| 4:58am | A box of goblins, just in time for Halloween |  | | | by dm00 Mouryou no hako is based on an award-winning novel by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, who also wrote the novel which gave us Requiem from the Darkness. Some of the Requiem from the Darkness team has joined in the production of Mouryou no Hako, and I think it shows. Character designs come from CLAMP,... | | |
| 5:00pm | On IRC: To Be Broken Is To Be? |  | | | By TheBigN One of the terms that I hear thrown around the otakusphere is “broken”, as it applies to fans of gender situations outside of the norm, like traps and such. And one of the things I’ve been wondering is why exactly is that the word used in that way, since the usage sounds... |
| 4:15pm | Random Ramblings 4.0: Nothing Important Was Lost |  | | | By TheBigN Starting out this list of things with a shout-out to one of my cohorts, as today happens to be Nomadotto’s birthday. Hopefully he’s punching out ungrateful undergrads in celebration, or at least taking a little respite from grad school for this day. And if you remember from... | | |
| 1:26am | Not anime, but might appeal to fans of ef |  | | | by dm00 TheBigN invited me here to talk about anime, but there’s lots of that happening, so I take refuge in the fact that “anime” is the Japanese word for animation (I got into anime because I was an animation fan, though I was made one, originally, by watching an anime as a child).... | | |
| 4:29pm | Vote for Miyako! |  | | | You know you want to. Beat Rena at her own game, especially because she took out Yuno last year.Do it for her. And do it for the watermelon. By TheBigN |
| 12:13pm | A quick question on current events… |  | | | By TheBigN With all of the troubles that the global economy has been going through recently, is there going to be a considerable impact on the anime industry as a whole? On the American side of things, does it make it harder for companies that seem to have troubles like ADV? How would the anime industry... |
| 4:36am | Not anime, except maybe in the Japanese sense |  | | | By dm00 By way of Cartoon Brew this wonderful collaboration between math, music, man and machine: Music is math.Glenn Marshall's web page, a treasury of images and videos" width="300" height="168"/>An image from I wish I could figure out how to add a Vimeo link here (No problem - TheBigN) But... |
| 1:46pm | This made my yesterday better. |  | | | By TheBigN Receiving this in the mail: It hasn’t even been five months since I was elated about RightStuf licensing ARIA, so to me, this is quick. Can’t wait for The NATURAL boxset to come out in the future. RightStuf is awesome. :3 | | |
| 9:24pm | TheBigN’s Crappy One/Two-Liner 2008 Fall Preview |  | | | As I’ve stated before, I haven’t done these things before because for most of the shows, I don’t know jack about them, so I thought there was no point. Well, I still think there’s no point in the matter, but because I can’t really think of anything else to post about for... | | |
| 7:27pm | Technology and Science in Gunbusuter |  | | | We Have the Technology: Aim for PhysicsBy Nomad(it’s education time)Otto and W-GeneralN)Science fiction, as distinct from other genres, is notable for its use and misuse of the language of science and technology, as much as it is for the setting. Of course, works of fiction bend the rules of nature... |
| 12:11pm | Thoughts on Hidamari Sketch x365 Episode 8: Fly Like An Eagle |  | | | By TheBigN(ooooooooooooooooo!) From my limited experiences in my 22 years of life, I’m always surprised by how sports take a hold of our lives. It tends to be an instant starting point of connection between people, a source of collective joy and agony, and probably one of the more politically... | | |
| 11:47am | Thoughts on Hidamari Sketch x365 Episode 7: One Step At A Time |  | | | By TheBigN(oodly Appendage) In life, there’s always an opportunity to get worked up, necessary or otherwise, about something, and so it often seems to be the case with Yuno. But as is most cases with our X’d protagonist, it’s understandable in this episode, as she begins her time... | | |
| 10:49pm | How Should I Feel… |  | | | When I see all of these posts by people talking about just starting school now or in the last week or so, considering that I’ve been in my second year med school since late July (without a break from working during the summer at that)? Or when considering the amount of others that are currently... |
| 4:49pm | Thoughts on Hidamari Sketch x365 Episode 6: Say |  | | | By TheBigN(ot my best stuff here) Communication between people is never 100% accurate, though we try our damndest to maximize it as much as we can. The sender and the receiver aren’t one and the same, so the message will always be interpreted a little bit differently to all of the participants.... | | |
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