| 12:54pm | The Hardships of Raising a Child in the Ghetto: District 9 | | | | A few days ago I saw the new movie District 9. Having passively avoided all of the explicit advertising for the movie that would explain any of the story at all, I came in with fresh eyes, and by the time it was over I felt pretty amazed. The movie takes a variety of unusual elements and ideas, such... |
| 3:15pm | Let’s Talk WCG USA Starcraft Finals Again (They’re at an Anime Con!) | | | | A few months back I made a post mentioning the fact that the World Cyber Games USA finals would be held at the New York Anime Festival from September 25-27. A few weeks ago, the finalists were all decided via online tournaments, and there’s quite a few recognizable names. I’ll be there... |
| 3:13pm | “Liking Less” vs “Disliking” | | | | While not something I see as often as of late, I remember for a while noticing how people’s tastes in anime shift, particularly in their transition from new fan to fairly hardcore. What may sometimes accompany this transition is a desire to do away with the past and to deny how one used to be,... |
| 7:40pm | Slap a Teenager: Maturation of the Creative Process | | | | I’ve been doing quite a bit of drawing lately, and it’s gotten me thinking about the whole creative process, and the influence of one’s own age. Recently, an old friend of mine found material for a video game we were creating back in elementary school. It had everything kids (or rather,... |
| 9:27pm | When the Visitor is the Tour Guide: Reviewing Unfamiliar Genres | | | | I spent last weekend watching some awesomely bad anime with friends. One title that stood out though, that is the very opposite of bad, was the OVA Baoh, based on the work of Araki Hirohiko, creator of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. This was not my first time watching Baoh, as it was actually one... |
| 8:14pm | Moe Anime Girl Gets Pregnant, Has Baby – Jigopuri Volume 1 | | | | Kio Shimoku is a manga author who is best known for his work on the 9-volume Genshiken series, about a the members of a college anime/manga club. It’s personally my favorite manga series ever. It may come as a surprise then to know that Kio’s latest manga, Jigopuri: The Princess of the... | | |
| 12:40pm | The Fujoshi Files 10: Asai Rumi | | | | Name: Asai, Rumi (浅井留美) Aliases: Asamatsu Relationship Status: Single Information: The students North Haneda High are baffled by how the unassuming Asai Rumi can attract some of the most interesting friends, not least of which are the hottest girl in school, a ladykiller heart-throb and his... |
| 1:46pm | That One Show that Will Never Get into Super Robot Wars | | | | When it comes to the Super Robot Wars series, there tends to be an unspoken rule. For the big-budget main games in the series, such as the Alpha series, the cast lists are for the most part breadwinners and series that people have been anticipating to be in SRW, while for the games on other platforms... | | |
| 12:43pm | Let Me Tell You About Comic Market 76 Which I’m Not Attending | | | | But maybe someday! It’s Friday evening in Japan right now, and that means the first day of Comic Market 76 has ended. Not living in Japan and not being able to fly over means I can’t join the hustle and bustle of sweaty nerds inching their way to tables full of fan-made comics, but for... |
| 8:11pm | Even More Podcast Hijinks: Ogiue Maniax on Anime3000 | | | | Two in a row! Who would have thought? In case you didn’t tire of my voice yesterday, here I am again. On this Anime3000 podcast, Hisui from Reverse Thieves, Moritheil, and I discuss the Summer and Fall seasons of anime, mainly what shows we’ve watched and what shows we’re looking... |
| 2:45pm | Ogiue Maniax and the Reverse Thieves Talk Otakon on Ani-Gamers | | | | A while back I was on the Ani-Gamers podcast along with the Reverse Thieves where we talked about our experiences at Otakon 2009 this past July in Baltimore. There’s some overlap with my written review of the invent, but I invite you to listen anyway and hear us crack wise in Real Time. This... |
| 9:31pm | Studying This Here Kanji Again | | | | No, I haven’t decided to take the JLPT1 at this point, but I have been hitting the kanji again, many months after my successful clearing of the JLPT2. In reviewing my flashcards, I’m actually sort of amazed I was able to retain so much. While a lot of times the knowledge will be incomplete... |
| 12:31am | Style Born out of Necessity | | | | In Fred Schodt’s book The Astro Boy Essays, Fred points out that many of the qualities and traits of Japanese “limited” animation (as opposed to Disney-esque “full animation”) could trace their origins back to Tezuka Osamu’s original Tetsuwan Atom anime TV series,... |
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