It’s been a week since I went missing, but I’m back. I had a ton of work to get done so I didn’t have any time to post anything on my blog and only managed a few tweets here and there. Now that everything is done though, it’s time to get back to going through my backlog of magazines. First up is volume 4 of Nyantype Magazine which came out before Christmas. On the cover is the cute angel Icarus from Sora no Otoshimono. You’d think that angels would have more clothing, but I guess they don’t have a dress code where Icarus is from.

We’ve already seen posters of Haruhi and Mikuru in the previous volumes and now it’s time for Yuki fans to rejoice with this sweet poster.

On the reverse side is a Sora no Otoshimono poster. This one looks like it was meant for a dakimakura. Maybe someone will actually make one.

Is it just me or does Kurimu’s leg seem a bit weird? Oh well, I really like Minatsu’s gold anklets and arm band.

I’ve seen a lot of striped pantsu in anime, but I’m pretty sure that this is my first time seeing a striped bra. It’s even in the usual white and blue.

I like cat ears and the tail, but the big paw gloves just look weird to me.

I bet Strike Witches fans would like to have this image printed on a bed sheet rather than on a poster.

I really liked this Love Plus poster. It really has that Christmas feel with the presents, the tree in the background, and how the edges fade to white.

11eyes looked really cool at first, but then it started to look more and more like a fanservice anime. From the looks of this poster, I’m guessing every time the girls got into a fight they’d get some clothes torn off.

Then again, I don’t think anything can have more fanservice than Queen’s Blade. The only thing separating it from hentai is stuff like the steam you see here.

This poster was cute, Mio and Azusa in santa outfits. That big strawberry in the middle is kinda weird though, makes me wonder why they put it in.

I’m really curious as to how Kanu lost all of her clothing.

This poster reminds me that I still have to finish watching the second season of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu.

I’m really disappointed at the way railgun has turned out. Very few of the episodes had anything to do with the plot, including the beach episode that this poster was based on.

I was a bit surprised to see this Princess Lover poster in here, but then I remembered that this was from before Christmas.

The same goes for this Sacred Blacksmith poster.

More Christmas themed posters. I wish it was Christmas again, I had nothing to worry about back then.

And since the railgun poster wasn’t enough, here’s another obligatory beach/swimsuit poster for your enjoyment.

For anyone that missed it, Kanon is now on Blu-Ray and it looks AWESOME. I think every Kanon fan should get it even if there aren’t any subtitles. After all, a true fan would have memorized all the lines already

There was a little Seitokai no Ichizon feature in the magazine that included the characters wearing a bunch of different types of clothing. I thought Kurimu in the red dress with the two pistols was really cute, she’s so small but she’s trying to act so mature.

I had considered watching Omamori Himari when it came out, but I figured that I’d seen enough harem anime to last me a few years and watching more would just get really boring.

A bunch of upcoming (as of December) figures are showcased here. I got my Nanoha nendoroid a couple of days ago so you guys can expect a review sometime next week.

This volume also came with a free Weib Schawrz card. I tend to keep them in the pouches attached to the magazine so I don’t lose them.

On the back of the magazine is an advertisement for Chu-Bra, which in my opinion was a failure of an anime. Anime producers seriously need to come up with better ideas.

One of the extras that came with this magazine was this Love Plus Christmas card. I bet a lot of Love Plus fans would enjoy receiving one of these.

The other extra was this Nanoha Force pencil board.

Personally I liked this side better than the first side. It’s too bad that they put Fate off on the side there.

Overall, I’d say that this was an average volume of Nyantype. Except for the Love Plus poster and the poster of Yuki at the beginning, nothing else really stood out. If Nyantype could obtain more posters like those, they might become more popular than Megami one day.

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I don’t remember the last time I took a look at Nyantype Magazine. Since they don’t release on a regular schedule, I kinda forgot to review them after volume 2. Anyways, better late than never, so here’s a look at the 3rd volume of Nyantype Magazine.

