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Megami Magazine Vol. 124

Nopy — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:30:12 +0000

It feels like it’s been a year since I’ve actually written about Megami Magazine in the month that a particular volume is for. When I asked what you guys wanted to see more of on Nopy’s Blog, many of you said you liked the magazine posts so I’ve been churning them out recently. Megami Magazine volume 124 is the last magazine I have right now since it’s the September issue, but I’ll be getting October stuff sometime next week. The cover of this volume has Yoshika and Lynette from Strike Witches riding some brooms. It makes so much sense (witches ride brooms after all), but seems so wrong without those leg propeller things.

This volume has a lot of swimsuit posters, which I found kinda weird considering it’s the September volume, the month when summer starts to end.

The first poster is of Ryouko from Ookami-san. Considering her nickname is supposed to mean wolf, there is a surprising number of cats in her room. The poster itself it decent, but Ryouko’s left foot looks like it belongs to a gremlin or something with toes that long.

This Asobi ni Iku yo poster is rather simple, but nice. I can’t remember what this activity was called, but it looks fun.

I think this is the first time I’ve seen an Amagami SS poster of someone other than Haruka. I can’t tell if Kaoru is supposed to be dressed as a nurse or not here.

If you like bikinis, then you’ll definitely like the following posters:

This one is from Sekirei,

and Mitsudomoe.

Mio’s usually very stylish, but I think Mugi wins in that category here. I like her white bikini and her braids, Mio just seems a bit clueless.

Chise’s face seems a bit off in this poster.

Here’s one for the Index/Railgun fans.

This is a funny poster of Shino from Seitokai Yakuindomo. I’ve never seen those breast pads in real life, but they show up in anime sometimes.

I was a bit disappointed with this Kowarekake no Orgol poster. The concrete wall seems too plain (ie: not enough cracks), and the buildings outside look really vague.

This volume comes with the BRS OVA on DVD.

There’s also a booklet with some info on huke’s BRS illustrations. You can see more pics of the BRS extras in Ari’s post.

The large poster included this time is of Kanade from Angel Beats looking very geeky.

On the back is the same image from the cover of the magazine.

There was also a Chaos card included in this volume. In case you’d forgotten, Chaos is short for “character operating system” and is a card battle game that you can play with other people.

For hidden images, read this post (numbers 04, 07, 12, 14, 16, 17).

Image 12 was featured in this volume’s Girl’s Avenue. It was illustrated by Mamoru Naruse (成瀬守) of a circle called The Flyers. They seem to illustrate mostly moe and eroge characters. Image 14 was kinda ecchi, but I liked all the vines and flowers.

This volume is really the summer volume of Megami with all those swimsuit posters, though in my opinion they should have released it earlier in the year. It’s a good volume to pick up if you like anime girls in bikinis or if you simply want a copy of the BRS DVD.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 117

Nopy — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:04:36 +0000

Alrighty, for everyone that’ve been waiting patiently I’ve finally gotten around to another Megami Magazine post. This is Volume 117 of Megami Magazine, for February 2010, only 1 month later than usual (or 2 if you consider that Megami releases 1 month before the printed month). With all the hype over the Nanoha movie, it’s only natural that Nanoha would once again find her way onto the cover of Megami Magazine. By my count, this is the 10th time that Nanoha has been featured on the cover, more than any other character. She has appeared in volumes 68, 77, 82, 84, 88, 90, 91, 100, 112, and 117. When you do the math, that works out to be 8.5% of all the Megami covers. I think it’s pretty obvious that someone at Megami has a soft spot for Nanoha, especially when you consider that other characters like Haruhi have only made it on to the cover twice.

The first poster in the volume is of Yuki Nagato and Ryouko Asakura from the Haruhi movie. I don’t think I’ll get the chance to see the movie until this summer when I go to Japan, but it seems like a lot of people are going fan crazy over Yuki. I guess she has an important role in the movie, or I just never realized how many fans she had.

Moving on, here’s another Nanoha poster to add to my collection. Since I don’t have all of the Megami Magazines, I don’t know how many Nanoha posters there are, but like the cover appearances, I’m sure she has a lot more than most other characters.

I really liked this poster, not for the art or anything, but because it has my two favourite Seitokai no Ichizon characters: Mafuyu and Kurimu.

I don’t know what I’m supposed to think about this poster. In case any of you haven’t seen Baka to Test to Shokanju, Hideyoshi (the one in the middle) is a guy, but everyone sees him as a girl (in otherwords, he’s a trap). In the anime he gets his own changing room because the boys don’t want him changing with them and he doesn’t want to go into the girls’ changing room so I’m surprised he’s changing with Himeji and Minami.

