Happy Thanksgiving 2015! Hey gang! Well, to those of you who celebrate, I’d like to take the time to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving 2015! ^_^ This year, I have a great deal to be thankful for. I thank God for making me a real employee (as opposed to a contract employee) of
Posts Tagged ‘Random Thoughts’
Piracy Wars: A look at the recent Japanese manga pirate arrests
November 19th, 2015 
AstroNerdBoy Piracy Wars: A look at the recent Japanese manga pirate arrests As most of you probably know by now, there have been some recent arrests in Japan over manga piracy. Some folks have asked for my thoughts on what has happened, so I’m going to oblige. For those who don’t know what has happened, I
CLAMP: The Hiatus Masters!
June 27th, 2014 AstroNerdBoy CLAMP: The Hiatus Masters! A couple of days ago, I reached into my stack of manga volumes that I’ve not blogged about, and I grabbed Gate 7 volume 4. I thought I had read it, but in fact, I had not. So I read it and started prepping for a blog entry (coming soon). I
Posted in Manga, Other 
Tags: CLAMP, Clover, Drug and Drop, Gate 7, Legal Drug, Random Thoughts, rant, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, X/1999, xxxHOLiC, xxxHOLiC Rei 
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Those darn, best laid plans!
June 24th, 2014 AstroNerdBoy Those darn, best laid plans! Hey gang! As regular readers of the blog know, I didn’t blog about any new anime series this season. I had planned to watch some backlog stuff, starting with Inuyasha: Final Act. I had made it up to episode 17 before giving up on the series for whatever reasons (mainly
Why read the Hayate the Combat Butler manga?
May 8th, 2014 AstroNerdBoy Why read the Hayate the Combat Butler manga? When it comes to anime, many anime titles are in fact adaptations of a popular manga or light novel series. Such is the case with Hayate the Combat Butler (Hayate no Gotoku in the Japanese). So if you’ve watched and enjoyed the Hayate the Combat Butler anime
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A Farewell to the “Ah! My Goddess” Manga
March 25th, 2014 AstroNerdBoy A Farewell to “Ah! My Goddess” Manga With the recent news that Fujishima-sensei is ending the long-running manga series Ah! My Goddess (aka: Oh My Goddess) after over 25 years, I thought I’d take a moment to say farewell to a manga title that has a very special place in my heart. As many of
My Thoughts On The Forthcoming New Fate/stay night Anime
December 30th, 2013 AstroNerdBoy Hey gang! Imagine my surprise (’cause I missed the memo last summer) that ufotable, creators of the Fate/Zero prequel anime series to the Fate/stay night series, are doing a new Fate/stay night anime series. I loved what ufotable did with Fate/Zero, which I understand was a pretty faithful adaptation to the original novels, so giving
CLAMP Ressurects xxxHOliC Manga – Will It Be a Shuffling Zombie?
December 3rd, 2012 AstroNerdBoy Howdy folks! Longtime readers of my blog will know that I was a big fan of CLAMPs xxxHOLiC manga series until CLAMP unceremoniously ended it, taking the time to wrap things up, but in a very unsatisfactory way. So imagine my surprise when Seichan of CLAMP*NEWS brought to my attention that xxxHOLiC will return as
