Having suddenly realized that AX is only a month away, tonight I'm getting started on watching all the anime that I totally meant to for the last year. (You know, in case I want toys.) First on the docket is Steins;Gate, and I'm two episodes in so far. It's a weird show -I couldn't even begin to describe the plot to you because I don't know what it ( Read more... )

I've been really busy at work (in particular, catalog deadlines meant I ended up working over the weekend; bleh), so here's an extra-long post about, uh... Stuff. And things. Most of which are probably not interesting, but I have decided to talk about anyway. I recently acquired a set of the One Piece wanted posters, and since I was putting those ( Read more... )

Did you know I am an authoritative source on School Rumble? Neither did I, but apparently Wikipedia thinks so! Check it out, I'm listed as the source for, like, seven citations! I don't even remember what the hell I wrote in that review*, but I'm willing to bet it ranked pretty high on somebody's quick Google search for references. :P ( Read more... )

Funimation rescued a frog yesterday and posted about it in their official blog. I would not have expected to say this, but that's pretty cute. (And an impressive coincidence - as they point out. Sgt. Frog's street date was also yesterday ( Read more... )

Spurred on by Yoshiko's posts, here are some of my own pictures from Anime Expo. (And not even two weeks after; practically a record!) Some of them are a little blurry (new camera I'm not quite used to yet) and some of them are a little dark/overly brightened in Photoshop because they were dark (I'm not so good with lighting), but hopefully some of ( Read more... )

Interesting fact: all anime I am watching this season (with the exception of One Piece, which doesn't count since we're, what, ten years behind Japan?) feature Jun Fukuyama, and almost all in leading roles besides. Weird.

Robyn, that chart site you found is evil. And by evil, I mean hilarious. (Brandi, this is your cue to click the link, because ( Read more... )