Merry Christmas, from MAY! ^_^


To all my loyal visitors to Mainichi Anime Yume and AnimeYume.com, and to anyone else reading this, have a wonderful, white Christmas and a happy, healthy new year! ^.^ Like some people, I don’t care for the religion aspect of Christmas as I do for everything else; the lights, decorations, music, gifts, warm feeling, etc,. Despite many things keeping me from really having Christmas these past few years, such as lack of time and money, having pretty much no relatives to celebrate with, living where it doesn’t snow, etc., I still can’t help getting a warm and happy feeling when Christmas comes around. Though it’ll never be quite the same as when I was a kid, I don’t think there’ll be a time when my “inner child” doesn’t get at least a little excited on this day =) I once read a quote that sums it up good; “Christmas is not a date, it’s a state of mind.”

Anyway, it’s not much, but I do have a few Xmas-related anime things to offer you guys today…

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Haruhi Licensed!


I’m sure everybody’s heard the big news, and most have already blogged about it, but I thought I’d do my share anyway =) Yup, one of the most popular anime series’ of 2006, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi(Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu) has been licensed in the US by Bandai and Kadokawa Pictures.

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Mushishi eps 1 to 4 review

Mushishi has been on my computer in my “anime-to-watch” folder for a while before I finally sat down and marathoned the first 4 episodes last night. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the series, and after watching these few episodes, I think it definitely deserves the praise it gets…

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All of Cardcaptor Sakura for only $75!


Despite the major anime fan I am, I only buy anime DVDs once in a while. Most of my money goes towards other anime products, such as posters, calendars, keychains, plushies, etc,. I think this is because I only like to buy box sets and they can be pretty expensive. And I’ll usually only buy DVDs of a series if I’m sure I’ll like it(if I’m gonna spend that much of my hard-earned money, I want it to be worth it =P) But every now and then I’ll treat myself to an anime box set, so when I found out about this awesome holiday deal at AnimeNation, I just couldn’t pass it up!

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Inuyasha ch. 486 review(+ future speculations)

*images courtesy of MakiMaki*
Volume 49, chapter 486 “Kame no Naka”(Inside the Jar)

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An Anime Fan: the odd one out


This is actually a topic that has been on my mind since I became an anime fan, I just never got around to writing about it. I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way, so I would love to hear other anime fans’ comments about this…

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Asatte no Houkou: a sweet and simple series


When I first started watching Asatte no Houkou, I could tell that it was different and I liked it, but at the same time, I thought it would get boring pretty soon because there didn’t seem to be enough of a story to it to keep it interesting. But now that I’ve watched over half of the episodes(there’s 12 episodes total I believe), I felt that I just have to give it the praise it deserves, especially after watching episode 8.

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Inuyasha ch. 485 review

*images courtesy of MakiMaki*
Volume 49, chapter 485 “Yakurou Dokusen”

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Digimon Savers: the halfway mark review


I just finished watching episode 25 of Digimon Savers, and even though I’m not exactly sure how many episodes the series is going to have, I’m calling this the halfway mark review since all the other Digimon series’ ended up having about 50 episodes and this one probably will too. Now I’m not a major Digimon fan(Pokemon on the other hand…), but it is one of the first animes I got into back in my early days of anime fandom. I used to watch the dub all the time when it aired on Fox Kids and then I eventually began to watch some of the fansubs. Since then I’ve watched all the episodes of all the Digimon series’, so I decided to stick with that record and watch Digimon Savers as well. But although I like Savers, I honestly think it can’t hold a candle to the old Digimon series’.

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Media update(also JLPT tomorrow)


I finally had time for a small mp3 update on the main site today ^.^ Scroll down to get links to the new songs I uploaded onto Anime Yume’s mp3 pages(all of which are full versions of new openings and endings that were released recently.) And check the main site for more update details.

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