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Hey, reader, this doesn’t have much to do with the rest of this blog, but hear me out for a second.
The other day, I went to a doujin fair; you know, like Comiket?
Well anyways, there were an insane number of people there acting fairly normal.
Then I looked in the guidebook, and it said “no cosplay” in the rules.
What is this? How could this be?
Why would you come to an “anime convention” if there’s no cosplay?
It’s 700 yen, 7-0-0 YEN for crying out loud.
There are even entire families here. A family of four, coming to a doujin fair?
That’s when it hit me: this was not an “anime convention”.
In fact, there is nothing in Japan remotely resembling an “anime convention”.
Panels? Screenings? Aren’t these things really just a waste of time?
Maybe some people have no computers and spent their last $30 to watch some Mazinger-Z and listen to fat women talk about yaoi.
Maybe some of the congoers have no access to YouTube or Hulu, and are unable download podcasts.
But I’m betting most people come to meet other anime fans whom they already know.
I’m betting most people are doing something that they could do in private, but are doing it in public instead. (more…)

So apparently a few people on that 2ch site are kind of angry at doujin circle Hachimitsu Kuma-san over a recent job posting on the circle’s site as well as on their mixi.

In essence, they are looking for someone to do odd jobs for them, basically filling in whatever need they have at the moment. A few more details:
*Must live within an hour of Omiya city in Chiba prefecture.
*Must be able to be on call even after midnight on days off.
*Will work for free. (this part is only mentioned on the mixi posting.)

Sounds like a dream job, right?

Well, apparently those nay-sayers at 2ch don’t think so. What a bunch of negative nancies! They’ve even gone so far as to post a lot of copy/pastes making some pretty harsh allegations about Hachikuma-san’s business practices, but you can find those on your own, or I’m sure some other blogger will post them as The Absolute Truth, cause 2ch kopipe is never wrong. Anyway, any of you folks out there thinking of applying?!

(via katoyu–)

nicovideo just wished me happy new year. happy new year to you too, nicovideo!

(This link is old, but it’s new to me!!)

Now, I know a lot of folks aren’t the biggest fans around of Seven Seas Entertainment, after all that KnJ unpleasantness and whatnot, but between trying to break into the US market with a whole bunch of light novels, trying to bring stuff done by Closet Child over here, and on top of that sending me a free copy of Shinigami no Ballad just so that it could be subjected to the verbal diarrhea better known as “me reviewing things”, they’ve got a place in my heart.

With that in mind, after reading this thread on their forums, I want to go to their offices and give them all (especially this Adam Arnold feller) a great big hug. Or maybe a big pat on the back or something, that seems less creepy but unfortunately more patronizing. I mean sure, 2channelers might burn multiple volumes of your manga, but any sort of entitlement complex that “nagi is a slut” betrays pales in comparison to the average American message board poster if this thread is any indication. After that thread I feel like I need to go spend all my holiday Amazon gift certs on light novels, yeesh.

first and foremost, hats off to the anime team for the spoo reference.

Second, weblab.ota has a great flowchart describing what in the world is going on with this whole mess, if you can manage to read the Japanese. I’d love to read it for you, but I have a 10 page paper due in 48 hours.

Finally, the current rumor circulating around the internet around Takenashi’s health is that she fell down a bunch of stairs due to anemia, if this mystery barebones blog site by some light novelist who may or may not be referencing Takenashi when she talks about “U-nyan” is correct. Kind of a stretch, I guess?

With all the crazy news and c75 stuff and anime/manga announcements (Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii etc etc manga adaptation!) popping up today I keep thinking “man I should make a post” but then realize that I should spend more time studying for this test I’m taking tomorrow that I’m going to fail.

But then this showed up on my Katoyuu feed:

Idolm@ster, LIVE 4 U! ON PUBLIC TV!

THIS IS WHY I PAY YOU THE BIG BUCKS, NHK

update:

forget the jlpt, i’m laughing so hard i think i need to check myself into a hospital to make sure i didnt tear anything

My busy schedule of sleeping/possibly studying/marathoning Tales of Vesperia doesn’t leave me much time to do much other nerdy things, so I have a queue of three or five visual novels I’ve been meaning to play someday. It looks like I’ll have to stick another one on now, maybe after FSN (if kransom ever finds me a copy of that), because Shikkoku no Sharnoth has the greatest character list ever:

• Goth Heterochromia Agatha Christie – the main character
• Baron Münchhausen
• Bram Stoker
• Winston Churchill
• Sherlock Holmes
• Charlotte Brontë
• Genderswap August Derleth
• Josef Čapek

I went through a scene or two in the trial and the narration is doing its best to pretend to be Nasu, with everyone repeating everything six times for effect. I stopped after they spent half an hour of reading time drinking tea, but I’m sure optional gameplay and HP Lovecraft event CG await. No, not like that.

edit: i can’t spell

i’ll keep this short: this is why I read itai news (other than the vip quality anti-korean articles)

this ota-kickboxer could take you down in like 5 seconds with his right hook, and he dresses like miku. japan you are the best country

more video exploring Akiba with Nagashima:
1, 2, 3, 4

Maybe now I won’t have to hear quite as many Kooky Japan stories at school?

And here I was, thinking that I was being a fool for hoping that 2ch would manage to have some pull on a big corporation after seeing signs of the stink on itai.

(real posts about more important things (MY ANIMES) to resume next week maybe)

This Impz guy told me to nominate some people for some awards, and then only like one of the blogs I nominated only made it in! In protest, here’s some stuff you should read that you can’t vote for. Most of these people update more than we do!

Anipages Daily writes mini-essays about art, can somehow identify individual animators, and really likes Masaaki Yuasa. Since most of the anime industry doesn’t really do art and there’s only one of him, that doesn’t leave him with much, but he tries!
(Personally, I didn’t start watching Kemonozume ’cause I don’t really like poop jokes. I really mean to finish/start Mononoke sometime, though)

Akiba Blog brings me to tears with its beautiful writing every single time I read it. From what I gather, Akiba is only for porn and tourism these days, so pretty much all the entries are about that, but sometimes you can read about games with stupid names like “12RIVEN -the Ψcliminal of integral-”.

This is the eroge that writes about delusion. Toranoana writes on its POP that “we have never seen this kind of eroge! It’s like an erotic manga. Your delusion would definitely exposes!

Karmaburn has been running since back in the day with Momotato and JASCII. They were only useful for knowing what to watch (ie, make sure not to watch anything they liked), but his brain hasn’t been replaced by moe just yet. Also, he compares everything to Eva, whereas everybody else forgets about a show maybe a month after it’s done airing. May or may not be in a secret club with us.

Fast Karate and AWO are, uh, not actually blogs I guess. But they do write for the world’s most powerful magazine! Although Clarissa really needs to develop a writing gimmick to match “talks about Golgo 13 all the time” and “actually likes DBZ” – do we really need to know setting details about Shuffle?