We get a distinct hint as to the possible political leanings of seiyuu 加藤英美里 / Emiri Katou, best known for voicing Lucky Star’s (or should that be Red Star’s) Kagami Hiiragi, with her shameless appearance in the pages of admitted communist newspaper 赤旗 / Akahata (Red Flag). The article in question is a feature on her [...]
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Well, I decided to blog it…as a peace offering to all the awful, awful Tomoyo fanboys who I managed to get into fights with this past year. And now, I have to admit…Tomoyo is the best. … No, I’m just kidding. Can you imagine? I’m still waving my Nagisa flag and Tomoyo is still my number two. Though, [...]
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There’s no news about an OST, but there are DVDs both in box sets and individual episodes. Details: Title: Yu Aoi x Yottsu no Uso Camouflage DVD Box Release Date: July 16, 2008 Price: 17200yen (approx: US$ 159.69) Details: Title: Yu Aoi x Yottsu no Uso Camouflage Release Date: July 16, 2008 Price: 3800yen (approx. US$ 35.28) Here are a few samples [...]
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  One of the lesser known psychic attacks. Impressions: I have to admit that this episode started poorly as far as my brain was concerned. I thought to myself "that flag doesn’t look right" and then deduced that there were 25 stars… and then, and only then, did I notice that the stripes were vertical. After [...]
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Dengeki Playstation magazine stands accused of freely helping themselves to dead mangaka 堀部秀郎 / Hiderou Horibe’s illustrations, in what seems to be flagrant plagiarism of the cover illustration of a 2004 edition of eroge magazine PC Angel (see above), as well as other instances (below); whilst Horibe may have passed away two years ago, observant [...]
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Well, the International Day of the iPhone is here, when Apple's new 3G iPhone launches around the world. In Japan, the line outside Softbank's flagship store in Omotesando, Tokyo reached 1500 people and over a kilometer in length, as Japanese fans lined up to get their hands on the device for the first time. Masayoshi Son, the enigmatic president of Softbank and the mind behind the success of Google-trouncing Yahoo Japan, was beaming as he watched the lines of iPhone buyers, most of whom were switching from competing cellphone companies au/KDDI and NTT Docomo. Being a maverick has helped make the UC Berkeley-educated Son, a third-generation Japanese of Korean descent, the richest man in Japan, and his ability to "think different" probably helped him win the contract for the iPhone from Steve Jobs. While I'm still not sure if the iPhone will bowl over Japanese keitai users, who are extremely hidebound and love their flip-fones with the fancy styling and easy-to-type (for them) numeric keypads, I do love the coming havoc the iPhone will wreak in the Japanese cellphone marketplace as users realize they don't have to give cellular providers power to dictate everything about their phone, from what music formats they can listen to to what applications they can run -- they can just stick anything in iTunes and sync it over. Today I updated my (first-gen) iPhone to the updated 2.0 firmware and downloaded the app I've always wanted, a light saber sound simulator (iTunes link). Any phone platform that can bring that kind of awesomeness to its users will certainly find a niche in Japan.
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Summary: The D-pulse that brought Alto’s VF-25 down also jammed up the communications on the Zentradi mothership. The Macross unit turns out to be the 117th Research Fleet’s flagship Global. There’s a queen Vajra inside, and Ranka is kidnapped and brought into the egg room. Inside the ship’s ruins is a cracked picture [...]
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The funeral pyre of Mainichi rag WaiWai has blazed into a general conflagration of infernal proportions, with the spectres of innumerable lawsuits for slander and calumny eagerly circling it, and the latest pick of their dubious articles will not see the heat abate any time soon – all 2ch is gleefully heaping fuel onto the [...]
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Rohan Online is one of the better Free to Play (F2P) games I have had the chance to play. With unique features and other cool upcoming attractions in the following weeks, can YNK Interactive make sure to deliver on the goods and keep this game afloat? Introduction Some of you might already be raising your flags in [...]
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There have been several people recently who have been caught by the spam filter for spamming even though they weren't doing so. If this happens to you, then the spam filter might also retroactively remove all of your past comments, and at first glance that can look like that there's someone actively moderating or censoring the comments. There is not. The spam filter is programmed to catch bots, and so if you post too fast after loading a page or too frequently within a small time-frame, it'll think you're a bot and will flag you. If you see that your comment has been marked for moderation, or if you get a message saying that you've been caught by the spam filter, don't fret and try to repost it right away - that'll just get all of your messages deleted automatically. The best way to rectify any comment problems is to email me with your username and email, and I'll correct it immediately. Incidentally, I don't plan on changing the spam filter anytime soon because it succeeds at catching 99.9% of the real spam, and there's a ton of that.
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