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This month has been the most hectic month in terms of school assignment workload and stress for me. Assignments from Journalism have really got me pinned down, namely from making and doing interviews for my news stories which are quite hard to do for...

I attended the 2012 San Francisco Cherry Blossom which was held in San Francisco’s Japantown April 14,15, 21, with the grand parade taking place on the 22. All photos taken can be found at my Flickr set: 2012 San Francisco Cherry Blossom Festival Thi...

March has been quite boring when I recall what I’ve done this month. All I can remember is doing a whole lot of school work. I did do a Let’s Play of the Wii game Muramasa: The Demon Blade, just with Momohime’s story…. for now. I found out that there...

Guilty Crown is a multi genre/theme anime by Production I.G., directed by Tetsurō Araki and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino. Here is a quick synopsis of  the series from Wikiepdia: On Christmas Eve, 2029, the unidentified “Apocalypse Virus” spreads and p...

Sorry for the late review! THE iDOLM@STER is a anime series about a group of 12 aspiring young girls in pursuit of becoming idols. As a person who explores J-pop culture online, I do get to see a bit of everything. I encountered The iDOLM@STER from b...

This is my coverage of Animation on Display 2012, a small convention that took place last weekend at San Francisco’s Japantown’s Hotel Kabuki. “Animation on Display (AOD) is a weekend convention celebrating anime, video games, recent American cartoon...

Mayo Chiki is a rather nice romantic comedy anime with a twist, that twist being that one of the main female characters is a reverse trap, basically a girl dressed as a boy for certain circumstances. Here is a quick synopsis from MAL.net: Konoe Subar...

Nichijou is one of the funniest slice of life animes I’ve seen. It’s so simply hilarious that every scene brought tears to my eyes from laughing so much. Here is a  quick synopsis from Wikipedia: The series follows the lives of a group of high school...

This anime contains zombies, supernatural events, some blood and gore, magic, harem, and comedy all mixed together. Here is a quick synopsis from Wikipedia: Ayumu Aikawa is a zombie resurrected by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe after being...

Dog Days is an anime that takes place in a fantasy world apart from our own. The plot is somewhat similar to Zero no Tsukaima. Here is a quick synposis of Doy Days (from Wikipedia): Cinque Izumi is a cheerful and athletic half-Japanese, half-English...

This post is going to be a little bit different than most of my other ones. Ever since I went to Anime Expo in LA this year, I’ve been inspired to try working on new projects and learning new skills for “personal development”. This comes from meeting...

(This post is currently under construction. It will be completed by tomorrow.) Anime Expo was such a big experience for me, before, during, and after the convention; “Before”, because of the massive preparations I had to make for the trip, “During”,...

The Toaru series comprises of two seasons of “Index” and a spin off series called “Railgun”. I will cover the “Index” series and “Railgun” series separately within the same post. Here’s a quick synopsis that basically covers both seasons of the Toaru...

I should of wrote this post nearly a month ago, but various things have been happening as of late. Anyways, just like my first semester of Japanese I took in Fall 2010 semester, I’m writing about my experiences of my second semester of Japanese langu...

This year I attended the anime convention called FanimeCon in San Jose, California held during the Memorial Day weekend. It was my first time going to an anime convention of this size and so is also my first FanimeCon as well. I have also attended AO...

Purella Magi Madoka Magica (also know as Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika) is a magical girl series, but is none like any before. Don’t judge it from its initial looks. Also this post is a SPOILER, so if you haven’t watched the series yet and want to, don’t...

I attended San Francisco’s Japantown’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival which is always held in April, also known as the Sakura Matsuri. I’ve been attending for three year in a row already and it’s nice to come and visit when the sakura (cherry blossom...

As a way to get back on track with blogging, I’m going to write about my thoughts concerning everything with the earthquake that struck Japan on March 11. It’s been three weeks since the earthquake so it’s a good way also to look back on everything t...

Sorry for being a bit late on this, busiest school semester for me ever. I attended this year’s Animation on Display (AOD) at San Francisco’s Japantown’s Kabuki Hotel that ran from February 19-20. I consider it my first anime convention, and since it...

This year is going to be very different from other years for me because I have plenty of Japan related events I’m going to. I’ve only been into Japanese Culture since 2007 but haven’t really explored anime conventions and related events. In 2010 I ma...

Shinryaku! Ika Musume I think was one of the funniest animes I’ve seen in a while. Here is a quick synopsis from MAL.net: “The sea in our world has been polluted. All sorts of trash were thrown into the sea, making it unpleasant deep under the sea. O...

This second season of Sora no Otoshimono was just as good a watch if not better than the first season. Here is a synopsis from MAL.net: “Sakurai Tomoki has settled into his life with the two angeloids, Ikaros and Nymph, and is enjoying himself immens...

Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai/My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute, or Oreimo for short, is my one of my favorites of the fall 2010 anime season. With it’s cute and unique characters, bright animation style, and plot about the acceptance...

I want to do at least one more post before 2010 ends so I’m rushing this two hours before the 2011 reaches my area of the world. Oh yeah, Happy New Year 2011 to everyone around the world! Here’s a quick summary of The World God Only Knows (from Wikip...