No Seiyuu No Life: Minami Takahashi
Life from Japan is hard. Golden Week is hard. Instead of only being packed at certain hour of the day the trains are packed ALL the time. You might think I should just not take the train but when food...
View ArticleReference Resource Mondays: The All Tweets Edition!??
Welp, this week is catch up week. I’m behind a lot of shows this season, and I wanna catch up with them. So aside from the start of a project sometime this week, I don’t expect to be blogging much. So!...
View ArticleNo Seiyuu no Life: Hiroshi Kamiya
Life from Japan is hard, there are typhoons, earthquakes, sometimes both in the same night. Thankfully, everything gets better when you suddenly stumble upon something really interesting. Like yakuza....
View ArticleReference Resource Mondays: Memorial and Days Involving Anime
So after finally catching up to some of the anime I wanted to try out, I managed to get back behind for some by a week again. I truly suck at this whole keeping up with things with week to week, but...
View ArticleReference Resource Mondays: White Walkers
when you write the most fire tweet and then mute all the haters while the faves pile up pic.twitter.com/kupePcoNN5 — Mina Kimes (@minakimes) June 1, 2015 THEY EXIST!!!! …I should, you know, do some...
View ArticleNo Seiyuu No Life: Mai Nakahara
Life from Japan is still as awesome as ever, minus the numerous earthquakes that we are facing currently. It’s strange though as you can get used to everything, even earthquakes, it’s getting to the...
View ArticleNo Seiyuu no Life: Daisuke Ono
Life from Japan keeps on being the same as usual. I go to work and come home from work and go on dates. Well OK, my life is not normal, it comes straight from a shoujo manga. Which is why today we are...
View ArticleReference Resource Mondays: It Is Time
Hi! It’s time to finally make that announcement about Reference Resource Mondays that you all might have been thinking about if you’ve been looking for it every morning and not seeing it since last...
View ArticleShoujo You Should Know: An Introduction
Muse: When looking for a title to read in a genre as wide as shoujo manga, it’s hard to know where to start. Helen: Especially when a lot of the titles look so similar! Muse: And despite stereotypes,...
View ArticleShoujo You Should Know: Wish
Muse: While walking home from a long day at work, a young doctor named Shuichiro notices what he assumes to be a toy stuck on a tree being attacked by a crow. He rescues the tiny winged creature, who...
View ArticleSubdued Figures: Figma Levi Cleaning Version Review
I’m back! Sorry for the extreme delay on this review; this was supposed to go up all the way back in January, but school had other plans in mind for me. Anyway, after waiting for this figure for quite...
View ArticleShoujo You Should Know: Earl Cain
Over a decade before Black Butler began publishing, there was a manga about a different Victorian Earl challenging the dark and supernatural forces at work in London. Published in two parts as The Cain...
View ArticleNo Seiyuu no Life: Eri Inagawa
Life has been great lately at the other side of the world, there no earthquakes, no major problem except the heat that starts to be unbearable and that brings all kind of disgusting little critters,...
View ArticleShoujo You Should Know: Cardcaptor Sakura
Cardcaptor Sakura is hardly an unknown series, yet despite being currently licensed in the US (both in anime and manga form) it seems to fade into the background when people talk about magical girl...
View ArticleShoujo You Should Know: Fruits Basket
Helen: These days nearly every one of TokyoPop’s well-known series has been license rescued (and then some). The most glaring exception is Fruits Basket, which was wildly popular and my catalyst for...
View ArticleReference Resource Mondays: No More Conventions Until October Edition
Needless to say, going to LA for an anime convention has probably been the strangest thing I’ve ever done. And yet, I don’t actually regret it. I was able to talk to a lot of people, even meet up with...
View ArticleNo Seiyuu no Life: Mamoru Miyano
I would love to tell you something interesting about my life in Japan lately but really, all it’s been the past few days could be summarized as either working or fighting the heat and sometimes both at...
View ArticleShoujo You Should Know: Skip Beat
Kyoko was the ideal girlfriend — patient, understanding, and ready to do anything and everything that it took to help her sweetheart Sho achieve his dream of becoming a famous singer. However, Sho only...
View ArticleShoujo You Should Know: Kitchen Princess
If Fruits Basket is what people think of when they think “shoujo manga” then Kitchen Princess will seem like a familiar title as well. Despite coming out slightly later — Fruits Basket ended in 2006...
View ArticleThe Directional Pad: Your Dream Games Have Come True
Hello, Organization Anti-Social Geniuses! I’m Geoffrey Barnes, and I hail from a video game blog (that occasionally dabbles in other forms of entertainment) called Damage Control. Both Angela Moseley...
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