New Manga Licenses July 23, 2006
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Between Comic Con and Anime Expo there’s been loads of new manga releases announced, I’m really excited about a lot of them so I decided to go through all the ones I’m at least a little bit interested in. It looks like my wallet will be crying for years to come 
Broccoli Books
E’s by Satoru Yugia- I’ve heard a lot of really good things about this. I tried watching the anime but I didn’t like it too much but I’ll definitely try the manga out, the art does look really nice and sometimes that can be enough to get me to buy a whole series! (more…)
Manga Reviews July 17, 2006
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I’ve been reading a lot of new manga lately so here are some (hopefully) short “reviews”, they’re in a particular order to be revealed after All of these are the first volumes in the series.
Elemental Gelade (Mayumi Azuma)- I preordered this before I saw the anime, I was kind of worried about reading this after being disappointed with the anime. I really liked the art; it kind of reminded me of the art in DNAngel only not so cutesy. It was pretty different from the anime; events happened in different ways, there were two things in particular that were very, very different. There was also a bit more fanservice. Overall it was enjoyable, I wasn’t absolutely crazy about it but I’ll probably continue getting it.
Toonami Jetstream and Dubs July 15, 2006
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Toonami Jetstream launched today, three days early. I was really looking forward to it because I wanted to check out the dub for Prince of Tennis. It’s only available in the United States, but I mean when you think about it, if the show were airing on Toonami itself then people outside the US wouldn’t be able to see it either. It all has to do with licensing and stuff like that and people are making much too big of a deal out of it… besides if you know where to look you can find them ripped (at least PoT). (more…)
Ouran High School Host Club 14 and Blood+ 35 July 13, 2006
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Blood+ (past 35 and 39) and was written at 3:00 in the morning (all though I didn’t get to post it till almost 3 in the afternoon) by an insane person and probably won’t make much sense it’s also filled with lots of fangirly stuff (like “OMG I love _____ so much”)… so it’s like all the other entries here.
It seems like all I can write about is Blood+ and Host Club. I watched episode 35 of Blood and episode 14 of Host Club and both were really good.
Blood+ Thoughts July 12, 2006
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I saw the 4th Blood+ opening and I’m pretty disappointed with it. I remember after seeing the third opening I started wondering what the forth on would be like. It seemed like they were getting more and more artsy with each OP so I thought “Hmmm maybe scribbles?” haha. But no they went the other way instead. I don’t hate the animation, it’s nice enough but I still wish it was more like the second and third openings. As for the song, I really don’t like it, it’s my least favorite of all the opening songs but it is growing on me in a weird way.
Main Characters in Manga July 10, 2006
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Here I am with my sucky titles again…
The other day I read a post asking why girls liked yaoi so much. It was a female asking it and she just did not understand why. She thought it made more sense for girls to want to read manga with female main characters who they could connect with. The post and the comments got me thinking, not about why girls like yaoi (bah I’m tired of thinking about that, they just do who cares?) but about female and male main characters in shoujo and shounen. Do girls really get jealous of female main characters? Is that the reason why they would rather read about guys? Does gender really matter when it comes to connecting to a character? Heck does connecting to a character really matter?
Ouran Host Club and Other Stuff… July 6, 2006
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Grr it’s hard to think of titles! Heh I was really going to stop writing here but I just really love writing about anime even if I suck at it and I can’t write and I’m annoying so I’ll keep at it for now…
First, now that Anime Expo is over I looked back at all my predictions and I was SO wrong. I was 0 for 0. I still think that all the series I mentioned will get licensed… eventually. Well I was right about one thing, Bandai didn’t license any shoujo and they did talk about Clockwork Fighters. So there, thank you Bandai for being predictable.
