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• Sunday, March 30th, 2008

High school manga Hyakko is getting an anime adaptation.
Hyakko

Shotacon anime My Pico (Boku no Pico) is getting a third OVA. Coco is the new character on the left. Fills the role of the taller chararter.
Boku no Pico

New Negima OVA announced. Well be shipped with a limited edition tankoubon containing volumes 23-25 in Japan. Dare you to license that FUNimation.

More DNAngel manga in May’s Asuka magazine.

Free forum service and host Invisionfree is back to normal after having certain forums defaced and all domains redirected to another site. Invisionfree is what many anime fans use to create forum sites or forums for manga scanlation sites. Most large anime forums have that word filtered to prevent personal message advertising.

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• Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Kaiba, not the dead card game and ADV licensed anime KIBA. Kaiba has Masaaki Yuasa directing it, the director of Happy Machine and Kemonozume. Many Western local Asian television stations still air Chibi Maruko-chan, which he took part in the opening and ending animation. If you ask any fan,
most of them will descript his works as avant-garde. Unique and creative anime that may or may not work or appeal,
showing anime at its best when there is a plot that doen’t have to explain itself or
be in touch with reality in any way.
Kaiba
Kaiba will bring a world with memory manipulation, romance, and sci fi. Can someone still love without their momories? The anime is even means hippocampus, the part of the brain known for being involved with long term memory.

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• Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Images of Kotoha saying her special shortcut word for her huge German gun to blast away may remain in people’s minds for years. Del Rey did a great job of including the extras in the first volume of the Yozakura Quartet manga. The author is surely exicted with the news of an anime adaptation. Maybe Kotoha will get to Germany very soon. Was right about that this is anime adaptation worthy from a previous entry.
Yozakura Quartet
Expect more action when Del Rey decides to finally make up their mind on a release date for volume two, which looks like May so far. Don’t let the pink image fool you.

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• Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Small shounen sites and female webmasters use them rather often. Nearly all of them are from your standard anime graphic and web layout resource site. They’re also known as Hentai Free Badges and there’s also an occasional yaoi one. Huge gap between the whole boy love fan and the fanservice junky. Notice the words yaoi fangirl weren’t used.
Hentai Free
Image by Blissful Memoirs
This trend isn’t going anywhere fast, it’s pretty much dead. Active anime design sites aren’t paying such graphics any attention. Download, stream, forum, and other big anime themed sites have neglected this. People new to anime, young, or not into such anime and manga would take comfort in a site making it clear that they don’t allow it. If you don’t have such content, find space for a badge.

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• Thursday, March 20th, 2008

The official trailer for the Soul Eater anime has been released. Most of the trailer is in order, as it starts with the intro chapter that is found with the manga and then parts of the early chapters like where they battle a witch for her witch soul. Too bad that she’s…

Trailer shows much action, adult voice actors, and the King of Bandit Jing meets Shaman King style has made it over. If the Soul Eater anime stays true to the manga, it may be a long adventure.

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• Thursday, March 20th, 2008

May have seen many sites in Japanese have a box in the upper left corner that sometimes appears. Ninja Tools is a website that offers various services and scripts. The sites features are ads for revenue, hit counters, various traffic analysis, web hosting (free with adverts or payed), domains, mail forms, blogs (hosted by them pretty much) and question forms. Podcasting tools, users currently online, and clocks are other tools available that they’re working on. To top it off, they even have a 4 panel comic. Only issue is how the site and services tend to try to keep you there.
Ninja Tools comic
Blogs from the guest’s view are up there with Wordpress with skins and scripts and all. Many abstract and anime themes. The hit counter may link back to the Ninja Tools site, but mouse hover shows hit that day
and the day before. Ad service has you earning Ninja Points for clicks. Clearly very professional.
Ninja Tools blogs
Ninja Tools does have you log in for much of its services and there isn’t any English support. They are however looking for more staff. Web designers, programmers, and user
support wanted.

Ninja Tools: ninja.co.jp   Samurai Factory: samurai-factory.jp

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