After the sacramental "I'm back" post (ostensibly about Railgun), he followed with a real post, about Amagami SS — unlike someone else we know.
read moreShameful Otaku Secret uncovered
And the secret is apparently that he can't stop blogging. Not that I am dumping on that, because I pretty much did the same thing before. That said, Tumblr is probably the worst place to reappear due to its ridigness. But at least it's not MAL (because it's where dead …
read moreToshiko Akiyoshi
I went to see a Q/A with A.B. Spellman, which I gather is an annual affair where he gets to interview someone in front of an audience. The format is somewhat similar to a TV talk show. This time his interlocutor was Toshiko Akiyoshi, who is apparently a …
read moreTwitter killed blogging
But blogging is like an unstoppable zombie.
Seriously though, ani_nouto is bound to make a dent at least in the micro-nouto category.
read moreOh Shin, you card
Shin frolicks across Syndey with his... pillow -- in pictures.
read moreEvils of Google
One of very unfortunate effects of Google Reader is that using several profiles simultaneously is a royal pain in Google Single Sing-On system (as in any other such system, e.g. Microsoft Passport aka Live.com), so most animebloggers quickly gave up on the concept and just use their main …
read moreDiGiKerot gives Alice cleavage
As for the "Angel Beats is Haruhi" commentary, they said that Sora no Oto was K-ON too (when in reality it's more like a bastard offspring of Kokoro Toshokan and Allison & Lilia).
read moreThe power of hate
Colony Drop is winning over Canne's with 188 to 185: only 4 votes are needed to reverse despite the vote total being 2 times higher than for the neighbouring match-up.
UPDATE in 2 hours: it's 196 to 191 for Canne's. Amazing!
read moreThat Bang Zoom thing?
Yeah, I heard about it too. Some people attempted rebuttals, but really it's absolutely nothing new, execept the new twist of the dub/sub split that specifically hurts Bang-Zoom.
UPDATE: Miao adds:
read moreI also predicted that anime companies would suffer as interest in anime decreases. Has it? You betcha. What …
Those ABe iPad videos
I dismissed the videos when they rolled around the 'sphere as yet another silly iPad astroturfing gimmick, but something in BigN's post made me look. Forturously he linked some other video, not the one everyone else links, with the pink background.
I find it not a small bit creepy. It's …
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