This volume starts out with a pinup poster of loli Nanoha and her two non-magical friends. The one thing I like about Nyantype over Megami is that they always have one of these larger pinup posters that are 3 sheets long instead of the regular two.

On the reverse side is Mikuru dressed in some really nice clothes. Unfortunately for her, she forgot to check the weather report. I bet Kyon would be jumping for joy though.

I didn’t think Kurimu-chan was a very clumsy character from watching Seitokai no Ichizon, but I wonder how she ended up in that position with the milk only falling on her in what seems like groups of droplets instead of spilling across her clothes.

Is it just me, or does it look like an invisible hand is lifting up Haruka’s dress? There’s no way normal clothes act like that.

I never really got into the Strike Witches craze, but was the girl on the left always so… droopy? It also looks like one of her hands just disappears into nowhere.

I guess at least one good thing came out of Princess Lover

Can someone explain why they have microphones. I thought Koihime Musou was set in some ancient land or something.

Like I’ve said in previous posts, Horo always appears naked in posters. This only further proves my point.

It’s been a while since I saw Saki poster, but then again, this volume came out a long time ago. I was surprised at how fast everyone forgot about the anime, I guess it wasn’t really very good.

I wonder if To Aru Kagaku no Railgun will turn out like Saki after it ends. Anyways, I thought this poster looked a bit off, I think it might be the way Mikoto’s eyes are drawn, it looks like she’s cross-eyed.

The Sacred Blacksmith also seems to have dropped off the radar. Just goes to show that fanservice won’t save a bad anime.

I can’t believe that Kissxsis is actually getting a full tv anime and not just another OVA. If people really wanted to watch two girls come on to their brother, they can get some hentai. It just doesn’t make sense to me to have a regular anime with a hentai plot but remove the sex. Hentai plots aren’t even that good, they’re just meant to provide a reason for the characters to get it on.

The existance of Queen’s Blade also doesn’t make much sense to me. It’s either a bad regular anime, or a heavily censored hentai anime. It would make more sense if people watched good regular anime or uncensored hentai.

As for Asura Cryin, I thought it had some potential, but it just tried too hard to combine too many genres into one anime.

Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan is also one of those fanservice-based anime. As much as I liked the character designs, the plot wasn’t that good, and I’d bet that no one will remember it 10 years from now.

Shakugan no Shana was at least a decent anime. It had a plot that sorta made sense and it wasn’t jam packed with fanservice, just enough to keep people happy.

Besides the posters, Nyantype also had some pages dedicated to the Seitokai no Ichizon girls. I highly doubt you’d ever actually see them in the kind of situation shown above except in Ken’s fantasies. I’m still kinda upset that the anime is over, it was one of my favourites of the year.

When I watched Macross Frontier, I thought that Ranka would be everyone’s favourite character, but apparently Sheryl is more popular. I wonder if it’s because of her personality or her character design.

Nendoroid Luka came out a while ago, but I won’t be getting her for a couple months since I ordered her from an American store and they don’t release there until later

I watched the first episode of Kanamemo and it was too childish for me. I don’t get why they’d put an ad in Nyantype Magazine since it seems like it’s geared towards children.

Rather than coming with a free poster, this volume included this really nice Nanoha illustration collection. Most of these images have been used in Nyantype already, but it’s nice to have them all in one little booklet if you’re a Nanoha fan. The images come from all of the Nanoha series.

When I first watched Triangle Heart, I never would have imagined that the little sister in the anime would ever get her own series, or that it’d turn out as successful as it did. It’s a good thing that people liked Nanoha though, or else we wouldn’t have all this pretty artwork.

This volume had it’s high and low points. The poster of Mikuru was really nice, and I’ve hung it up in my room. The Nanoha illustration collection was also a welcome treat. On the other hand, some of the posters were less than perfect. Missing limbs and crossed eyes just make a good illustration horrible. Unless there’s something you really want in this volume, it may be better just to pass it up.

