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Weird Wednesdays: Haruhi as English Learning Aid

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: April 20, 2011

Hey, you over there. Yeah, you, the Japanese high school senior who’s worried about exams. Chukei Publishing wants to help you do better at the English section of your upcoming college admission exam. And for that express purpose, they released “Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu de Eitango ga Omoshiroihodo Minitsuku Hon,” or “The book that, in a fun [...]

Weird Wednesdays: Live-action Arakawa TV Drama, Movie

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: April 13, 2011

No need to check the calendar, April Fool’s Day is really over. However, they really are making a live-action Arakawa Under the Bridge TV drama this summer, and a live-action movie for 2012. In this week’s Young Gangan magazine, Square Enix and AUTB Partners announced the production schedule, as well as the actors playing Nino [...]

New Anime: Persona 4, C3, Hayate 3rd

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: April 11, 2011

Three new anime shows were announced recently, in vastly different ways. The most recent announcement, via a teaser website, was Persona 4 The Animation, based on the game of the same name. The cast stays the same as the game as well. Animation production will be done by AIC Asta (Sora no Otoshimono series), and [...]

CLAMP and Production IG team up for Blood C

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: April 8, 2011

The official site for Blood C, a media mix project of CLAMP and Production IG, opened today. Blood C is a reimagining of the “Blood: The Last Vampire” series, which had an animated movie, a TV series, and a live-action movie.

Weird Wednesdays: Stripping in Akihabara

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: April 6, 2011

I couldn’t make this up if I tried. Acquire, makers of such games as the “Way of the Samurai” and “Tenchu” series and “Class of Heroes,” has a new game coming out in Japan called “Akiba’s Trip“. You see, vampire-like beings called Kageyashi have invaded Akihabara, and it appears that the only way to defeat [...]

Weird Wednesday – Galgun update is shockingly less lewd

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: March 23, 2011

As you may recall, I mentioned Galgun a couple of months ago. It is a video game where you shoot countless zombies girls with bullets pheromone shots and kill them “send them to heaven” in your quest to save bond with the girl of your dreams before the end of the day. Well, last week Galgun [...]

Weird Wednesdays: Madoka Magica takes over Akihabara

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: March 2, 2011

If you’ve been watching new anime this season, you may be watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica. And if you have been watching that show, you know about the various characters, including Madoka, Mami, and Kyubey (nicknamed QB by many Japanese fans). Perhaps you didn’t know that it’s gotten really popular in Akihabara and other otaku-oriented [...]

Weird Wednesdays: Can’t sleep…

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: February 16, 2011

Are you having trouble sleeping? Maybe it’s because your older sister is giving you orders all the time. Or perhaps it’s because your little sister is following you around all over the place. Maybe there’s a girl that loves you so much that it hurts… literally? Well, there’s an app a CD for that. Edge [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day (from Steins;Gate and Madoka)

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: February 14, 2011

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope your Valentine’s Day is going better than Itaru from the upcoming anime Steins;Gate. Steins;Gate has a collaborative illustration on their website today, with Itaru dreaming that Madoka wants to be his wife. The other characters, Rintarou and Mayuri, are wondering what a super-hacker would be dreaming of, and noting that [...]

Weird Wednesdays: Idols and Cell phone detectives

Posted by: sidereelseiya on: February 9, 2011

When Dom and I visited Japan in 2004, we got hooked on this weird TV series called “Keitai Deka: Zenigata Ai” where Miyazaki Aoi played a high school girl (named after the fictional crimefighter Zenigata Heiji), who secretly fought crime with her cell phone. (Miyazaki would later go on to play Komatsu Nana in the [...]


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