The Long Gap, But Not The End
Hey there, Been a long time hasn't it? Almost 2 years of nothing?! My sites, stores and general content has been...let's say nonexistent the past almost 2 years and nothing here...
Posts tagged #updates
172 posts in the shrine archive.
So About Our Long Blog Post Hiatus...
Well... it's been some time. Our last blog post (not including the previously sponsored one) was back 9 months ago in November. Simply tons of things have happened in that time ...
Where Have We Been Since July? Back from the Trial of Fire Known as 2015
Where Have We Been? Ok, we have to come clear with some things. It has been months since our last blogs posts. With the prior post about supporting Kenneos on Patreon, we have c...
Remember What Defines You and Never Let that Be A Job
Hey everyone, a bit of an odd post (with a tad bit of title porn), but I thought it was a good time to give an update as the site, figure store and blog here probably deserves o...
April 2015 Anime Figure Preorders and Anime Figure News
Hey everyone. Pardon the long gap in seeing new figure pre-orders in our store ^^;; No worries though as a fresh batch of anime figure pre-orders are now up for the taking...but...
Our Trip To NYC and Channel Frederator
On Friday we had the honor of meeting our friends over at Channel Frederator / Cartoon Hangover ( @channelfred / @ cartoonhangover ) My fiancee Danielle has been a member of the...
We Are Supporting Artists On Patreon! ^_^
For years we here at Chuck's Anime Shrine have been supportive of artists big and small behind our favorite media. We create content online as well and we know how hard it can b...
A Note About the Heartbleed Bug
Wanted to make a quick note of assurance to those that might be worried about the Heartbleed bug and it's possible effect on our site, or particularly, your data in our store . ...
Tenshi-Oni Officially Copyrighted
Hey everyone. Wanted to get people up to date about my long running video game project, "Tenshi-Oni" This project is almost as old as this site and though having a very long and...
Anime Store Redesign Pending
( Update: Still working on the brand new anime store section... but I was able to fix the old store that kinda got fudged in my creation of the new store. So you can still visit...
My New Bio / Voice Acting Bio Site
In addition to the new blogs...I went and updated the rather neglected CharlesGaffney.com to show a bio of my my various work and to be a platform for my voice acting work as we...
New Kawaii Blog Site
First this blog, Anime.fm and now the Kawaii blog . I've gone and fully redesigned the page's code, look and feel. The template I used as a skeleton for the design was actually ...
The New Chuck's Anime Shrine Blog
Notice the big difference today with the blog? My push for improvements across the board for all my sites, stores and blogs continues today with the reveal of this new look and ...
Chuck's Anime Shrine on Tumblr
Beginning a big push to bring my sites back to life, implementing current social media, RSS, CSS3, HTML5 paradigms and basically programming everything to work seamlessly across...
The Return of My Anime Figure Store
Back in 2007, I added the anime figure store to the then 5 year old site and it got off to a great start. It was just when popular (and sadly highly bootlegged) Nendoroid figure...
One Year After Hurricane Sandy, My Struggles and the Rebuilding of My Anime Figure Store
I have to come clean about what has been up with my anime figure store this past year. As many of you probably know, Hurricane Sandy devastated my area here on Long Island one y...
Tenshi-Oni Intro GUI
Hey guys... I sure as heck need to get back to blogging on here ^^;; Anyways... been having some good things happening. People who follow me on Facebook and twitter know of the ...
The "Soul" of Fumi
Programming in Objective-C/C++ has been the name of the game the past two weeks. Every spare second of free time I can muster during the week; time (mostly and sadly) stolen by ...
Current Status of Tenshi-Oni
Again, really sorry about having yet another hiatus here on the site. Been busy with a number of tasks like coding a newer / better blog here at CAS, finally getting something v...
Anime Fans Against CISPA
Not entirely anime related but I know the otaku community is very much a part of the fight for Internet rights. From 4Chan to Reddit to Anonymous & other venues, since the e...
Facebook Page Popularity
My goodness, I didn't think this was possible but check out what is going on over at our Facebook page o_o. Just this time last week, the page, which understandably was created ...
