Archives for October 2009

Happy Halloween from MAY! (plus some anime Halloween images)

Anime Halloween pictures are harder to come by than Christmas ones, but here are some I’ve come across over the years…

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Mainichi Anime Yume’s 3rd year anniversary

I don’t know where my mind was a month ago but I had completely forgotten that Mainichi Anime Yume’s anniversary is October 1st. So yeah, here’s the month late post celebrating MAY’s 3rd year anniversary…

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My 100 favorite anime characters (30 – 21)

Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 30 to 21…

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Haruhi Suzumiya English version novels review

Yen Press and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers released the official English version of the first Haruhi Suzumiya light novel, “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya,” in April of this year. Volume 2, “The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya,” recently came out earlier this month. I’ve purchased and read both of them, so I figured it’s time for a review…

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My 100 favorite anime characters (40 – 31)

Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 40 to 31…

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Nine recent and remarkable AMVs

I always like to keep track of the most highly-rated AMVs. A little over a year ago I wrote a post featuring fifteen AMVs that I thought were the best. Since then, I’ve come across a few more, mostly excellent 2009 releases, that I feel deserve some praise too…

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My 100 favorite anime characters (50 – 41)

I’ve reached the halfway mark on the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters. Here are characters 50 to 41. I just noticed that out of the ten characters on today’s list, six of them are not human XD (and two of those six are wolves). Not sure how that happened…

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Fairy Tail first impressions

Two episodes into Fairy Tail and I definitely feel it has potential, but like other shonen series, it’s going to take time to really tell…

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Aoi Bungaku first impressions

I’ve read two out of the six novels that Aoi Bungaku will adapt into anime episodes; No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai and Kokoro by Natsume Souseki. The series starts with No Longer Human so I thought I’d offer my initial impressions after watching the first episode…

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My 100 favorite anime characters (60 – 51)

Nearing the halfway mark on the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 60 to 51. Still second guessing myself a bit but that will get better as I approach the final half of the list…

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