| 5:02am | The Land of Canaan Is a Promised Movie | | | | You know, there is something missing in Canaan. Possibly the same thing that kept some away from the classic cinema-influenced anime Cowboy Bebop. And it’s not the non-serialized narrative. The problem with Canaan, in short, is that it is scripted and paced like a film. When you dice a film into... | | |
| 11:32pm | The Saimoe Mind Is a Player’s Mind | | | | I have to confess, I kind of look down at the whole International Saimoe League thing, partly because I don’t quite enjoy the whole process of loading up some page, clicking 33 times or so, and do that every day for like, 6 months. It’s a bit too means-ends, and I just don’t feel anything... |
| 6:33pm | Tech Thoughts, Part 2 | | | | This is a continuation post on that fanart citation circlejerk, but a tangent that began here (scroll down). While it’s easy to go into the legal or moral/ethical aspect of this discussion, there is a technical one as well. Let me cite a few things to get the ball rolling. First, there is a matter... |
| 2:21am | Fanart Use Best Practices | | | | Yay a law-related topicnot. Point by point drill-down-ish. Also, citing my comments in your blog is kind of :# But anyways–read Digitalboy’s rant for some background first, if this is not familiar to you. Second, I’m going to post a picture by gofu and not cite himoh wait. (Look at... |
| 2:45am | Chihhi’s Big Collaboration | | | | Looking slightly ahead, there are a couple albums I’d like to pick up down the road. Unfortunately I don’t know much about them. If you do, please let me know! [Also, silly CD Japan affiliate links inc.] 1. On 9/30, Ishikawa has a new album out, something about “Daremo Oshiete Kurenakatta... | | |
| 4:34am | Saimoe 2009, Once More, with (More) Feeling | | | | There isn’t a lot for me to say about Saimoe 2009 this year, because people are more organized than ever, at least those who do English. See this and that. There’s also this–a domain name and the same o’ HTML 3.0 layout that Japan likes, but in English? Nice idea! The thing... |
| 11:05pm | Tokyo Plays Dress-Up for Summer 2009 Anime | | | | Summer anime for 2009 is a good batch. It’s not extraordinary, but I would like to think every season is unique to some extent. It’s just some are more so than others and so far 2009 has been a little more so than others. I might have said this earlier, but I’ve been reading some... | | |
| 3:47am | Someone Has a Thing for Legs | | | | Maaya Sakamoto plays a sekushii onee-chan, sure, we all love that. And if you didn’t already notice, Canaan herself has a killer “Kero-chan Check” point at her pants (scroll half way down). Those pants are awesome! Did Takashi Takeuchi really come up with those? Pretty sweet. But... | | |
| 1:16am | Effects of Time On Valuation of Loot | | | | While in Japan, I found a copy of this book. Originally retailed for 4000 yen, this artbook now have a street price that exceeds the original retail price. But why is this so? Thinking back, over the years I’ve seen quite a few anime artbooks that were sold second-handed, and far majority of... |
| 10:36am | Otakon 2009: Yamakan Panel 1 Dump | | | | This is a straight up transcript of Yamakan’s panel’s Q&A section. If you’ve poured through Bayoab’s, this is a secondary reference for you. Mirrored here for your lols. There are places where I wasn’t sure what was said, so I filled it in. Yeah, them’s the rub.... |
| 3:27am | Otakon 2009 Wrap | | | | This is mostly a personal post about how the con it was for me. But if you’re reading this you probably don’t really mind, right? In a word, Otakon 2009 was a blast. Or is that two words, whatever. There were a few things put together that made it so. One, it’s that I managed to meet... | | |
| 3:59am | Otakon 2009: Day 3 | | | | Just for you, Mr. Strange. 1. So. Tired. 2. I spent a lot of time doing nothing in karaoke, which was bad because I hear the Matsubara panel that I wanted to go but skipped was actually p. good. I forgot the sign-up began at 9am so my ninja plans failed miserably when I showed up at 10am. 3. At Otakon... | | |
| 2:56pm | Otakon 2009: Day 2 | | | | Uh, there was a lot of crap that happened. 1. Yamamoto-kantoku did indeed say something interesting on his second panel. His two focus panels were all Q&A and the crowd was “loose” enough in the first one to ask some touchy questions already. The second one, uh, I wasn’t there... |
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