a mixed plate of Japanese American news and culture
MOS Burger to come to the US? Oh god, I don’t know how to express how happy I am. I’m ecstatic. This is the best news ever. Oh my god. I love MOS Burger. This is so great. I thank you MOS Burger gods. I will patronize you as soon as you come to America [...]
So what is “Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt”? People who haven’t looked into it are probably living under a rock, or are wholly uninterested in anime and manga or Japanese culture (why are you reading this then?), but PSG is Gainax’s (“Nadia,” “Fooly Cooly,” “Gurren Lagann,” et al. ) latest show about two anarchistic fallen [...]
I got word that Anime News Network and Funimation are reeling from a recent debacle concerning this season’s anime “Fractale.” Tim Maughan linked me to ANN’s post that decreed that “Fractale” Production will be refusing to allow Funimation from distributing their work via streaming until all pirated copies of their anime are removed from the [...]
So I realize I’ve been posting for about a month now, but my first entry was considerably delayed. What with Ishihara proposing that troublesome law and such, I had to deal with more pressing matters. So on with my planned introduction: Japan is a nation far away yet close to my heart, sometimes too close. [...]
There’s apparently a wave of charitable giving happening all over Japan after somebody donated some school bags under the pseudonym of “Naoto Date,” the real name of Tiger Mask, a masked wrestler that gave away his winnings to the orphanage he was once brought up in. This might show that cartoons don’t make us all [...]
So it’s another year, and while real life doesn’t actually revolve around the increment of 365 ¼ days, it’s good to know that we like to box everything into little categories. Ronald Kelts, author of Japanamerica, wrote last January that Japan may have jumped the shark: 2009 wasn’t such a hot year for them either, [...]
Some people calling themselves artists decided to melt together a bunch of anime figurines in the form of an even larger figurine or whatever those other shapes are (in some attempt at being “meta” probably). The end result is an atrocious mess of colorful plastic that I imagine is reminiscent of Takashi Maurakami, or an [...]
This is the third and final part of my series on Bill 156, a bill that amends the Youth Healthy Ordinance in the Tokyo Metropolitan area proper. Here, I will give my future forecast for Japan. So the bill is passed, without going into what led up to all of this, what will become of [...]
It being Christmas, I’m taking it easy today. I’ll be back with the rest of my rant on the new Tokyo Metro Bill later, but for today, let’s celebrate the birth of the Western world’s savior with a mountain of presents. To note, I’m Buddhist – and with that I’m not even really sure about [...]
So in my previous post, I talked about what kind of law was put into place by Tokyo’s metropolitan government. The effects of the law, while not quite as draconian as what sensationalism has dreamed up, do pose a major obstacle to what constitutes today’s anime and manga industry. My specialty lies in manga, but [...]
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