By meows | August 3, 2008
NO, I have not died. And this is the proof. So, the Summer WF 2008:
I actually was a lazy bum and did not line up the night before like i planned to, so i ended up sitting in line two bridges and a park a way form the Tokyo Big Sight (that’s not counting the first "bridge"). See the picture for a better visual representation. But ironically it was not that bad, apart from me not wearing a long sleeve shirt and thus burning my arms/shoulders to a crisp.
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Natsume Yuujinchou
My hopes for this season actually relied solely on this series, and right now I’m not sure if it let me down or not. On one hand the main character has much promising personality, on the other hand the “Freckles”* - the creeptastic talking maneki-neko is way to freaking annoying for a comic relief. Which, mind you, is unnecessary to begin with. As many people pointed out it does give off mushishi vibes, both due to the mushi/ayakashi central theme and the somewhat similar personalities of the main characters. But let’s just hope it does not turn out like Tactics. >_< And I do sincerely hope for the return of the cat-like spirit in the purple yakatta. But yea, it all comes down to this one series for the entire season. Not too bad, considering I do have quiet a few on hold, but still, I normally manage to fish out at least two watchable series a season ;_;
*Yea, Madara is a name of the bad guy form Naruto, and that’s all you get if you google it. But if you look up the direct translation it’s actually means “spots” or “speckles”. So I take it whatever his true form is it’s supposed to be pure white, and the red spots is a defect or something? Well, we’ll figure it out later on. Read More »
1: Have I got a story for you
First arc out of the six. Animated by studio 4C, though I don’t even need to say that. This arc actually consists of four different parts three of which are shown from the point of view of each of the kids who claim they saw Batman fight a weird guy and because of that where late.
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Time to jump the bandwagon. It’s take two on the long painful subject of “Fansubs are evil”. I originally was going to focus on Scott’s article on Greg Ayres’ panel, but it got torn apart By Hinano and various other people, so there really is no need for me to nitpick on it. So I will focus on roughly two points: Read More »
All is paid and booked, and I land in Narita Airport in the afternoon of July 24th. I am going as a tourist so there really not that much planning that needs to be done, and the one that is mostly involves what to buy and where to go and wether or not bring an empty suitcase for all the anime merchandise. Normally I travel with one bag, not including my laptop case. So since I am traveling to an otaku Mecca the question is: do i want to bring an extra empty suitcase with me, or do i want to use it as an excuse to buy a Gundam Suitcase (Char custom, fuck yeah!!)? Read More »
The mini-games on the MGS4 websites where amusing enough. The result will probobly occupy my desktop for pretty long period of time. I actually don’t look at my desktop too much, so I rarely change it, and considering this one is interactive - it will stay there for a while ^^. Now onto the desk: Read More »
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As I was going through my “to buy” list for my upcoming trip to J-land, figuring out whether or not I want to buy one thing a ditch the other, or buy both and fuck the budget etc. etc. I caught myself noticing that a good deal of the planned items are anime DVDs. Moreover, some of them are DVDs of anime that has been licensed in region 1. So why would anyone in their right mind do something like that, especially since Japanese DVDs are significantly more expensive then their North American counterparts AND they don’t have subtitles? (usually) Read More »
Looks like I’m the last one in on the topic. I’d say blame it on my work and Kojima, since there are only 24 hours in a day, and after about 2 days of not touching the bed sleep is no longer for pussies. (On a side note: yeap, the game is THE SHIT!!oneoneone!)
Give your own definition of an “otaku”. Do you consider yourself an
otaku [be honest, try to avoid hypocrisy]? What impressions do you
hold towards an otaku [positive/ negative/ ambivalent]? What issues/
insecurities do you perceive in them? Can you empathize with their
insecurities? Do you personally think it’s acceptable to be an otaku?
Do you think people should care about being labeled an otaku? Do you
think that they are a product of society?
I missed the first Round Robin topic, so I’m jumping the band wagon on this one: The Otaku. I actually do distinguish between two definitions of Otaku: the Japanese and the North American one. I won’t go to wiki to look it up exactly, but basically Japanese Otaku does not have to be about anime at all. Otaku is someone who is obsessed with whatever their hobby is. There are anime otaku, train otaku, military otaku and so on. The term usually carries negative connotations and implies that that whatever the otaku is obsessed over takes precedence over everything else: social life, work, relationships, basic hygiene (lol) etc. Into North America this term migrated via anime culture and its usage is restricted to it. Read More »
Good day (or whatever you see outside).
I’m Agat and I’m also from Russia. Since meows had the idea of a kind of a collective blog, well, I decided to join. I guess I’ll be mostly posting rants and spoilers, so be ready :3
I know the moonspeak, I participate in some fansub activity (currently mostly russian, e.g. AniMa, although previously I’d been involved with mendoi, nanshi, ayu, conclave etc.), I really hate the russian anime fandom, I’m a bit of a bitch. For those of you who now Russian, here’s my lj. With that said, let’s get started.
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Pete brought up an interesting point about Russian anime bloggers, or rather about the absence of them. Those few of us that do speak Russian as our first language still choose to blog in English. Im not sure what’s Pete’s reasoning behind not blogging in Russian, but mine is actually rather simple. And no, it has nothing to do with any kind of argument eventually ending in “you’re a dick and your mom is a slut” (which is two memes by the way). I am actually fine with that kind of course of discussion, they are rarely constructive, but hey, it’s fun to troll some trolls once in a while.
The deal is in something else. Read More »
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