Anime News - Madoka Wins 12 Out Of 21 Awards

The television series Puella Magi Madoka Magica won 12 of the 21 awards in the first ever Newtype Anime Awards in Tokushima on Saturday. Among others, it won the television series, direction, and scenario categories. Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa won the anime film category, while Steins;Gate's Rintarō Okabe won the male character category. The Tiger & Bunny television anime, The IDOLM@STER television anime, and the Tales of Xillia role-playing game each picked up an award. The leading voice actor, leading voice actress, supporting voice actor, and supporting voice actress awards went to Mamoru Miyano, Aoi Yūki, Keiji Fujiwara, and Chiwa Saito respectively. (Unlike...

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What Am I Watching - Working!!

Synopsis - Takanashi is a 16 year-old who is recruited by Popura into the restaurant, Wagnaria. Witness the zaniness of the workers in this otherwise *normal* restaurant.  Review - What a watch. My friend kept mentioning this show to me, and I was getting sick and tired of not knowing what he was talking about. So after he gave me some files, I went to work and watched it on my new Western Digital HD media player. BITCHIN~! At first, I thought that this show would have been your run-of-the-mill work environment style of show. Thankfully enough, it was not. This show has subplots and character developments that make this, at the very least, stand out next to the other slice-of-life shows.  Speaking of characters, like Slam...

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