| 5:52pm | If Only There Was an Angela Burton Spinoff | | | | While I’m naturally excited about the new Genshiken anime that’s been announced recently, there’s one thing I wish could happen but most likely never will: a spinoff about Ohno’s American friend Angela Burton. I feel like it would be fun to see some of the quirks of American... | | |
| 9:55pm | Japan sucks – It’s not all anime and manga | | | | I had a long rant in mind but I think this will get my point across just fine. Freaking hate Japanese and their indirectness, and not getting to the point. Hate this country and it’s polite and overly fake outside image. I don’t care about English. Don’t care about your shitty kids... | | |
| 1:37pm | Choose Your Hero | | | | What makes a hero? While it’s a simple question to ask, it turns out that people have vastly different ways of coming to grips with our literary traditions and heroism. moritheil @edsizemore You know those stories where the mecha pilot is in space and smashes the monster to “save the people... | | |
| 3:57pm | The Rise of Filipino Otaku Culture | | | | So this is what I’ve been busy with for the past few weeks. As you all know I am a proud Filipino, and I also like anime and otaku culture. As such, I have submitted a research proposal about this particular topic. And what do you know? It got accepted by my professor! Now you’re probably... | | |
| 7:33am | Otaku social pariahs within Japan | | | | At the end of last year Bill 156 was passed in Japan. The purpose of the bill is to protect the development of Japanese youth from harmful media. The media that has been labeled as harmful is anime and manga that glorifies sexual acts. This is not particularly incomprehensible, even if it is completely... | | |
| 12:42pm | I feel like Densha Otoko – When do you tell a normal girl you’re a nerd? | | | | Dear males (and females) of the anime community, Hello everyone. I come to you with a question. When do you tell a girl you like video games, anime and manga? Well, I guess I start from the beginning of this story. One day which was actually just about two weeks ago now, I had been studying Japanese... | | |
| 7:30pm | Interview: Roby Behrens – director of Cowboy Bebop live-action short | | | | Roby as the famous Spike Spiegel from "Cowboy Bebop" With the possibility of a live-action Cowboy Bebop film in the near future, many fans of the series speculate on the results of such an endeavor. With a sense of uneasiness felt by fans throughout the world, fan creation ultimately provides... | | |
| 3:38pm | 三択恋愛 [santaku ren'ai] | | | | If you seriously love someone in your favorite anime or manga, and happen to wish you could get married to him(or her), that would be ２次元コンプレックス [nijigen complex]. However, if you always pursue someone in bishoujo games or otome games, the love shall be called 三択恋愛[santaku... | | |
| 12:53am | GITS epd 1 -6 & Densha epd 1 | | | | well that sums up my anime watching session last night. i watched Ghost in the shell : stand alone complex season 1 , epd 1 – 6. Hmm my after thought? Well so far GITS has not disappoint me but personally i still prefer the first movie in terms of story telling and art. unless i might have forgotten... | | |
| 7:47pm | Salaryman Saves Woman Who Falls Onto Subway Tracks | | | | Back in Feburary, we heard of a news story of “Brave Man Jumps Onto Train Tracks To Save Drunk Woman“. Here’s another similar story that took place at the Sengawa subway station in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward on Saturday night. The incident occurred at about 11:40 pm. The 45 year-old... | | |
| 7:55pm | Densha Otoko Actor Finds His Hermes In Real Life | | | | I’m sure many folks would have seen the Japanese drama series Densha Otoko [電車男], whereby actor Atsushi Ito plays the geeky otaku protagonist. Well he has finally tied the knot last Satuday with his girlfriend whom he has been dating for four years. Ito was introduced to the woman by a... | | |
| 10:25pm | The Daily Almanac: Damanged Goods |  | | | Kotaku writes a very lengthy and very fascinating article on how an event on the message board 4chan in 2006 gave birth to a very unusual amateur video game called Kawata Shojo, or “Disabled Girls.” The game is a Japanese-style visual novel about, you guessed it, psychically disabled girls.... | | |
| 9:19pm | Hermes Japan Unique Art Installation | | | | Hermes Japan has this really unique art installation in their Maison Hermes building in Tokyo. It has two screens featuring two women blowing away on two scarves, and they scarves actually moves!! Here’s a youtube clip showing Tokujin Yoshioka’s art installation in action: Source: Gizmodo... | | |
| 5:04pm | AKB48 - Cute Girls in the City | | | | In the top floor area of the historical Webster Hall venue in downtown New York City, a sold out house of anime and music fans wait patiently for a show to begin. It is the weekend of the New York Anime Festival, and on this Sunday evening, the fans are showing fatigue from days worth of events. Upon... | | |
| 4:07pm | 脱オタク[datsu-otaku] | | | | It’s so simple, this just means to stop being an otaku. That’s 脱オタク[datsu-otaku]. 脱[datsu] means to stop doing sth. For example, there is a typcial saying, 脱サラ[datsu-sara] or stop being a salaryman. It’s an abbreviation of 脱サラリーマン. If you are a salaryman,... | | |
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