Oh my days. Okay, let's just cut to the chase. What exactly is the Otaku: man up hashtag all about? Good question. It's about a few things. It's about a flimsy, non-existent manifesto. It's about a pointless, ill-conceived philosophy. It's about angry, ...Read More
That's right folks, February 28 is the First Annual Global Makoto Shinkai Day, organised by the wonderful fansite Cherry Blossoms Falling. Plus, controversial anime steaming site Crunchyroll will apparently be offering all the director's movies available for free for those ...Read More
Yeah. After resisting for years, I've finally folded to the demands from some readers and set up a Twitter account. As if I needed anything else to distract me from getting some writing done. Anyway, the link's below so go ...Read More
...which is on 28th February, apparently. At least according to Makoto Shinkai fansite Cherry Blossoms Falling, who are organising this (probably less than official) event. According to this post: In order to celebrate the works of Makoto Shinkai we've decided to ...Read More
I fucking love this story. Although really, you do have to feel sorry for the guy. Daisuke Enomoto, the multi-millionaire executive of one of Japan's leading ISPs Livedoor, paid Space Adventures $21 million to travel to the International Space Station and ...Read More
Whilst surfing over the weekend, I stumbled over a quote from sci-fi author Ken MacLeod. Now, I haven't read any of MacLeod's stuff for years, and it never struck me as being amazing, but this quote (apparently from his novel ...Read More
I was procrastinating preparing to do some work today by clearing out my office/studio/spare room, when I found myself taking the above photo. I was emptying a drawer of the usual flotsam of modern life, when I realised it was ...Read More
Someone has too much time on their hands... Read More
Ureshii Anime have posted an amazing piece detailing the long process they go through in creating one of their excellent fansubs. For those of you not familiar with the practice, fansubbing is the act of taking a foreign TV show or ...Read More