On a little corner of this sports field opposite the road from the university is a little enclave full of colourful delights. Because more flowers are blooming now, Kagami and I decided to go have a look at their progress.

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written by astrobunny \\ beautiful, color, field, flowers, gardens, ilam, kagami, naming, river, win

Despite this being just a spinoff of Toaru Majutsu no Index, I'm so looking forward to this because it emphasizes MISAKA. That's right. There's something about electricity that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. That's probably why I'm an electrical engineer.

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written by astrobunny \\ awesome, epic, girls, judgement, kagaku, mikoto, mio, misaka, no, railgun, science, toaru, win

My point exactly. Hitagi is now synonymous with Awe.

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written by astrobunny \\ 2009, anime, awesome, hitagi, perfect, senjougahara, shaft, trash, win

I still prefer the Student Council President after all...

written by astrobunny \\ alice, hinagiku, in, pinafore, win, wonderland

I'll tell you what I like about Shugo Chara, and its not the millions of doujins spawned about the kind of underaged contact a small (I hope) community seems to fancy. But its how they make being good kids look so cool. I must admit, Shugo Chara is sometimes embarrasing, but often they make very very good points about some very good ideals and show the consequences of not upholding these ideals.

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written by astrobunny \\ amu, awesome, best policy, chara, epic, guidance, honesty, ikuto, is, mom, moral, parental, secret, shugo, win

Kagami and Tsukasa decided to put a little show on for me today. They must've been practicing hard, since sometimes when I catch Kagami jumping around she'd like go "I'm not doing anything!" and storm off angrily. But I didn't know what that was all about anyway so I just shrugged. It turns out it was this.

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written by astrobunny \\ dance, epic, figma, hiiragi, joy, kagami, konata, love, love and joy, tsukasa, win, yui

Who cares about the rest of the show when the OP's this good? So what if the latter half of the show is full of eyecatches and freezes because the artists didn't make the episode in time? This is enough epic win to last for 30 minutes!

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written by astrobunny \\ awesome, bakemonogatari, banzai, buruma, curse, epic, loli, nadeko, sengoku, snake, win

There must be a reason why girls and machines go together so well.

written by astrobunny \\ awesome, exoskeleton, mecha, taiga, win

Last week, my blog was the winner of the beNippon prize draw. First of all however, I'd like to thank all my readers for all their support in helping keep this blog alive! Thank you all so much! And thank you for your comments! And don't think I'll just leave it at that. I'll find a way to let you guys win something too! For now however, if you own a blog, you can always join this prize draw too by going to benippon.com and find out how you can make sure you have one of their banners on your site and that they know about it so they can enter you into the draw too. Finally, I'd like to thank beNippon for giving the chance to participate in the quest for suddenly acquired figures, and for giving me the choice of a very cute and very fappable figure.

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written by astrobunny \\ benippon, draw, figma, figure, online, prize, shakugan no shana, store, trusted, win

This weekend I made a trip up to Auckland to have a look at Doujin Overload, an attempt made by a small anime shop and aspiring anime artists to cultivate a culture of doujin creation similar to the one in Japan, where the Comic Market comes to mind.

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written by astrobunny \\ artists, auckland, collateral damage, creative, dola-nz, doujin, epic, event, fail, failgato, failkuru, failruhi, fan, fanboy, figures, miki, mugi, overload, shugo chara, su, suiseiseki, talent, to heart, win, yukata