| 11:59pm | Maid Machinegun - A Lesson in Akihabara Culture |  | | | Okay, so my last two reviews of light novels have turned out to be a couple of big disappointments for this anime blogger. Because of that, I had decided to leave the novel reviews for the New York Times and stick with just comics and cartoons. But I became interested in Del Rey’s Maid Machinegun... | | |
| 11:59pm | Tokyopop’s Fall From Grace | | | | There’s been one company in the manga industry that has come under a lot of scrutiny from the media and otakushere lately, and that would be the mighty Tokyopop. The company first received some flack when it was revealed that the terms of the contract to their potential Original English Language... | | |
| 5:07pm | Anime in the Crosshairs - The War on Bittorrent | | | | Last week, I witnessed a truly disgusting display of the entertainment industry’s war against the bittorrent peer-to-peer method of file sharing. American Internet-based TV company Revision3 was shut down over the Memorial Day weekend due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack to its... | | |
| 10:56pm | That Hollywood Shine - Adapting Anime and Comics Into Movies | | | | The Wachowski brothers’ 1999 film The Matrix was a turning point in movie special effects. The movie was inspired by the brothers’ love of anime and comics. In emulating such works as Ghost in the Shell, they produced some of the most jaw-dropping visuals ever seen at the time. The heroes... | | |
| 9:56pm | Anime Almanac the Live! | | | | There will be no regular post this week because I’ve been hard at work at creating a new feature for the site - Anime Almanac the Live! No, I’m not putting on a concert or starting a dorama adaptation AA the Live is a Twitter aggregate for the anime blogging community. Users can visit the... |
| 11:50pm | One Last Time - A Review of the Lucky Star US Box Set | | | | Okay, so I’ve talked a lot about Lucky Star over the past few weeks, but that’s because it is a highly anticipated title that has acquired a huge fanbase in America via the fansub community. That community, my dear readers, includes mostly every one of you out there. Rest assured that if... | | |
| 11:14pm | Why is Lucky Star the Symbol of Otaku Culture? | | | | Okay, so I might have said some controversial things on this blog before. I’ve lashed out against the fansub community, criticized major anime news organizations, and advocated the right to lolicon. But I don’t think I have ever said anything so blasphemous against the otaku community as... | | |
| 11:11pm | Anime Almanac’s New Look - Now 70% More Moé! | | | | It’s been only four months since the Anime Almanac had it’s relaunch at the beginning of the year, but the result has been phenomenal. The blog has had more readers in the last couple of months than it ever did when I was Blogsome. So in order to ensure the site continues to grow, I figured... | | |
| 6:01pm | I’m on the Podtoid-san podcast this week. | | | | Just a quick note: The folks over at Japanator invited me to be on their podcast this week. Be sure to check it out to hear me drool over the new Eva film and defend the upcoming Dragonball Z movie. And for those of you wondering just why people people like moé, you’re not going to find it here.... |
| 11:54pm | Lucky Star Copycats in Anime Theme Songs | | | | I hated the Lucky Star theme song at first. It was anticipated to be, like everything about Lucky Star, the second coming of Haruhi and it’s very popular ending theme song. But it turned out to be nothing like Haruhi at all. After the first episode of the show aired in Japan and someone had posted... | | |
| 1:51am | Responses to the ANN Editorial | | | | Instead of appending this to my ANN editorial last week, I figure this deserves an entire post by itself. I’ve been getting a bunch of good emails regarding this topic. Apparently I’m not the only one dissatisfied with this new direction for ANN. I was very worried about criticizing the... |
| 11:15pm | The Clear Winner of the NY Comic Con: Yen Press | | | | This was my first year at the New York Comic Con. I went to the event expecting it to be similar to the New York Anime Festival last December. After all, it was in the same venue and it was being run by the same group of people. So I was in for a huge surprise when I discovered that this convention... | | |
| 10:58pm | Live Twitter Feed from New York Comic Con this Saturday | | | | Hey everyone, I’m going to the New York Comic Con on Saturday. I was so impressed with the New York Anime Festival last year that I figure the Comic Con would also be worth the price of admission. And looking at what they have to offer, I’m sure that it’s going to be a pretty awesome... | | |
| 12:46am | What’s Happening to the Anime News Network? | | | | In Search of Number Nine brought up a very good observation last weekend. Why is the popular anime news website, Anime News Network, doing a spring anime preview? The website has dabbled in such articles in the past, usually being written by an anonymous collection of the websites’ writers and... |
| 11:35pm | How Did Gonzo Do? A Look Back At Week One | | | | Last week, I made the pretty bold claim that Gonzo studio was about to change everything with their new release model for the Tower of Druaga and BLASSREITER. On Friday and Saturday, Gonzo followed through on their promise by releasing the shows’ premiere episodes online immediately following... | | |
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