| 6:29pm | The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Haruhi Suzumiya |  | | | The cover of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, a novel Don’t panic, Kyon. I haven’t had so much fun since friends started babbling about this thing they’d seen called “The adventures of Asahina Mikuru”. Perhaps because I pre-ordered a long time ago, RightStuf shipped my... | | |
| 4:24pm | Zetsubou-sensei GN v1 review | | | | Cover of Del Rey's translation of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei The first volume of Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei from Del Rey has been on the bookshelves of American bookstores for several weeks now. I’d pre-ordered it as soon as it was available for pre-order, and I’m generally happy with my... |
| 7:00pm | Missing The Point on Marimite S4 Episode 12 | | | | By TheBigN I had too much fun doing this. . . . I’m really enjoying this current season of Marimite. Of course, things like Sachiko eating Yumi’s chocolates and Yumi’s ever amusing facial expressions (man I miss Sei!) help out with that.Posted in delusions of grandeur, randomness... |
| 5:15pm | καλλίστῃ — for the most beautiful | | | | With that headline, it should be a golden apple, I suppose With apologies to SHAFT and Ume Aoki. Another contribution to the campaigning in the Megatokyo Anime Grand Prix, where Horo is currently a candidate.Posted in fanboy spiel Tagged: by dm00, hidamari sketch, Horo, Images, Megatokyo AGP, Megatokyo... | | |
| 12:39am | Ginkurya-chan | | | | This is so wrong.Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: by dm00, Churuya-chan, Ginko, Megatokyo AGP, Megatokyo Anime Grand Prix, Mushishi |
| 12:37am | Undine Nakiami | | | | Late update: memes from the Megatokyo Anime Grand Prix, where Nakiami was (sadly) defeated, due to too little familiarity with her series (and the rallying cry became “Watch Xam’d now!”), and where Akari was in a match-up at the time of this posting.Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: ARIA,... | | |
| 9:50pm | Ueno: “Uncool Japan” talk at MIT 17 March | | | | This guy has the Omo seal of approval and the Hinano seal of douchebaggery, a combination that surely can’t be beat.UNCOOL JAPAN: Otaku, Nationalism, andthe “Never Be Cool!” Politics of Tsurumi ShunsukeProf. Toshiya UenoWako University (Japan)Tuesday, March 1712:30 - 2:00 pmMIT, Room... |
| 9:51pm | Purple hair and books — two detourned images | | | | As usual, these are photoshop collages of the work of real artists (to whom I apologize for abusing their work without being able to give them credit for the originals).Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: by dm00, Megatokyo AGP, Megatokyo Anime Grand Prix, randomness |
| 9:03pm | Best Buy Bargain… Briefings? | | | | By TheBigNI suck at alliteration.This is a solicitation post. Haven’t have a lot of those here. So, Best Buy is about halfway though a 50% off sale on select stores that are drastically reducing their anime inventory. I “live” near one such store and have been browsing through the... |
| 6:06am | Akari learns what Alicia REALLY thinks | | | | a story in three pictures(These are found art — I can’t lay claim to having created any of the images. To those who did create the images, I apologize for being unable to give proper credit.)Posted in fanboy spiel, randomness Tagged: ARIA, by dm00, Jigoku Shoujo | | |
| 7:38pm | Brew! Brew! Fight the powah! | | | | The Anime Grand Prix continues (earlier post here). This year, Oryzae was nominated again (and largely coasted through the initial elimination round on a “brew and memories” campaign, in which lastarial threatened us with apocalyptic visions of a fermentation-free alternate world.Oryzae’s... |
| 3:00am | Global Shinkai Day: revisiting Hoshi no Koe | | | | I haven’t watched Hoshi no koe in years — probably not since it first came out, or perhaps after the DVD release. So I took a look at the Crunchyroll offering (making sure to log in, so they’d know that paying members like this sort of thing, and encouraging them to do more of it).Before,... |
| 6:26am | Photoslop and bad puns | | | | by dm00Omo has already blogged about this, and Schneider has given a personal view of the first round.It’s a lot of fun, with people finding ways to promote their favorite characters and anime — sometimes with text, sometimes with images, sometimes with faked newspapers, and sometimes with... |
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