The annual “Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!” ranking has been published, definitively ranking the characters of the latest crop of light novels. The results see Mikoto seizing the top female spot, but even she is no match for the powerful charms of ambiguous gender…
Horo fans are aghast at the decision of the English publishers of sagacious wolf light novel series Spice and Wolf to dump the titular spicy wolf Horo completely in an effort to appeal to “fantasy audiences,” who presumably cannot be expected to buy anything without a scantily clad lady or dragon on the cover.
THEY HAVE BETRAYED/VIOLATED THE GODDESS. "Anon starts rageing furiosly slaming his hands onto his desk yelling why" raging scares neighbors. "Anon still rageing in the background" neighbors call animal control."animal control bangs on door "open... More
Del Rey are liars. They have this explanation about suffixes in their manga because they want to keep them, but then go on and use Mr. anyway. (See first few volumes of xxxHOlic)... More
Haruhi author Nagaru Tanigawa has finally started work on the long anticipated but hugely delayed (as below) “Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyougaku / The Shock of Haruhi Suzumiya” light novel, the first in many years.
which doesn't support haruhi any longer.... More
well instead of doing a light novel i hope he just does a freaking BOOK and ends it all in about 300-400 pages. if you're going to end a story like this end it epic-ly............ More
Recent buzz from the Japanese blogosphere and 2ch has all but come to the conclusion that the current “The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya” arc will run for 3 more weeks, coming to a total of 5 full episodes for the story.
Stylish supernatural parody anime 化物語 / Bakemonogatari, “Monster Story”, has just aired, and in its first episode it has immediately attracted attention for the mysterious sideline in schoolgirl pantsu it is operating; both the skirt fluttering fancy pantsu exposure and the anime itself can be seen in some detail below:
The second season of Haruhi is finally underway, and it takes the already confused airing order of the series and makes it more so. However, the apparent airing order has been worked out…
I care about Yuki.... More
We've entered an endless recursion of time. That was pretty much expected. Either that, they'd air the anime twice. We knew there won't really be any new Haruhi whatsoever. KADOKAWA TROLLING = godlike.... More
The latest and increasingly unawaited novel in the Haruhi series, 涼宮ハルヒの / Suzumiya Haurhi no Kyougaku (The Shock of Suzumiya Haruhi), by 谷川流 / Nagaru Tanigawa, looks to have been delayed yet another year, the second time it has been delayed.
It now looks as if three years will elapse before any new release in the formerly popular series…
I am STILL gonna be a Suzumiya fan. :[ Even without a conclusion, it's still amazingly done.... More
Oh, the more recent delyas is down to negotiations over payment, I believe. The publication company is uming and ahing over the amount they should pay for the story. Personaly, I believe they should just pay... More
Quality anime Akikan has attracted attention not only for its unique production values, but also for the bizarre treatment it metes out to its seiyuu. Above is the spectacle seiyuu 大久保藍子 / Aiko Okubo was reduced to, cosplaying a monkey whilst reading the ecchi bits from the original novel.
Below you see some of the previous costumes she wore whilst reading similar ecchi passages at each episode’s end:
Tsundere light novel series Toradora! is confirmed as concluding in the tenth volume, to be released March; this is thought to coincide neatly with the ending of the anime, for an ending many are already praising for its discipline in refraining from becoming a long and drawn out franchise more interested in merchandising than in coherent narrative.
Of course whether the ending will be any good or not is another matter…
It has been known for some time that the author of the original Zero no Tsukaima light novels, ヤマグチノボル/ Noboru Yamaguchi, was originally a writer of scenarios for adult games, but now we hear that even the illustrator responsible for the design of Louise and company, 兎塚エイジ / Eiji Usatsuka, is in fact an eroge “graphicker” too.
It seems that for years he risked being sacked from his work at eroge maker Visual Arts with his secret moonlighting, in fact being uncovered with the aid of Wikipedia by one of the writers of Clannad.
Sharp eyed and artistically literate 2channers spotted this “tribute” in the illustrations to the fourth volume of the novel 人類は衰退しました / Man Has Decayed, by noted eroge scenario writer 田中 ロミオ / Romeo Tanaka.
Here we have a complete set of yet to be revealed (in the anime at least) characters from A Certain Magical Index, which as you know has an extensive series of light novels already published.
Some rather nice character designs look to be in evidence; considering the success of the series, might we be seeing these in future seasons?
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