Anime Valentines Day 2013 - Anime Girl Kiss
Happy Valentines Day everyone ^_^. Here's cute anime girl chocolate kiss image. If you know the anime series and/or the artist of this piece leave, a note in the comments. ... P...
Game Grumps Animated - You Mean It?
December 2003, I submitted a Flash animation called Sephiroth vs. Mogs to Newgrounds..it was the latest from a list of flash submissions I did at the time. Most of the submissio...
Pikalove Plays Short Animation - FFVII... Is it 8?
Here's our second new original animation. It's a quick cartoon with audio taken from our PikaLove Plays series of Let's Play videos. Danielle (dressed as Tifa) isn't so great wi...
PikaLove Plays: Final Fantasy VII #1
Danielle and I have begun doing some original gaming videos thanks to my x-mas present...the Elgato Game Capture HD. We are continuing to add content to her gaming account, Pika...
QuickPlay: Dishonored (PS3) (Twitch.TV and more)
A trend on YouTube that's been around a while for now are Let's Plays. Some are very good ( Yogscast , Game Grumps , Two Best Friends Play , etc). Like AMVs, it's a common trend...
Sword Art Online: Nendoroid Kirito Figure
With only two episodes supposedly left in the Sword Art Online anime, Good Smile Company last night announced the figure we knew was in production, the Nendoroid Kirito Figure ....
Tenshi-Oni: Menu Title Art
Ok, I think it's about time I give a little update about my game, Tenshi-Oni . As game design goes, sometimes you think, "I'll be able to get this out in x months"...but it then...
Anime Game Review: Shall We Date? (New Game Review Vlog by Danielle)
Today my fiancee Danielle made a separate youtube channel ( PikaLove415 ) for game reviews and the like. She does have a loved page full of AMVs at Yuna415 , but with the worry ...
Anime Pic of The Day 11/16/2012 Return From The Ashes
It's been a long time coming but I have resurrected parts of the site and blog that have laid dormant or for some, seems to have been lost in time. So what's back? Well, for sta...
Anime Blog with HTML5, CSS3 & jQuery? Oh My
As some of you might have seen, the blog got a little bit of a face lift. I replaced the old scrolling gallery with this one I use in the anime store. With it, the blog loads mu...
Where the Hell Have I Been? (Part 2: Hurricane Sandy)
Didn't mean for another hiatus in the blog and for the updates with the anime store (and my planned site upgrades) but Korra here got too mad about Star Wars being bought by Dis...
Where the Hell Have I Been?
Ok. I think I better explain where I've been for over a month. As usual, seems my life likes to beat me up and spit me out at times. As some of you might know, I burn the candle...
CAS on Community Connect NJ
A few weeks back I was humbled by this post on Community Connect NJ . ^_^ Mainly about the store part of my site... just wanted to send a thank you to Robert Catalano over at CC...
Tenshi-Oni: Finally Unfolding into Reality
I know, this game has been taking up my tweets, FB posts, G+ posts, etc. Hey, you can't blame me, I've been playing video games since the age of 1.5 and the chance to make my ow...
New Sailor Moon Anime for 2013
Rumor had it that the creator of Sailor Moon, Naoko Takeuchi was going to announce something big today in Japan. Most were thinking that the anime will get a redub, maybe a new ...
Tenshi-Oni Facebook Page
Just wanted everyone to know that there's now a Facebook page for the Tenshi-Oni game ^_^ Here's the link: www.facebook.com/TenshiOnigame Follow, comment and participate if you'...
Princess-Battles Video Game
Wow, almost a month since my last post ^^;; Pardon the hiatus... was busy with the anime figure business and knee deep in some Tenshi-Oni coding. In addition the many hats I see...
A Decade of Chuck's Anime Shrine
Just wanted to post up something I really should have posted last month when the site technically hit the 10 year mark ^^;; Yesterday was actually mine and Danielle's 10th anniv...
Demon Fumi Sprite
Here's the first look at the Demon Fumi in-game sprite by Kenneos. I'm still going to bug her for some action animations and maybe even Super Mode animations ^^;; but now all th...
The Music of Tenshi-Oni
Big news regarding our video game, Tenshi-Oni. We have official gotten the rights directly from the artist in Japan to use some of his music in the game! ^_^ Three songs will be...
