These are going to be brief notes rather than an actual argument, largely because my brain is still broken from watching all of FMA and from the beginning episodes of Princess Tutu ( Read more... )

• The culture shock side


• The gender side

So, I posted the bit on me and anime and manga and culture shock some time last year. Then I got distracted by actually watching anime and reading manga ( Read more... )

So I am crazy and decided I wanted to post something Saiyuki every day. I also finally caved and created a separate Memories category just for Saiyuki, since it looks like there will be much content on it ( Read more... )

I found some of my old sketchbooks a few days ago, and I've been flipping through them nostalgically. I forgot that I used to draw a great deal before... wasn't particularly good at it, but apparently it was just something that I did. Maybe I'll try and do that again, not so much serious drawing or anything, but just trying it out every so often ( Read more... )

Wah, reading telophase's visual analyses of manga and watching Fruits Basket seems to have reawakened my long dormant desire to read manga! I am doomed. I hit the peak of my anime/manga obsession around senior year of high school, and I actually bought the entire set of Rurouni Kenshin and brought it over to America! That's a whopping 28 vols. Someday I ( Read more... )

Article in this month's Wired on anime, focusing specifically on the upcoming releases of three big directors: Miyazaki Hayao's Howl's Moving Castle, Otomo Katsuhiro (of Akira fame)'s Steamboy, and Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. I'm actually only really interested in Miyazaki's... never was that fond of Akira or Ghost in the Shell ( Read more... )

I've been having giant amounts of fun trolling through people's LJ memories, since the FL is a bit slow today. Or I have nothing to do and keep refreshing it every five seconds because I don't have a life outside of the internet ( Read more... )