Cheapness in anime once again (I’ve talked about this before)
The story thus far: Cheap anime can be impressive The cheapness of the SHAFT aesthetic Alright guys, there’s a thing on ANN where established internet personality Erin Finnegan writes about Japanese animation. These writings are usually followed by a bunch of forum responses, and those are usually complaints about...
Art: Hachikuji Mayoi
Click for bigger. Not sure how I feel about this :S...
C78 Trailers
Comiket 78 was a few weeks ago, and sadly I was unable to attend like I did last year. As per usual, a number of trailers for upcoming anime were screened across monitors in every corner of the event’s industry hall, and as per usual some industrious individual taped...
Kon is Dead
Kon Satoshi is dead. No one will see him ever again. He will never make another movie. Ever. I think what’s hitting most of us the hardest about this whole deal is how shocking it is. No one was expecting that there would be a day in 2010 where...
BLACK★ROCK SHOOTER doesn’t have many BLACK★ROCK SHOOTERS
It took me a while, but I finally got around to watching that BLACK★ROCK SHOOTER anime. Since it’s now a month or so after this thing was first released to the masses on a free insert DVD in Hobby Japan, complete with seven (!) subtitle tracks; this shit has...
Mitsudomoe paves a path of destruction
About a year ago, back when I was Living The Dream in Japan, a man who will remain nameless extolled the virtues of the Mitsudomoe comic to me. Considering that the comic ran in a shounen publication, it would have furigana, so my rudimentary gaijin mind would be able...
Chillin’ at Otakon 2010
Otakon’s been over for how many weeks? Two? Three? Four? Five? SIX?! I dunno, I haven’t been keeping count, nor do I have any concept of time. But what I do know is that this con has been over for a while, and a bunch of other cool cats...
Otakon 2010 AFTER DARK (R-18)
Here are some photos I probably shouldn’t upload to the Flickr....
Mistakes of YouthXAnimerca@Comiket 78
Alright you guys, since they’ve let the cat out of the bag in Japan, I can tell you guys about it here: Mistakes of Youth is returning to Comiket. Well, I won’t be there personally, but my insane writings will be! And in Japanese! Yes, Mistakes of Youth is...
The Great Anime Race
In the great tradition of blogging about anime-related dreams, I would like to share one of mine with you. Don’t worry, it isn’t sexual. It was like some kind of anime game show thing, apparently thrown together by this guy. It was like a board game, except instead of...