Or rather, scratch the last one. Since Moriyama Sunao has the shield that we know as Potemayo. I’m beginning to understand some of the charms of 4koma – light hearted, down to earth, amusing, funny but not necessarily makes one burst out laughing, or saying to himself: “siiiiiiiiiiiiiick…” In this ep, we have the 3 [...]
Archive for August 2007
(For the official week1 audio column, click here.) This is what the first audio column was going to be before I decided not to post it…and it’s offensive, folks! It’s more offensive then my usual efforts. Feel free to download. But if you’re rather sensitive, please click here for part 1 of Mike’s excellent article [...]
Nice death, Mudo. I can’t wait to see how many time he’s going to die. What? Oh don’t react so strongly at the above sentence, or the phrase, “nice death”. He comes back up and horny about Potemayo-chan again doesn’t he? It’s an anime, and this is a post about anime, don’t take it so [...]
歓迎、私達の日本の読者は読書に、そんなに感謝し。 私達は2秒以下の間公正な立寄ることでも感謝している。 私達は私達を訪問していること嬉しい。 そしてはい、私はGoogle翻訳日本語に私の英語を翻訳するのに用具を使用した。 Welcome, our Japanese readers, and thank you so much for reading. We appreciate it even if you’re just stopping by for less than 2 seconds. We’re glad that you’re visiting us. And yes, I used Google translation tool to translate my English into Japanese. XD 欢迎,我们的中国读者,并感谢你们这么多阅读. 我们欣赏它,即使你只是停经少于2秒. 我们很高兴你访问我们. 的确,我用谷歌翻译工具把我的英文译成中文. Welcome, our [...]
Continued from part 1 A Personal Reflection on Otaku Insecurity I think at least part of the reason why so many fans insist that anime is “deep,” compared to American cartoons at least, is insecurity. I know, because I fell prey to it myself throughout my years as an otaku. American fans in particular–like myself–still [...]
I am a latecomer to the ongoing and past debates about whether anime is “deep” and what the value of “elitism” is. But I always wanted to say something about it, because it touches on a number of things I think about a lot as a writer and a critic, and it’s also a good [...]
This ep is very interesting as it’s packed with information about quite a few things, which I’ll list below and then discuss each (note, I have watched this three times over two days before writing this that’s why I’m slow in coming out with this review, plus I tried to get the Audio Column on [...]
Imagine my surprise yesterday morning as I was waking up to hear the words “Otakon,” “Haruhi Suzumiya,” and “anime music videos” coming from my public radio station. In the midst of stories about the Minneapolis bridge collapse disaster comes a 5 minute report about–yes–the phenomenon of AMVs, complete with interviews with fans at Otakon! Oh, [...]
The first thought when I saw the opening credits: man, this looks like Chrno Crusade (with its early 20th century American setting). The second thought was: just how many characters are there going to be? And how much more butchering of Western names will they do? The description on Animenfo.com promised something akin to Fullmetal [...]
The audio column represents our views/opinions/dissections of anime and other related or perhaps not quite related subjects with shots of humor/sarcasm/seriousness added. The first column is being presented by Ray Hu. The name of his column is “The View from the AT Field.” This week’s topic: “That Magical Element in Anime called “Fan service.” Short [...]
So. We have Nadi who can’t tell that the store clerk is one of Jody’s two minions. Nice disguise. Just take off her sunglasses and Nadi can’t recognize her. It’s like in Sailor Moon and in all classical Magical girl shows, as soon as Sailor Moon is out of her hair pieces and costume, nobody [...]
EDIT, 8/1/07 12:30 PM: Links fixed. These are just previews to whet your appetite. To support her get a copy of the book at YesAsia or Amazon Japan, and any other places you can find. The photo book is about $25, and YesAsia has free shipping on this item to most countries, including the US [...]
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