Industrious Otaku: Doujin as Business

Following a brief discussion of C81 in our Three Way Action podcast from New Years, I wanted to do little bit of looking into a relatively interesting phenomenon: consignment sales of doujinshi. Sales of doujinshi via consignment involve circles producing doujinshi for comic markets in Japan contracting the sales of their goods to a store [...]

The Nihon Revue, Episode Seven

The Nihon Revue, Episode Seven

It’s not often that we do two podcasts in two weeks, but it’s the time of the season where we get together to bitch about what we hated about the season just finished. Except, it was kinda hard to find enough shows from the last season that we hated, so we had to reach all [...]

Entrepreneurship in Oji-san no Lamp

Entrepreneurship in Oji-san no Lamp

Though now a byword in the world of startup companies, the term “disruptive innovation” only began to take off around 1995 when business professor Clayton Christensen outlined the idea in his book Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave and extended it in The Innovator’s Dilemma. In a nutshell, disruptive innovation is a product or service that [...]

4 People 1 Raeg

4 People 1 Raeg

As the anime community welcomes the Winter 2012 anime season, most would look back at 2011 and recall what made the year. It may be seen as one with a fair share of great anime, especially when it witnessed convention-breaking titles such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Mawaru Penguindrum. It’s common to see people [...]

New AGE Gundam

New AGE Gundam

We’re 13 episodes into Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (though I have not yet had the time to watch the latest episode, so take that into account when you comment!), and I think by now everyone watching it has to have accepted that it’s a kids show, right? Right? Good! Because I’d sure hate for you [...]