Anime Blog is Back
My Tenshi-Oni programming and the busy life of still having a 35+ hour desk job along with the steady anime figure business and add in the fact that I moved to a new place...one...
TenshiOni: Combos and More
Though nothing much seems to be different on the outside...there's a bunch of underlying code in my Tenshi-Oni game that has been added since last time I made an update. There's...
FriendConnect, Anime Gallery & Other Site issues PSA
Just a little PSA about some things with the site so people don't wrongly think I've left the site ^^;; Trust me, it's the complete opposite... 1) Google deleted their FriendCon...
TenshiOni: Defense Shield
Finished adding the newest move to the TenshiOni game... the defense shield. Playing the demo of the game I noticed this urge to block attacks and so now you can. Up-swiping on ...
More Tenshi-Oni Updates: Anti-Aliasing and Enemy Reactions
Been slaving away all weekend fixing some nasty bugs brought on by updates to the software I use to program the game -_- Yet, the work has payed off as most of the bugs are done...
Angel Fumi In-Game
I wasted no time in getting Angel Fumi in the game ^_^ Again... note the game is still a work in progress so the resume/ quit buttons are actually just for more of a debugging f...
Angel Fumi - First In-Game Animation
The first animation of Fumi in her Angel form has been completed by Kenneos ^_^ She looks great and now I can start the transformation animation in the game (currently I just ha...
Angel Fumi Preview & Tenshi-Oni Voice Over
Kenneos is hard at work with many commission images and in her spare time, she's been gracefully helping us out with graphics for the Tenshi-Oni game (and Eefi's been helping to...
Merry Anime Christmas From Kenneos
Kenneos , the artist who's doing much of the art for the Tenshi-Oni game , recently finished this great anime Christmas picture. Again, pardon the lack of updates and blog posts...
New Fumi Animation - Sword Attack
Not too new but it's been way too long since I've updated the blog (programming the game, did an other anime voice acting class with Edge Studios, x-mas rush with the anime figu...
Anime Mech Figures
One section I've been lacking in my anime store for a long while has been mechs. I have a Gundam section but granted the pickings have been rather slim ^^;; Well, I've changed t...
Tenshi-Oni Update: Super Attacks
New screenshots from the Tenshi-Oni game in production ^_^. Added two new attacks. 1) Doing a charged sword attack in Super Mode shoots that quick star burst across the screen.....
TenshiOni: First Video Preview
Here's the first (rough) video preview of the Fumi game ( TenshiOni ) in production ^_^ It was a bit tough to video for now (will improve the video quality, etc. in the next pre...
Tenshi-Oni Update: Fumi's First Game Sprite
Kenneos does it again and sends us the first look at a Fumi game sprite animation. For those of you doing the contest , don't fret... I plan on having your entries involved in t...
New Contest: Fumi Game Sprite
As some of you know, a few months back I also tagged a second contest to the Kawaii Blog banner contest. This one was for a chance to win the Mischievous Kiss K-Drama DVD set, I...
Sweet Kawaii Contest Winners
First off, thank you to all who participated in the contest ^_^ I had a tough time picking just one winner this time. Eefi's banners (shown below) were great and so was the firs...
More Anime DVDs and Blu-Ray
As you guys know, in my anime store , I tend to stock lots of anime figures, but not so much Anime DVDs or Blu-ray disks. Granted, it's a tough market and many of us (including ...
Introducing Tenshi-Oni 天使鬼
Finally, after all these years "Project Fumi", the backstory to the Chuck's Anime Shrine mascots has a name! That name is, Tenshi-Oni. Back in 2003...well... I think you heard t...
My Anime/Video Game Voice Acting (Part 1)
As some of you might know, back on Tuesday I went back to NYC and over to Edge Studios to finally start the process of getting my anime and video game voice demo done. Because o...
MoeMonday 8/8/11 Tengen Toppa Madoka Magica
#MoeMonday post is back ^^ and with a hilarious crossover fan pic of Madoka doing the Giga Drill attack from Gurren Lagann. There's lots of good stuff going on this week and I t...
Project Fumi Update
For those who've been following this site since it's beginnings in 2002..you know very well the on and off status of the video game currently dubbed " Project Fumi ". If I don't...
