Posts Tagged ‘Random Thoughts’

Want to See Famous Historical Males as Anime (Game) Babes? (Eiyuu Senki)

The other day, it came to my attention that there’s this new (at least, I think it is new) game coming to Japan called The World Conquest (Eiyuu Senki).  UPDATE: The website wasn’t fully online when I linked to it, but this is not only whatever kind of game it is, but it is also

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Kore wa TokyoPop-Zombie Desu ka?

Kore wa TokyoPop-Zombie Desu ka? On Wednesday, October 12th, the manga Twitter world began to buzz as nineteen days before Halloween, what appears to be the corpse of the once giant manga publishing company, TokyoPop, burst through the ground and started shuffling around.  Naturally, this might be some sort of zombie-troll and so a challenge

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Pokemon 38

“Don’t let your child watch any ‘Japanimation’.” (‘Cause Pokemon is bad for your health!)

“Don’t let your child watch any ‘Japanimation’.” (‘Cause Pokemon is bad for your health!) Sometimes, I see things that prompt me to put fingers to keyboard and spew.  This time, Deb Aoki retweeted something on Twitter that made me sit up and go, “What?!” Well, you can see why I would sit up and take

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Usagi Drop

Of Usagi Drop (and other things)

Of Usagi Drop (and other things) One of the ways I am introduced to interesting new anime or manga is through those of you who take the time to drop me recommendations. My one regret is that I just don’t have the time to watch or read everything that gets suggested to me, especially when

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TokyoPop

Did You Hate TokyoPop Because It Was a “Teenager” Company?

Did You Hate TokyoPop Because It Was a “Teenager” Company? You know, I honestly thought I wouldn’t be writing a lengthy piece on TokyoPop after I had posted my TokyoPop license-rescue wish list. However, after reading Lianne’s insider thoughts on TokyoPop’s closure and her speculation on the reason people hated TokyoPop so much, I had

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Gakuen Alice Volume 15

My TokyoPop Manga License Rescue Dream List

I took some time to take the books down from my manga bookcase in order to do some much-needed dusting and get some new titles inserted such as Fairy Tail. As I did this, I looked at the TokyoPop manga titles and lamented the fact that it is very possible that some or all of

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Hand Maid May

Why the Harem Genre?

Why the Harem Genre? Considering my nutty schedule this month, which makes watching anime nearly impossible, I was trying to think of some anime or manga-related topic I could discuss.  As I looked at my tastes in anime and manga titles, I find that I have a strong preference for the so-called harem titles.  So

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Dirty Pair

Why Watch Classic Anime?

Why Watch Classic Anime? The other day, someone asked me, “Why do you watch so much old anime?”  I found it to be a good question because watching anime from the 80’s certainly isn’t something that will increase blog traffic.  Indeed, I’d say that so much blogging about the original Mobile Suit Gundam and Urusei

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