If anyone seems quite out of the loop, Minori Chihara, referred to as Minorin by fans, was the featured guest at New York Anime Festival 2010. Fans should know she is a Japanese pop singer as well as a voice actress. She is well known for her portrayal of Yuki Nagato in The Melancholy of [...]
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Everyone who reads this blog, should know about X Japan, after all they are trying to make it big in the United States, as they are enormous in Asia. X Japan has one song that was taken as an movie anime theme, “Forever Love” is CLAMP’s 1996 movie version of X. In fact they are [...]
On Friday of October 8, 2010. I was on a mission to get Chihara Minori’s autograph.. so as a favor for Anime Diet’s own Ray. Chihara is apparently a very very popular seiyuu, a featured guest in this year’s NYAF. In my experience of other than hearing her voice in Saki as the very attractive [...]
Another of Arina Tanemura’s works. This is actually for her first full length manga of short stories. So the art is not as pretty as her later manga release such as The Gentleman’s Alliance Cross, Full Moon or Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, but you still see the style of Tanemura, and probably similar works from that [...]
Very very different from last year’s event, this year New York Anime Festival did its pre-con event at Kinokuniya Bookstore. A more subtle event. This event definitely added more fuel to the fires of many convention goers, panelists and press members alike. (I can only say that I am at this time still scheduling. I [...]
So if your browsers didn’t go nuts, spitting out these random characters, and you do happen to read Japanese, then you should know what this post is actually going to be leading up to. A review on Jigoku Shoujo or Hell Girl‘s manga… you may have already seen the anime that is released in the [...]
Buy Toriko, Vol. 1 by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro. Published by Viz Media. 208 pages. 2010. $9.99. Enter a world where gourmet food is quite prized, and if you can eat the most unique foods, then what is all worth living for is the satisfaction of fulfilling your taste buds. Since the world is suppose to be [...]
No one would really want to be in the shoes of Haruna Aizawa, not after her politician father gets booted out of office for corruption charges. So with a “bright future” obviously out the window, Haruna transfers to a nameless local high school. First day there, she mentally labels the description of monkey for a [...]
Buy The Record of a Fallen Vampire, Vol. 1 by Kyo Shirodaira. Published by Viz Media. 182 pages. 2008. $9.99. If you note the popularity of Dracula, or in pop culture of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or even the recent Twilight series. Then what is the mystique about vampires. Other than being quite mysterious, and [...]
Path Of the Assassin Volume 1: Serving In The Dark (v. 1) By Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. Published by Dark Horse 320 pages. 2006. $9.95 Certainly I complain about my lack of time, and how often it gets devoured by certain activities, but I do enjoy my most . All right I might be [...]
Buy Gentlemen’s Alliance +, Vol. 1 by Arina Tanemura Published by Viz Media. 208 pages 2007. $8.99 Since I started to frequent a library in one of New York’s three library systems – my reading of Shoujo manga has increased. It is not to say that I don’t sample any type of manga – but [...]
Buy Gin Tama, Volume 1 by Published by Viz Media. 192 pages. 2007 $7.99 Soooooo…. if you are a regular reader of Shonen Jump titles, then this title should have already been on your reading lists already. If not, then what are you waiting for? Are you waiting for aliens to take over the Earth, [...]
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