Given that Twitter has absolutely exploded regarding this and I've seen it elsewhere on the FList, you all probably know. But just in case: Amazon has apparently decided to removing the sales ranking on "adult" books. This seriously affects what turns up on Amazon searches. Which would be bad enough, except apparently "adult" means books with LGBT ( Read more... )

Okay guys, I don't know if I can handle this shit. First new Ippo and new Kaiji, and now AIC is redoing Ai no Kusabi. Thirteen whole episodes this time rather than cramming everything into two, AND Akiyama and Onda will be back as director and character designer! I have been waiting for ages to see more BL with those character designs ( Read more... )

I have a lot of things to talk about lately if I can remember to sit down and type it all out. But for now I figured I'd drop a quick note to talk about the Christopher Handley case going on right now, just in case some people aren't aware of it or forgot. We spoke about it a bit on AWO.

Basically, a man in Iowa is in trouble for receiving " ( Read more... )

Via erinfinnegan and ANN, I hear that Del Rey has licensed Moyashimon! It's about damn time. I don't know how this went so long, actually, (it's been running since 2004 and the short anime ended a little while ago) since there's marketing potential for selling about a hojillion cute plush dolls and other toys ( Read more... )

I already posted on Twitter about this, and you've probably seen it all over the place, but what the heck. Danny Choo has been working with Good Smile to develop an English version of their site. It's a bit simpler than the current Japanese site, but it does have plenty of very nice high quality images of their current and future offerings ( Read more... )

This is really disappointing.Granted, I loved Nitta's work for her characters and writing, not just the artwork, but her artwork was always gorgeous and I loved her compositions. I knew that her work always felt very much inspired by/taken from fashion photography, which made sense given that Kato and Iwaki especially did lots of work in front of ( Read more... )

I totally meant to post about this yesterday when it happened, but I got sidetracked scanning things for the Otaku Archive project and adding stuff to the Doujinshi DB.

It's strangely fitting and sobering that not long after the stabbing incident in Akihabara, Tsutomu Miyazaki was executed. It was a long time in coming--he committed his crimes in ( Read more... )

FUCK YES, GAYSEBALL HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY LICENSED.I know a lot of stuff gets picked up lately, but sports series traditionally don't do well over here and well, the state of the industry right now doesn't really encourage licensors to take shots on series that might not do very well. I think it's awesome that FUNimation is taking a shot on this one ( Read more... )

Wow PiQ, leaving so soon?

I'd say I'll miss you, but I would be lying.

Edit: For some reason the secondary link in this is dead and Google cache for it isn't loading. This may mean the news was premature. I'll try to keep on top of it and post updates.

Edit #2: The Comics Worth Reading post is back up, and reports are coming in from other ( Read more... )

A stabbing spree occurred in Akihabara yesterday. Patrick has some links with more detail ( Read more... )