1. Aoi Sakuraba and "westerners"

    In today's quicktakes Steven drops the hammer on Aoi Sakuraba:

    I think Aoi is the problem. She's an otaku dream girl, but of a kind that is hard for a westerner to stomach, the "Yamato Nadesico".

    My problem with this statement is the Steven's projection of personal biases. The type …

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  2. Avoiding uncomfortable anime

    Damien goes all personal on the ass of Someday's Dreamers and shares this practice:

    No other anime has yet caused me that sort of distress again, mainly because since then, I have been actively avoiding any anime which is supposed to “make you cry”.

    Unfortunately, I think he's only bidding …

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  3. Kirino's animated gif

    I saw the gif a week ago at Moero Amazon, as a thumbnail, and thought that it was done locally there, but now Orion posts a full-size version. Strange. Anyway, there's lot more fun screencaps at Epic Win, even if the swallowing of chalk is missing. Good times.

    UPDATE: Orion …

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  4. Omo pokes industry blogs

    Omo asks a good question: where are all the industry blogs? Commenters chime in with suggestions.

    All I know so far is that blogs exists which purport to represent the industry but are actually done by outsiders (like TAB), or run by marketing side (anime.ign.com). I don't know …

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  5. DS' mental bandwidth

    DS rants on the topic of sub vs. dub, writes a couple of mildly interesting things. However, there's one point where he's mistaken, I reckon:

    As for subs, I know that tj han wrote a while back on what’s the point of subtitles if you can’t understand Japanese …
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  6. Hashi-hime on Lucky Star

    Hashi-hime makes a comment Jeff's place (I wish she'd make it on her blog though, at least we'd have a permalink):

    No, the show did not “rely on jokes and gags to get its point across.” It was not a joke show, it was a humor of living show. Few …
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  7. Ender and old favourites

    As seen at Sea Slugs:

    Surprisingly enough, I find many of the early 90’s shows to be on equal footing with most modern series in terms of animation. Sure, we have developed a lot of advanced techniques for making fantastic looking anime, but today’s tight budgets severely constrain …
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