Korean Dramas At Chuck's Anime Shrine
Not too long ago, we here at Chuck's Anime Shrine started working directly with YA Entertainment to sell Korean Drama DVDs. ^_^ Many of us anime fans are also big fans of Korean...
Week in Review, Minecraft and Other Info
First off, my apologies for the delay in blog posts ^^;; A few things can contribute to why I didn't post in over a week. One of those reasons being that the anime store is busy...
Chuck's Anime Shrine Store, Now on Google Shopping
Sorry to throw another store blog post out but this one I had to share. As of today, I finally got the anime store listings onto the Google Shopping links. For a long while Goog...
Anime Store Checkout Error ^^;;
Seems like late last night either my webhost's server or the internal OsCommerse system that runs my anime store ran into an odd error out of thin air ^^;; (was working fine pri...
Stu Levy, Founder of TokyoPop's Request From Anime Fans
Got this bit of news from voice actor Vic Mignogna's Risembool Rangers site. The founder of TokyoPop , Stu Levy is asking for anime fans across America and across the world to h...
Anime/Game Voice Acting Advanced Class with Bang! Zoom!
Was going to post this sooner but it's abviously not be a normal week with all that is happening in Japan. To throw some positive note into the blog today, last Sunday I spent t...
Chuck's Anime Shrine Turns 9 Years Old Today
Today is the 9th anniversary of this site's beginning ^_^ This day back in 2002 I purchased the rights to chucksanimeshrine.com and slapped the first version of the site I built...
Mascot and Fan Artist Pages Are (Finally) Up
It took me until now to get the time at night to do the work needed (^^;;) but I finally created the mascot page and the fan artist page for contestants of last July's banner/lo...
Chuck's Anime Shrine Upgrades and More
I've been busy at work, coding like I've never coded before ^^;; Lots of cool updates, features and future projects to talk about today. Blog Adjustments First off, you will see...
A Return to the Adventures in Voice Acting Workshops
Remember last year when I attended the two Adventures in Voice Acting workshops by Bang! Zoom! Studios? Well, though I've yet to make a demo and then do auditions (^^;;) Bang! Z...
New ThunderCats!
Trending on twitter and across the blogosphere is news of a reboot of the classic 80's cartoon/hybrid anime, ThunderCats. Bleedingcool.com reviled this first image from the seri...
Despite Delays, There is Progress
I'm convinced...life is out to beat the living pulp out of me..more so seemingly than the average person. Be it luck, fate, or something else, it seems like the more I try to mo...
Snow and Work Piled up High
Wow, sorry for (yet again) another big gap in blog posts. This should change (I hope) as my work load seems to be less. Here in Selden, Long Island, as some of you might have se...
2010 Almost Gone, 2011 Could Be Big For CAS
Ok, yet another long gap in blog posts ^^;; Really sorry about that. Chances are I'll be back to almost daily posts soon. Again, I know I say that a lot -_- Anyways, another yea...
Anime X-Mas Rush
Wow, pardon the lack of blog posts everybody. Been having a hectic couple of weeks. The anime figure business has been taking most of my time and add that with a terrible, terri...
BRS Animation Version Defect
This isn't exactly old news, been a bit swamped with crazy anime figure orders but I'm breaking from the endless boxing to let you all know of what I will be doing in regards to...
Hobby Search Hacked!
Shopped over at Hobby Search ever? Well, be sure to check your credit cards, asap!! Apparently at the beginning of the month...hackers from Korea got into the site and stole cus...
New Anime Site Updates Soon
Hey everyone. Funny my last post was about anime business scheduling and I unfortunately didn't go by my scedule thanks to yet more craziness in my anime figure business and of ...
Anime Business Scheduling
Ah scheduling. To have a schedule or not to have a schedule... that is the question. If you have no obligations you can for at least a bit of time, run life without one and let ...
#MoeMonday 8/16/10
Been some time since I've done a #MoeMonday post ^^;; The anime figure business has been kicking my butt but hopefully now you shall see some more posts from me. As a comeback p...
#FanServiceFriday 8/6/10
Been busy as heck so to at least show that this blog is NOT dieing...here's this week's #FanServiceFriday (#FF) post. Speaking of Gurren Lagann, going to get back to watching it...
