Get ‘em while they’re hot! 2007-09-18 08:07:39 My general feeling on fan-subs is they are fine and should exist, if people are responsible. People aren’t responsible, but they still exist and I still use them. I like to see the latest in Japan and nothing else will ever be able to achieve that.
I have very mixed feelings on fan-subs. I will [...]
Ultimate box making technique! 2007-09-12 09:00:03 So apparently, no one watches this show in the U.S. This makes me sad. Because this is by two huge, huge guys in the industry. Kodomo and Suwa, who we talked about in our Otakon report, these guys make the grand-slams of anime for Japanese television. They are responsible for City Hunter and Detective [...] Read more:Ultimate
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Now this is what it’s like when worlds collide 2007-09-07 15:39:27 By now we have all heard the news, I’m sure. Assuming you read any sort of anime news source. Its the buzz of the net. ADV is taking over Geneon’s sales, marketing, and distribution but not its acquisitions and production. So what does this mean for fans? Does it mean anything for us?
I [...] Read more:collide
Diamonds in the Sea of Porn 2007-09-03 07:23:01 Japan is full of video games. Okay…it’s full of hentai games. Whole stores devoted to the genre of dating games. They pour forth from game studios like liquid money. This just has not caught on in America yet. I wonder why?
Well in Japan’s defense it’s the computer game market that is 90% hentai games. [...] Read more:Diamonds
The Unabomber doesn’t pay for anime! 2007-08-27 08:28:31 And therefore neither should you.If you are reading this, then you should be paying for anime because you are not a neo-luddite.
Maybe I’m a super advanced neo-luddite who uses technology to take down the very technology I hate. And reads Japanese cartoon blogs.
Maybe I built my computer from pinball machine parts!
But seriously the [...]
Moe! Good God ya’ll! What is it good for? 2007-08-21 19:21:20 Moe is this insidious cancer of the anime world. It started as the normal cells of princess characters and turned into to the festering monster that is moe. And like cancer it has slowly spread from the areas it originally infected to the whole body of anime. It’s also a wily cancer. It’s constantly changing [...]
I hate you, Misa Misa 2007-08-14 09:37:28
THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS
I think I could make myself crazy trying to come up with reasons for horrible female characters existence.
I love all the women of the world so oddly enough in a strange turn of events I am less hateful than you. But yeah there are some nasty piece of work characters in [...]
Why must the phrase, “You fight like a girl” be an insult? 2007-08-01 12:31:00 THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS
Are they any strong female characters in anime or is it all just an illusion?
I remember when I was really getting into anime the one thing I always heard from people was how many more strong female characters in anime than there are in American cartoons. Now with several years of anime [...] Read more:fight
Otakon 2007 2007-07-25 17:16:25 Hisu and Narutaki’s Otakon schedule
Friday
Kodoma and Suwa Q&A and signing
Tomokazu Seki Q&A
ADV Panel
Older Otaku Panel
AAA Concert and signing
School Rumble Panel
AMV contest
PodcastersRoundtable
Putting the Man back in Manga Panel
Geneon After Dark
Saturday
Media Blasters Panel
Tokyo-Pop Panel
Kodoma and SuwaBringing Anime to TV Panel
Anime News Network Panel
Tomokazu Seki signing
Morio Asaka signing
Anime Recruitment Panel
Geneon Panel
Sunday
Del Rey Panel
Eminence Concert
Overall, I don’t have [...]
Manga Pod this! 2007-07-14 22:51:56 Before we go into this, let’s just get this out of the way now. We are well aware that manga and anime are just commercial products like any other, and they exist to make a profit. Oh yeah and theres tons of links to be found.
As I mulled over Tokyo-Pop’s announcement [...] Read more:Manga
Lights, camera, live action! 2007-09-24 14:36:24 Will the dreams of hundreds of nerdy 15 year old boys finally come true? No, it’s not hundreds of hot, slutty, college-age girls to take their virginity. It’s their other dream. It seems a little more likely that there will be a live action Dragon Ball Z movie. 20th Century Fox has started production to [...] Read more:Lights
I got Geek Backed, booyah! 2007-09-28 19:16:39 Well, well, well, color me shocked. I never expected to see a special Geek
Nights episode about my little e-mail. Here it is:
While I applaud the idea of not buying bootlegs and not pirating after something is licensed, the real thing hurting anime DVD sales is people not buying DVDs. The quote/unquote rule of [...]
MangaNEXT 2007 2007-10-14 07:32:17 Let me start out by saying, we completely forgot about this con until less than a week before it! Whoops. But we busted our butts and got our panel together along with fliers for the blog.
MangaNEXT, for better or for worse, is very much a small convention. This is the convention’s second year. If [...]
Claymore, no yuri scenes depite how much you want it. 2007-10-10 14:00:51 The yoma food pyramid consists of one section, as opposed to the six sections of the human food pyramid. Unfortunately for humans, the sole section of the yoma food pyramid is labeled human organs.
In the Claymore universe, there are demons called yoma who are shape-shifters. They hunt humans by eating their victims brains and then [...] Read more:scenes
Lights, camera, Nippon live action! 2007-10-05 19:25:38 In America, if a cartoon gets really big, someone gets the idea that it might make a good live action movie. Nippon is no different in this regard. They have been making anime in live action movie form for a while now. In fact, the number of live actions is far beyond the scope of [...] Read more:Lights
Cat’s Eye and Orguss: 2 Golden Oldies 2007-10-22 11:57:50 Why you should buy them! (probably)
I think you should buy them. In fact, I demand you go buy them.
