http://animeyume.com/blog Mainichi Anime Yume Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:13:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tomorrow I'm heading off for my four-day stay at Anime Expo 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. To avoid the horrendous check-in lines of Day 1, I went to the LACC today, Day 0, to pick up my badge. So now with badge and suitcase in hand, I'm ready ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/07/02/off-to-ax/ Yup, today my site (animeyume.com) turns 6 years old. I can't believe it's been so long! 0_0 Six years ago on June, 30th 2002 I bought a domain name from geocities and started my own anime web site for the first time. Though the blog here is only about a ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/06/30/anime-yumes-6th-year-anniversary/ Right now I've seen about 11 episodes from each of the spring anime shows I'm currently watching. I know some of the spring shows are scheduled to end in the next week or two, but most of the ones I'm watching will continue to run for at least 25 episodes. ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/06/27/the-spring-08-season-so-far/ Okami is a very stunning RPG game that I recently got addicted to. In the game you play the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, whose spirit has been reincarnated into the body of a wolf that once saved ancient Japan from the wrath of an evil monster. Utilizing the Wii remote as ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/06/25/game-review-okami/ This is the "Question of the Week" for the Hey, Answerman column on Anime News Network. I usually don't have the time or motivation to submit my own answers to things like this. But...since I'm on vacation now and I was kinda bored today, I decided to give this question ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/06/21/haruhi-suzumiya-masterpiece-piece-of-junk-or-simply-overrated/ After 12 years, 56 volumes, and over 550 chapters, the final chapter of the Inuyasha manga (chapter 558) has been released, completing Rumiko Takahashi's longest series. I've been avidly following the Inuyasha story since the anime was released in the US in 2002, and although its been one of my ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/06/18/the-end-of-inuyasha/ My Pokemon Ranch, the first Pokemon Wii-Ware game, available for download off the Wii Shop channel for 1,000 Wii points (about $10). Is it worth it? Well, if you have a copy of Pokemon Diamond and/or Pearl, and if you're a Pokemon fan who likes seeing the little critters be ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/06/16/game-review-my-pokemon-ranch/ Last night I went with my one of my friends to see the US theatrical premier of the first Bleach movie at a theater in Woodland Hills, CA. Like the US premier of the Death Note live-action movies back in May, Viz premiered the English dub of the Bleach movie ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/06/13/bleach-movie-memories-of-nobody-us-theatrical-release/ Yes, it's been a while. I can't believe my last post was in April! 0_o As much as I wanted to keep blogging during my first year at university, schoolwork and club activities kept eating up my time. Since last September I've only managed to do a handful of posts ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/06/13/back-from-uni-and-ready-for-some-site-work/ What is Anime? - the Visual Definiton is a major anime video project that I began working on in December '07 and finally posted online this month. To give an idea of what the project is, it basically consists of 1-hour and 40-minutes of various anime opening clips from 50 ... http://animeyume.com/blog/2008/04/06/what-is-anime-the-visual-definition/