I think Queen’s Blade might be able to rival Nanoha in terms of the number of posters shown in Megami Magazine.

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun also had a good chance early on, but considering how the anime went, I don’t think we’ll be seeing much biri biri by the end of the year.

Originally, I thought that Hidamari Sketch was about a bunch of elementary school students, but I just found out recently that they’re in high school. I guess that explains why they’re so developed in this poster.

I had completely forgotten about watching the second season of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu until now. I don’t recall seeing any reviews of it anywhere, has anyone seen it and was it better than the first season?

I decided not to watch Omamori Himari since it looked like an average harem anime, but it does produce some yummy posters :)

This was a cute poster. I like Mio’s clothes, it’s too bad Yui and Ui didn’t dress up too.

From the looks of it, it doesn’t seem like the girls in Ladies vs Butlers wear any bras. Either that or their clothes are extremely tight around the chest. I don’t mind some ecchi stuff every once in a while in an anime, but when an anime is all about the fanservice (like this one), then there’s really no point in watching it.

That statement also applies to Seikon no Qwaser.

Fate/stay Night Unlimited Blade Works also came out in theatres around the same time as Haruhi and Nanoha, but I think those two kinda pushed FSN to the back of everyone’s minds.

This is an interesting scene. I don’t think I’ve ever seen people snowboarding/skiing/tobogganing in the snow naked.

Did anyone bother watching Chu-Bra? I didn’t like the first episode so I didn’t watch any more of it and it seems like no one else watched it either.

I don’t follow the Koihime Musou series so can someone enlighten me as to who this pink-haired girl is?

Cute catgirl.

I really like the character designs for Seto no Hanayome, but I just have too much anime to watch to get around to it.

This illustration is part of the Girls Avenue section. I like the style of the armour.

I’m not familiar with this anime, it looks too childish for me.

Not sure why they decided to put a Kurokami poster in here when the anime ended so long ago. I was a bit disappointed with how the story turned out.

I didn’t really like Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan either, but I thought that Plug was a cute character, especially with those bunny ear-like things sticking out of her head.

It’s always funny to see anime characters cosplaying as other anime characters ^.^

I just have to say that that is a huge bed. I wish I had one.

I watched Kowarekake no Orgol, but I don’t remember seeing those three girls in the background in the anime. Is there another part of the story that I don’t know about?

There was quite a bit of information regarding the Nanoha movie, certainly a lot more than the Haruhi movie.

Weib Schwarz looks like it’s trying to capitalize on Haruhi fans recently. If I knew anyone that played with Weib Schwarz cards I’d probably buy some, but right now I would have no one to play with.

Another free card came with this volume. This time it’s Fate from the Nanoha movie, but I think she looks a bit scary in here.

In case any Umineko no Naku Koro Ni fans missed it, the DVD and Blu-ray for the 4th volume was released on January 22. I thought the anime was better than most, but it wasn’t as good as Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, which was a big disappointment.

This time the large poster had Nanoha on both sides. The first side has Fate and Nanoha in their barrier jackets with the city at night in the background.

The opposite side has Nanoha and Fate in the middle of their transformation sequences (aka naked). I’m sure a lot of guys out there would be happy to have this poster, but I’m sure a lot of them would also get into trouble with someone if they stuck it on their wall :)

I really liked the first several posters in this volume, but the ones in the middle and end seemed very average to me. There also wasn’t much content in the magazine that caught my attention except for the Nanoha stuff. Overall, it felt like Nanoha was the main focus of this volume so it’s certain to please any Nanoha fan, but the number of non-Nanoha posters helped to balance it out if you don’t like the series.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 116

Nopy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:28:03 +0000

It looks like I’m getting close to catching up with my Megami posts. On the cover of volume 116 are the girls from Seitokai no Ichizon doing some cosplay. Personally, I’m pretty happy that they finally decided to put Seitokai no Ichizon on the cover of a Megami Magazine since it was my favourite show last season. It seems most of the covers lately have been focusing on new/upcoming anime movies, so it’s nice to see a tv series back on every once in a while. Anyways, enough with the cover, if you wanted to see the pin-up posters (and I’m sure you do), they’re all below:

I don’t recall ever seeing biribiri play tennis, but I think tennis outfits are cute so it’s all good to me. Their skirts do seem a bit on the short side though, I wonder if Mikoto is wearing shorts under there too.

I haven’t seen Nyan Koi so I don’t know who these characters are, but I wonder what would happen if you put a dog in there.

