December 2011
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Pinterest - The Next Great Social Network For...
Recently, I got an invite to join Pinterest, a new image-sharing social network that allows users to showcase pictures of what inspires or interests them. The neat feature about Pinterest is that you can create “Boards” of images. Boards are basically categories/folders that you can put images that you find in. You can create a “Board” for any topic you can think of from...
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Happy Holidays Y'All With A Side of Balmung...
This is actually how I spend my Christmas every year. I sit outside with a weird creature and dote about when I’ll get my spotlight.
I want to wish all my readers a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous New Year. If you read many manga (especially Shonen Jump manga), you will learn that friendship and bonds are important. Spend some time with the ones you love and never take anything for...
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"Kimi ni Todoke" - The Crown Jewel of Shoujo Manga
With 2011 nearing its end, it’s usually a good time to see what manga series sold well and had people talking this year. One of these titles happens to be the number-one selling shoujo manga title at the moment, Karuho Shiina’s “Kimi ni Todoke”. The title has done very well on the Oricon best-selling manga charts in Japan in the past and 2011 was no exception. It was...
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One Treasure Worth Hunting For - The One Piece...
From the Sony booth at JUMP Festa 2012 at Makuhari Messe.
Words cannot explain how amazing this system looks. I expect the PS3 to completely dominate video game sales next year because of Luffy and company. Also, here’s the trailer for the upcoming One Piece Pirate Musou game.
Nice to see the Zoro fangirls react to seeing their precious swordsman. After all, he’s the 2nd choice...
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Fighting Depression With Manga - Tenten Hosokawa's...
This is a story that I feel should be shared to everyone who’s been through or going through depression. I recently read an article on the Japan Times about a manga artist who published a series of comics in Japan about a married couple combating depression. Her name is Tenten Hosokawa and her series, “Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite” (My Partner Has Depression) or simply known as...
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"J-Pop America Fun Time Now" Comes Back With More...
Oh man, Saturday Night Live. You never cease to surprise me with your skits sometimes. I think anime fans might make this much funnier.
You know what they need to do. Since weeaboos (which the cast are parodying) seem to hate other weeaboos, their next skit has to involve them criticizing each other.
If you watch at the skit, there’s merchandise from Soul Eater, Negima!, and One...
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A Case of Mental Sadism: Changing Bonds with...
一緒に数えてくれるかい
Let’s count together for me
君についた
The bite marks
僕の歯形を
That I left on you
- BLEACH Volume 52: End of Bond
It has been quite an interesting time for Tite Kubo’s BLEACH. The current “Lost Agent” (Volumes 49-current) arc has gotten some attention for seemingly rebooting the series and not hitting it off with some fans. The arc introduced even more new...
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More Comedy Manga Turned Anime: 'Baby, Please Kill...
Another crazy 4-panel manga is being made into an anime. This one seems pretty interesting though. Kaduho’s “Baby, Please Kill Me” is about a clumsy girl named Yasuna who has to deal with her assassin friend, Sonya, in her life.
Turns out Rie Kugiyima, the Queen of Tsundere, is going to be in this as a new ‘anime-only’ character.
I do it find hilarious that this...
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The Superhero Donor, Tiger Mask
(A better role model than Tiger Woods.)
For those who remembered late last year, many donations were made to various Japanese children-focused charities by someone under the guise of the professional wrestler anime/manga hero, Naoto Date, aka Tiger Mask. The donations would later spawn a huge movement of donations (some anonymous) from other people to Japanese charities as well. Just this past...