とらドラ！Episode 05 Toradora! 05 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Ryuuji makes omelets for himself and Taiga to eat, but when Taiga hits in frustration over something Ryuuji says, she spills her miso soup. The noise wakes up Ryuuji’s mother in the next room, who opens the door to find out what is going on, then cries when she
Keroro Gunsou Episode 133 (Monster Hunter!)
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Final Day of Vacation
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Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 131 Manga Review (Eating Lasers #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
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Hand Maid May Blu-ray Review
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D-Frag! Volume 18 Manga Review
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Minami-ke Okaeri 02
January 14th, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy みなみけ おかえり Episode 02 Minami-ke Okaeri 02 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Touma brings over a box of sweets (cookies?) as a New Year’s gift, but Chiaki won’t let Kana open it until Haruka gets home. Kana issues a math challenge to Chiaki regarding the box, causing her Good and Evil to have a debate. Fujioka stops by
Toradora! 04
January 13th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Toradora! 04 とらドラ！Episode 04 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Ryuuji comes to Taiga’s place to warm up some breakfast for her and get her up. He looks at her large living room that’s mostly empty and spots a box with a photo album in it. Looking through it, he sees a large amount of blurry photos of Yuusaka.
More Negima! Chapter 238 SPOILER Images
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Toradora! 03
January 12th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Toradora! 03 とらドラ！Episode 03 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Taiga and Ryuuji walk to school and have a “discussion” when they hear activity coming from the ballpark and see Minori at her softball club practice. Minori is very chatty as practice goes and when it is her time at bat, she smacks a home run. This causes her
Clannad After Story 13
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"It’s a Rumic World" — Where Inuyasha meets male-Ranma and Ataru hits on Kagome and female-Ranma!
January 11th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy I’m sure most of you have heard about the exhibition going around Japan with three new OVA’s — one for Inuyasha, one for Urusei Yatsura, and one for Ranma 1/2. While no one knows if these will come to DVD or not, I only recently learned of a low-res copy of the opening sequence being
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Tags: Inuyasha, It's a Rumic World, Ranma 1/2, Takahashi Rumiko, Urusei Yatsura 
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Crazy Japanese Commute (Or How Many Japanese Can Be Crammed Into A Train)
January 11th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Crazy Japanese Commute (Or How Many Japanese Can Be Crammed Into A Train) When I lived in Japan, I never went out and about during the morning or evening commute times simply because there is NO way I would ever put up with this (and yes, I heard stories about this kind of crowding way
