| 12:22am | A Day in the Park - Highlights of Sakura Matsuri 2009 |  | | | As being both an anime / manga fan and a student of Japanese language and culture, I have been exposed to quite a lot of Japanese-related events and activities around the New York area through out the years. From the various conventions, to the “Japan Day” celebration in Central Park, to... |
| 6:17pm | Spring 2009 - The Season of the Simulcast | | | | A year ago, Japanese studio Gonzo was on the verge of financial collapse and tried to dig themselves out by experimenting with a new idea for the US market. They introduced the simulcast, a free, legal, fully-subtitled copy of their Spring 2008 series Drauga and Blassreiter. They would make each episode... | | |
| 12:20am | Manga Review: Venus Capriccio | | | | It’s been a long time since I last read shojo manga. As a fan of the more moé and shonen series, I very rarely pick up shojo titles in my eight years of collecting manga. But some time ago, I had a girlfriend who was also into manga, and she (literally) forced me to take in series like Hot Gimmick,... |
| 9:10pm | Video Game Review: Lux-Pain for Nintendo DS | | | | I love visual novel games. It’s an unique genre that is hugely popular in Japan yet is only known in America by otaku. It’s probably because of this cultural oddity that I find myself fascinated with the genre. Since learning Japanese, I would occasionally import a game and play through... | | |
| 1:26pm | An Email About Keitaro, KyoAni, and the Fans Who Love Them | | | | I should probably make this a regular feature. Every once in a while, I receive an email that deserves a little extra attention from me in my response. When I received an email titled, “Keitaro Urashima Post and Why You Should Speak For Yourself Only!” I thought it was just going to be another... | | |
| 12:44pm | Reni - The Japanese Idol of New York City | | | | Japanese singer and dancer Reni Mimura makes her second local debut to a small concert that was mostly promoted by word-of-mouth. She is dressed in a frilly maid costume, carries around a pink stuffed poodle, and wears a pair of bunny ears on her head. Her set list is a combination of fan-requested... | | |
| 1:09pm | Review: Tantric Stripfighter Trina | | | | Last week, I talked about the term “OEL manga” and how I felt that it was a genre that deserved to have a little recognition among manga fans. I even showed off Scott Pilgrim as the “Best OEL Manga Evar!!!” Yet recently another OEL manga have been making its rounds among the... |
| 4:31pm | Scott Goes KRAZY! on About.com | | | | Deb Aoki is the very talented guide behind the manga section of About.com. She was invited to attend the preview reception of KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games art exhibit last Wednesday at the Japan Society in New York City. The problem? Deb lives on the completely opposite... |
| 12:48am | Scott on Scott Pilgrim and the Best OEL Manga Evar!!! | | | | I once heard that in marketing, the customer will become interested in a product after it has been recommended to them three times. A year ago, I had read a gushing review of the OEL manga series Scott Pilgrim in ANN’s weekly review section. A month later, the hosts of the video podcast The Totally... | | |
| 12:33am | Review: Blue Dragon Plus for Nintendo DS | | | | Manga artist Akira Toriyama must have some strange fetish for dragons. If you are an American anime fan and you haven’t been living under a rock for the past decade or so, you are probably familiar with his Dragonball manga franchise. But video game fans will also be familiar with him providing... | | |
| 2:17pm | Review: Evangelion iPhone Apps | | | | I have to admit, when I first heard the news that official applications based off of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise were coming to the iPhone App Store, I had mixed feelings over it. I was excited because I am both an Eva fanboy and Apple fanboy, so combining the two seemed to me like a recipe... |
| 11:34pm | REPOST: Keitaro Urashima - The Everynerd | | | | Today FUNimation re-released the anime adaptation of Love Hina, the franchise that introduced me and many otaku of my generation to the wonderful world of anime and manga. To celebrate the return of this series, I’d like to repost this essay I wrote about its impact to the anime and manga industry... | | |
| 2:58am | New York Comic Con ‘09 - Day 3 in Tweets | | | | Warm weather, VIZ, podcasting, Scott Pilgrim, and going home! And so we reach the final day of the New York Comic Con. Normally the Sunday of a convention is the time to chill and relax after a hectic Saturday, and it was most certainly looking that way with only one industry panel scheduled for today.... | | |
| 7:00am | New York Comic Con ‘09 - Day 2 in Tweets | | | | Sold out, Jason Thompson OEL, Bandai goes digital, Yotsuba&! vol. 6, FUNimation’s popularity, and Ani-bloggers go out for a huge dinner. What do you get when you stick tens of thousands of geeks into a single building? Tens of thousands of iPhones killing my AT&T internet connection,... | | |
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