In My View: Why are the Anti-fansub people making my head hurt?

Once upon a time, I only thought the radical anti-industry segment was the only group to come up with really stupid arguments. And don’t get me wrong, but they’ve produced some doozies. My favorite is the, “Fansubs should be protected by the First Amendment” argument. But there have been a whole laundry list of them […]

From King of the World to Kaneda

So I picked up this little gem off of the SciFi Wire (the news service for the SciFi channel) that Leonardo DiCaprio might be teaming up with Warner Brothers to produce a two-part Akira movie. Somehow the thought of DiCaprio being involved just invokes images of him yelling “Tetsuo!” Not that it’s really going to […]

In My View: Why Bandai Visual concerns me

(This is my slightly less informed opinion based on this post and these comments.) Ahhh… Bandai Visual, you crazy, crazy company. To be fair, I haven’t really spent a whole lot of time thinking about Bandai Visual. True tears and Shigofumi haven’t really been on my radar much. Not because I hate the series, but […]

The Otakusphere: Downtiming on the Nightside in the Way Back Machine

Recently, I reached my 100th post, and I got to thinking that the nature of blogging seems to be to keep putting new stuff out there, but it’s pretty rare that we go back and look at the older stuff that people have done. Mostly because there’s usually a huge backlog and because usually we’ve […]

In My View: A Case for Koi Kaze

So a few years ago, I watched a Johnny Depp movie called “The Secret Window.” Really there wasn’t a whole lot special about the movie. It was just another, “Guy on the rocks, has something strange start going on with his life, has to figure it out” type of movie. Even the twist wasn’t really […]

Just a thought on Code Geass

So is it me or is this show a play on Arthurian myth? With Lelouch as Mordred, CC as Morgan Le Fay against Arthur (Euphie) and Lancelot (Suzaku)?

Impressions: On a bunch more stuff

Claymore: So I finished up this series the other day and after a lackluster first four episodes, all I have to say is: AWESOME. Seriously, this isn’t a show that does anything really all that novel. It’s got a pretty classic shounen fighting show format. The characters meet badass monster. Badass monster powers up. Characters […]

Democracy, Kings and citizens – an analysis

Ha… bet you didn’t expect for me to go here. If you haven’t been following this series check out these three posts. (Note: For all of you political wonks out there, I do know the difference between a Democracy and a Democratic Republic. But for the sake of expediency, I’m not going to spend all […]

More on Adam’s epiphany – another pretentious analysis

(Note: All of this is probably going to sound pretentious. And arguably it is. But, I’m going to write it anyway, and this is actually going somewhere, but not necessarily in this post.) Adam’s epiphany and how it applies When I started thinking about this subject, which I’ve been doing off an on for about […]

In My View: Why I love and hate romance shows

So this here is a Valentine’s day piece. One day late. And I’ve said it before, I have a soft spot for romance in shows. As much as I pick apart RahXephon, what keeps pulling me back to the show is the love story between Ayato and Haruka. (And Futagami, that guy kicks ass). Even […]