| 1:00pm | They Finally Get It - How Gonzo is About to Change Everything |  | | | Anime should be the poster child on how the internet changes the world. Here you have a very particular type of entertainment that solely originates from one tiny corner of the planet. It is produced by Japanese, filled with influences from the Japanese culture, and is created specifically for the Japanese... | | |
| 12:17am | A Review of the “Pita-Ten” Light Novel | | | | Light novels appear to be a newest growing trend among the American anime market. Tokyopop has recently released a number of books that have gone on to become well known in the US for their anime adaptations, such as Crest of the Stars, Welcome to the NHK, and The Twelve Kingdoms. Del Rey will also... | | |
| 11:40pm | Otaku’s War on Otaku - Why The World Doesn’t Actually Hate Us | | | | Warning: This post deals with internet flaming, so be prepared to much more salty language than what I usually write. Last week’s Q&A section of AnimeNewsNetwork brought up a very interesting question - Just why do anime fans seem to hate each other so much? I was planning on writing on this... | | |
| 11:18pm | A Look at the Ace Attorney / Gyakuten Saiban Series | | | | After having it own all my free time over the past couple of weeks, I finally finished Gyakuten Saiban 4, released in America as “Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney”. Now I’m able to go on with the rest of my life. I have a very short attention span when it comes to video games, and I often... |
| 12:10am | Manga Hobos - Japanese Culture Meets American Laziness | | | | Web comic “Anime News Nina” recently satirized a horrible trend among the American otaku community. You know the story. You walk into your local Borders or Barnes & Noble and head towards the graphic novel section. You begin your search through the shelves, looking to see if Tokyopop... | | |
| 1:04am | Androgyny and Gender Bending - Part III - Boys Become Girls | | | | Last week, I talked about how yaoi and boys’ love comics were not about homosexual relationships but rather a female fantasy of equality in gender roles and the gender bending experience of the female reader to the androgynous “men” in these comics. However, gender bending in manga... | | |
| 11:54pm | NYAF Final Thought: The Dawn of the Internet Revolution | | | | Scott finishes his series of posts from the first annual New York Anime Festival. I am a connoisseur of entertainment, especially when it comes to television and anime. I watch it for hours every night after work, and I am easily the one to go to for all the latest on what’s on the air right now.... | | |
| 12:10am | Lucky Star letdown and how Bandai’s president just doesn’t get it. | | | | Scott continues his series of posts from the New York Anime Festival. Bandai Entertainment held a panel early Sunday morning that I had to attend. The topic: the US release of Lucky Star. When I walked around the dealers room on Friday, I felt a strange attraction to the Bandai booth. It had become a... | | |
| 9:45pm | Introducing AnimeAlmanac.com! | | | | Hey everyone! At the start of the New Year, my new site AnimeAlmanac.com went live. Along with having a much better url, the new site also includes a complete redesign to best reflect the new “weekly essay” format. For the more tech-savvy, this also means a complete translation from a... |
| 11:52pm | Manga Sutra and Why Scott Needs to Check Out a Sex Shop | | | | Scott continues his series of posts from the New York Anime Festival. “So you mean to tell me that I can only find this book on Amazon?” I ask Tokyopop’s marketing person. The book in question was Manga Sutra, originally called Futari H in Japan, and it is a title I have great interest... |
| 9:00pm | Manga Sutra and Why Scott Needs to Check Out a Sex Shop | | | | Scott continues his series of posts from the New York Anime Festival. “So you mean to tell me that I can only find this book on Amazon?” I ask Tokyopop’s marketing person. The book in question was Manga Sutra, originally called Futari H in Japan, and it is a title I have great interest... |
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