The other day, I happened to check a top-100 site list according to traffic from a certain blog-tracking site. There were only two anime blogs in the entire list and one was in the top-10 with 4500 unique hits in a day. Now, I know some of the big-dog, long-time anime bloggers out there likely
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The Perfect Female Partner — Coming Soon!
December 11th, 2008 
AstroNerdBoy The Perfect Female Partner — Coming Soon! I swear, android wives will be available before my life ends (assuming God lets me live to old age). Check out this article from The Sun. (Wayback Link.) I couldn’t help but notice the part about how with a few tweaks, “Aiko” could be made “fully functional” (to
Legalize 2D-Real People Marriages!
October 31st, 2008 AstroNerdBoy Legalize 2D-Real People Marriages! The Telegraph (in the U.K.) has an article about a new push to have the Japanese law allow people to marry their favorite manga, anime, or game character. There’s apparently over 1000 signatures in the online petition, which will then be presented to the government. What?! I understand the appeal of
FUNimation’s Licensing Blitz
May 19th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy FUNimation just spent a week on a licensing tear, first licensing a title a day last week and then two more at Anime Central 2008. Let’s see what they have. Mamotte! Lollipop (Save Me! Lollipop) — I had heard of this title and knew that Del Rey had the license, but beyond that, I knew
Anne Going to Japan
May 11th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy For the last year (roughly), I’ve been taking Japanese classes in Arvada. One of my classmates, Anne-san, had been trying to get into the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) program for a while and while we were on a break, she was accepted. Saturday was her last day of classes as she takes some time
Starfest 2008 – The Anime Connection
May 6th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy Now that I finally have home Internet access again, I thought I’d do a quick anime report from Starfest 2008. Because Starfest is primarily a sci-fi convention with a helping of fantasy on the side (there’s also Horrorfest which is run at the same time, but it quite literally is a side feature), anime has
What to Make of This?
April 14th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy What to Make of This? I’m always interested to see how people find my anime blog. After all, my anime and manga blog is one in an ocean of anime and manga blogs. It is certain that some blogs have the advantage of me in that they either have a staff and can blog a
Slayers Again!
March 10th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy QP has some stuff that HAYASHIBARA Megumi has said on her radio show and other places regarding the new Slayers anime TV series (which was announced in the April issue of Dragon Magazine and revealed to be entitled Slayers REVOLUTION). The big news is that Megumi-san is going to be Lina again. YES! What Megumi-san
