Madman Entertainment are currently having a stocktake sale on their website. All of the DVDs I looked at are going for $10. The sale isn’t on their entire catalogue (mostly on their non-anime titles) but if there’s anything that you want I suggest you head on over there and check it out.
I must say that bread making has never struck me as particularly interesting. I’m sure most people would feel the same way. So how could a show about making bread possibly be entertaining? I’m not certain but Yakitate!! Japan manages to pull it off.
This post is about one of my “daily visit” sites: AnimePaper. I found the site a few months ago - I don’t remember how - and it has been a regular source of new backgrounds ever since. AnimePaper (AP) has been set up, in their own words, to be “all about making wallpapers and being creative”. I think this is an apt description of the site as a brief glance at some of the wallpapers will tell you. The site is also a great place to check out some of the things that can be done with standard web technologies. If you’re in the market for some anime, or manga or game, related wallpapers - or want to check out some cool web techniques - then give it a look.
Karin is a romantic comedy-horror manga and anime (that’s light on the horror and loaded with comedy) about a young vampire girl, Karin Maaka, and her relationship with a human classmate, Kenta Usui. The strange thing about Karin is that she’s not your average vampire - she loves sunlight, has a poor sense of smell, great sense of taste and doesn’t suck blood. In fact, she actually produces blood which she either injects into people when she bites them or, more often, the blood comes gushing out as a nosebleed. The series is great if you’re into vampire stories, cuteness, romantic comedies or light drama.