| 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... | | |
| 7:10am | Book (?!) Review: Manga! Manga!, Dreamland Japan (Schodt) | | | | Fred Schodt, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics (1983), Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga (1996). I’ve had these two books lying around for quite some time now, and it seems like now would be a good time to break my trend of posting reviews of things that the majority of this blog’s... | | |
| 3:54am | Manga Review: Kuishinbou | | | | Kuishinbou, Tsuchiyama Shigeru, vol 1 (2005) Every once in a while, I hear someone throw out the idea that a certain manga is made specifically for Japanese salarymen as vicarious entertainment. Sometimes the claim made by mistaken individuals in regards to works that simply have universal appeal (Golgo... | | |
| 6:22am | Moving Sale (Doujin, Manga, CDs and more!) | | | | I know I promised to keep writing manga reviews, but I’ve been too busy taking stock and making a website where you can buy fabulous doujinshi, doujin music, manga, and more at low low prices! Touhou, Bemani, Rozen Maiden, Haruhi/Lucky Star crossovers, Naruto manga, anime girls with boy parts... | | |
| 2:09am | Manga Review: Neko Ramen | | | | Remember that time I did this in February and I thought that maybe I’d do this once a month? Man, I’m a funny guy. Anyway, as part of my plan to clean up/out my nerdy crap from my house before I leave to Glorious Nippon for a year of education and debauchery I figured I’d give some... |
| 2:05am | Netcraft confirms: anime is dying | | | | This is a worthless post I stole from a bunch of other people. Sorry!ADV Films is in financial trouble! I bet you didn’t know that. I actually like them, even though their magazine was boring and all of their DVDs are encoded horribly at random. Hopefully they can stay away from actual Japanese... |
| 3:03am | quote of the day | | | | Since you replied to this, I feel compelled to respond. I used to be the Executive Editor of Newtype USA and feel strongly about this. No, Otaku USA is not a “good pub.” It’s a magazine that stole its ideas, format, look, “USA” suffix, DVD and layout from Newtype USA and... | | |
| 5:48am | BREAKING: Popular Doujin Circle Harnesses “Market Forces” | | | | So it turns out that the doujin of cute girls wearing headphones that I bought last winter at the dirt cheap price of 8000 yen is getting a reprint and then some. And KEI is doing an artbook too? What’s the world coming to? Before you know it, all this increased supply will drive those poor, poor... |
| 2:28am | Ding dong, the witch is dead… | | | | Maybe now I won’t have to hear quite as many Kooky Japan stories at school? And here I was, thinking that I was being a fool for hoping that 2ch would manage to have some pull on a big corporation after seeing signs of the stink on itai. (real posts about more important things (MY ANIMES) to resume... |
| 6:42am | 14 people stabbed in Akihabara | | | | A 25-year-old yakuza named Tomohiro Kato completely ruined everyone’s day just now, driving into a crowd in Akihabara and then stabbing 15 people, with 5 of them in cardiac arrest. The pointless TV media attention has just been dying down, but now I guess it’ll be back for a while, and... |
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