Popular-Inconsequence
Examining Japanese pop-culture in respect to cross-Pacific relations
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MOS Burger crossing the Pacific?
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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. […] READ MORE
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Panty and Stocking: This is truly my childhood
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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 […] READ MORE
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Fractale Fracas
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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 […] READ MORE
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Perspectives of/on Japan
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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 […] READ MORE
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Anime and manga not such a negative influence after all
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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 […] READ MORE
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Fall of Japan? A look at 2010 and what it might spell for J-Pop around the world
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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 […] READ MORE
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Why is this here? This is terrible
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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 […] READ MORE
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Change is afoot: Tokyo Govt. Approves New Restrictions to Manga and Anime for Children’s Sake Part 3
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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 […] READ MORE
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Merry Christmas! Of swag and boons
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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 […] READ MORE
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Change is afoot: Tokyo Govt. Approves New Restrictions to Manga and Anime for Children’s Sake, Part 2
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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 […] READ MORE
