Hakuōki Shinsengumi Kitan to have an Anime

The romance adventure game of Idea Factory will be having an anime. The story of the game is about a female protagonist and the historical Shinsengumi group in Kyoto during the 19th century. However, further informations hasn’t been released yet. Source: ANN Kyaaaa..I’ll also be waiting for the release of this one. It looks interesting [...]

Pure Romance (Junjou Romantica)

After a year, I finally decided to continue watching this. Back on 2008, I was curious with this series and decided to watch it. It’s funny yet while I was still in the middle of episode 1, I decided to stop watching. From then on, I stayed away from yaoi. Remember my post about Only [...]

Free and Lively (Venus Capriccio)

For the series summary, refer here. Mere curiosity got me into reading this manga. The good thing is, it did not fail me. I immediately love the series. It is a slow-paced love story. Okay, we know from the start, who likes who. The problem is how will they leave their friends zone. it really [...]

Vampire Pride (Midnight Secretary)

For the series summary, refer here. There  are lots of vampire stories in the manga world. One example would be Midnight Secretary. Compared to other popular vampire stories, it is more inclined to reality (given the genre josei) as it deals with the coflicts and relationship between humans and vampires. No magical stuffs. No showing [...]

Umi Monogatari DVD Only Episode

The volume 6 of “Umi Monogatari ~Anata ga Itekureta Koto~” DVD includes an extra episode. It will be released on March 26th, 2010. The short extra episodes “Marin no Kore Naani?” will also be released from the volume 2 to be released on November 22nd. source: Official Website MAL

Nodame and Saki’s End of Hiatus

Tomoko Ninomiya, mangaka of Nodame Cantabile, confirmed on her blog that her manga will resume on Kodansha’s Kiss magazine on July 25. She also said that on July 7 she plans to draw new manga installments in the next three issues. On the other hand, Ritz Kobayashi has resumed Saki on the 15th issue of [...]

Fangirling..Fangirling..and MORE Fangirling

This past week is too tiring for me to handle.  With all those freakin quizzes, pre and post lab report sheets, lectures, readings, laboratory experiments, and acting all high-and-mighty professors, I thought I couldn’t survive all of them.. *sigh* Thanks to anime and manga especially the yaoi ones, I regained my energy and now back [...]

Black Lagoon’s 3rd Anime to be an OVA

The August issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Sunday GX magazine will reveal that the 3rd Black Lagoon Anime will be an Original Video Anime that will be a project on 2010. Quoted from ANN: Megumi Toyoguchi will reprise her role as the female pirate Revy. The story revolves around a typical Japanese businessman who gets caught [...]

Aki Sora Original Anime Adaptation

Masahiro Itosugi’s incest themed drama manga, Aki Sora will be released in a limited edition. It will include a 25 minute Original Anime Adaptation. Quoted from Anime Nation: Aki Sora is the story of high school boy Sora, who is seduced into a secret sexual relationship with his slightly older sister Aki.

Kyoto Seika University Plans to Offer M.A in Manga

Kyoto Seika University plans to offer a post-graduate curriculum in manga starting next year.The exams will start on February to select 20 students to be begin an educational course then to a masteral’s degree in manga study. Quoted from Anime Nation: The Kyoto Seika University established Japan’s first formal curriculum in manga study in 2000. [...]