I never really got into Queen’s Blade either, but I did watch the first episode. Isn’t the girl on the right supposed to be a bad guy or something? I also recall her (or maybe it was someone else) shooting some acid milk out of their jugs…

It seems like every Haruka poster that shows up in Megami either has her in a bath or doing some kind of cosplay. I guess an otaku doing cosplay makes sense, but I’d like some more posters of her in her regular clothes.

I like the ice wings on the blue-haired girl, and the kuma-san panties are cute ^.^

Don’t you just hate water that you can’t see through?

I think anime is the only place where I’ve actually seen girls wear nothing but an apron. I guess the Japanese just really like cute girls wearing aprons or something.

Hot yuri action is always welcome here. Has anyone watched here watched all of Shin Koihime Musou, and is it any good?

Mio looks really cool and mature in this poster, I think it’s a combination of her fashion sense, posture, and the fact that she’s holding a cup of tea. Yui and Azusa, on the other hand, still look like a couple of high schoolers. They should take some pointers from Mio.

Here’s a couple of nice posters of Nanoha and Fate, but I prefer them in their battle clothes over regular clothes.

Haruhi isn’t the type of girl who would normally dress up and go to formal events, so it’s nice seeing her in such a beautiful dress. In the future, when I’m married, I hope my wife will have good fashion sense like Haruhi and Mikuru here ^.^

You can probably guess what’s been going on (or will be going on) in this scene, but like I said before, yuri action is always welcome here.

If anyone has ever wondered what kind of panties Ange and Maria wear, you now have your answer. I was disappointed in the way they ended the Umineko no Naku Koro Ni anime, hopefully there’ll be a second season to answer all the unanswered questions.

Stripped pantsu are pretty popular, and it looks like they’re starting to make stripped bikinis too. I wonder if it’ll catch on.

Although this is the January 2010 volume of Megami Magazine, it actually comes out in December, which explains why there’s still a Christmas themed poster in here. If Eve were santa and she was bringing me Mio, Kuchinashi, and Setsuna, then I’d stay up all night waiting for her on Christmas Eve.

There’s been quite a few Juuden-chan posters recently. Plug always seems to be doing something wrong.

This volume must be geared towards yuri lovers or something. So if you were Keita, would you choose Ako or Riko?

Here’s the picture that was used on the cover of this volume. I just love Chizuru in a nurse outfit; a nurse is just so far away from her usual personality that it’s funny.

Once again, considering Chizuru’s personality I’m a bit surprised at this poster. She doesn’t seem like the kind of girl who would let her guard down enough for someone to get a shot of this. Then again, if someone did walk in on her and Kurimu changing, they’d probably disappear the next day.

What happened in Kowarekake no Orgol was so sad. If I ever get a robot/android in the future, I’ll be sure to take good care of it.

There was quite a bit of Seitokai no Ichizon content in here, which was great. As you can see, there was even a whole page devoted to my favourite character, Mafuyu. She’s a crazy game addict and BL lover, but she’s just hilarious. My favourite scenes with her in the anime was when she realized that the panties in the lost and found were actually hers, and her reaction when Ken meets Nakameguro in the last episode.

The Nanoha movie looks so good, I wish I could watch it right now. Alas, I won’t be able to see it until I go to Japan in June or until the DVD comes out, whichever is first.

I’m also looking forward to watching the Fate Stay Night movie. It looks like Rin is going to play a bigger part in the movie than in the anime ^.^

I’m always impressed by the great character designs and artwork that they have in eroge and dating sims. After seeing a few of these types of games, I can see why some girls play eroge too, it’s not all about sex after all. It’s a shame that not all anime are done as nice as this.

It looks like Weib Schwarz is introducing some new cards, this time it’s from Haruhi.

You got to see Ange and Maria’s panties earlier, now here’s Jessica’s. That little picture in the middle looks like a dakimakura to me, I didn’t think Jessica was that popular of a character.

There was no B2 size poster that came with this volume. Instead, a little book containing some artwork from Kanokon (mostly of Chizuru) was included.

This would be great to have if you like big oppai, but I find them to be a bit excessive. I know it doesn’t look that bad in anime, but if I actually saw someone walking around with knockers like that it’d just freak me out.

