Anime Diet

In the early days of Anime Diet, our illustrious founder Mike covered every Otakon personally. With a heavy con load this year, it has fallen to newer writers to step up and cover Otakon 2009! It may seem a little early to be speaking of this July con, but some folks have been preparing since [...]

K-On’s influence is vast.  Here are some items that K-On! has sold: Headphones (English link) Cell phones Bass guitars Pens Hot plates That’s in addition to the actual products associated with the series: CDs, figurines, manga, and of course dakimakura. Given that overall Japanese retail sales fell 2.9 percent in April, will the boost from [...]

Caution: wear protective gear while viewing this clip. Ouch my balls. Japanese game shows: Serious Full Contact Sport.

Anime Diet Radio Episode 36 (AAC) [ 55:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1281) Anime Diet Radio Episode 36 (MP3) [ 55:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1756) Anime Diet Radio 36 Outtakes (MP3) [ 3:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1835) Your [...]

Anime Diet Radio Episode 36 (AAC) [ 55:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1281)

Anime Diet Radio Episode 36 (MP3) [ 55:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1756)

Anime Diet Radio 36 Outtakes (MP3) [ 3:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1835)

The Singularity is here. I see the blogosphere being sucked into a spinning vortex from this point forward…and I am willingly one of the first!

For those of you who missed it, there was a big to-do at the close of 2008 over the fact that Nagi of Kannagi might not be “pure.” It’s fascinating to me how so much of the international anime community took the Western perspective and applied it as if it ought to be universal.  Sankaku [...]

How do you like your Touhou? Fans of the definitive danmaku (bullet hell) game by ZUN have been working Touhou characters in everywhere.  For all their efforts, however, ExitJMouse may have trumped them. He used Moemon – a reworking of Pokemon with loli monsters – to create his very own stable of Touhou girls! It’s [...]

In our roundtable discussion on whether or not anime is art, Ray brought up an excellent point about that infamous scifi-fantasy-loli-pantsu fanservice vehicle, Strike Witches.  To wit, though the show has actual fodder for intellectual discussion, the mere fact that it shows school girls in a permanent pantyshot state renders this moot for the vast [...]

Anime Diet Radio Episode 35 (AAC) [ 1:03:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1436) Anime Diet Radio Episode 35 (MP3) [ 1:03:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1975) Well–this is the special, raw, and extra long sitcom edition of Anime Diet Radio, in which we discuss Johnnies [...]

Anime Diet Radio Episode 35 (AAC) [ 1:03:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1436)

Anime Diet Radio Episode 35 (MP3) [ 1:03:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1975)

There are many manga in the world, and there are many manga cliches. At first, a reader might think, “I don’t have time for double-takes.” But Half and Half is here to dispute that. It will have you experience, with your body, the archetypical romantic plot!