After preordering it last September, my Nodame calendar has finally shipped from Animenation. Oh ho ho---it's only now halfway through FEBRUARY!!! I could've had mine from cdjapan on time...or even had bought a discounted one in January!

@%^)(#%*)

It will be a cold day in hell before I buy from animenation again.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ek20090211ks.html

The mature-rated josei Butterflies, Flowers (originally known as Chou yo Hana yo), Yuki Yoshihara's office romance between a young woman from an impoverished noble family and her boss, who turns out to be one of the family's former servants, is set to begin in December.

XD

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My favorite show of late has got to be Dragons Den.

[kaori shoji's latest]

google now has [street views of Japan]. I thought it was pretty cool when they started doing it for san fran. You can take a virtual walk!

//Afterthought: You know, this would be really cool for mangaka. You can look at a certain neighborhood to draw the street scenes, and you don't even have to get out of your dumb chair.

You can watch videos of the 2008 WCS happening this weekend [here].

Though I have to say cosplay skits are still weirdly boring even when you can fast-forward them. :/

Kubo wrote about his time at SDCC on the Jump blog.
[read it here!]
Also, if you scroll down, you can see the picture he drew [of fans cosplaying his characters]!

[[http://animediet.net/archives/4349]]

"Looks like a pop star or something." XDDD
Where does he come up with the opening drawings? He puts characters in clothes he can’t get.

Another liveblog:[[