Overall, I thought this was a great issue. There’s certainly a lot of yuri in here so if you’re into that, this would be a good volume to pick up. I was also happy that they included more Seitokai no Ichizon material than usual, but I would’ve been even happier if the little booklet that was included was Seitokai-related instead of Kanokon-related. You can’t get everything you want I guess, and I’m sure the booklet made plenty of other people really happy.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 115

Nopy — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:04:09 +0000

Sorry, everyone, for the lack of posts recently. Life has been really busy so I haven’t been able to write much or reply to comments for the past two weeks. Now that I have a break though, I can finally get back to making some regular posts. I still have several magazines that I haven’t gone through, but I’ll get to them eventually. Today I’m going to take a look at Megami Magazine Vol. 115. Although Christmas is long over, there’s still plenty of snow on the ground, so this issue of Megami Magazine doesn’t feel out of season yet.

This poster was a bit shocking, but I guess bigger is better, right? I can see why Kouta has such a hard time resisting Chizuru’s advances in Kanokon.

I guess there’s more Queen’s Blade anime coming. Never really got into the story though.

I remember watching parts of the first season of Koihime Musou, but I don’t remember seeing the girl on the left. Is she a new character?

It should come as no surprise that none of the skirts worn in Megami Magazine are long enough to cover a girls panties.

There’s quite a few swimsuit posters in here, which is weird considering it’s the December 2009 issue. I’m not complaining though, especially if there are more Seitokai no Ichizon posters ^.^

I finally got around to watching the first episode of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Purezza a couple weeks ago. It looks like there’s some more characters and even more risqué scenes than the first season.

I can’t say I disapprove of Yuri when I get nice posters like this one.

It looks like Yui is going to be late for school again. Congrats to her for placing second in the 2009 Anime Saimoe Tournament though.

I would be stunned if I saw two naked girls falling out of the sky like this. I wonder how Ikaros is keeping her tea in that cup.

The female members of the SOS-dan look ready for winter, except for the fact that they’re still wearing skirts. I’ve always wondered if Japanese schoolgirls still wear skirts when it’s freezing outside. Has anyone been to Japan in the winter and seen this?

Stripped pantsu seems to be gaining popularity in recent years, I guess that’s why Natsuru is wearing them even though he’s actually a guy. What I find weirder than that is that their clothes are all torn from the attacks, but it doesn’t look like they’ve actually been hurt anywhere. You’ve gotta have some skill to cut through stockings but leave the skin unharmed.

As usual, Kuroko is wearing some outrageously revealing outfit, putting the spice in the show. I can’t imagine what To Aru Kagaku no Railgun would be like without her.

Waking up to a couple of almost-naked catgirls would be nice if it weren’t for the fact that I’m allergic to them.

It’s been a while since NEEDLESS ended so I was a bit surprised to see this poster in here.

I stopped watching Weiss Survive quite a while ago, but I might pick it up again since it looks like there are new characters now.

I wonder what the girl on top is doing…

Looks like Plug is getting scolded again. Not exactly sure why she’s not wearing anything besides an apron.

Tayutama ended quite a while back as well, but I don’t mind seeing a new poster every now and then since I really like the character designs. I prefer animal ears that look like it’s a part of the hair rather than ones that just randomly stick out of the head.

Walking in on a girl changing is never a good idea.

The ears in Nyan Koi are an example of what I mean by ears that just stick out of the head rather than blend in with the hair.

Bernkastel is a little weird, so I can imagine her doing something like this. What I don’t get is why Lambda Delta looks so annoyed, she should be enjoying seeing Bernkastel in a sexy pose.

It doesn’t look like the makers of Aika ZERO have caught on to the stripped pantsu fad yet.

I got around to watching Kowarekake no Orgol last month, it was so cute, but so sad.

There was quite a bit of info on biribiri and friends in this issue. I wonder if Kuroko will ever succeed in dominating Mikoto.

There are some pretty amazing swimsuit figures now available. If they didn’t cost so much, I’d probably have a shelf full of anime figures in bikinis.

Looks like Princess Lover is trying to sell some more DVDs. The story didn’t seem all that good though.

The extra item that comes with the magazine this time is not a B2 size poster, but a book-in-book titled “All About Haruhi.” I’m sure you can already tell what’s going to be in it based on the title.

I wish I had a full-size image of Haurhi in that dress on the right. Does anyone know where I can find one?

Yuki looks really good in her dress too.

I was a bit disappointed that Mikuru was wearing her usual bunny outfit. I was hoping she’d get a nice dress too.

There was quite a bit of information about Haruhi in this book.

At the end was a reminder about the Haruhi movie that came out earlier this year. I can’t wait for it to come out on DVD. On the left is a bunch of postcards that come with the book.

The reverse side of the postcards have some sweet Haruhi pics. My favourite is the one on the top right with the girls in wedding dresses. I certainly won’t be mailing these anywhere.