CAS Anime Banner/Mascot Contest Winner(s)
Ok, it's always tough doing a contest, getting great entries and then having to pick from them, a distinct winner. This contest in particular got me to meet some great new anime...
Banner Contest Closed (and Other Anime News)
Letting everyone know that the banner/mascot contest for the Black Rock Shooter Figma and Nendoroid figures is now closed. As most of you know, the BRS project anime aired last ...
Delayed Black Rock Shooter Figures
Got some bad news for those of you waiting for the Black Rock Shooter Nendoroid and Figma figures :-( Based on credible sources from both nekomagic.com and the fact that I have ...
#FanServiceFriday 7/2/10
#FanServiceFriday is back this week (as well as my blogging). To commemorate the Fourth Of July weekend we are jumping into, here's a picture of Aoi Nishimata from Shuffle. Hope...
#FanServiceFriday 6/11/10
Been a busy week ^^;; God knows there are anime/game related news I really should have covered like the Supernatural TV show being turned into an anime , the possible leak of th...
Anime Figure Shipments
Well, it has finally happened, the anime store part of this site has gotten so big, that the inventory is just bursting a the seams at my home location ^^;; So what do you do wh...
Anime Blog SEO
Thanks to Google blogger forcing the removal of the FTP blog, many sites, like mine that had great SEO, that had a following and took a few years to build, probably saw what I h...
New Blog Format and Location
Ok, some of you are probably going "What the hell?!" (or maybe "cool, nice new setup") Well, Google decided to start phasing out FTP based blogs on blogger. This has caused head...
Poison Bootleg Anime Products
This is very important news to all who buy anime products! The evil bootleg anime product makers have gone too far this time... As some of you may know, bootleg anime products i...
Member's Anime Blog Update - Google Wave Invites
I see that finally after a long time, there is some movement in the Member's Blog . Thank you all who are starting to write there. Over time I will link up the member posts with...
New Comment System
For a while I have been trying to create a comment system that would be useful, display avatars, allow YouTube clips to be posted in-comment as well as the ability to reply to c...
Reminder About Nendoroid Kureha Contest
It seems I have to remind people about this. I am giving away a FREE Nendoroid Kureha figure with this current contest . The purpose of the contest is to promote my new member's...
New Anime Site Feature: Thumbnail Posts
Many sites have this, the ability to post their feeds with thumbnail photos, but my God is it a pain to find out HOW to do it, even for a programmer, like me. Even more of a tro...
New Contest: Win Nendoroid Kureha
Finally, after a long, long time I have created a new contest for you, my loyal readers. The prize, the cute and adorable Nendoroid Kureha. Yes, I'm once again taking the time t...
Anime Store Gift Certificates
Thanks to Paypal, I was able to add a much needed feature to my anime store . That feature of course is is to give anyone shopping at my store the ability to buy and redeem gift...
Anime Pic of the Day 7/30/09
Heading into the dog days of summer and finally this year we are actually getting summer weather here in New York. The anime business has been heating up for me as well (thus ex...
TweetBoard
In case you all haven't noticed, I installed the Tweetboard application to the bulk of the site (seen as a tab on the left side). If, like me, you use twitter alot, this comes i...
Anime Pic of the Day 6/24/09
Been one of those busy weeks. So while I get some more posts ready for all of you, here's an anime girl picture that you'd might like. I'm also in the process of setting up a te...
New Member Section/Blog
Great news. As of today I've basically completed a part of the blog that I think you all will like. I have created a member driven portion of the blog . In other words, if you g...
Anime3000 Podcast
I finally got something to add to the podcast section of this site. As of a few days ago, I was asked to be part of a podcast with anime3000.com. Big thanks to Sean Russell for ...
Chuck's Anime Shrine: Mobile
Got an iPhone? Well, now you won't have to wait too long for my site to load. As of today I made a very simplistic but somewhat useful mobile section to the site. as of this pos...
K-ON! Music
Good news for you K-ON! fans. Looks as if Playlist.com has both the "Cagayake! GIRLS" and the "Don't Say Lazy" singles by Aki Toyosaki & co. from the K-ON! opening and endin...
