I got to attend Anime Expo 2012 this year. It was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, as it had been located for the past 4 years now. This marks the third time I was able to attend the expo. For some reason, I only go on even numbered years. I hope next year breaks the pattern. The expo was a total of 4 days lasting from Friday the 29th of ( Read more... )

After many months of trying, I finally succeeded in catching up to Fairy Tail.
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Suspension of Disbelief.  The most basic tenants of fiction.  All stories whether they be novel, television show, movie, anime or video game all strive to accomplish this ( Read more... )

Remember that quest I started last summer?  Well, I'm technically not done with it, but I figure just to get it out of the way, I'll post my thoughts on the last anime that beloved on that list.

( Once again join me on this little adventure. )

I was in the mood for some icons and slapped some together.

Subject list:
Bleach - 3
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle - 1
One Piece - 1


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Angela Aki's most recent album, Songbook was released on January 11th.

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Of all the anime - complete and incomplete - I've watched during the year 2011, these seiyuu stood out the most to me.

10. Hosoya Yoshimasa (Nezumi -NO. 6)

He made a great Ophelia, but his singing left much to be desired.  I kinda wish there'd been less singing, and more Ophelia from him.

9. Inoue Kazuhiko (Madara-Natsume Yuujinchou, Zoku Natsume ( Read more... )

I recently read the manga Legal Drug by CLAMP.  This is a review of the released material, including impressions of the new series.

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出来た！出来た！やった！！

The Straw Hat Pirates fan soundtrack is complete.  I admit that I found this less difficult than the Luffy one, but it was still a ton of fun to do, with a little help from my dear friend Mandi, it was complete naught five minutes from typing this!  This is easily my longest FST to date with one song for each of the pirate crew, and a ( Read more... )

I'm just gonna say this now.  Because I haven't made as much progress into my novel as I would like in the past month, I'm going to use NaNoWriMo as a way of getting shit done faster.  I do want to get to 50,000 words by the end of the month.  I'm honestly hoping that I'll have made good progress in terms of storyline by then.  I've got fifteen ( Read more... )