Month: September 2008

Here’s the deal: For a couple of days during the summer I was holding down the family lair on my own. As such, I felt it was a perfect opportunity to fully otaku-ize my room, if just for a few days. Of course, this simply entailed whipping out the...

Alright, I’m just going to come out and say it: The Golgo 13 movie (or, Golgo 13: The Professional, as it’s known in the States) is an absolutely horrible movie. Having just seen about 14 episodes of the TV series, I knew kind of what I was in for,...

Over the past several years, there have been three iterations of Mistakes of Youth. There was one big one, which was actually online for a number of years. Some of you readers may even remember it, even though I wish you wouldn’t. However, before that, there was something else—a...

A few months back I was cruising the dark and shady alleys of Perfect Dark searching for music by Ohtsuki Kenji. I was really into his Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei work back then, so I wanted to see what else the man had put out. In the end, I made...

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Original Post Yeah yeah, I’m wild, crazy, and free of all morals, but I like to keep the front page of this site fairly work-safe, so as such I’ve censored this comic. Do not fear, though, for an uncensored, and funnier version of the comic does exist. Inspiration for...

It’s that time of year again! Time to purchase giant books of poster-sized illustrations that are passed off as calendars simply because they have some numbers running down the side! Seriously, who actually uses these as calendars? I know I don’t! But yeah, preorders are going up, so it’s...

Alright alight, I’ll admit it– I’m taking Japanese classes at my school. I’ve been taking them for something like a year now, and this semester I’ve moved up to the intermediate-level class. I don’t know what took them so long, but it’s only now that they’re setting the cheesy...

Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno: Tokyo Teen Fashion Subculture Handbook by Patrick Macias and Izumi Evers, with illustrations by Kazumi Nonaka The image of the Japanese schoolgirl is one that many a Japanophile fantasize over and romanticize to ridiculous degrees. But really, who can blame them? With the way that these...

I could have sworn this said SHERYL NOME This train was apparently going to a very special place! Spore was taking over Harvard Square station. Found this… thing in Newbury Comics… …and I found this goddamned thing in Tokyo Kid....