Last week I talked about the International Saimoe League’s Male Exhibition Tournament taking place. It was the first time (to my knowledge, at least) that male characters were represented on a battlefield of female characters. There were so many characters, so little time with just a month to decide. With the Male Exhibition at a [...]

The Saimoe Tournament has been Japan’s 2ch tradition since 2002 where fans vote for their favorite (female) anime characters. Like with any other character tournament, the characters are put into brackets and face off against other characters in a fight to the top. Those who can’t read Japanese, others have adapted their own Saimoe tournament [...]

Warning: Before reading this, the following post contains references to characters that are not supposed to be together (either Yaoi related or a normal pairing that is disputed just for the fandom fun of it). “To write, or not to write… fanfiction”. That is the question. Reading a lot of fanfiction, I couldn’t bring myself [...]

I come across this scan of the cover for the latest issue of Gundam Ace magazine (via SRW News) of a few characters: new faces from the upcoming Gundam Unicorn OVA, and an old one. The old one in question looks very familiar: he looks a lot like Bright Noa, but with a beard… Here’s [...]

While we’re waiting for Final Fantasy XIII to come out, it’s time to think about the next memorable character in the franchise’s history. Since the announcement in 2007, we’ve found out about Lighting, Sazh, Oerba, and the character who I think will change the way we found our favorite Final Fantasy characters, Snow Villers. Snow [...]