Not much to say about the weekend. This past weekend was the New York Anime Festival, which is a nice idea with weak execution. Though the dealer's room was full and it was insanely packed on Saturday, it was missing a lot of product categories. There weren't a lot of DVD sellers, and almost no one selling toys. I guess a good chunk of the dealers ( Read more... )

It only took three years, but heehaw_tng and I finally watched the Fullmetal Alchemist movie. He bought it for my birthday, but wanted me to wait until he had watched the entire series. Well, that day arrived last week. I guess you can't blame him; the second half of the series has some truly dreadful moments and a lot of angst, and the manga is 1,000,000x ( Read more... )

So you know how in TV shows there might sometimes be programs-within-programs, as in, a TV show that the characters watch? It's always some overblown parody of the genre, because it's meant to be funny, like, "Ha ha, we can laugh at ourselves!" And the one thing that they all have in common is that you would never want to actually watch the ( Read more... )