Among the Martin's many contortions and passive-aggressive ("commercialized", "derivative", "fandumb", "characters are completely lifeless archetypes [for the majority of time]"), there was one concrete misstep to which he may yet be held responsible with time.
2DT beat me to the punch in highlighting its celebration of transience, which really hightlights …read more
I've read the long post at Behind The Nihon Review with a great interest, but I do not have much to comment on this, except how all of that makes me think that our Child Pornography moral panic is utter bullshit (perpetrated by bible-thumping liberals, not less).
UPDATE: Omo comments …
read moreColony 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 moreFor some reason I missed an official JAXA video posted before STS-131. The intro is really something. Not sure if the following unmodified screencaps give it justice, but here we have "ヤマト・ナデシコ 宇宙へ", a motion shot of closed eyes, and the …
read moreYeah, 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 …
Today's mail delivered an unexpected present, that appears to be a weird desktop calendar for year 2010. I wish I had a cubicle.
It is Lucky Star themed, and very cute (even if Soujirou is included).
read moreI 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 …
read moreSDB announces that S1E1 published something again, which you would never know if you were subscribed to the site feed. Jessi saw fit to pipe the feed through RSSPECT.com and then discontinue doing it without an announcement (not even a 404). Now everyone who cares reading her amusingly hate-filled …
read moreWith the banner post on TDP out of the way, there are some matters to discuss in detail (do not look if you are concerned about spoilers). The biggest of them is Sumire.
Although everything in the coverage of Toradora at Ani-nouto was supposed to be about Ami, Sumire loomed …
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