| 9:35pm | FINAL BOSS OXATIO | | | | I honestly don’t remember what he was supposed to be the final boss FOR. |
| 10:52pm | Christopher Handley’s Guilty Plea and its Implications | | | | Christopher Handley has plead guilty for possessing obscene manga. While on the surface it seems a simple matter, the implications are enormous and complex, and to tell the truth I’m not sure I can get around to everything that I feel is worth saying, but I will at the very least try to get people... | | |
| 1:31pm | Hey You Got Your Starcraft in My New York Anime Festival | | | | New York Anime Festival has announced that it will be the proving grounds of the WCG USA finals. As someone who enjoys watching Starcraft AND enjoys watching anime, this feels like the most wonderful kind of Peanut Butter Cup. While the Starcraft scene in America pales in comparison to South Korea’s,... |
| 2:05pm | There’s an Elephant in the Corner and Her Name is Haruhi | | | | So they tried to sneak an ALL-NEW episode of the Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu into the season 1 re-airing, but tripped up in the end and left people anticipating its arrival. No more tricks, no more magazine covers to mock the fans. The episode’s come and gone, and fun was had by all. Of course,... | | |
| 4:56pm | News from the Japanese Internet Without Needless Complexity | | | | kransom from welcome datacomp has started a new service, the welcome datacomp linkblog. Its purpose is to introduce to English-speaking anime fans some of the more interesting aspects of the Japanese fandom without having relevant news trapped in between images of tits and ass and WACKY JAPAN that... |
| 9:30pm | Like ROBOTECH? Then You’ll Love THE OMEGA SKIES | | | | It’s the exciting new series that has the animation critics calling it even better than Voltron and Macron-1combined! The Omega Skies centers around a boy destined for greatness. This boy, Renton Thurston, is a fan of the latest craze on the planet, SKY SURFING! Sky surfing is so popular that... |
| 7:30pm | Understanding the Girls of K-On!, Instantly! | | | | Now this is an interesting shot from episode 6 of K-On! All four characters are in the same place, and just from this one still you can get a basic idea of their personalities. On the flipside, if you already know the characters then you can definitely see that this is instantly accurate. In general,... | | |
| 7:12pm | Capturing the “Spirit” of a Work | | | | When I first saw the trailers for the new Star Trek movie, a movie designed to be a continuity reboot of sorts with a young Kirk and young Spock, I was worried. On the movie theater’s screen was a whole lot of action and explosions and intense moments all while the trailer implies what a big... |
| 6:00pm | Bad Writing vs Bad Translation | | | | The Eureka Seven manga was released by Bandai Entertainment alongside their anime release. For those of you who haven’t read the manga but have seen the anime, it’s a different take on things with I think less solid storytelling but still has its good points. However, the dialogue in the... | | |
| 4:07pm | The Geek Logical Fallacy | | | | Not to be confused with Geek Social Fallacies. The Geek Logical Fallacy is basically when a person (generally a geek) says, “I have an opinion. I’m an intelligent person who uses logic and reasoning. Therefore, my opinion is objectively correct because it’s backed by my superior logic... |
| 5:16pm | Vertical Vednesday Vhen and Vhere | | | | Ed Chavez from the MangaCast is now the marketing director for the New York City-based Vertical Press, home of titles such as Black Jack and To Terra. As such, he is holding the first of what looks to be a series of “Vertical Vednesdays,” the contents of which I have no clue about. However,... | | |
| 8:18pm | The Thing Which Makes You Think, “Ah Yes, This is an American Comic” | | | | In the comments section for kransom’s translation of Takekuma Kentaro’s lecture on Miyazaki, a lot of talk is brought up regarding styles and trends according to where the artist is from or where the artist draws their inspiration from. Specifically, the comments center around Miyazaki’s... |
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