| 9:51pm | Only five days late | | | | I think I measured the salt wrong, my crepe tastes a little off. But at least I found a use for Ikea jam. (A cake would totally be inappropriate, it’s not flat enough) |
| 4:37am | Short AWA Con Report | | | | Anime Weekend Atlanta is pretty much the best con around, you should go to it. But if you stay more than a few minutes away you’ll probably oversleep and miss the Eva panel, so watch out for that. On Friday I saw Patrick’s Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno panel; after the fire alarm triggered... |
| 1:25pm | Assorted news for 9/20 | | | | Trawling around the net, catching up on rss feeds and adding new ones now that I’m actually getting settled in. Some very mildly interesting things that have likely been posted elsewhere: Lupin: Cagliostro, Secret of Mamo, TV Season 1+2 coming to Blu-ray 5040 per movie, that’s like half... |
| 7:41am | Suddenly, I feel obligated to pay the NHK tax | | | | Further proof of the NHK conspiracy: while flipping through channels last night, I caught the tail end of this show run on public tv about hero songs. HERO SONGS! Since I only saw the end, I missed the earlier parts with lame songs like the Eva op, and instead got to see Masaaki Endoh and Tanaka Kouhei... |
| 1:48pm | Travel report with lots of stolen pictures: Washinomiya | | | | This is an incredibly late report, but better late then never! All but one of the photos is stolen from Moondabor, who pretty much single-handedly made my two weeks in Tokyo three times as interesting and infinitely more maidy. About a month ago, I went with a big ol’ group of gaijin to one of... | | |
| 3:12am | Shaft does something completely expected | | | | A website banner and the Moonphase unsourced rumors blog say that SHAFT/Akiyuki Shinbo’s newest upcoming anime is a Nisio Oishin novel named Bakemonogatari. I read Zaregoto pretty recently and was only a little impressed, mainly because it had the exact same writing gimmick as every other Japanese... |
| 11:00pm | C74 day 2: shame | | | | After 5 hours in the brain-melting heat, I was forced to retreat from Ariake, a defeated man. A combination of long hair and my body’s extraordinary ability to retain heat caused, as happens so often in this country, my mind to say “yes” while my body screamed “no”, and... |
| 8:49am | c74 observations part the first | | | | Quick notes before I go lie down and try to tie my hamstrings back together: *Wonder Festival ruins everything - 75% of the escalators were out of comission, including the ones connecting the upper and lower levels of the east halls, and quite obviously the 1f-4f escalator in the west hall (the one... |
| 5:51am | C74 day 1 | | | | Today I exchanged a few hundred calories, a couple thousand yen, and my childish naivete regarding what the words “hot” and “uncomfortable” mean for a small number of Rozen Maiden coterie magazines of fairly high quality. I have returned from my travails a changed man, one who... |
| 6:26am | Instant Manga Reviews: Melty Blood and The World’s Best Surgeon | | | | I caught something at Otakon and I’m still feeling kinda bad, but I’ll try to get enough power to write it up by listening to No Border on repeat (although kransom and others pretty much got all you’d care about). Meanwhile, here’s some stuff I meant to post about ages ago. Melty... | | |
| 10:08pm | Jam Protakon report | | | | day 0: starcraft videos, hooters with the internet day 1: jam project Jam Project JAM PROJECT day 2: jam project Jam Project JAM PROJECT day 3: go home great con, but it felt a little short. another hello to all the cool guy internet anime bloggers I met there, you know who you are. |
| 6:01am | C74 day/genre changes | | | | But first, erratum: I have been kindly informed that Me & The Devil Blues is being put out by Del Rey, not Viz. I’m not quite sure how I made this mistake, but it could have to do with the fact that the only other Del Rey book I have considered buying is Genshiken. Good on them! Anyway, I’m... |
| 7:58am | Instant Manga Reviews: Mononokemono, Me and the Devil Blues, Amawresu Kenchan | | | | Getting some stuff out there before I clean it off my desk and shelve it in the black hole known as my room. Mononokemono, GotsuboxRyuji, vol 1 (2007) When Ibuki returns to his home town for his grandmother’s funeral, he discovers that he has been chosen as her successor as a mononokemono, a human... | | |
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