I think we are extremely lucky that ImaginAsia has come along and decided to try this. Classic shows released in the past have done notoriously bad. Not because the shows aren’t good, but fans seem [...] Read more:Golden
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Japan is lookin’ to crack down! 2007-10-28 19:11:13 So, Japan
has decided it wants the U.S.’s help is putting down fan-subs. I am actually a little surprised. Japan hasn’t really taken an interest in it even though it has been going on for years and years. I guess I never really thought about the effects of fan-subs on the Japanese industry. I [...]
Lum is awesome and so not tsundere. 2007-11-02 21:32:15 So, I was walking through the park and for some random reason I started thinking about the word tsundere. Maybe because I hate that word and I usually dislike characters that fall into that category. And probably also because I am a weirdo who thinks about anime pretty constantly. Consequently, I started thinking about [...] Read more:awesome
Lost in the shuffle. 2007-11-10 00:30:17 Certain fashions are timeless and others are only products of their time. Jeans are always fashionable but bell-bottoms are very much a product of the 70’s. Anime can be the same way. Certain shows are classics and forever will be. I can’t see a time when people won’t be talking about Evangelion, Akira, or Castle [...]
Kinokuniya Grand Opening Bash 2007-11-06 05:48:33 Kinokuniya has always been a cool place. But now with a new store opening, and very close to another store called Book Off, it just got better. I love the thought of actually seeing more talks/events on manga outside of conventions.
I wonder how many talks/events we will see after the first month. It would [...] Read more:Grand
Size does matter. 2007-11-16 05:42:50 I think we have all experienced a show that made us say, “That took too long to do what it needed to do.” Most clearly evident in shows that have filler, like many Shonen Jump titles. And on the flip-side I’m sure we have all wished a certain series was longer (because 7 seasons [...] Read more:matter
Best AMVs I’ve never seen. 2007-11-21 11:15:22 The zen master looked on the AMV community and said, “So much potential. But even more wasted potential.” From what I understand AMVs started when people would throw multiple episodes on a VHS tape for fan-sub trading and there would invariably be 5 to 15 minutes of empty tape. To make use of that tape, [...]
Naming her Duck is not a reason to march on Washington. 2007-11-27 21:52:04 Count Spankula of AnimeJump once joked that if someone raised a stink on the Internet about their fantastic demands for an exclusive box set for Herman’s Head, they would be laughed off the Internet and ignored. But if someone makes a random complaint about an anime DVD, the anime companies tend to scramble to fix [...] Read more:Naming
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Are we on the cusp of revolution? 2007-12-04 05:49:00 Justin Sevakis recently wrote a rather interesting article that was posted on Anime News Network. He basically states that the only people who can save the anime industry on both sides of the Pacific are the companies of the anime industry on both sides of the Pacific. DVD sales are way down and there is [...] Read more:revolution
New York Anime Festival 2007 2007-12-12 17:05:13 VISIT OUR FORUMSÂ
Hisu and Narutaki’s NYAF schedule
Friday
Del Rey Panel
ImaginAsia Panel
Saturday
The Art of Reviewing Anime
Panel
Katsushi Ota Q&A
Kobun Shizuno Q&A
Viz Media Panel
Otaku USA Panel
Unicorn Table Concert
Sunday
Vertical Inc. Panel
State of the Manga Industry
State of the Anime Industry
This was the first anime con in NYC since 2003, but nevertheless I had high hopes for NYAF. [...] Read more:New York
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How can you not see it’s awesome? 2007-12-20 12:29:10 If you are a veteran world travel, like I am not, then you will know that the menu items on your favorite menus and toppings on some of your favorite foods are quite different in foreign countries. In Europe, people love to dip their french fries in mayo and/or vinegar instead of ketchup. Any international [...] Read more:awesome
Bat-Bishonen 2008-02-29 15:59:18 VISIT OUR FORUMS
The new Batman movie is getting a lot of buzz for both good reasons (like it’s awesome trailer) and bad (like the death of Heath Ledger). Well, we are on the Bat-train too. I love the caped crusader, as many do, so when any new media is coming out involving him my [...]
Story of Saiunkoku, A crane standing amidst a flock of chickens. 2008-02-13 15:51:17 VISIT OUR FORUMS
Alright, we have a double feature of review goodness! We try not to but there isn’t much news to talk about as of late and besides we sped through Saiunkoku. This was mostly my fault as I basically refused to stop watching for most of Sundayand there by forced Hisu to continue [...] Read more:crane
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Violinist of Hameln, It’s sort of an anime. 2008-02-06 14:50:40 VISIT OUR FORUMS
Imagine there was a director who read the original Slayers novels and said,”This is good. A really good fantasy adventure. I just wish there was not so much goofy comedy.” Then he went and took out all the breast jokes and the eating gags. Then he just makes the whole plot about Lina [...]
Boys’ love is a funny thing. 2008-01-30 14:04:21 VISIT OUR FORUMS
Anyone who was ever dated can easily attest to the fact that men and women have very different ideas on romance, courtship, and love. Fiction written for men and women and fiction by men and women is therefore distinctly different as well. Almost universally you will see that shonen and seinen manga treat [...]
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