| 1:28pm | Mamiko In Canaan | | | | I remember a while ago (3 years?) I thought about the rise of Mamiko Noto as a prominent voice acting personality in the anime circles. This was before I even had the opportunity to see her in person. Concerns about pigeonholes and all were on the way out. It all seem so long ago. But it isn’t... | | |
| 11:42pm | Nerdragingbakabakkari | | | | I am definitely late to the party about nerdraging over Aniplex’s treatment of Bakemonogatari’s CD and DVD release, and I’m going to nerdrage anyways. The problem is that so far they haven’t listed a catalog number for the moegasm-inducing opening theme song for Nadeko Snake’s... | | |
| 2:55am | Seraphim Recall | | | | In good “Do You Remember ” fashion, I tuned in to an episode of Seraphim Call, which is this 1999 Sunrise “bishoujo-chara” title or whatever you call it. Harking from the early days of Akiba uprising, several years before maids seeded the electric town like grass on well-manicured... | | |
| 11:58pm | Sweet Blue Flower: N Things List | | | | Just to posit some questions now that the anime has concluded: 1. The concept of mono no aware applies to yuri in that it is a phase for some people, where a perfect storm of hormones, social pressures, societal organization and adolescence make perfect such unions, despite their flawed and fleeting... | | |
| 3:44am | The Full Impact of Love Plus on Daily Living Is Not Immediately Apparent | | | | Actually it’s immediately apparent to some people–at least one blogger has made the connection that walking around with a Nintendo DS could be the same as walking around with a dakimakura of your favorite animu gal, or WAIFU, or whatever they’re called. But what does that mean? Why... |
| 4:19am | It’s Time | | | | To celebrate When meme Takes flight. Appropriately placed Impeccibly timed Situationally relevant I’m satisfied. /a/ moment Now archived! |
| 2:47pm | Voice Gamer, Love Plus | | | | Originally I wanted to write a post about voice in games–simply put, there is a terrific amount of great voice work in many modern games today, and it’s an area where I’m seriously underexposed, being someone who really doesn’t have much time to play video games. Getting a DS... |
| 2:11am | Blogger Generation, Weeaboo Sensation, A.D. Vision | | | | It’s okay to write a catchy headline, or embellish it to get people’s attention. It may or may not be okay to write “1/3 of men are rapists” when you’re an English-language blog reporting on Japanese tabloids when you’re regurgitating an Associated Press article... |
| 2:17am | The Kimoi Romance | | | | In anticipation of Konami’s next big galge, I got myself a Nintendo DS. There’s the right vibe in both marketing-PR-y stuff and in the content of the game. How can you say no to dating a 2D girl voiced by Sakura Tange or Saori Hayami? I guess if you had some Akiko’s jam (I wonder if... | | |
| 2:54am | Beyond Entertainment and the Spiral Towards Nonsense | | | | It is stereotypical fan behavior to fawn over one title at one moment, and then to another title on the next. I do that at times. In fact, it happens so often that over the years I thought there was a seasonal correlation to how and when it happened to me. But there are some shows that get enthroned... | | |
| 2:51pm | Charting Simoun’s Adult-Child Divide | | | | So a bunch of us were just talking about the children in Simoun, and as they age and fight wars, they have to make some tough choices. This post will echoing some of my own thoughts on the matter. Here is a heads up: there will be some spoilers–not that this post would make a lot of sense without... | | |
| 2:42pm | Tsundere Evangelion: The Catharsis of Emotional Intelligence | | | | This is emotional intelligence. The notion of emotional intelligence is pretty much the foundation to understanding adolescent constructions of emotional complexes in the post-Evangelion generation of anime stories. How does it fit in? In a very broad stroke, we can summarize the setup of these stories... | | |
| 2:51am | Lord of Sands of Time Fits 100,000+ Years into 198 Pages | | | | So the story of Lord of Sands of Time, the other Haikasoru book available now, is about an army of androids fighting alien invaders with a lot of time traveling. Sounds familiar? I think the two books are probably as different as so-called light novels can be. I’m not really sure if Lord (for... |
| 3:54am | What the Heck Am I Still Watching? | | | | Just trying to take stock of all the anime things I’m following in a serial manner. I don’t think I’ve ever done it here, but there are some loose threads I want to write down. They are ordered by no coherent rationale, but they might be, I don’t know. Mobile Suit Gundam: 8th... | | |
| 8:56pm | All You Need Is Kill Is All You Need for a Taste of Haikasoru | | | | [If you’ve experienced downtime on this site the past day or two, it’s most likely due to DDoS coming from China. Why? I don’t know. Shady neighbors on a shared host ISP I guess.] What is Haikasoru? It’s a marketing label. Imprint, as they call it. Same with the term light novel,... |
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