Considering that this volume was released for December, I expected a lot more winter posters, but There seemed to be more swimsuit posters than usual. I guess with the cold weather, the guys at Megami Magazine decided their readers needed something to warm them up. My favourites in this volume were the Seitokai, Railgun, and Tayutama posters. I also really like the Haruhi book-in-book.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 114

Nopy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:29:43 +0000

Featured on the cover of volume 114 of Megami Magazine are To Aru Kagaku no Railgun characters biribiri and my favourite, Kuroko. I quite liked the variety of pin-up posters that were included this time around. As usually, I have pics of them below:

Haruka Nogizaka is probably the dream girlfriend for many otaku, mainly because she’s an otaku herself. I still haven’t watch the second season, but I will once all of the blu-rays are out.

This was a bit surprising, a poster with Saki characters, but no Nodoka. I guess all of the posters of her from previous volumes was too much.

I can’t see Shana not being able to jump over that thing. As small as she is, she’s still really athletic.

It looks like feathers are now included as one of the censor materials, including steam, fog, rays of light, and the traditional green leaf.

Sometimes I wonder what angels actually wear. I highly doubt it’d be anything like the clothing from Sora no Otoshimono though.

Some more girls at the beach.

Like I said in a previous post, it seems like Horo is always naked in her pin-up posters. It doesn’t look like Megami Magazine is going to put clothes on her any time soon.

I get a feeling there’s going to be a big wave of ero-anime coming out in the future, and I blame it on the success of Queen’s Blade.

I’d much rather have slice-of-life harem comedies like Seitokai no Ichizon. Has anyone ever noticed that Kurimu’s name sounds like “cream” in English but with a Japanese accent?

Speaking of cream, Charlotte and Sylvia seems to have gotten it all over themselves in this poster.

I only watched the trailer for Sacred Blacksmith. Did anyone finish the series? How did it turn out?

I don’t think anyone can argue that Mio is the moe-moe queen. She looks cute no matter what age she is.

This brings up an interesting concept, mermaid maids.

I never really got into Taishou Yakyuu Musume, probably because I have no interest in baseball.

I want to watch Kiddy Girl-and, but I want to watch Kiddy Grade first.

These girls from NEEDLESS have really short skirts…

Nyankoi was one of those anime that I never really got into.

CANAAN and bunny girls seem to be a common combination.

Does anyone know what Plug is doing here? She’s lying in bed with her underwear off, and she’s holding a can containing some white stuff. I wonder what it is.

Flying lolis! lol

I still haven’t gotten the chance to watch Kowarekake no Orgol. I hear it’s either really sad or happy at the end, depending on how you look at it.

I was actually looking forward to 11eyes before it came out, but the 1st episode was such a disappointment that I decided not to watch it. The girls looked kinda cute though.

I don’t know why they included a Halloween girl when this is the November volume of Megami Magazine, but I like ^.^

I just laughed when I saw this clothing. I don’t care what anyone says, you can’t look like a cool gangster when you have girls from the most moe anime in recent memory on the back of your jacket.

It’d be nice if there was a pin-up poster for this image.

I also wouldn’t mind if each of the girls in Seitokai no Ichizon got their own posters. I’d especially like one of Mafuyu in that pose.

In case you were wondering, this is what the seiyuu for the Seitokai girls look like. It’s nice to see that Mafuyu’s seiyuu is pretty good looking too.

I wasn’t aware that they were releasing a second Higurashi live-action movie until I saw this. I guess I’ll have to find some way to get this one too.

Volume 114 came along with a pencil board. On one side is the image of Rin and Saber from volume 113, which is kinda weird since it would’ve made more sense to include it in that volume instead of this one.

On the other side is a young maid.

As usual, a large poster was also included with this volume.

On the front is the same image that was on the cover of the magazine. This is definitely going on my wall.

On the reverse side is Vivio from Nanoha StrikerS. I think it looks weird having Nanoha and Fate’s clothes spread out like that beside her. It looks like she zapped them to dust and all that’s left of them are their clothes or something.

This was a pretty nice volume of Megami Magazine, it had a large variety of anime and some really good posters. My favourite pin-up poster is the one of Kurimu-chan, and I really liked the To Aru Kagaku no Railgun poster. Overall a good improvement over the previous volume.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 113

Nopy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:33:58 +0000

Three months later than usual, here’s Megami Magazine Vol. 113 featuring Rin Tosaka and Saber on the front cover. Its been a while since I’ve been able to flip through a Megami Magazine so this was like a blast from the past for me.

Although this was from a while ago, I don’t think K-ON will be going away anytime soon.

