| 2:05pm | Major Season 4 Ends. It was Easily the Worst of the 4. | | | | Seriously, professional sports just does not have the same level of thrill, knife-edge balance and overall intensity as school sports. Because you know a season is long, you can afford to lose a game or even throw it to save you from fatigue. School sports on the other hand, are generally one-off knock-out... | | |
| 6:52pm | Mainstream Society Doesn’t Deserve Live-Action Anime. | | | | I was going to say, "Americans" in place of "Mainstream Society" but decided against it even though the poor box office performance of Speed Racer was measured in the US. But I do know that it isn’t just Americans, as even here in Singapore, I hear lots of negative reviews... | | |
| 5:19pm | Movie Review: Koizora is so Bad, it makes Dumb and Dumber Smart | | | | In accordance with my recent watching of more mainstream movies than otaku fare, this article will be reviewing Step Up 2 and Koizora. For those who are weeaboo but don’t know Koizora, you must be otaku but that’s ok because it is the worst show ever made by Man. Yes, even worse than fucking... | | |
| 9:52am | What Anime Have You Cried For? | | | | I don’t care for what reason you cry, as long as you have, it’s counted. I bring up this topic because people are laughing at MistaYoh (a famous local doujin artist) for crying during a public screening of Byousoku. HAHA LOSER! Ok I jest. But I cry a LOT during anime, and for the weirdest... | | |
| 11:52am | A Rare Riuva Sports Editorial: Real life vs Anime Sports! | | | | The last time I wrote a sports editorial here was more than 1.5 years ago. I noted that most anime fans were not sports fans, because we are generally anaemic, frail/obese and lacking psychomotor skills. But for those who are, we can be generally divided into two types - those who like sports because... | | |
| 9:59am | Best Anime of the Summer Season | | | | We all know the summer season traditionally is a big stinkfest. All the good anime come in the spring and the fall, and the summer of 2007 was no exception being low in number of series released. There’s been precious little to watch and I find myself having no backlog even though I barely even... | | |
| 12:52pm | [Kokanaden] Emo? Nandesho? | | | | Okay, so I’ve been labelled as someone who is extremely emo and sensitive. In fact, I’m so emo that when I first saw my avatar, I was so happy I started dancing for joy and shouting myself hoarse, until I realised it was an apple and not an orange, at which I felt so sad I started sobbing... | | |
| 1:15pm | Jumping Short by Osamu Tezuka | | | | Saw a couple of cool things on Japan Probe the other day. This film is a POV short by the famous Osamu Tezuka. It consist of a girl, I assume, who jumps to various places and defies the law of gravity. Its pretty cool concept considering how this type of film would’ve been easily done in CG. | | |
| 7:51am | Poll: Who’s your favorite male character (Spring 2007)? | | | | May he be cool, badass, cute, romantic, heroic, kind who’s your favorite male character this season?Please vote on the sidebar as usual, I’ve listed some choices, but you’re free to add your own favorites. For me, I had a difficult choice between Age, Hayate, and | | |
| 5:43am | So I’m a Bishoujo Game Blog Now? |  | | | So JAST USA, that venerable porn translator of the west, has started a new blog for itself. Not a bad idea, get in touch with the fans and everything, spread the word, etc. Then I see the name, Otakuism.com. But aren’t I Otakuism, and not in a porn company kind of way? First there’s the | | |
| 10:18pm | Iono-Sama Fanatics Vol. 1 - Manga Review | | | | Facts about Iono-Sama Fanatics:Iono-Sama Fanatics is a Yuri manga. Iono-Sama hits on girls ALL THE TIME. The main purpose of this manga is to show girls’ love. Needless to say, I love this manga with my entire body, including my pee pee.Story:Iono-sama is the newly crowned queen of some small | | |
| 11:28pm | Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 1 - Anime DVD Review | | | | Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle is that one anime that takes a bunch of CLAMP characters and throws them into a totally unrelated plot. So it should be tons of fun for people who are into all the CLAMP characters. I am not one of those peopleDVD Blurb:The fates shine upon young archaeologist | | |
| 10:26pm | ACen 2007 Dark Horse Manga Panel | | | | No new announcements at the Dark Horse panel, but I found it interesting none the less. People hate attending cons with me because I actually enjoy the panels, and feel it necessary to drag at least oneperson with me to into the panel rooms. I feel that maybe it will help them develop a new | | |
| 7:07pm | Save the Earth: sweat a lot! | | | | Japanese office workers will follow the example of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi - shown here wearing the usually formal politician/office worker’s equivalent of dorky leisure clothes - and lay off the A/C in offices nationwide starting next month. This campaign, known a bit goofily | | |
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