Teaching today's intellectual property class at the Atelier really makes me wonder which is worse: the companies actively trying to screw over new creators, or those new creators who will allow themselves to be screwed over because they want their names in light at any cost ( Read more... )

Finally after a few hours of rest I get to sit down and scribble a bit about Anime USA. This was an interesting weekend, to say the least - interesting in that Chinese curse sort of way. There were a lot of staff meltdowns this year, but stress will do that to you ( Read more... )

Yeah, I forgot to mention this earlier, but we're doing some housecleaning at Megami, and planning to get the site up and moving.

Here, for example, is the new blog location. The design is similar to what we'll be doing with the site as a whole.

Why is the Japanese government, after having recently realized that anime and manga have become a global phenomenon and a vector through which Japanese culture and influence can spread around the world, now so readily hellbent on destroying it?  Are they ready for a crisis, to paraphrase Obi Wan Kenobi, "as though a million otaku voices cried out ( Read more... )

Oh, Liz, either you're going to need to create an overmuscled heavy for ARC, or you may have to revise Bear to be a bit tougher than he is for the TATARI slot.

(Aren't secret cryptic messages fun?)

...but someone decided that I strangely knew enough about computer modeling and CG works to give a lecture on it at the Graphic Novel Art class at Northern Virginia Community College's Loudoun campus today. It was going to be a chance to wave both the Megami flag and maybe get in a mention or two of AnimeUSA and other stuff.

Well, in theory that ( Read more... )

Well, it's been tough, but we ultimately had to do it: Hana Road Fruit Party and its proposed sequel are currently on hold right now, with no determinate time as to when they will come out ( Read more... )

Well, it's been an exhausting weekend that we spent at Otakon, one that I cannot even begin to say how much it's impacted me ( Read more... )

Well, Bs&Gs, headed off to Otakon. If you're going to be there, hope to see you there!

If not, I'll let you know how it was when I get back. ^_^

yes, I've been watching too much Fate/stay night as of late; my bad ( Read more... )