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"Moribito" Revisited
This was a very "Moribito" summer break. :)
After trying to persuade my sister to watch more quality anime, I finally got her hooked on "Seirei no Moribito," which might possibly be my most favorite anime right now, more than Bleach's anime even.
My sister is a quiet shy soul, so it's sometimes hard to tell if she likes or dislikes something, but ( Read more... ) -
Not dead, just really out of fandom for now
My summer internship has kept me quite occupied since the first day I started, so I could barely sneak a little time online to check and update my principal blog every so often. This poor blog, with anime and manga as its main focus, has been severely neglected because I haven't been keeping up with anything at all over this summer besides manga ( Read more... ) -
Wah. The Internetz scares me.
On Tuesday night, procrastinating before a final exam, I did a quick translation of a few of Kubo Tite's in-between sketches for the latest Bleach tankubon, Vol 39. I posted 'em on a Bleach forum and went back to studying ( Read more... ) -
Manga pimping post: Until Death Do Us Part
A seinen series with no panty shots, strong women characters, awesome battles, conspiracy theories that rival Death Note's (but make more sense), high (somewhat-plausible) technology, great art, and a really badass blind swordsman to top it off?
It can only be "Until Death Do Us Part."
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"Nodame" anime musings
I was bored last night, and since it's Golden Week in Japan, there are no Shounen Jump or Magazine chapters this week, which means 80% of my usual series were absent. So I decided to start on the Nodame Cantabile anime instead ( Read more... ) -
Newest manga binge: "Nodame Cantabile"!
Ahh, OneManga is going to be the death of me. After zipping through all 35 or so volumes of "Hana Yori Dango" and all 13 (available) volumes of "Gokusen" in just the first three weeks of the quarter, I got myself hooked on another great shoujo, "Nodame Cantabile."
I just wonder why it took me so long to get around to "Nodame," being a bit of a ( Read more... ) -
Higashi no Eden (Eden of the East) + Production I.G Love
I fell madly and desperately in love with Production I.G's work after finishing "Seirei no Moribito" not too long ago. Even now, when I load up Moribito's website, I can't help but have my breath taken away by the amazing detail and beauty of the scenery there ( Read more... ) -
Reflections on "Hana Yori Dango" - Drama vs. Manga
(Moved this post over from principal blog to this one, since I figure this is my anime/manga/J-pop blog anyway.)
I'm not normally a fan of shoujo, but I tolerated Fuushigi Yuugi (and all the "Miaka!" "Tamahome!" etc) surprisingly well, so I thought I'd give a classic like Hana Yori Dango a try....
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Kemono no Souja Erin 7
Oh my god. The series that I'd been quietly dismissing in my head as kiddie fare (sorry, the character designs don't help with that impression) has suddenly taken a serious turn.
MAJOR spoilers ahead - do not go further if you don't want to be spoiled!
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It's a good time to be ISHI-HIME! :D
I'm still following Bleach after two years and countless twists and turns and letdowns because Kubo-sensei delivers. And boy did he deliver in Ch. 346 (OneManga link here). Literally over 100 chapters after Ishida and Orihime's fantastical adventures in Soul Society, they've been reunited - and this time, Ishida is less passive, more willing to ( Read more... )