I know Mio, Yui, and Azusa are the three most popular girls of K-ON, but I’d still like to see more of my favourite character, Mugi.

Did anyone actually enjoy the Princess Lover anime?

I swear that almost every poster of Horo has her naked, but she’s wearing clothes all of the time in the anime.

Yay for bikinis!

And anime with bikinis!

As much as I liked the beginning of CANAAN, it just fell off a cliff somewhere in the middle, but at least we got some bunny girls out of it.

Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan was probably one of the more ecchi anime out there last season, it’s no surprise that the Juuden-chan posters are so suggestive…

It feels like so long ago that Saki aired, so seeing this poster kinda surprised me.

I thought this one was pretty cool. I like the girl in the blue suit.

After so long, I still can’t believe what happened at the end of Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~, it was so sad. Well, at least it looks like Mio and Elen are enjoying themselves though.

I’ve never heard of Mahou Tsuka wa Yuyu Shiki Otome before, but Ru-ru Kisaragi and Yu-yu Mashiro look pretty cute.

What better way to sell anime cards than to make your own anime? I still have to catch up with Weiss Survive, but I don’t remember the episodes being all that long.

I’m pretty sure now that Kanokon is really an H-anime disguised as a regular anime (kinda like Queen’s Blade), especially after having seen the screenshots of the OVA.

Did anyone watch all of GA? I remember seeing the first episode and thought it was too childish, does it get any better or is it pretty much the same throughout the series?

Aika Zero = panty-shot heaven? It seems all the Megami Magazine posters of it involve panty shots.

Still waiting for Kowarekake no Orgol to be released. It feels like its been in production forever.

Just a reminder for anyone looking forward to Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, it comes out on Jan. 23 this year.

These pages sure do bring back memories. I think I only watched the first four episodes of Endless Eight. There’s only so much time a person can waste just to see their favourite characters in different clothing.

After seeing these pages, I remembered that the opening song for the Nadeko Snake arc in Bakemonogatari should be out now, then I find out that its been delayed. Looks like I’ll have to wait until the end of the month to get the full version of Renai Circulation by Kana Hanazawa.

A look at some new figures. Unfortunately, it was impossible for me to preorder the Mio nendoroid in time, and I don’t have enough money or room for a collection of Touhou figures.

As if having their own anime and posters wasn’t enough, Weib Schwarz is still putting a bunch of ads at the back of Megami Magazines.

If anyone liked Princess Lover, the DVDs are already coming out for them.

This volume came with a large poster. On one side is Nanoha from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st. As much as I like Nanoha, I personally think that Megami has been overloaded with Nanoha material over the past year.

On the other side is the same image of Rin and Saber that was on the cover of the magazine.

I like a few of the posters in this volume, like the K-ON ones and the “deep one” poster, but overall I didn’t think they were all that great. Sure, there were a lot of girls in bikinis, which is true for every Megami Magazine, but it just felt like something was missing. Maybe it was just some of the poses or backgrounds could have been done better. I’m also not too excited about some of the childish stuff like GA and Kanamemo; it’s Megami (goddess) Magazine after all, they should just stick to what they’re good at: bishoujo anime characters.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 112

Nopy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:44:54 +0000

This volume of Megami Magazine is probably one of the thicker ones that I’ve gotten considering all the freebies that came with it. But as always, lets take a look at the posters first :)

When you’ve got an anime with girls that are always running (or swimming) around in very revealing swimwear, you know they’re going to show up in Megami Magazine sooner or later. That’s certainly the case with Umi Monogatari.

This is a really reall adorable poster of Azu-nyan ^.^ I wish there was a bigger version somewhere.

Even if the girls from an anime aren’t normally in swimwear, Megami Magazine does the favour of putting them in some for us. Canaan looks pretty confused though, I guess anyone would be if they were suddenly put in a swimsuit and found themselves on a beach.

The chair is becoming even worse of an enemy than steam and fog.

Personally, I don’t like it when characters are drawn with red circles on their cheeks, it just looks weird to me. Does anyone else think so too?

On the other hand, red blush doesn’t bother me at all.

I haven’t seen Sengoku Basara, but maybe I should watch it. The character designs certainly look interesting.

When a figure of Plug comes out, I hope it’s in this position ^.^

Plug in a bathtub would be nice too.

Sometimes you have to wonder what the girls in these posters are doing. What kind of situation would involve 3 nearly-naked girls in the bathroom with two girls seemingly feeling up the third.

