It took me quite a while to find this one sentence in the wall of text, but Chris says:
I decided to sell the site to the folks at Mania.com [...] Working with them, I and the entire staff will be taking this site into their larger platform where we …read more
The donation drive continutes, but looks like we're stuck at $994. There's nothing magical about the value of $1000, what AB really needs is at least $1600.
read moreThe comments section in an entry on "studiotolatry" at Animanachronism underscores the meteoritic rise of that blog: it looks like Who is Who of anglospheric animeblogging. Only SDB and Omo are MIA, busy with real life no doubt. Jeff Lawson is there too (emphisis is mine):
read moreHonestly, I think a …
The moment of truth has arrived: DRM-free downloads are here. Don says:
I registered and purchased the minimum quantity of BOST “points” (a disorienting process: the PayPal page was initially specific to Japan, but I live in Kansas, not Kansai). [...] However, the [iPod] episode wouldn’t play in VLC or …read more
Overall, just about everything in Tokyo was exactly as I expected. I've met all of it in anime, which turned out to be quite truthful. Akihabara, not generally portrayed in anime I watch, was disappointing with its crampled stores.
Ueno Park was PACKED. The crowd mills around, and parties drink …
read moreAnother thing I've seen at the wall was this poster:
At first, in my monumental ignorance, I thought that it was an ad for a future show, but in fact it's a historic poster for Twin Spica. It's understandable that after Rocket Girls I have a tropism for shows of …
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