Soul Eater: Death the Kid

Here are a few new amazing anime merchandise we got in this week:

Soul Eater Magnet Collection: The eight piece set features the students of the Death Weapon Meister Academy, chibi style! (who can resist chibi style anime characters . . . I can’t) and you may also want to get the 2 inch Soul Eater: Death the Kid button to go along with the magnets.

Are you the Ultimate Naruto Fan? Well, you can start to be one when you purchase this awesome deck of cards featuring the popular characters from Naruto Shippuden.

Ouran High School Club Playing Cards

Do you love, love Ouran High School Host Club? You do! That’s great. I have just the thing for

you . . . these really cool Ouran High School Host Club playing cards. Ohh, they are so cute and fun to have.

Anime Plush, Plushie, Stuff Dolls or whatever you want to called them, you just can’t have too many. Standing about 8 inches tall you’ll want to get your Ryuk and Hinata plush before they walk away!

Hinata Naruto Plush

And if you love Japanese music then you’ll love the songs and styling’s of An Café.  They maybe on a hiatus for the moment but you can get their Goku-tama Rock Café Cd here.

And I mustn’t forget the latest selection added to the anime figures category - Queen’s Blade! It’s Reina the nomad warrior! Her hairstyles are interchangeable and how top is castoffable.

Queen's Blade Reina

Our goal for 2010 is to help you grow your anime collection be providing you with a variety anime merchandise.

We know our clients and readers are the smartest, greatest anime fans on the planet (you truly are). So we are working hard just for you. And thanks for being a fan!

Take care,
T.A.G.

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Scene 6 Teresa and Clare (Teresa to Kurea)

Clare and Teresa stand on a cliff overlook the town of Rokut. Teresa tells Clare that will be in town shortly and there they will find someone to take care of her. Clare is obviously not happy to hear Teresa saying this. Teresa assures her that she will not simply abandon her. She will find someone/someplace safe for her and won’t leave her until then.

That night Clare cries herself to sleep and Teresa starts to walk away. The bandit that had previously assaulted Teresa is back, minus one hand, and once more attempts to jump the Claymore. It is pretty clear that he has it on his mind to rape Teresa. As he tries to overpower Teresa, she is overcome with disgust over the fact that it is for humans like him that she has to keep fighting.

Clare intervenes and tries to strike him with the bough of a tree but the bandit instead starts to beat on the girl. Teresa grabs the bandit’s sword. She is sickeningly reminded by the bandit that she is forbidden from killing human beings and this prompts her to question the rules. In response, she tells him that it is up to her to decide when she wants to break the rules.

The bandit, frightened by Teresa’s bravado, runs off. Clare runs over to Teresa and is finally able to speak. She asks Teresa if she is in pain, and then she says that she has always seen some sort of pain in Teresa’s eyes. It is almost as if Teresa has been wrought with a great deal of loneliness.

Clare believes that Teresa’s pain is totally unbearable. In fact, Teresa understands that Clare’s hugs (from the first moment they met) were actually for Teresa’s sake and not simply to aid or thanks from child. Clare was genuinely concerned about Teresa’s loneliness. Teresa begins to cry as she then hugs Clare. [click to continue…]

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(opening song below)
Okay, I’ve finished watching episode 12-16 and that Shoji is such a jerk! No girl, even Hachi (Nana), deserves to be treated that way. Yes, she’s not totally innocent in the whole thing and yes, she is quite annoying but no one deserves to be treated that way.

Sachiko is not without her fault as well. She knew that Shoji had a girlfriend but she didn’t let that stop her from sleeping with him. So, Sachiko you are on my Do Not Like list however the full blame goes to Shoji. He was the one who said he loved Nana and even had thought of marrying her (to death). Sachiko made no such promise to Nana (I mean why would she) but Shoji you are horrible!

He should have been a man about it and broke things off (I know easier said then done). Their relationship was like a bomb waiting to explode. Isn’t it better to defuse a bomb and then get rid of it versus letting the bomb explode? In an explosion so many people can get hurt. When you defuse it correctly, everyone is okay. Yea, there is a possibility that you may clip the wrong wire but what about the possibility of you clipping the right wire? Everyone will be unharmed and can continue with their lives, right?

