Subculture Anime Blog

First epic raws, and now this!? Moyism (aka Santa Clause) recently held a giveaway on his blog that offered his extra copies of Nana Mizuki’s LIVE FIGHTER to lucky contestants. I entered at last minute just for fun, but to my surprise, I ended up winning the Blue Side of the dvd!

For those actually unfamiliar with the popular idol, Nana Mizuki is a renown and talented seiyu singer. Some of you may recognize her roles as:

• Oboro in Basilisk
• Fate in the Nanoha series
• Tsugumi in Jigoku Shoujo
• Hinata in Naruto
• Touma in Minami-ke
• Moka in Rosario + Vampire

And among several others, she also plays Rin in one of my recent favorites, Rideback, as well as Rina in the seemingly popular White Album this season. Aside from her impressive amount of voice acting roles, she is a spectacular singer to boot! Mizuki is easily among my top favorite seiyu because of this, and I listen to all of her albums on a fairly regular basis.

You can read the winning entries here, and to my knowledge, there should be a part 2 to tie things up in the near future!

(….I’ve also heard that if you act quickly, Moy will be giving away his entire figure collection!!!)

We’re all busy people. I mean, the path of the world warrior is a tough one. Cursing at the screen after the 20th attempt to beat Seth as a mexican wrestler…..trying to get the perfect triple whirlwind kick in time attack….it all takes passion and drive. But when that flaming dragon punch shows up on screen by the end of the day, it’s all worth it….

No, but seriously. Most people get more free time during holidays, but for me, spring break meant working the job I love so much as a waiter for hours on end. I love this job so much, that by the time I get home, I want to do nothing but sleep or play some mindless games all night. Anime blog? I forgot I had one. I’ve also got a ton of projects to work on for school as I return to campus this week. Many of you are probably familiar with the myth about art students having the most free time in college; I personally guarantee you that this is a lie. I’ll get back to this cute little blog when I get the chance, but I’ll obviously have to take some short cuts to make up for lost time. Don’t worry, I’m not quitting quite yet.

(…Rune Factory Frontier might cause a few more delays soon though. *wink*)

If you’re anything like me, you probably just took Subculture’s absence of posts to make due with some of the other fine alternatives around the blogsphere:

• Random Curiosity
• Tenka Seiha
• Sea Slugs!
• Star Crossed Anime Blog
• Minaide! Hitorigo- ….Hinano x JP sexxor baby blog

Subculture at its finest.

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!