I think the only reason Ein and Zwei in Phantom ~Requiem For The Phantom~ were pretending to be high school students was so they could show some schoolgirls in the anime. Of coure, now we get to see Drei as a shoolgirl too.

Basquash is also one of those anime I haven’t gotten arond to.

Lolis in swimsuits anyone?

Or maybe you prefer no swimsuits at all.

I haven’t seen any new Yami to Boushi no Hon no Tabibito stuff in a long time. That anime had some good character designs too.

I didn’t really like Kurokami, but with posters like this, it can’t be all bad.

I actually liked the animation in GA, but the anime itself bored me out of my mind. It seems more like something kids would watch.

The girl on the left has a really nice figure for someone so short…

Another Kowarekake no Orgol poster.

Although the posters are the main selling point of Megami Magazine, there was some nice artwork in the magazine itself too. I just love Haruhi in that dress, and look, there are DVD boxsets for Kanokon and Zero no Tsukaima now.

Still waiting for the Nanoha movie to come out, it’s going to be so good!

Just had to show this, love the cat ears and tail.

Here’s the adorable pic of Azu-nyan again, this time alongside her seiyuu, who’s also pretty cute.

I wonder how many girls change rooms/locker rooms have been shown in this magazine over the years.

Can’t wait for To Aru Kagaku no Railgun to start up, then I get to see more of Kuroko <3

This page really shocked me, mainly because it’s not animated! But just because it’s not animated doesn’t mean it’s not good, I know I’d like to have my desserts brought to me on a naked girl.

All of these Weib Schwrz ads are starting to make me want to get a deck, I guess ads really do work.

For any other Umineko fans out there, the first DVD will be out this october.

This volume had quite a few freebies that came along with it.

First off is a Nanoha drama CD. I still haven’t listened to it, but I probably wouldn’t understand anything since I don’t know Japanese.

The next freebie was a Weib Schwarz card based on the first Nanoha movie.

There’s also a CD Jacket included so you don’t have to label your new Nanoha CD.

This also came with the magazine. I think the artwork on the cover looks a bit weird, but the actual comic itself is drawn pretty well.

And of course, there’s the large poster that comes with most Megami Magazine volumes. This time around both sides are from Nanoha. The first side is for the movie, and the other side is for the new Nanoha game.

I really liked this volume of Megami Magazine, it had quite a bit of Nanoha stuff which is always welcome. Out of all the posters, I’d have to say that Azu-nyan was my favourite, hopeflly there will be more of her in the future.

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Megami Magazine Vol. 111

Nopy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:28:58 +0000

There were lots of yummy posters in this volume of Megami Magazine, and some nice extras too. As always, here’s a look at what posters they have in this volume:

First up is the wise wolf Horo in an enticing pose on the bed. Personally, I think the colour of her ears and tail make her look more like a fox than a wolf.

Not sure what anime this is from.

Saki posters are always nice to look at.

Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo posters are also welcome any time. Having the girls in chinese dresses is a plus.

Canaan looks pretty good, but I still have no clue what’s going on.

I’m sure lolicons would enjoy this anime. It was too “cute” for me.

I like the girl with the leaf bikini, the the one to the right of her is freaking scary.

Princess Lover = harem + fanservice, a combination I’m starting to grow tired of in anime, but it makes for nice posters like this one.

It’s almost as if she’s deliberately showing everyone her panties. Seriously, how many people actually bend over like that to take a drink of water.

What I don’t get about Umi Monogatari is if these people live in the ocean, why do they have feet, wouldn’t it make more sense to have flippers? Anyways, its got nice artwork and I like the character designs ^.^

Anyone with a megane fetish would probably like this poster.

I didn’t think Rika was the type to wear ichigo panties, she’s always so serious.

This is probably the most risqué picture I’ve seen in Megami Magazine. You can actually see part of Plug’s nipple >.>

Poor Zwei, little does he know that the two women that he cares for the most have dumped him for each other.

I like the older version of Mashiro, but the loli version is kinda cute too.

Here’s more loli material in the form of a blue-haired robot.

I was quiet surprised at how much they decided to expose in this volume (the Juuden-chan and Spice and Wolf posters), but hey, with the new Nyantype Magazine out they’ve got to step up the service. I guess we’ll be expecting some more skin in the future.

Some of the images for upcoming (or I guess past) DVD releases and newer series were also really nice.

More Tayutama on Blu-Ray and DVD.

The first Phantom DVD is also out now.

I’d like to see someone cosplay as Plug from Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan just to see what they’d look like in that suit.

I still haven’t gotten around to watching Hayate no Gotoku 2. It looks like I’ll have to watch it all in one go like with the first one.

