It’s surprisingly fun to image-surf on Amazon.co.jp, hopping from cover to cover with the “Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed…” I especially enjoy seeing the covers for Western SF novels. I might nerd-rage over manga/light novels getting more “US marketable” covers, but the same thing happens in reverse. I don’t reflexively prefer the original [...]
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Western SF and Animu’d Covers
Posted by utilsabound on December 12, 2011
http://lthemachine.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/western-sf-and-animud-covers/
Research Fail: Moe Images and Virtual Child Pornography
I found this eyebrow-raising passage while hopping through Google Books lately: “In a poll conducted in 2005 by the Anime News Network, an online portal for anime information, 29 percent of American anime fans felt that moe images should be banned completely.” Japanamerica, by Roland Kelts, p. 162 What? Seriously?! Looking up the actual poll, [...]
Posted by utilsabound on November 9, 2011
http://lthemachine.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/research-fail-moe-images-and-virtual-child-pornography/
What Is Up With Online Manga Journalism?
I’ve felt out-of-touch with the big manga journalism sites for awhile. I’m talking about the whole axis of blogs and news around MangaBlog, About.com’s manga section, and so on. In aggregate, they have a feel that’s: Very anti-moe Very anti-fanservice Very pro-artsy titles and pro-classic shoujo I guess the main reason is the demographics. US [...]
Posted by utilsabound on November 2, 2011
http://lthemachine.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/what-is-up-with-online-manga-journalism/
Why you do this?!: Light Novels and US Covers
In the US, light novels have an unfortunate problem: publishers trying to purge their light novel-ness, by changing the cover to something less “anime” looking. The worst thing about these cover changes is that, even if the core finds them “horrible,” they might still be in the publisher’s economic interests. The cover just has to [...]
Posted by utilsabound on September 23, 2011
http://lthemachine.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/why-you-do-this-light-novels-and-us-covers/
SF References in Anime, From Obvious to Obscure
People have claimed that written science fiction is “dying” for decades now. Despite that, all these decades, more and more great science fiction books are being written. The classics, and even lots of modern stuff, have a huge influence on more “pop” mediums. Anime is no exception, with references to SF novels showing up everywhere. [...]
Posted by utilsabound on September 17, 2011
http://lthemachine.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/31/
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- lthemachine: #vividred: inb4 Best anime of 2013. Director from my 2nd fav anime, writer from 1st fav anime, SFnal utopia with cute girls ganbarimasu'ing.
- lthemachine: Momoi Halko: “I think on some level it is the dream of all moe otaku to become women. Moe is like a third sex, a...different orientation."
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- lthemachine: It feels odd how I'm watching more western cartoons than #anime series this season.
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