Liking to cut hair as a hobby is strange, and probably stalker-ish, but don’t let it put anyone off of watching The Severing Crime Edge, a Spring 2013 anime that is streaming on Crunchy Roll. With this review there has been three episodes made available. High school student Haimura Kiri ends up getting off at the wrong stop [...]
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Spring is in the air.. at least in my mind it is… can anyone guess which series is this sweet granny from? If you watch Chihayafuru.. how do you play Karuta in real life then.. look here. Thoughts about reading manga physically or digitally? If you haven’t heard that Vertical’s going to go digital later [...]
So this is another week…..Spring is coming, what plans do you all have for the arrival of Spring? Though the map above is forecasting viewing times for Hanami in Japan, I am very sure Spring is a time for people to enjoy. Japanese people at no matter what age, is pretty studious. Masks are to [...]
This is going to be a sphere filled with many 3/11 remembrance memorial posts… but Happy St. Patty’s Day for today as well. Tsunami affected Japanese towns are still left barren after two years. Ongoing artist charity collaboration projects for Tohoku quake. WW2 air raid survivor has awareness talks to tsunami orphans. Turning a tree that survived the tsunami into art. [...]
First I have to say my apologies to the Paper for going AWOL with this column for about two weeks. Here is Round the Sphere for this week. Remember Cool Japan? Seems like the Japanese government still has it going on. Wow.. a Japanese restaurant using robots instead of dancers. Inspired by the previous hyperlink, (Paper’s [...]
Happy Single Awareness Overpriced Commercial Holiday! Be aware that this week, I was pretty link happy, alongside Paper’s link contribution. I wish him, who is heading off to Katsukon with Shizuka, a great time. ^_^ A recent response to punishment vs. disciple. Is this bullying? I believe that I may have seen an example of this [...]
This week, Paper was great enough to remind me that there are links to round up. Are there any comments you may or may not have? Can you guess which links are mine, and which are the Paper’s? Yet one more reason why Japan is awesome. This is why Lauren and her blog are awesome. [...]
Ahhhhh… the blistering cold of a Japanese winter.. in my case I am inserting in cold of a NYC winter. Keeping warm is a good thing, IF (does not count if you live in CA or FL or any other warm places, because 50 degrees F is warm)… you are experiencing winter.. how are [...]
I can’t say that I am a hardcore AKB48 fan, but I do enjoy hearing them and seeing a couple of faces such as Mariko Shinoda, or Minami Takahashi. The first time I heard about this documentary was when I saw a preview of it at Baby Stars Shine Bright last year when I was in [...]
Some news for readers of this particular column…. normally Paper posts it without fail every Friday, since he is going to doing another thing on Friday. I am changing it to about every Thursday… so yes.. round the sphere we go! If you didn’t get a chance for this manga kickstarter. take an opportunity to [...]
There’s always many things a person can think within a life time. Is it easy to change a career? Would it be easy to move to another country? Even if you move to another country, can living there be adjusted? I imagine for Scott who failed as a football player in U.S. suburbia moving to [...]
The greatest manga ever and will ever be. Anyone who disagrees is wrong. Isn’t it funny (not really) that constitutions never have to include specific rights for men? Excellent story. Photographs and Japan make a sublime combination. Play games and learn Japanese? Or just cheat and put everything in this font. And the best of [...]
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