Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 25, 2010
I just sent off an e-mail to ACen’s Guest Relations department, responding to their request to have me as a guest at Anime Central 2010. I was invited last year as well, but due to family circumstances, I was unable to attend. This year, I intend to go and enjoy a convention for the first [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 22, 2010
(Note: I actually wrote this on Thursday and didn’t hit Publish. Pretty smart, huh?) According to some solicitations dug up by Mania, Media Blasters is ready to bring the satirical Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei to DVD in May. While we’d heard whispers of this at Anime Expo last year, it’s good to see such a fun series [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 4, 2010
If you’ve watched anime enough, you know what “Steam Girls” are, even if you haven’t heard the term before. “Steam Girls” refers to a time-honored anime tradition: in the obligatory “onsen episode,” the animators show a bunch of naked girls in a bath house, but cover their naughty bits with artfully placed bands of steam [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 12, 2010
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Tuesday Tunes – which was going to be I was originally going to be about the release of the Nanoha movie single – to talk about the highly publicized Anime Expo board brouhaha from the perspective of a man who’s spent years on the karaoke and press staff of the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 31, 2009
The inspiration for week’s talking point comes from the flood of cosplay pictures that accompany every Comic Market, which remind me of how much of a cosplay snob I am. By “cosplay snob,” I don’t mean that I hold cosplayers to a high level of quality (though I do tend to poke fun at the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 3, 2009
David asks: Would anime produced by an American company be considered anime (in our sense of the word)?
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 19, 2009
Welcome to the first-ever Thursday Talking Point! We have a pretty good question to start with, so let’s jump right in. Meansdarling asks: What do you think of the American comic industry compared to the Japanese one? I don’t know enough to know where to compare the two. They seem very different, but I’m sure [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 12, 2009
For the Thursday weekly, I’d like to make it a bit more interactive. Ask me a question! About the industry, about how something works, about why something doesn’t work, try me! I’ll answer it in a column format. It’s a bit late for me to do it for this Thursday, so there’ll be some spillover [...]
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