Daily Archive for March 20th, 2008

Seeing Double: Onegai Twins DVD Review

I found Onegai Teacher appalling - I disliked the male and female leads, the story was kinda dumb with the Rip Van Winkle sickness and alien/UFO thing. In contrast I enjoyed Onegai Twins very much - I liked the three main characters and the simple, elegant way the story was built around their past, moving towards the future. As such, it passes the rewatchability test (aka as the Jeff Lawson test) which is my first condition for proceeding with a DVD purchase. RightStuf also offered a great price for it during their Twelve Days of Christmas sale - second condition, tick! (Currently they’re having a 20% off Spring Cleaning sale until 30 Mar 2008.)

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Tokyopop Mashup Contest

Like Kabitzin, I got a very nice email asking to help spread awareness about Tokyopop’s I-Manga Music Video Mash Up Contest which ends in just a few days time - 23 May 2008 at 2359 hrs (which time zone?).

It’s nice to see that some industry players are engaging with fans, with sweet prizes no less. And it was a usable excuse to post the above (otherwise belated) headline image: whenever I see the word ‘mashup’ the first thing I think of is cooking…