Worthless Post about 2ch Rumors on Haruhi S2, Railgun anime, more
I wasn’t going to post this originally since it seemed too out there, but now that Hagaren’s cast has changed I feel marginally more comfortable posting these completely unsourced rumors from a random...
View ArticleReitaisai 6 Penalties: Christmas Comes Late for Me, a Tale of Big Sight East 3
As many of you may know, Reitaisai moved from the West-4 hall at Tokyo Big Sight last year, where from all reports the event was crowded and ridiculous and chaotic beyond anyone’s imagination, to the...
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New political party based on religious cult floods Japanese election
The new religious movement Happy Science started a political party in May called the “Happiness Realization Party”, or HRP for short. Today the Japanese government announced figures which showed that...
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Hold On To Your Sanity, It’s the Happy Science Platform
Here’s the sequel to my original post about the Happiness Realization Party, in which I discuss their amazing party platform. This article has zero relevance to anime, but after the original story was...
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The Laws of Eternity (and more Happy Science news)
This is the last post about obscure Japanese religions, I promise. And look! It’s an anime! This is Thomas Edison. He used a spirit phone to call four Japanese teenagers to Heaven. This is all I’m...
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Spreadsheet Compilation of Various Japanese Popularity Metrics for Summer...
At school, not wanting to drive home in my long break between meeting my advisor and a film screening cause of rush hour. Therefore, this hastily-done silly translation of a spreadsheet some 2cher made...
View Article2ch Copypaste of the Day: What the Average Citizen Knows about Robot Anime...
Taken from a 2ch copypaste that’s making the rounds today Gundam: That story where Amuro and Char fight Eva: Pachinko Macross: Singing Geass: Never heard of it Votoms: Follows a main character named...
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Akiba Hokoten reopened
I find it slightly absurd that no English blog reported on this, seeing as it was the talk of Twitter all day as well as making the nationwide evening news… The Akihabara pedestrian heaven...
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Tokyo chicken restaurant: “Ugh, anime avatars”
I can’t not post this. A corporate Twitter account was talking with a random otaku about football. This scintillating discussion suddenly devolved into “anime avatars are gross”, which would be one...
View ArticleJapanese Twitter users imagine: “How would classic sci-fi authors resolve the...
TOGETTER: SF作家別「原発事故をどう解決する」 flowerclass: Easy-to-understand comparison of sci-fi authors: “How would you resolve the nuclear accident?” E. E. Smith, “A scientist suddenly invents a super-technique.”...
View ArticleThe Real Reason to Go to Japan Media Arts Festival: It’s Art, So It’s Not...
Japan Meda Arts Festival has opened up their yearly exhibition at the National Art Center in Tokyo, and while I’m sure some lesser people will go to see the installations of the works that actually won...
View ArticleWhen You Give a Strike Witch a Culturally Significant Award,
Follow-up to The Real Reason to Go to Japan Media Arts Festival: It’s Art, So It’s Not Embarrassing: Strike Witches DVDs now have a sticker on the box advertising the fact that they were nominated. How...
View ArticleAkihabara Hokoten Revival Support Event from 2/26-2/28
There is currently an event planned in the area in the old Rocket 5-Gou building (the empty lots on Chuo-dori where the kebab trucks and r4 vendors were over the winter) from the 26th to the 28th of...
View ArticleHiroshima Gets Maid Cafe for Newbies: Maypretty #2
The Hiroshima Financial Times reports the opening of a brand new branch of Hiroshima’s Maypretty maid cafe, this one for “novice otaku” (オタク初心者). Located near Hiroshima station, they claim to have...
View ArticleGallery of Fantastic Art and its Current Exhibit: HOKUTO-NO-KEN 25th...
The Gallery of Fantastic Art is one of those places in Tokyo that I keep meaning to go by that I never actually bother taking the train to. Either they’ve been in between exhibits or I just plain...
View ArticleStraight from Flowering Night 2009: New Info on Touhou Seirensen: Undefined...
I’m really tired so this is going to be really short: Zun showed up at the very end of FN2009, and the MC asked him if he could give any information about Touhou Seirensen: Undefined Fantastic Object....
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