| 3:29pm | Review: Shimada Humikane Art Works | | | | This review is a horrible idea because it will probably brand me as a pedophile for the rest of my life, but I cannot help but love Shimada Humikane. I’ve been following his stuff since early 2004 right before the moe tidal wave broke, and finally with the advent of Strike Witches coming out,... | | |
| 6:17am | quote of the day | | | | Hi, everyone. I’ve decided to do my MA thesis on Manga being a form of literature and the cultural impact it has had on the west. There are a few questions that I should be asking, apart from these two but I have no idea what. The books that I have chosen to do my study in are Death Note, Count... | | |
| 2:18pm | instant review: some crap I bought because akibablog and zepy talked about it | | | | Saint Young Men, Nakamura Hikaru (Kodansha/Morning 2), vols 1+2 - Jesus and Buddha come back to the world as cute bachelors living in Tokyo. That alone is normally enough to get me to drop 552 yen but incredibly enough the execution is pretty spot-on too. The chapters are all pretty stand-alone barring... |
| 5:37am | regarding the recent hiatus | | | | I haven’t been posting recently for the following reasons: 1 2 Here is a pile of things I hope to blog about now that I finally have a reprieve from unlimited home works: pile stay tuned! |
| 6:43am | Instant review: some crap I bought | | | | In order: Touhou ~ Silent Sinner in Blue (ZUN x Aki Eda) - I was going to complain that this has really bad art, but then I went back and checked the magazine scans and they actually look way better. Maybe they took out all the halftones because they couldn’t afford good printing or something??... |
| 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... |
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