| 5:46am | New York Comic Con ‘09 - Day 1 in Tweets |  | | | Teen girls with manga, dealers room, Tentacle Grape, Vertical, and Yatta, Yatta, Yatterman!Yes, my readers, on the first day of Comic Con, I was graped. I didn’t want it at first. I kept on begging, “No! Please don’t! Stop!” But I eventually gave in and opened myself to the purple... | | |
| 2:15pm | New York Comic Con ‘09 - Day 0 in Tweets | | | | Travel, checking in, ICv2 conference, dinners, and Gia sticking tentacles in her mouth. So here’s the brand new feature I’ve been working on for a few weeks here at the Anime Almanac. With so many people I follow on Twitter attending the New York Comic Con with me this year, I figure it... |
| 2:48pm | Editorial Repost: Child Pornography in Anime | | | | Today starts the trial of Christopher Handley for the content of his pornographic manga collection. Under the PROTECT Act of 2003, the fictional depictions of children having sex and bestiality in his collection could put him away for 20 years in prison. This is not the first time that PROTECT has put... | | |
| 2:29am | Hiatus Notice: New Features on the Way! | | | | Hey everyone, So as I’m preparing for a new year’s worth of convention coverage, I’m going to be taking a break from writing for a few weeks in order to program some new features for this site and fix up a few bugs. As you know, I am the only person working on Anime Almanac and my... |
| 10:52pm | An Email About Fansubs and Morality | | | | I don’t normally do this, but I figure that with this being the first week that Crunchyroll went legit and started streaming new episodes of Naruto, I had to put out a final plea to my audience. I had received an email last week concerning my Greg Ayres and the Fight Against Fansubs post from... | | |
| 10:19pm | The Anime Almanac’s Top 10 Posts of 2008 | | | | Last week, I reviewed the past year in terms of anime releases, manga release, and the best and worst companies in the industry. However, there was still one more thing that gained a lot of traction and notice in 2008 - The Anime Almanac and its ever lovable blogger! (^_^) I started this blog a few... | | |
| 10:51pm | 2008 in Review and Predictions for 2009 | | | | You know, even though I mostly focus this blog on stories about the anime industry and the American fan culture behind it, I am still an avid collector of manga and anime DVDs. So that means that along with keeping tabs on the latest news and traveling to many conventions this past year, I’ve... | | |
| 7:41pm | How the Japanese are Reclaiming the Internet | | | | If you have been following my blog for the past year, then you are familiar with my controversial narrative of the US anime market and how it reached its breaking point a few months ago. The giants of the industry formed their mighty empire after Toonami and Adult Swim brought in a new American audience... | | |
| 2:22pm | “Rica ‘tte Kanji” and Lesbianism in Manga | | | | I think for a majority of American otaku, the word “yuri” conjures up only a few images. There’s the boy-turned-girl by aliens stuck in a love triangle between two other girls. Or the girl in the huge black witch’s hat flirting with a female swordsmen. Or probably the image of... | | |
| 1:50pm | Beyond My Comfort Zone - Scott Reads Yaoi | | | | Note: This post contains very explicit images and discussions of sex and homosexuality depicted in comics. Read at your own risk. About a month ago, I hung out with the team over at the Reverse Thieves blog in New York City. We went to a used Japanese bookstore, and I was thrilled to find a copy of... | | |
| 10:25pm | Highlights of MangaNEXT 2008 | | | | Note: You may not want read the latter part of this post you are easily offended by sexuality or profanity. I have always been a fan of the small MangaNEXT convention. Universal Animation, the group behind the AnimeNEXT convention held every June in New Jersey, had created it as a manga-centric spin... | | |
| 6:26pm | Live from MangaNEXT 2008 | | | | I’m live at the Doubletree Hotel in Somerset NJ for the third annual MangaNEXT convention this weekend. MangaNEXT is the spin-off of the AnimeNEXT convention I reported on back in June. As the name implies, it focuses mostly on manga-themed events and panels. This year’s guests include yuri... |
| 11:11pm | The Optimism of FUNimation Entertainment | | | | “DON’T PANIC!” reads the first slide of FUNimation’s powerpoint presentation at the New York Anime Festival, and once again, the audience lets out a nervous laugh. It is the same slide that the company has shown at the last Otakon, Anime Expo, and any other convention they have... | | |
| 12:18am | Behind the Mic - The Bang Zoom Workshop | | | | A group of a dozen aspiring voice actors gather in a small recording studio in Midtown Manhattan. They are there to participate in a day long voice acting workshop hosted by Bang Zoom Entertainment. Not only have they paid quite a lot of money to attend this class, but their promptness in showing up... | | |
| 10:38pm | Robin Sevakis talks Anime News Nina | | | | On October 24, 2007, the website Anime News Network launched its newest feature, a weekly webcomic by Robin Sevakis called Anime News Nina. In the opening five panels, we were introduced to Nina, a cute but bewildered news elf whose sole purpose in life is to learn everything about umm “Anime!”... | | |
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