| 10:31pm | Showing the Love - Highlights of the NYAF 2008 |  | | | I love New York. With it only being a 100-minute bus ride from my apartment, I often find myself going there at least once every month to escape the boredom of Central Jersey. But you would think that being such an iconic city would just be a great place for an otaku to completely geek out on his fandom,... | | |
| 7:14pm | Yen Plus - The Rebirth of Raijin | | | | Let me take you back to the spring of 2003 when I was in my final months of high school. One of the “senior privileges” my school offered was that we were allowed to leave campus during our study hall periods. Well, none of my friends had study hall with me and I most certainly didn’t... | | |
| 10:36pm | A Look at the Humor of “Haré + Guu” | | | | Some months ago, I wrote in my Avatar retrospective that the humor in anime comedies just could not compare to that of our domestic cartoons. The Japanese and Americans have two different senses of humor, which are buried deep into our cultural upbringing. Domestic cartoons featured more sarcasm and... | | |
| 10:27pm | REPOST: The Deal with Moé | | | | Sorry, everyone. I was not able to get a new essay ready to post for this week. So in the meantime, please enjoy this repost of my first theoretical article ever on the Anime Almanac. I was reminded of this essay by this week’s Chicks on Anime column at the Anime News Network. It is much shorter... | | |
| 10:37pm | The Stage Production of Studio Shaft | | | | Adaptation - in the world of media, it is the act of altering the written text of a story so that it may be preformed for film, television, or theater. It’s not as easy as just handing the actors a novel and expecting them to be able to preform the story on camera or in front of an audience. ... | | |
| 10:48pm | Are We Just Gravy? The Importance of American Market to the Japanese | | | | Japanator’s Dick McVengeance issued a challenge in the comments of his response to my fansub controversy. He wanted to know if the American DVD sales of anime actually meant anything to the Japanese. Was the American market really important to the global anime economy, or were we all just gravy... | | |
| 12:16am | Bandai’s Change of Heart | | | | So the list of my anime pet peeves might not be that large, but they are topics I’m really critical of and have spent way too much time writting about on this website and twitter: 1) DRM 2) Fansubs 3) Crunchyroll 4) Bandai Entertianment Inc. (BEI) Now it would seem like the last point just doesn’t... | | |
| 10:27pm | The Otaku Pilgrimage - Highlights of Otakon 2008 | | | | I noticed something very amazing last Thursday. There was a common theme running with all the people I follow on Twitter. Up in Connecticut, Ramune and Neato, the team that makes up the web comic Kitsune Kiki, were making their way to JFK airport to catch a flight to Baltimore. Japanator’s Dick... | | |
| 11:09pm | Living Legit - A Month Without Fansubs | | | | A month ago, I wrote in my controversial essay that I was going to give up on downloading illegal fansubs. In a way, it really wasn’t that hard of a decision for me to make at the time. I had burnt myself out with covering the spring season on my Twitter account. What started off as a dozen new... | | |
| 10:57pm | “Avatar” and its Place in Otaku Culture | | | | I was getting dinner at my local Subway restaurant the other day when I was overhearing the people in front of me. It was a mother and her 8-year-old son. The boy was acting like little boys do, a little hyperactive, loud, and very annoying to the people around him. So the mother came up with the best... | | |
| 11:24pm | The Manga Masterpiece of “With The Light” | | | | Within the past couple of months, I have became a total fanboy for the new manga publisher Yen Press. With their manga anthology Yen Plus coming out in a couple of weeks and the release of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya coming out next year, I really see a great future ahead for these guys. But my... | | |
| 10:35pm | The FUNizoid - The Industry’s Last Hope | | | | Darkness falls over the poor lands of the American anime market. What was once a prosperous and thriving area was now facing mass famine due to the abandonment and neglect of its people. Now the land’s most terrible foe, the evil giant Fansub monster, has grown so big that even the mighty warriors... | | |
| 10:59pm | Repost: The Story of the Train Man | | | | Note: Because I’ve been spending so much time responding to my essay from last week, I haven’t been able to finish a new post for this week. So instead of just posting nothing, I would like you all to enjoy one of my personal favorites from the Anime Almanac archives. Originally posted on... | | |
| 10:33pm | Greg Ayres and the Fight Against Fansubs | | | | In a darkly lit room at the AnimeNEXT convention on Saturday, English dub voice actor Greg Ayres enters to applause from a full room of otaku. “No, it’s not my final panel for this convention,” he announces to the audience, “but it’s the only one I think is important.”... | | |
| 10:31pm | The Press Badge - A Blogger’s Cosplay | | | | While I’m still in the process of writing up my piece on voice actor Greg Ayres, I figure I’ll just share my very personal experience with the AnimeNEXT convention last weekend. I had mentioned towards the end of a previous post that I was going to be getting press badges for all the major... |
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