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Interesting Fall 2010 Anime

End of Summer already? Too bad? Yes I know but there is one thing to take heart from, the beginning of an all new season for all new anime series! My Interesting Summer 2010 Anime list unearthed 2 great gems in Highschool of the Dead and Occult Academy. My review of Highschool of the Dead is already...
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6 Nostalgic Anime Openings from the 90′s

I listen to music while doing my droid-like duties at work and depending on my mood I might go for any kind of music from some soothing Bob Marley to some classic Nelly Furtado. Lately I’ve been more in the mood for anime soundtracks and if you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed a tweet...
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Interesting Summer 2010 Anime

Whoops! The World Cup in South Africa has caused me to be late with my Summer 2010 anime list. Japan did reasonably well before being knocked out by Paraguay and earlier today tournament favorites Brazil crashed out at the hands of the Netherlands. The World Cup is temporary but anime is forever so these...
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Top 10 Games that Caught my Eye at E3 2010

The 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo has come and gone. The world cup is swallowing up everything else happening right now but I managed to check out the press conferences and Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and the major third party publishers in between matches. After devouring a crap load of trailers...
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7 Japan related Blogs I recently discovered

Before starting my own blog a couple years ago I used to be a big reader of blogs on the various topics that were of interest to me from video games to technology to Japan. I don’t think of myself as an vastly experienced blogger but it has been interesting to watch the Japan niche expand over...
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Interesting Spring 2010 Anime

I am still getting through Durarara! and Seikon no Qwaser from my interesting Winter 2010 anime list but took the time to look ahead at some of the shows that will be coming out or continuing this spring so I can’t note from the plot synopsis, trailer and experiences with the production studio...
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One Year Since my Japanese Drama Plunge

It’s a year since my decision to started watching Japanese dramas properly with the aim being to expose myself to naturally spoken Japanese in an attempt to improve my own learning of the language while hopefully being entertained. A year later I have watched 7 series completely with a list of...
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Interesting Winter 2010 Anime

It’s the start of a new year with the opportunity for new beginnings, lots of resolutions and new anime! Two of the four anime I noted in my interesting Fall 2009 anime list turned out to me very interesting with Armed Librarians being my favorite. My review of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 from my Summer...
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10 Must Follow Japan related Twitter Users

As explained in my blog post earlier this year about my Twitter experience as a blogger I wasn’t a fan of the now super popular micro-blogging and social networking phenomenon that Twitter has grown to become now. But for about a year now I have embraced and grown to find Twitter useful with it’s...
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Interesting Anime from Last Winter

I’ve been hearing and reading on various anime blogs that the Autumn 2009 anime season is one of the weakest in a while. It’s impossible for me to watch every or most of the new anime that premiere or continue each season but I am really enjoying Armed Librarians from my list for theĀ  Fall...
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