Month: February 2009

Original Post The last comic didn’t get the kind of reaction I thought it would–that is, it didn’t get much of a reaction at all. I guess I shouldn’t assume that people know about Yoshinobu Nishizaki’s run-ins with the law, nor should I assume that people should know that...

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Though, I think they just asked the artist to draw a “koku-jin” and leave it at that. I mean, I guess it does look like him if he let himself go....

Original Post What you were going to see here was a comic about Haruhi getting a second season, but we all know how that turned out. After that, I was going to do some angry comic about how Newtype played us all for fools once again, then I realized...

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As a somewhat rabid fan of the illustrator Nishimata Aoi, I follow her blog quite regularly. I should note that when I say “follow”, I mean “look at the pictures.” I do have some Japanese under my belt, but not enough to casually look down at some text and...

The sixteenth installment of the third Jigoku Shoujo series was more or less about sending pedophiles to hell. What made this episode stand out was its interesting structure, as well as a distinct lack of the show’s terribly corny damning-to-hell sequences. However, the key thing that made this episode...

Casshern Sins: After thirteen episodes of philosophical musings on what it means to live and die, the show has finally moved on to its plot-centric portion, and as such has become slightly better. I am however still mostly watching this for the background artwork, and the short but sweet...