| 7:38pm | “Be a Man!” Otokojuku Live Action Movie Saturday, June 27th | | | | The New York Asian Film Festival is going on right now, and Saturday they’re going to be showing a movie based on the 80s Shounen Jump property Sakigake!! Otokojuku, about a school full of delinquents and the Samurai-esque main character who unites them with his manliness and his wooden sword.... |
| 4:49pm | Fukumotoverse, or “Zawa-rld” | | | | Recently I’ve been wondering, or should I say, hoping that the works of Fukumoto Nobuyuki all take place in the same universe. We already know that Ten and Akagi take place in the same timeline, with the latter being a prequel to the former, but what of everything else? Can Japan have enough... |
| 11:38pm | V! V! V! Vertical Vednesday | | | | Combine, 1 2 3. 4, 5, Shutsu- Anyway. Another Vertical Vednesday is taking place tomorrow, June 24th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. The plan is to meet up at the NYC Kinokuniya on 6th Ave between 41st and 40th in Manhattan, and afterwards depending on the size of the group and availability of seating, we will... | | |
| 10:06pm | OGIUE’S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO MANGA (sort of) | | | | I recently purchased Volume 1 of Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture creator Kio Shimoku’s newest manga, Jigopuri: The Princess of the Hell, about an 18 year old mom trying to raise her newborn child. A review will be posted in due time, but there is something more important... |
| 8:39pm | Studying the Realism in the Fujoshi Character Design | | | | Ever since the mid-2000s the fujoshi character has seen an increase in overall presence in anime and manga, as evidenced by my Fujoshi Files, an ongoing project where I catalogue fujoshi characters. While comparing various fujoshi characters, especially in seinen manga, I began to realize something... | | |
| 2:42pm | Muteki na Fujoshi: 801-chan’s Small Anime Revival | | | | Months ago I reported on the fact that the popular Japanese webcomic turned franchise Tonari no 801-chan, about a hardcore fujoshi and her otaku boyfriend, was getting an anime and later that the anime was getting scrapped. Well now it is back in the form of a 90-second opening-only anime titled Tonari... | | |
| 10:07pm | Oh Me Oh My, Tomino to Be in NY | | | | The New York Anime Festival announced its first major guest today, and it is none other than the creator of Gundam and one of the most famous anime directors ever, Tomino Yoshiyuki. Having grown up in New York City, I was a bit upset that I was not able to meet him at Big Apple Anime Fest around 2000... |
| 4:12pm | CRY FOR THE MOON | | | | X-Men by Yasue Kooji and Higuchi Hiroshi, published 1994.By the way, this is NOT a doujinshi. Note: The Japanese Word for “Snikt” is “Jakin.” |
| 10:28pm | Somerset Somersault: AnimeNEXT 2009 | | | | This past weekend I attended AnimeNEXT in New Jersey. While held this year in Somerset at the Garden State Exhibit Center and conjoined Somerset Doubletree Hotel, in years prior the convention was held at the Meadowlands Arena in Secaucus. However, seeing as this was my first ever AnimeNEXT this did... | | |
| 4:46pm | Once Upon a Time, a Girl Finished Her Grape Soda: Up | | | | Up once again shows that when it comes to mainstream 3D animation, there’s Pixar and then there’s everybody else. Or to put it differently, the only studio not trying to be Pixar is Pixar itself. People sometimes ask me why I like anime so much, and though I’ve mentioned in the past... | | |
| 4:44pm | AnimeNEXT 2009 Tomorrow! | | | | This is the last reminder to everyone that I and the entire staff of Ogiue Maniax (i.e. just me) will be at AnimeNEXT in New Jersey from June 12-14. It’ll be my first time at this convention, but I’m sure I’ll find ways to have lots of fun. I will be on two panels at AnimeNEXT: “I... |
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