| 2:53pm | Super Robot Wars NEO for the Wii ~Real Robots are for Suckers~ | | | | Weekly Famitsu has announced a new Super Robot Wars for the Nintendo Wii, and boy is the cast something. I don’t care who you are, there’s no way you could have possibly guessed this list. It is craziness incarnate. Series new to SRW in bold. Mazinger Z Great Mazinger Juushin Liger New... | | |
| 4:44pm | Catch Me Talking About Giant Robots on the Anime 3000 Podcast | | | | I was a guest on the Anime 3000 podcast on a topic very near and dear to my heart: giant, monster-punching, war-fighting robots. I was on there along with Gerald from Anime World Order, John-Paul from Fight Bait, and Mike Dent from R5 Central. Sadly, due to personal obligations I was not around for... |
| 10:30pm | The Joys of Afternoon and Kuroda Iou | | | | Recently I found out that Kuroda Iou, creator of Sexy Voice and Robo as well as one of my favorite manga artists, has a new series entitled Atarashii Asa (New Morning) in one of my favorite magazines, Monthly Afternoon. Afternoon was home to Genshiken, and is where Kio Shimoku’s current series... | | |
| 1:02pm | The Silent Ogiue | | | | Every so often I have to check that my fondness for Ogiue has not simply become a formality, that she is my obsession just because I say she is. It’s also the case where without new material, it can sometimes be difficult to maintain such a fandom unless one goes deep into, say, writing fanfiction,... |
| 5:01pm | Further True Karaoke Tips | | | | Actually, it’s just one tip but it’s a big one. By “True Karaoke” I am referring to the singing of anime songs, preferrably the manlier the better, but keep in mind a lot of shoujo-esque songs can be pretty manly. No matter your level of Japanese fluency, no matter if you have... |
| 3:42pm | The Deception of Hirasawa Ui | | | | This is Hirasawa Ui. She is the younger sister of the Light Music Club’s lead guitarist Hirasawa Yui. She is also a TRICK designed to pull in otaku and leave them with more than they anticipated! Yes Ui is a little sister, and in that sense many fans may be drawn in by her “little sister”... | | |
| 3:10pm | Correction to AnimeNEXT 2009 Panel Information | | | | It turns out that due to a mistake on the side of AnimeNEXT that my panel proposal was never submitted and so my panel did not go through and my previous information is somewhat incorrect. The anime blogging panel you will see was the one proposed by Omo. The good news is that I will be taking part... |
| 2:36pm | Another Vertical Vednesday Descending From the Heavens | | | | Once again, Ed Chavez, owner of the MangaCast and new marketing director of Vertical Press wants to discuss manga with YOU, yes YOU tomorrow, June 3rd from 6:30pm to 8pm at Kinokuniya on 6th ave and 41st Street in Manhattan. For this Vertical Vednesday, Ed will be discussing Shoujo’s often-overlooked... |
| 9:58pm | Saki’s Comment and Ogiue’s Transformed Wardrobe | | | | At the beginning of Volume 5 of Genshiken, Saki’s comments on Ogiue’s clothing, telling her that if she wore clothing that fit better Ogiue would look much cuter. While we know that at the end of the chapter Ogiue made one failed attempt to revise her wardrobe, what we can see in later... |
| 1:56pm | Ogiue Maniax’s Anime Blogging Panel at AnimeNEXT 2009 | | | | CORRECTION: PLEASE READ THIS LINK AS SOME OF THE INFORMATION IN THE POST BELOW IS ERRONEOUS. I will be attending this year’s AnimeNEXT, running June 12-14, and on Sunday from 2-3pm I will be running a panel on Anime Blogging. It’s less a panel for me to give you direct advice and more of... |
| 9:53pm | 1st US Go Go Curry Eating Championship Results | | | | The Winners Are! 1st Place: Joseph F. Menchetti 2nd Place: Dale Boone 3rd Place: Don Moses Lerman Congratulatons to all the finalists and I hope they don’t regret all that eating. Even if they do, I’m sure they’re used to it by now. |
| 1:00am | Emotion, Intelligence, and the Comics Ambassador | | | | In writing my two responses to the Christopher Handley case, I worked very much from my own feelings and thoughts on the whole situation. However, when I read Newsarama writer Jeff Trexler’s blog entries about the Handley case, particularly his post titled Handley, Comics and Obscenity, I began... |
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