First off, I’m sorry there’s so little intellectual content in this post. Lately I’ve been following seiyuu fans on Twitter, but it turns out it’s impossible to understand any of them because of all [...]
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Once upon a time I went to Hinamizawa (Shirakawa-go), home of “Higurashi no naku koro ni” (which I now see I never actually explained, aha). This year I happened to find myself in Japan once more, so what better thing to do than continue the series? The Ushiromiya mansion can be found in Kyu Furukawa [...]
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Last night I went up to New People SF to see the two 120 minute Madoka movies. I don’t think they need a review here – I’ll say it was worth spending 5 hours of travel time for, but hopefully next time I won’t have to take public transit – but without spoiling the series, [...]
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Source: unknown (Comiket staff?) via Yaraon This time around the most interesting change is the new section for Tiger & Bunny, which was split out of “Anime (Sunrise)”, and starts out with an enormous 1109 circles – Sunrise being left with only 269 in the process. Since most of the other girls’ side genres – [...]
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Translated from pp. 194-7 of Folkloristics as Pseudohistory (Gishi toshite no Minzokugaku, 2007) by Eiji Ootsuka. One of Osamu Tezuka’s Occupation-era works is “Magic House” [Mahou yashiki, 1948]. For that era of SF, which boasts such works like “Metropolis” and “Lost World”, it’s a mere footnote in Tezuka studies, but for some reason Tezuka under [...]
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Sorry about the delay on posting this; the web host had the first downtime I’ve seen in years just as I was going to update, so lying on the floor the whole weekend seemed a bit more attractive. There were three Mirai no Neiro panels at AX, the first being PVs sent from overseas (translated [...]
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Just like last year, kransom and I will be at AX with D.P.H with new translated Vocaloid PVs and composer guests for you. The panels are at 5pm Friday for Part 1 and 10am Saturday for Part 2… in other words, conflicting with everything possible. Nevertheless, it’d be lovely if you showed up. Check back [...]
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What is this, Shii’s Anime Blog? Uhh, anyway. Momo e no Tegami, “A Letter to Momo”, is a technically ambitious and heartwarming success by Hiroyuki Okiura (Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Paprika) and Production I.G. that gives me hope for anime films in this decade. The film achieves what a good anime should aim for: fantastic [...]
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Here are some independent manga I translated and never posted about anywhere besides Twitter. I almost started a new blog for this but I don’t think it’s worth it. Let me know if you’d like to get these updates in another form. Click on a page to see the manga 197Q Just Rain Records Concerning [...]
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