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Fall 2012 Anime -- Full Previews w/staff, cast, trailer, pic, story, etc.
Sukitte ii na yoFor me, this is the season of shoujo: three promising new shoujo anime are coming. But there is also plenty of shounen adventure, and enough moe to drown a city. Here are a few...
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Weekly TV Anime Schedule, Autumn 2012
This is shaping up to be an excellent season. After three episodes, Shinsekai yori is looking to me as if it could become a masterpiece. Kyo-ani's Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai is engaging and funny...
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Shin Sekai yori (From the New World) -- characters/seiyuus pics/info
Through three episodes, the new anime Shin Sekai yori is outstanding. It could even be heading for masterpiece territory, in my opinion. The anime very adeptly tells the story of a group of mid-teens...
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Ao-chan's cat mauls Kyuubei (pics)
On its birthday, Yuuki Aoi gave her cat Ashubel a little Kyuubei stuffed animal. She thought they could be friends. But Ashubel had other ideas:In the end, Yuuki added later, the two have become...
View ArticleSeiyuus at College Festivals in the Coming Weeks
We are coming up to the school festival season at Japanese colleges. There will be over sixty seiyuu events at college festivals in Japan over the next few weeks: Yuuki Aoi, Hirano Aya, Yukana,...
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Character/seiyuu Pages -- Sukitte ii na yo, Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo,...
Kayano AiHere are character/seiyuu pages for three more new shows: Sukitte ii na yo, Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, and Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai.The pages show pictures of the main characters and...
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Character/seiyuu pages: Psycho-Pass, Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankei Nai...
Here are character/seiyuu pics and info for two more new shows. One features a performance that may be Hanazawa Kana's best. The other features a new 14-year-old seiyuu who may be something very...
View ArticlefripSide Decade PV Features both Nao and Nanjou Yoshino
fripSide is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a CD/DVD/BD called Decade, featuring both its original vocalist Nao and its newer vocalist, Nanjou Yoshino. Release date December 5th. The short...
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai -- Holy Places
As you would imagine, Japanese fans have been busy identifying, touring and photographing the real places used as backdrops for this new Kyoto Animation anime.The show is not set in one particular...
View ArticleAutumn Anime Popularity in Japan and in the West
There are some striking differences in the popularity of this season's anime in Japan as opposed to in the English-speaking world.Chunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai is popular in both, but in the West,...
View Articleseiyuu video: Ogura Yui and Ishihara Kaori
If you've ever wondered why the singing duo YuiKaori is popular, this video may give you part of the answer. It's the video of last Monday's episode of their weekly radio show. You don't have to...
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Itou Shizuka Marries!
The news has been out for a couple of days, but I wanted to add my own voice congratulating Itou Shizuka on her marriage. She was married on Wednesday, the day she turned 32.Shizuka-sama continues the...
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January 2013 Anime Previews: staff, cast, story, pic, trailer, manga, etc.
Last season was one of the best I can recall. So perhaps it's fair that this season doesn't look very promising.The show I'm most looking forward to is Sasami-san@Ganbaranai, a new offering from...
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Youth Movement: GJ-bu Characters and Seiyuus
This show is no masterpiece, but it does amuse me every week with its subtle -- some might say simple -- humour.It may be the seiyuus who make it work, from the capable Shimono Hiro, through the energy...
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Love Live! -- Characters and Seiyuus
This is one of my favorite shows of the current season. Mainly for the outstanding drawing and animation, but also because the story moves at a nice pace and the characters are vivid.The cast is a...
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OreShura -- Characters/Seiyuus Pics/Info
It's called OreShura for short, but the full title of this show is Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru: "There's too much carnage between my girlfriend and my childhood friend."It was one of...
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sasami-san@ganbaranai characters and seiyuus
This show is fairly peculiar even by director Shinbou Akiyuki's standards. The first episode reminded me of Shinbou's 2004 gothic horror OVA, Le Portrait de Petite Cossette, in which his art-school...
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Amnesia -- Characters and Seiyuus
This is a show that inspires strong feelings, both pro and con. It barely registers on 2channel and has few posts on AnimeSuki, but posts in both places range from great enjoyment to ridicule. And the...
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MaoYu Maou Yuusha -- characters/seiyuus
Koshimizu Ami and Fukuyama Jun are back in roles similar to those they played in Spice and Wolf, and they are just as good this time around.But they are also surrounded by some big names: Saitou Chiwa,...
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Kotoura-san -- characters/seiyuus pics/info
The first episode of Kotoura-san was a big surprise. I expected a light comedy and got some fairly heavy drama, about a little girl who unintentionally drove her parents away and wrecked their marriage...
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