I try not to engage into over-arching speculation of this kind, but a few of people were thinking about the general direction of the industry. Steven was especially active. In fact, he predicted a wholesale shift to subtitled releases which is now underway. Others started to catch on when releases …
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Administrivia
E-mail mystery
I don't know what happened, but apparently I did something to my readers: there was no e-mail recently, just astroturfing spam. Is everyone insulted by something, or other reason? Number of links continues to grow though.
Ecchi-nouto
I was under impression that AB's TOS prohibited touching porn, but …
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My Lovely Ghost Kana
I heard of Kana compared if not equated to YKK, for example implicitly in Halo's comments, and Impz's place. As it turns out, any attempts to link them is bollocks. First and foremost, Kana is porn, albeit soft and pleasant.
The spin Extrange wants to put on it is very …
read moreShunga in SF
I went to Asian Arts Museum of San Francisco, almost by accident, and caught the tail of "Drama and Desire": an exhibition of old Japanese paintings about the Pleasure Quarters of Edo. Tomorrow, Sunday May 4, is the last day it's running.
They included old shunga scrolls from 1700s. My …
read moreLearning Japanese from Druaga
お袋(おふくろ)は違うけど | ofukuro wa chigau kedo == [Our] mothers are different though.
Just how many words do they have for "mother"?
BTW, why is it that people keep bitching about Gonzo? Tower of Druaga is awesome (at least in low resolution).
So …
read moreCorny anime of the past
Apparently, one series I watched on pirate cable TV back in the 1980s was Macron 1 (aka Sengoku Majin GouShougun). I say "apparently" because most Web sources say that the plot was that of a test pilot teleporting across dimensions and then a few people in "our" dimension join another …
read moreDomain moves
Zyl considers examples of moving blog domains and pathnames. I hate when people move frivolously, because it breaks permalinks. Of course, sometimes it cannot be helped (I count the case of provider for ikimashou.net forgetting to renew it as "frivolous" (also, "idiotic")). From this point of view, however, Hinano …
read moreGo Tsubaki!
Tsubaki is levelling up IRL and it's almost like Mahoraba (if it turns out that his gf can drink 20 cans of beer in one sittings, it's going to be a bullseye of epic proportions).
Meanwhile, I spent 3 months on a one-liner bug and went to bed at 03 …
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