It is just what it says, and while not being related to animeblogging in any way, forcing people to blog if they even want to be part of the conversation somehow became Ani-nouto's schtick back in 2006. Instapundit was the living proof that you get millions of visits without comments …
read moreThighs, apparently
Yesterday, Ana-sempai said, "I wish you went back to your normal old hobbies — guns, anime..." True, my SU-16CA feels unloved recently, and the brand spanking Nova that I bought specifically for desert fun might just miss the desert this year, because of payload limitation in the new conveyance.
As for …
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This was my first time applying a no-background vynil, and of course I did not know what I was doing. Behold:
The problem is, the tiny letters came off the backing improperly: they tried to stay on the paper. Thus, in parts they had paper backing under them, and elsewhere …
read moreFrom Russia With Love - Of Anime and VNs
Russian Bash has a feature of "holding tank" ("Бездна"), where submitted but not yet approved quotes are kept in public view, in case anyone is interested. It offers a steady stream of anime-related quotes. They never make it to the main page.
What's odd, the quotes have IDs, but not …
read moreAni-nouto the next stage
Every time something amazing arrives out of nowhere, like a meteor, I ask: what else have been I missing all this time? The last meteor was made in 1998!
I must admit that recently I began to feel as if anime had nothing to show me anymore, it's all this …
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I am back to reading books on paper for the moment.
That is Joshiraku manga on the right, and yes, I took a picture of its back cover by mistake. It is a limited edition that comes with a combo audio/data CD. The audio portion containes rakugo skits (of …
read moreLOL Scholarship, part 1
Just one slide from a presentation that I attended:
There was much more where this came from, of course. The most amusing element was probably the heavy sense of looking at a large thing through a toilet paper core. Part of it came from the inevitable dumbing down for the …
read moreRT on R1
Reading the listing or new R1 licenses at Reverse Thieves, I cannot help remembering the "Funimation only licenses garbage" thing.
Among the long list they licensed, the only two things I would even agree to watch are Akira and Haganai, if that. I do not particularly like either of them …
read moreSteven Den Beste is recovering from stroke
This looks like safe from jinxing, as Steven is back home from rehab. Apparently the stroke was in lower parts of the brain, so his mind is not affected directly and we, inside and outside of the geriatric animeblogging community, may look forward to more Engineer's Disease, Cheesecake, TMW, and …
read moreObvious problems of region-locked streaming
I'm going to be away for a week, travelling to Ireland for a business meeting. Ireland is an semi-independent country, affiliated with the European Empire. Naturally, Crunchyroll isn't going to work (even if I had time for it).
As a blogger, I received a push for VIZ streaming. Pushed back …
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