Aya Hirano Takes a Short Leave

Aya Hirano, voice actress of characters such as Amane Misa (Death Note), Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail), Konata Izumi (Lucky Star) and others, announced on her blog that she will take a temporary leave as ordered by her manager. She has been hospitalized twice for gastroenteritis and cold since January. All her projects are cancelled as well as the released of her new single.

Source:
MyAnimelist

Manga News

Promotional Vid for GANTZ live action Movie

A 55-second promotional video of the upcoming 2-part adaptation movie of Gantz has been aired on NTV showing some behind the scenes footages. The cast consists of Kazunari Ninomiya as Kei Kurono, Kenichi Matsuyama as Masaru Kato, Kanata Hongo as Joichiro Nishi, Yuriko Yoshitaka as *** Kojima, and Natsuna (formerly Natsuna Watanabe) as Kei Kishimoto.

Source:
Japan Now (click for more info)

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Detroit Metal City Manga to end in April

Quoted from Japan Now:

Kiminori Wakasugi will be ending his Detroit Metal City manga in this year’s ninth issue of Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine on April 23. The announcement was made in the seventh issue on Friday. The manga follows a mild-mannered light pop singer who becomes the in-your-face lead singer of a death metal rock band in the mold of KISS.

According to Wakasugi, the manga will end at around the 10th compiled volume. The manga has run in the same magazine since 2005, and Hakusensha has published eight volumes so far.

New Cast for Kaichou wa Maid-sama..

Last December, I’ve already posted the list of the voice actors who will going to be part of Kaichou wa Maid-sama anime. I was happy by the fact that Tomokazu Sugita will be the seiyuu for Takumi Usui.. Today as I was searching the net, something caught my eyes. They’ve changed the list of voice actors.! *sigh* I was a bit disappointed because all this time I am thinking that Tomokazu-san will be the v.a.. Anyway, I hope the cast will do their best for this show.

Here’s the updated list: http://shikimic.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/kaichou-wa-maid-sama-3/

Black Bird

Mangaka: SAKURAKOUJI Kanoko
Genre: Shoujo, Smut, Romance, Comedy, Supernatural
Publisher: Shogakukan
Magazine: Betsucomi
English Publisher: Viz Media

There are lots of strange things only Misao Harada can see. It has been like that since she was a child. Now that she is turning 16, lots of demons are attacking her. Not until her childhood friend, Kyou, comes back to the neighbourhood and promised that he will protect Misao from those demons and declares that she is his bride. It is either be eaten by the demons or sleep with him and be his wife. What is he talking about? What do these demons want from Misao?

Sources:
Mangaupdates
Viz
Shogakukan

Bishie Holic is Back!!

Okay, just so you know guys, this blog is not yet dead.! ^_^ I’m also glad to tell you that Bishie Holic has turned 1 last March 10. Sadly, I was too busy to take note of the date and was too wrapped up with all those school works our professors dumped on us.

There’s so many things happened right after the classes resumed last January which lead me to partially abandon all my fangirling stuffs. As you can notice, this blog is not updated now since I must admit I’m really really behind to the news out there. There are still a lot of anime episodes, mostly from Fall Anime List 2009, that I need to watch. I still haven’t started any Winter 2010 anime, to think Spring Anime is just around the corner. *sigh* I’ve got tons of manga that needs to be summarized and reviewed, both from Shoujo and Yaoi genre. So expect manga summaries and reviews popping out anytime soon. ^_^

I’ll still be having our internship, this time in the manufacturing field, for the entire summer vacation BUT I’ll keep this site updated. Please visit from time to time.. ^_^

Lastly, I want to thank all those people who dropped by and continue visiting this blog. You guys are the best.! When I started blogging, I did not expect to have a 37,960 hits and counting. Those visits and comments that you make, drives me to create summaries, reviews, and post news, and it is enough to make my day. A big hug to all of you. I hope that you continue visit Bishie Holic blog. Thanks so much! ^O^

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for those who want to know, what happened to me when this site goes hiatus for the last month, check my Random Rants blog for more info..hehe

Another thing, I’ve created a Formspring account weeks ago so if just in case you feel like asking me something, go ahead. Here’s the link http://www.formspring.me/BishieHolic.