http://subarashii.me The anime and manga blog. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:52:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In case you didn't know there will be no One Piece manga Chapter this week  as Eiichirō Oda is taking a break to prepare future Chapters for our enjoyment. If you've been following the One Piece manga regularly, I think you will agree, Oda has definitely deserved it! The pace has ... http://subarashii.me/manga/2009/10/15/cross-epoch/ Things are beginning to heat up in Bleach. OK that's not entirely true, things are beginning to boil up and out of the saucepan that is Karakura Town, that's how hot it's getting! At the end of the previous chapter we saw Kensei step in to protect Mashiro against  Wonderweiss' surprising ... http://subarashii.me/manga/2009/10/14/bleach-377-shout-at-the-dark/ If you've got over the shock of the previous week, Tite Kubo clearly decided it was worth continuing the theme established in the previous weeks chapter and therefore this one is entitled: Execution, Extinction 2. We begin this chapter with Aizen in the process of executing Tia Harribel, the Espada Tres, who also happens ... http://subarashii.me/manga/2009/10/08/bleach-376-execution-extinction-2/ If you've been following thus far, we've just witnessed the end of one of the most nicest bad guys we've had in the Manga for a while, the Primera Espada, Coyote Starrk. This chapter opens with additional background to Starrk's origins and how he ended up with Sōsuke Aizen. We see ... http://subarashii.me/manga/2009/10/08/bleach-375-execution-extinction/ We'll here it is, the review you've all (OK, some of you) have been waiting for. As I envisaged a while back now, this is my review of the Mushishi (蟲師?) anime TV series by Hiroshi Nagahama which is based on a manga by the same name written and illustrated ... http://subarashii.me/anime-series/2009/10/01/mushishi-tv-series-review/ Luffy has gathered together a temporary band of odd-balls including past foes and new friends such as Baroque Works' Mr. 3,  Buggy, Emporio Ivankov along with two former Shichibukai, Sir Crocodile and Jinbei. The chapter starts just before we see Luffy and his band come crashing into the fray as we ... http://subarashii.me/anime-series/2009/09/21/one-piece-557-rufi-to-shirohige/ One week late, here is my review for the best chapter in quite a long time - loads of great content, Sasuke got punched in the face, Madara does the funky thing Kakashi's Mangekyo does on himself and disappears into thin air. Good times! So the chapter starts off with the mighty ... http://subarashii.me/manga/2009/09/18/naruto-463-sasuke-vs-raikage/ Let me start by saying, 'WOW!' what an episode. For me, this has been one of the events that I've been waiting for since I began watching the show some many months ago now. The way Bleach works is that it only slowly (in some cases very slowly!) reveals secrets; ... http://subarashii.me/manga/2009/09/18/bleach-374-kairo-sekketsu-kokui-hakkotsu/ This message is primarily for the attention of our current Twitter followers on our @SubarashiiME account (and for those that didn't even know we were on Twitter -- surprise!). For one reason or another, Twitter has not been indexing our Tweets in the Twitter Search. There can be any number of ... http://subarashii.me/general/2009/09/14/twitter-account-change/ Kenshin wants to leave his past behind and find redemption but his past seems determined to come back and destroy his new life of peace. I have a few anime series that are very close to my heart and Rurouni Kenshin is one them. I remember when I first watched this ... http://subarashii.me/anime-series/2009/09/12/rurouni-kenshin-tv-series/