C.A.S Flickr Group
Something I should have done long ago, but up is the Chuck's Anime Shrine Flickr group . Post what ever anime/otaku related photos you want up there. This adds another way to su...
C.A.S iPhone Webclip Icon
Just a little addition I did for the site in preparation for an iPhone/mobile friendly version of the site. I made an iPhone webclip icon for the homepage of your phone. It's fr...
The End of Geocities
Not so much new news but as of recently, Yahoo, as part of their crazy restructuring will drop the free web hosting service, Geocities. Back in December till around March of 200...
E-Commerce Tax
Ok, so the economy has been doing bad. We can go on for hours on the causes, the culprits and the results of many of the actions taken. One action trying to be done will automat...
BusinessWeek Meeting
Last Tuesday me, along with a select few got the honor to visit the BusinessWeek headquarters in NYC. We were nominated as BusinessWeek's top readers of 2008 and the purpose of ...
Advertise on CAS
Just added a new feature today. For those who want to advertise say their anime con, anime store, video game store, sushi restaurant, etc; you can now do that on the site. The l...
Otaku Blurbs
In case you haven't noticed for the past month, as of this post on the right hand side you can find "Otaku Blurbs" Like my role-model DannyChoo's Puchi Blurbs, this little featu...
An Otaku on BusinessWeek
For the second time I once again grace the front page of BusinessWeek's website . This time, instead of poking fun at Secretary of Treasury Paulson, I got my own article up ther...
2008: CAS Felt No Economic Pinch
I know, I'm a bit late on this now that it's Jan. 4th but here's my little look back of 2008, my anime site during 2008 and other cool events. For many, it was a crappy year. Th...
My Christmas Break
Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of updates. This holiday season has been a big rush for me. The anime figure biz has been doing great, so great that I have been so busy boxing i...
The Leap of Faith
The countdown has begun. I did it. After years of claiming one day I will, after years of doing a network marketing company (hence why between 2004 and 2007 I was absent) and no...
New Features To CAS Site
With the extra time I've had, I've been able to do a few new updates to the site. Some of you may know that google's Friend Connect just came out. I wasted no time in getting so...
Anime Figure Pre-Orders Complete
After many hours of work, I finally got the anime pre-orders up in the store . As I stated before I had about $10K worth of figures on hand and about $40-$50K pending in pre-ord...
Anime Figures Widget
After adding a bunch of anime figures, it seems that of the three store fronts I have, Amazon is the easiest to list with my main store coming in second and ebay last. For your ...
My New Anime Work Station
As of a few days ago I put my anime business revenue to good use by upgrading my work station here at home. I upgraded to a nice 19" LCD monitor, got a new video card and I kept...
250K Hits!!
Looks like as of a few days ago the site finally reached the 250,000 hit landmark. Nothing too special nowadays but a cool landmark nonetheless. The site has been around since M...
Anime Store Fixed
Good news! Looks like the error was fixed and I don't see the store being falsely marked as an "attack site". It was definitely not a message I wanted to see right as I'm about ...
Major Store Error @_@
Hey everyone. Just when I thought things were back in gear, this had to hit me. Here's the story, over a few months back there was a hack into the site. It busted the old forum ...
Working From Home
Hey everyone. So sorry for the gap in blog posts. I had a vehicular situation that turned out to be a big blessing in disguise. I didn't get into an accident or anything. My goo...
Toonami + My Anime Beginnings
This is a few months late but I just had to write about this. After reading Sanjo-chan's blog on it I had to put in my two-cents. Many of you otaku know that Toonami stopped air...
Inline Comments
As you can see by looking at my posts, I was able to finally embed the comments. This was thanks to a some-what new update via Blogger and big thanks goes to bloggerbuster for t...
CAS Version 4.0 is Live
After a long weekend and a rather buggy computer slowing me down, I'd like to introduce you to Chuck's Anime Shrine version 4.0. Now the completed product is still in the works ...
Vote for an Otaku Wedding
Normally I don't do these kind of post but I feel this would be a good way to get some help. As of last x-mas, some of you might have known that Danielle and I got engaged after...
