Every now and then, we all need a little attention. If you’re “polite, friendly and good-looking foreign male” who is interested in relocating to Japan, consider being a butler. Help Japanese women escape the hustle of one of Tokyo’s most crowded areas, Shibuya. Woo them with pillow talk as they gazing longley into your crazy eyes; no wait experience needed.
Think you have what is takes? After the break you’ll find the job posting from Craigslist JP, and some interviews of what it’s like to work in a host club. Ladies, sadly the only way you’d be able to work in one of these clubs is to pull a Haruhi Fujioka a la Ouran Host Club. In my home city, as I’m sure across the U.S., there is a growing trend of “sexy” related services for men such as coffee shops and hair cuts; absent are ones catering to women. Clearly there are some cultural differences, but I think female patrons of a butler club in America would be stigmatize. That’s too bad for me, I think I’d be a terrific host!
Thursday 22 May 2008 @ 1:30 am | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
The official Japanese site for School Rumble: Third Term, which we previously announced in here is going to be a straight to DVD production, has posted a streaming teaser of the 3rd season which you can see above. The fact that the video provides no new details, no new characters, not even new music shouldn’t come as a surprise to fans as the series has managed to go on for 48 episodes without any character development, an impressive feat! Nevertheless I will be there first in line when the subs start rolling out.
Tuesday 1 April 2008 @ 6:11 pm | By Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
There is a time, in the middle of your anime life, when you (supposedly) know and fear the genres you once swore you’d never watch again but still you think to yourself the same thing: “I’m more mature right now, maybe I could give the XXXXX anime a chance, even if it’s categorized in one of the genres I hate. . .Harem Anime”. I pondered this some weeks ago and here I am. Still alive. With some ups but huge downs I review the series that caught me and my fascination for pink and long-haired girls. I swear…someday I’ll resist successfully.
Monday 3 March 2008 @ 12:19 am | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
Good news for all School Rumble fans, the never ending school romantic comedy is bound for a 3rd season with all of the original cast and staff. Bad news is it appears this will be a straight to DVD deal.
Kodansha will bundle the DVDs of School Rumble: 3rd Term with volumes 21st and 22nd of the ongoing manga so don’t expect the same quality of previous seasons. Still it brings nothing but joy to my heart that we’ll be following Harima in his quest for love and the true meaning of manliness in the near future, then again, we’re sure not to get anything resembling closure as the drama still goes on in the manga.
Monday 24 December 2007 @ 9:51 pm | By Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
I come from a place and time where, in my childhood, it was really hard to get anime; even before DVD’s and even before high-speed internet connections, we few anime-loving friends had to do almost impossible tasks, get to know THAT one guy who happened to go God-knows-where to get his anime, and we would follow, to his house, via that OTHER guy who was friends with him. Fantastic tales we soon made, just in order to keep the moe going. Moe. . .a very powerful word, which recently got a whole new meaning, mostly because of the girls of Love Hina.
Yep, Love Hina. That one anime most of you started with because of its male-seducing Harem style, sometimes funny comedy, and overall good animation, and let’s not forget Megumi Hayashibara on those infinite-looping songs.
Friday 26 January 2007 @ 2:11 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
Somehow I missed it but about a month ago Gonzo released the trailer for their Shakespearean adaptation, Romeo X Juliet. I tracked it down for you and here you have it.
First of all, the animation style is better that I had originally anticipated. The trailer starts, everything seems normal, perhaps Gonzo is finally trying a less twisted approach. Then the green pegasus came flying and thats when it all went to hell. Juliet with a sword fighting Romeo, the floating island is back, a costume that looks like an Alucard ripoff with a mask. Congratulations Gonzo, you’ve managed to twist yet another classic. Bravo.
Tuesday 11 July 2006 @ 12:20 am | By Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
This is a funny and emotional story that shows that even though life shows us some unexpected turns, if you have hope, will, and entuthiasm, you’ll overcome them.
Sunday 2 July 2006 @ 9:38 pm | By Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
This time we introduce you to another very fine anime that transport us to the pure concepts of fascination, intrigue, and love. Guessed right, it’s Maria-Sama Ga Miteru. Come see why this is a must see for most anime lovers out there. . .
Welcome to a new series that will seduce you every time with each forwarding episode, not because of its plot or fluid animation, rather by the question: How the fuck do they manage to get this ideas AND also financing them into a TV show?!