Anime Banzai ! - アニメ万歳！- For Fans, By Fans

xxxHOLIC Kei 05 - The Exorcist Girl

Plenty of sakura petals this episode. [Summary] Why do you even bother Watanuki… We start off with Watanuki taking advantage of his new found knowledge about Doumeki wearing a kimono when young. Plan becomes epic fail when Doumeki readily admits to the fact and shows no concern to it. Nice try Watanuki, maybe next time. We move on to [...]

The Banzai Beat Episode 11: Grand Theft Lucky Star

Past Episodes | Subscribe | E-Mail us Download Summary: This week’s show was jam packed we review four episodes Two Kanokon’s and Two Soul Eaters! (4 & 5, 3 & 4 respectively) we also have all the latest news in the anime industry thanks to ANN! we’ve also got DVD Picks and lastly a review of Lucky Star [...]

xxxHOLIC Kei - A Widescreen Comparision

Whaaaaaaaat!? There’s a widescreen version?!?!?!? Call me wols or whatever but I seriously didn’t realise there was a WS version of xxxHolic Kei airing. That said, here’s a simple comparision between the WS and Standard versions. The red box indicates how it looks in Standard definition. Conclusion, WS ftw and Standard sucks. Well, to be honest, not a [...]

Nodame Cantabile 2nd Season!

Nodame Cantabile will be getting a 2nd season. It will start airing in October. Nodame Cantabile is a great show. What attracted me to watch the series was the music theme that the anime has. Being a piano player myself, this was a definite watch for me. The series inspired me to practice more. But music [...]

Vampire Knight - 5, Feast in the Moonlight

From now own, instead of putting a lot of images in one post, I will put the images (9 of them) together into one image and add the logo of the anime and the episode number. And the result is above. It looks better this way too.. Vampire Knight - 5, Thoughts After watching this episode, I [...]

Lucky Star Figma by Max Factory

Picture says it all. This is soooooooooooooooo on my get list. Source: dannychoo.com

Of Strawberries and Marshmallows

Happy Birthday Chi-chan! From left, Ana Coppola, Sakuragi Matsuri, Ito Chika, Matsuoka Miu Yeah, I’m aware that Ichigo Mashimaro is a show that came out in 2005 but hey, it’s better to have watched than to have never watched at all. Since I just picked it up and it so happens Chika’s birthday falls on the 11th May, [...]

xxxHOLIC Kei 04 - The Reality of Dreams

So do you normally have good dreams or bad? [Summary] We start off the show with Watanuki accidentally buying Himawari’s nightmare. A discussion about dreams between Himawari and Watanuki accidentally leads to this transaction when Watanuki, after hearing Himawari’s dream, offers her madelines. That’s one big eye Himawari’s dream comes true as Watanuki is attacked by Himawari’s nightmare. Fanservice shot! Fortunately, [...]

Suzumiya Haruhi 2nd Season Info!

But apparently, I don’t have any info on The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi. Not yet anyway.. June’s issue of Newtype have announced that there will be some information about the 2nd season of Haruhi on the July issue of Newtype next month. The above image is the teaser for it. 3 shows from KyoAni are currently in [...]

What is Cybersports & Online Gaming Association (Singapore) ?

The (Singapore) Cybersports & Online Gaming Association (SCOGA) is a newly founded association for Singaporean gamers and cyberathletes. I was surprised about this newly formed community as well when someone I knew online told me about it. They have their mission statement - “Develop local gaming communities, through education, and achieve international success for Singapore in [...]

Lala Satarin Deviluke - To Love Ru

Preorders are welcome to ship in late August 2008 at JPY5500 or US$59.90. From NCS Preorder Synopsishttp://02a21c2.netsolstores.com/tolove-rulalasatarindeviluke.aspx Placing my preorders soon…wanna have these three series as my collections for long as a virgin starter and collector ….Lala is still one of my favouite anime….LALA FTW …..haha…;) Well…I’m still waiting for ToLoveRu Esp 6 to be released [...]

Jigoku Shojo Mitsugane anime (地獄少女三鼎 Hell Girl 3)

Jigoku Shojo ( 地獄少女 - Hell Girl ) is a manga written by Eto Miyuki (永遠幸). It will be made into an anime AGAIN this year. Jigoju Shojo is base on the real story in Japan. Not that the main character Enma Ai ( 閻魔あい) is a real person. It’s the tragic stories are [...]

Official Lucky Star OVA Announcment

This was found on Anime News Network: An OVA adaptation of Kagami Yoshimizu’s Lucky Star school slice-of-life manga has been greenlit for production in Japan. The pre-announcement was made in a COMPTIQ magazine ad in the free From Gamers Cool pamphlet that is distributed at Gamers and AniBro Gamers stores. The June issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s [...]

Soul Eater - 05

Okay folks here are the screens of SOul Eater 5!!! Black Star and Soul Eater face off Dr franken Stein.

ARIA - The Start of a New Beginning

さあ。。。お手をどうぞ！ Saa… o-te-o douzo! Abit on the slow side I know, but ARIA is just not a show meant to be rushed. =D The story comes full circle as we return back to the beginning, this time with a new generation of Primas at the helm; Alice the “Orange Princess”, Aika the “Rozen Queen” and of course, Akari [...]

Gackt to voice Gackpoid

Source: Mainichi Shimbun 気ミュージシャンのGackt（ガクト）さんの声をベースにしたボーカル音源ソフト「GACKPOID（がくっぽいど）」が6月中旬に発売される。人気ミュージシャンがボーカル音源ソフトに登場するのは初めてで、動画投稿サイトなどで大ヒットしたボーカル音源ソフト「初音ミク」に続くヒットが期待されている。 It seems that Gackt will be providing his voice for Gackpoid, which is based on the same engine that powers Vocaloid 2, where the virtual idol Hatsune Miku creates a immense fandom among otakus and fans alike. Gackpoid is tentatively set for a release in mid-June this year. Wanna listen to a sample [...]