So, the first thing I read in the morning is Beta-Waffle and today DiGi refers to Hinano excercising with our favourite punching bag (need Training with Hinano video).

I don't know what brought about the latest round. Scott was mostly keeping a low, unoffensive profile recently... Maybe I'm just desensitized. I've read the the latest posting in its entirety. The passage "I had advised members of the Japanese industry to stay away from the service ..." was as comic as ever, but overall it's not bad bad. So, he's a Funi fanboi, I'm a Bandai fanboi (after the Bad Bandai was swallowed by the good one), what's the big deal? Did they meet at the festival for real?

One thing is certain, Hinano is a professional level artist, unlike, say, DS. Personally, I'm not a big fan of the computerized, "CG" look of her work, but she's a daughter of her age. Pencil is for dinosaurs.

BTW, Hinano had long hair in the video. Has she cut it after the recent marriage? How Russian. On the other hand, she wasn't wearing any Yefrosinya Nikitishna tresses in the video, so maybe not.

UPDATE: JP pointed to twit 1: "Hinano plans to go to Sakura Matsuri solely to make fun of her fellow fans there. http://bit.ly/vjZtZ Classy. (-_-)" and twit 2: "@scottfrye As much as Hinano wants to deny it, she is an anime fan, and and case-in-point she's going to the event".