| 3:23am | Anime Boston 2009 Day 0 | | | | Seafood is delicious, you must have it. Honestly though, this is a big reason why I am here. It’s not so much the con has draws for me, even if it certainly does. It’s the people, the location (first time really spending a day++ inside Boston), and doing stuff in a relaxed manner. I have... | | |
| 5:01am | The Con Game | | | | Here’s an idea for a visual novel or dating sim. Might be a tad typical in the ways of Comic Party: The events of the game revolve around not one, but two anime conventions. The themes of the game highlights how these cons are different than, say, a game con, in its party-hardy, group celebratory... |
| 12:38am | Travel Back in Time | | | | So I was watching Natsu no Arashi on Crunchyroll today, and I noticed their browser client has leveled up (again). But they also have a link to their old client. One thing leads to another, neurons fired, a cicada croaked, bees flew, &c; the throwback stuff I was drinking might have had an effect... |
| 3:53pm | Travelers of the East | | | | Japan Japan HK And Japan It’s a nice diversion to read and see the sights, even if sometimes it’s the same tale repeated many times over the years. Beats hearing the same whine and cheese about people’s animu likes and dislikes! These adventures are still ongoing, which marks an... |
| 3:44am | Animation Quality is QUALITY | | | | I occasionally praise the animation quality of something, but I usually don’t really convey the aesthetics aspect with those statements. I’m not very rigorous about those casual praises either. I do, however, talk about aesthetics separately because I think it’s important. Anime is... | | |
| 3:43am | An Instrumental Rock Music Detour | | | | I’m not a huge fan of Explosions in the Sky, but I rather liked their live shows that I’m more than willing to go to them repeatedly. It’s definitely a very different experience than listening to their music as one normally do nowadays–from headphones off a PMP. I guess it would... |
| 6:53pm | Help Me Pick a Con | | | | This was a work in progress. However I’ve been working on it for a month+ now so we’re down to just one left. And then somehow I figured I should publish this for some reason. |
| 4:10am | Fanservice Highlight, Presenting Hatsukoi Limited Yet Again | | | | Why, yes, I do care about 20 different shots of Yamamoto’s boobs. Key being framing and presenting said assets, and not merely the demonstration of its presence as used for profit towards plot and audience’s satisfaction. The essence of a walking boner is the walking aspect, and not merely... |
| 12:56am | Marketing Otaku Anime | | | | An alternative take at the eternal struggle of copywriting (read the comments there!) anime for an American audience–the shoppers of America’s big-box heartland–is that it really doesn’t matter. At least not in the way fans think of it. Let’s take a well-known import of... | | |
| 3:31pm | King Record Denies Dirty Old Men, Thumbs Flicked | | | | Lately I have a dry spill. Unlike traffic statistics or things that actually matter, I look at my output on this blog as a reflection of how inspired I am. It’s almost like a creativity-thermometer. But lately only silly (but nonetheless relevant) things occupy my mind– When I first read... | | |
| 4:02pm | Never Ending Comic Party | | | | Reading about doujinshi in the form of Inui’s Comic Party manga is something I should have done years ago, but only because I didn’t opt for either the game(s) or the anime (dropped after 6?). In some sense, Comic Party is a good attempt to map the macrocosm of fandom into the context of... |
| 11:17pm | Merchandising in the Spring | | | | I wrote in a post a while ago about OP/EDs, but I didn’t really focus on the music to exclusion of everything else (and why would you?). Thinking about it though, it might be enlightening to point out the singles that I decided to buy (in physical formatI think I’ll wait for Amazon or iTunes... | | |
| 12:06am | On Light Music | | | | It would appear he is not the only one. Real briefly, the term is 軽音楽, and as wiki would have it, it describes not just “light music” as a dictionary would translate the term. Accordingly, in common practice (as in, the exercise of labeling high school clubs), it’s anything that’s... | | |
| 3:56pm | First Hop for Hatsukoi Limited | | | | Funnily enough, the show taking up most of my attention this season is Hatsukoi Limited. I anticipated this anime for some time (about a yearI guess) so I know if it works out, I would be all over it. Still, I did not expected it to be so consuming! I guess I’m just a big o sap. Otaku flavored... | | |
| 3:17am | Too-Shy Shy-Girl from a Too-Shy Shy-Era | | | | Do you still remember Kannagi? Takako Kimura? For some of you, there has been a lifetime worth of stuff since, but to me it is a whole heartbeat ago. Takako: a catch-all catch-you fangirl? Kannagi’s filler episodes are the true spiritual successor of Lucky Star IMO. If the general concept behind... | | |
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