Anime Store Optimized + CAS 4.0 Sneek Peek
If any of you went to the anime store section of the site, you probably noticed a huge bunch of items are now gone. Don't worry though, I did this to fully optimize the store fo...
Preparing For X-mas
Sorry for the lack of blog posts, been busy pre-ordering inventory and getting ready to restructure the entire anime store and this site (plus my damn day-job is still a part of...
Newer Anime Forum
Was out for two days relaxing for the weekend and also cleaning up my huge anime inventory that I have to correctly add and count for my different stores. Anyway, got to work to...
Death Note II: Last Name Ticket Contest Update
(Update : Thank you for participating in this ^_^. The contest is over as of now The winners' email addresses have been sent to FathomEvents .com by their advertising agency. As...
New York Anime Fest 2008 Recap
Danielle w/Hideyuki Kikuchi ( Click Here for the full gallery ) Got that post-con sad feeling a bit. No matter though; here is a review of our experience at the 2008 New York an...
Me on BusinessWeek.com
Looks like my comments about the US economy got me on the front page of businessweek.com ! My anime business and my old health business got me to realize different sides of the ...
End of Day 1 at NYAF
Pretty cool first day. I would have had more blog posts but the iphone wasn't fully charged so I had to get as many pics as possible thus sacrificing tweets and live posts. No m...
Blogger is Finally Fixed
Holy frecken ass-crackers! For some of you that were wondering... yes this blog was down for exactly one week. Why, should you ask? Because Blogger goofed up last Friday. There ...
Death Note II: the Last Name Ticket Contest!
Hey, US otaku! I have some great news for you. Here at Chuck's Anime Shrine, I've been given the honor to award a few of my blog readers , Free Death Note Movie II Tickets! That...
New York Anime Festival: Day 1
Some of you know that Danielle and I will be at the 2008 Anime Fest today (and all weekend) Since blogger is finally fixed, I will be giving some live updates at the event. Be s...
Anime Figure Gallery Preview
Last but not least in the image samples for the new gallery system for this site is a section I noted a while back and that's a gallery of anime figures. We all know we love to ...
An AMV about AMVs
If any of you have been to my AMV section you might have noticed a new amv under the Fan Submission part. Thanks to Youtube member Patricktiel for this sick amv about well... ma...
Cosplay Section Preview
Here I go again with another preview of the new galleries that will be coming soon. This one is something I sort of had but images of me, Danielle and other cosplayers of the 20...
Idol Section Preview
Ok. One thing my site lacks that many anime and otaku sites have is an idol gallery. Now the reason for me not having one all these years is simple, I didn't want to upset my fi...
Winner of the Fate/Stay Art Contest
Real sorry for not showing this earlier. Here is the winner of the Fate/Stay Night Art Contest. Congrats to winner Christy for your artwork of Rider from the series. With the wi...
Chuck's Anime Shrine + Mile-Stone
In more anime business news, it was official as of this past Monday that my company has joined in a dealership with Japanese manufacturer, Mile-Stone. At around x-mas time and t...
The Anime Motherload
Here is reason #2 to my absence over the weekend. With my anime store on the expansion, my storage and shipment area is absolutly packed with anime and gaming figures. Gunna be ...
My iPhone
Sorry for the lack of updates. Today's blog and the posts for next few days will to tell you why. As you can see from my shotty photo, I have purchased my iPhone, a 16GB at that...
Chuck's Anime Shrine's Lucky Day
The number 8 is lucky in Asian cultures and although I'm not Asian I'd like to share you some great news as of today for my anime business since its 8:08pm on 8/8/08. As of toda...
A Little Blogging Delay, but with a "Twitter" of New Stuff
Sorry for the lack of updates in the past few days. I even missed the weekly Anime voice actors post, too ^ ^;;. I'll have a new post ready for next week though for anyone who w...
CAS Now Traceable on Alexa.com
Looks like here at Chuck's Anime Shrine the site's traffic continues to grow. As of a few days back, the site's traffic has finally reached high enough where it is now viewable ...
Deadline Set for Fate/Stay Night Art Contest
For some of you who didn't know, as of a couple of months back I set up an art contest on my contest page. The winner gets a brand new Bome Rin Tosaka figure and their picture i...
