Fruits Basket Zenpen — A Complete Anime Remake? Fruits Basket is an amazing shoujo series. Both the original manga run and the anime adaptation that was subsequently made were very successful, not only in Japan, but in the U.S. as well. However, mangaka Takaya-sensei’s displeasure with director Daichi-san’s anime adaptation seemed to doom any chance
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Fruits Basket Zenpen — A Complete Anime Remake?
November 14th, 2018 
AstroNerdBoy 
Posted in Anime, AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers 
Tags: Fruits Basket, news, Random Thoughts 
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Happy Thanksgiving 2017 (With Umaru-chan)
November 23rd, 2017 AstroNerdBoy Happy Thanksgiving 2017 (With Umaru-chan) Hey gang! For those in the U.S. or outside the U.S. who celebrate Thanksgiving, I’d like to wish you all “Happy Thanksgiving!” I hope yours is a good one. π As for me, I’m taking some much needed time off. Don’t tell anyone, but I actually have a couple of
Macross Licensing & Trademark News (Harmony Gold continue their trolling ways.)
September 18th, 2017 AstroNerdBoy Macross Licensing and Harmony Gold For long time anime fans, the name “Harmony Gold” fills many of us with rage. They have a huge reputation of being a troll company, suing anyone in the world for the slightest perceived copyright infractions, mainly to do with Macross. They’ve even taken to suing the Japanese companies they
Posted in Anime, AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers Tags: Macross, news, Random Thoughts 6 Comments »
Men vs. Shoujo and Josei Manga
January 13th, 2017 AstroNerdBoy Men vs. Shoujo and Josei Manga I read this article a little while back from Rocket News 24 discussing why men won’t read shoujo manga (manga for girls) and josei manga (manga for young women) when women and girls will read shounen manga (manga for boys) and seinen manga (manga for young men). So I
And so ten years have passed…
December 27th, 2016 AstroNerdBoy And so ten years have passed… Hey everyone! Today marks the 10th anniversary of my blog. I find it hard to believe that it has been that long since I started. It has certainly been an interesting journey. Pardon me if I take a look back and take a trip down memory lane. How it
A Tenchi Muyo! OVA 4 Post (‘Cause I took the weekend off and am paying for it.)
May 9th, 2016 AstroNerdBoy Hey gang! I finally had a weekend off, so I decided just goof off and have some fun. As a result, I’ve got to see both the dentist AND a medical specialist this week. π (I shouldn’t laugh, but thankfully, it isn’t worse than it is.) Anyway, the medical harm of done to myself not
Posted in Anime, Other Tags: Random Thoughts, Tenchi Muyo Franchise, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 8 Comments »
Nine Years Down, Now Starting Year Ten.
December 28th, 2015 AstroNerdBoy Nine Years Down, Now Starting Year Ten. Hey gang. I was slacking today (translation: I slept most of the day), much as I slacked yesterday (translation: I slept most of the day — well, the lack of sleep over the last few weeks, thanks to work, had finally caught up with me), which means I
No UQ Holder this week (and holiday season plans)
December 12th, 2015 AstroNerdBoy No UQ Holder this week Hey folks. Well, it is that time of year again where lots of holidays and late vacations are taken. This week, there’s no UQ Holder as Weekly Shounen Magazine was a double issue last week, meaning they aren’t publishing this week. If I’ve understood things properly (and if I’m wrong,
