| 5:57pm | The first 2-D marriage? |  | | | Anyone remember the controversy from a while ago when a petition went out in Japan to legalize 2-D marriage? It was started by a man who wanted to marry Mikuru Asahina, but it didn’t pass. However, a few days ago, another Japanese otaku actually went through with a 2-D marriage, regardlessThis... |
| 11:49pm | Autobiography of How I Became an Anime Fan (2009 edition): chapter 1 | | | | Back in early 2005, I wrote a “condensed” autobiography of how I became an anime fan. It detailed all the stages I went through, starting from when I was a little kid watching cartoons, to creating my own anime web site and watching all kinds of series. I recently reread this old work of... |
| 1:48am | More on anime as commercialism or art | | | | This is a followup of my previous post, “Anime – a product of commercialism or art?“To further illustrate the points I brought up in the other post, I’ll use a few anime images as examples:The above image is a scan of one of the pages from the Bleach 2006 calendar. It could be... |
| 7:54pm | Anime – a product of commercialism or art? | | | | As much as anime fans love praising their favorite series for artistic values, many will still acknowledge that anime is, in the end, a commercial product that is precisely tailored to what fans want, and whose main goal is to increase ratings and merchandise salesFinding a precise definition of “art”... |
| 7:18pm | Kemono no Souja Erin 2010 calendar scans | | | | Scans (and a mini-review) of the 2010 Kemono no Souja Erin calendar that I recently purchasedI apologize for the less than perfect scans. I don’t have an actual scanner, just a cheap digital camera =PKemono no Souja Erin 2010 Calendar coverKemono no Souja Erin 2010 Calendar page 1Kemono no Souja... |
| 7:25pm | Kannagi desktop accessories | | | | A Kannagi desktop clock, calendar, icons, o-mamori charm, and a chibi Nagi running around my screenMy friend SailorCardKnight from The Animation Addict recently sent me a program to put Kannagi desktop accessories on your computer. The file was ripped from an official Japanese CD-rom. The original source... |
| 10:13pm | Amusing Japan videos | | | | For want of a better post to write today, here are some cute, funny, and/or disturbing Japan videos that I’ve come across on YouTube over the yearsSilent LibraryThis a Japanese game show where a group of people sit in a library and perform random uncomfortable and often downright painful actions... |
| 1:53am | My 100 favorite anime characters (10 – 1) | | | | We’ve finally reached the last installment of my 100 favorite character countdown that I started almost a month ago. After a lot of second guessing, image/video searching, and brain-wracking, it’s finally done. I had a lot of fun with these posts despite them being a bit repetitive at times.... |
| 1:53am | My 100 favorite anime characters (10 – 1) | | | | We’ve finally reached the last installment of my 100 favorite character countdown that I started almost a month ago. After a lot of second guessing, image/video searching, and brain-wracking, it’s finally done. I had a lot of fun with these posts despite them being a bit repetitive at times.... |
| 8:56pm | The strangeness and ambiguity of love in anime | | | | From what I’ve observed in the many anime titles I’ve watched over the years, the concept of love, especially compared to most Western TV shows and movies, is much more ambiguous, and sometimes downright strangeUnfortunately I can no longer find the original source, but someone once made... |
| 8:33pm | My 100 favorite anime characters (20 – 11) | | | | Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 20 to 11. Almost at the end20. Misuzu Kamio (from Air)Seiyuu: Tomoko KawakamiMisuzu’s tragic fate of being stuck in a cycle of endless pain and grief without ever being able to get close to someone, is one of the... |
| 3:35am | Mainichi Anime Yume’s 3rd year anniversary | | | | I don’t know where my mind was a month ago but I had completely forgotten that Mainichi Anime Yume’s anniversary is October 1st. So yeah, here’s the month late post celebrating MAY’s 3rd year anniversaryIt was three years (and a month) ago in 2006 when I finally decided to start... |
| 9:36pm | My 100 favorite anime characters (30 – 21) | | | | Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 30 to 2130. Monkey D. Luffy (from One Piece)Seiyuu: Mayumi TanakaLuffy is my favorite main shonen hero. He’s carefree, optimistic, and fun-loving, but he also knows very well when it’s time to be serious and... |
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