While flipping through TV, stopped on the CW and saw a promo for Kamen Rider Dragon Knight...or something, I was laughing too hard to realize what the title was.

KAMEN RIDER. IN AMERICA.

None of them are cute as Hiro/Yusuke/Seto/etc. are.

Paul Newman (1925-2008)

I love Google reader, I really do - because it tends to suggest blogs that I would like, and 85% of the time, it is absolutely correct. So I've been rediscovering YA authors again (old and new - Sarah Dessen was pregnant! And now she has a cute little girl named Sasha! I love the exclamation point!) through their blogs, and anyway - a random link ( Read more... )

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Sweet Rain Shinigami no Seido (AKA: Accuracy of Death) is up, with subs. Thank you, birthday gods (and generous fans)

Fan-created English soft subs are finally out for Maki and Tatsuya Fujiwara's war & romance SP, "Tokyo Daikushu"

Fuji put up a skeleton of the official site for Maki's Innocent LoveProper scans for Shinkansen & Love, featuring ( Read more... )

Happy Labor day to all my US friends!

I had a really good weekend - indulged in some serious retail therapy (suffice to say, my inner fifteen year old was aided and abetted and indulged), the beginning of birthday presents started trickling in, and oh, the cakes. I bought myself some Beard Papa creampuffs yesterday, in green tea and vanilla, and ( Read more... )

I went on Sunday, the last day of the con - and attended two panels: Harold and Kumar's DVD pre-release, and the 25th Anniversary of Fraggle Rock, which was attended by the voice/puppeteer of Red Fraggle ("The first live appearance of a Fraggle in the ...flesh!"). It was pretty low-key for comic-con, but there were still tons of people.

I took a ( Read more... )

Twilight is clearly the English-answer to Koizora: Sky of Love.

YT provided by birdofpray09.

Poppyfields, snowbabies and revenge haircutting has nothing on this. It makes the Entertainment Weekly Cover practically quaint, in a way.

Bollywood goes on a world tour.

Yesterday I saw Hellboy 2: the Golden Army, and yesternight I saw Supergrass. Best. Saturday. Ever.

Now, onto weird Japanese dramas!