"Re" Introducing Project Fumi
There are a few otaku who might have remembered my original plan to create my first video game and the official site mascot. Being that I've been a gamer since I was 1 year old ...
2 New Blogs! Anime.fm and ChuckGaffney Blog
I've been coding all day in this heat we are having in New York but I'm feeling better now that I'm done with the completion of 2 Blogs. The first being the blog for Anime.fm. I...
Anime.fm Completed
In a previous post I mentioned that I got anime.fm up and running. As of today I finished getting all the play-lists and other features on there. Of course there is always more ...
Anime.FM is Up and Running!
Anime.FM is finally up and running! It is still not 100% completed but it will be in the next week or so with updates and add-ons almost daily. Originally I wasn't going to have...
Blogger Clogger is Finally Gone; CAS Blog is Back
Looks as if Blogger finally fixed its major, major FTP issue that it has had for almost a week now, hence the name "Blogger Clogger". This is why no posts were published at all ...
Great Anime Gifs Site
Ever look at the bottom right of my pages and wonder what those little anime clips are? Well back when I first started the site back in 2002 I had them on the top left as just s...
Improved Site Look And Feel
A quick look at the site and you can easily see there has been some changes. Gone are the boxes that showed up mainly due to Dreamweaver table glitches and incompatibility betwe...
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Anime Blog Updates To Come + More Anime.fm
Blogger recently started working on scheduled blogs so hopefully if you are reading this, it worked! Anyways, I'll use this time to state that things are going well with the new...
Chucks Anime Shrine Aquires Anime.fm
No, this is not a late April fools joke. As of today I purchased the domain rights and the space for anime.fm . This site used to be an anime radio station but as one can expect...
Huge US Anime Figure Release...and More
Hi everyone! Really sorry for the delay in messages. This post will explain a bit why. As of a few days back my anime dealers just noted to me that a huge range of high anticipa...
Site Crashed today...Back now
As most of you might have realized, the site was down since early this morning. This was due to my web-host having server problems. They have a network of over 50,000+ websites ...
New Contest and the Hare Hare Yukai Winner
Some of you might have been wondering when I'll update the contest page; well today I did. First off I want to congratulate Christina A. for winning the Hare Hare Yukai Contest....
The Economy May Be Down but Chuck's Anime Shrine Isn't!
Hi everyone! Very sorry for the delay in my blog postings. I'll use this post to explain a bit why. As you might have heard and have probably gotten sick of by now, the US econo...
New AMV - FFVII CC "Kiss My Eyes & Lay Me to Sleep"
Many fans are excited about the release of Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core. The prequel to not only the number one video game of all time but the very reason this site exists in t...
Site Update - "All I want for Christmas" AMV is back
Just in time for the holidays (and due to more fan mail), we decided to bring back the Love Hina Christmas AMV Danielle made a few years back. The song used is Maria Carey's ver...
New AMV - Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, "I Surrender"
This is a great AMV featuring Cloud and Tifa from Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. The song used is " I Surrender" by Celine Dion. Danielle finished this one a few days back. ...
Site Update - Card Captors Wings of Love AMV is Back
Due to some requests I brought back the AMV Danielle made a few years ago that featured XTM's amazing "Fly On The Wings of Love" song. It's a great Euro-Techno song and it fits ...
Site Update - New Bleach Fan Submitted AMVs
Just got two more great AMVs added to the AMV section on the site. Thanks to Robin (AKA: Megaflamer) for these two awesome Bleach videos. Yes, there is a Bleach section in the w...
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Reposted AMV - Night Of Fire
After a bunch of emails begging for it back, I re uploaded my "Night of Fire" AMV. I feel its not as good as my other videos and it also looks like YouTube butchered the quality...
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Site Update - New Fan Submitted AMVs
Hey everyone! Check out the AMV section , got some more amvs submitted by fans of the site.
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Haruhi Suzumiya - Hare Hare Yukai Dance Contest
Just reminding everyone about the Hare Hare Yukai Dance Contest I'm doing. The goal is to mimic the dance done at the end of the episodes The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. As y...
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Site Update - Anime Blog Navigation bar
Hey everyone! As you see, there is a new navigation bar at the top of the anime blog. These are all the categories that I'll be putting up here on the blog for you to go through...