That’s what we had in these episodes. Shoji and Nana’s relationship was like a bomb but no one wanted to defuse it for fear that they would be “clipping” the wrong wire. So, instead we had a freaking huge explosion where so many people got hurt. And I blame Shoji. He knew he was no longer in love with Nana but was just a punk and couldn’t man-up! (boo, Shoji).

Alright, enough about that naughty boy . . . let’s move on to my favorite Nana. She finally made her début in Tokyo. She was so cool! I got goose bumps (for real!) To have such a presence around you must be an awesome feeling.

I’m looking forward to the next episodes. Until then enjoy the opening and Nana’s Tokyo debut song:
AnnaTsuchiya-zero.mp3

T.A.G.

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I saw the trailer for Rin: Daughter of Mnemosyne while watching another anime series and I thought it would be a fast pace, entertaining anime (at least that’s what I thought) I had no reason to suspect I would see what I saw. Shock

I saw topless girls, girl on girl, boy on girl, S&M and everything in between action. It’s rated TV-MA had I took notice of this earlier it could have prepared me (a little bit) but I tend to disregard ratings. I find anime ratings to be somewhat inaccurate; for example Witchblade is given a TV-MA rating (I believe its’ content doesn’t come anywhere near Rin’s) and there’s the R rating given to the live action Death Note (for violence I guess but really?) and then there’s Speed Grapher which also gets a TV-MA (whose content matches that of Rin’s) so ratings don’t really paint an accurate picture so I disregard them. (however I should say I can do this because of I am over the age of 18 and seeing anime like Rin or Speed Grapher may initially shock me however I can get over it and deal with it while others can not – okay moving on).

So, my initial thoughts of Rin: Daughter of Mnemosyne is that it’s moving along at a nice pace but I’m really curious if they were going in the direction of making it a hentai but then took it onto different path. I haven’t seen an actual hentai anime before (just seen the covers) but I would image that Rin isn’t too far off into being one. She seems like a great candidate.

I have 3 more episodes left before I can say if it’s a good anime or a bad one. However, if you like boobies, sex, immortal women and men who give them pleasure by devouring them then give Rin a try (that is if you are the right age). Devil

Already seen Rin: Daughter of Mnemosyne? Tell me, did it hit the sweet spot for you or was it a total miss?

Pro: immortal women and men

Con: too much sex not enough story on how and why they are immortal, deceptive trailer

T.A.G.

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Japanese Festivals: From Anime to the Real World

March 9, 2010

Festivals are a very important part of both secular and religious culture in Japan and are frequent settings for the varied plotlines of anime and manga series. As many festivals are connected to religious observances, a local Shinto Shrine or Buddhist Temple sponsors many of them.
Often times, the sacred festivities are crowned with a procession [...]

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The Girls of Dragon Destiny Go to the Hot Springs

March 8, 2010

Do you enjoy watching the girls from Battle Vixens/Ikki Tousen go to the hot springs? If so, then you’ll want to checkout the extra features of Dragon Destiny DVD disc 1.
All the Dragon Destiny girls head off for a relaxing day at the hot springs where clothes are not allowed. Even Hakufu is there! She [...]

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Kakashi and Gaara Toynami Figures Series 2

March 7, 2010

For our Naruto fans we like to present to you the Kakashi and Gaara Naruto Shippuden Series 2 Action Figures. You can expect the figures to ship on March 11, 2010 (if all goes according to plan).   **UPDATE March 8: Kakashi and Gaara have arrived and ready to ship!
We are also working on [...]

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Claymore Scene 5: Teresa of the Faint Smile

March 5, 2010

Scene 5  Teresa of the Faint Smile (Hohoemi no Teresa)
A Claymore starts off by slaying a montage of several Yoma. The villagers that apparently hired her are thankful and attempt to pay her. The Claymore responds by telling them to give the money to a black robed man who will come by later to collect [...]

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Nana, Why So Emotional?

March 4, 2010

Episodes 9-11.5 of Nana were fairly good (episode 11.5 was basically a clip show) Nana did have me tearing up a bit, couple of times (yep, that’s right. I cry and I don’t like it). There seems to be a lot of focus on Hachi (I’m not sure why) I find her a bit annoying [...]

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Boys on Flowers TV Series

March 3, 2010

(opening song below)
I stayed up until 3 am watching Boys Over Flower the live action version. I liked it! It’s been 4 years since I saw the anime (boy time is flying). It took me awhile to get into the anime because of the bullying and harassment but after all that I started to enjoy [...]

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