Because a lot of people these days are doing anime episodics a lot better than I can and I think manga reviewing is far easier for a person like me to do because it involves a print based rather than video based medium. I haven’t stopped watching anime, God no, no more than I’ve stopped [...]
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So I got back into manga recently, acquiring some Genshiken volumes I didn’t have but borrowed from a friend, and it got me thinking: Forget Alma Mater, where’s my Alma Manga? The college setting in manga as well as anime is a really underused setting – not saying that high school anime shows are bad, [...]
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Here’s an interesting thought I’ve had about my personality as a whole, who I am and how my thought processes work compared to “normal” adults. You saw Ouran High School Host Club right? Well, out of all the male characters in that show I saw, Honey was the one that stuck out to me the [...]
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I’ve been pondering this for a long time, really trying to get into the bones of why I picked anime fandom over other media I could have easily gotten into like Sci-Fi movie fandom, or just plain movie fandom, instead of what I grew up with and chose as entertainment choices such as what I [...]
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Hoo boy, if you thought the last post I did was the end of my ramblings about Superflat, to quote the Priest (and Junot Diaz’s quoting of the Priest), YOU GOT ANOTHER THING COMIN’. The more I learn about Superflat, the more I’m disgusted by Takashi Murakami’s attitude to what is essentially somebody else’s subculture. [...]
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So I’ll be twenty one next year, which will make me legally an adult in pretty much any nation you can name, the US and Japan for example. Allegedly I am already an adult after turning eighteen under Australian law – but that’s a whole ‘nother matter. I wanted to do a post on this [...]
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Read about it here. And now a summing up from Martin Lawrence…
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So Satoshi Kon is dead, and you know what? This isn’t the first bloody time an anime god has fallen from his mecha throne. How you ask? Need I remind you of the loss of Osamu Tezuka – possibly one of anime’s biggest innovators in the medium’s history – and yet although Japan was devastated [...]
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I went to the Graphic Festival at the Opera House because I was bored, or just wanted to avoid dealing with a tough end to a week in which I had Vietnam style flashbacks to when Germaine Greer verbally tore me a new one when I had my first art critique of the semester from [...]
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There is a lot of talk that anime is dying, but really what’s happening is a reshuffling of what “anime” itself means as an animation term. In my last post I talked about how some moe anime are like romance dramas for men, and in this post I want to talk about not so much [...]
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