Category Archives: musings

Flames of the Animeblogosphere

Infinite fandom stopped beating its heart, And anime series burnt away without making a sound, Not a soul notices as fans become dislocated and all is engulfed in the flames of the animeblogosphere.

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Nothing Left To See

Besides being a great Ayako Kawasumi in-joke, Jason’s first pronouncement (depicted here – *Warning: possible Fate/Stay Night Spoiler – oh please let it turn out to be a spoiler!!!*) on what would give him pause to quit watching anime also … Continue reading

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Exploring Methodologies in Anime Blogging: An Arts & Humanities Perspective

The recent retirements of Tensai11 and Jeff Lawson as well as the long hiatus announcement over at itsumo feels like the loss of Fujiwara no Sai and Touya Kouyo Meijin in the world of Hikaru no Go to this blogger … Continue reading

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Fandom, Filesharing and Finances

After some very depressing reporting on the caustic soad/AcidFlask incident, Han presents his report and reflections on presentations by Larry Lessig and Joi Itou at the Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures (2005-04-29 to 05-12). I am in almost complete agreement with … Continue reading

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You Have Two Cows (Corporate Edition)

Supporting material for the next post about GAINAX and its continued milking of Evangelion. Got this from an email circulated around a few years ago which, of course, I got it from my dad a few weeks ago. It’s amazing … Continue reading

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Reflections on the Revolution in Japan

…and on the proceedings of certain societies in Tokyo relative to that event in a letter of thanks intended to have been sent to a lady in New Jersey. A Big Thank You to Erica Friedman for her hard work … Continue reading

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