| 2:26am | The meaning behind the otaku |  | | | I recently came across a post about a book called “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals” by Prof. Hiroki Azuma. Although I’ve never read the book myself, Mike over at Anime Diet had some very interesting comments about how Prof. Azuma describes the mentality of Japanese otaku One... |
| 8:46pm | Why do we buy anime collectibles? | | | | The title of this post is a question that I’m confronted with fairly often. Why do hardcore fans spend so much money buying anime collectibles, such as figures, plushies, and trading cards, when such things are relatively expensive, take up space, and all they do is “sit around and collect... | | |
| 8:55pm | Koge-Donbo’s Harry Potter fan art | | | | *Click the image for a larger version* Famous manga artist Koge-Donbo is best known for her “cute” character designs, especially in her popular series Di Gi Charat, Kamichama Karin, Pita Ten, and others. It’s also well known that she’s a Harry Potter fan. About nine years ago... | | |
| 5:05pm | Haruhi season 2 episode 13: The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (part 4) | | | | “The Sigh” part 4 Picking up where part 3 left off, Tsuruya-san, Taniguchi, and Kunikida briefly join the movie making crew. Tsuruya-san’s utter amusement at everything is pretty funny, and we finally get to see her huge house, which the SOS Brigade will visit a few more times later... | | |
| 11:20pm | The anime art gallery that is my room | | | | For the past ten years or so, a little quirk of mine has been to cover every inch of my room with anime pictures and products. On a previous post, I shared photos of how my room looked last year. Since then, I’ve hung up new pictures, rearranged old pictures, and displayed new goodies. So I decided... | | |
| 7:52pm | Interpreting Haibane Renmei | | | | Although it came out in 2002, I only recently got a chance to watch Haibane Renmei What I found interesting about Haibane Renmei is that, throughout the series, the same question is forever lingering in our minds (and Rakka’s too); what are the Haibane? The first clue we get to answering this... | | |
| 5:12pm | Haruhi season 2 episode 12: The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (part 3) | | | | “The Sigh” continues As many will agree, “The Sigh” is probably the most uninteresting of all the Haruhi stories, so once again I don’t have too much to say about part 3. KyoAni seems to really be taking their time with this story, most likely to fill in the remaining... | | |
| 10:09pm | Rebelling against corrupt authority in One Piece | | | | As I’m making my way through the concluding episodes of the Enies Lobby arc of One Piece, I’m continually intrigued by the series’ reoccurring theme of “rebelling against authority,” particularly how the heroes of the show are pirates, and the villains are often the Marines... | | |
| 2:55am | Hetalia and the phenomena of MAD videos | | | | The skill, ingenuity, and often times bizarreness of fan-made anime MADs never cease to amaze me (and Hetalia ones are no exception) The phenomena of fan-made or MAD anime videos has become ever prevalent since the launch of Nico Nico Douga, YouTube, and similar sites. If there’s an anime series... |
| 11:30pm | My Japan trip photos, videos, and written coverage now posted! | | | | Japanese karaoke booths will be dearly missed For the past few days I’ve been working on uploading photos and videos, and writing coverage of the 3-week sightseeing trip to Japan I recently took. I finally finished everything today and posted it on the main site You can find full coverage of... |
| 5:01pm | Haruhi season 2 episode 11: The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (part 2) | | | | Part 2 of “The Sigh” continues exactly where part 1 ended right where it cut Mikuru off while she was talking, actually. I don’t think I’ve seen any other anime episodes that ended and started in that way, but that’s Haruhi for you, always has to do things that other... | | |
| 5:27pm | Haruhi season 2 episode 10: The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (part 1) | | | | The harrowing two months of “Endless Eight” have finally come to an end. Now we move on to the next story arc, “The Sigh” I was unable to write my weekly reviews for the last three Haruhi episodes because I was away in Japan and did not have the time. I was relieved to hear... | | |
| 10:19pm | Back from Japan (here’s all the anime goodies I bought!) | | | | Me in front of a big K-ON! poster ad in Akihabara I got back from my 3-week stay in Japan a couple of days ago. To say the least, I had an awesome time but it’ll take me a while to gather all the photos and write complete coverage of my trip. So for now, I decided to simply share photos and info... | | |
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