Giveaway Winners Announcement and Weekly Roundup

Thank you all, it’s a great week, yet a sad week. We have 247 newsletter subscribers, a big grow this week. Thanks for all our readers, there were around 80 people who joined our anniversary giveaway sponsored by J-List and we have already announced the winners in the newsletter that just sent out to our subscribers. To find out the winners, Kuroneko did a little MySQL query to random out two lucky names from the long comment list.

Our two lucky winners: maysheen (Kuroneko Figma), Ben (Sakamoto Nyan T-Shirt). Winners will receive Email in a short while. Thanks for participating the giveaway. Folks who didn’t win do need to be sad. We have another giveaway around the corner. This time, as promised, is the Kirino Figma and Green Tea Kat. Stay tuned on TheAkiba for more details coming next week.

Also, I took some time and revamp the newsletter template. Now it looks much better than the old one while fits very well with the blog theme. As readers request, I am working on the Danny Choo theme to make it compatible with the lates version of WordPress. It is scheduled to release sometime next week. Will keep you posted.

Update: Our second round of giveaway is here!

Best of September 2011

TheAkiba has achived lots of milestones last month. We have reached 1,400 daily unique visits and we are continue growing. We list the top 10 most welcomed posts last month for you here. We are sure you will like them.

Toaru Majutsu no Index Movie Announced

The movie of series Toaru Majutsu no Index has announced, further information will be released in the coming new issue of the official magazine. It is one of the most unexpected news of this week. We have already learned that the story of the movie will be surrounding the collapse of Academy City. Now, what’s next? Read more.

More Series Announcements

We have reported that several new Anime series were announced this week. Including the second season of DOG DAYS, a new Anime of Haiyoru! Nyaruko-san, a spin-off series of Saki and an original AnimeSenhime Zesshou Symphogear coming this Winter.

Introducing Series Card

We’ve just introduced a new feature of the site: Series Card. It’s a simple and clean card style rating system that attachs to the end of the post, providing basic information you want to know about the Anime series we are taling about. Our readers have already fell in love with this unique system and we are sure you will like it. We also use it to create a list of upcoming new Anime of this Winter (Jan 2012). Take a look at the list here.

New Anime Aired This Week

Half of the October new Anime were aired this week, including the most expected Fate/Zero (which will hastwo seasons, surprised?), Hunter x Hunter and the well rumored Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai. However, one unique series attracted our attention:Chihayafuru. If you still remember Skip Beat, you probably also fall in love with this interesting piece of story.

Remembering Steve Jobs

Steve is gone, the world has lost a visionary, a creative genius and an amazing human being. And to us, we lost a great teacher. We at TheAkiba have learned so much from Steve. His spirit long lives in the products that he created. Please, Steve, may you rest in peace.