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With the evil dictator of an editorial blogger Owen celebrating his anniversary only three days earlier, I suppose my anniversary had to come today to balance the world with great justice. I feel kind of awkward for releasing this when the new season is still pumping out a few shows, but what can I do? This was when I decided to start my blog. I almost held this off for awhile, but I ended up finding enough time between class to dish out a half way decent post for the occasion. Without further ado, let’s take a look at some of the major events that have happened during this past year! Read more

RAWR.

So this might be just a bit early or just a bit late, depending on what part of the world you are in. Like some of you knew, I actually celebrated my New Years festivities last week with my rents at their restaurant. Pictured is one of the events that took place, but I forgot what it was it was actually called because I’m a failure of an azn. We basically watched a lion come and own a piece of lettuce and steal kid’s monies. Yea, it was pretty much awesome. Anyways, HAPPY NEW YEAR and I hope you all got lots of delicious red packets from all of your relatives that you hardly know!

You’re not cool unless you can tell me what anime this place is featured in.

Just a few random things:

I’ll be in Vegas chillin all this week, but because of all the anime broadcast delays, I won’t be missing much anyways. That basically means I’ll just be late in replying to any discussion you guys bring up. What’s new, right? Oh, and no stalking the blogsphere for awhile! If you guys want some fun, why not check out some of the stuff that new fangled “ABC” is doing….the 12 Days of Xmas or something silly like that.

I won’t be doing a season preview for the Winter season. It’s not usually my style to do so, and last season was an exception because of all the new stuff I had to pick up. For those of you wondering what I’ll be blogging though: Zoku Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei is guaranteed, Aria the Origination and Minami-ke Okawari are highly likely, and I have somewhat high hopes for Rosario + Vampire. I’ll have to check out everything else before making any final decisions. If you want a season preview, see Aroduc, Hashihime, or Impz and his army of green haired lolis. A few others will probably pop up during the week as well.

I finally got converted to MyAnimeList like everyone else and their pet dango. Some of you have already found me like a bunch of Facebook stalkers.

Maestro’s recently moved me to a different server, so I’m now neighbors with Danny, Kurogane, Nee-sama, and well…..nee-sama. My RSS feed got fixed in the process as well, for those of you who were having trouble with that.

Usagijen’s not the only one enjoying a new wii. I’ve been playing Zelda a lot, and I can’t wait to Brawl. I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Galaxies, so I might just give that a spin too.

I’m secretly a Ayumi Hamasaki fanboy, so I’ve been listening to her new album GUILTY lately. It’s a bit better than Secret in my opinion, but the tracks that stand out the most remain to be the singles that have dominated the oricon recently. Her style doesn’t change as much as say, Utada Hikaru’s.

Merry Xmas!

EDIT: I’m back if you can tell. Happy New Year! It’ll take me awhile to reply to you guys, if ever. If I don’t, don’t worry. I’ve read all of your stuff and um…I love you. Now to wait for the seasonal overload of anime…

Happy Birthday to me!

It’s a good time of the year for anime blogger birthdays isn’t it? Impz’s celebration wasn’t too long ago, Nomadotto’s happened around the same time, JP Meyer’s kind of went under the table, aura-berry’s happened at the end of last month, and Moyism’s seems to be just around the corner.

Today happens to be my 18th birthday and the release of OSX Leopard. I’m so ready to put it on Mai iMac. Thanks Steve Jobs!

Impz is so moe.

Well, if you do, you might be happy to know that Impz’s birthday is on October 14th! As a celebration, Impz has asked that we all donate to ABnet. Now, I’m sure you’ve all noticed things like the ads on my site and the donation buttons before. All of the funds from these go straight to ABnet, and help to keep our community alive. Any amount helps, and that means any. I encourage anyone that can to donate, so that we can make this a spectacular Birthday for our favorite trap idol.

The donation page is right here.

My favorite couple agrees!

This actually happened a couple days ago, but I was too busy with school and writing the Fall Preview. Writing this now also makes it my 200th post. I can’t believe It’s been half a year since I started blogging. I still feel like a newbie! I’ve completed two seasons now, and I’m very excited to start blogging in the Fall season with a clean slate. This is a big shout out to everyone who has commented, whether it be regulars or those just stopping by. I love the conversations we get into!

The 1,000th comment went to Kabitzin of Sea Slugs! on my Zero no Tsukaima 2 - 12 post. Ironic?

One of my favorite anime blogs, Sea Slugs!, does monthly interviews on interesting characters of the anime blogging community. When Kabitzin asked me to participate, I was overjoyed. Check the interview out here, and maybe you’ll learn a bit more about your favorite (or maybe not so favorite) blog author!

PS: The interview actually came out like last night, but I couldn’t really find a chance to plug it until now. University takes a lot of time!

My college experience begins.

So I’ve finally settled into my dorm after attending a lot of the introduction festivities at school (we got to see a real hypnotist in action on Friday, and I dressed up as a robot yesterday….it was pretty leet). I don’t start classes till Tuesday, so I have some time to catch up just a bit. It is confirmed that my University shapes traffic to block torrents, which is an obvious road block. I have quite a few other options to make up for that, but my blogging schedule will be very hectic for awhile either way. I will be shaping my blogging schedule according to my RL schedule starting next season, and I will try my best to continue covering everything I picked up in this season. However, if you’re like me, a lot of you probably don’t like inconsistency. Because of that, I will be providing some alternate blogs for a lot of the shows I cover along with the general situation I have with certain shows. These are all blogs that I love, so don’t be afraid to check them out! Read more

Mai iMac and “the little iBook that could” will be taking a break from downloading for awhile =\.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be busy settling into my dorm for the next few days. This is also my first year of college, so I’m not exactly sure how the internet policy is gonna work. Basically, episode reviews will be delayed until I get everything figured out. Do any college students out there have any advice on acquiring anime while living on campus :P? Classes start soon afterwards and my Tuesdays and Thursdays are pretty stacked, so my blogging schedule will also be affected for awhile. Why not check out some of the other great blogs on my blogroll while I’m gone? ^.

This season has been full of love comedies (just take a look at what I’m blogging), but there have been many others throughout anime history. This is probably the genre I watch the most, only rivaled by slice of life. Here is a list of love comedies that you may or may not know.

1. DearS

A race of beautiful aliens have crash landed on earth, and now live with humans in Japan. Takeya saves a DearS on the way home one day, and she chooses him as her master. Ren, who is different from other DearS, tries her best to serve Takeya as his slave, but he believes the aliens are only trying to brainwash him.

Ok, so this has been my favorite love comedy forever. Maybe I have a strange obsession with master/slave relationships, but I’ll go super fanboy mode for Ren and her love of melon-pan. Oh, and NOT a chobits rip off kthxbye!! Read more