| 4:34pm | japan’s latest summer fad: marxism |  | | | (Hat tip to naked capitalism) There was a J-List email recently about how Japan is always having new summer fads. That post covered how at that time, one was Uniqlo tanktops. Apparently, another big trend right now is a revival of the 1929 book Kanikousen, which is a book about how exploited workers... |
| 6:02pm | what i was forced to watch this week #37: saber marionette j to x | | | | Alright, this will be my last one of these shows, since we don’t actually have Saber Marionette R anywhere. The next one will be (gulp) Sailor Moon R, which at 43 episodes will probably take about 2 weeks to get through, rather than just one. This one was slow-going despite being only the standard... |
| 11:57pm | adv’s new licenses are basically z-grade pornos | | | | So I lol’ed that ADV had made it sound at AX that they would be making some big announcement at Otakon, only to announce after everyone had gone home that they picked up an ecchi OVA that I hadn’t heard of and a bunch of “Asian extreme”* movies. ADV has done some of these before.... |
| 11:20pm | like everyone, i hate AoDVD’s new layout | | | | So I get a result in my RSS feed about their Otakon coverage and open the link. I read the article, and then I see these “contextual” ads at the bottom: I sat there scratching my head for a minute until I realized “Oh wait, Otakon 2008″! ::facepalm:: |
| 5:06pm | let’s play with some industry numbers! | | | | Here’s the first number: Justin Sevakis said in his open letter to the industry, “When only a few years ago it was commonplace for shows to get licensed for $70,000 or more per episode, today a show can be licensed for less than half of that. And they’re still not profitable.”... | | |
| 2:39pm | more fun with industry numbers | | | | “from the very beginning, it was difficult working in their world where everything is run by spreadsheets and so on” -Matt Greenfield, ADV Anime Expo panel “We do huge spreadsheets. I have spreadsheets this big for each thing we do, about this tall…The problem with some in the... |
| 2:48pm | what i was forced to watch this week #36: saber marionette j again | | | | Not like, watching it again but rather the OVA entitled “Saber Marionette J Again”. I’m trying to find where the remainder of the Saber Marionette J to X episodes are, so in the meantime I finished off this OVA. Let’s just say that this one took what was most important from... |
| 2:27am | ohhhh boy: first the wall street journal, now the new york times | | | | can you possibly get a better picture of a troll? Yes, that’s right. An article heavily about 4chan. I say “heavily” because it’s actually about internet trolls, but /b/ is a part of this. Also, the fact that this is in the Times gives it a weightiness which starts making... |
| 11:55pm | what i was forced to watch this week #35: saber marionette j | | | | you had me at “sexy evil space nazi robo-bitches” It’s been a while since I’ve been forced to watch one of those. You know, those. The “comedies” full of KER-RAZY characters in WACKY situations. Hyuck hyuck! Actually, Saber Marionette J was one of those only... |
| 12:05am | what i was forced to watch this week #34: slayers try | | | | oh look, more fishmans Hmm. I dunno. Slayers Try is obviously worse than Slayers Next, but I can’t decide if it’s worse than Slayers Slayers. It had a coherent plot, which gives it props above Slayers, but it had annoying new characters and wasn’t nearly as funny as Slayers. Actually,... |
| 12:46am | hulu figures out how to make money on streaming video: porn | | | | At first, I thought that Hulu was cool because I could watch full-length TV shows on my computer with little delay after they aired. Then, a few days at work, I was monitoring what movies were going up on Hulu for compliance purposes. One such movie that I had been specifically asked to investigate... | | |
| 7:20pm | now i understand what kawamori and kanno are doing with macross frontier | | | | After reading this GREAT interview with Shoji Kawamori and Youko Kanno last week, I’ve been paying way more attention to the music in Macross Frontier and constantly listening to the soundtrack. The most illuminating point in that interview is how the two of them discuss how the show is really... | | |
| 9:54pm | strike witches 3: first panties, now boobs | | | | What happens in anime when some new female characters are introduced? Gratuitous boob groping and comparisons, of course! That said, the show still never forgets where it came from: OBVIOUSLY they have to start the camera down there and pan up so despite the fact that i’ve just... |
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