Browsing the archives for the Television tag

Twilight and panty liners: Coming to an Eden near you

I went and collected a list of ads that air with different anime for amusement and uh, “knowledge”(?). I counted ads that were shown after the opening, during the mid break, and before the next episode preview from some shows. This idea came along after Mandoric asked if the panty liner ad in Eden could [...]

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April 25, 2009 in Anime
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Does anyone know anything about Animate.tv’s service?

Hetalia was canceled from its TV airing but it’s still going to be available for JP mobile phones and available on Animate.tv. I want to watch Hetalia though. I have this vision in my head that it has the potential to be the best show of winter — cute boys and WW2 and (hopefully) politically [...]

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January 16, 2009 in Anime
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A hypothetical day in the life of the Executives of Bandai Entertainment

After hearing about the Kurokami licensing and US distribution, I have a mental image of days in the Bandai office to be like this.
Yoshida Toshifumi: “We’re going to bring this upcoming anime, Kurokami, to the states.”
Random: “All right.”
Yoshida Toshifumi: “We’ll arrange it so a dub airs on US TV around at the same time as [...]

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December 15, 2008 in Anime
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Tales of the Clusterfuck Airing

The TotA anime webpage shows some clusterfuck of holiday re-scheduling for the TotA broadcast and I ended up making this awesome chart since we got confused in staff room talking about it. If I’ve understood 年末年始も通常通り放送します correctly, then there’ll be no new TotA after X-Mas until Jan 9th when Tokyo MX will become ahead [...]

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December 14, 2008 in Anime
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Even after Isaac dies, 9th Wonders is still on-going!

Guys… What the fuck is going on in Heroes, lol. :D In this episode we discover that 9th Wonders is still somehow being made, despite the fact that Isaac is dead, unless Mr. Petrelli or Rafiki AFRICAN ISAAC-SAN has been doing it! Also Sylar x Elle OTP? Hiro is suddenly a 10yr old? Claire is [...]

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November 18, 2008 in Real Life
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