Month: November 2008

Our Future: オタク圏 2

Posted by - November 25, 08

In the previous post, I outlined very general aspects which I see playing in the anime-blogosphere, and followed with a hypothetical question, “What if the top 5 single-author blogs suddenly phased out?” in terms of readership distribution. Ultimately, I believe team-blogs have an advantage for both authors and readers, yet it is not absolute.

Before expressing my support to lelangir’s post about the questioning of a blogomerate centralized otakusphere, I would like to express some general grouping of blogs in state and genre1 in open-classification (feel free to correct or modify me ね).

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Our Future: オタク圏 1

Posted by - November 20, 08

champloo

Perhaps I shan’t be the one to call the draw, but has anyone noticed the author rollback this year? Want me to yield good examples: Lawson and Garten… to blissmo and those Yukaners (glad it wasn’t a cult bunny.. well you know).

These matters cannot be helped, but it does grind the grade of the otakusphere.

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君のいる町: Town Where You Live

Posted by - November 18, 08

This manga feels like a dawning true tears, where we have the combo-chara Yuzuki taking a place similar to both Noe and Hiromi … unpossibly so? Of course yes.

knim

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Love Power, How are you?

Posted by - November 15, 08

I know I’m not the expert fanatic on the L.P., but revisiting D.N.Angel, or resuming after 5+ years makes an interesting impression.

Harada

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Mascots: “Do you like our owl?”

Posted by - November 10, 08

There were a few posts on the issue of mascots in recent weeks. For one, mellow_bunny alerted the sphere of Octo-sama, then THAT came storming in with comment poll on “what should THAT’s mascot be?”, and blissmo referenced in with a brief green haired loli comic. Quite amusing, so I’ll just throw this one out there…

Do you like our owl?

Owl

So where’s the owl mascot?

Owls can be expressed as cute, vicious, or knowledgeable (here’s a cute one). Sadly, I can’t say the owl fits on aloedream, so I must pass this one along. Also, it’s a shame I didn’t 2D-ify an owl version, but I’m not one who can draw from scratch efficiently.

Note: “Do you like our owl?” is a quote from Blade Runner. This idea actually came to me while I was on a flight over the weekend, and listening to Vangelis’ Blade Runner OST, which opens with some glimmering sounds and a simple excerpt, “Do you like our owl?”

Revisiting Nodame Live

Posted by - November 6, 08

Author recently published a visual retrospective on the Nodame Cantabile anime (2007 Winter). Actually, he’s posted quite a bit on Nodame in the past month, but I ask… where’s the live action?

The reason I bring it up is extremely indirect; having spotted the recently aired HanaKimi Special, I remembered that I had yet to watch the Nodame specials (all 220+ minutes worth). So I ventured into the mix this week, and interestingly enough, I find the live-action at an advantage.

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Ga-Rei zero: Round We Go

Posted by - November 4, 08

How has the otakusphere taken to Ga-Rei 0?

Ga-Rei

Well, before that I just want to say I am enjoying the presentation with one complaint… I wish it was presented in linear order rather than 2-eps-2-flashback. Ultimately, we can predict the future… here’s how:
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