According to ANN (via John -- surprisingly, I don't follow ANN):
The February issue of Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine is announcing next Wednesday that a live-action film adaptation of Karuho Shiina's Kimi ni Todoke [award-winning] manga has been green-lit.
It's a good news, if they do a good job, of course …
read moreI can never figure out how Aira decides what to blog. This time after ignoring the shoujo tour de force for the whole season, a longish post. Unfortunately, I cannot simply read it, I have to translate first, and I'm busy right now, so I don't know yet if it …
read moreNow that I learned to pick them up, I hear them all the time. For example, Kurumi says "おどろかせちゃった", or "made you startled" - odoro-ka (neg.base) + se (because odoroku is an -u type), and the shortening of shimau, I think. Indeed it's …
read moreBuried in the usual avalanche of big screenshots was a marvelous tribute to Sawako by ExecuteOtaku, a co-writer at T.H.A.T.:
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