Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 28, 2010
By now, most of you should be familiar with the Japanese practice of gijinka, where various objects and programs are turned into cute girls or prettyboys. It’s pretty standard now, but Choujigen Game Neptune (Superdimensional Game Neptune) has taken this to an all-new high – or low, depending on your perspective on the trend. Choujigen Game [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 20, 2010
When I started watching Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells From the Sky early this week, I tried to go in without any prior expectations. The problem was that my sheer hatred for ToLoveRu (Trouble) tainted the “Cute alien descends to earth, hijinks ensue” formula for me. So imagine my surprise when it turned out that not [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 7, 2010
I’m still catching up a bit on last week’s news here, but I should at least mention that the famously pervy To Love-Ru (pronounced “Trouble”) is getting a second anime season soon. The middle school romance/sci-fi manga by Hasemi Saki and Yabuki Kentarou may have been terminated prematurely, but it maintains a strong following thanks to [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 17, 2010
Well, they can’t all be hits. FUNimation’s weekend announcements at Anime Central only really generated excitement if you like boobs. If you do, hot dog - Sora no Otoshimono and both Rosario x Vampire seasons are coming your way in English next year, courtesy of FUNimation. The two fan service-crazy shows highlighted a relatively weak crop of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 14, 2010
It’s kind of a slow news week, so here’s a look at a shameless Japanese game that has sold far more games than it has any right to. No, it’s not Record of Agarest War, though it’s very close, spiritually. It’s Nuga-Cel!, the cosplay SRPG where costumes are power and the character designs are by [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 2, 2010
Well, this is definitely out of the ordinary: it turns out that the Anime Network isn’t the only outlet for the simulcast of Ichiban Ushiro no Daimao! Crunchyroll announced today that it will also be streaming the high school fantasy/comedy. I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is unprecedented, but it’s interesting to see [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 2, 2010
What happens when you take JAM Project and their old-school anime sensibilities away from the vaunted Super Robot Wars series? A whole lot of fan service rushes in to fill the vacuum. You get Mizuki Nana playing a busty fairy princess, and watch an opening sequence that’s so shamelessly fan service-oriented that one of the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 2, 2010
Given the popularity of Sengoku Basara among the ladies, it was inevitable that another company would swoop in to take advantage of the other half of the otaku population left in the cold by Capcom turning legendary samurai into smolderingly hot men and overly pretty boys. Enter Hobby Japan, whose Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls multimedia [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 4, 2010
If you’ve watched anime enough, you know what “Steam Girls” are, even if you haven’t heard the term before. “Steam Girls” refers to a time-honored anime tradition: in the obligatory “onsen episode,” the animators show a bunch of naked girls in a bath house, but cover their naughty bits with artfully placed bands of steam [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 2, 2010
Over on Kadokawa Anime’s YouTube channel, they’ve posted a trailer for the second half of Omamori Himari, or as they call it, the “Hardcore” portion of the series. According to the trailer, the already service-heavy boobs-’n’-brawls series is about to introduce the most popular character from the source material, yandere queen Quess. The short video [...]
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