Monthly Archives: May 2008

CIO-KCL research seminar on Japan’s manga and anime industries

Got wind of this seminar, organized by the Creative Industries Observatory, via Anime Infatuation, and popped by Strand Poly yesterday. A quick rundown of my main takeaways and reflections on the presentations.

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A particular reading displeasure

of mine is when I’m trying to read a post and the text gets pushed down repeatedly as images load. [Add: Blog owners who don’t realize this because the images are already preloaded in their browser caches in the course … Continue reading

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Cooking the books (2007 Expenditure)

I’ve been meaning to follow the examples of Adun and Stripey in consolidating my anime-related expenditure for 2007 (mainly for my own budgeting records and planning) but accounting for the August Japan trip has made it rather complicated. Have finally … Continue reading

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The resurrection and the animeblog

S/he who watches the anime will blog, even though s/he retires; and whoever watches and blogs the anime will never really die. あなたは「アニボログ」を信じますか。 I was just thinking to myself that it’s good to have Epi posting (semi-)regularly again after a … Continue reading

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Wagaya no Oinarisama 3-5

Rewritable memory is the best!

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Nabari no Ou 6

[nabari06_00.jpg title="So boring that even two sidekick charas fell asleep!" ] This episode did have an important development – Miharu’s bargain with Yoite to abandon his mastery of his Apathy no Jutsu and use the Shinrabanshou to violate the Temporal … Continue reading

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Towards Happily Ever After in Code Geass R2

[cdgsr225_18.jpg title="Meido x Siscon x Yaoi = Good End?"] Does anyone know the source of the above picture? While Haesslich has set his Nunnally Death Counter and arguments rage on about devils and angels, I’m hoping against hope for a … Continue reading

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