| 4:34am | April 2009 Opening and Ending Picks | | | | Just a random list. I’ll try to Youtube the links when possible/easy. It’s so weird that I can’t do this post 1 week into the new seasonnot that I’m complaining. I think there’s something strangely magical about Hatsukoi Limited’s set. The 4-seiyuu unit Sphere picked... | | |
| 2:34am | Looking for Otaku Photogs That Walk the Walk in DC | | | | It’s already been a few days since Eden of the East was made available, so we’re already ‘not-l33t’ by some standards, but it’s not too late! Location shots! The one for K-ON appeared pretty much the day after it aired. It was crazy. They surely are not lazy. And granted,... |
| 12:54pm | Convention Tactics - Cheaper Guests | | | | Just recording some thoughts about American-style anime conventions. Recently I read about Malaysian convention Daicon (wait, didn’t someone already capitalized on that name?) and I’m happy that (somewhat) English-language East Asia is having more of these parties. Reflecting on Otakon’s... | | |
| 2:16pm | WTB Merchandising Support | | | | 525 728 Frustration. It’s worth blogging about because it’s appropriately meta and it’s relevant as an evidence of cultural clashing between different needs for merchandising support. What do I mean by that? Let’s take trading or collectible card games (TCG/CCG) for example.... |
| 1:25pm | Animelo 2008 BRD Day 2, Bullet Style | | | | (Somewhat) Chronological this time; the costumes are all pretty alright, nondescript, nothing to splooge over besides IM@S team all have long legs (or looks it) and look great in that otherwise strangely-colored outfit.So, day 2 is the command for LOVE.EXE -UNDER 17 | MOSAIC.WAV amirite. Plus bigger... | | |
| 5:47pm | Riffing Off Gia’s Homework #2: Otaku, Insert Kelts | | | | This post is going to be about Roland Kelt’s Japanamerica more so than any definition of “otaku,” I’m afraid. I finished reading the book a while ago, and it’s digesting quite nicely. However this book was not what I was looking for. That’s the simple and clean take.... |
| 11:31pm | Rage Against the Book Cover, Perverted Ones | | | | I write in an unhealthy, verbose manner, but this sums up my feeling, year in and year out, about approaching new anime on a seasonal basis, with more feeling than I can ever imbue within a bunch of words. So I echo. It’s definitely important to call out and evaluate stuff that is detrimental,... | | |
| 2:25pm | Gundam 00 - Once More, with Feeling | | | | Despite the server problems I experienced yesterday, I ended up writing a ton of crap this week that has nowhere to go. I feel sorry for you to have to read it here. Twice so if you tried to make a comment. Anyways, yes, civilians. Noncombatants. Well, not the same exactly. But them darn things that... | | |
| 4:25am | Animelo 2009 BRD Day 1, Bullet Style | | | | Introducing a new measure of length of a DVD - moments of bliss. I realized Animelo 2009 day 1 on Blu-Ray is like, FIVE AND A HALF HOURS. That’s like, a 12-episode TV series. GUH. But it is good–much of it kept my fanboy heart aflutter, GAR, or otherwise amused. So it’s too long, but... | | |
| 1:13am | Gundam 00 - A New State of War | | | | Just to continue on this post, as there’s no time is better than the present to talk about Gundam 00 right when it is wrapping up. I find Gundam 00, fundamentally, a very refreshing show because it is a good change in direction from the traditional look at Gundam. By that I don’t mean it... | | |
| 12:33am | Gadget Geek Supports Toradora! | | | | I don’t really give a damn about cheeky romance, “one more time” [cue Daft Punk], or the usual inner struggles as manifested through intercharacter drama that wrapped up like a satisfying trashy romance novel. Toradora is based on light novels, right? I do care about the display of... | | |
| 12:43am | GUHROOGAMESH! | | | | I, like many internet trolls, /b/tards, and other people who enjoy a good laugh on the internet, tend to know something is worth mocking when I see it. And especially when Chicks on Anime and I agree, you know it’s definitely a solid estimation. [Click on Chicks on Anime to see them briefly describe... |
| 2:33pm | On Liking Crappy Anime | | | | I’m one of those weirdos who makes a conscious break between what I like and what I recognize as quality. Take, for example, Linebarrels of Iron. This particular show looks and feels like an average giant robot show, and for the most part it fits that genre stereotype to a tee. It’s full... | | |
| 12:57am | The 25th Hour Wishlist | | | | There are some stuff out there that I just wish I had the time for, but because there’s all this stuff that I wish I had the time for, I gotta meta my way so that I prioritize those that I do have the time for and those that I don’t have the time for. The end result is that I have less items... | | |
| 11:07pm | Totally Serious Business | | | | In spirit of the TAF that’s running this week, here’s some SRSBZNS nonsense. This is the type of stuff that I missed writing for college courses because my school was fairly badass about cracking down on this kind of BS. In BS terms, these are more like mission statements. Please don’t... |
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