| 12:50am | what i was forced to watch this week #39: sailor moon s |  | | | With the addition of Sailor Your Anus and the expanded role of Sailor Pluto (who Chibi Usa refers to as “poo”), it’s clear that the “S” in “Sailor Moon S” stands for “scatological”. All kidding aside, Sailor Moon S is the “dark” season... |
| 3:43pm | nielsen can finally quantify ad avoidance | | | | This is not news to anyone, but people try to avoid ads on TV. This was also not a surprise to advertisers, who had attempted to price this into their media buying. What did interest me were the numbers. An hour-long TV show used to be 46 minutes. Now it’s 40. Younger, more tech-savvy networks... |
| 3:16pm | why is anime a “hobby” anyway? | | | | Show of hands: who actually calls “watching TV” a hobby? I personally don’t, and I had assumed that the popular conception of TV was that it was a “distraction” or occasionally a “waste of time”. The sort of thing that old fuddy duddies said “rots your... |
| 11:33pm | what i was forced to watch this week #38: sailor moon r | | | | You see, I had already in the distant past watched the first season of Sailor Moon. Now it’s time to watch the sequels! :headdesk:. They actually go by very quickly due to the insane level of stock footage in the episodes. I’ll cut out the cold open, the OP/ED, the transformation sequences,... |
| 6:13pm | here’s why same-day digital downloads are hard | | | | I got prompted to do this post because I had to check a potential licensing infringement today at work. We thought that titles on an unexecuted contract had been airing even though the contract hadn’t technically been signed yet. Turns out that everything was actually OK, because nothing had... |
| 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... |
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