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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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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 a hentai disguised as an 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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I had initially thought Nyantype Magazine would be a monthly magazine like Megami, but I guess it’s only being released every few months. That’s not all bad though because that means Nyantype has a wider variety of anime girls to pick from for posters because a volume mght stretch over two seasons.

I really like these posters that ar three sheets long instead of the regular two sheets, especially if they’re dakimakura material (it looks less creepy if you have a poster of a girl on a bed rather than a pillow of a girl on a bed).

These longer posters also allow for full-body shots, like this one of Yuki.

I haven’t gotten around to watching Strike Witches (aka the girls in panties show), but it’s on my list. Hopefully I’ll actually be able to get through my list by the end of December.

Loli material seems to pop up a lot in these kinds of magazines. I wonder how many people buy Nyantype just for posters like this one.

This poster of the Juuden girls is really really tempting. Kinda wish that tail-like thing wasn’t covering up Plug’s oppai.

So which would you prefer, Saki or Nodoka?

There seems to be qute a bit of Horo in both Nyantype and Megami magazine, I wonder how many times she has appeared naked. More importantly, I wonder if anyone is ever going to give her the wolf whistle in Spice and Wolf, that’d be hilarious.

I’ve been falling behind on Canaan since I found out I’d be moving. Does she actually wear that dress in the anime?

No bishoujo magazine would be complete without the obligatory girls in swimsuits at the beach.

Did anyone else notice that although everyone else in this poster is in their school uniforms, the girl at the back is in a pink swimsuit? I guess it’s just more fanservice for the lolicons out there.

An almost upskirt shot, Nyantype Magazine sure likes to tease its readers.

This poster deserves more (ie: a background), it looks like the people at Nyantype Magazine got a bit lazy here, or they just don’t like Valkyria Chronicles.

Here’s some more obligatory girls in swimsuits at the beach. Thinking I should watch Umi Monogatari sometime.

I still think Queen’s Blade should be classified as hentai rather than anime, but hey, it gives another excuse in case your wife/girlfriend catches you watching it.

I liked the cute character designs in Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou, but the anime itself was lacking in almost everything else.

Girls playing baseball… not really my thing.

I wonder how many times Eve’s clothing gets shredded up like this. NEEDLESS sure knows how to appeal to its fanbase.

Princess Lover also knows how to appeal to its fans. How often do you catch a princess in the middle of changing.

Yay for Haruhi! I think they were trying to spell “tsundere” here but they forgot the S. I’m also a bit confused as to what the “dream comes” means.

Is it just me or is Mikuru’s waist thinner than her face?

I think Nagato should’ve done more to get out of that endless eight crap.

As if anyone could forget, the Nanoha movie is still to be released.  It seems both Megami and Nyantype Magazine are getting fans hyped up for it.

I’m not sure what Sora no Otoshimono is about, but those angels (if they are angels) are wearing some pretty risky clothing there.

Drei >>>>> Cal (even though it’s the same person)

Apparently you can get an exclusive neck pillow in te shape of Yoshika’s thighs only by getting a code from Nyantype Magazine. Well, I won’t be gtting this so I guess whoever wants can use my code.

Lots of beautiful figures here. I didn’t know they were making one of Plug, I might consider getting one depending on how the finished product looks. I’ll also be getting that figure of Nanoha by Alter.

I’m not sure what you would call this, but it’s a plasticy sheet that stuck into the magazine. This side features Nagi, Hinagiku, and Ayumu from Hayate no Gotoku.

On the other side of the sheet are the girls from K-ON.

Also included in the magazine is this little preview of a Nanoha spin-off manga series.

I don’t really understand what’s going on since I can’t read Japanese, but it certainly is revealing…

The main character’s also pretty cool, he has a mini gunblade!

And that’s pretty much it for this volume. I didn’t have any particular favourites in terms of posters since none of them really stood out for me. The only thing that really bothered me was the plain white background for the Valkyria Chronicles poster.

Like the last Megami Magazine, Nyantype has also included a double Nanoha poster. Personally I like the first side better, but I was tempted to put the second side up on my wall (it’s missing Fate):

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