Monthly Archives: August 2006

New Gundam series next October!… Apparently.

Fresh from the rumour mill. According to Moon Phase Zakki sources, a new Gundam series will start airing October next year. Many valorous spies paid the ultimate sacrifice to bring us this information. Quote: ガンダム新シリーズ、来年10月放送にむけて始動!…らしい。 「天保異聞 妖奇士」の後番、来年の土6は新ガンダム。監督は水島精二氏とのこと。一応、内部リークですが、実際この通り順調に企画が進むかどうかは不明。 Translation: New Gundam … Continue reading

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More Comiket 70 Talk

Comiket 70 day one has ended just a few hours ago. Since Shingo from HD has yet to post his report, here’s a little something for those of you out there with nothing else better to do than to wait … Continue reading

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1/6 Mikuru Asahina Bunny Girl PVC

Made by Art Hobby. It’s 1/6 PVC figurine of Mikuru-chan! In three different colours! So you couldn’t get yourself down to Kobe for WHF and grab the original Haruhi Bunny resin kit, can’t afford to buy a prebuilt one off … Continue reading

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Lost my music

I think this is one of the few times where I feel that my translation actually manages to capture the full meaning of the song. Maybe it’s just my self delusions at work again. The Japanese lyrics are really short … Continue reading

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Zero no Waitress

As you may have noticed, I don’t like to do episode blog entries. Usually I can’t think of anything clever to say and most anime episodes don’t give much to talk about. Sometimes I do a review of the first … Continue reading

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Seiyuu of H&C’s Takemoto hurt in traffic accident

Taken from the official Hachikuro site: 竹本役 神谷浩史さんの交通事故に関しまして 竹本役神谷浩史氏が8月7æ—¥(月)交通事故に遭われ、現在治療のため入院されております。番組としては第11話(9月7日放送)までは収録が終わっており、最終話12話(9月14日放送)のみ代役をたてて放送する予定です。関係者ならびにファンの皆様方には、ご心配おかけ致しまして申し訳御座いません。 Moonspeak to english: Regarding Takemoto’s seiyuu Hiroshi Kamiya’s traffic accident The seiyuu of Takemoto, Mr. Hiroshi Kamiya, was met with a traffic accident on 7 August (Monday) and is currently hospitalized … Continue reading

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Hare Hare Yukai: 100,000 copies sold

From animate.tv: TVアニメーション『涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱』EDテーマ曲「ハレ晴レユカイ」(平野 綾/茅原実里/後藤邑子)の出荷枚数が10万枚を突破したことが、8月10日付け社団法人日本レコード協会の「ゴールド等認定作品認定(2006å¹´7月)」内にて正式に発表された。 「ゴールド等認定作品認定」とは日本レコード協会が毎月、発売日以降の累計出荷枚数に応じてゴールド、プラチナ等の認定を行っているもので、「ハレ晴レユカイ」は5月10日の発売から2ヶ月で10万枚以上出荷の「ゴールド」に認定された。 Lazy DM’s condensed translation: Recording Industry Association of Japan announced on 10 August that “Hare Hare Yukai” has sold 100,000 copies and has been awarded the “Gold Certified Product Award” (or some silly name like … Continue reading

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Want your own Bunny Haruhi? Now you can!

Remember that Bunny Haruhi that everyone wanted but no one could afford? Well, the HK website e2046 has just started taking preorders for a recast of it today. These are unbuilt resin kits recasted from the original. It’s probably going … Continue reading

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Beginner’s Japanese – Chapter V – Adjectives

Finally, a new chapter! Sorry it took so long, but I’m lazy. :( This time I’ll introduce Japanese adjectives. Adjective is pretty simple in Japanese so this chapter will hopefully be clear and not as confusing as kanji… Please make … Continue reading

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Mahou Sensei Negima! Vol.15 Limited Edition

I happened to be near Kinokuniya yesterday when I received a call from the Japanese book counter telling me that my Negima! Vol.15 was ready for collection. The limited edition is waaaay overpriced but I bought it anyway because I … Continue reading

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Lightbox JS and Firefox

The new loading image I changed the default loading.gif of Lightbox (as you may have noticed in the post below) and modified the CSS file as best as I could to fit the new dimensions and it seems to work … Continue reading

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涼宮ハルヒの誘悦

Review of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuetsu, an 18-kin doujin game based on the popular Suzumiya Haruhi series. Continue reading

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