My friend GC recently had to take a couple of business trips to Japan. He brought back a bottle of Pocari Sweat to give to me (which I’ve got to get still). My plan is to bring this to work and share the love with my co-workers, all of whom have heard me spoken about
Vacation’s All I Ever Wanted!
Vacation’s All I Ever Wanted! Hey gang! While I managed to get a long weekend off a couple of weeks ago, I’m finally getting some time away from work! And today, my plans are to goof off to the max! Of course as I write this (on Thursday), I’m on the bridge call from hell
Lupin the 3rd: Part II 16 (Jekyll and Hyde #LupinIII)
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What’s a Manga Everyone Should Read?
What’s a Manga Everyone Should Read? A long time ago, I got asked “What’s a manga that everyone should read?” I’d long planned to make it a one-time post, but never got around to it. However, there’s one obvious choice — Yotsuba&! –> Buy Yotsuba&! from Amazon.com! The Story, in Brief A man named KOIWAI
Serial Experiments Lain Review (Community Anime Reviews Rescue)
Serial Experiments Lain Review シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン Since the Community Anime Reviews site frequently goes down for long periods of time, I’m republishing some of my OG reviews from there. I have corrected obvious spelling errors though. I will add new notes in parenthesis, labeled “ANB note.” 😅 I won’t count these as part of the “Back
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 127 Manga Review (Sabertooth #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
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Ibaraki Prefecture’s Satoyama Life
September 29th, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy The amazing thing about the Internet is that while researching something, one can stumble onto something else and get lost for a while exploring this new place on the web one has discovered. In this case, I was looking into engawa (the veranda/porch areas of Japanese homes that are sometimes enclosed) when I came across
Hata-sensei (Hayate no Gotoku) and Akamatsu-sensei (Negima!)
September 28th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy In volume 12 of Hayate the Combat Butler manga, Hata-sensei made a reference to a character from Negima! (specifically, Nagi Springfield). Considering that Negima! is my favorite manga followed closely in 2nd place by Hayate the Combat Butler, the reference was much appreciated by me. Several weeks ago, I was notified by someone (or some
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Tags: AKAMATSU Ken, HATA Kenjiro, Hayate the Combat Butler, Images, Negima 
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Hayate no Gotoku!! – 25 (finale)
September 27th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Hayate the Combat Butler “2nd Season” Ep. 25 ハヤテのごとく！！Episode 25 review (final episode) Hayate no Gotoku!! – 25 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Nagi is sick, apparently from having put in a full day’s work the day before followed by a late night at Sakuya’s birthday party. Maria leaves Nagi in Hayate’s care as she goes to do
More Negima! Chapter 265 Spoiler Images
September 26th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy More Negima! Chapter 265 Spoiler Images Here’s a 2nd image from Negima! chapter 265 for you. ^_^ Beast form Negi? Whoa! Didn’t expect that. Well, that’s Magia Erebea for ya. First image can be found –> HERE!
Negima! Chapter 265 SPOILER Images
September 26th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Negima! 265 SPOILER Images 魔法先生 ネギま！Chapter 265 (Images) Here’s what I know many of you have been waiting for — the original-sized, sneak-peek images for Mahou Sensei Negima! Chapter 265 SPOILER Images as brought to you buy anonymous Japanese fans (click pic to make bigger, y’all). Only one image at the moment. (Update: 2nd image
FUNimation Announcements at New York Anime Festival
September 25th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy At the New York Anime Festival FUNimation Industry Panel, FUNimation announced that they have licensed X and X OVA. This is another Geneon license rescue and will use the original dub. Thanks to Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, I do have some mild interest in seeing the anime adaptation of CLAMP’s X, but I don’t think I
Mahou Sensei Negima! ~Mou Hitotsu no Sekai~ OAD – 01
September 25th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Negima! ~Another World~ OAD/OVA Ep. 01 Review 魔法先生ネギま！～もうひとつの世界～ Episode 01 Mahou Sensei Negima! ~Mou Hitotsu no Sekai~ OAD – 01 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Ala Alba arrive in Great Britain and are soon found by Ayaka’s group. Donet says that everyone will be welcome at Negi’s village so off they go where Negi is reunited with his
