Last week, I came across a bunch of scans from an art book of giant robots from the Super Sentai series.

For those who don't know, the Super Sentai franchise was a long-running Japanese live-action series that, since 1993, has been adopted into Power Rangers. The show uses the Super Sentai giant moster/robot battles, and some the Sentai footage ( Read more... )

Two years ago, I mentioned post in egl community where a Muslim girl asked for some advice on how she could get into the style while still following her faith's modesty rules. And, last week, I came across a 2015 Geek & Sundry article that showed that she was far from unique, nor was she the first Muslim girl to ask these kinds of questions. And it ( Read more... )

While researching something I found on TV Tropes, I came across what seems to be a Japanese porn website of some sorts. Whoever translated it into English clearly seemed to have taken the easy way out and used the Google translator. I won't link to the website (because I find the imagery gross and unpleasant, not to mention, very NSFW), but I will ( Read more... )

The maverick anime director Satoshi Kon recently died of pancreatic cancer. He kept his illness hidden from the public, so naturally, this whole thing comes as a complete shock.

I haven't seen all of his work, but I really enjoyed Millennium Actress, Paranoia Agent and Paprika. I am grateful for the all of his awesome films, and I am sorry that ( Read more... )

So it looks like OneManga, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) English-language scanlation websites chose to shut down before a coalition American and Japanese publishers could take steps to shut down by force.

For those who haven't kept up with manga-related news, back in June, a group of Japanese manga publishers and their American ( Read more... )

In  Power Rangers/Super Sentai, monsters destroyed an awful lot of buildings over the 15/37 years the show has been on the air. Have you ever wondered what happened to all the people who were inside?

Well, wonder no more:

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So, a few months back, there was this video floating around the innerwebs which showed a woman in a stereotypical geisha costume giving rather... suggestive lessons. At the time, I wrote it off as Japanese weirdness and moved on to something else.

Well, it finally occurred to me to google the program's name and it turned out that it was a joke.

I ( Read more... )

A couple of links that I never seem to get around to putting up:

Jordanian couple cheat on each other... with each other. If this was a romantic comedy, it would have ended with the couple realizing that their relationship is fundamentally strong and everything would be okay, but since this is not a romantic comedy... well, read for yourselves.

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It's time for another Linkydump - my ongoing quest to clear out the tabs.

Tokyo Damage Report - a look at a Japanese article about protecting yourself against date-rape and what it says about Japanese culture in general and the editors of the magazine specifically.

Asia Rising  - an interactive exhibit that offers a fascinating look at early 20th ( Read more... )

Aka Operation - cull the tabs

An interesting article about Mizuki Shigeru's anti-war manga, written Mathew Penney

"Trashing Out" in the Inland Empire. When thousands of homes are left abandoned in the wake of the real estate crisis, what happens to all the personal belongings that get left behind? An L.A. Times video report takes a look, and the ( Read more... )