Random Comedy is Not Clever Comedy
This post is largely inspired by a Twitter debate largely between Sea Slugs! Anime Blog’s Jesus159159159 and The Cart Driver’s Scamp, over the respective merits and flaws of Excel Saga and Seto no Hanayome. For the record, I sided with Jesus159159159, but it’s quite a stretch to say either is an exceptionally funny, let [...]
VocaJazz
It was on /a/ that I first stumbled on a couple of rather charming soft jazz Vocaloid songs arranged (and illustrated) by a Nico Nico denizen named Cocoacigarette-P, which I twittered about a couple of days ago. DKellis from Moe Check! also pointed out just how well they’re arranged, from a technical point of [...]
3755, Chapter I: Expansion
On July 28th, 2009, Gonzo Digimation Holdings was officially removed from the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Citing more than two years of consecutive loss, the corporation was forced to stop trading in compliance with TSE regulation. How did Gonzo, a company once renowned for its innovative style and unique productions, fall to such financial ruin? Fans [...]
Using Google Reader SI to Keep Track of Your Own Blogosphere Comments
One of the things I’ve been experimenting with lately has been using Google Reader Shared Items to keep track of my own comments on the blogosphere. There are a couple of reasons I’ve started doing this, one of which is that I decided it was imperative that I had some method of keeping tabs [...]
My Paradigm
In his latest article, Sorrow-kun addressed the issue of dialogue in anime. As a non-native speaker, he said, he had to rely on translators to understand what was going on at all times. It’s inevitable that non-Japanese anime fans have to place their trust in translators, as without them, anime-watching becomes an utterly pointless exercise [...]
