical of the first episode thinking how long it would take before it devolves into moeblob crap. Although I usually prefer anime with explosions and lasers, this was interesting to watch. While watching the second episode, I tried to look as angry as I could but some parts forced me to break a smile. Although one thing really annoyed me. More »

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I had no idea what to expect from Ookamikakushi, but it was incredibly boring and made me uncomfortable. The main character is some glasses guy who looks like a girl. Most of the first episode was about how everyone loves the glasses guy so much. I don’t remember his name but he is the only character with glasses besides his dad and some other character in the background. Aside from the first and last few minutes, everyone is always blushing and almost everything about the show felt generic. A lot of anime can fall under this description but it feels like such a waste when the design for some of the costumes look so cool. The last couple of minutes made me interested enough to see if it gets better though.

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There’s no hope for me whatsoever. This Awesome Blog Post Overload Syndrome (ABPOS) is deeming itself to be a chronic condition. I’m having a really hard time keeping in awesome blog posts — they just keep coming out. I tried herbal tea and it still doesn’t help my situation. My doctor says that the only relief I can receive right now is if you take a moment to read the awesome blog posts that came out last week. More »

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