Time for men-only train cars in Japan? I got a chuckle out of this Reuters article about how the fear of being accused as a groper/molester on trains in Japan is supposedly starting to bring about a call for male-only train cars. Thanks to legitimate groping/molesting incidents on trains, rush hour in Japan already sees
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“Ah! My Goddess” Manga Wins Award
May 25th, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy “Ah! My Goddess” Manga Wins Award CuSO4 informs us that “AMS [sic] was selected as the winner in the General Department of the 33rd Annual Kodansha Manga Award. A bronze trophy plus one million yen will be presented to Fujishima-sensei on 6/22 at Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, Tokyo.” Other winners include Meitantei Yumemizu Kiyoshirou Jiken
“Yakuza hard hit by economic downturn”
May 22nd, 2009 AstroNerdBoy “Yakuza hard hit by economic downturn” Yes friends, even the yakuza are having a tough time during this current recession (which reminds me, whatever happened to the talk of us going into a depression?). Why these guys are forced to resort to petty crimes and to give up the expensive lifestyle because things are tough
FUNimation Asks, "Would you like ‘Sailor Moon’ redubbed?" (Oh, and some other titles too.)
May 20th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy On FUNimation’s blog, they are doing a survey to see which anime titles you’d be interested in seeing them license. Among the choices are redub of Sailor Moon. ^_^ I know there has been keen interest in bringing Sailor Moon back to the U.S. since all the rights were pulled from ADV. Now, this doesn’t
Another Live-Action Anime Title — Bubblegum Crisis
May 14th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Another Live-Action Anime Title — Bubblegum Crisis The stream of live-action adaptations of anime titles continues, this time the old-school Bubblegum Crisis is on the table (Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 being the reboot, but I don’t think it is being considered). I knew of Bubblegum Crisis when I was in Japan and I’m sure saw
Better Archive Those Old GeoCities Anime Sites
April 26th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Better Archive Those Old GeoCities Anime Sites It has been reported in many places that Yahoo is going to close down GeoCities, that now ancient-of-days free homepage hosting site that so many people used back in the 90’s when the Internet was new, fresh, and exciting. In recent years, I’m not sure how many people
Live-action “Full Metal Panic?” Say It Ain’t So!
April 7th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Live-action “Full Metal Panic?” Say It Ain’t So! I see on Sci-Fi Wire that Mandalay Pictures now has the rights to create a Full Metal Panic motion picture. Hmmmm. Zac Efron is rumored to be attached to the project. Hmmmm. I’m all down for live-action adaptations but frankly, I don’t trust Hollywood to produce any
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Japanese Child-robot with Biomimetic Body (CB2) — Come on, Chachamaru!
April 6th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Japanese Child-robot with Biomimetic Body (CB2) — Come on, Chachamaru! It is being reported in various places about the latest Japanese robotics project — Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, otherwise known as CB2. I’m always amazed at the staggering array of robotic projects coming out of Japan. While it does bring me to think of anime