I haven’t seen anything on Kanokon for a while. Chizuru looks the same as always.

Lelouch certainly did manage to obtain an impressive harem.

Girls, magic, and panties; that should sum up Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou pretty well.

Needless is the perfect anime for adolescent boys. It’s got cool heroes, some fight scenes, and bouncing boobs galore.

Kara no Kyoukai is another one of those anime that I still haven’t gotten around to watching.

This little plush toy of Horo really creeps me out. Is this even on anyone’s want list?

One of the extras that came in the volume was this K-ON pencil board. Unfortunately mine’s stuck to the magazine and I’m afraid I might rip out some pages if I try to pull it out.

On the other side of the pencil board is the evangelion image from the front cover.

The other extra that I got was this little K-ON booklet. Here’s a little peek at the contents:

I didn’t know the K-ON club had so many releases already. I wonder if any of these CDs are still available.

That’s it for this volume of Megami Magazine. I thought there was a noticeable change in this one compared to previous volumes. The posters seemed more fanservicey than usual, and there was a pencil board AND booklet included with the magazine (it’s usually one or the other). Hopefully there will be even more extras in the future ^.^

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Megami Magazine Vol. 110

Nopy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:02:04 +0000

The 110th volume of Megami Magazine features Saki and Nodoka from the mahjong anime “Saki” on the front cover. I’m not following Saki right now, but from the images that I’ve seen it looks like more than just mahjong goes on in the anime.

The posters this time around were pretty nice, as you can see below:

On the first page are the moe girls of K-ON. Personally, I liked Mio at the start, but by the end of the series, my favourite character had shifted to Mugi. It makes me sad that they decided not to include her in this poster :(

Like I said before, I really liked the animation in Tayutama, but the story just couldn’t keep me watching so it’s nice to get some posters I can put on my wall.

Yay for Haruhi-chan!

I haven’t seen Basquash before, but from the size of those oppai, I’m guessing there’s quite a bit of fanservice in it.

It’s funny how there seems to be so many more female fighters in Valkyria Chronicles than in real life. I’m not complaining though, especially if there’s more Alicia.

Yoko doing cosplay is always a plus. I like the chinese dress best out of the four. In case you’re wondering where all the costumes are from, it’s actually from Yoko’s first album which you can read about here.

Here’s the first of the Saki posters in this volume. It looks like it belongs on a dakimakura instead of a poster, but I like it, she looks so cute with those bunny ears.

On the reverse side of the bunny ear girl are the girls from Queen’s Blade. Strangely enough, even though they’re in bathing suits on the beach, they don’t seem to be flashing as much skin as in the anime.

I can’t wait for the Kowarekake no Orgol anime to come out. If any of you don’t know what it is, it’s basically something being put together by amateurs (not a production studio) that has a similar story to Chobits. From the trailers on youtube, the animation quality looks even better than some work that actual anime studios have put out.

This volume’s Girls Avenue girl has some big assets :)

I wonder how those two can stand the smell of wet dog.

This is the image that they used on the from cover of the magazine. Unfortunately, they decided to just use a generic background which is a bit upsetting. They could have at least drawn in some scenery or something.

Ever play strip poker? what about strip mahjong? Here’s undeniable proof that there’s more going on in Saki than just mahjong playing. Poor Nodoka looks like she lost a few too many times.

I’m not sure what’s up with this duck outfit, it looks kinda weird.

Cal’s a bit too young for my tastes. I wonder if Phantom will get to the point where Cal becomes Drei, she looks way cooler that way: http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=148924

In the non-poster parts of the magazine there’s some stats and bios of all the Queen’s Blade characters. I’m sure fans would like to know the actual measurements of their favourite girls.

I still haven’t gotten around to watching the second season of Hayate no Gotoku 2, but it looks like Hinagiku is in it quite a bit, all the more reason to watch it soon.

In case anyone was wondering what the voices behind the characters of K-ON actually look like, here they are.

There was no large poster in this volume, but I did get some nice K-ON stickers instead (oh joy -.-).

Some info on Kowarekake no Orgol, which will be coming out this summer.

Weib Schwarz really does have a lot of advertisements. I’m thinking of actually getting some cards now, they look nice, and the gameplay is explained in the anime Weib Survive (Weiss Survive).

Utawarerumono fans probably already know this, but the OVA came out last month.

Besides not having Mugi in a poster, and replacing the regular large poster with some stickers, I actually liked this volume. My favourite posters would be the Tayutama one, the one of Yoko, the bunny-ears girl, and the Kowarekake no Orgol one.

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